pdemporg

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by pdemporg 6y ago
The absurdity of this debate is highlighted in the comments section of any newspaper article on Facebook. In them, you'll find real people using their real names, happily displaying to their local community what dreadful people they re
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by pdemporg 6y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26234020
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by pdemporg 6y ago
'Clipless' pedals are so called because the system that preceded them was composed of toe clips and straps. Remove the clips and replace with ski bindings, and voila - clip less pedals!
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by pdemporg 7y ago
That was the way I was taught to think about print vs digital in the bio box --- print degrades gracefully, slowly, while digital fails catastrophically, abruptly. I'm sure this is true of a wider scope of things than just cinema proje
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Australian Government announces response to ACCC digital platforms inquiry [pdf](treasury.gov.au)
2 points by pdemporg 7y ago|0 comments
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Australia's PayID allows enumeration of user's legal name from phone number(abc.net.au)
3 points by pdemporg 7y ago|0 comments
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by pdemporg 7y ago
NR is the only 5G protocol (aside from Verizon's abortive proprietary 5G TF), but it couldn't hurt to at least specify if the spectrum being used is sub-6 or mmWave. This factor (700--3500 Mhz vs 26, 28, 39 GHz) is going to have t
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by pdemporg 7y ago
As sibling commented, Voda is distant third in Australia. The incumbent is Telstra, with ~50% mobile share and was the dominant fixed provider pre-NBN. Telstra's mobile footprint is vastly superior to the other two MNOs in terms of geo
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by pdemporg 7y ago
I may have missed something, but why specifically when paying for petrol? Surely the advice here should be to stop using debit entirely? (Alternatively, choose to use cash now - or you won't have the choice in the future.)
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by pdemporg 7y ago
The fact that most MAC addresses are not visible to the ISP behind NAT anyway is not the point, given the Department is not renowned for doing its homework. The real concern here is the insight provided by this submission into the sort of t
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Australia's Home Affairs department proposes making telcos retain MAC addresses(zdnet.com)
7 points by pdemporg 7y ago|3 comments
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by pdemporg 7y ago
It's worth nothing that Australia has never had the net neutrality debate that occurred in the US. This might well be the spark, if anyone in this country cares. This move would be NBN way overstepping its remit as a last-mile layer-2-
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by pdemporg 7y ago
Whilst the recent events are absolutely appealing, and Doctorow's central thesis is correct, there are a few things I feel the need to correct as an Australian: Firstly, 'Australia is a politically unstable state whose governments
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by pdemporg 8y ago
Unfortunately, probably not. 70mm on a Vic8 already can be prone to tearing if not handled correctly, I wouldn't trust tape splices any faster than 24fps. IMAX already has zig-zag shaped splices to survive the faster film speed of 8 pe
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by pdemporg 9y ago
That is interesting - I guess by using scrypt for passwords you're encouraging crackers not to bother brute forcing (it isn't worth your time), wheras in a cryptocurrency you're actively encouraging that behaviour? Well s
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by pdemporg 9y ago
Thank you for actually engaging! Let me preface this by saying I'm usually the first to deride Bitcoin as a payments platform. However, using energy to mine Bitcoin does provide value to the user - profits over and above what the power
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by pdemporg 9y ago
What a ridiculous article. Household air-conditioning wastes energy. Running your television wastes energy. Serving up webpages for The Guardian is apparently a waste of energy. If the problem is that the price of energy does not encompass