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- Comment on Victoria state election 2026: Coalition pledges to sell $1.3 billion in government property to boost housing and pay down debt 2 days ago:
$1.3B is 0.75% of the state’s debt.
- Comment on Gaze upon the inevitability of death and despair. 1 week ago:
My favourite band has revised their song “40 years then death” to “14 years then death”. Because, you know, that’s all that’s left.
- Comment on Coalition says cuts to climate, housing and more would save $31b 1 week ago:
This doesn’t even make sense. This is not a federal election and taxes aren’t negotiable.
- Comment on Gone but not forgotten 2 weeks ago:
It’s c:\windows\system32\logo.sys
- Comment on Australia's nuclear agency targeted with ads linked to spyware that infect devices without a click 2 weeks ago:
There’s definitely an insurer driving our security policy, hiding behind some ISO audit spec.
Probably the same insurers that gain from scraping personal data from everyone and everything.
- Comment on Australia's nuclear agency targeted with ads linked to spyware that infect devices without a click 2 weeks ago:
I keep telling the IT people at work…
They’ve installed enpoint protection that reduces my PC performance by 70%.
They’ve got so much auth that most things are 4FA.
Services on a virtual desktop through a VPN still need have HTTPS.
The ACLs are so tight that I have to wait weeks on a ticket to make two PCs communicate in the same room.
Then they don’t block ads. Every time I’ve seen an infected machine, the attack vector has been an ad. It’s the only security measure that makes life better for the users, and they don’t do it.
- Comment on "We're building an army:" Angry anti-renewable groups take to city streets ahead of state election 3 weeks ago:
We are on the dumbest timeline.
- Comment on Teenager arrested after pedestrian hit near Flinders St station in Melbourne's CBD 4 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of infra on this intersection to physically separate cars and pedestrians. At a guess, I’d say it played a role in harm reduction here. The driver was on tram lines and not the footpath.
This intersection is Melbourne CBD’s only scramble crossing as far as I know. By that, I mean the light turns red in all directions while pedestrians get the entire road.
- Comment on Satisfy all of the people all of the time whether they like it or not 4 weeks ago:
That’s one way to end homelessness, I guess.
- Comment on pisspost 4 weeks ago:
Once my dog pissed on a sheet and I threw it in the machine without even rinsing it.
Everything I washed for the next week smelled like dog piss.
There’s only so much piss a washing machine can take.
- Comment on So Close And Yet So Far 5 weeks ago:
That wasn’t even close. They’re out of their depth at half that depth.
- Comment on - IBM, 1985 1 month ago:
s/machine/rich person/g
- Comment on Is there a difference between "comfortable space" and a "safespace"? 1 month ago:
I’d get told off for saying “homeless person” instead of “person experiencing homelessness” and just feel confused because I both terms conveying the exact same thing, but the politically correct term just feeling clumsy.
Like, I have heard a lot of slurs for the homeless, and I don’t think “homeless person” wouldn’t even rank.
But I do like the idea of a “comfortable” space where neutral langauge is accepted. I hate euphemisms, and I’m irked by people who use them.
- Comment on Why do people refer to characters in movies by their actor's names? 1 month ago:
Even in Guns Akimbo, it’s Harry Potter. It must suck when the role is bigger than your name.
- Comment on Hissssss 1 month ago:
Do Americans think each country has their own way of mesuring things?
- Comment on Unsure if it's just lemmy.world or all of Lemmy, but I'm suddenly getting "error" messages everywhere 1 month ago:
It’s absolutely cooked. It’s been getting worse over the last day.
- Comment on MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style 1 month ago:
It reads like the LLM got to the middle and forgot what was at the start.
- Comment on Rail passengers get automatic right to switch operators for free when trains are cancelled 1 month ago:
My train got canned last year when a jumper disrupted the services. The replacement train was already packed, but I used my common sense and found a spare seat in first class.
- Comment on Coalition plan to hit 'gangs where it hurts' would slash tobacco tax and legalise vapes 2 months ago:
It won’t make them cheaper. The legit darts would be priced above the current cost of bootleg durries. The price would be low enough to not be worth pedaling dodgy fags.
End result: higher price.
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 2 months ago:
Consistency. You can take 3 readings in a row with that stick and get 3 wildly different results. I have a $20 digital one from decades ago that gives me the same reading withing 5kPa on each try.
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 2 months ago:
I tick most of these boxes and still have a rotary landline phone in service.
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 2 months ago:
I have one of those in my glovebox. I think I bought it in 2003. My 2003 manual jap econobox has no need for TPMS. If a tyre is 30kPa too low, you can feel it.
- Comment on Suburban Rail Loop to find $2b in savings through station changes 2 months ago:
So, we won’t be able to transfer between the platforms at Box Hill station without going for a hike?
It sounds as bad as the bus terminal.
- Comment on Pauline Hanson vows to slash cigarette prices by nearly $30 a pack 2 months ago:
Remember - you’re not voting for the party leader alone.
Hell, you’re not even voting for the party as a whole.
You’re voting for the party’s donors. In this case, it’s big tobacco who want their cut.
- Comment on What It's Sometimes Like Posting A Meme On Lemmy 2 months ago:
On a Venn diagram, there’s quite an overlap between autism and trains.
- Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action 2 months ago:
I always had the feeling that they were 56% bigger when I was a kid.
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 2 months ago:
As a general rule, everything in the US is measured or notated differently to the rest of the world. Lengths, and weights, food energy, dates, fuel octane, fuel economy, blood glucose. Hell, you guys can’t even do shelf price tags the same.
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 2 months ago:
If you dig through archive.org and retireve the nutritional information PDFs over time, you can see the kj levels dropping.
- Comment on When they didn't read the manual 2 months ago:
If you’re on a scrollwheel, you’re rolling a wheel down the page, and the viewport moves and the page stays still.
Sliding the scrollbar does the same. It moves the viewport.
On a touchscreen, you’re pulling the page directly. The page moves and the viewport stays still.
A trackpad? I like to think that it’s sliding the scrollbar, not the document.
- Comment on AusAlert emergency warning test: What you need to know and how to prepare 3 months ago:
You can pull the message up again, but it’s buried pretty deep in the settings.
