jaza

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by jaza 8d ago
In all except the very least-developed countries in the world today, being without electricity for more than a few days would quickly result in significant lawlessness, starvation, and water shortages. So not an "extinction level event
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by jaza 1mo ago
Also missing (a big chunk of) the Indian Pacific (east to west coast, has passenger services several times a week).
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by jaza 2mo ago
Indeed - the enshittification of the enshittification!
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by jaza 2mo ago
I think the author's main point is bemoaning the loss of human-crafted works (he mentions coding and the paintbrush). (Putting "slaves" in the title is IMHO a poorly worded distraction from that point.) I get it (with coding
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by jaza 2mo ago
When you think about it honestly, we really don't know anything about anything. We don't know how many planets there are in the galaxy (nor in the universe, nor in the multiverse, nor if there is a multiverse). We don't know
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by jaza 2mo ago
Yes! https://thebullshitmachines.com/
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by jaza 2mo ago
https://theshovel.com.au/2025/11/05/electricians-prepare-for...
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by jaza 3mo ago
I rented it from my local Blockbuster-type store back in the 90s ("Civic Video", was one of the bigger chains here in Australia back then), they had maybe 50+ Mega Drive titles at the time, was just random chance that they had tha
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by jaza 3mo ago
I haven't tried Sega games on Switch (and I believe some were available on Wii before that?). But I have also played some of my old games on PC emulators. "Save state" / "load state" is indeed very handy. Keybo
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by jaza 3mo ago
It wasn't to make my old games look good - it was just to make them work, period. I only have a flat-screen TV with digital inputs, I don't have a CRT. The HDMI adapter (which includes the converter / scaler) was about 50 buc
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by jaza 3mo ago
Still got my Mega Drive, purchased circa 1994. Recently brought it back to life with a Level Hike (I know, apparently RAD2x is better, anyway works well enough for me) HDMI adapter (otherwise sadly it doesn't work with new digital-only
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by jaza 3mo ago
Agreed. We enjoyed a decade or more or cheap surplus hardware sitting in data centres, after the dot com crash. Rinse and repeat after the AI bubble bursts in x time from now (my forecast is x = 2-3 years).
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by jaza 5mo ago
Seriously though, we have Star Trek IV to thank in no small part for this amazing humpback comeback success story. Live long and prosper!
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by jaza 5mo ago
Thanks for clarifying, I thought that sounded wrong - otherwise aeroplane engines would have to be "rebuilt", each and every time, after more than half of all international flights in and out of Australia (5000 miles, aka 8000km,
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by jaza 5mo ago
Very punny :P
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by jaza 5mo ago
11ty is my favourite site builder. Hugo is better in terms of dev support / build speed / opinionated simplicity - and I've also used Hugo several times - but quite often I've run into a wall where Hugo isn't flexib
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by jaza 5mo ago
Also sounds a bit like Joel Spolsky's desktop app CityDesk from back in the day.
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by jaza 5mo ago
Check out TinaCMS. Works for editing Hugo sites. Not as nice as WordPress admin, but it's good enough for simple editing tasks.
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by jaza 5mo ago
This. The 11ty sites that I've built (all personal sites that will only ever be edited by me) are all plain HTML, no markdown. 11ty is lovely and bare-bones and un-opinionated.
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by jaza 6mo ago
Yep. Gambling is Australia's version of America's gun problem. We've recently banned kids from social media, yet we're apparently unable to ban gambling ads from kids content. Every time the (various levels of) governmen
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by jaza 7mo ago
My main bank is Commonwealth aka CBA (one of the "big 4" banks here in Australia). For a long time, I held out against installing their mobile app (on Android), and managed fine with their web UI (and with 2FA codes via SMS). Then
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by jaza 8mo ago
Considering that the internet was invented and built from scratch by the US military, US universities, and US companies, why are you surprised? And who do you suggest could or should manage much of the internet backbone, if not them?
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by jaza 9mo ago
Wow, lovely cartography and lovely works of art! And so many cities to choose from!
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by jaza 10mo ago
The (only) people who pay for Windows are corporate managers. Therefore, the main purpose of Windows is to make corporate managers happy. Corporate managers want updates to install promptly, so they can tick their ISO compliance box saying
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by jaza 11mo ago
That's how it was in the good ol Usenet days! Eg alt.tv.simpsons. Not sure how URLs ended up being the other way round.
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by jaza 11mo ago
I would have thought that, in saying "we", OP was referring to all of humanity, rather than just the US and/or the Western world.
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by jaza 11mo ago
Yes! Exactly that - basics of unix - was one of the first-semester courses in my comp sci degree. It has served me well ever since.
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by jaza 11mo ago
You don't pay for RDS because you care about IOPS. You pay for it because you want backups and replication to be somebody else's problem. And because you (by which I mean probably the MBA management above you, rather than you your
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by jaza 11mo ago
Agreed. But I'd also be willing to bet big, that the cycle of "new AI breakthrough is made, AI bubble ensues and hypesters claim AGI is just around the corner for several years, bubble bursts, all quiet on the AI front for a decad
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by jaza 11mo ago
True. We have our gods, same as every other tribe throughout history.

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