Eyekaytee
@Eyekaytee@aussie.zone
- Comment on 'Investor' is a dirty word for first-home buyers — but are they the real villains? 15 hours ago:
That said, the real villains are politicians for not outlawing housing investment
Why would they implement something people don’t want?
Bill Shorten went to the election with attempts to bring house prices down and lost an unlosable election
The liberal party have offered nothing to reduce house prices and they’re in the lead to win the next election
- Comment on Missing: sydbot 3 days ago:
you don’t happen to do brisbot as well do you?
- Comment on Calls for boycotting US products spread in northern Europe 5 days ago:
While tens of thousands of people have joined Facebook
😔
- Comment on Czechs counter Trump with crowdfunded Black Hawk helicopter for Ukraine 5 days ago:
That is a bit of a made up story for the headline, this campaign has been in the works for over a year, the original plan was a more expensive European one but the funding was going to take years and had largely stalled, so they found a cheaper one that was a later model, as they put it:
This journey began on November 17 last year, when we launched a campaign to provide the Ukrainian Army with a Black Hawk helicopter. While we made significant progress initially, the momentum slowed after a few months due to criticism from some voices claiming Ukraine didn’t need this machine and had other priorities for victory. Over the past several months, we’ve been in discussions with representatives of Ukrainian intelligence. HUR (Ukrainian military intelligence) has urged us to continue and complete this campaign. With their cooperation, we identified a helicopter outside Europe that is €1.3 million cheaper and even slightly newer.
www.weaponstoukraine.com/kampane/cestmir
There are still other active campaigns here:
www.weaponstoukraine.com/…/vsechny-kampane
in particular:
www.weaponstoukraine.com/…/armored-vehicles
The basis of the campaign is a Pinzgauer armoured patrol car with 6x6 all-wheel drive. The vehicle will be purchased from army reserves in perfect condition.
Manufactured in Austria and later England :)
- If you are “deemed not to be doing what you are told you will suddenly find out missiles won’t fire and planes won’t flybsky.app ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 8 comments
- Comment on ‘The world’s changed – Australia needs to keep up’: Foxtel’s Patrick Delany rails against broadcasting law 1 week ago:
has it? for me its pokies that are the issue, i’ve seen gambling advertisements in sports for over 10 years now all over the world, ufc/epl/f1/nrl, still not spent a single dollar
seems like it’s a more highlighted issue simply because you see it:
sport gambling represents under 5% of the problem gambling issue. Overwhelmingly it’s about poker machines. Then it’s followed by lotteries and lotto tickets and those issues as well.”
- Comment on Australia's spy chief: Antisemitism now agency's 'top priority' 1 week ago:
the vast majority of Aussies are just tired of people dying in this conflict
vast majority of Australians don’t care about Gaza at all tbh, wouldn’t even be in top 10
- Comment on Why doesn't the capitalist economy invest in cheap renewable energy? 2 weeks ago:
That’s really cool that you’re producing so much stuff, but I don’t give a shit, I don’t care if you’re the #1 maker of carbonated dildos, and the US and EU have no market for building those things, it means nothing to me being #1 in renewables and yet having co2 emissions go up, it means that even though you’re producing a lot of renewables you’re still sucking compared to the USA and EU when it comes down to the cold hard facts, you’re not reducing your co2 output
SINGAPORE, Feb 13 (Reuters) - China started construction on 94.5 gigawatts of coal-fired power in 2024, the highest volume of new builds since 2015, hampering the country’s transition away from fossil fuels, researchers said in a report published on Thursday.
- Comment on Why doesn't the capitalist economy invest in cheap renewable energy? 2 weeks ago:
Its going to drop very fast.
Yes that’s what I’d like to see
- Comment on Families fighting to keep loved ones out of extremist groups struggle to find intervention programs 2 weeks ago:
that’s just the tates
- Comment on Why doesn't the capitalist economy invest in cheap renewable energy? 2 weeks ago:
I get it but even with all these drawbacks we’re doing pretty good, I’d like to see China and India have their lines start going back the other way
Also he didn’t mention much about batteries, which are fantastic for arbing cheap solar during the day and expensive power at night
- Comment on Could Musk's unpopularity in Australia impact the election? 2 weeks ago:
Most of them I want gone
Same, I’m down to just Youtube and Iphone as the two things I could not replace…but how would the rest of Australia do
How would corporate Australia handle it if Trump did some truly insane things like an export tax on all Microsoft products +100% or banning American software in Australia?
He’s saying he wants to make Canada the 51st state of America so I’m not sure where the stupidity of him ends
How quickly would we go as a nation from Yeah Fuck Trump! to nooo don’t take my facebook!
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- Comment on Chill of inflation threatens Britain again after Europe’s long, hard winter. 3 weeks ago:
ft.com/…/0d474498-4d9b-4c1b-8502-71248c720c04
European gas prices hit a two-year high on Monday as colder weather boosted demand, accelerating withdrawals from the region’s fast-depleting storage facilities.
I think the ‘long, hard’ is an exaggeration (my wife agrees) but afaik cold weather is definitely correlated to higher gas prices
Dec 30, 2024, 10:30 AM CST
Northwest Europe is bracing itself for what is expected to be later this week the coldest snap so far this winter, hours ahead of the expiry of the deal for Russian gas transit via Ukraine to central Europe.
Temperatures in the UK, France, and Germany are expected to plunge at the end of this week, which would raise gas demand for heating and electricity generation.
This happens as Europe is burning through its natural gas in storage at the fastest pace in years.
Temperatures in the big European capitals London, Berlin, and Paris are all expected to plummet below freezing and below the average for the past 30 years, according to weather forecasts cited by Bloomberg.
- Comment on Chill of inflation threatens Britain again after Europe’s long, hard winter. 3 weeks ago:
It certainly seems higher for January:
- Comment on Chill of inflation threatens Britain again after Europe’s long, hard winter. 3 weeks ago:
Conditions are also cold in northern Europe, meaning that European gas storage stood at 47% full at the start of this week, 5% below the 5-year average and 20% lower than in 2024, according to analysts at UBS, in a note.
au.investing.com/…/natural-gas-climb-higher-chill…
In week 6 of 2025, European gas imports rose and exceeded 2024 weekly import levels. This was driven by higher liquified natural gas (LNG) imports
www.bruegel.org/…/european-natural-gas-imports
Unless someone has other ideas of what is suddenly consuming a whole lot of LNG I guess chilly weather it is
- Comment on Here’s why some people still evade public transport fares – even when they’re 50 cents 3 weeks ago:
I’m no expert on this topic, but I’ve previously read that when a thing is made free people stop valuing it.
I read that as well and had trouble finding it but this sounds about right:
Why not make the fares free in Queensland? One reason can be found in the experience of the Miami Beach Transportation Association in the United States. The Association launched free shuttle buses along the coastline. However, the lack of fares led to a diminished sense of responsibility for the upkeep and care of the transit system, ultimately negatively affecting both driver satisfaction and passenger experience. Whilst passenger numbers initially surged, studies show problem riders resulted in raised personal security concerns as transit crime increased. Examples include increased assault, damage, and theft for users, becoming a deterrent for both new and existing riders. An attempt to resolve these issues was introducing a $0.25 flat fare, leading problem riders to avoid the service. Consequently, these negative factors began to rapidly decline, such as vandalism decreasing by 90% whilst passenger numbers remained steady.
- Comment on LW delay is growing again 3 weeks ago:
Based on this: aussie.zone/post/15188121
0.19.6 includes many fixes and new features… the biggest for me is “Parallel federation sending”. This allows instance admins to send multiple federated activities in parrallel, rather than singly in series.
Not that its a real issue for other admins with activities from AZ, but I have set this to 2 for our outgoing activities.
Hopefully the lemmy.world admins will upgrade to 0.19.6 soon and do the same, this should allow AZ to catch up with activities from LW, and stay up to date. Over time as activities from LW have decreased we’ve “caught up” to within ~5 days of live. Doubling the rate that LW sends activities to AZ will help massively.
and this:
When it’s ready, because the admins do more detailed research than just “bigger number better”.
I think we’re just waiting for lemmy.world to upgrade?
- Comment on LW delay is growing again 3 weeks ago:
Yeah my only sub on that instance was in worldnews but because it was like my post was going into a queue for half a day I just post on worldnews@sh.itjust.works now, less views but doesn’t bother me until they fix their stuff
- Comment on French President Emmanuel Macron announces €100 billion investments in AI 3 weeks ago:
Believe it or not this is part of it, can’t make money to pay down debt if no one wants your stuff and you’re years behind everyone else
- Comment on French President Emmanuel Macron announces €100 billion investments in AI 3 weeks ago:
And about the command creation, it is laughable to waste this kind of energy on this easy of a task.
You better watch out or I’ll generate another image
- Comment on French President Emmanuel Macron announces €100 billion investments in AI 3 weeks ago:
Looks like it is comparable to the US Stargate announcement, the money is coming from private companies and going into private investment, which is amazing, I regret not including this in the original post:
Meanwhile, the French financing will include commitments from the United Arab Emirates, American and Canadian investments funds and French companies like telecommunications firms Iliad and Orange, and aerospace and defense group Thales
A few days before France’s AI Action Summit, which kicked off on Monday, the UAE said it would invest between 30 billion euros and 50 billion euros in the construction of a one-gigawatt AI data center in France as part of a campus focused on the technology’s development.
- Comment on French President Emmanuel Macron announces €100 billion investments in AI 3 weeks ago:
An Airbus style company would be awesome, I’m absolutely certain after Trumps latest round of insanity there’s a lot of countries that would like some supply chain diversity with EU chips to ensure China or USA can’t rattle them too hard
- Comment on French President Emmanuel Macron announces €100 billion investments in AI 3 weeks ago:
Yes it would take a lot of effort, the EU certainly has the money but seems content at the moment to throw it at America
- Comment on French President Emmanuel Macron announces €100 billion investments in AI 3 weeks ago:
Ok now I’m wondering if you’re an AI
You just said it’s a past thing already but you’ve shown no indication that it is?
You should be less influenced by trends but more by real results.
I just used it 30 seconds ago for comparing export data: aussie.zone/post/17570399/14730920
and last night for French language practice with morpheem.org/fr-en
and chat.mistral.ai/chat earlier today for making an SSH command to get into my router
and lmstudio.ai with any one of these for javascript practice:
Why are you guys so offended that people find AI useful?
- Comment on French President Emmanuel Macron announces €100 billion investments in AI 3 weeks ago:
Heya!
Are you blind? There are so many things suggesting AI is a past thing already.
?? Really like what? I must be blind, Deepseek just made GLOBAL headlines, like my own local logan radio station mentioned it on its news the other day!
The Paris AI summit is happening right now as we speak, you can even watch live:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhOrVNAQSMs
It’s being held at the Grand Palais which is very fancy :)
If you’re seeing something I’m not feel free to let me know
- Comment on French President Emmanuel Macron announces €100 billion investments in AI 3 weeks ago:
100% agreed, it’s funny because Europe has ARM and ASML, Taiwan is cool with the west and can produce chips, you even technically have a GlobalFoundries fabrication plants in Dresden so you can design and produce the chips, design the underlying instruction set but for some reason Europe just can’t put the whole thing together into a competitive product
- Comment on trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium 3 weeks ago:
What can you really do to prepare for something like this? Specifically against the US which is:
Iron Ore to China: China was the dominant market for Australian iron ore, accounting for around 85% of exports. This amounted to approximately AU$115 billion in value in 2023, with over 736 million tonnes shipped in 2022
vs
Steel to America: United States: Exports of steel to the U.S. were much higher, totaling US$237.51 million in 2023. Key products included flat-rolled and semi-finished steel2.
perplexity.ai/…/how-much-iron-ore-and-steel-do-5b…
I’d like to know more about just how big our steel industry is apart of the exports pie especially compared to iron ore
- Comment on French President Emmanuel Macron announces €100 billion investments in AI 3 weeks ago:
there’s nothing to suggest that building a cheaper model that’s not as good as the top AI models is the best way to build AI models, cheaper yes, but Deepseek isn’t the best AI model out there
A better way would be to combine the Deepseek training optimisations with raw power of Americas/nvidias hardware
We’re still at an early stage with AI, there’s nothing to suggest we’re anywhere near the end of Jevons paradox
- Comment on trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium 3 weeks ago:
The only problem is you used MSN which is using the Daily Mail as a source? An American source using a UK (garbage dump of a) source to report on Australia? :\
