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- Comment on South Australia Government considers requiring developers to build bigger garages. The cost will be paid by home buyers. Whether they have a car or not. 3 days ago:
In some fields Malinauskus is more right wing than his Liberal party predecessor. Urban development is one of the big ones.
This is the premier who says “urban sprawl is not a dirty word”, totally killed the right to protest in South Australia and is dedicated to commercialising the parklands. But he did undo the insane privatisation of the rail system so he’s not totally blind to a good thing.
- Comment on Perspective 4 days ago:
They absolutely do, and you’re arguing for the opposite position of the person above you
- The motel time forgot. How the housing crisis hits our most vulnerable - Michael Westmichaelwest.com.au ↗Submitted 6 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Australia’s superannuation regulator is worried about your fund’s spending. Should you be?theconversation.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 1 week ago:
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 1 week ago:
I don’t see anything in the document suggesting that, although there’s also nothing stopping companies from doing that.
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 1 week ago:
I don’t see anything in the document as written that would stop users who aren’t logged in from turning off safe search etc… Of course it’s in the company’s interest to interpret it that way, but I would think an honest interpretation based on the current document would dramatically reduce the user value of being logged in to a search engine.
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 1 week ago:
Interestingly apart from effectively mandating “safe search” on by default, this doesn’t appear to attempt to restrict users who aren’t logged in.
- Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s whytheconversation.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 19 comments
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 2 weeks ago:
Hey it’s me the fun ruined here to ruin your fun.
Nuclear Ghandi was mostly a myth until Civilisation V where it was deliberately programmed in.
Also the concept of an integer wrapping around below it’s minimum value is still integer overflow, just like wrapping above it’s maximum value. Underflow does exist in the context of floating point numbers, when a calculation produces a result too small to represent in the floating point schema.
Buffer overflow is putting more elements into an array than can fit in the array, therefore trying to write beyond the end of an array. They’re a super common form of vulnerability exploit, particularly in older programs written in C. Buffer underflow is when something consuming from a buffer consumes faster than it is filled, and so empties the buffer. I didn’t actually know this term before making this comment.
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 3 weeks ago:
The modern English word “bear” originally came from a proto-Germanic word meaning one of “brown one” or possibly “wild animal”. There was an actual name for bears, but speaking it was taboo in case it caused a bear to appear, so the euphemism eventually replaced the real name.
When I learned this originally, I was taught that the true name was lost to time, but Wikipedia just says it was “arkto” so whatever.
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 3 weeks ago:
Just like bears
- Comment on Australia's sunscreen showdown — and why SPF might be misunderstood 3 weeks ago:
That product description sounded to me like a mechanical (not chemical) sunscreen. Unlinke chemical sunscreens those tend to have a visible whitening effect when applied properly. Given that the Choice tests were blind and on human skin, I can imagine a scenario where it was “rubbed in” like chemical sunscreen until invisible, and gave the absurdly low score as a genuine result of misapplication
On the other hand, two independent labs getting similar awful results is damning.
It’s unfortunate the responses from these companies are mostly along the lines of “nuh-uh”. It’s good that there have been some emergency retests, but I would have hoped that someone would have worked with Choice to figure out what was up rather than just telling them “you did it wrong”.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 3 weeks ago:
Just to be clear before I respond to the rest of this comment, my position is that Peertube solves the sustainability problem and in no way am I suggesting Peertube will replace YouTube
I do not expect the vast majority of channels to survive the end of YouTube, as is normal for any paradigm shift.
P2P is completely achievable using NAT Hole Punching. I have no clarity on if Peertube is doing this but since there’s already a trusted server involved it would be silly not to.
In a hypothetical, unlikely future where YouTube dies and people generally move to Peertube, I expect the majority of content creators to pay small fees to have instances host their videos. I expect small, free but restricted instances will continue to be the home for amateur videographers as they are today. The more technical folk will likely self host, and groups of like minded creators will pool efforts to run group specialist instances (not unlike Nebula).
Frankly the most likely scenario is YouTube dies and everyone starts posting videos to Instagram or Tiktok or something equivalently anti user.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 3 weeks ago:
Content creators. It’s hard to host everyone’s videos, and it benefits monopolists to imply that doing so is necessary, as it prevents new entrants. It’s not nearly as hard to host your own server (or pay for it to be hosted). It becomes harder when you suddenly become popular, a situation which Peertube explicitly compensates for by sharing the distribution effort between viewers, which scales with popularity.
Signal makes it’s own bed like YouTube by being a single centralised server for everyone. Nobody every asks “who pays for the servers” when it comes to Matrix or XMPP
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 3 weeks ago:
Not precisely what you’re after but sepiasearch.org
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 3 weeks ago:
Peertube has already delivered the sustainable model: creators host their own videos and viewers assist distribution.
- Australia condemns LA Police for rubber bullets after quietly arming our ownindependentaustralia.net ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 20 comments
- Comment on sites to post laser files? 3 weeks ago:
Honestly I think this is a gap in the community.
They’re more project focussed but you could consider <hackster.io> or <hackaday.io>.
Maybe consider cross posting this question to an open hardware community?
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- Deafening silence at flawed process. NACC and the Robodebt investigation. - Michael Westmichaelwest.com.au ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Sustainable 3D Prints With Decomposable Filaments 5 weeks ago:
Mixed material objects cannot (generally) be recycled. This is focused on multi-material prints, so you can easily split out your PLA and TPU etc. for recycling. Also good if you’re directly recycling into new filament.
- (Opinion) A shameful death after a supermarket scuffle shines a light on Australia’s unfinished business | Julianne Schultzwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 9 comments
- Comment on Sustainable 3D Prints With Decomposable Filaments 5 weeks ago:
It’s for separating materials for recycling, not compost.
- Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions are getting more expensive 1 month ago:
how did we get to a point where every creator is limited to one box?
US Antitrust has been asleep for decades, and as soon as it opened one bleary eye the oligarchs took over the government.
- Comment on There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic. 1 month ago:
People bought excess of lots of things, toilet paper just was more noticeable more quickly because of it’s huge volume to value ratio, and slow restocking (in part because of that ratio, it’s not worth warehousing so there was little flexibility in the supply chain).
One the shortage started becoming obvious it was self-perpetuating, you needed to buy what toilet paper you could when you could because you didn’t know when you would be able to buy again. The supermarkets near me at the time had no toilet paper restocked for more than three months as supplies got redirected to “higher priority” stores.
- Comment on Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier 1 month ago:
I’m curious if it’s actually preference or if it’s supply side. From casual browsing Toyota looks to have completely eliminated their small cars (e.g. Echo) and their smaller cars (e.g. Yaris) are getting bigger and more SUV-like. Volvo stopped selling their station wagons in favour of SUVs and I can’t think of any station wagons left on the market. Most of the EVs in the Australian market seem to be SUV-like, especially the MGs which have dominated the “remotely affordable” category for a while.
It’s possible the manufacturers are just responding to consumer demands, but I’d like to see some evidence of who’s driving the change.
- Comment on Peertube number of Active Users are going up last couple of months 2 months ago:
You can also do that in Tubular, if you prefer a FOSS option
- Comment on Sovereign citizen who kidnapped her child sentenced to two years' jail 3 months ago:
We import all sorts of fringe political positions from the US. There’s even a cohort of “second amendment” gun advocates, despite having no bill of rights. The actual second amendment lets the federal government take over state debts.
