kowcop

@kowcop@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia Post parcel lockers are eligible to be installed in private apartment/office complexes!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if I get one for my front verandah, the postie will actually deliver the parcel instead of pretending to, and then taking them to the PO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia | Sydney trains hit by serious delays after last-minute court ruling blocks industrial action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  …com.au/…/update-on-federal-court-ruling-all-indu…

  From their update: However, as the Government’s argument hinges on a technicality, union members will be able to resume action after conducting another Protected Action Ballot. Plans are already in motion to conduct this ballot as quickly as possible, and we’ll update members as soon as voting begins. Please keep an eye on your emails in the coming days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s controversial Recall scraper is finally entering public preview⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t wait to miss it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who was our worst Prime Minister and why? Any notable state leaders we need to add?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How many Danny DeVitos is that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia Threatens to Force Companies to Break Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No no no no

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems pretty clear why the apis were shut down for apps

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NBN sheds jobs as 'death spiral' worsens⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨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)