AnAustralianPhotographer

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So is it "It just works" or "Shit just works"?⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmm. What if it’s because the admin was an old school Linux user and never took to bash. “sh. it just works”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not something urgent, but the Aussie parliament passed new laws yesterday and it could impact Lemmy.world (in a year)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The law specifically mentions government IDs in the legislation . If have to check, but Im confident they’re specifically excluded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not something urgent, but the Aussie parliament passed new laws yesterday and it could impact Lemmy.world (in a year)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ive had a look at the legislation, its an ammendment to an existing set of laws. It underwent some changes as it passed through the House of Representatives and the Senate, so i had a look at the ‘As passed by both houses’ version at www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/…/Result?bI…

  So it looks like what is ‘Social media’ can be defined by a Minister / Commissioner, it looks like there needs to be something documented (again not calling on lemmy.world to do something for this as part of this post) by the Social media company, and it looks like the recording of government id’s for the purpose of confirming ages is expressly prohibited.

  A penalty Unit is around $300.

• Not something urgent, but the Aussie parliament passed new laws yesterday and it could impact Lemmy.world (in a year)www.abc.net.au ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TURKEY POWER⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rookie Numbers.It only uses elecitrical power generated. Why not cook turkeys in heat destined for cooling towers ? Gotta push those numbers way up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think being left-handed gives any unique qualities or advantages compares to other right handed?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In English we write left to right and lefties smudge their writing (or adapt their grip I guess) so, for right to left languages it’s a plus.

  After typing there para above, I guess they could also be better drawers if they have done more practice or use a different grip or draw instead of write if they’re part of a class doing pencil and paper time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to promote a community you create without stepping on toes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have a look at lemmy.world/c/newcommunities . I just know it exists and have got looking at it’s rules and checking it out more on my to-do list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone explain the framework of the current British... idk is empire the correct term?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone explain the framework of the current British... idk is empire the correct term?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Australia is its own country, however we still have ties and the King/Queen can cause a ruckus if they want, however recently we’ve been left to our own devices. I see people over in the UK as ‘Royal Watchers’ and monarchists, and dont see any similar level of affection for the royalty here. Sure when we get a visit, crowds will turn up, but im confident the size relative to the population over time has declined.

  Not exactly a historian, so could be a wrong with this. In WW1, When Britain went to war, a lot of the people had the intent to follow and saw it as a duty to ‘defend the empire’ . In WW2 i think we had a bit more independence and remember a story about a troop ship being redirected to fight the Japanese rather than fight the Germans. That was was seen as a lot closer to home with the bombing of Darwin and fighting on the Kokoda track.

  Now, i think the population would be totally indifferent.

  We have the King and Queen on our coins, and the Queen is on the $5 note, but notable australians are also printed on other notes.

  To pass new laws in our Federal Parliament (i think state parliaments are similar but there might be exceptions), it needs to be voted on by the House of Representatives (151 elected politicians from 151 geographically organised electorates with roughly an equal number of voters. e.g. NT has two electorates which is effectively Darwin and the rest of the NT. An electorate in Sydney might only be several suburbs while a country electorate in WA could be a third of the state). it also needs to be voted on in the Senate which consists of 76 Senators ( Each state elects 12 Senators (QLD,NSW,VIC,TAS,SA & WA) while territories each get 2 (ACT & NT).

  Once its past both the house and the Senate, it also needs Royal Assent by the Governor General. The Governor General can refuse to give assent but i cannot point to a time when this has happened. The Governor General can also reserve legislation for the Queens Pleasure which defers approval to the Queen.

  The Governor General is not elected, and appointed by the Queen/King. I understand that convention recently has been that the Queen meets with the Prime Minister and appoints whoever the Prime Minster recommends. I think the Queen can change who is appointed as Governor General at will, so theoretically could call them to direct them to not give royal assent to particularly controversial legislation.

  Right now, the Queen or King could take a seat in the Senate if he or she wished, but not in the House as it was seen as to be for the people. He or She wouldn’t get a vote, but I guess it would only be to give royal assent as soon as a bill has passed. If it happened, it would make national news.

  Was there an Australian Revolution ? We floated the idea somewhat recently, and there was a referendum (a vote to change the countries constitution) on whether to become a republic. For it to pass it needed a majority of votes and a majority in the majority of states/territories. I think the wording was that we replace the governor general with a president elected by the people. It didnt get up, and the idea has been left alone since.

  I think if you ask most Aussies, the like being in the commonwealth as we get more medals at the commonwealth games than the Olympics and they enjoy thrashing the Poms at Cricket/Rugby / Othersports.

  As for our relationship with other commonwealth countries, I wouldnt say theres anything really special there except for New Zealand and this probably dates back to the ANZAC Corps and Gallipoli which is seen as our emergence of a country (i dont want to speak for NZ on this one). We might make fun of our ‘cousins’ across the ditch but i’d like to think that if something seriously went wrong, we’d be ready to lend them a hand in a heartbeat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Theoretically, will a collision cause a breach of the radioactive material that’s in the box with my cat? Asking for a friend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where can I buy a mosquito laser system?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would they be dangerous to mount them on sharks ? asking for a friend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you scale down a firearm to make an identical looking firearm that fires a different round?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Calibre conversion kits do exist. I think they could be for might be cases where people want to practice marksmanship with smaller calibers like a .22 en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Caliber_conversion_device

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I... Do court? I didn't realize my license was expired and got pulled over. Now I have court tomorrow.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it was me, I would go in, dressed smart casual, be on time, polite, own up to the issue, say sorry I forgot to get it renewed and I hadn’t realized it needed doing, inform the judge of any mitigating circumstances that might have distracted you and ask that because it’s your first offence if they could be lenient as there were no other aggravating factors (speeding, drunk, crashed car with injuries rtc).

  Was the car or truck in pretty good condition ?. It’s what I’d try if all indications are you are an otherwise legal and safe driver. I’m not asking for you to answer to me, but they seem relevant to a judge. I hope things work out ok for you.

  The only other thing I could think of is if someone could be a character witness but the court might not want to hear them.

  Maybe you have a good reason to ask for the fine to be waived if you have sick kids etc, or have been saving for a worthwhile cause and this would be a major setback or a penalty like losing your license would make you unable to work or look after kids.

  If you are pleasant and don’t make things harder then they might have discretion to adjust the penalty and decide to do so. But the law might also be written so the judge has no say in the penalty or a minimum penalty is required.

  I know of some drivers over here if they have an established safe driving record they can write and ask for a speeding fine to be reviewed and possibly waived (if it was just a few kms over, cant see it work gor 30km/h+ over).

  I think there’s also been a few cases where people who would otherwise have their license suspended over here get an exemption for work etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could a bird propel a skateboard by flapping its wings?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I reckon a Pelican would easily be able to get a skateboard rolling. I’m just now sure the best steps to proceed testing it.

  I’d try a skateboard at the top of a hill and see about getting a cockatoo to somehow get the board to roll under it’s own propulsion so it can sit back and enjoy a ride down a hill. That’d be the way I’d try if I wanted the bird to do it repeatedly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't post pics. Getting the follow error: {"data":{"error":"unknown","message":"Request error: error sending request for url... (full error in the body section of the post)⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just tried about 10 mins ago and was able to upload.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't post pics. Getting the follow error: {"data":{"error":"unknown","message":"Request error: error sending request for url... (full error in the body section of the post)⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just tried again and was able to upload. lemmy.world/post/13207765

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't post pics. Getting the follow error: {"data":{"error":"unknown","message":"Request error: error sending request for url... (full error in the body section of the post)⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m getting the same error message, attempting to upload on Linux with firefox. I originally tried a 3.7meg file, then 2.0meg and then 0.6meg and all gave same error.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t help directly, but the people at lemmy.world/c/techsupport mighr be able to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an easy software to automatically Animate one image morphing into another image?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A long time ago I have used ffmpeg to transition one jpg to another jpg as a gif animiation. I will see about coming back and editing the comment with a reference.