Spuddlesv2
@Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Athletics Australia becomes Australian Athletics in 'bold new' rebrand 6 days ago:
Big “The Bureau” energy.
- Comment on The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening. 1 week ago:
Edgelords with inflated opinions of their intelligence, and morons.
Those two are not mutually exclusive.
- Comment on Atari Is Starting 2025 By Announcing Their Own Portable Handheld 4 weeks ago:
id software made Quake. They have not renamed themselves Atari. Whatchu talking about.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 4 weeks ago:
Yep me too. Wife was adamant her phone was spying on her so we decided to test it by talking about Lexus cars (having chosen cars because at the time she was getting no car ads anywhere, had no interest in cars, and she had never heard of the brand before so certainly hadn’t searched for it). A few hours later, her Facebook feed was full of Lexus ads. 100%.
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 3 months ago:
Don’t join the fucking right wing SDA though, they are to blame for half the shit that’s going on currently. Join RAFFWU.
- Comment on Steam Deck officially comes to Australia in November 3 months ago:
About time! Although now I’m left wondering how long until the Deck 2 comes arrives and whether I’d be better off waiting.
- Comment on Fisherman slapped across face by whale's tail at Tweed Heads 5 months ago:
I’ve copped a few whales tails in my time but usually I just think “geez Shiela, pull yer pants up” and get on with my day. No need for a bloody hospital visit.
- Comment on Question about Australian towns 5 months ago:
monumentaustralia.org.au/search Incredibly detailed info on monuments all over the country. Lots of non-conflict-related ones.
- Comment on Question about Australian towns 5 months ago:
Haha couldn’t resist the NZ joke.
- Comment on Question about Australian towns 5 months ago:
And the majority of small towns have a small memorial that you’d have to go hunting to find. Google searches will of course tend towards the bigger, more obvious ones.
I live in a country town. Our memorial is (literally) 1.2m tall, made of concrete and takes up less than 3m square. It has been there since the 80’s.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of fetishising the military. But the OP suggestion that they’re all massive monuments is patently absurd.
- Comment on Question about Australian towns 5 months ago:
Where the hell are you going with military statues that cost “more than the town” to build?! Outside of the big cities I can’t think of many places with more than a small (less than 1m) statue and a plaque. And I’ve lived in every state and territory except Tasmania and New Zealand.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem 6 months ago:
You’re thinking of Intel vPro. I imagine some of the Crowdstrike
victimscustomers have this and a bunch of poor level 1 techs are slowly griding their way through every workstation on their networks. But yeah, OP is deluded and/or very inexperienced if they think this could have been mitigated on workstations through some magical “hygiene”. - Comment on Why is it a common insult for someone to say they slept with your mom? 6 months ago:
If this were the case then “I fucked your dad” would be just as common an insult, with all the same connotations.
- Comment on Does different parts of the world use different standards for water pressure similar to voltages? 7 months ago:
Australia uses kilopascals rather than PSI. Our standard is 500kPa which works out at around 72 PSI.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 8 months ago:
So along with all those positives you listed, the big negative being it’s a death trap.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 8 months ago:
This Fiat? www.euroncap.com/en/results/fiat/punto/15461
- Comment on Glorious Victory 8 months ago:
They are just being clear and accurate with their comms. No need to over think it.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 8 months ago:
I can’t tell if you’re being downvoted by dorks who don’t realise you’re joking or by dorks who DO realise you’re joking and feel attacked. Either way, sad, silly down voters.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Yes Windows 11 is small enough that this one dude knows all there is to know about it. It is impossible this (former) core developer is wrong, lying or has an axe to grind.
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 9 months ago:
If anyone truly believed it was ever a “true free speech” platform, they must be incredibly, incredibly naive or stupid.
- Comment on Forty-Niner is an upcoming open-world wild west survival game 9 months ago:
“Gorgeous“?!
- Comment on Experimental Video Game Made Purely With AI Failed Because Tech Was 'Unable to Replace Talent' 10 months ago:
Ahhh so the secret to using ChatGPT successfully is to tell it to give you good output?
Like “make sure the code actually works” and “don’t repeat yourself like a fucking idiot” and “don’t hallucinate false information”!
- Comment on UK starts early trials of World's first pothole preventing robot 10 months ago:
Bets on this actually reducing the cost of maintenance? I’d hazard a guess that it will cost more, fix less, and result in fewer local jobs. But the VC-backed overseas startup CEO will profit, so that’s something I suppose.
- Comment on Electric car sales are booming in Australia, but it's not where you think it is 10 months ago:
Outer suburbs. There, saved you a click.
- Comment on I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook. 10 months ago:
Splitting hairs isn’t going to change anything. TikTok is absolutely 100% a social network. It uses more video and less written word but that’s about it. YouTube hasn’t died (and neither has Facebook for that matter) but it was very different in its earlier incarnations. It has become more social as time has gone on, in an effort to remain relevant. It has largely copied TikTok.
TikTok in turn will become a boring old platform used by Old People (millennials, Gen Z) and kids will (already are) on to something new.
- Comment on I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook. 10 months ago:
The same was true of Facebook my not-so-socially-savvy friend. Kids will stop using it once they realise grandma is on there because it is no longer cool.
- Comment on I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook. 10 months ago:
Aboomersayswhat
- Comment on The Lifeblood of the AI Boom 10 months ago:
Electricity. Lots and lots of electricity.
Look at that, it didn’t require a whole-ass article.
- Comment on NBNCo reveals plans to uograde speed tiers 11 months ago:
You might be shocked to learn that NBNCo was set up and designed to be “profit driven” too then?