Considering that Ethnic Palestinians are the original Semites, and most of the Zionist are “repatriated” jewish people from all around the world, I find it ironic that they claim any sleight against them to be antisemitic.
I think you a both right. Historically, Semites referred to a large cultural group.
Over time, it has become a nonsense word because those cultural groups have become so dilute and diverse that you can’t point at someone and say they are part of that group.
More recently, the label has become misappropriated by some sort of whacky religious nutbaggery so they can oppress other people.
Most psychologists don’t care about Freud’s work outside of a historical sense and kinda hate him as a person. His work was quite literally used as an example of pseudoscience by Karl Popper....
Meanwhile, they are pushing Fixed Mobile on 4G or LTE in place of real fixed Fibre Internet; the incumbents can duopolise the mobile market, but the NBN has levelled the market on fixed Internet, except where the NBN has been sabotaged by the incumbents.
Yes, but the technology doesn’t have as long range.
The higher density signal is able to carry more data at higher speeds, but only for shorter distances.
A loose analogy is the difference between Short Wave radio and Long Wave radio. The BBC World Service can be received around the world, but 3PBS FM can only be received in the inner suburbs of Melbourne.
When we purchased our new house 5 years ago, we had a Tesla PowerWall installed. It came with a Telstra 3G SIM card and when they installed it, I told them to connect it via Ethernet. The technician refused, saying that it has 3G and doesn’t need to be connect to the home network at all.
I received a text from Tesla this morning, telling me that our PowerWall will not be covered by warranty when Telstra kill 3G at the end of next month.
I then received an email from Tesla (that looked like Spam).
I then receive a phone call from Tesla.
I mentioned that I don’t have WiFi coverage in my garage and they told me to move my router. I told them that I instructed the technician to connect via Ethernet originally and they said that I would need to get the technician back out to connect it.
I am not allowed to plug Ethernet into it without voiding warranty and I need to plug Ethernet into it to prevent the warranty from being void.
It is insane that the installing sparky ran three-phase power to the location but doesn’t bother running some twisted pair for Ethernet at the same time.
We had to fight with the installer to have our Solar Inverter connected to Ethernet, even though there was a cable already in place. Unfortunately we won the fight for the Inverter but lost the fight for the PowerWall.
I know that at least one Manufacturer who is deprioritising warranty claims on “smart” Car Charger wallboxes unless they were connected by Ethernet at the time of installation.
Yep. Our builder gave the electricians the incorrect plans.
They had to come back to run the electrical extra cables so we had some gaping holes in the plasterboard in the two master bedrooms. That was the least of our problems…
Don’t get me wrong, the PowerWall has been great for the last 4 years, It is just that the subcontracting technicians didn’t want to do any more work than the bare minimum, even though it was negligible extra effort.
That said, since Musk has severely gone off the rails and still has controlling interest in the Company, I would be hesitant to trust anything that comes out from the North American operations.
The problem is that all the other aftermarket battery backup technologies (that I know about from 3 year old research) are either inferior to the PowerWall in every way, or need to be manufactured bespoke for the Australian market.
There are legitimate uses for vehicle telemetry being stored by the vehicle and uploaded to the manufacturer.
Identifying unexpected behaviour under certain driving conditions and being able to contact emergency services in an accident are two important examples. Remote diagnosis in the case of a breakdown is another.
None of these uses include selling the data to third parties or using the data to create a profile of the vehicle owner.
There is a difference between destroying looms, corrupting LLMs by feeding bad data and causing an uprising like the Butlerian Jihad of Dune or the Second Renaissance of The Matrix.
Australia’s prime minister has labelled X’s owner, Elon Musk, an “arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law” as the rift deepens between Australia and the tech platform over the removal of videos of a violent stabbing in a Sydney church....
It is currently the only domestic retail industry. Previously, there was automotive, but over time, the secondary automotive manufacturing (parts and components) was outsourced overseas (because it was cheaper by cents-in-the-dollar), which was the beginning of the end.
The building industry is still supporting the secondary industries of building materials. Forestry, plaster/concrete/brick manufacturing and other bulk industries rely on builders to stay solvent, so they do get a fair bit of leeway.
With the cessation of the Home Owners Grants and other corporate welfare, the builders Ponzi schemes are starting to collapse and the national economy cannot afford another major fizzling out of another major industry. Builders can’t squeeze their suppliers any more, so the only way they can continue is to rip-off their retail customers.
There are a lot of Easter-eggs like that in the Icons sets. The Blacksmith and Soldiers in the Blacksmith Cottage 21325 are the same individuals as those in the 3in1 creator castle 31120 (except older). There is also a Couple in some of the City sets with baby who go camping with their son in the 3in1 Creator Caravan 31108.
Everyday thoughts (lemmy.ml)
Investors with questions: how a ‘clean food’ farm scheme born of Covid vaccine fears descended into rancour (www.theguardian.com)
Saving people is illegal (lemmy.ml)
'I don't think it's that hard': The former cop who says he knows how to save more domestic violence victims (www.abc.net.au)
Why do non-psychologists talk so much about Freud?
Most psychologists don’t care about Freud’s work outside of a historical sense and kinda hate him as a person. His work was quite literally used as an example of pseudoscience by Karl Popper....
The government ordered an investigation into last year's Optus outage. Now its findings are in (www.abc.net.au)
The report found a key cause of the outage was a problem with Optus’s 3G network....
Daily discussion thread: 🍂 Monday, April 29, 2024
How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me) (www.nytimes.com)
Australian prime minister labels Elon Musk ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’ (www.theguardian.com)
Australia’s prime minister has labelled X’s owner, Elon Musk, an “arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law” as the rift deepens between Australia and the tech platform over the removal of videos of a violent stabbing in a Sydney church....
Are Homebuyers Getting Scammed…We Returned to the $2M Disaster (ft. FriendlyJordies) (www.youtube.com)
I'd consider buying a Fisker car if the software/firmware was open source
I wouldn’t be as worried about them going out of business and me being stuck with half broken car software.
Microsoft will now urge you to ditch local accounts on Windows 10 (www.xda-developers.com)
Daily Discussion Thread: 🦥 Fri 19 Apr 2024
don't I recognize you from somewhere? you're so familiar... (lemmy.world)
I mean, c’mon, he’s a dead ringer for the classic dark forestmen. not that I’m complaining, can always use more medieval characters!