TheHolm
@TheHolm@aussie.zone
- Comment on Australian electric car market to get influx of new models as cheaper EVs hit the road 3 days ago:
Ahh, give me my full electric wagon ( or at lease people mover). Until electric cars are cheaper than petrol adoption will be sluggish. Buying electric at this moment does not make economic sense.
- Comment on Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco 2 weeks ago:
I’m not joking about “mass destruction”. If adversary take control and bringing down telco of size of Optus will cause massive damage. Strict policies there are for reason.
Australia democracy ends where corp start. There is no democracy inside any corp. Just dictatorship of different level malevolency. - Comment on Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco 2 weeks ago:
They are managing weapon of mass destruction. Security must be paranoid there. But it seems there are too many managers and not enough engineers if they use traffic volumes to monitor network heath. And I bet it will be some poor engineer who going to be blamed for the fault. Not faulty procedures created by other people.
- Comment on Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco 2 weeks ago:
Ooops. Fixed
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- Comment on It took years to come up with a plan to cut road deaths, and just 11 days to kill it 2 weeks ago:
Very often you do not need “higher volumes of cargo.” And you still need trucks to get cargo from train to final destination. Rail is dead for a reason.
- Comment on It took years to come up with a plan to cut road deaths, and just 11 days to kill it 2 weeks ago:
Rail is bloody expensive to build and to maintain. Not to mention that you still need trucks to deliver from train station to the destination. Trucks makes much more sense.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 2 weeks ago:
I did not realize that rego is state specific. IMHO NSW has most sane method.
In NSW your hatchback will cost $270 and 3 tonne SUV $949. www.nsw.gov.au/…/vehicle-registration-fees - Comment on Rumors of the demise of the Home Battery Program much exaggerated. 2 weeks ago:
And even with this batteries do not save you money.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 2 weeks ago:
All rego-s are expensive. my last one was 600 for car just above 1500kg check this.
www.nsw.gov.au/…/vehicle-registration-fees - Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 2 weeks ago:
“Second, under US fuel economy rules, fuel-efficiency targets are adjusted based on the size of the vehicle’s “footprint” — the area between its wheels. In practice, this means larger vehicles are allowed to consume more fuel while still meeting the target.”
So this is the problem (in US) remove that rule and cars will shrink again. Deformities often caused by unnatural pressure, and this is an example.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 2 weeks ago:
We already to. IMHO rego is weight based.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
Is there a way to check whether I sent her a message? I’m sure I did, but I can’t find it anywhere.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 4 weeks ago:
Because aim of this low is not to protect kids, but to erase last drops of privacy in the internet. Just another brick in the wall. Kids are just collateral.
- Comment on These charts show the effect of migration on Australia's housing story 1 month ago:
“Australia has high population growth but also a large construction sector” largest construction sector does not translate to number of houses build. All money just going to approvals and other shit which has nothing to do with building.
- Comment on Australia spends $714 per person on roads every year – but just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling 10 months ago:
Get back to Earth, mate, we’re talking about today’s Australia. It will, for the foreseeable future, be run by cars and trucks. As I mentioned initially, bicycles are a hobby, not an essential. And so far, you haven’t provided any arguments to prove I’m wrong. So, the expectation that spending money on a hobby for a small minority, as opposed to something essential for the majority, is somehow justified, sounds strange to me
- Comment on Australia spends $714 per person on roads every year – but just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling 10 months ago:
When did I say that nobody rides? I just find it ridiculous to compare expenses on non-essential infrastructure with essential infrastructure. Non-essential infrastructure deserves only a small percentage of funding. If we were talking about something like playgrounds or bicycle paths, it would be a different story. Both are non-essential, but both make cities better. So, it becomes a matter of discussion as to which should receive more investment.
I’m not sure why you mentioned, ‘All the data shows that the number one indicator of cycling rates is the quality of infrastructure.’ It’s obvious, but it doesn’t explain why we should spend more on cycling paths."
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 10 months ago:
If you need something which can withstand some bitrot on single drive, just use par2. As long is filesystem is readable, you can recover files even if bit of data get corrupted
- Comment on I've set up docker services behind nginx proxy manager so they're accessible with https, but the http services are still open. How do I close them? 10 months ago:
It means you published 8080. Just stop doing it. nginx can reach that container via internal network (assuming they are on same network). Publishing docker-compose would help.
- Comment on Australia spends $714 per person on roads every year – but just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling 10 months ago:
Any arguments? Discussion needs some, otherwise it just tossing shit to each other. Completely pointless, and harms both sides.
- Comment on Australia spends $714 per person on roads every year – but just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling 10 months ago:
Roman example is just not applicable, we are in 21th century now.
“Cars and trucks are a modern convenience, that is all”. Do you really see that modern economy can function without cars and trucks? No, this is why we have to live with all their drawbacks,costs and dangers. There is simple no alternatives.
“I can get everywhere by bike, train or bus. No need for a car. I have one, but by your reasoning, my car to me is just a hobby.” And what made that possible, truck and cars. When you ride your bike to shop to buy a milk, how that milk get there ? By truck.
“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?
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 10 months ago:
Just a hdd in usb caddy? IMHO good enough for 4 tier backup.
- Comment on What is everyone using as a HTPC? 10 months ago:
just a normal PC? Streaming should work in a browser.
- Comment on Australia spends $714 per person on roads every year – but just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling 10 months ago:
Bicycles are not essential. Get rid of bicycles and nothing will happen, get rid of the trucks and cars and everything stops. It is people choice to use them, not necessity. Which is a definition of a hobby.
- Comment on Australia spends $714 per person on roads every year – but just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling 10 months ago:
reality.
- Comment on Australia spends $714 per person on roads every year – but just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling 11 months ago:
It just reflect usefulness of each applications. You needs trucks but bicycle is just a hobby. Walking just do not need much infra at all.
- Comment on Video Ezy cards, 'decimated' money in 30yo wallet fished from river 11 months ago:
This is interesting story. When did Australia got plastic banknotes? Current one should last forever.
- Comment on What do you use for notes? 11 months ago:
Just a folder + syncthing. no extra infra is necessary + easy to backup.
- Comment on The synthetic vitamin leaving several Australians with major health issues 11 months ago:
Already done, look for research about Type 2 diabetes and sweeteners. Sugar is better.
- Comment on Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery 1 year ago:
main reason for it - no anonymous account on social media for_everyone_. It just another surveillance imposing law.
