Auzy
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- Comment on Join fediverser.network, make it easy to bring Australian redditors to the Fediverse? 3 months ago:
I personally don’t see more redditors as a good thing at this point.
Reddit has gone full blown cesspool on many subs, and I’m not sure having them would help, especially if it overwhelms moderation.
A lot of Reddit is also posting populist stuff at this point to get attention, rather than acting normal.
I’d prefer a smaller quality community where people are normal, instead of one where we end up with people trying to fight for the most attention (sometimes as an attempt to get attention by advertisers).
- Comment on Nine Publishing on strike. Request the public avoid Nine mastheads including Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Financial Review, and Brisbane Times. 3 months ago:
Technically I’ve been on boycott then for the past few years lol
- Comment on Long Centrelink wait times as 11 million calls go unanswered 3 months ago:
"Waiting times for calls to Services Australia have ballooned with average times on hold to Centrelink growing to just over half an hour. Not months… 30mins is definitely NOT screwing. 1 hr is NOT screwing. Screwing would be closer to 3hr+
I’d prefer instead of hiring more services Australia workers to save people using their hand free headset for 30mins (and doing other things), that they put more money towards public health (and that would help your grandma a lot more). Or hire more police. Or even better training for the suicide helplines.
In fact, instead of hiring another phone operator, you could even hire someone instead to provide free training to hundreds of Australians in industries with insufficient workers for each year, for the same cost. Hiring lots of new workers to reduce wait time by 20mins isn’t life changing… Providing free training to hundreds of people would be however.
Nurses and teachers are also overworked, so supplementing them with more people to reduce burnout is also super important. Parks VIC is understaffed too, and in practice, Friends of Parks is doing a lot of the work currently.
I know its not a popular opinion, but a 30minute wait time on a phone, is NOT a big deal, and it certainly isn’t life changing imho
- Comment on Long Centrelink wait times as 11 million calls go unanswered 3 months ago:
Are we actually screwing people though, or simply inconveniencing them though? They can still get in contact… Just not as quickly.
That’s my point imho
- Comment on Long Centrelink wait times as 11 million calls go unanswered 3 months ago:
Honestly, the majority of people I know on Centrelink CHOOSE to work minimal hours, but are fully capable of working full time… Or, simply choose not to work because they want a specific job
That doesn’t apply to everyone (I know tradies with silicosis now as an example who were CRAZY hard workers but can’t work). And I know people with genuine mental issues who need more help there
There is definitely a lot of abuse in the system as it stands unfortunately and making Centrelink less of an inconvenience doesn’t really make a lot of sense…
They’d be far better off spending that money on mental health funding, or Parks VIC (our parks at the moment are mainly supported by volunteers)
- Comment on Kaspersky offers free security software for six months in U.S. goodbye 3 months ago:
Why would anyone install this? Just use Microsoft security essentials. It’s free
- Comment on Gunshots reportedly fired at Donald Trump rally - as former president rushed off stage 3 months ago:
Thing is… he was possibly even shot by a right wing voter.
He’s promised suffering at a minimum to women and immigrants (so the majority of the population).
He’s raped women and I suspect he’ll fire the last few supreme justice judges who don’t agree with him. Don’t forget, his only running to avoid prison at this time. They’re the only ones who can override him and put him in prison
But even any sensible ring wing person doesn’t want a dictator in charge
- Comment on These Linksys routers are likely transmitting cleartext passwords 3 months ago:
What have you checked out or audited specifically?
In the open source projects I started and worked with, nobody really helped. In fact, one of ours was a fork of a commercial open source project. Ironically enough, if they were closed source they would have survived Longer…
DevFS was a core Linux component. And nobody wanted to maintain it, so it got depreciated before a replacement was even available (udev eventually, but it was totally unusable at the time).
- Comment on These Linksys routers are likely transmitting cleartext passwords 3 months ago:
The only professional use of ddwrt I’ve seen is Macca’s guest access…
- Comment on These Linksys routers are likely transmitting cleartext passwords 3 months ago:
Nobody serious uses Linksys for anything.
If you are, you need to consider moving to a proper brand
- Comment on These Linksys routers are likely transmitting cleartext passwords 3 months ago:
Unless you’re going to audit the source yourself. Not really.
I think people are surprised in general by how few people actually touch source code
It’s more a reason to not use sh***y consumer wifi
- Comment on Meta removes special restrictions for Trump's account ahead of 2024 elections 3 months ago:
Sure. Give him access.
But fact check every single post lol
- Comment on Capturing CO2 With Copper, Scientists Generate 'Green Methane' 3 months ago:
Yes… Sure, its cheap to set up…
Great at periods when you have lots of extra solar/renewables.
But… if the efficiency is low, a potentially worse solution for the rest of the year (like Winter), because any excess you can generate, will mostly be lost.
Furthermore, you’ll need a way to convert it back into electricity. In the future, they’re aiming for 60% efficiency for Gas Power Plants… energy.gov/…/how-gas-turbine-power-plants-work . At the moment apparently its much less
So 60% * 0.85 = 50% efficiency… AND THAT IS OPTIMISTIC AND DETERMINANT ON FUTURE TECH!
So you lose half of the power you store. Which means you’re replacing the money you spend on batteries… on more power generation anyway…
They definitely have some utility when there is insufficient battery as a final backup. They may also be useful in applications which don’t use power too and in some utilities which use the gas directly. It also is still centralised power generation, so rural areas will still be unreliable…
But, I’d prefer they deploy Vanadium Redox Flow batteries instead as they’re 75-90% efficient.
- Comment on Capturing CO2 With Copper, Scientists Generate 'Green Methane' 3 months ago:
That makes no sense…
Australia keeps less than 21 days of petrol of all types. Why would we need to store months? This seems like one of those silly arguments where it’s assumed incorrectly that the sun stops shining and the wind stops blowing (which only happens in limited locations).
And when I say including undiscovered, I mean its only getting better. For grid energy storage, energy density isn’t an issue. Energy density is ONLY an issue for transportation and phones. We just need to scale up the technology now, and thats already rapidly happening.
This entire thing comes down to efficiency at the end of the day. The efficiency of the conversion here is 85%, and you still need to convert it back into energy (which is hugely inefficient). Even if converting it back to energy is 75% efficient (it’s likely not), that’s only 64% efficient.
Batteries are 94%. Even Vanadium Redox Flow is 75-90%. There’s plenty of low density low cost efficient batteries (especially now Sodium batteries are available)
Also…
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“If we use methane as is, we’ve accomplished this” - You can’t just swap current products with methane… Even if you did, petrol engines are totally inefficient. We’re likely talking not even talking 50% efficient
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“Replacing wood for heating”. We already HAVE a solution for heating. Burning methane is less than 100% efficient max. Heat pumps are already at 500% efficiency and the efficiency is growing.
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Why would you want to store it like oil? It’s incredibly toxic… And, burning it is inefficient.
This has it’s applications, but its likely more competing with Hydrogen, NOT batteries. Also, this is still a research paper, not a commercial product. By the time it’s commercial, batteries might be 50% cheaper again…
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- Comment on Capturing CO2 With Copper, Scientists Generate 'Green Methane' 3 months ago:
This makes more sense than the other response. But…
(I have a pilot licence for light aircraft)
The reality is that engines for aviation suck. They’re loud, they’re inefficient and expensive to operate.
You also need very high octane fuel on any real planes.
They also rely on oxygen and require a lot of maintenance. Most light aircraft can’t take off at higher altitudes for that reason (you need turboprops)
You also have to contend with balancing fuel tanks and blocked fuel air vents and a lot of hardware like magnetos.
Startup checks are also a pain.
Also, even bad electric motors tend to be highly responsive and high torque and can be used to regenerate power during descent
it’s fairly common for the startup checks to fail because there is excess oil you need to burn off fouling the spark plugs (but you can simply increase the power).
Because the tanks are so big too, water can condense inside, so you need to check the fuel for contamination constantly
I think a lot of pilots are looking forward to moving away from avgas. The only advantage currently for fuel is energy density by weight and refueling time. But there is no reason they couldn’t battery swap in the future or improve batteries
- Comment on Capturing CO2 With Copper, Scientists Generate 'Green Methane' 3 months ago:
Why can’t we use batteries? There’s no reason we can’t given all the battery chemistries available including chemistries which are still undiscovered.
As you said, it’s really just energy. And if this process is only 75% efficient, and then using it is 75%, it’s a waste of a huge amount of energy.
I’d we’re just going to burn it and put it back in the air, it’s not a solution at all… We’re just replacing one greenhouse gas with one that is just as bad
- Comment on Capturing CO2 With Copper, Scientists Generate 'Green Methane' 3 months ago:
Batteries are 94% or better efficiency
Unless this process has a similar efficiency, not sure how useful it will be.
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 4 months ago:
No picture of the ad?
Is that one of these posts where the author is exaggerating?
It seems like the easiest thing to screenshot, and yet there isn’t one…
- Comment on VW will invest up to $5 billion in Rivian as part of new EV joint venture 4 months ago:
I remember when they got rid of the old WRX design. I thought the new ones looked stupid.
But they were right. Now when you look at the old ones they look cringe
Even cars like the Nissan cube and the CJ cruiser honestly my opinions have totally changed
- Comment on Let's chat about these SEVEN nuclear power plants the LNP want to build ... 4 months ago:
In 3 years, solar panel cost has mostly dropped in half (you can buy a 10kw system for the same as 6.6 a few years ago). Battery cost dropped 25% over the past year.
Nuclear can’t dispatch any power (incrementally or otherwise), until its fully built. Nuclear is also expensive power, and it can’t be dispatched as quickly or cheaply as solar/batteries (so the nuclear power station will remain offline). Don’t forget that generators need to sync to the grid fully, and can even lose sync and take hours to come back online (which happened to Loy Yang recently, and there were huge blackouts in victoria). When more despatchable power is needed, batteries will win EVERY time (because its cheap and instant).
Its reasonable to think that even 40kwh batteries will be cheaper and safer than even 10kwh batteries too and much higher efficiency solar panels (and possibly solar windows), so people will get off the grid and can have days of solar eclipse too.
Battery capacity is limited by cost still… It won’t be in the future (don’t forget, residential is about $ per kwh, NOT density)
One thing that is also misunderstood, is that panels still also produce power when its cloudy too… Solar panel efficiency in 10 years will increase rapidly, and this will only improve…
Nuclear is like an average olympic athlete who isn’t allowed to start a race for 10 years. Sure it looks competitive now, but there are so many other athletes around, that by the time Nuclear gets to the starting line, the other athletes will be finishing.
- Comment on Let's chat about these SEVEN nuclear power plants the LNP want to build ... 4 months ago:
Thing is, Renewables are already cheap. By the time Nuclear is built, batteries and solar will be hugely cheaper than the price they are now.
The same thing that happened to NBN will happen to nuclear (basic Game theory). With NBN, competitors undercut the NBN with 5G, because FTTC and FTTN was so bad.
In this case, if they start building, everyone knows that power costs will be expensive, so renewable energy companies will target the prices, and encourage people to install solar and batteries anyway… If batteries are 1/5 of the price they are now, everyone will simply install 5x more batteries, more panels (because they’ll also be more efficient and cheaper than they are now, and work during worse conditions) and remove themselves from the grid. From a game theory point of view, Solar/batteries have a 10-15 year head start and are already cheaper.
I bought my 6.6kw panels maybe 3 years ago, and 10kw is apparently already cheaper. If I wait 5 years, 15-20kw will probably be cheap (and I have more than enough roof space, so the only thing limiting me would be weather the power company allows it)
I have no idea why anyone would want a centralised grid. Last major power outage here in Victoria during storms was triggered because Loy Yang coal fell offline, and non-solid state power generation takes ages to come back online (it needs to sync up to the grid). Solar and batteries sync up immediately, so
- Comment on Let's chat about these SEVEN nuclear power plants the LNP want to build ... 4 months ago:
By the time these are built, you’ll have hugely cheap and efficient batteries and solar panels… Even solar windows and roof tiles
Furthermore, nuclear is expensive anyway, so everyone will still get solar and undercut it
Finally, why would anyone want a centralised power grid which is operated and run by a single company.
It’s a stupid idea.
- Comment on Valve owe you 44 quid, according to a £656m lawsuit against the company for allegedly overcharging UK customers 4 months ago:
Brought to you by scummy lawyers who probably spent all of high school dissing gamers
- Comment on Gina Rinehart demands National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait 5 months ago:
She can buy the art off the artist or the NGA if she really wants it gone.
I’d argue there is no better way to let the world know what kind of person you are if you’re complaining about this though rather than laughing it off
- Comment on fight the power 6 months ago:
I’d prefer they were busy trying to remove trackers than swooping.
My friend works in outdoor lighting at certain events and recently worked on a major outdoor event. Some of the shiny treasure section went missing. Eventually, they worked out it was a magpie and it was the first time world wide a bird stole parts of the exhibit
- Comment on Australian prime minister labels Elon Musk ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’ 6 months ago:
Why? He saved our asses during COVID… I never had any issues with him personally… And, the carbon tax was a good thing
- Comment on Australian prime minister labels Elon Musk ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’ 6 months ago:
Interesting that you avoided the question entirely.
So, how would you place them?
- Comment on Australian prime minister labels Elon Musk ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’ 6 months ago:
Huh? The guy who introduced the carbon tax, wanted people to wear masks, and who was in ALP isn’t a left winger?
The guy who is regularly on friendly jordies isn’t a left winger? The guy who knows how to speak chinese isn’t?
What do you think he is lol
- Comment on Australian prime minister labels Elon Musk ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’ 6 months ago:
Which is funny, because Trump targeted our ex Prime Minister (Kevin Rudd). So the left-wingers are doing something right.
- Comment on Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news 7 months ago:
I actually thought it was fairly standard.
But it does repeat music constantly without new songs too .
And Spotify connect is a bit of a suck fest since you need airplay or Sonos to use it on many speakers really (or matrix)