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Yet another moment since Labor’s re-election where I think “Ooh, Albo’s going mask-off!”.

Please let’s have minority governments, our electoral and political system is ideal for it!

ß or β?

What are your tips on glasses? I choose standard uncoated lenses nowdays after finding that anti-reflective/anti-scratch coatings often scratched easily or had an optically-rippled surface, but maybe things have improved?

An excellent discrete maths textbook for those missing the inclusion of the subject in the course: Discrete Mathematics - An Open Introduction, 3rd edition by Oscar Levin

Some 4G phones don’t support 4G calling correctly or with all networks.

Check whether your phone actually uses 4G (VoLTE) for calls – to sort-of test this, make a call while connected to mobile data and note whether the signal meter’s 4G indication drops to 3G(H+/HSPA) or something during the call.

A more insidious version of this issue is that some phones do VoLTE just fine, but only use 3G for 000 calls.

Some phones only support VoLTE with some networks. There’s a chance that an appropriate firmware upgrade could add support for some network/device combos.

The part of an espresso machine where the water passes through the coffee. Called a brew group in the automatic machines (and they can get mouldy and horrible). Should at least remove the shower screen or filter screen from the group and scrub out the old rancid coffee tar with a cloth/toothbrush.

Pouring a shot of plain water should smell and taste like clean excellent hot water.

Figure out how to pull apart the group head to give it a good clean (at least removing the shower screen). All machines need that occasionally, work machines get absolutely rank.

• Land Value Capture
• NSW and VIC value capture reforms: A comparison
• The great Australian town planning give-away
• Dodgy rezoning, a summary

Yeah, I can never quite tell with articles sometimes…

Among many elements of the story that absolutely fail to raise sympathy:

[…] They planned to subdivide their block into 26 lots once the land was rezoned as residential, live on one block and drip-feed two or three others on to the market each year.

…just what we need – a drip-feed of low-density housing.

Yeah nah, that’s not the way. Sure people can get away with it, but it’s really not eliminating the hazards.

• https://www.fnqsafetygroup.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/cutting-empty-drums.pdf
• https://www.worksafe.vic.gov.au/safety-alerts/explosions-when-cutting-used-fuel-tanks-and-metal-drums

There’s a bunch of non-obvious hazards which exist around cutting into containers which have held fuels, including but not limited to:

• An empty propane container could have an gas+air mixture inside it in proportions which could explode.
• Any liquid residue in an empty fuel container can be vapourised by the heat of the cutting, creating a fuel+air mix which can spontaneously explode from the pressure and heat, even without sparks (think: diesel engine principle but instead of a 0.25L cylinder it’s a 200L cylinder).
• An empty gas canister can be contaminated with heavier oils/waxes that could build up over the years of refilling cycles, creating the same hazard as noted for empty liquid fuel containers.

Methods to reduce the hazard include:

• Thoroughly washing the inside of the container before cutting (access can be difficult though).
• Filling with water and cutting while full of water. (Container musn’t be sealed, and the cutting method must be safe to use in a wet environment, and further hazards such as introducing oxygen into the container need to be considered).

ffs, every time someone from a community group asks me “Can you have a quick look at our basic website, we just need to change <reallySimpleThing>”, and I’m like “sure, i used to do web development, let’s have a look […] FFFFFFUUUUUC…”

Same. Otherwise it’s dnscrypt on the router that’s gone wonky.

btw

Easy with sudo apt remove --purge --allow-remove-essential --auto-remove systemd:

:-D Time to go outside.

Despite writing to the station’s management, Keith Loveridge did not succeed in getting the air quality data.

He received this response from the then-CEO Phillip Walker.

“You seem to be under some impression that we are compelled to provide information to you – that is not the case, we are a privately run organisation and as such we correspond with you out of courtesy not necessity,” Mr Walker wrote.

👍 Fuck lawns. Grassland or gtfo.

Beetles and lepidoptera ftw.

Those Dutch hospitals must be packed full of cyclists with head injuries…

double-check for security vulnerabilities

triple-check is better.