Salvo

@Salvo@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little guy⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That is the thing. They will bite if the feel scared, so it you are competent, relaxed and crazy enough, you may be able to handle one like this. They also have a little beak.

  The Venn diagram of venomous and dangerous is not a plain circle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Private health insurance is a dud. That’s why a majority of Australians don’t have it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am currently copping the extra levies out of principle.

  I would rather pay the extra tax than be forced to entire the criminally corrupt public system.

  The problem is that the runaway inflation (caused by corporate price-gouging) is resulting in increased cost of living.

  I have been fortunate enough to receive a pay-rise that reduces the pain caused by the CoL crisis, but it has pushed me into a higher tax bracket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily Discussion Thread: 🌞🌞🌞 Wednesday, November 6, 2024⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really would have thought that a few of the safe seats would have flipped, considering how deranged he is and how many old-school Republicans have come out against him and endorsed Kamala.

  It just goes to show that their Democracy has been so corrupted by decades of abuse that their elections no longer function.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily Discussion Thread: 🌞🌞🌞 Wednesday, November 6, 2024⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We just need to educate our electorate that we can”t “Throw away your vote” by preferencing a special-interest party above a Major party…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily Discussion Thread: 🌞🌞🌞 Wednesday, November 6, 2024⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is also how biased the US electoral system is to maintain the Status Quo.

  Every time the Republicans get in, the cripple democracy a little bit at a time. When the Democrats get in, they don’t do anything to roll back the damage.

  It has finally come to the Endgame for US Democracy.

  All we can do is make sure that our elected officials are aware that it is not something that we want in Australia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily Discussion Thread: 🌞🌞🌞 Wednesday, November 6, 2024⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As @tinybreak infers, they may be trying to get people to leave so that they don’t have to payout redundancies.

  If you take your LSL and AL, you can bypass all the issues. When you come back you will either be invaluable to them and be able to get a payrise, or they would have decided to issue redundancies after all and you can cash-in again. It is a gamble though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Australia you can abuse public office any way you like and get away with it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am looking forward to seeing who the 61% of Victorians who successful mailed in their local elections ballot voted for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rip out the bike lanes | Bike Route Buddy (a video about which Councillors support ripping out bike lanes)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Was that the Dave Cristafulli character?

  What a blatant scam artist!

  I can’t believe that he is gaslighting voters by saying that the existing system is corrupt!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rip out the bike lanes | Bike Route Buddy (a video about which Councillors support ripping out bike lanes)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just now received my ballot and read the “Candidate Leaflet” brochure. We had two choices and they both read like some sort of pre-rolled DnD characters. One was like a generous Cleric and other was like a selfish Necromancer.

  I have a feeling that due to the base instincts and gullibility of my neighbours, the evil necromancer will likely get in. His campaign is based on less bile and more road lanes, arresting children and anti-wokeness. The joke is that he has a Hindi or Sikh surname and the most base instinct of my neighbours is racism.

  This will be interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily Discussion Thread: 🥃 🌶️🥃🌶️ Wednesday, October 2 , 2024⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Did everyone else get the “Energy Bill Relief” email?

  I have a feeling that this is just more “corporate welfare”.

  I expect everyone’s Energy providers to inflate prices over the next 4 months by about $75 a month.

  I recently changed provider because the government energy website said my bill would be half of what it was; guess what; it was exactly the fucking same!

  The sooner the Government de-privatise the Energy sector, the better. We will also see an end to the Fracking Industry’s astroturfing against renewables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teenage boy allegedly stabbed to death in front of lunchtime crowd at Melbourne shopping centre⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, was my tasteless joke similar to those deleted comments? I will happily delete it if you don’t approve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teenage boy allegedly stabbed to death in front of lunchtime crowd at Melbourne shopping centre⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Saved you a click; It was Woodgrove in Melton, It wasn’t Highpoint (if it was Highpoint, it wouldn’t be News).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brands should avoid the term 'AI'. It's turning off customers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  High Tech doesn’t automatically mean MLL. There is still plenty of “High Tech” that isn’t a Techbros wet dream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brands should avoid the term 'AI'. It's turning off customers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The term ‘AI’ is not not turning off customers. The actual product is turning off customers.

  It has already been proven that the products claiming to be AI are just advanced enshitification and that they are inferior to traditional products.

  It is time for everyone to jump off the AI bandwagon and start making products that are actually smart and aren’t just called “Smart”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These are Victoria's most dangerous country roads, according to drivers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is 100% correct.

  With the lack of public transport infrastructure, and social expectations, more people who don’t have the skill level to be driving, or don’t have the maturity level to be driving, are (ab)using our roads.

  Meanwhile, said individuals with low profile tyres are speeding over potholes and suing VicRoads, diverting public funds from public road repairs to private wheel repairs.

  Australian ADRs need to be updated to a minimum tyre profile to get these completely impractical vehicles off the roads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bananas⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there any way I can determine how big that coat hanger is? Is there something I can compare it to for scale?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telstra fined $1.5m for leaving customers vulnerable to scams⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This was not a fine, it was a fee. Telstra make more money in a week providing VoIP relays to Scammers than this “Fine”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Criminal elements': The illegal firewood industry that's hurting Victorian forests⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There isn’t much the average citizen can do about this.

  You can get a permit to collect firewood, so it isn’t illegal, and without a judicial authority, you can’t call out someone you meet in a state forest and ask to see their permit.

  Also, with track closures, many state parks are inaccessible to people for traditional recreation, making them only accessible to bad actors who don’t care about track closures and vehicle restrictions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a contentious infrastructure project gathers steam, small pockets of Melbourne are being changed forever⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When the land on the east of Cyril grove in Yarraman was compulsory acquired for the Peninsula Freeway (which eventually became Eastlink), residents were forcibly evicted and builds were demolished. This included one old lady who had lived in the same house her whole life. A handful of home owners fought for the right to stay until construction began and they lived in their houses for another 30 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that they are not actively asking permission.

  They are technically legally asking permission through the EULA, but nobody reads these.

  Apple do this differently, they require the user to opt in for each of their services, and except for a pitiful amount of storage, the user has to pay for a useful amount of storage. This makes the user the customer, instead of the product. They could make it easier to roll-your-own “cloud” storage by NAS, but I assume that it isn’t worth their effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one of the things I love about the Lemmy community. No one wants to argue, every one can be passionate about their opinions, but still respect other people’s passion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used Linux back in the 90s as my primary OS. They were simpler times. Since then I have used BeOS, various versions of Windows and (primarily) MacOS.

  I am seriously thinking of going over to Linux as my primary OS because of all the TechBro “AI” bullshit that Microsoft, Adobe, Apple and Google are trying to ram down our throats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The bottom has dropped out of the OEM software licence market. Microsoft have to find a different way of making money. Their loss-leading hardware sales have not borne fruit so they are getting desperate.

  All they have left is services, which means that the only way the can actually make money is selling out their customers private information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After its only cafe closed, the regional town that once hosted Eric Bana and The Dry is desperate for food options⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pop-up cafes would also be a great idea in old station buildings along Rail Trails.

  The problem is that most stations on Rail Trail routes have been demolished or (if they are lucky) relocated.

  Last year I went on a ride from Nyora. It would have been a much nice ride if I had a nice coffee and breakfast at the start of the ride, Lunch at Bena (or if I was fitter, Korumburra) and then ride back for a nice afternoon tea back at Nyora.

  Defunct station buildings are the perfect size for a proper cafe or restaurant, and already have a large paved alfresco area for diners; especially on rail-trails or heritage railways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily discussion thread: 🍂 Monday, April 29, 2024⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The PowerWall is a great product for what it is, but Lithium Ion is wasted in a permanent install. Other battery technologies are more reliable, cheaper, safer and simpler.

  The only thing Lithium Ion has going is ubiquity due to volumes of scale. It is like putting a ESP32 in something that needs to be connected to the internet because it is cheaper than a separate microcontroller chip and ethernet chip; or how most Lightning headphones use Bluetooth because a single Bluetooth chip with integrated DAC is cheaper and more readily available than an official (or even a bootleg) Lightning chip and a DAC chip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Victoria seeks to end draughty rentals in revamp of heating and cooling standards⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Legislation only works when it is enforced and there aren’t any loopholes.

  Tenants; The rent is unsustainable and the heating bills are nearly as high as the rent!

  Government; Let’s make landlords improve properties so that they are more efficient.

  Green-Energy scammers; Let’s sell a solution that rides the loophole line between being government-compliant and non-functional.

  Landlords; We can pay the scammers a pittance and charge our Tenants more.

  Tenants; We are still cold and now paying higher rents and higher energy bills.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Imprecise” language models are smaller, speedier, and nearly as accurate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I maintain that prior to Siri, the Dragon-based iOS Voice Command feature (on iPhone 4) was accurate and functional for most purposes, and did on-device parsing. If I asked “Call Mums Mobile” or “Play Jonathan Coulton” it would parse my contacts for a contact named (or nicknamed) Mum and parse my music library for an artist who’s name matched “ˈdʒɑnəθən ˈkoʊltn̩”.

  For whatever reason, Siri records my voice, uploads it to the cloud and decides that I wanted to call “Moms homestyle kitchen” and play Drake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting stuck in the bush: Or how I learned not to be an idiot or trust google maps.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The baofeng runs at 8Watt, which is higher than the legal power rating in Australia.

  baofengtech.com/product/bf-f8hp/

  The RadTel is even more illegal at 10W.

  radtels.com/…/radtel-rt-470-6-bands-amateur-ham-t…

  The power output of the transmitter is not what gets you range, it is the choice of antenna to match the terrain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting stuck in the bush: Or how I learned not to be an idiot or trust google maps.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, we have some of the no-name UHF radios in the kids toybox.

  We don’t put batteries in them, in case the kids hear something on the airwaves that isn’t suitable for young children.

  We have one high-end Chinese UHF in the garage in a box. It was purchased because it could be reprogrammed to pickup all 80 UHF channels instead of just the 40 that were available for public use. It has never been used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting stuck in the bush: Or how I learned not to be an idiot or trust google maps.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My car is a proper 4WD (albeit small) so I have an Australian-made GME XRS-330C installed with an antenna permanently mounted on the roof.

  I have an inexpensive GME TX677 in my glove-box for emergencies and an even more inexpensive TX667 in my centre console as a loaner for anyone I am driving with (for their passenger to use, of course).

  I plan on upgrading to an XRS-660 as my portable, but it is at the bottom of my Wishlist.

  During the chip shortage, I purchased an XRS-330CP as temporary solution. I loan that to family members on touring holidays so we can use the XRS/GPS feature to keep track of each other.

  Speaking of which, the GME XRS app has great maps too!