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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

CB radios often had a “PA” switch that sent your microphone audio to a loudspeaker under the hood

We used to roll those back in the day. A friend gave my very drunk self a lift home one evening and I used it to give commentary to a group of revellers on the side of the road… who threw a beer bottle at us, and then chased the car which luckily didn’t get stopped at the traffic light nearby.

Good times.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
“Shorts” and “Games” are like herpes. No matter how many times you try to get rid of them, they just keep appearing.

I do not want short form video, nor do I want to participate in “gaming” that is just poker machines reskinned as a “game” to take your money.

The “not interested” button, it does nothing!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Tesla and unfulfilled promises… Only slightly less an iconic duo than Tesla bad news and stock price going up.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Why did I start rambling? Oh yeah cuz it’s Reddit.

🤔
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Fair point about AI-generated comments. What’s your take on how this affects online discussions? Are we losing genuine interactions or gaining new insights?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Reddit Bot Drove Me Insane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

Why the fuck does Aussie zone block so many instances? You guys okay out there?

I’m not entirely sure we’re missing out on all that much with a few porn instances missing.

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go Private?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

Is it possible to automate? I looked at the Lamington docs briefly and it looked like it uses a file to store config. Thought if the config file was a symlink it would make it easy to change config to be private / be public.

Like this every 30 minutes or whatever.

#!/bin/bash

THRESHOLD=1.5

CMD_HIGH="echo ln -sfn /blah/blah/config.json /blah/blah/config.json.private"
CMD_LOW="echo ln -sfn /blah/blah/config.json /blah/blah/config.json.public"

CPU_CORES=$(nproc)

LOAD_15MIN=$(uptime | awk -F'[a-z]:' '{print $2}' | awk -F', ' '{print $3}' | tr -d ' ')

if (( $(echo "$LOAD_15MIN > $THRESHOLD" | bc -l) )); then
    echo "[$(date)] High Load Detected - Current: $LOAD_15MIN, Threshold: $THRESHOLD"
    echo "[$(date)] Taking Lamington private........ "
    eval "$CMD_HIGH"
else
    echo "[$(date)] Normal Load Detected - Current: $LOAD_15MIN, Threshold: $THRESHOLD"
    echo "[$(date)] Returning Lamington to public... "
    eval "$CMD_LOW"
fi

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go Private?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Random thought - can you toggle private instance reasonably simply? I know nothing about running a Lamington stall, but if its a JSON file is it possible to have two versions and update a symlink to the version you want to use at the time?

The reason I ask is it would be pretty sneaky tricks to monitor server load and toggle to private when it exceeds a threshold for a fixed period of time, then toggle back (i.e. greater than 50% server load = private for the next 2 hours or whatever).

Alternatively, I’ll just put my vote in for going private.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go Private?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Do people find the server organically through Google results or something else that may be impacted by the change? If there’s value in that there might be an argument against going private.

If enabling it reduces the need for server upgrades as time goes on I guess it’s a positive though. Don’t want to be paying extra server costs just to help out some AI company.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Central Coast man earns house deposit by collecting 450,000 cans and bottles - ABC News⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I recently learned a term for this sort of story:

en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/orphan-crushing_machine
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨conflicted about my coworkers' overpunctuality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I wish I worked a job where my biggest concern was the difference between starting at 12:30 or 12:35.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Who cares? If your upvote or downvote or any other activity you deliberately perform on a public platform is something you’re embarrassed about and wouldn’t be willing to do in a face to face engagement you probably shouldn’t be doing it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop laughing at stupid shit all the time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Dunno man, but if you find out let me know cause every time I see this bad boy I’m giggling like a schoolgirl no matter the situation

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking Optus doesn't provide ipv6 over cell. And starlink has cgnat.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Satellite and Mobile are both pretty bad options for hosting.

Have you looked at tailscale or CloudFlare zerotrust to allow access to your server?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Athletics Australia becomes Australian Athletics in 'bold new' rebrand⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This sounds exactly like an episode from the first season of Utopia
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today could be a day for soul-searching. Instead we cling to a distant monarchy in denial of our racist past | Paul Daley⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Who’s denying any of that though?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The series of anti-Semitic attacks that have shocked Sydney⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Maybe if they stopped genociding people?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Annual General Thread⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I dunno man, I’m happy for the site to just grow and change organically. I deal with enough paperwork and faff at work, I don’t want more of it on my shitposting provider too.

If Lodion needs cash I send cash. In fact I think I already changed it to a monthly donation to make things more consistent. Otherwise whatever happens, happens.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian bosses on notice as 'deliberate' wage theft becomes a crime⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m surprised it hasn’t been a law already?? Forget calling it “wage theft”, it’s literally just “theft”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Users from Other Instances⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I, for one, support more activity and more viewpoints being presented.

Getting pretty sick of every social media platform turning in to an echo chamber as people (or algorithms) filter out everything they don’t agree with.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commonwealth Bank to charge customers $3 'withdrawal fee' to access their own cash⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
More people need to use credit unions.

Also “Great Southern Bank” are dickheads for renaming from Credit Union Australia (CUA).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Why does Labor always do this? Instead of concentrating on good social policy and undoing some of the pro-corporation crap the Liberals have snuck in, they come up with some utter stupidity about the internet and end up dying on that hill.

Internet filter repeat incoming. This will be their undoing next election.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian businesses selling essential goods and services to be forced to accept cash payments⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

Cash does have a cost

It’s a pain in the butthole tbh.

From a checkout chump perspective it was probably 40 minutes of my day wasted dealing with the cash. Getting it dispensed, double counting it all, depositing in to the safe when you had too much, watching out for dodgy currency or those dickheads who try the quick “I give you a 5 and you round up the change to 10 and then I’ll swap that for a 20 and then give you 30 so I get a 50” scam, dealing with damaged or defaced currency, recounting at end of day, getting reamed for being too far up or too far down in the count, having to sign forms to swear to god you hadn’t knocked off a pineapple (or put too many pineapples in the drawer)…

Then you need a safe storage space for the cash, security to protect the cash, literally a whole industry built on transporting it around the place, keep enough cash on hand to provide change, keep enough to cover EFT withdrawals.

There’s a lot of cost to handling cash. Also its gross. Did I mention its gross yet? Getting warm notes that were slightly sticky was disgusting.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian businesses selling essential goods and services to be forced to accept cash payments⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
We got a cheque book with our business banking account the better part of a decade ago now, and we’ve used 1.

When I was a checkout chump a million years ago people still occasionally brought in cheques and it meant taking copies of ID and all sorts because the dishonour ratio was too damn high.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian businesses selling essential goods and services to be forced to accept cash payments⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
As proved by various outages, when electricity (or the internet, or the service provider, etc) is down and prevents digital transfers being made… cash doesnt work either, cause it’s all the same POS / accounting software that handles cash which is also down.

Also if a natural disaster takes out internet access for an extended period, wheres the cash a business needs to keep on hand going to suddenly appear from? I haven’t worked in retail in a decade or more, but we always kept as little cash as possible on hand due to the constant threat of robbery. Even back then cash was way less than 50% of transactions, I’d be surprised if it was even in the double digit percentages anymore.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian businesses selling essential goods and services to be forced to accept cash payments⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Cash is so gross though. All those grubby mitts all over it, plus being stored in super icky places like bras and grunderpants. Big fan of cashless if for no other reason than keeping bits of other people off me.

Actual other reasons:
- More secure to use a locked device for payment than carry cash that becomes anonymous once its removed from your person
- You cant lose digital money down the back of the couch, or drop it when getting your wallet out or whatever
- Easier for businesses to keep a track and balance sales automatically when its all digital
- Safer for staff rather than handling wads of cash, especially in places like service stations
- Harder for dodgy folk to do dodgy deals with
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternate Web UI for aussie.zone⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I just came here to say it wasn’t working, but looks like it got switched off a few days back.

I really like the old.reddit layout, so I’d be a huge fan if it was able to be used here too. No biggie if it cant, standard Lamington is pretty uncluttered anyway. Just not very compact. Whats with web devs and whitespace? I’m here to see content, not empty pixels.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft FrontPage⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Not a jeffk fan? Dammit I’m so old
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft FrontPage⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I loved FrontPage. You could whip up a site in no time. The code it created was a disaster, but to be fair it worked fine.

I’d often use a WUSSYWAGON editor like FrontPage to make up a design and see how it looked, then just redo it by hand (or at least MAJORLY edit it) in Notepad so it wasn’t spaghetti.

I made a site for my dad’s business in FrontPage (then edited in Notepad) back in the very early 00s and hosted it on the 5MB of web space provided by the dialup provider at the time. It’s still there and exactly the same, though I had to move it to another provider in the late 00s when the ISP went bust. It’s gonna outlive him, and possibly me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acting more Australian to foreigners for a laugh only to realise I'm being less Australian than I would be with other Australians.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I try to talk less Australian to an international audience because I’m self conscious of looking like I’m hamming it up.