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- Submitted 5 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on PM warns of 'consequences' as thousands of CFMEU workers march across Australia 5 weeks ago:
Yet another moment since Labor’s re-election where I think “Ooh, Albo’s going mask-off!”.
Please let’s have minority governments, our electoral and political system is ideal for it!
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 1 month ago:
The footwear, or the logic gate arrangement?
- Comment on Telstra, Optus to delay 3G network closure amid public safety concerns 1 month ago:
Some 4G phones don’t support 4G calling correctly or with all networks.
Check whether your phone actually uses 4G (VoLTE) for calls – to sort-of test this, make a call while connected to mobile data and note whether the signal meter’s 4G indication drops to 3G(H+/HSPA) or something during the call.
A more insidious version of this issue is that some phones do VoLTE just fine, but only use 3G for 000 calls.
Some phones only support VoLTE with some networks. There’s a chance that an appropriate firmware upgrade could add support for some network/device combos.
- Comment on Rezoning = private profit?! (Couple loses property fight after highway swallows $5.5 million dream) 2 months ago:
- Comment on Rezoning = private profit?! (Couple loses property fight after highway swallows $5.5 million dream) 2 months ago:
Yeah, I can never quite tell with articles sometimes…
Among many elements of the story that absolutely fail to raise sympathy:
[…] They planned to subdivide their block into 26 lots once the land was rezoned as residential, live on one block and drip-feed two or three others on to the market each year.
…just what we need – a drip-feed of low-density housing.
- Rezoning = private profit?! (Couple loses property fight after highway swallows $5.5 million dream)www.smh.com.au ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on This is ground control to Major Dumb... 2 months ago:
Yeah nah, that’s not the way. Sure people can get away with it, but it’s really not eliminating the hazards.
fnqsafetygroup.org.au/…/cutting-empty-drums.pdf …gov.au/…/explosions-when-cutting-used-fuel-tanks…
There’s a bunch of non-obvious hazards which exist around cutting into containers which have held fuels, including but not limited to:
- An empty propane container could have an gas+air mixture inside it in proportions which could explode.
- Any liquid residue in an empty fuel container can be vapourised by the heat of the cutting, creating a fuel+air mix which can spontaneously explode from the pressure and heat, even without sparks (think: diesel engine but instead of a 0.25L cylinder but a 200L cylinder).
- An empty gas canister can be contaminated with heavier oils/waxes that could build up over the years of refilling cycles, creating the same hazard as noted for empty liquid fuel containers.
Methods to reduce the hazard include:
- Thoroughly washing the inside of the container before cutting (access can be difficult though).
- Filling with water and cutting while full of water. (Container musn’t be sealed, and the cutting method must be safe to use in a wet environment, and further hazards such as introducing oxygen into the container need to be considered).
- Submitted 7 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on Is anyone else seeing more insects? 7 months ago:
👍 Fuck lawns. Grassland or gtfo.
Beetles and lepidoptera ftw.
photo of a largeish yellow-brown beetle with fan shaped antennae another photo of the same beetle, held between thumb and forefinger
- Comment on E-scooters are linked with injuries and hospital visits – but we can’t say they are riskier than bikes yet 7 months ago:
Those Dutch hospitals must be packed full of cyclists with head injuries…