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vividspecter@aussie.zoneto
Australia@aussie.zone•Australians will lose free access to [the COVID-19] vaccine. Here's what it could cost [expected to be between $30 and $80]English
5·5 days agoFlu shots are not free though, unless you hit some specific criteria.
I think if if ends up being around the flu shot cost then it’s not absurdly expensive, but still might reinforce the notion that it’s not important anymore, reducing vaccination rates further (even in vulnerable groups).
vividspecter@aussie.zoneOPto
Australia@aussie.zone•‘Costly lemon’ or life-changing laws? Victoria to become first in Australia to offer right to work from homeEnglish
51·5 days agoThis part is slightly concerning:
The bill’s scope has also been tweaked – instead of employers having to prove that working from home would have a “significant adverse impact” on efficiency and productivity, they now only have to demonstrate a “material impact”.
On the other hand, business groups seem to be throwing a tantrum, suggesting the law still has enough teeth:
On Tuesday, a joint statement was released by the Business Council of Australia, the Australian Industry Group, the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and others, which said the amendments “do not fix a fundamentally flawed law that will risk Victoria’s economy and send jobs interstate”.
“The bill should be abandoned, and no amendment can fix its fundamental problems,” the groups said.
And of course, there’s also a risk of a future government undoing the whole thing, especially since it’s now delayed until mid 2027.
vividspecter@aussie.zoneto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Can't get closed as duplicate if nobody can find the duplicates
8·6 days agoGuix is lovely but it has a lot fewer packages and a few of its own quirks too. It’s still on my list to test again when I get some time, though.
vividspecter@aussie.zoneto
Australia@aussie.zone•EV sales outpace petrol cars for first time as Australians dodge soaring fuel costsEnglish
3·9 days agoThey might be treating conventional hybrids as separate from petrol. But yeah, would be nice to see a clear breakdown.
vividspecter@aussie.zoneto
Australia@aussie.zone•EV sales outpace petrol cars for first time as Australians dodge soaring fuel costsEnglish
3·10 days agoPlug-in hybrids.
vividspecter@aussie.zoneto
News@lemmy.world•MapQuest's app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario
3·13 days agoIt’s likely an outdated guide. Comaps forked only recently from organic maps.
vividspecter@aussie.zoneto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Internet centralization and the original sin of NATEnglish
17·13 days agoIf you’re in the US, it’s because all of the major ISPs siphoned up much of the ipv4 address space so they can still offer it to everyone.
In Australia, on the other hand, most ISPs provide CGNAT by default, although most of them offer a free opt-out and have ipv6. Mobile services are also typically CGNAT, although many offer ipv6 + 464XLAT (an ipv4 compatibility mode using ipv6).
In developing countries some sort of ipv6 solution is almost universal, particularly those with higher populations such as India, since it would cost an absurd amount of money to buy up that amount of ipv4 address space today.
vividspecter@aussie.zoneto
Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•This single technology is killing oil demand
5·14 days agoRip out the lawns and replace with native vegetation, and no more (or at least a lot less) mowing needed. But I’m guessing you’ll need to convince some other people as well by your phrasing.
vividspecter@aussie.zoneto
Australia@aussie.zone•Australia’s EV sales are skyrocketing. Our charging infrastructure may soon struggle to keep upEnglish
21·14 days agoOnly if we continue to buy absurdly large vehicles. Electric hatchbacks and sedans are lighter even with battery weight included.
And if people won’t change on their own, then tax the vehicles based on weight.
vividspecter@aussie.zoneto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•[CBH] PdfDing has migrated to CodebergEnglish
2·17 days agoHave you tried koreader? It’s not perfect, but if the screen is large enough it normally works pretty well. I use it on a Kobo reader, but it works on Android as well (not sure about iOS).
vividspecter@aussie.zoneto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no powerEnglish
33·26 days agoThis website is like 10 years old from memory, well before grid-scale batteries were widespread (well they still aren’t in many countries).
vividspecter@aussie.zoneto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•RustDesk now supports unattended remote access on Wayland, including the login screen and multi-monitor setupsEnglish
2·27 days agoRaw sunshine and moonlight should also work for this use case, albeit with some manual config work potentially.
vividspecter@aussie.zoneto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?English
12·27 days agoYou can always self host forgejo, but yeah, codeberg is an opinionated place, I suspect primarily due to resource constraints. Not a github replacement and not really trying to be.
vividspecter@aussie.zoneto
Australia@aussie.zone•Kmart's Smart Glasses have sold out. Their popularity pushed a national privacy probeEnglish
11·1 month agoIt’s more noticeable and visceral which is why people are up in arms about it. And rather than downplaying it why not use this as an opportunity to advocate for stringent privacy laws. Because I think you’ll find most people do care about the excessive surveillance, they are just not aware of it.
vividspecter@aussie.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet trafficEnglish
1·1 month agoA/b testing? It’s not paywalled for me, although maybe the link was changed as another user mentioned.
I’ll add that wired links are not usually paywalled for me either.
vividspecter@aussie.zoneto
Uplifting News@lemmy.world•Starting Sunday in EU, AI chatbots, receptionists, media must reveal they are not humanEnglish
15·1 month agoA possible downside to this is that only legit companies will adhere to it, whereas scammers won’t include the assertion, giving people a false sense of security.
I’d say the benefits probably exceed the downsides, though. It also may mean that people start leaving companies that rely on AI for their support because of the increased transparency.
I integrate Miniflux with readeck, which is then combined with a readeck plugin for koreader, allowing me to easily read articles on my ereader, without relying on a paid service.
I’m also one of those people that still uses custom ROMs on Android, and since the backup and restore situation is still kind of dire if you don’t use Google (and sometimes even with) it’s easier to have most of my configuration and state stored on a server, and so I can wipe a phone with relatively little risk.
vividspecter@aussie.zoneto
Australia@aussie.zone•Australian electric vehicle sales more than double since outbreak of war in IranEnglish
10·1 month agoI’m pretty sure it’s satire, but looks like it didn’t land well.
vividspecter@aussie.zoneto
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Arch Linux is a Tamagotchi for IT nerds
6·1 month agoI know this wasn’t your main point, but I never found Gentoo to be unmanageable, just that compiling everything can get a bit tiresome.
I’d still be using it were it not for NixOS, and declarative system management in particular.















For tailscale, unless you need different ACLs for every user, you could instead have additional friends share a single user and then you’re only limited by the quite high device cap. Or self-host headscale on a VPS and then there are no user limits.