There are no changes to the nbn wholesale pricing of these speed tiers arising from the speed increases.

Interesting, but how will this affect the price for end users? There are other fees charged to the ISPs too?

I am suspicious because NBNco only mentions wholesale pricing in this article, not end user pricing. They would have modelled it and then chosen not to talk about it. They might not technically be the entity finally billing you, but they’re responsible for strong and direct impacts on what users pay.

It’s not land banking. It’s land investment. We’re making the land better, more luscious, stronger.

reap children

Perfect dark has a fan PC port that’s really good. I couldn’t stand it on console (low fps made me motionsick) but it was a hoot when I played it on PC. https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/perfect_dark

or simply inconveniencing them though

Screwing. 100% screwing.

An inconvenience is not being able to get someone on the phone in minutes or hours. Screwing is making someone spend days, weeks or months trying to get you on the phone and navigate a system that’s supposed to help them, not hurt them.

My dad isn’t at pension age yet and has been struggling the last few years whilst being a full time carer of my grandmother. It has often taken days to weeks of calling to get through and weeks to months get things approved.

Whereas, there are so many services we have that are for ACTUAL emergencies, and require fast service, where the money would save lives.

You have this so backwards.

Centrelink saves lives. Support saves lives. Welfare saves lives.

If you don’t support people then they end up having to use the emergency services. Is it cheaper to support people before the need emergency services rather than after. You can’t house all the unemployed, disabled, pensioners, veterans (and other people I’ve probably forgotten) in emergency wards, these people don’t magically end up fed, housed and cared for if make Centrelink and related services a nightmare to deal with.

My dad has been keeping my grandmother out of hospital. She’s now in a nursing home, funded mostly by government, that is keeping her out of hospital. It is extremely costly to put her in a hospital bed.

This would have been even more troll with a 0% answer, because that would add another layer of paradox.

The actual quantities are pretty small

In pure, stable form, yes. A hundred or so grams released in my house won’t be noticed or cause any problems.

But a few hundred grams of burnt fluorine hydrocarbons? 😬 That’s a whole other story.

Most modern domestic fridges stick with a plain hydrocarbon refrigerant anyway (akin to butane) these days.

I’m yet to see R600a in Australian domestic fridges, I thought we were lagging in that department? Can you just get them at retailers now?

if you’ve got burning refrigerant there are much bigger problems going on seeing as the refrigerant circuit is hermetically sealed

Strong disagree xD Inhaling burning fluorine compounds > fridge not cooling any more

That kind of thing would also provoke a product safety recall.

I’m not diagnosing the most likely cause of a normal fridge failure, but considering some interesting causes that align with the unusual scenario depicted in the article. Don’t panic, I’m not going to go all “fridge bad” on you.

Could be burning refrigerant (some are flammable AND fluorinated).

A lot of phone modems ship with their own SoC (processor) running its own OS. It’s much smaller and slower than the main phone SoC but, depending on its implementation, it can have full access to all of your main processor’s memory through DMA.

Replacing a TCP socket with a UNIX socket doesn’t affect the amount of headers you have to parse.

Sorry to hear you’re feeling crap.

I’m having trouble looking for work for the past few months. Very few replies, the first “no” I got actually made me feel a bit more human.

I’m convinced that some of the jobs I’ve applied for or enquired about are not real or just for external-advertising-before-hire requirements. I’ve gotten some rude responses after daring to ask questions (eg: jobs funded by research money tend to have fixed funding start dates that might not be for another several months). Most straight up ignore me.

An old boss of mine thinks that my CV isn’t conforming and mundane enough, so I’m giving his suggestions a go.

What sort of work are you looking at? I design electronics and get into arguments with computers.

I honestly didn’t read it

Please read it.

Something weird https://ace-ev.com.au/

• Claim to be “made in Australia”
• Don’t provide any photos of their production line or factory.
• Underpowered (max speed 100kmph)

Perhaps imported and then assembled in Australia?

“Eat now, …” is terribly depressing. It sounds like you’re trading financial autonomy in exchange for another basic human right.

File I’m printing: A4 PDF
Default printer setting in Windows: A4
Default setting on printer itself: A4
Setting that gets chosen automatically in the print dialog: Letter

The one real risk is that it’s a respiratory depressant and that it’s LD 50 is only a few tens of times a standard dose

The article claims it’s much closer than that:

Experts and festival-goers agreed on the likely cause of GHB’s disproportionate overdose burden.

“As little as 1 millilitre difference can tip you from what you’re looking for to what you’re not looking for,” Daniel Fatovich, chief investigator of EDNA, told Hack.

I tried to find some stuff to back this up. The “therapeutic index” is probably what I’m after (ratio of effective dose to dangerous dose), despite this technically not being a therapeutic use.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8843350/ - The narrow therapeutic index of GHB renders its use hazardous with poisoning or toxicity not uncommon with small titration of doses.

Thats… annoyingly nonspecific. A number for the T.I. would be a good educational tool.

This paper claims its around 5:1 to 8:1:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4462042/ - Mortality rates after abuse of GHB are high, because there is only a narrow safety margin between a recreational dose and a fatal dose, which is only 5:1 to 8:1 [4-8]. Accordingly, accidental poisoning after recreational use of GHB is not uncommon as evidenced by admissions to hospital emergency departments for treatment [9, 10] and during forensic medical investigations of drug intoxication deaths [11-14].

Someone else in the comments here mentioned that the recreational dosage for different individuals varies, if that’s true then it could make this worse.

polydrug using who get hurt […] education if we want to save lives

Agreed. Most people don’t understand what’s in pills they have bought or the interactions with alcohol.

SAAS isn’t a one-off purchase, it’s a rental with ongoing rental fees.

The intention of the wording of the petition is that it only covers “purchased” items. If a customer is given the impression that they are buying something then it should act like any other bought item. If they are given the impression they are renting something then it’s out of scope, that’s expected to abruptly die one day.

effectively withdrawing customers’ rights under the Australian Consumer Law to ownership and undisturbed possession of their purchased goods

^ it’s a bit subtle if you’re not familiar with the campaigns’ language.

This means other people will misinterpret it too :(

Little do you know that I’m secretly in charge of the Bureua Bureua Bureau. I believe https should be a premium feature that valuable customers will pay for.

Corrected, thankyou. I blindly took the page title.

Do geo storms affect up into the GHz where wifi sits? I can only find material talking about the ionisphere and frequencies up to HF :|