kowcop
@kowcop@aussie.zone
- Comment on Who was our worst Prime Minister and why? Any notable state leaders we need to add? 1 week ago:
For me it was Scomo by a country mile. Abbott had some peculiar views, but he didn’t seem as totally incompetent.
- Comment on Microsoft promises major performance improvements for modern Windows 11 apps 1 month ago:
Yeah, I use Windows LTSC which doesn’t even have the App Store, and to date I have missed it 0 times
- Comment on Americans used record 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023 2 months ago:
How many Danny DeVitos is that?
- Comment on Australia Threatens to Force Companies to Break Encryption 2 months ago:
Tell use to get fucked
- Comment on When A.I.’s Output Is a Threat to A.I. Itself | As A.I.-generated data becomes harder to detect, it’s increasingly likely to be ingested by future A.I., leading to worse results. 2 months ago:
I always thought this is why the Facebooks and Googles of the world are hoovering up the data now
- Comment on Australia records hottest ever winter temperature with some areas set to be 10C above average 2 months ago:
Spring has started a couple of weeks early here (normally early September), but for me, this was one of the coldest winters that I remember… (south east coast)
- Comment on Microsoft 'temporarily' pumps the brakes on its intrusive Windows 11 ads after receiving constant backlash from Windows 10 users 2 months ago:
I just take it as they have put it on hold till win10 support expired
- Comment on Almost all Windows 10 systems can be upgraded to the new version — so why are businesses holding back? 2 months ago:
Because Windows 11 is yet another painful transition for staff who are mostly IT illiterate folk, and it easier to leave things the way they are until necessary…
- Comment on There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent 3 months ago:
I thought I read that Intel said this was from messing with voltages? I have had plenty of these processors in the last couple of years and never experienced crashes, but I don’t overclock
- Comment on CrowdStrike blames testing bugs for security update that took down 8.5M Windows PCs 3 months ago:
I just can’t believe this was only 8.5m… I know companies with thousands of affected machines, and that is only in one state in Australia… maybe they actually mean ‘pc’ and not server…
- Comment on The New York Times Is Suing OpenAI — and Experimenting With It for Writing Headlines and Copy Editing 4 months ago:
I think it was comedian Steven Wright who said something like ‘I put a humidifier and a de-humidifier in the same room and let them fight it out’
- Comment on aussie zone growth 4 months ago:
I would be interested to know what happens around 4am every day when no posts load for about 45 mins (iOS)… but I really appreciate the hosting, so thanks
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
No no no no
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
Doesn’t the US have a two term (total) limit?
- Comment on SONOFF SNZB-05P review - A Zigbee water leak sensor tested with eWelink and Home Assistant 4 months ago:
In my experience with many Sonoff gadgets for home assistant (with the exception of the controller dongle), they are well made but lack the stability of say Aquara
- Comment on A guide to passing GPUs through to Proxmox, XCP-ng VMs 4 months ago:
I eventually got the GPU passed through to the VM… it took about a day of following different guides. Then I tried the same thing on a container and it was about 3 mins work and it was in infinitely better experience with plex in a container instead of a vm
- Comment on How was your NBN fttp upgrade experience ? 4 months ago:
Mime was one of the first for our suburb, so they might have been a bit green, I am not sure. The bloke arrived and asked if someone had been here to do the underground lead in, nope… so he just did it above ground from the pole to a clamp on the side of the facia board of the house… I wish it had been underground, but whatevs… fibre
- Comment on Australia should pass bill to ban non-prescription vapes, Senate committee finds 6 months ago:
At this point there is zero logical reason that cigarettes aren’t banned. The only logical reasons are that the government likes the $40/pack tax more than Australians dying, or big tobacco donations… I am not advocating the ban of ciggies, it just makes zero sense to continue to go after vapes when turning a blind eye to the other ‘death maker’
- Comment on What do companies get out of rewards programs 6 months ago:
The answer is nearly going to always be ‘your data’ and loyalty
- Comment on Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House, judge finds on balance of probabilities 6 months ago:
I guess it is his Toowoomba rape trial
- Comment on Think $5.50 is too much for a flat white? Actually it’s too cheap, and our world-famous cafes are paying the price 7 months ago:
I have noticed it too… it is like propaganda. Why you should not wait and buy that house now, house prices have never been stronger… now this
- Comment on Australians lose nearly $1 billion a year to card surcharges as RBA warns banks to stop 8 months ago:
so split across the big 4, say $250m each and $5-10b in profit each… they can afford to stop
- Comment on Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO 8 months ago:
I can’t remember if the word at the time was that they were trying to stop the calls from affecting performance or they wanted the juicy data all for themselves
- Comment on Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO 8 months ago:
Seems pretty clear why the apis were shut down for apps
- Comment on NBN sheds jobs as 'death spiral' worsens 8 months ago:
Ours was a bit over 18 months from roping the pits to getting the notification that it was ready
- Comment on Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead. Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web. 9 months ago:
Lemme guess… they are worried companies are using it to train ai, so better close it off so they control access to it
- Comment on Support for Australia Day celebration on January 26 drops: new research 9 months ago:
I think we are saying the same thing… the noisy ones will be around for either decision… they will be either protesting that it should stay the 26th (if it were to be changed), or protest that it is the 26th as invasion day… the fact that it goes away the day after makes it an easier decision for the government of the day… they just have to wait it out.
I don’t care which, I don’t celebrate other than enjoying the public holiday. If I could swap it for my birthday off, I would do that :0)
- Comment on Support for Australia Day celebration on January 26 drops: new research 9 months ago:
because changing the date is a lose / lose for whoever attempts it, so it will just be left ‘as is’ and disappears on Jan 27. Fact is, some people support changing it, and other people want it left the same. Either of those two groups are going to be the noisy minority to that discussion… IMO, it will never happen, they will just mobilise police for the protests and schedule them for time in leiu the day after.
- Comment on Peter Dutton calls for boycott of Woolworths after Australia Day merchandise dropped 9 months ago:
he has nothing to lose… may as well try the Trump playbook
- Comment on Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow 10 months ago:
I feel it has already happened… people check social media, but I hardly see any created content anymore (status updates etc)… just reposted stuff from gullible people that they thought was magic but was just AI created rubbish.
The only thing I use social media for is purchasing items from hobby groups and I can’t see that being replicated anywhere anytime soon as eBay is full of fake rubbish