Salvo
@Salvo@aussie.zone
- Comment on Australia took its interest rate medicine – and it has poisoned our living standards | Greg Jericho 10 hours ago:
The problem is that the RBA increased interest rates to discourage individuals from borrowing more. The problem is that We had already borrowed so much that the increase was crippling.
They should have only increased rates on new loans and reduced rates on existing loans.
- Comment on Australia hardware chain breached privacy with facial recognition — commission report 1 day ago:
And of course, Channel 7 and Channel 9 have published hit-pieces against the Privacy Commission in defence of Bunnings.
They have broadcast video of employees being attacked!
- Comment on Wind power: CSIRO asks Australians to chart their farts for research 3 days ago:
I also have a small methane burner. /s Makes it a bit unpleasant when it has to flare off, but it keeps my phone charged.
- Comment on 'Cooker, anti-vaxxer, sheep': The people Australia's COVID-19 response forgot 5 days ago:
The problem with global media is that every single outlier event gets hyped to such a degree that it appears to be a common occurrence.
- Comment on Who was our worst Prime Minister and why? Any notable state leaders we need to add? 1 week ago:
And people had the nerve to name a Swimming Pool after him! /s
- Comment on The 50 best Australian songs of the 90s 1 week ago:
Still the best Award acceptance ever by Les Murray when they won their ARIA.
- Comment on The 50 best Australian songs of the 90s 1 week ago:
After seeing TISM, MGF, Eskimo Joe, Ben Lee and The Mavis’s last nice, I would have to agree with this list.
- Comment on Who was our worst Prime Minister and why? Any notable state leaders we need to add? 1 week ago:
“don’t You worry about that…”
- Comment on Who was our worst Prime Minister and why? Any notable state leaders we need to add? 2 weeks ago:
Bloody Jeff.
Sold all our Publicly owned infrastructure to private companies.
Now we have to deal with electricity resellers screwing us over and the government needing to fork out Corporate Welfare in the form of “Energy Relief” to line their mates pockets.
- Comment on Customers suddenly find their new phones can't make calls or send texts 2 weeks ago:
But that Spectrum being used for 3G is beneficial. Not just for support of older devices but also increased, redundant coverage.
This purely Corporate Welfare legislation, which is going to backfire on the corporations when they realise they have to build more infrastructure to provide the same coverage.
It is going to be detrimental to product consumers because they won’t have the same amount of coverage. Also, the higher bandwidth of 5G is going to increase backhaul requirements which mean that the person calling 000 using VoLTE will need to compete with the person steaming 4K Netflix while playing CoD.
The only winners in the long-term will be the advertisers and data miners, who somehow manage to bloat a 4kB website to 40mB.
- Comment on NBN Co to accelerate higher speed tiers and launch multi-gigabit speeds in September 2025 3 weeks ago:
It was the Telecom Oligarchs that kept the speed and infrastructure limited.
I really wish that Telstra had not been accepted into the NBN; In my alternate history, FTTH would have been rolled out in parallel to all existing corroded copper. The problem with my alternate timeline is that Telstra would try to push fixed 4G and 5G as their only option and oversaturated the MobileNet infrastructure… wait they are doing that anyway!
- Comment on BYD’s hybrid EV ute that could rival Australia’s bestselling vehicles goes on sale 3 weeks ago:
Some imported dual-cab utes struggle with the kerbs of drive throughs.
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 3 weeks ago:
Same as. Certain family members expect everyone to be on Facebook and also drink all of Zucks Kool-Aid.
I just don’t go to those family events, unless I’m personally invited. If an event only exists of Facebook, it does not exist to me.
I have 2FA apps on my phone for work. I also have the horrendous HR app for applying for Annual Leave. If they insist that I need more work-related apps on my personal phone, I will be getting a second phone and using that exclusively for work. It will be turned off when I walk out the door at the end of the day and kept in my office drawer.
- Comment on No-fault evictions banned and break-lease fees capped under sweeping reforms in Victoria 3 weeks ago:
That’s fine. The landlords still have the power to increase rent to astronomical levels in order for force unwanted tenants out.
If you can’t evict them, you can make it so they can’t afford to live there.
- Comment on Australia’s pandemic plans were ‘grossly inadequate’, an inquiry has found. What lessons can be learned? 3 weeks ago:
Different people lost different things during the Pandemic.
Some lost their independence and freedom. Some lost their social ties. Some lost their innocence and ignorance.
They were the lucky ones.
Lots more people lost their lives and quite a few still haven’t realised that they have lost their good health.
- Comment on A box of Cadbury's Favourites reveals a lot about the 'high-low' cycles of supermarket pricing 3 weeks ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ-_9eEkW9g
Once again Garn hit the nail on the head.
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 4 weeks ago:
We have preferential voting for a reason (except for literal Nazis), the major parties should always be last on everyone’s ballot.
It should be;
- Someone I agree with
- Someone I agree with on a lot of issues but not quite everything.
- ditto
- ditto
- Greens, unless the candidate is a complete hippy fucktard that doesn’t know how economics works.
- Shit Lite party
- Shit party.
- Yellow Shitstain
- Literal Nazis.
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 4 weeks ago:
“We are price gouging customers, we are ripping off suppliers and we are making our customers feel like criminals. What else can we do it pure evil?”
- Comment on Grill’d faces Australia's ‘first-ever' fast food strike over low-pay, 'unfair' conditions claims 4 weeks ago:
Considering that Grill’d claim to help community groups with donations, this is very hypocritical. They can help and homeless by paying their employees a living wage.
Maybe the RAFFWU needs to apply to be recipients of “Local Matters”
- Comment on Platforms, not parents, to be responsible for social media age limit, but penalties as yet undecided - ABC News 5 weeks ago:
Most of the Internet denizens who identify as juvenile (or act in a juvenile manner) are actually legal adults. Meanwhile, legal children who are in difficult situations may not have access to the support they need.
I believe that legislating when someone is considered mature does not account for the outliers who are the ones who would benefit most from access, or having their access restricted.
- Comment on Platforms, not parents, to be responsible for social media age limit, but penalties as yet undecided - ABC News 5 weeks ago:
I think this is a real threat to up-and-coming social networks.
Data miners are claiming that increased privacy/sscurity controls on computer platforms are hamstringing their social graph development, but the legal liability of user identity verification is going to be the much bigger problem.
Maybe the computer platform developers need to introduce some sort of anonymised age/identify verification API so that they take the liability. They are the ones with the intimate relationship with the user, and are claiming to protect the users privacy.
- Comment on New car buyers driven to white or grey, with bright colours rarer than ever, data shows 5 weeks ago:
When we built our house, we specifically ordered SurfMist Blue (which is a very white colour with a hint of powder blue). The stupid fucking builder installed WoodLand Grey. They had to tear the whole roof off our two storey and re-clad it in the correct colour.
- Comment on New car buyers driven to white or grey, with bright colours rarer than ever, data shows 5 weeks ago:
It depends if it is Flat, Metallic or Pearl.
Flat White is easier to touch up and maintain. Metallic hides scratches but Pearl is impossible to colour match and any defects are very visible.
- Comment on New car buyers driven to white or grey, with bright colours rarer than ever, data shows 5 weeks ago:
Boomers and GenXers used to love red cars because anyone driving a pov-pack Hyundai Excel in red thought they were driving a Ferrari.
There used to be a meme (idea) that red cars were cop-magnets because people in red cars would drive like dickheads.
All those Boomers grew old and started buying Maroon cars because they were technically red, but wouldn’t be cop-magnets. These colours are colloquially called “Old-Man Burgundy” or “Haemorrhoid Brown”.
- Comment on New car buyers driven to white or grey, with bright colours rarer than ever, data shows 5 weeks ago:
I think that they mean “Silver” rather than grey, but the dealers may be registering them as grey.
My Tan Jimny is in VicRoads as “White” because someone interpreted “Ivory Chiffon” as being ivory, or white.
- Comment on LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers 1 month ago:
We have AppleTVs on every TV in the house and none of the TVs have ever been connected to the home network. Same with the rest of the extended family.
We also have a HDHomeRun in each house for those rare occasions when we want to watch Broadcast TV.
The only time a TV changes from HDMI1 is when someone wants to play PS or XBox.
- Comment on OVIC finds department responsible for breaches of privacy through use of ChatGPT 1 month ago:
The corporate revolt against MLL has started. The lawyers are starting to realise that outsourcing to an unaccountable third party is too much of a liability. The business leaders are also starting to realise that it isn’t good for their business models.
I was ecstatic to find that the Adobe AI feature is missing from Acrobat Reader when I started my work computer the other day. Our IT department is also progressively excising Microsofts Copilot and Bing Chat features from our work computers too.
More companies need to do this.
- Comment on Woolworths, Coles sued by ACCC for ‘misleading’ price drop claims 1 month ago:
They are trying to blame “inflation”, but at the same time they are reporting record profits.
- Comment on More than two-thirds of Australian homes have building issues, new report says - ABC News 2 months ago:
When we built 6 years ago, we advised the builder that we wanted a Zero Energy house and that it would be audited and profiled by the SECCCA and published in their magazine.
We weren’t seeking any discount or special treatment, but it would have been a great opportunity for this builder to showcase that they are progressive.
Every step of the way, the Site Supervisor and contractors snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. It is was almost as if they were trying to sabotage the build.
It came to a head when they tried to install an “electric assist” hot water service instead of a fully electric hot water service. We never had Gas to site.
The Site Supervisor and their manager called us idiots for not wanting gas and ranted and raved. They said it was not possible to have a house in Australia without Gas hot water.
Their CEO got involved and pointed out that his house did not have Gas to site, he had two Tesla PowerWalls and 20kW of solar over two inverters and was essentially off-grid in suburbia. He got a rebate from his power company every month.
The Site Supervisor was fired and their manager was given a demotion.
- Comment on More than two-thirds of Australian homes have building issues, new report says - ABC News 2 months ago:
Building Inspectors used to be employed by local government and were audited to prevent them being able to take bribes.
Now Building Inspectors are employed by the builder. Their whole business model is one big bribe.