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- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 1 day ago:
There’s a near-infinite number of better things trump could have done.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
oddly enough, no one has suggested that I start an OF if I don’t have money /s
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Oh please.
Did you really just create a lemmy account to tell us about your best friend who is a top international high-end escort who also runs an extremely profitable OnlyFans account ?
I imagine lemmy is fairly low-yield as regards paying fans. The stereotypical lemmy user is young and broke.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 days ago:
It’s never too early to efficiently count your sheep!
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 days ago:
Double entry accounting system.
I’m an accountant by trade. The double entry system wasn’t invented until the 15th century.
I could account for any lords various assets, goods, and livestock in an efficient, reliable and accurate manner
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 3 days ago:
In my industry it’s an incremental improvement.
Potentially the current tech could make firms 10% more productive if fully realised. That’s my estimate anyway.
It’s not a game changer.
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 3 days ago:
I know some people who eloped.
They went to the registry office with a witness then did a week of cycle touring because that’s their thing.
Posted it on social after the fact.
I thought it was a great way to go.
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 3 days ago:
I’m not quite sure what you mean to imply.
The topic of marriage did come up 6 years ago when we decided to have kids. At that time we decided it didn’t have much meaning for us.
We didn’t really think about her family name at that time.
When the kids were born she was emphatic that they should have my family name. She actually has a family name from a previous marriage, which wouldn’t be appropriate for our kids, and she’s estranged from her actual family so didn’t want her maiden name.
Since the kids have been born this has been in the back of my mind and I’ve been meaning to address it, I assume it’s on her mind too.
Honestly, just attending to all the things that need to be done in the last 2 years has been very challenging. This just hasn’t been a priority.
Also for context, de facto relationships have legal standing in Australia. So the law treats us as though we were married. Our situation is not uncommon.
I mentioned it to my sisters who suggested she could just use my family name as an alias, or just change her name to our family name, or we could elope. If she wanted to hyphenate that would be up to her of course but knowing her as I do I doubt she will want to.
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 3 days ago:
My defacto partner and I have been together for 12 years. We’ve been trying to have kids for 6 years or so and got lucky with twins 2 years ago.
Being married wouldn’t strengthen our bond or commitment in any way.
It’s a shame my partner doesn’t have the same surname as our kids. I’ve been meaning to ask her how she feels about it.
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 3 days ago:
It’s not relevant in most countries because if it were you could just get married and get a visa.
- Comment on Nextcloud (PHP) vs OpenCloud (Rust) 5 days ago:
I don’t have any credible feedback for you.
I dislike php. That’s my feeling. The vibe.
When I’m browsing self hostable things I avoid php unless it’s really the only option.
My completely unsupported “feeling” is that apps written in php are awkward and clunky and just less pleasant to host.
I’m sorry if that offends you, and I don’t care at all what you think of my opinion.
I only mentioned “php apps feel old” because I could see you were some kind of php devotee and that it would trigger you. Maybe look into that.
- Comment on Yep 5 days ago:
Weirdly this is true.
I’m a lot less attractive in my appearance but aparently more attractive as a person.
- Comment on Yep 5 days ago:
Nah.
Some people age well, others don’t. IMO the ratio is about the same in any gender.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 6 days ago:
Amazing. Pack it up everyone. Looks like the old “are we alone” question has been settled once and for all.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 6 days ago:
That’s so pathetic.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 6 days ago:
When i saw the headlines I skipped past. Usually they detect “organic molecules”. This means the requisites for life are present but it’s not evidence of life.
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 6 days ago:
Today I have…
- spoken to a team member under my supervision about their workflow (30m)
- reviewed applicants for a role on my team (15m)
- prepared some financial reports for a client (1h)
- prepared some financial forms for that client (1h)
- figured out the right methodology for a complex letter for that client (30m)
- drafted a complex financial / legal letter for that client (1h)
- felt stressed about this client’s situation (45m)
- applied a check list to this client’s project (30m)
- reviewed and attended to some emails (30m)
It’s time for lunch now.
- Comment on Labor vows to consider strengthening Australia’s animal welfare body after shocking abattoir revelations 1 week ago:
I wish Labor would tackle real actual social problems with progressive policies instead of these dumb virtuous deeds that just distance conservatives.
West Aus won the last election for Albo buy that’s not gonna happen this time. Regional WA is seething over the live export ban.
LNP will just repeal it anyway. It will cost them and election and ultimately achieve nothing.
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 1 week ago:
This is a long way off, at least in Australia. Probably not for any good reason though.
Any time you propose some sort of citizen ID number scheme nutters start talking about “the mark of the beast”. It’s a biblical thing in which someone envisaged a dystopia in which everyone had an identifying mark on their forehead.
In Australia for example there was a lot of resistance to everyone being assigned a tax id number in the 80s. The law is still structured around this cultural anxiety to this day. For example, you can’t be forced by law to provide your tax id number, and every different government agency will assign you their own number.
Biometrics have their own problems. An iris scan or finger print might be ok, but I would be extraordinarily reluctant to provide my DNA to anyone under any circumstances.
- Comment on Here’s an idea 1 week ago:
Most people just aren’t equipped to decide how much someone else should earn. Firstly they might be unable to be objective about people they know. Secondly they don’t have the appropriate skills and experience to evaluate someone’s performance.
Due to the first issue, that would make the whole thing a popularity contest. You’d pretty much have to “campaign” to ensure everyone liked you. Who cares about productivity when all that really matters is that everyone likes you.
Instead of voting for someone’s salary, key personnel are evaluated by asking stakeholders to score them on whatever metrics. Stakeholders should include staff and clients and suppliers, et cetera.
Based on their performance you can determine an appropriate bonus.
- Comment on Nextcloud (PHP) vs OpenCloud (Rust) 1 week ago:
Nextcloud really does feel old.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
I posted this in another thread yesterday but it’s relevant here too:
I have a small consultancy with several staff and work with documents and spreadsheets all day. We use LibreOffice exclusively.
Occasionally I encounter similar threads discussing the difference between LibreOffice and Microsoft Office, and the comments are all the same. So many people saying LibreOffice just “isn’t there yet”, or that it might be ok for casual use but not for power users.
But as someone who uses LibreOffice extensively with a broad feature set I’ve just never encountered something we couldn’t do. Sure we might work around some rough edges occasionally, but the feature set is clearly comparable.
My strongly held suspicion is that it’s a form of the dunning-kruger effect. People have a lot of experience using software-A so much so that they tend to overlook just how much skill and knowledge they have accumulated with that specific software. Then when they try software-B they misconstrue their lack of knowledge with that specific software as complexity.
That said, IDK if I’d go as far as to say LibreOffice is clearly the “best” because that’s subjective. IMO it’s certainly comparable and is a shining example of great FOSS. Hopefully LibreOffice enjoys some attention in the current move away from American products.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
borgmatic is an abstraction layer that makes borg a little easier to work with.
Things like scheduling, repo management, notifications. I like it very much.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
you can make par2 parity data for 7z using the par2 util.
- Comment on How important is it that cans are clean when i put them in the recycling. 1 week ago:
It’s probably not quite that nefarious, although I agree that the majority of what goes in the recycling bin doesn’t get recycled.
The bins are the collection system. You can’t recycle anything if you have nothing. People aren’t good at following instructions. So everyone gets a bin for plastic, cardboard, and cans.
Here in Australia the guy in the truck is looking at what’s in the bin before it goes in the truck. Obviously not checking every last little thing but once I tried to put a big chunk of polystyrene in and the truck just didn’t take it.
Then at the collection centre it all goes on a conveyor belt and staff pick off the items that are recyclable. Anything not picked off gets dumped into landfill.
The problem you’re alluding to is that there’s a lot more recyclable stuff being discarded than there is demand for recycled products. For plastic for example the types are represented by those little numbers in the triangles.
I think 1 is PET and that’s readily recyclable, everyone wants to recycle that. I don’t remember the rest but 2 and 3 are recyclable but it’s expensive and it’s always down-cycling into some lesser product like black plant pots or green park benches, then 4, 5, and 6 just plain aren’t viable for recycling.
I imagine Aluminium and Tin cans are readily recyclable, and clean uncontaminated cardboard, but the rest just goes in to landfill.
I think this system sucks because it gives people the illusion that their stuff is being recycled, however it’s not an intentional scam.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
Well it gives everyone the opportunity to blindly believe everything will be better because it’s not twitter.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
Yeah there’s that one guy that appears in every thread about bluesky saying that it really is an open and decentralised protocol even if only one corporation uses it in a centralised way.
- Comment on Record enrolment [98.2%] ahead of 2025 federal election | AEC 1 week ago:
Yeah, it makes the “both sides” narrative very effective.
- Comment on Something's up with all those airbnb locks | Purplepingers 2 weeks ago:
Presumably that would depend on the type of property. Like hotels list their rooms on AirBnB, and it wouldn’t make any sense to limit those. If you’re listing your own apartment or home then a days-per-year limit makes more sense.
- Comment on Something's up with all those airbnb locks | Purplepingers 2 weeks ago:
Nah so you need council approval. When you get approved you get a code number. You give the code number to AirBnB who looks it up to confirm it hasn’t been cancelled by the council. If you don’t have a code you don’t get listed.
The council doesn’t have to do surveillance and enforcement because owners need to apply.
The requirements are fairly strict. For example, a single apartment in a block of apartments can’t get approved. The entire block of apartments needs to be approved as holiday accommodation, and they’re not going to do that for a block of apartments where locals are living. In my city it’s only places that have been constructed with the intention of being holiday resorts.
Standalone houses are a different story. You do need to notify neighbours and give them an opportunity to object. There needs to be adequate parking et cetera. You need a formal management plan to mitigate anti-social behavior and what have you.
Suffice to say it’s heavily regulated and local residents have a mechanism by which to manage problematic listings.