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by shirro 5y ago
I wish it was Google search that was dying. I suspect the problem is a decline in good quality self published text. There are adversaries gaming the algorithm and pushing low quality results as alsways and they seem to be thoroughly winning
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by shirro 5y ago
I like running my own mail server but I don't want to waste time on filtering spam so mismatches with ptr and hostname are an instant rejection from me. A PTR match is a very strong signal that I am looking at a hosted server or busine
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by shirro 5y ago
When Exchange hosting which is just about every business in Australia it seems (and possibly outlook.com and 365) blocked a huge range of IPs, a lot of people went to IP blocklist searches and saw the only entry was UCEPROTECT3 and connecte
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by shirro 5y ago
My main issue is one big US company which has history of engaging in monopolistic practces. They blocked a huge range of Linode IP space in December/January including one of my servers which has a totally clean record, supports every i
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by shirro 5y ago
We have returned to "You never get fired for buying IBM" but with various cloud services and layers of abstraction, profit taking, obfuscation and performance penalties. I am too old to care. I run my family servers to keep my ski
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by shirro 5y ago
I would buy a well ported full version (not an electron wrapped web version). Microsoft do have software available for Linux including their Edge browser. We used their Linux native MS Teams during lockdown which worked but sadly is electro
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by shirro 5y ago
Lived in a student accommodation (pre-mobile but after most rotary dialers) which had a phone for receiving incoming calls which had no touchpad or dialer on it to "prevent" students making calls but otherwise was an ordinary line
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by shirro 5y ago
Hedging bets is fine but there is a lot of money and influence using nuclear to muddy the climate debate and reframe the the issue as nuclear power vs greens/environmentalists. People should be aware of how the debate is being manipula
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by shirro 5y ago
Nuclear is one of a number of alternatives that needs to be seriously considered but due to the long timelines and high costs of nuclear it is also one of the best stalling tactics for the fossil fuel industry seeking to extend the life of
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by shirro 5y ago
I don't know if it is documented or not but I would swear Asimov had aphantasia. When I was younger reading him was a revelation after getting bogged down in long winded books full of visual description which just felt like needless ba
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by shirro 5y ago
Nearly 2s for a shell startup is ridiculous. I am starting to understand why the Apple fans are so excited about clawing back some performance with M1. My bash login shell is under 40ms on this cheap 4 year old i5 laptop. People must load s
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by shirro 5y ago
I can mostly scan the South Australian ones on the move and as the article says they appear to be simpler. The main problem with fast scanning is selecting one at the right height. Often the first I encounter is placed at waist level for wh
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by shirro 5y ago
Not justifying excessive use of violence my the Victorian police. There have been incidents by individuals and must be properly dealt with. If being thrown to the ground and sat on is a bad as it got for illegal protests during a public hea
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by shirro 5y ago
There have been emergency health measures in place in a couple of states but most states have very few restrictions. Australians pay much less for health care than most places and our health system is run very lean so we have to be cautious
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by shirro 5y ago
No, everyone, everywhere thinks lockdowns suck. They have them because they thought it was better than the alternative. Not sure if it has though because they have gone on so long. The other states have done everything they can to keep kids
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by shirro 5y ago
I regret throwing out all my old computers and magazines. I was never a hoarder but I should have kept my first 8 bit micro, the first PC I bought to run Linux, my first linux disk set, the BYTE magazines and others.
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by shirro 5y ago
Never knew how far earthquakes travelled. I guess everyone else on the planet knows but I didn't realise you could feel them in a different state until today. And this wasn't even a big one compared to what they get all the time i
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by shirro 5y ago
We don't get big ones with high frequency as we are not on a tectonic boundary. No active volcanoes either. There are faults and stresses within the continental plate but they mainly produce smaller earthquakes with lower frequency but
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by shirro 5y ago
Seemed like a reasonable comment but thanks to jschlatter posting a link to the youtube report history in a comment here I have been able to verify every single video I have reported in the last few days has been deleted. So it does make
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by shirro 5y ago
Excellent. Good to see all the ones I reported have been removed. That gives me a lot more confidence in the reporting mechanism. Youtube is obviously dealing with a considerable volume of these. I still wonder if I am being used as a mecha
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by shirro 5y ago
I reported crypto scams targeting a spacex audience many times over the last week. Reported as misleading/scam and do not recommend channel. Would refresh the front page and would get another scam in first position. Either Youtube is u
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by shirro 5y ago
A lot of people on the Internet aren't so much pro-democracy as anti-government. Strong competent democratic government must be a challenge to their view of the world. Personally I would prefer a competent democracy to mob rule or the
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by shirro 5y ago
Used in the US and around the world for cholera and typhoid as well. For many years. There are a lot ruins of old quarantine facilities and several islands around New York were used for the purpose. People don't understand how isolated
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by shirro 5y ago
Yes, mostly they do support to varying degrees. The current SA state government has increased in popularity over their handling of the pandemic. Popularity doesn't make something right of course and there are people who disagree but I
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by shirro 5y ago
The Australian federal government has introduced wide ranging warrantless powers that allow for a lot of potential abuse of computers and communications. These have had bi-partisan support and been rushed through parliament with very little
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by shirro 5y ago
NASA keep calling SLS block 1 a moon rocket and it can't land anything on the moon either. All it can do is transfer crew to a halo orbit and back. And Orion clearly isn't a very capable vehicle for satellite refurbishing. Without
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by shirro 5y ago
Inspiration 4, the private mission scheduled to launch next week, will be the furthest a manned mission has gone from earth since the last space shuttle Hubble servicing mission over a decade ago. Hubble is only about 100km higher than ISS.
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by shirro 5y ago
Crypto currency is a blight on the world.
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by shirro 5y ago
My kids have their school attendance recorded in a government database every day. Some people aren't thinking very rationally. Using social media and the Internet in general give up far more information and for very little in return. T
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by shirro 5y ago
There is a lack of good documentation but that is not the whole story. Both the Gnome and KDE desktops have a huge amount of software running on them despite the barriers. Writing for a modern native GUI strongly favours an OO language like

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