notgold
@notgold@aussie.zone
- Comment on Datacenter diplomacy: Australia commits to help Vanuatu build bit barns to keep China at bay 2 weeks ago:
Idealic lifestyle on the beach; fishing, swimming, spending time with family. Fuck joining the rat race.
- Comment on Australian Labor government threatens Signal encrypted messaging system 4 weeks ago:
Greens don’t do shit. Vic socialists are your friends. They care about the person and the worker.
Don’t be friends with the boss
- Comment on Australian Labor government threatens Signal encrypted messaging system 4 weeks ago:
Bring back local wireless networks to connect us together and keep the big Yankee tech mobs out of our faces.
- Comment on Australian Labor government threatens Signal encrypted messaging system 4 weeks ago:
From page 25 there is crime clearance rates in Australia for the 2 decades before the internet. Looks like crime was solved before the internet existed.
- Comment on Australian Labor government threatens Signal encrypted messaging system 4 weeks ago:
An election?
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 4 weeks ago:
We are in talks to build one for a local power utility. These are cheaper for nice-to-have sensors that aren’t critical. Most electricity meters in Victoria use a mesh network provided through silverspring devices to collect usage readings.
I’ve also heard about a rural water utility using a mesh network to connect water meters together to reduce the number of times an onsite reading is required.
Telcos are already trying to compete with mesh networks by providing low bandwidth LTE-M services that are lower cost for utilities. Nokia are pushing 450connect, 450 alliance, etc as more competitors also.
There are plenty of use cases for low bandwidth systems and services. Isolated network is great when the telcos have pages too.
- Comment on YouTube video that's planting a forest - IN AUSTRALIA! 1 month ago:
This guy has so much energy.
- Comment on Driving rules for elderly under scrutiny after Wantirna South crash kills woman, leaves man fighting for life 1 month ago:
I’d be up for that. I’d be pissed if I lost my licence but the world would be safer.
- Comment on Australian doctors call for clampdown on social media influencers allegedly glamorising poker machines 1 month ago:
That’s what they are aiming for. They want to be the most outlandish so people see then
- Comment on Why are hotels in Australia so inexpensive compared to hotels in the USA and Canada? 1 month ago:
I’m with you. Keep the yanks out lest they bring their shitty government ideas with them
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 2 months ago:
Trumps companies if you believe him and disregard the ‘made in china’ sticker
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 2 months ago:
- Comment on WTF? Americans and Britons swear more than Australians online, research finds 3 months ago:
Exactly. Cunt can’t be a swear word if my mum uses it all the time
- Comment on The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe 3 months ago:
- Comment on Australia's travel advice for the US has toughened three times since April 3 months ago:
Only by most measured metrics
- Comment on Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop 3 months ago:
My old note9 did it too. Handy in a pinch and great when I forget my laptop but still wanted to pretend to work at work
- Comment on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025 3 months ago:
Too late
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 4 months ago:
100% this. At least epic tried to make a value proposition for developers but developers can just make more from steam. Having said that, steam/valve had a hand in the always online gaming situation which we have all just come to accept. I buy from Gog where I can
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 4 months ago:
Cost of doing business…
- Comment on Short summary of dumbphone market in 2025 4 months ago:
Not sure what deepseek does as I’m unfamiliar. My apologies fellow human, it’s difficult to know who is real anymore.
- Comment on Short summary of dumbphone market in 2025 4 months ago:
Is Deepseeks turn to post today? Do many of these posts today
- Comment on From $30 parmigianas to $15 pints, can Australia still afford the pub? 4 months ago:
This is legible.
- Comment on From $30 parmigianas to $15 pints, can Australia still afford the pub? 4 months ago:
100% this. Property prices and business rents have destroyed the good life.
My childhood suburb had nearly 30 pubs and bars when I was 18. Nowadays, half the pubs have been bulldozed and overpriced apartments take their place.
Sad thing is with the size of apartments now, we need pub spaces to share with mates more than ever.
- Comment on From $30 parmigianas to $15 pints, can Australia still afford the pub? 4 months ago:
Too many yank flags and bald Eagles for me to take that website seriously
- Comment on Victoria to ban state school logos on shorts, pants, skirts and socks from next year 4 months ago:
Shop keepers, the old tram conductors, older dropout kids. All would treat you different if you were in a school uniform.
This may be depending on area but in Melbourne CBD, inner suburbs and bayside was like that whenever I was in uniform.
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 4 months ago:
People have more energy to complain than to fix.
- Comment on IT'S ON: Albanese to call May 3 federal election tomorrow morning 5 months ago:
I thought Mr musk taught us that we can be capitalist and save the planet at the same time
- Comment on What host names do you use? 5 months ago:
First non negative integer so easy for computer to display.
I only really use zero in networking names to correspond with an IPv4 address that ends with dot zero.
I think it’s just what you’re used to. Like counting bottom to top in teleco versus counting top to bottom in IT.
- Comment on Women earn 78 cents for every $1 men paid on average. 5 months ago:
Same in my industry. Rarely do any women apply.
- Comment on Tech jobs are now white collar trades that need apprentices 5 months ago:
This. Unionise people. It’s a benefit for all
