CameronDev
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- Comment on Do your neighbour's security cameras make you uncomfortable? Here's what you can do 2 days ago:
I don’t hate all public cameras, I live in an area with lots of them, and most are fine enough.
This one in particular irks me because it doesn’t serve a purpose beyond voyeurism. It doesn’t cover the any of the persons property, or any entranceways to their property. Its only for monitoring people in the street. It might be technically a public places, and technically legal for anyone to record, but I really don’t think that makes it a good idea for everyone to just record everything.
I have seen kids running around naked in their front yard just down the road from this camera, so that also raises questions.
I’d prefer if surveillance of public places was left to law enforcement, at least there is a theoretically some form of oversight.
- Comment on Do your neighbour's security cameras make you uncomfortable? Here's what you can do 2 days ago:
I have cameras. I told my neighbours about them and showed where they were pointed. I blacked out private areas when they were unintentionally picked up. No complaints.
I also walk past a camera that has been placed so that it only records the public footpath. Pisses me off, because its not protecting their house/property, just recording the public.
- Comment on Introducing Fedi Film Club 4 days ago:
Where do you intend on sourcing the films from? Netflix/YT/Prime/🏴☠️/DVD? Rotate through a set of sources?
Cool idea though, count me in if the films are accessible.
- Comment on Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not 5 days ago:
Because English is half a dozen languages wrapped in a trenchcoat? A lot of the law related words are from French derivations AFAIK?
Domain specific language is found across all realms of society, even firefighters have words or phrases with a specific meaning (back-burning, pumper, appliance, etc). So maybe its not that some areas are lazy, its just that you haven’t been exposed to their more technical side?
- Comment on Vaultwarden a Self Hosted Password Vault [tutorial] 1 week ago:
Yeah, I looked into that, but I seem to be in the google play beta for bitwarden and nothing is broken? Looks like this is a different beta? Bizarre.
- Comment on Vaultwarden a Self Hosted Password Vault [tutorial] 1 week ago:
Is this a new breakage? I’ve been using vaultwarden + android for years now?
- Comment on Getting stuck in the bush: Or how I learned not to be an idiot or trust google maps. 5 weeks ago:
They both allow dropping the tramsmit power below 4w, but who knows what they level actually transmit at. If i were using them for anything more than listening to air-traffic control and the occasional road trip i would be a lot more concerned.
My point about the power was that all else being equal, more power is more range. And given the illegal radios way out power yours, but still dont get decent range is a good indication of how bad their antennas are.
Almost every radio reviewer tests line-of-sight range, which is almost always pretty good, so it ends up being meaningless.
- Comment on Getting stuck in the bush: Or how I learned not to be an idiot or trust google maps. 5 weeks ago:
The dedicated car radio + antenna probably helps a lot. The radios i have are many times more powerful than your radios, but when we have tried to use them hiking, they just dont cut it. They are also half the price of your inexpensive radio, so you get what you pay for :D
- Comment on Getting stuck in the bush: Or how I learned not to be an idiot or trust google maps. 5 weeks ago:
I have a couple of cheapo radios, but the range is so poor that i dont really trust them as a viable comms method, especially in mountanous areas.
What radios do you use? I have 2 baofengs BF-F8+++, and a Radtel RT-470.
- Comment on Getting stuck in the bush: Or how I learned not to be an idiot or trust google maps. 5 weeks ago:
I got that, and I do see your point, just disagree with it is all. A physical map can provide very similar levels of encouragement and confidence as a digital one.
As a kid when my parents were teaching me to navigate with melways I made the exact same kinds of mistakes - “The map says its here, it must be here”
Maybe phone apps provide more encouragement, but im unconvinced that “just use a paper map” is actually the answer. Learn your tool is the right answer in my opinion. (And perhaps borrow from Aviation:
AviateDrive, Navigate, Communicate) - Comment on Getting stuck in the bush: Or how I learned not to be an idiot or trust google maps. 5 weeks ago:
Nothing you said there is exclusive to paper maps. You can still stop and check the GPS when something is wrong. On a recent holiday I did exactly that when a scenic detour got a lot rougher than expected (It was even better, as i could use the satelite view to see that the road didnt just drive through a lake, which a paper map could not show).
There have been plenty of people who have followed paper maps to their deaths as well. You could argue that GPS has lowered the bar, but its not the map, its the navigator.
- Comment on Getting stuck in the bush: Or how I learned not to be an idiot or trust google maps. 1 month ago:
This isnt a gps specific problem though, its an inaccurate map problem. If the road isnt marked as 4wd only on the paper map you’d be in just as much trouble.
Although i guess the paper map might provide more traction than a gps when you wedge it under the wheel :D
- Comment on Mother and daughter abducted from shopping centre carpark, forced to buy laptops 1 month ago:
Buy with stolen credit cards, easy to flip on gumtree. The urgency is probably due to the cards getting cancelled at any time (or fraud protection kicking in)
- Comment on Let π = 5 2 months ago:
Yup, Australian, and thats primary+secondary school here. Im only harping on the test/exam thing because i vaguely recall having some tests were π was set to a specific value like 3.1, and that if you used the calculator π, all your answers ended slightly off. It wasnt anything to do with π being a variable, just the you had better read the exam question carefully and that blindly typing the equation into the calculator would not always be the answer.
I think i have typed π more times today than the last 15 years since I left highschool :D
- Comment on Let π = 5 2 months ago:
I dont quite know what grade school is, but if you mean 12-15yo students, i dont think its that much more confusing?
π
is likex
, except that it is usually ~3.14. Sometimes exams or tests will give you a different value.I liked math though, so perhaps I am just biased there.
- Comment on Let π = 5 2 months ago:
For the purpose of teaching young school kids how to substitute real values for constants/variables, does it matter? π is a constant, but the value you use for it in exams and real life will not be the same, or the actual correct value. Getting students used to the idea that even constants can have varying values in exams or software is useful.
In my exams π had values ranging from 3, 3.1 to whatever the calculator had.
g
also ranged from 9.8 to 10, although in fairnessg
is not a constant.At least setting it to 5 can spark debate around what a more reasonable approximation should be.
- Comment on Because only women are worried about becoming step-parents? (This prolly could've been an Ask Lemmy.) 2 months ago:
The books are probably ghost written or AI garbage anyway, so that doesn’t help.
- Comment on Got a Switch today, need some recommendations. 2 months ago:
I enjoyed Luigis Mansion 3. Never tried the previous games, but this one was fun. Has coop as well which you and your son may enjoy.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Monday, April 8, 2024. What happened to sunnyboys? 2 months ago:
I ran my first run that way as well, under the house. Still illegal, but you can just claim an electrician did it and you dont know their name. The downside of those wall sockets is you have to drill a fairly large hole to get the RJ45 through, and in my case, it was a fairly long hole as well. Good luck!
- Comment on Germans: what genocide? 2 months ago:
Its only a genocide if it comes from the third reich. Anything else is just sparkling ethnic cleansing.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Monday, April 8, 2024. What happened to sunnyboys? 2 months ago:
Latency wont be noticable. I havent checked recently, but running ethernet cables behind walls requires an electrician. Thats obviously stupid though, so go for it. Just run the ethernet as far away from electric cables as possible.
Terminating cables isnt that hard, and the end result will be a bit nicer to look at.
When you say passthrough wall plate, are you talking about: …com.au/…/cat6-rj45-keystone-coupler-female-to-fe… If you dont want to terminate, but still want a nice look those are very easy to use.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I think its probably an in-joke we (and the reddit downvoters) are not getting.
- Comment on Virtual Boy Pro for Nintendo Switch - Announcement Trailer (2024) 2 months ago:
Luigis Mansion 3 has a pretty overt acknowledgement of the Virtual Boys existance. The entire in game menu is in one.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
11 years later…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Anyone with an important VHS would probably be advised to get it copied professionally.
And soon, the expiry date for VHS tapes has passed
- Comment on Shakira speaking 6 languages (Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, Italian, Catalan) 4 months ago:
7, her hips arent lieing, but they also arent speaking any verbal languages.
- Comment on States fucked again 4 months ago:
NSW is looking pretty chill though, lets all move up there :D
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Highly workplace dependant. A workplace with a healthy culture wont have that kind of bullshit. If your co-workers are going to treat you badly just for being new, you probably dont want to work there.
As for nursing specifically, hopefully someone with more experience in that industry can chime in.
- Comment on Former News Limited CEO Kim Williams set to replace Ita Buttrose as ABC chair 5 months ago:
Better question might be is it good for us. Sure sounds like a fox in the hen house situation though. I guess we’ll see.
- Comment on Get to work, crackheads 5 months ago:
Some of them used to contain bog standard DSLRs, so they were worth stealing.