Salvo
@Salvo@aussie.zone
- Comment on Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk 56 minutes ago:
They need to ban CoPilot, OpenAI, Apple Intelligence and all the other remora swimming around trying to get some tidbits of data.
- Comment on Australian Federal election 2025: Taiwan offers to help counter online disinformation in lead-up to poll 58 minutes ago:
The major parties won’t be happy about that!
- Comment on Are you a Coles patriot. Or are you a Woolies nationalist? 1 day ago:
We must be going to different stores on different days.
All the Local IGAs in my area employ single mums and more mature staff members. The only young employees I see are family members of the owners.
The big IGA in a nearby town employs the same demographics of staff members; they even have a professional Butcher on staff (and they have excellent value cuts of meat) (I used to deliver for a butcher when I was younger and have seen some dodgy butchers and some overpriced dodgy butchers and some excellent butchers.)
- Comment on aussie pride worlwide 3 days ago:
There are other ways to source your hardware and tools. Discount Stores and Home/Mitre 10/Total Tools/Sydney Tools/etc are still around.
Wholesale material suppliers are often willing to sell Retail as long as you don’t waste their staffs time. The One True Monopsony (Amazon) also sell most of the stuff from Bunnings, cheaper.
Also AliExpress and Temu have most of the small consumables at a much competitive price. Just remember that some of it will be eWaste in a few months, but that goes for any electronics purchased from anywhere.
The main benefit of Bunnings is that they are open long hours and have lowest-common-denominator products that aren’t too overpriced Also, you buy a sausage made of sawdust and beef fat on the way out (very tasty, although not very healthy.)
- Comment on Are you a Coles patriot. Or are you a Woolies nationalist? 4 days ago:
Sorry. I am old and they will always be “Safeway” to me. I know that they are called Woolworths, but I can’t get that name into my head.
- Comment on Are you a Coles patriot. Or are you a Woolies nationalist? 5 days ago:
Yes they are; Because they small businesses, which actually pay their employees a living wage and don’t have the buying power of the big supermarkets.
Even then, all the IGA locals around me and larger IGAs on surrounding towns are still cheaper than Safeway and Coles.
- Comment on XXXX Capitalise On Great Northern Going 'Woke' By Saying Gay People Should Be Banned From State Forests 5 days ago:
It is very Not-The-Onion, though. It is very believable from a company from the state that bought us Joh Bielke-Peterson and Spud
- Comment on Are you a Coles patriot. Or are you a Woolies nationalist? 5 days ago:
None of the above (unless absolutely necessary)
I can get almost everything I need from Aldi and IGA.
- Comment on Fucking Optus doesn't provide ipv6 over cell. And starlink has cgnat. 5 days ago:
As a customer that has their own UniFi Security Gateway and also ran services from home during the old BigPond Cable days, everything that Nath has said is correct.
Back in the 90’s BigPond used to do everything possible to prevent us from running our own unmetered file sharing network. We had a set of relays and proxies which meant that we were able to share files with other BigPond users, bypassing the billing system. I am sure that the Management at BigPond Cable hated this while the Technicians (who also had BigPond Cable) enabled it.
- Comment on XXXX Capitalise On Great Northern Going 'Woke' By Saying Gay People Should Be Banned From State Forests 6 days ago:
‘“XXXX”, its Australian of “PISS”.’
- Comment on Fucking Optus doesn't provide ipv6 over cell. And starlink has cgnat. 6 days ago:
You may want to check your telcos agreement on that.
As far as the Telcos are concerned, we all need to happy little consumers of media.
We aren’t allowed to generate and publish any media of our own.
The Governments agree with them.
- Comment on Fucking Optus doesn't provide ipv6 over cell. And starlink has cgnat. 6 days ago:
The fact that it improves routing efficiently and that Optus does not support it explains all you need to know about Optus.
- Comment on The synthetic vitamin leaving several Australians with major health issues 6 days ago:
Processed sweeteners are always much worse than their raw states. Cane, molasses, golden syrup and raw crystallised sugar are much better (and tastier) than white sugar, which is actually quite bland.
- Comment on The synthetic vitamin leaving several Australians with major health issues 1 week ago:
I’m waiting for someone to do the same for the “All-Natural” stevia; in almost all “Sugar Free” and “No Sugar” products that aren’t still using Aspartame or Sucralose.
As bad as Sugar is for us, (and as terrible as Fructose is for us), I am confident that Stevia is worse.
- Comment on Insurance cost of Los Angeles wildfires may be felt in Australia 1 week ago:
If there is already a nationalised system than works, that is fantastic, it shouldn’t be privatised.
Private businesses aren’t charities, but there are benefits that a legitimately free market (not a monopoly, duopoly or cartel) can provide customers. Competition can result in dynamic improvements in value and also in service quality. A nationalised company with no competition can stagnate and be just as destructive as a commercial monopoly.
- Comment on Household waste spikes during the festive season. Where does it end up? 1 week ago:
I do one better and just don’t bother wrapping.
The only way I could be lazier than that is to not bother with gifts at all.
Considering my family members fascination with shopping centres, I may just get them some pre-paid Debit Cards next year…
- Comment on Insurance cost of Los Angeles wildfires may be felt in Australia 1 week ago:
Nationalisation probably isn’t the option for Insurance. Regulation would be a better option.
Nationalisation of Utilities, like Water, Power, Telco, Rail, Roads, etc does make sense, but Insurance, Banking, Media needs to be private (although government-funded competitors are great at keeping the industries honest).
We have the Transport Accident Commission in Victoria that covers medical for Car accidents, but will seek remuneration from Private Insurance company’s as necessary. They also make very disturbing and visceral traffic safety ads.
- Comment on Australian police say antisemitic crimes may be funded overseas 1 week ago:
It could be sponsored false flag attacks or it could be any of a dozen other financiers.
I think you may be correct though. Occams Razor.
- Comment on Hundreds complain about failing mobile phone service since 3G switched off 2 weeks ago:
…And the governments Knee-jerk legislation was due to the Telcos not investing enough in redundancy.
When a little bit of a wind can bring down the mobile network, maybe it is time to build more cell towers and make sure they have a stable battery backup.
I had a family member recently purchase an imported Lawn Mower and its Wireless features bought down his local cell network.
IANA Telecommunications Engineer, but making critical Infrastructure secure and redundant should be a high priority.
The Mirboo North outage and the mower issue only effected one of the 3 mobile network providers; starting with O and ending in S.
- Comment on Hundreds complain about failing mobile phone service since 3G switched off 2 weeks ago:
It is a shame that there are no other premium Android Phones that are just a handheld internet communicator. Samsungs are so full of corruptive “I want to be iPhone” bloatware that they make the Chinese phones look appealing, the Chinese phones are so full of nationalist spyware that they make Linux Phones look like a valid option (even though they are also manufactured by Chinese companies) Xperia is also full of their proprietary software, Nokia is probably the best of a bad bunch.
- Comment on Hundreds complain about failing mobile phone service since 3G switched off 2 weeks ago:
<sarcasm> Have you tried buying a new Pixel, and throwing your old one into landfill?</sarcasm>
BuT tHe PiXeL iS a PrEmIuM pHoNe, LiKe ThE iPhOnE!
Google will always treat their users as the product, no matter how much you pay for their hardware.
- Comment on Hundreds complain about failing mobile phone service since 3G switched off 2 weeks ago:
The reason why enabling 3G would improve coverage is because low radio frequencies do travel further and are less affected by interference.
This is why AM radio travels further than FM radio and why 4WDers used to carry UHF for local communication and AM or HF for long distance emergency communication.
- Comment on Hundreds complain about failing mobile phone service since 3G switched off 2 weeks ago:
It was Regulatory intervention that caused this problem.
Government: “you need to make sure that your subscribers can access 000” Telcos: “we can only do this if we disconnect 3G” G: “that doesn’t make any sense whatsoever but we will believe you and give you carte blanche to
screw over your customerscomply with regulatory requirements” - Comment on TIL: Deer are popping off down here 3 weeks ago:
The other issue in Victoria is that we had High Country grazing for decades. This changed the environment which resulted in former bushland becoming grassland.
When High Country Grazing was banned, these grasslands were perfect for other feral grazing animals, such as deer.
Then deer culling was restricted…
Now we have major feral deer problems.
- Comment on TIL: Deer are popping off down here 3 weeks ago:
Statute of limitations, I used to work for a butcher.
They did occasionally butcher a buck or two for a buck or two, which was not HACCP certified.
They also used to have an annual holiday to the NT for goat culls. The carcasses would be dressed and frozen, progressively on-sold to the Halal butchers cheap (even though they weren’t dressed as Halal).
I know that other local butchers in the region did even more dodgy stuff, a few were closed down, and the Halal and Kosher butchers were just as bad, if not worse (their customers had higher expectations for them).
- Comment on TIL: Deer are popping off down here 3 weeks ago:
“Roadkill Jerky Service, You make them Fly, We make them Dry”
- Comment on TIL: Deer are popping off down here 3 weeks ago:
We are in outer suburban Melbourne. A woman at the pub last year had her work Ute written off when a deer ran across the Princes Highway in a built up residential area adjacent to some unmaintained bush and hobby-farm-land.
Later last year, my SIL was taking my niece to work and a huge 12-point stag was dead on the side of the highway at the same location. By the time she went to pick her up from work, some dirty Bogan had decapitated it (in daylight), obviously to mount it on their Mancave wall.
Back in the good old days, hunters used to cull the feral deer, take them home and butcher them.
Professional taxidermists used to mount their racks, and they would take pride of place in their lounge room.
It would be in violation of HACCP for a Professional Butcher to prepare feral venison steak and sausage, but it would be a a good Cash-In-Hand income stream.
- Comment on A baby boomer tried to show me a positive side to the cost of living crisis. It didn't help 4 weeks ago:
Just remember that these are the out-of-touch people who we are voting into government.
- Comment on Happy new year friendos 4 weeks ago:
I suppose that you couldn’t sit it out for a bit longer so that you could get your LSL?
My previous job was getting a bit toxic towards year 9, but I managed to push through and had plenty of AL and LSL to cash in when I resigned.
- Comment on The majority of drowning victims in Australia are men. There are strategies to keep everyone safe 4 weeks ago:
Romeo found Juliette looking really sick, instead of skulling Cyanide, should’ve got a slab of Vic!
(Apologies to the Oxo Cubans and anyone who actually likes the taste of beer).