jonne
@jonne@infosec.pub
- Comment on Biden Visits Amazon, Vowing Help to Fight Climate Change 7 hours ago:
For like the next 2 months only.
- Comment on Young Frankenstein is not available for streaming 1 day ago:
I think it’s either:
- they have to pay residuals to the actors for every stream, and they’d rather not do that
- not 100% sure if it applies in this situation, but somehow they can write off the value of media just by making it unavailable, which gives them a tax break
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Why does your Wi-Fi connection drop out when cooking lunch? #podcast 2 days ago:
I’ve never actually had my WiFi drop out when the microwave was running. I assumed this was mostly a myth or an issue with older versions of WiFi.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
The pandemic and Ukraine shows you can’t just count on global markets in a crisis, and we’re heading into a world with more, not less crises. Countries everywhere are onshoring critical industries, and the BRICS countries are working on getting off the dollar. That’s happening whether Trump is President or not (and unfortunately he is).
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
Strategic doesn’t mean just military. It means strategically investing in this capacity so you don’t get caught with your pants down when Russia turns off the tap and destroys your economy overnight. We’re past the globalist world now, and if your country is still making decisions as if we are, you’re not doing it right.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
Sure, there’d be some arbitrage, but pretty much every country that has a functional government will invest in domestic capacity for strategic reasons. You won’t have countries that have none at all and have to import everything.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
There’s (admittedly comparatively expensive) alternative processes, and even if you stick to the old process and just stop using coal for electricity generation you’d cut coal use by 75%.
Not to mention, the carbon that stays in the steel doesn’t actually go into the atmosphere, so there’s less CO2 emissions for that specific use if you can substitute the fuel used for heating.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
There’s alternative processes, and if you avoid burning oil for fuel you can basically do all that with the amount of oil that’s in easy reach instead of using tar sands or drilling into even more difficult to reach places.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
Yeah, there’s no reason to be transporting hydrogen long distances. You can make it anywhere that has water and electricity. And if you’ve transitioned to a hydrogen based economy, ships wouldn’t run on oil any more anyway, so there’s no problem there.
- Comment on The most powerful brain on Twitter 1 week ago:
The famously leftist NYPD.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
All of them? I’m pretty sure there’s still a lot of white south Africans around, just because there were a few incidents doesn’t make it largely peaceful. The alternative to a peaceful transition is Rhodesia, if you want to go the route of constant escalation.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Except that the slave owners were fine after the civil war. There were no mass executions, they got to keep their property (slaves excepted) and they retained so much political power they managed to reverse reconstruction within a few decades.
- Comment on Boeing workers reject contract proposal with 64% saying Boeing hasn't done enough. 3 weeks ago:
The unions should be the board of directors.
- Comment on Thieves caught stealing political yard signs 3 weeks ago:
It’s still trespassing, and if needed a judge could put a value on them based on cost of materials + cost of labour.
- Comment on Element in water heater died; less than two months old. 5 weeks ago:
Probably still would get issues with hard water though. OP needs a softener.
- Comment on Victoria sees record fall in rental stock as investors leave the state 5 weeks ago:
Not in my case, my mortgage is pretty much the same as what I was paying in rent for a similar house in the same area. And in a few years that mortgage will only become a smaller part of my income instead of growing.
- Comment on Victoria sees record fall in rental stock as investors leave the state 5 weeks ago:
Yep, and it’s giving first time home buyers a chance to buy one of those ex rentals. I did.
Landlords don’t actually build houses, they buy existing stock and squeeze all the value out of them with minimal maintenance.
- Comment on FBI created a crypto token so it could watch it being abused • The Register 5 weeks ago:
Creating a whole new chain seems unnecessary since chains are just public ledgers anyway. It’s always been trivial to trace trades with most currencies.
- Comment on Pray for me lads, Imma about to rawdog this without back ups 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s some ugly desktop environment.
- Comment on Australia detects the first case of the highly transmissible COVID-19 strain dubbed XEC 5 weeks ago:
I don’t see it going away anytime soon, so this will probably end up being like the annual flu shot, or even rolled into one shot eventually.
- Comment on Diego Garcia: What is on the secretive UK-US island in the Indian Ocean? 1 month ago:
Great episodes as well.
- Comment on Property investors fear forced sales under negative gearing changes 1 month ago:
So this guy is paying $500/mo for this property over the income it generates and the only reason this works out is negative gearing? I have a hard time believing he’s not at least breaking even on rent charged over a mortgage, he’s not telling the whole story there, or he grossly overpaid for the property.
- Comment on Property investors fear forced sales under negative gearing changes 1 month ago:
Yeah, generally property investors don’t build shit.
- Comment on Property investors fear forced sales under negative gearing changes 1 month ago:
Shorten’s plan included grandfathering in and the media just lied about that part, trotting out pensioners with one investment property etc.
- Comment on Nancy Pelosi's husband sold more than $500K in Visa stock ahead of DOJ action 1 month ago:
They still shouldn’t be trading individual stocks, whether they have inside information or not.
- Comment on Hoggies 1 month ago:
This is turning into the whole ananas / pineapple thing where English is the outlier again.
- Comment on Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it. 1 month ago:
Because of you, Bezos isn’t a trillionaire yet, I hope you’re happy.
- Comment on Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it. 1 month ago:
You probably need to stay within a certain ratio of returns vs keeping stuff, and as long as your score is good, they’ll honour returns without asking too much questions. We definitely return a lot of stuff without having any trouble, but we only return like less than 1% compared to what we buy.
- Comment on Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it. 1 month ago:
Yep, I doubt the chatbot has direct access to the inventory.
- Comment on Valve heads to PAX Australia for the first time, maybe they'll finally get the Steam Deck 1 month ago:
I bought it recently as a grey import, it’s still worth getting if you want to do some gaming on the go.