Zagorath

Zagorath, 15 days ago

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Zagorath, 15 days ago

Wtf kind of Randian hellscape nonsense is this? They should be allowed to charge double to exploit people who are already disadvantaged by the way other companies are treating them? Fuck this nonsense.

Go create your own bear-infested village somewhere nobody with any morals has to live near you. But this time do it from scratch rather than ruining things for the people already living there.

Zagorath, 15 days ago

Interesting. This is certainly not the first time there have been markdown parsing inconsistencies between clients on Lemmy, the most obvious example being subscript and ^superscript^, especially when multiple words ^get used^ or you use ^reddit ^style ^(superscript text).

But yeah, checking just now on Jerboa you’re right, it does display correctly the way you did it. I first saw it on the web in lemmy-ui, which doesn’t display it properly, unless you use the triple backticks.

Zagorath, 16 days ago

My problem with “blocking” on many platforms is that all it does is mean you don’t see their comments. But if they can still see yours and reply to them, you leave yourself at a disadvantage where to outsiders it may seem as though you had no response, and thus they appear to have “won”.

Zagorath, 16 days ago

This is particularly bad because Queens Wharf Rd has been closed for the construction of the mega-casino since 2017, making it very difficult to get into the CBD by bike from the Bicentennial Bikeway, the most heavily-trafficked bikeway in the city.

And since 2022, the nearest bikeway ramp was also closed due to Metro construction. So this lift has, for the last 2 years, been the only way to get into the CBD by bike anywhere close to Victoria Bridge & Queen St. And it’s insanely unreliable.

And of course the LNP Councillors would rather spend effort blaming vandals than actually addressing the underlying problem: that the lift itself is essential due to a lack of other options.

Zagorath, 16 days ago

At the very beginning I had to switch from ABP to uBO. I actually used ABP specifically because I wanted to allow through some non-obtrusive ads, because I think it’s morally right to let companies make a profit if they’re not being overly obnoxious about it, and ABP’s Acceptable Ads policy is great for that. Unfortunately ABP was slower to implement something to avoid YouTube’s fuckery, so I switched to uBO. Google has shot themselves in the foot because now instead of a small number of ads getting through, none do.

Zagorath, 16 days ago

I think what @i_love_FFT means is that on the Ottoman map you kinda get France, and then directly on the coastline right north of France you get Jutland. It’s sorta like if you took Europe and did a ripple cut to remove the Netherlands out of it.

Zagorath, 16 days ago

string theory lied to us

Zagorath, 16 days ago

Have you watched her latest video? Or more importantly, have you read the comments under it? The amount of irony in how many of them don’t understand the entire video was (as one of the few comments that actually got it said) “a 1 hour video of pure deadpan sarcasm” in a video about people not getting the point of an earlier video. It’s just a hilarious time.

Zagorath, 16 days ago

Yeah it’s sad, because antisemitism absolutely is a real thing and it should be stamped out. But at this point I’ve becoming primed to assume any accusation of antisemitism is actually a lie attempting to cover up criticism Israel’s war crimes and genocide.

Zagorath, 17 days ago

I thought it was whinging about the dumb premise Jeopardy half-heartedly uses…

Zagorath, 17 days ago

By definition, “warm blooded” means “produce their own heat” (obviously drastically simplified). I don’t think it matters whether the coconut is on a deserted island or on the shelf at Woollies, it’s still not warm blooded.

Zagorath, 17 days ago

Mammals aren’t “living organisms with fur and milk”. They’re “the most recent common ancestor of the echidna and the cat, and anything descended from that”.

Zagorath, 17 days ago

The actual definition is “monotremes and placental mammals”. I just picked one of each.

Zagorath, 17 days ago

Maybe you’re right that ultimately they were not on the correct plan and Cloudflare was right to make them move. I don’t know enough about Cloudflare’s different plans to say. But what I do know is that:

When we told them we were also in talks with Fastly, they suddenly “purged” all our domains

Is utterly indefensible anticompetitive behaviour. So is a 24 hour ultimatum for a 40x increase in cost. I don’t care if they were on the free plan and should have been on enterprise. If the ToS violation isn’t actively causing harm to the public, any adjustment should be done with sufficient notice that arrangements can actually be made. 30 days seem s reasonable.

Zagorath, 17 days ago

I think you’re conflating a couple of different things here.

just have a Bluetooth radio and that’s it

and

I like to have actual buttons

These are two separate issues. The former, in my view, deals largely with what is seen as an extraneous or even potentially unwanted set of features. Especially in so much as cars are quite famously some of the worst devices people own in terms of keeping their data private and secure. Better to have a car that doesn’t collect that data in the first place, and just sticks to being a car that goes vroom. Or whirrrrr, as the case may be with an EV. But there are advantages to the more advanced features too. Navigation, lane assist, adaptive cruise control, etc. Whether you want the features or not is an entirely personal decision.

But this is not the same as the question of how you interface with the car. Yes, more advanced features are probably going to require a more complicated UI, maybe including a touch screen, though centre console knobs can achieve the same.

But the core of this criticism, I think, is about whether you can keep your eyes on the road while driving. And that means that you should be able to do the core things related to driving: steer, accelerate, brake, indicate, turn on/off lights (including high beam), and adjust wiper settings all from the steering wheel. And secondary but important frequently-accessed settings like AC temperature, radio volume, radio channel/mode, and turning on/off cruise control should be doable using physical knobs and buttons, though these may be located in the centre console. The important thing here is that even if some more advanced features do exist to be interacted with via touch screen, they don’t have to mean (and shouldn’t mean) the important driving-critical features are only available via a dangerous touch screen.

Zagorath, 17 days ago

The problem with smart TVs is they’re just straight up worse than dumb TVs, even when not connected. Old school TVs turn on and start showing you TV in a few seconds. Smart TVs take tens of seconds every time you try to turn them on.

Zagorath, 16 days ago

Source on that one? That’d be almost a millennium before Norsemen arrived in Greenland, which was a pretty huge journey at that time. Getting to the Caribbean—without coming across via Greenland & Canada, for which there would surely be evidence, would be a much larger step than anything else going on at the time.

Zagorath, 16 days ago

The post says “known to” rather than “visited”, though it’s not clear what that actually means.

But there’s very little in the way of written evidence of the Suomi until way, way more recently than the Roman Empire. It makes sense that they wouldn’t be particularly interested in an area that was sparsely populated, not technically sophisticated, and had little in the way of then-usable resources.

Zagorath, 17 days ago

(A⇒B)⇏(B⇒A)

Zagorath, 18 days ago

Feels like a highly cynical move this close to an election. It might help them sure up some votes from the Greens, and it’ll provide them a bludgeon they can use when the LNP wins and inevitably chooses to declare the trial a failure.

From the other angle, 50 c is an interesting figure. I saw Jonathan Sriranganathan point out on Facebook that at this point, it would probably be cheaper (to the Government) to just make it free. There’s no way 50 c per trip is enough to cover the cost of fare enforcement alone. Other commenters suggested it could be important that it not be free to force people to tap on, to allow for recording data to decide whether or not the trial was successful. It could also be the case that they’ll quietly wind back enforcement during this period.

Still, cynicism and criticism of the extent of it aside, this is fantastic. It’s a huge step in the right direction, and they should be praised for being willing to do that. It’s a bit frustrating that public transport can take as much as 3 times as long as driving, outside of peak hour, but I’ll be making an effort to use it more often during this trial period; partly because it genuinely is much cheaper, but mostly just because I want to contribute to the trial’s success.

Zagorath, 17 days ago

I do think charging $1 instead of 50c would be better, and put on additional routes and services

Politics doesn’t work that way. If they had reduced the cost to $1 instead of $0.50, it wouldn’t have meant any increase in services, because increasing services would require hiring more staff, training them, figuring out which routes to increase service on, doing consultation, etc. etc. etc. It’s a long and complicated process. All the extra 50 c would have done is put more money in government coffers.

In the long term, eh, yeah, maybe you’re right. Honestly I doubt it, because the difference in revenue from that extra 50 c is tiny anyway and we’d need to find so much extra money from elsewhere that we might as well find it all from elsewhere (I suggest the road widening budget!). But it’s at least a debate that could be had. But for a 6-month snap-announced trial, there’s no debate, that would just be straight-up worse.

Zagorath, 16 days ago

which is why the moon rises and sets twice a day

It…but…that’s…

Huh?

Zagorath, 18 days ago

without base generation

A myth.