Zagorath

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New community request - Amber Electric Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Wouldn’t it be more useful to have a community about “Australian energy” or something similar? Anything about Amber could go there, but so could AGL, Origin, etc. Questions about comparing them could sit alongside discussions of a specific one.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The world’s changed – Australia needs to keep up’: Foxtel’s Patrick Delany rails against broadcasting law⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The article does a good job of highlighting what a terrible job the Albanese Government has done in dealing with gambling advertising.

I also find myself surprised to not disagree that strongly with Delany about anti-siphoning laws. I expected he’d be against them entirely. Instead, he just suggests that they could be available exclusively through streaming services, so long as they’re still free. Personally I do still disagree with this because even free, they’d probably require an account and collect your data, and because of the need for a reliable internet connection.

Still, it’s not so bad. If they were mandated to do it without creating an account, I’d probably support it.
‘The world’s changed – Australia needs to keep up’: Foxtel’s Patrick Delany rails against broadcasting lawmumbrella.com.au ↗
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘This is censorship’: Palestinian flags covered up in major exhibition at National Gallery of Australia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
RTI, not FOI. But one could certainly try. Given it’s allegedly security though, I wouldn’t like your chances of success. There seems to be a pretty strong reluctance to turn over documents when a security threat is alleged.
‘This is censorship’: Palestinian flags covered up in major exhibition at National Gallery of Australiawww.theguardian.com ↗
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to run a Chrome sandbox in Docker on a Synology?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Honestly I can’t even figure out how to get that alpine-chrome image to work. I edited my Dockerfile to say
```
FROM zenika/alpine-chrome:with-node
```
instead of
```
FROM node:22
```
I tried changing USER node to USER chrome. I removed all the apt-get dependencies that were needed to get Puppeteer working in Docker on my PC in the first instance, and added –chown=chrome to my COPY package.json line, all as described in the with-puppeteer example. I also added the ENV lines from that. (I also tried various combinations of some of the aforementioned changes but not others.) Now I get an error with the npm install step.

Error message
15.44 npm ERR! code 1 15.44 npm ERR! path /usr/src/app/node_modules/canvas 15.44 npm ERR! command failed 15.44 npm ERR! command sh -c prebuild-install -r napi || node-gyp rebuild 15.45 npm ERR! prebuild-install warn install No prebuilt binaries found (target=7 runtime=napi arch=x64 libc=musl platform=linux) 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info it worked if it ends with ok 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info using node-gyp@8.4.1 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info using node@20.15.1 | linux | x64 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info find Python using Python version 3.11.10 found at “/usr/bin/python3” 15.45 npm ERR! gyp http GET https://nodejs.org/download/release/v20.15.1/node-v20.15.1-headers.tar.gz 15.45 npm ERR! gyp http 200 https://nodejs.org/download/release/v20.15.1/node-v20.15.1-headers.tar.gz 15.45 npm ERR! gyp http GET https://nodejs.org/download/release/v20.15.1/SHASUMS256.txt 15.45 npm ERR! gyp http 200 https://nodejs.org/download/release/v20.15.1/SHASUMS256.txt 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn /usr/bin/python3 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args [ 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ‘/usr/src/app/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/gyp_main.py’, 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ‘binding.gyp’, 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ‘-f’, 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ‘make’, 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ‘-I’, 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ‘/usr/src/app/node_modules/canvas/build/config.gypi’, 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ‘-I’, 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ‘/usr/src/app/node_modules/node-gyp/addon.gypi’, 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ‘-I’, 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ‘/home/chrome/.cache/node-gyp/20.15.1/include/node/common.gypi’, 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ‘-Dlibrary=shared_library’, 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ‘-Dvisibility=default’, 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ‘-Dnode_root_dir=/home/chrome/.cache/node-gyp/20.15.1’, 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ‘-Dnode_gyp_dir=/usr/src/app/node_modules/node-gyp’, 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ‘-Dnode_lib_file=/home/chrome/.cache/node-gyp/20.15.1/<(target_arch)/node.lib’, 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ‘-Dmodule_root_dir=/usr/src/app/node_modules/canvas’, 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ‘-Dnode_engine=v8’, 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ‘–depth=.’, 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ‘–no-parallel’, 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ‘–generator-output’, 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ‘build’, 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ‘-Goutput_dir=.’ 15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ] 15.45 npm ERR! Package pixman-1 was not found in the pkg-config search path. 15.45 npm ERR! Perhaps you should add the directory containing `pixman-1.pc’ 15.45 npm ERR! to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable 15.45 npm ERR! Package ‘pixman-1’, required by ‘virtual:world’, not found 15.45 npm ERR! gyp: Call to ‘pkg-config pixman-1 --libs’ returned exit status 1 while in binding.gyp. while trying to load binding.gyp 15.45 npm ERR! gyp ERR! configure error 15.45 npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1 15.45 npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/src/app/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:259:16) 15.45 npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:519:28) 15.45 npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:294:12) 15.45 npm ERR! gyp ERR! System Linux 6.10.14-linuxkit 15.45 npm ERR! gyp ERR! command “/usr/bin/node” “/usr/src/app/node_modules/.bin/node-gyp” “rebuild” 15.45 npm ERR! gyp ERR! cwd /usr/src/app/node_modules/canvas 15.45 npm ERR! gyp ERR! node -v v20.15.1 15.45 npm ERR! gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v8.4.1 15.45 npm ERR! gyp ERR! not ok 15.45 [+] Running 0/1A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/chrome/.npm/_logs/2025-02-18T01_04_35_846Z-debug-0.log - Service node Building 18.9s failed to solve: process “/bin/sh -c npm install” did not complete successfully: exit code: 1
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to run a Chrome sandbox in Docker on a Synology?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

Which I just now (after posting) noticed was already mentioned in a different comment. Sorry!

I’m guessing the user who made that other comment is on lemmy.world? I can’t see any comment other than yours, and LW has known issues with federation (issues that would be fixed if the instance weren’t 5 version behind…) that mean I probably won’t be able to see it for about 2 days right now. So thanks!

I haven’t looked into the suggestion in great detail yet, but I will say I’m already running as a non-root user (USER node is a line in my Dockerfile). I’m not sure what a seccomp profile is, but in case it wasn’t clear from the original post, I just want to emphasise that the current configuration works in Docker on my Windows PC. It’s only on the Synology NAS that it fails.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Left Apple Maps this week for Magic Earth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

something called “static camera”

What they mean by that (whether it’s accurate or not is another question) is a speed camera or a red light camera that’s located in a fixed spot, as opposed to a mobile speed camera that might be pointed out the back of a police van, or handheld by a cop standing on the side of the road.
How to run a Chrome sandbox in Docker on a Synology?aussie.zone ↗
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fundamental problem with housing in Australia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Not quite. Our housing policy is based around returning value to investors. That leads to cruel outcomes, and these are considered acceptable for the sake of investor profit. But it’s not the terminal goal.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Left Apple Maps this week for Magic Earth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

I hate audio warnings

I’m a little confused. You said you didn’t use navigation. What kind of warnings would it give you when not navigating?

It is too distracting, and I don’t like that it shows your speed in bright red as soon as you go 1kmh over the limit.

Is it notably more distracting than the speed display Google has? That turns red when you’re over the limit, but I’ve never really noticed it except when looking at it.

what about the data?

According to other comments, these guys apparently just use OSM. So this is something you could definitely help fix yourself. Though I appreciate if it’s more than a small handful of errors that would be too much of a task.

Sadly I will probably be going back to google maps.

Yeah that was unfortunately my experience last time I tried an alternative mapping application. Organic Maps, I tried, on recommendation of some Lemmy users. But search in Organic Maps is literally unusable. You can’t always search for full addresses, only street names (I can put in numbers on some addresses, but not mine, apparently), and even that is useless because the results list contains “street name”, “city”, and “state”. It doesn’t tell you suburb. Which means if there are multiple streets in the same city with the same name (which, at least in my city, happens all the time), you have no way of knowing if you’ve clicked on the right street. It also required me to turn off “avoid tolls”, because it incorrectly reports one of the best routes I regularly take as being a toll road because if you go straight at this one intersection where I turn right, then you would be on a toll road.

Add to that the loss of things like location history and crowdsourced realtime traffic data, and it quickly becomes too big of a trade-off.

It’s unfortunate because I want to be able to support FOSS and get my data away from Google. But like you’ve just experienced with Magic Earth, I just find the competition isn’t good enough to actually use.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s why some people still evade public transport fares – even when they’re 50 cents⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It took me a second to realise what you meant, but it’s a very good point if I understand you correctly. Income from fares only offsets the cost of discounted travel if the wage of the people doing the enforcement (and any other overhead) is less than the amount brought in by that enforcement. Is that it?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s why some people still evade public transport fares – even when they’re 50 cents⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
No, you clearly don’t understand their point. Because everybody (apart from lunatic libertarians) knows that when something is free because taxes pay for it, it’s completely different from free-because-they-sell-your-data or “free”-but-it’s-a-scam.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s why some people still evade public transport fares – even when they’re 50 cents⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

They seem to be enforcing fares much like Frederick the Great guarded his potato fields.

They are absolutely not. If they were, it would be a good idea IMO. Keep the token fare to make tracking data easier and discourage bad behaviour. Enforce it only rarely, and mainly on routes where they have been said behaviour issues. But in fact reports are that their fare enforcement has not slowed down at all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s why some people still evade public transport fares – even when they’re 50 cents⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Drivers don’t even have to manually count by hand. They already have a button that they’re meant to use to track fare evaders, to collect data on which routes have the most evaders. Just repurpose that button to track all users.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Left Apple Maps this week for Magic Earth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Android Auto will let you split-screen

On my phone it used to have a really small media control at the bottom so I could skip forward in my podcast or pause. For some reason the last two or three weeks that hasn’t worked any more. It’s so frustrating.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LW delay is growing again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah it’s pretty damn frustrating. They’re now 5 versions behind and it’s causing serious issues with usability. I dunno what’s keeping them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LW delay is growing again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Unfortunately the problem of LW users replying in AZ threads and not showing up for a couple of days is one only LW itself can solve
LW delay is growing again
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian rules football vs. rugby league clubs in Australia, divided by the so called Barassi line⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Because the image itself doesn’t have an explanation of the lines, here it is from the article:

This takes [a map of towns coloured by whether Aussie Rules or Rugby League is more popular] and draws a (red) line along the boundaries between the two codes. Have added Turner’s original description (pink) and the line as it’s most commonly drawn (black) as dotted lines to see how they compare, as well as the plaque meant to mark part of the line near the towns of Corowa (NSW) and Wahgunyah (VIC). The line to the west shows the divide between WA and the Cocos (Keeling) & Christmas islands.

The plaque mentioned is the small black square on the border between Vic and NSW, quite a way south of any of the lines.

Also, that map of towns coloured by which is more popular seems to be seriously flawed. The colours and cells on the map may or may not be correct, but the labels it shows when you hover over it are hilariously wrong. I hovered over a cell that covers The Entrance at Tuggerah Lake on the NSW Central Coast. That cell was red, surrounded by a bunch of blue cells. It told me this was Julia Creek, Qld, and that rugby league was the more popular sport.

I saw blue way off in the northwest around Christmas Island, which it told me was Charlsetown, NSW. I’m actually in St Lucia, Qld, where both clubs are equal, but on that map it tells me I’m in blue Tocumwal, NSW, where Aussie rules is more popular.

This problem was introduced somehow between the map of The Regions and the map of The Regions (with towns where both codes were equal removed), because the former is correct in the few I checked.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fundamental problem with housing in Australia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’m not generally a fan of bans. I’d rather just see the tax incentives to owning multiple homes behind your PPOR removed. And, if people do own multiple homes, there should be strong incentives to actually rent it out, such as a vacant home levy, and much, much stronger tenants’ rights protection to enable tenants to treat their home as the home that it is.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fundamental problem with housing in Australia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
No, blaming immigration is just a racist scapegoat. The amount of housing being built far outstrips the number of new households due to immigration. The problem is that the number of houses being bought by investors (instead of first home buyers) is almost equal to the number of new houses being built. Which is a problem caused by our incredibly harmful policies that treat housing as a financial instrument more than a right that people need to have. There’s also a huge number of completely empty homes—again, a problem caused by pro-investor policies.

There are also issues with our council policies around what kinds of housing can be built where. Restrictive zoning laws that prevent more efficient medium-density housing, instead of most of our cities being made up of low density zoning that uses obscene amounts of land, and a preference to use the highest zoning possible in the smallest number of places possible, when low density is not sufficient (which is more expensive per capita due to the higher costs of materials, labour, and technical requirements associated with high rises compared to 2–4 storey row houses and apartments). And a severe lack of investment in public housing from our state governments.

Tax incentives. Public housing. Zoning laws. This is a problem created by all three levels of government. But immigration? Not a significant factor.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age of Mythology Retold News: Immortal Pillars [Chinese expansion] and PlayStation 5 Releases are Coming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’m not aware of any allegations relating to Age of Mythology or any of the Forgotten Empires–lead Age games. It would strike me as unlikely, given the nature of these games as remasters of ancient code by a group formed initially as modders for AoE2.

A different situation from aoe4, which was developed primarily by Relic, which is a much more conventional game development company, and was developed from scratch.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

I hope we respond by putting tariffs on American pickups.

I kinda don’t want this. Because I want those yank tanks taxed and/or regulated regardless, because it’s the right thing to do, and I don’t want progress towards that to be undermined by being seen to get caught up in a bullshit trade war.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fundamental problem with housing in Australia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
This is the problem with tankies. By supporting the worst things about communist governments, they make people hesitant to support the actually really beneficial aspects of communism.
The fundamental problem with housing in Australiawww.abc.net.au ↗
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia spends $714 per person on roads every year – but just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

“And what about those who cannot drive, be it for age, medical reasons, lack of income to afford a car etc?” and what about those who can’t ride?

What about them?

Spending 20% of the budget on active transport infrastructure would help those people, not hurt them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia spends $714 per person on roads every year – but just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Cycling infrastructure is essential. It’s by far the most efficient form of transport, and not having it costs people their lives.

It returns 5x to the economy what we spend on it, in contrast to road spending, which returns less than 1x what we spend on it.

It benefits everybody, because contrary to the belief of our politicians, building ever more, wider roads does not help with traffic congestion. The only solution to traffic is alternatives to driving. And that means building excellent bike paths and funding excellent public transport—as much as possible, public transport that doesn’t use the same roads as cars, which means light or heavy rail, with BRTs as a supplement. One of the reasons bike paths are able to return 5x is because by reducing the number of cars on the road, those who still do drive—which will disproportionately be those who genuinely do actually need to drive, which currently is a tiny fraction of the total users of the road—can get to their destinations faster.

But if you cared one iota, you’d have heard this already. I’ve said it. Others in this thread have said it. Doubtless this one thread isn’t the only time you’ve seen this debate come up. So what’s your excuse? Do you just wilfully ignore reality and substitute your ideological bias?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia spends $714 per person on roads every year – but just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
All the data shows that the number one indicator of cycling rates is the quality of infrastructure. You’re begging the question by saying “we shouldn’t spend money on cycling infrastructure because nobody rides”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age of Mythology Retold News: Immortal Pillars [Chinese expansion] and PlayStation 5 Releases are Coming⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’m very nervous about the game’s future, given the AoE3 remake was just officially mothballed last week and AoM has fewer active players on Steam.

But for the game in its current state, I’d say that yes, it’s really, really good. It made a fair few changes from the old version, nearly all of which are excellent improvements. They said their goal was to make this game the game you remember playing through nostalgia goggles, rather than being strictly faithful to the original, and I think they did that really well. You can build bigger armies and reuse god powers. Better quality of life features, etc.

The Chinese expansion releases next month, and they’ve committed to at least one more expansion after that (by preselling the Premium Edition with the first 2 expansions). Aztects or something else from the Americas is likely. If it turns out those expansions are going to be cheap and rushed and crap just to meet their contractual obligations, that’s really unfortunate. I really hope that won’t happen. But in the worst case…the game with what they’ve released already is really good.