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WaterWaiver

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I once met a person that never drank water, only soft drinks. It's not the unhealthiness of this that disturbed me, but the fact they did it without the requisite paperwork.

Unlike those disorganised people I have a formal waiver. I primarily drink steam and crushed glaciers.

  • Blaring sirens on smartphones to warn Australians of major disasters under emergency alerts overhaul

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  • Some places in the world probably abuse it for non-emergencies. Imagine the reach for marketing!

  • lightbulbs

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  • plus a phosphorus layer on top that smooths those two perfect lightwave color peaks in the wavelength domain into a broader light spectrum

    The phosphor absorbs some of the blue and downconverts it to green and red. Some of the blue is let through for us to see. The mixture of R, G and B looks like white to us (but not necessarily to other animals with different cones in their eyes).

    2 kinds of light emiting diode (LED) junctions inside - red and blue

    I've never seen a red LED die inside a white LED. I've only ever seen blue dies on their own.

    Technically UV-pumped white LEDs exist, but they're rare and I've never seen one. They're less efficient and require a third phosphor (to make the blue).

    You can remove the yellowish looking phosphors on the LED with a small pick to reveal the blue die underneath. Fun fact: some high-power "red" LEDs are actually blue leds + phosphors, not that it's a particularly good choice but it's a thing: https://halestrom.net/darksleep/blog/018_led_cob_cutting/

  • Shikaku of the Day [2026-02-01]

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  • Master was easy (18 mins), still stuck on the expert one though. My solutions almost work :(

  • The copyrightability of fonts revisited: Matthew Butterick

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  • Site seems offline now, says "Closed Jan 30th"

  • One flash, one packet?

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  • Something to be wary of when interpreting the datasheet:

    • Act10 = LED blinking when Ethernet packets transmitted/received at 10Mbps.
    • Act100 = ...
    • Act1000 = ...

    Bad wording on their part. What they really mean is: "LED blinking when Ethernet packets transmitted/received AND the link is currently in a XYZMbps link speed mode". The mode is negotiated once after you plug a cable in and usually does not change after that, regardless of how much data you try to send.

    Technically each linkspeed/mode is a whole ethernet standard of its own, but we mostly gloss over that and pretend to end users that they're backwards compatible.

  • A new look for Snikket on Android

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  • Similar here.

    Family is mostly OK on it. We used to have issues with iOS devices not noticing some new messages & calls, but that seems to have stopped a few months ago. Family is usually impatient about me getting to my phone and rings me using 3 different services in a row, one of them Snikket xD

    Have not yet managed to get any friends onto it.

  • OpenWRT router

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  • Thing is, its EOL, per Asus. Does this mean that it won’t be supported on OpenWRT for much longer?

    OpenWRT tends to support devices longer and better than the OEM, but it depends on the popularity of the chipset inside the router.

    Many different routers by different companies are almost identical internally, because they use the same chipset. Eg the RT-AC3100 seems to be a bcm53xx variant, of which OpenWRT supports a few dozen products. Support will probably only be dropped when every single one of those devices goes EOL and several years pass (ie no people left contributing/maintaining it and the builds break somehow).

    Router chipsets can be very long lived. Many new devices use decade old chipset designs. Some chipset families have almost identical chips released every few years with slightly different peripherals, clocks & pinouts; but are supported by the same kernel drivers.

    (This is all much better than the world of mobile phone hardware support. Maybe it's because of different market pressures? Not to mention you don't have a monopoly that benefits from keeping the hardware fractured. Imagine if people could make a competitor to Android that works across most devices out there)

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    Australian electric car market to get influx of new models as cheaper EVs hit the road

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  • Size is the interesting bit for me.

    • Honda Super-ONE is a kei car
    • BYD atto (the "$24K" one) is bigger, but not by too much.

  • static thir(ule)st

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  • I wish the backrooms were real. The monsters are no match for realestate agents, so it'd be pretty safe to rent.

  • Wireguard over IPv6

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  • As far as I understand, wireguard is designed so that it can't be portscanned. Replies are never sent to packets unless they pass full auth.

    This is both a blessing and a curse. It unfortunately means that if you misconfigure a key then your packets get silently ignored by the other party, no error messages or the likes, it's as if the other party doesn't exist.

    EDIT: Yep, as per https://www.wireguard.com/protocol/

    In fact, the server does not even respond at all to an unauthorized client; it is silent and invisible.

  • It is tragic

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  • It's completely off screen :(

  • When you find the silver bullet 😊

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  • This is very true for electronics. Days of reading garbage ai-written websites, 5-times regurgitated information and scientific papers that might solve your problem but are pages of complex equations (spoiler: every time I've put the effort into decoding such a paper I've found it to be useless, often due to the author misunderstanding the problem they describe in their intro or bad assumptions). Finally you strike upon a badly scanned copy of a document from the 80's from a company that doesn't exist any more describing exactly what your problem is and how to solve it in a simple manner.

  • These platforms are currently exempt from the under-16s social media ban. But that could all change

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  • What's your power? Choose wisely.

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  • I have too many questions about how the teleportation works, like what happens if you instantly (or over a small time t) transition from one location's air pressure to another?

  • Name your favourite prehistoric tree.

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  • Had no idea about this, ty. Usually my local bees enter a drug-fueled rolling-around state inside my magnolia flowers (it's a sight to behold), will have to watch and see if any beetles also visit mine.

  • Name your favourite prehistoric tree.

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  • I do not think a single one of your photos shows flowers or spores. Prude!

    Cycads? Disgusting.

    As a Magnolia man I'm feeling left out.

    EDIT: Just showed my mum, she agrees on every point, including Cycads being gross. "Tell them I'm on the warpath and I'm coming after you"

  • The Bureau of Meteorology's new site is doing great

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  • Ditto. I don't block any captchas though.

    I wanted to complain about how hard it was to find the forecasts. At the time it required clicking through unrelated items, they have changed it now. Tried to give feedback and was then chucked in the bin.

  • Club Gombe (2025-10-15)

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  • New BoM website has rolled out

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  • Also tried giving feedback, pile of errors and wouldn't accept it.

  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    abc.net.au/news/?future=false no longer works

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ca
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    Drive Though Supermarket Concepts (3 videos)

  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    Don't send that Plutonium guy to jail

  • Pictures @aussie.zone
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    Found a small cave under my house

  • Ask Science @lemmy.world
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    Air conditioner efficiency: what do they change other than using more materials?

  • Aussie Enviro @aussie.zone
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    Bushcare at Wolli Creek: Met a turtle