pupbiru
@pupbiru@aussie.zone
- Comment on Liberals promise new hybrid trains for Melbourne's west 5 days ago:
if ever you think “maybe the liberals have a decent policy”, you’ve misunderstood the policy :p
- Comment on Liberals promise new hybrid trains for Melbourne's west 5 days ago:
from what i read this is only for melton
i guess they could be repurposed after melton electrification to run further out, so maybe that’s not so bad… but the campaign is targeting melton, and for that purpose its a shit idea
- Comment on Liberals promise new hybrid trains for Melbourne's west 5 days ago:
and there’ll be a refinery built in the middle of the 12 apostles… owned by an american multinational
- Comment on Liberals promise new hybrid trains for Melbourne's west 6 days ago:
it’s a shit policy that sounds good on the surface (like most liberal policies)
apparently:
- despite what the libs say they likely won’t be able to run through the loop because it’s not about diesel fumes; it’s about having large volumes of fuel in the tunnels
- the issue with increased capacity is there is already track congestion
- the works currently being done on station and track upgrades are all required for hybrid or electrification capacity, so when those upgrades are done why wouldn’t you just electrify instead of wasting money on a half way solution that’ll need to be chucked out in a few years when it’s eventually electrified anyway
- Comment on Hey Lemmy. I hate Facebook. But I miss Marketplace. So I built Garage as a means to reclaim Melb's 2nd hand marketplace from Meta (cause fuck Zuck). It's pretty new but check it out below 5 weeks ago:
search through gobs of crap
it’s called engagement
- Comment on First time back home in 7 years. Where to get coffee and decent eats 5 months ago:
faradays cage is still around and solid!
- Comment on "Free public transport in Victoria through April as fuel prices continue to climb" 5 months ago:
i mean, we should stop hiring business consultants to write software lol
there are small/local consultancies that actually do a great job: just like hiring a team of contractors
large multinationals with a focus on accounting and business with “oh also we do salesforce” is the real problem
- Comment on "Free public transport in Victoria through April as fuel prices continue to climb" 5 months ago:
cheaper than fixing myki
- Comment on Huge swings to ONP, against Libin today's SA election, small swing against ALP, towards Greens 5 months ago:
libs never even had to develop policies let alone have economically feasible policies. what makes you think ONP will need to do any different?
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 8 months ago:
i completely agree, i just don’t think that particular line of reasoning (not taking into account anonymous sites) proves that
if they wanted to do it properly, they’d have a system that integrates with mygovid that sites can integrate with via some oauth-like flow (login with facebook, login with google, etc: but verify with mygov), and the only thing the site gets back is a “yes over 16”
the government has this data; there’s no reason anyone else should see it
of course that’s also assuming the whole concept is a good idea, which is absolutely not… it’s wallpapering over a massive problem whilst solving absolutely nothing and causing issues
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 8 months ago:
i agree, but i also think that IF this were something conducted in good faith (it’s not), then the process would be pretty similar: gated access is the easy fix, so you work that out first (like a minimum viable product), and then work on the harder parts later
- Comment on Now I finally get it 1 year ago:
that tracks with my lived experience
- Comment on It's on your blood! 1 year ago:
ie if you already have a teflon thing, that teflon is non-toxic and there’s no point to just throw it out… avoid new things if possible because they byproducts are harmful, but disposing of existing product is unhelpful
- Comment on It's on your blood! 1 year ago:
ie if you already have a teflon thing, that teflon is non-toxic and there’s no point to just throw it out… avoid new things if possible because they byproducts are harmful, but disposing of existing product is unhelpful
- Comment on It's on your blood! 1 year ago:
add from crayfish
- Comment on Zero stars for the Young Liberals 1 year ago:
But by American standards, they’re the equivalent of the Democrats
on the economy alone… they’re definitely more like the republicans on things like minority rights, climate, etc
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 1 year ago:
that is wildly inaccurate. do you have a source?
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 1 year ago:
“needs” might be debatable… i’m just don’t think the trade-off is worth it (and thus don’t play games that require kernel-level access)
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 1 year ago:
code running in kernel space is hugely privileged… it can open up enormous security vulnerabilities because when you’re in the kernel you can bypass a LOT of security checks and restrictions… windows code is generally pretty well tested, so is unlikely to have particularly bad bugs like RCEs etc… but these kernel mode apps aren’t nearly as rigorously tested - things like this is what lead to the crowdstrike outage
things running in the kernel can also cause a lot more damage than user space apps, because the kernel doesn’t do a lot of the error checking and validation that stops things like kernel panics
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 1 year ago:
load on boot INTO THE KERNEL is the main issue… this isn’t “just another executable”
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 year ago:
things like the “patch x out of an image” allows people to express themselves with their own creative works more fully
text-based genai has myriad purposes that don’t involve wholesale generation of entirely new creative works:
using it as a natural language parser in low-stakes situation (think like you’re browsing a webpage and want to add an event to the calendar but it just has a paragraph of text that says “next wednesday at xyz”)
the generative part makes it generically more useful that specialist models (and certainly less accurate most of the time), and people can use them to build novel things on top of rather than be limited to the original intent of the model creator
everything genai should be used for should be low-stakes: things that humans can check quickly, or doesn’t matter if it’s wrong… because it will be wrong some of the time
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 year ago:
i’m pro-AI (with huuuuge caveats) but i disagree with this… AI reduces certain jobs in a similar way, but it also enables large scale manipulation and fucks with our thought processes on a large scale
i’d say it’s like if a mechanised weaving loom also invented the concept of disinformation and propaganda
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 year ago:
you’re absolutely right!
the ban on guns in australia has been disastrous! the number of good guys with guns has dropped dramatically and … well, so has the number of bad guys … but that’s a mirage! ignore our near 0 gun deaths… that’s a statistical anomaly!
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 year ago:
as an aussie, yeah, then you should stop people from having guns
i honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the total number of gun deaths in australia since we banned guns (1996) was less than the number of gun deaths in the US THIS WEEK
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 year ago:
then you have little understanding of how genai works… the social impact of genai is horrific, but to argue the tool is wholly bad conveys a complete or purposeful misunderstanding of context
- Comment on HELP HIM. 1 year ago:
yeah! animal testing only exists to cause harm! outcomes are irrelevant - science gets off on beating up animals and THATS why animal testing exists… those sadistic pricks
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 1 year ago:
the restaurant pays for their staff… should you pay for having a table and chair too? staff is a basic requirement of a restaurant
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 year ago:
cc companies
best to say card networks, as cc companies both include a lot of other things (like issuers), and doesn’t include some things (like debit cards, which still use the card networks)
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 1 year ago:
that’s absolutely the main thing yup… in almost every circumstance where people implement blockchain, a trusted entity is involved so there’s no point to the blockchain
almost always there’s a single entity issuing a thing, and then that same entity also consuming that thing
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 1 year ago:
it does still hold value, but the value is super niche and generally shouldn’t be exposed to the user… it’s an implementation detail