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- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 2 weeks ago:
That’s good!!
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 2 weeks ago:
A grumpy curmudgeon like me. You must be crazy!
Groucho Marx - “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member”
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 2 weeks ago:
It is delusional to think the chances are good of a neighbor just looking up the map and joining in. Geeks need to talk to people in real life, especially in their neighborhood. Team up with at least one other person. Use word of mouth. That is effective change.
Unfortunately I live in a remote area with unsophisticated people who are not conservative enough to be preppers.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 2 weeks ago:
One in your state? Wouldn’t you need one in your line of sight?
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 2 weeks ago:
The map does not say if a node is high.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 2 weeks ago:
In NSW Australia there are hardly any two near each other. What is the point of all these people even buying one if you don’t team up with at least one neighbour?
- Comment on Labor swindles Australians on gas 3 weeks ago:
From the article: the gas corps “transfer their profits offshore to minimise their tax and pay no royalties”.
But that is a conservative paper. The reality is even worse.
AGL has been listed in Australian Taxation Office (ATO) transparency reports as one of the large companies that paid zero income tax in certain periods, such as the 2021-22 and 2023-24 financial years.
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 3 weeks ago:
Thanks. Never heard of it before. Might come in handy when I make music. Have a fanless (ie silent) laptop under which I place picnic ice bricks. Controlling my desktop (sunshine) with the laptop (moonlight) would be better.
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 3 weeks ago:
I meant remote desktop generically rather than RDP. Is sunshine & moonlight just another alternative to VNC (except better performer?).
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 3 weeks ago:
When you say stream you mean remote desktop, right?
- ABC journalist Laura Tingle claims the mess left behind at Coogee Beach yesterday 'had nothing to do with backpackers'doublebaytoday.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on NSW premier calls for royal commission, pledges to ban 'globalise the intifada' chant 5 weeks ago:
I don’t understand your logic. There are many laws which continue to be broken (and punished) but that doesn’t mean we should not have laws.
Whether this one is a just law is another question.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 5 weeks ago:
2x the weight of the car increases the road damage by 16x
- Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location 5 weeks ago:
Yes but you need access to the culprit’s computer for the lag measurement.
- Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location 5 weeks ago:
It wasn’t the lag from the employee’s computer to Amazon which was being monitored.
It was the lag from the hacker to the employee. Amazon could not have monitored the hacker’s computer.
- Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location 5 weeks ago:
So they cannot simply use a generic remote desktop? The infiltrator has to use some Amazon remote desktop software?
- Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location 5 weeks ago:
How did Amazon know the lag?
- North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true locationwww.tomshardware.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 51 comments
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 5 weeks ago:
Tax land in particular. Can’t hide land easily from tax office.
- Comment on The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek 5 weeks ago:
Definitely proof reading. Especially for people who can barely write intelligibly. They can check themselves if the meaning is still correct and they will learn grammar from the process.
- Comment on UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones 1 month ago:
Looks like click-bait. It is a proposal from by one old fart in the 800 member House of Lords. Not a serious Bill.
Read this thread…
www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/…/nubbach/
Having said that, it is important to nip such ideas in the bud.
- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 1 month ago:
They are not banning the Fediverse because there is no central body to fine.
- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 1 month ago:
It is a game of cat and mouse which China has not solved.
- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 1 month ago:
If the website owners do it, then ???
I bet you most of them won’t
I already know a heap of VPN servers I can’t access youtube or reddit from.
IP addresses change. Your VPN server will change them (if it is any good).
- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 1 month ago:
No they won’t be.
Firstly it is technically impossible. Even China cannot do it.
Secondly, businesses need them for WFH.
Thirdly, the government is not implementing a block themselves. They are trying to pass on the unreasonable onus onto website owners.
- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 1 month ago:
Please do not mention workarounds here
Why not? The eSafety commission offers online tutorials on workarounds.
- Comment on A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code 1 month ago:
Phreeli won’t, at least, offer a platform for spammers and robocallers, Merrill says. Even without knowing users’ identities, he says the company will block that kind of bad behavior by limiting how many calls and texts users are allowed, and banning users who appear to be gaming the system. “If people think this is going to be a safe haven for abusing the phone network, that’s not going to work,” Merrill says.
- Comment on A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code 1 month ago:
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 10 comments