Skip Navigation

User banner

Salvo

@ Salvo @aussie.zone

Posts
1
Comments
390
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • Summer festival-goers continue to abandon truckloads of camping gear

    Jump

  • The old adage “Take only Photos, Leave only footprints” has not been drummed into kids these days.

    If the tent came back missing a single peg, we would get a hiding.

    If our campsite has anything but leaves and twigs after we left, we would be sent back the next weekend to do an Emu bob.

    We also cleaned up after each other because of the story about Everybody, Somebody, Nobody and Anybody.

    I feel really old!

  • Summer festival-goers continue to abandon truckloads of camping gear

    Jump

  • The equivalent tent nowadays would be $600-$1200

    The bottom end is taken over by crap that I wouldn’t let my dog sleep in and the top end are for prosumer/competitive cross country hikers.

    Mid range pricing is either cheap crap (rebranded by scammers) or last years model or expensive product.

    This relates to camping equipment and also hardware and electronics.

  • France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year

    Jump

  • The worse thing* is that now they will all be known as “Australian-style”.

    We used to be known for our electoral system and a variation of the butterfly swimming stroke. Now we will be known for a lame-arse attempt to restrict people’s access to content “for the children”*

    *this is not actually the worse thing about this legislation; it actually puts at-risk children at more risk.

  • Why isn't this website more popular?

    Jump

  • I reckon that is one of the reasons. Lemmy’s (and the entire ActivityPub/Fediverse ecosystem/graph) attracts people with a positive, progressive attitude.

    Advertising is based on passive attitude and thrives on negative attitudes.

    There was a lot of negative being accepted (and sometimes actively pushed) on some instances, but most other instances defederated from them.

  • Why isn't this website more popular?

    Jump

  • Not the only case of this happening; Corporate Social Media providers do not want the Fediverse to succeed at all.

    Instagram (and Fascbook, and WhatsApp, and Threads) all censor references to PixelFed.

    If you cross post, it is best to watermark your photos with your PixelFed address.

  • We still don’t really know what Elon Musk’s DOGE actually did

    Jump

  • Mission Failed Successfully.

    They were sent in to “Move Fast and Break Things”. (AKA ruin everything). They did succeed this goal.

  • oi mates wtf is going on over there

    Jump

  • oi mates wtf is going on over there

    Jump

  • Who knows the second verse of the national anthem?

    (I do) “with boundless plains to share”.

  • Six charged after police allegedly find man and teen travelling with loaded guns in Sydney taxi

    Jump

  • What is a “Encrypted Communication Device”?

    It’s great to see these people caught, but are normal plebs going to be arrested for having Signal on their phone or with a Meshtastic/Meshiliscious device?

    What about a Cyberdeck running Linux?

  • Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done?

    Jump

  • It was a meme that the majority of incidents in DCAU were Rangers; to the point that when the Range Danger special was released, I know a few people who through it was just another episode.

    DCAU is a great resource for learner drivers, to discuss and debate who is primarily at fault and who else contributed to the incident be being an arsehole.

  • me_irl

    Jump

  • I’m sure that adambarta probably doesn’t see that as a problem.

    Maybe he needs to have someone explain the insult to him.

  • Israeli president invited to visit Australia after Bondi shooting

    Jump

  • Because the UN has declared him a War Criminal.

    Hopefully, he is arrested and sent to The Hague.

  • Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done?

    Jump

  • Yeah, I find it hilarious when I see a RAM that is actually being used by a tradie, with two Rhino Boxes and a short stack of Milwaukee PACK-OUTs taking up all the space in the tray, while a Triton parked next to it has an entire workshop of tools.

  • Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done?

    Jump

  • I would rather see more trains on railway tracks and buses with rational routes that service everyone than a single Tesla.

  • Australians Overwhelmingly In Support Of Gun Law Reform

    Jump

  • This is the most rational path forward.

    Unfortunately, the LNP will use the excuse to crack down on immigration, the ALP will use the excuse to crack down on protesters and the Greens will use the excuse to crack down on legitimate gun owners.

  • Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done?

    Jump

  • Time for an anecdote. When Holden were designing the HQ, there was a design paradigm called “Passive Safety”.

    The reasoning was that if the driver did not feel safe driving at speed, they would drive more slowly, and therefore be safer.

    That is why the HQ had narrow A-Pillars that were unfortunately in the wrong position to observe cross traffic and a suspension geometry that caused terminal understeer.

    As terrible as this paradigm was (they reworked the geometry for the HZ) it was vindicated in the 1990s when inexperienced and unskilled Subaru WRX drivers felt so confident in their handling that they would push beyond the capabilities of their vehicles.

    I still believe that deliberately engineered flaws are a terrible idea, but I can tell you that I am ultra careful and ultra aware of the traffic in my tiny little Jimny with bad driver crash ratings and live axles front and rear.

  • Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done?

    Jump

  • ANCAP guidelines are pushing for larger and larger vehicles.

    Crumple Zones, and pedestrian protection add significantly to the size and weight of a vehicles, and negatively impact driver awareness.

    Driver Assistance is OK to provide an extra level of protection, but result in complacency.

    A compact vehicle with good visibility and visceral road awareness will be less destructive on the roads than an oversized SUV with a driver ignoring all the ADAS technology blithely unaware of their surroundings.

    That said, a compact vehicle with unobtrusive ADAS would be even safer.

  • Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done?

    Jump

  • They need to break it down to a Road Levy and a Fuel Levy.

    A 2.5T Tesla Model X should pay more for road maintenance than a 900kg Suzuki Swift.

  • It took years to come up with a plan to cut road deaths, and just 11 days to kill it

    Jump

  • The reason is that there is profit to be made by inefficiency.

    When rail is used, the people who profit are;

    • the sender
    • the recipient
    • the railway company
    • the train drivers
    • the community.

    When Trucks are used, the people who profit are;

    • the petrochemical companies
    • politicians who receive contributions from Petrochemical companies
    • vehicle manufacturers
    • vehicle maintenance providers
    • vehicle parts providers
    • the trucking company
    • politicians who receive contributions from trucking magnates.
    • road maintenance and construction companies.
    • politicians who receive contributions from the construction industry.

    These are all at the expense of;

    • the sender
    • the recipient
    • the community
    • other road users
    • emergency services
    • the poor truck driver who is high-as-kite on amphetamine in order to meet his outrageous deadline.

  • Proposal to allow use of Australian copyrighted material to train AI abandoned after backlash

    Jump

  • This is excellent news.

    The bubble will burst within the next 3 years and our creative heritage would not have been subsumed and given away.

  • camping @sh.itjust.works
    Salvo @aussie.zone

    Vehicle camping at Mueller River, Croajingalong