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Dave.

@ dgriffith @aussie.zone

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I'm a technical kinda guy, doing technical kinda stuff.

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  • Check and see if they can be hooked up to home assistant. If they can, and they expose start/stop functionality, then you can ask HA to start and stop them for you.

    Then you don't have to deal with the awful app/UI/external cloud server that they usually use.

  • AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit

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  • This is just the cost of doing business for Anthropic.

    No particular material harm to the business. Declare the matter settled, everything is fine and dandy, and now they have carte blanche to rape and pillage the next village dataset.

  • Putting HDDs to sleep

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  • I found with my QNAP NAS that even just sitting the case on a piece of styrofoam made it considerably quieter. A lot of vibration gets transmitted through the feet and whatever it sits on gets turned into a sounding board.

  • WTF, Harris Farm

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  • and they're basically stealing 1c.

    If you buy 3 x 99 cent items you steal 2 cents from the poor starving shopowners.

    So make sure you stick it to the man by buying more! That'll teach them!

  • Gun enthusiast who told police 'we are coming for you' faces jail

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  • I approve of the course of action taken here by the courts. This isn't ragging on opponents in Call Of Duty, if you directly call someone - a police inspector, FFS - and threaten them, well, you're going to get a response that you probably won't like.

    Acting Inspector Walker told the caller, "Well, f***ing come on then" before ending the call.

    I especially approve of this response.

  • How would you propose we actually combat climate change?

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  • Geoengineering is probably the only way to counteract things now.

    But that involves fucking around with the bottom of our food chain in the oceans so there's obviously a good deal of reluctance to start down that path.

  • Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air

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    • Algorithm shows a preview of a chaotic scene where the content isn't easily identified.
    • You open / interact / linger on it to figure out what is happening before identifying it as something you don't want to look at.
    • Algorithm detects increased interaction and happily serves up more.

    I play a little game with Instagram sometimes. I click on one (1) thirst trap bikini girl post in the search reel. Then I see how many times I have to press the little 3 dot menu and pick "not interested" on allllll the other thirst trap bikini girl posts that immediately appear.

    I generally have to press "not interested" about 15 times before my feed reverts to only having bikini girl thirst traps once every 20 or so posts.

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  • Does anyone actually hate systemd?

    It's a little too monolithic and kitchen-sink-including for my liking. It doesn't feel like the "do one thing and do it well" style, it has a pretty large attack surface as a result.

    Oh, and binary log files.

  • 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed

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  • English readily absorbs both the best and worst of all the other languages. If some other language has a word that really hits the mood of even just a small amount of English speakers - bam! - it's English now, motherfucker!

    Add to this, it's chock-full of complicated and often hidden rules that can - or absolutely cannot - be broken, depending on context. No wonder people learning it as a second language have that permanently confused look on their face.

  • 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed

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  • The thing about the English language is that you can verb any noun you like and get away with it. Just like I did in the previous sentence.

  • Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones

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  • You missed a thorn in your reply there in your first paragraph.

    And as an aside, sprinkling them throughout your reply heavily reduces the impact of your message. It's a decoding stumble for most English readers who look at word shapes when parsing sentences.

    So while it might be your thang - or perhaps you're Icelandic and they're just leaking through - it's probably better to stick with th if you want to get your point across.

  • More frozen shrimp recalled for possible radioactive contamination

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  • That's better, but it's still a mystery. Cs-137 sources should be rigorously stored, even in density gauges they are permanently inside a capsule with a shutter that turns the beam "on and off". It's not like you have a chunk of Cs-137 rattling around in a drawer somewhere (or worse, somehow in powered form that gets all over the inside of a shipping container) but that sounds like that's been the case here.

    It's not the first time one of these sources has come loose though - there was a capsule lost on 1400km of highway in Western Australia a little while ago.

  • More frozen shrimp recalled for possible radioactive contamination

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  • Cs-137 is used in industrial density gauges. You want to measure the density of a liquid in a pipe? A radioactive source on one side, a detector on the other, easy-peasy.

    Now how the fuck a controlled substance escapes from its highly encapsulated and supposedly-well-tested-and-regularly-inspected compartment and gets into your food, well that's something else to ponder.

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  • The smaller end is RJ12, the bigger end is RJ45.

    The question is, what are you trying to do with it? RJ12 is/was typically used for telephone connections, RJ45 for Ethernet. Generally speaking, they don't mix.

    If your plan is to connect a computer to a RJ12 socket on the wall, that's not going to work. If you've been told the socket on the wall is "the internet", you're likely going to need a modem in between that socket and your computer.

  • Why Can’t the U.S. Build 5-Minute E.V. Chargers? Chinese automakers have rolled out chargers that can mostly recharge a car’s battery in about five minutes. Yet U.S. technology lags far behind.

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  • If you want to recharge a full 300-mile Li-Ion battery in 5 minutes, you need to supply 1200 kW (1.2 MW) of power.

    Which is why cloning the traditional centralised ICE refuelling station concept doesn't work with EVs.

    The United States struggles with 4.8 kW home chargers and 150 kW superchargers.

    With an average daily usage of 20kWh for a 60 mile commute in a mix of stop and go and highway traffic, a 4.8 kW charger can top off your EV battery at home in 4 hours. A 2kW charger can do it in 10 hours.

    That's the mindset that needs to change. You shouldn't have to visit an external charging station every few days to cram another 100kWh of power into your battery. You put a charge into your battery at home every night. It's fully charged again every morning for your commute. The mega charging stations are then only used for long distance travel.

    So, just like we built ICE refuelling stations dotted all over the place, we need to put in the infrastructure for localised EV charging at homes. Colder climates have the advantage already, as parking lots are already full of engine block heater connections and in a lot of euro countries they're used for EV charging. It can be done, it's just a change.

  • Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Classic review: Yes, it really is worth $500

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  • Waiting patiently for the arrival of my pebble time 2 with its moderate array of features and its 21+ day battery life.

  • Reddit blocking web search

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  • They'll have a nice snapshot of data up until about 2021 and then it'll just be garbage.

  • Reddit blocking web search

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  • Changing the URL to old.reddit.com gets around this, until they eventually give up on the old design.

  • Sami Tikkanen on Rust, and on the dangerous push by Canonical to rewrite GNU coreutils in it (without the GNU license)

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  • A lot of presumption:

    will surely be

    If the Rust version becomes popular

    It probably will

    the Rust people will start pushing

    They will most probably also

    Does not a solid conclusion make:

    That way. the Linux userland becomes even more broken than it already is because now we have again two incompatible sets of...

  • The AUKUS Submarine Deal is Dead - The US can’t provide the submarines. The UK can neither make up for the shortfall nor co-develop such a submarine in a reasonable timeframe

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