DeltaTangoLima
@DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com
Just an Aussie tech guy - home automation, ESP gadgets, networking. Also love my camping and 4WDing.
- Comment on YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes 1 week ago:
The whole point of this particular comment thread here is that we’re already starting to see what’s happening: people are taking back control. You’re here on Lemmy, proving that exact point.
I never said we needed Cory to tell us what comes next. Just come up with another colourfully descriptive term like he did with enshittification.
You sound like that insufferable ponytail from Good Will Hunting.
- Comment on YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes 1 week ago:
Cheers. Fixed.
- Comment on YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes 1 week ago:
We need Cory to coin a term for what comes after enhittification. Perhaps we can call it the Great Wipening, where we all stop paying to be treated like serfs and start taking back control of our content and data.
- Comment on Why isn't jerking off more valorized as an easy dopamine hit that's also literally good for you? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, no dispute here, mate. We’re pretty shocking like that. But I think religion stands out as an example of the worst, most inventive way we’ve come up with to subjugate and hurt people.
As a species, we’ve convinced ourselves that religion should be protected rather than inspected. We let lots of bad things happen in the name of religion. It’s bullshit.
- Comment on Why isn't jerking off more valorized as an easy dopamine hit that's also literally good for you? 2 weeks ago:
IMO, and without actual data to back it up, I reckon religion (and religious difference) is responsible for the most suffering throughout the history of humankind.
- Comment on Homeless physicist 'sick of smelling of my own BO' living in a van in a region with impossible rent 4 weeks ago:
The problem there, as we’re already seeing, is arsehole councils taking action against people on private properties, where the people either own the property, or have the property owner’s permission, to live in tents or caravans there.
Examples:
- Pensioner living in bus on private land because he can’t afford to buy or rent facing council legal action
- Campers in central Victoria face eviction from own land by Mount Alexander Shire Council, despite rent crisis
Every layer of government has their fair share of blame to wear for this, from the snouts at the trough in the local city councils, to the fat wankers in suits in Canberra. Not one single government has done anything remotely positive to improve the future of housing in this country in the past 20 or so years.
Instead, they’ve encouraged and rewarded foreign ownership and rich landlords that own dozens of properties. Our monetary policy is tied to a broken measure of financial health, where the snake eats its own tail: higher rent contributes to higher inflation, which contributes to higher interest rates, which contributes to higher rent.
All our governments have done is create the perfect conditions for a massively bloated housing market that’s almost impossible for anyone to get into without already being in the middle-to-upper earning brackets.
Councils have to start thinking along humanitarian grounds, and enable people to live self-sufficiently, rather than punishing them for it. It’s not hard to see a future where a pensioner dies on a park bench in the middle of winter, because they couldn’t afford to rent or pay their mortgage, got permission to live in a van on someone’s rural block, and some cunt of a councilor decided some bullshit zoning law was more important than human dignity.
Something has to give.
- Comment on Australian man says border force made him hand over phone passcode by threatening to keep device indefinitely 1 month ago:
My data’s backed up. I can get a new phone and sue the government later for confiscating a personal asset without due cause. Fuck that Gestapo shit.
Also, I disable biometric locks when traveling through airports and similar situations. They can easily “compel” biometrics from me, but not a password.
I don’t have any concerns for my local coppers wanting to take my phone - it’s too risky for them to do that without due cause - but the same can’t be said for federal power trippers like Border Force (what a fucking stupid name - sounds like something Trump came up with).
- Comment on For security reasons 1 month ago:
Please use a personal email. My email is ‘mail’ @ ‘my actual name’. It does not get more personal than that
It’s a legit rule they’re enforcing, IMO. Generic email addresses are usually unmonitored mailboxes that don’t bounce. Easy to use if you’re spamming contact forms and stuff like that.
Instead they advised me (3 times) to create a personal email on a service like Yahoo, Outlook, Gmail, Orange, etc
I think this is more a boilerplate suggestion, to lower the barrier to entry for people. Gotta remember, those of us that host our own email and/or use our own personal domains are definitely in the minority.
- Comment on Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles 1 month ago:
Not really. Here in Australia, our supermarket duopoloy does the same thing, offering discounts per litre. At the time it all started, the supermarket chains started buying into/acquiring petrol stations and rebranding them. This has been going on for over 20 years.
Recently, both supermarkets sold off their petrol station chains, but the sales included long-standing agreements to continue to offer discounts and loyalty program points for those that shop at the associated supermarket brand.
- Comment on State school parents to get $400 bonus for each child, in Victorian budget 1 month ago:
The payment is designed to help ease cost-of-living pressures the money will be made available as credit … towards educational expenses in certain categories The money can not be put towards school fees or used for household expenses it appeared the $400 payment would cover uniforms, excursions and sports activities, but not laptops
So, seems to cover things that many hard-up families probably aren’t paying for already, which means this won’t ease the cost of living pressure for them at all.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
is ambiguous
Ah - like a double negative? I didn’t realise I cancelled out my sarcasm with more sarcasm. I need to spend more time on the internet. I’d hate for my sarcasm to be misunderstood.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
Lol - the sheer volume of people who completely missed my
/s, and didn’t cotton to the fact that I was making a joke about the very subject… - Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
Oooh! A wiki article! Look at you, educating people with science and stuff.
/s
- Comment on If presidential immunity is absolute.. 1 month ago:
Would they agree if Biden used his absolute power to pass a federal law guaranteeing safe access to abortion?
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 2 months ago:
Yep, agreed, but at least the government of the day can try and reign them in with legislation and regulation. Not saying they are (or will), but they’d have the option, if they had the balls to do it.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 2 months ago:
It’s not just about data hoarding, though. It’s also about a social media company having considerable influence over the messaging seen by a very large part of the voting population.
Yes, it’s no different to other social media companies, but with one exception: the company in question is subject to the whims of the Chinese government. Something the US government is clearly fearful of.
- Comment on Bugs me when audiobook series do this 2 months ago:
Aaargh! Audible did this to the Stephen King Dark Tower series. Don’t get me wrong - Frank Muller did OK in the books he read, but George Guidall (books 1, 5, 6 & 7) has an almost Johnny Cash quality to his voice, that just made his reading really fantastic ti listen to.
- Comment on Bugs me when audiobook series do this 2 months ago:
Anything Fry does is just pure gold. I loved his 7 Deadly Sins podcast series .
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Jesus, you couldn’t possibly have misinterpreted my reply more than you just have:
- No religious view was expressed - I’ve been a staunch atheist for nearly 40 years, since I was old enough to tell my mum I didn’t believe in any of it.
- I never said people shouldn’t suicide - I’m very much a supporter of assisted suicide. I’m saying that, if the rules around assisted suicide don’t apply, then the default action for people sworn to protect human life should be to stop suicides. You know - the point of this entire post.
- Who said anything about pain? No need to put words in my mouth.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think that’s where this commenter was leaning, though, with their final comment. Assisted suicide should absolutely be available to those suffering terminal illnesses and the like. But, the rules surrounding it must be very clear and anyone assisting suicide under those rules must be very well educated.
In the absence of assisted suicide rules, or where existing ones don’t apply to a specific case, then human life should be protected as a default setting.
- Comment on The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store 2 months ago:
Yep. I get all that, but that’s not an option with my employer.
I’m comfortable with the separation I have, and iOS is key to part of that satisfaction.
- Comment on The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store 2 months ago:
Yep - not sure what point you’re making, though?
A commercial use is one primarily intended for commercial advantage or monetary compensation
My phone isn’t used “primarily for commercial advantage or monetary compensation”. It’s my own phone that my company reimburses me some of the monthly cost of running, for being able to use it to contact me.
- Comment on The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store 2 months ago:
I have an always-on Wireguard VPN, and use my Piholes at home.So far, so good!
- Comment on The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store 2 months ago:
I need to use my phone for work, which means I can’t use custom ROMs due to our BYOD policies.
For me, iOS is still by far the better option, especially as use privacy-respecting apps and services (Firefox, self-hosted Immich, etc).
- Comment on The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store 2 months ago:
After 10 years on Android, I just switched back. Because I admire Apple’s commitment to privacy, and simply don’t trust Google any more.
- Comment on I was handed this lovely flyer while grocery shopping 2 months ago:
Jesus - I thought COVID wiped all these twits out already.
- Comment on They really want people to RTO 2 months ago:
fknlol - like people WFH are working from their bed. I can’t think of a more uncomfortable location for my to do my job from. Except the office five days a week of course…
- Comment on Apple users "don’t know what is going on": New study shows that Apple's default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off 2 months ago:
if you disable “Allow Apps to Request to Track”, it prevents non-Apple apps from tracking entirely cross-site/apps.
Thanks for that - great tip for new players.
- Comment on Who to vote for? 2 months ago:
The problem is our politics has just become a game of divisive bloody-mindedness, where the “long-term” view only reaches as far as the next election, and the opposition does nothing but shit-can the ideas of the government of the day, even if they’re good ideas.
Putting aside his out-of-touch conservatism, the last time we had true bi-partisan politics in Australia was under Howard, when he brought about gun reform.
As we have a two party system, I vote with the view that I want to build a strong enough majority government in the lower house that they can build good legislation without having to horse-trade with the other party, but with the right mix in the Senate that they need to negotiate with the right parties/people to pass things into law.
For me, I prefer a Labor government, but with enough Greens and/or independents in the Senate that Labor has to consider things like social reform and climate action to get their legislation passed.
My voting order (currently) tends to be:
- Independents (where their policies align with my views/goals)
- Greens (usually)
- Labor
- (potentially) fringe parties with good platforms (this is both rare and dangerous IMHO - I usually dig into their voting prefs first)
- Liberals
- Extremist view parties (One Nation, etc)
- Absolutely anything with a remotely religious agenda
I know I’m possibly a bit rare in this regard, but I’ll often spend part of a weekend before an election researching the candidates for my seat and senate, and building my voting order in advance. A lot of people might see this as wasted time, but I actually enjoy diving into this stuff and casting my vote with my conscience.
- Comment on Apple users "don’t know what is going on": New study shows that Apple's default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off 2 months ago:
Interesting (kinda) coincidence. I’ve just switched from Android back to iPhone, after about 10 years away from the platform.
But I use an always-on Wireguard VPN back to my home network, with my DNS set to my Pi-hole servers and my firewall rules blocking access to all external DNS servers, except from my Pi-holes for upstream resolution.
I’m yet to do some p-caps to see what I’m missing in this setup - while I’m confident it did a great job of protecting me from a lot of Google’s data-harvesting shenanigans, I’m yet to investigate what I need to do to achieve a similar outcome for my iPhone.