Salvo
@Salvo@aussie.zone
- Comment on ‘We want builders on site, not filling in forms’: Albanese government cuts red tape in bid to boost home building 2 days ago:
Bring back council-funded Building Inspectors.
They can help the builder with the paperwork and make sure the builder is adhering to all relevant guidelines.
Having the Compliance Arm (Contract Building Inspectors) funded by the people doing the work is an obvious conflict of interest.
We are paying higher council rates that we were in the past to get less service. The least they can do is hire building inspectors who are answerable to the Council and the Industry,
- Comment on Buckling rails and lines underwater: how Australia’s ageing train networks are crumbling as the climate changes 2 days ago:
Lack of maintenance is causing these rails to fail.
That said, if the people with the power to authorise maintenance are CCDs, they may not authorise as much maintenance as those who admit that Climate Change is happening. In fact CCDs would have a vested interest in reducing maintenance to justify their biases.
- Comment on Australia’s gun lobby says it’s ‘winning’ the fight against firearm control as numbers surge 3 days ago:
We had an attempted home invasion in our street in the wee hours of Saturday morning.
The good news is that they didn’t get inside; The other good news is that everyone in the street has cameras and we all have extensive footage of the car and the individuals.
The bad news is that the car we saw on the cameras was stolen and the police can’t do anything due to lack of evidence.
In answer to the question that every Fascist is asking; they were caucasian adult males.
- Comment on Age verification fun 1 week ago:
The fact that you are using Jellyfin does infer your political beliefs.
Even Plex users are likely to be politically different to Jellyfin users.
- Comment on Road safety data shows pedestrian deaths have increased by almost 50 per cent since 2021 1 week ago:
After COVID-19 lockdowns, Drivers have become more self-righteous and militant. People have also purchased 4WDs so we can get away from all the other self-righteous and militant arseholes on the road.
At the same time, their cars have received “Advanced Driver Assistance Systems” that are a gimmick at best and a false security blanket at worse.
Finally, due to our quirky Tax benefits and ANCAP ratings system, a 3495kg Light Truck has a cheaper TCO and better safety rating than a 700kg subcompact hatch or 1100kg compact 4WD.
- Comment on Benjamin Netanyahu says Anthony Albanese 'betrayed' Israel 1 week ago:
But France does also have a longer historical reputation for defending Liberty.
Australia has a self-image of giving everyone a Fair Go, but has a history of Genocide, Racism and Imperialism.
For us to recognise Palestine is for us to also recognise that we have also been utter bastards to Aboriginal Australians and all the non-Anglo Immigrants that have been victimised by Australian Society over the last 237 years.
- Comment on Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to investigate whether energy retailers are misleading consumers with plans that promise savings yet actually provide poor value 1 week ago:
I would like them to be held to the prices advertised on Victorian Energy Compare.
If they expect us to sign a 12 month contract. They need to provide a 12 month price guarantee.
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 1 week ago:
The original vehicle that you don’t need to drive is Mass Transit.
There is no such thing as a safe Self Driving Car.
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 1 week ago:
The problem with Kei class cars isn’t a problem with the Kei class cars, it is a problem with other vehicles (and Drivers) on the road.
The reason Kei cars are failing ADRs on vehicle collision testing is because the ADRs (and ANCAP) takes into account the GVM 3495kg inadequacy light trucks that are being driven by unprofessional drivers who think that Driver Assistance means self-driving.
A Jimny in a collision with a Commodore or Falcon would have been non-fatal but when a day-drinking soccer mum in a Silverado drives over a Suzuki Swift or cyclist because it didn’t register on her ADAS system, there is carnage.
- Comment on Scott Farquhar thinks Australia should let AI train for free on creative content. He overlooks one key point 1 week ago:
The other choices are to buy albums from record stores, or acquire digital music from the High Seas.
iTunes and Apple Music is still one of the lowest-friction ways to purchase music; while downloaded Apple Music has DRM, iTunes Purchases don’t.
I have a playlist in iTunes of Apple Music that I want to buy. When I do have some disposable money, I purchase it. I then make sure it is downloaded to a computer so it is backed up in case that record label has a dispute with Apple. Burning to CD is a waste of plastic.
- Comment on Scott Farquhar thinks Australia should let AI train for free on creative content. He overlooks one key point 1 week ago:
By making people building AI models to pay their fair share.
Considering that they are developing something that will be taking away future profits from existing (and future) creators, they must pay proportionate licensing fees. If their business model cants sustain the payment of their licensing fees, they do not have a sustainable model. In which case they can GAGTGF.
- Comment on Albanese is crying poor, but we’re losing billions a year from untaxed gas 2 weeks ago:
One of our local candidates was exposed as a NDIS fraud leading up to the election. He didn’t get in, but that electorate had always been a safe Labor seat.
Even after the exposé, his party still decided to run with him because the didn’t have anyone more honest that they could put up
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 2 weeks ago:
The AlGoRyThMs are what is inducing the social damage.
Even games of chance (like Poker Machines and) would be less destructive if they were fairer and less engaging.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 2 weeks ago:
There will be a big curtaining of Apple, Microsoft, Google and Adobe if Facebook, TikTok and Twitter (and YouTube) have their algorithmic feeds outlawed.
It would probably cause the AI bubble to burst too so our OSs, Applications and Search Engines (and Government) would become usable again.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 2 weeks ago:
Once again, the EU ^^ is overstepping their mandate. There is no benefit to endusers if Google, Opera and Firefox are forced to use WebKit for rendering on iOS only. There are disadvantages for Opera, (who are Nowegian), but no other European companies.
There are huge benefits to endusers if their phones batteries last more than 15 minutes because Google and Opera are trying to backdoor their privacy.
^^ the EU’s regulatory bodies.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 2 weeks ago:
I think there is an ounce of truth in that, but Corporations don’t “want” things. Investors want dividends and ROI. Executives want golden handshakes. Employees want a pay cheque.
Someone is financing the Astroturf campaigns. Someone is directing who they lobby.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 2 weeks ago:
This is like saying that Safari is just a reskinned version of KDE Konqueror. It is patently wrong and oversimplifies the development processes.
While Apple did use Konqueror as a base for WebKit, and some of that code was pumped back into Konqueror, they are not the same. Chromium was also based on WebKit but has had so much code replaced that it is also essentially different code.
I recommend Ken Kocienda’s book “Creative Selection” about the development of the iPhone and WebKit.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 2 weeks ago:
Although I would prefer to roll-my own but Ubuntu Touch, postmarketOS and SailfishOS all run on the FairPhone.
YMMV for software support, but the non-Android Linux-based phone OSs will suit most people’s needs, as long as Angry Birds isn’t a killer feature of their phone.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 2 weeks ago:
It’s still amused by the whole USB-C push to “Reduce eWaste”.
By legislating that everyone should use USB-C, they generated a lot of eWaste in the form of legacy USB-A, B, micro, lightning, etc, as well as requiring more cables in the form of USB-C to USB-A, B, micro, lightning, etc. cables in the transition phase.
The various different types of USB-C cables (power only, data only, Thunderbolt 4, etc) as well as the glut of different incompatible USB-C interfaces has made things much worse.
It reminds me of the XKCD comic about introducing new standards to reduce the number of standards.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 2 weeks ago:
The credit card game bans are all coming from one Australian Religious group.
Similar Astroturf groups are being used to create fake grassroots community groups to PrOtEcT tHe ChIlDrEn.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 2 weeks ago:
There are lots of people who make that assumption. These are also the most likely demographic to fall for a fake App Store scam.
That said, Apple have done a piss-poor job pruning their “Walled Garden”. If they really cared about user privacy, Facebook would have been banned multiple times for privacy violations.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 2 weeks ago:
I wonder how home-grown European companies like Fairphone will be affected by this.
- Comment on MD = oMega Dumbass 2 weeks ago:
Hydronium H~3~O^+^ is the most corrosive acids. Hydroxide OH^-^ is the most corrosive alkaline.
If you mix them together in a solution you get Hydronium Hydroxide; also known and (2)DiHydrogen Monoxide.
- Comment on They made his car "cease & desist" 2 weeks ago:
The Australia Competition and Consumer Commission would also have something to say about that too.
- Comment on Labor asks Deloitte to design universal childcare system as PM eyes political legacy 2 weeks ago:
We have corporate training provided by Deloitte.
The questions in the quiz feels like they was generated by an LLM.
You have to either pretend to be a stupid computer to answer the questions or you have to run the workbook though AdobeAI to answer the questions.
They don’t see this as a problem.
- Comment on Australia to recognise Palestinians' right 'to a state of their own', PM says 2 weeks ago:
Let the Christian-Zionist and Judeo-Zionist lobbying begin.
It came too late for the Al-Jazeera Journalist and hundreds of thousands of Semitic Gazans.
- Comment on Australian retailer Kmart faces court action as two of its suppliers have been linked to forced labour in China's Xinjiang region 2 weeks ago:
Yes, that is what we told her, but some people cannot be told anything.
- Comment on Australian retailer Kmart faces court action as two of its suppliers have been linked to forced labour in China's Xinjiang region 2 weeks ago:
Because he didn’t want to do any washing when he got home.
I know other people who would just buy a new 7-pack of underpants every week!
- Comment on Still throwing shrimp on the barbie: why is Tourism Australia’s advertising stuck in 1984? 2 weeks ago:
Automotive Safety Journalist Robert Pepper absolutely tore through the 4WD based Ad.
- Comment on Australian retailer Kmart faces court action as two of its suppliers have been linked to forced labour in China's Xinjiang region 2 weeks ago:
We used to be able to get $15 trackie dacks in the 90’s.
I had a rich surfer mate who would bring a few bags of them when we went camping; He would put in a new pair every night when it started to get cold, and then in the morning, would cut them down into a new pair of board shorts.
However, taking into consideration our ridiculous inflation and COL increases, that would be the equivalent of $60 trackie dacks nowadays.