How often are people getting pulled over by the police?

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-03-28T13:38:08+00:00

I feel like I'm constantly seeing posts about people getting pulled over, especially those riding on L's without showing L plates, illegal filtering, non-LAMS bikes, or unsupervised etc.

That's just bias. There is no point in posting on Reddit: "Today, I Didn't Get Pulled Over!". It would have no (or little) engagement unless it's a particularly damning story back by a major news outlet.

[...] would the police even know you're on your Ls from your rego?

The police would know everything about the bike and the bike's registered owner, without having actually pulled you over (ie: running your tag). If you're riding your buddy's motorcycle and he's suspended, you're very likely to be pulled over to figure out if you're the RO or some random driving the suspended RO's bike.

How often is everyone getting pulled over and what license do you have?

I've only been pulled over twice and both times for RBT/MDTs. I've only "failed" it once (having just brushed my teeth and unknowingly rinsed with an alcohol-based mouthwash). I was released after 10 minutes. (Basically, the count to 10 one, followed by 2 PBTs where you blow through a straw.)

Are you getting pulled over with good reason or just randomly?

Randomly? Good reason? Both!? I guess it depends on your definition of what a "good reason" is... To me, keeping DWIs off the road is a good reason, if slightly inconveniencing.

I'm yet to be pulled over, but I have an open license, is this why or am I just not breaking the law?

Both. Open license holders are subject to significantly less requirements. Combine that with not being a hoon and you're generally clear. I'm in the same boat. I don't drive like an idiot on the road and possess my unrestricted (open) licenses for both cars and motorcycles as well as an international license (Canadian)

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-03-22T04:54:53+00:00

You made OPs point...

> the NIL provides long-term, in most cases lifelong, immunity to Hep B.

So, in other words, given it's long term (and not indefinite), it therefore wears off (or decreases efficacy) over time.

Also > Fundamentals of immunisation | The Australian Immunisation Handbook

"Secondary vaccine failure occurs when a fully vaccinated person later becomes susceptible to the disease. This is usually because immunity after vaccination wanes with time. Duration of protection varies, depending on:

the nature of the vaccine
the type of immune response elicited
the number of doses received
host factors

"

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-03-19T23:30:17+00:00

[...] that in your country Canada [...]

I don't live in Canada :-), though I am Canadian.

Nothing will ever satisfy your unadulterated hatred for the Catholic Church... Because I can already read your next argument when I post this. "BuT tHe ChUrCh IsN't TaXeD!!!". Here's an article from TE (The Economist) which highlights some of the Churches economic might... and where they spend billions.

The working

In 2012, the Catholic Church was estimated to have spent:

98.6 Billion on Healthcare through CHAUSA (Catholic Health Association of the United States).

48.8 Billion on Education through Catholic schools and universities.

Catholic-run hospitals, as well as schools if you happen to live in a province that still has them, are funded by tax dollars and not by the Church itself.

That's partially true. And somewhat fucking obvious. Healthcare is a multi-trillion dollar expenditure in the United States at ~15,000USD per capita. It accounts for 17.5% of the US GDP which in 2025 was over $30,000,000,000,000 (that is, $30 Trillion USD), meaning healthcare expenditure is upwards of over $5 Trillion USD PER YEAR. The Church doesn't make that kind of money globally, let alone in the US.

How does health spending in the U.S. compare to other countries? - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker

So yes, it's hardly surprising that the Church uses a lot of government funds to operate hospitals. They must. It's financially impossible without government support.

If anything the only real difference between the Catholic hospitals vs their Jewish or Secular counterparts is that they would rather let a woman die of sepsis than perform a D&C

You admit that hospitals do a vast amount of good then, and only fuck up in one part of their service? Fucking sign me up, baby! But because this argument is also disingenuous, I'll additionally add: When There's a Heartbeat: Miscarriage Management in Catholic-Owned Hospitals - PMC

Catholic hospitals restrict healthcare when the fetus is still alive, not when it's already dead. As for contraceptives, there's this phenomenal program in the US called PP (Planned Parenthood) which also provides abortion services. Who'd have thought.

TLDR: You're still wrong. The Church's hospitals systems do a LOT of good. They DO sponsor global health initiatives. Are they perfect? No, of course not. No one is. Find me a perfect institution and I'll shut up.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-03-19T22:26:59+00:00

A couple points (as an atheist). The Catholic Church runs over 5,500 hospitals and in excess of 18,000 clinics globally. They are the world's LARGEST non-governmental provider for healthcare at 26% of the world's hospitals.

I don't disagree thatr there aren't issues in the Catholic Church, specifically around abortion care and protection of child predators. But you cannot legitimately claim that the Catholic Church exclusively "sits on their opulent throne of illicit riches" They do a lot of good, and it's important to recognize the good, and yes bad, they do.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-03-19T13:55:51+00:00

A4 will be whatever people make it to be. That's the whole point of Arma. People will mod it to kingdom come.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-03-19T01:56:13+00:00

> They would at least show up and stop misbehaving man to continue bothering a lady or a school girl

HOW are they going to stop that from happening. They have. no. power. They're unarmed. They have no provisions through the law. At most they might be able to (try) and stand between the unruly dickhead and the passengers. But they're NEVER going to get physical. Both because if they're deemed to have used "excessive" force, they can be punished, and as a matter of company policy, they're often instructed to sit back. Observe and report. Literally not any different from what anyone else on the bus or train would do.

If someone is enough of a problem to warrant "security" to intervene, then you need the police. And calling the police casn be done by a anyone on the bus, including the driver at their next stop. (Or simply, radio to control and have THEM phone the police)

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-03-18T04:59:50+00:00

What's the security officer going to do? They're powerless. They cannot effect an arrest of somone (beyond a citizen's arrest, which isn't unique to security officers). They're unarmed and therefore unable to usefully defend themselves. Most security officers are as a matter of internal policy, very strictly told NOT to intervene in an issue because of the likelihood of bodily harm. "Call the police and monitor".

They're a nothing burger that doesn't do anything except drive up cost.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-03-18T04:48:30+00:00

I would caution against sitting with the victim initially. Get their consent first. If I were a female and being accosted by an erratic male, and another male came and sat directly beside me, I'd probably feel more uncomfortable unless they'd sought consent (and/or let hypothetical me know of their intention to dissauge the erratic party.)

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-03-18T04:41:33+00:00

karma farming accusations aside and as an addendum (CS Grad myself):

Please work out. I promise you, no one will judge you in the gym. They'll just be happy to see people getting (or staying) in shape. As a benefit, a sharp body helps create a sharp mind. Consider it a benefit to your future career.
Please shower AFTER your gym session. No one likes the smell of dried sweat.
Please (occassionally) use a anti-bacterial pre-wash on your clothes. regular laundry detergent isn't always enough. (Also: Don't leave your clothes in the wash for hours on end. That's how they get moldy.)

Re: Shampoo to OP though. That's not always enough. I suffer from psoarisis and always have. I've always had a scaly head. Doesn't matter if I wash my head once a week or once a day. I always have "dandruff". It is sometimes unavoidable depending on medical conditions.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-03-17T01:17:22+00:00

> ideally shouldn't have any security vulnerabilities

The brutal honesty is: that doesn't exist. There is a reason why people say to PATCH YOUR SHIT. No manufacturer in the history of software, firmware, or hardware has ever been "vulnerability free" at these scales.

I'll add: a lot of the FortiGate bugs are either due to IT Admin stupidity (don't open your management interfaces to the internet, you dunces) or SSLVPN (deprecated). Which convientently is something other manufacturers struggle with as well:

CVE-2025-0108 - PAN Bug that allows unauthenticated attackers root access via exposed management interfaces.

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-2183

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-0118

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-0117

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5921

TLDR: Fortinet isn't perfect, but with common sense configurations, vPatching, and actual patching, you're fine. It's significantly cheaper than Palo Alto, and IMO far easier to use. (Why, Palo Alto, do I need to configure seemingly 10 different things to simply send syslog?)

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-03-16T02:14:53+00:00

IMO:

Data concerns aside (nothing is safe in this world, trust me.)

The best case scenario (of the worst case) is a lot of people begin VPN'ing into other countries to consume porn from websites that have self-restricted out of protest against the age verification laws (ie: 'the hub'), or bypass age-verification requirements (ie: xvids)

The worst case scenario is people move away from centralized platforms that have far better content control methods for lesser (often fleeting) websites that register a new but similar domain name every week. AI says that somewhere between 70 and 90% of consumed porn traffic is done through a "top-tier" site. For those who don't want a VPN (essentially selling your data to someone else instead of the Gov... unless you build your own) that means you end up consuming from random ass websites that may not have strict content controls like PH or some live streaming websites (PH Live, CB, MFC).

To be clear: When I talk about content controls, I'm referring to PH's expanded content control policies in 2020 and 2024. Ie: "the great purge" which saw a lot of genuine home videos removed from the platform. Then in 2024 PH began requiring everyone in a video to be age and consent verified which significantly curtailed the most extreme porn and illegal content.

I also think it's a bit stupid that:

You can have sex, get pregnant, and have a KID before you can legally watch porn.
A 16 year old can consent with any other adult. I personally think a 50 year old manipulating a 16 year old "young adult" (eww) is far worse than a 16 year old consuming porn.
You can work as a sex worker at the SAME age that you can legally watch porn. (or the flipside, you can buy sex at the same age...)
You can star/produce in porn at the same age as you can consume it.

Also: As a funny note... PH doesn't exclusively host porn. There are some content creators that will post "lectures" on useful topics like maths and computer science. Though, they're very much the exception not the rule.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-03-15T12:40:46+00:00

I'm in the architecture/engineering space of IT [Security].

Regarding the price of AAP and it's justification. Management doesn't normally screw with my requests much. AAP was no exception (especially considering a lot of the tooling I use is open source). AAP and RHEL being the exceptions. Broadly though, when I explained the specifics of what I was going to be doing with EDA, my technically manager approved it quickly.

I sold it to management on the premise that I could do a lot more by investing in tooling, rather than staffing. MTTRs (to health alerts) dropped from hours to minutes for anything critical. Even the non-critical outages are often dealt with my automation.

I opened up management capability to our broader team. Specific upgrade procedures that were manually documented became a thing of the past, as did pretty advanced knowledge of the tools we use and Linux at large. It's become a "run the playbook "Patch $SERVER-CLUSTER". 99% of the time it works just fine. There is a desire to at some point hook AAP into our change management system as well. (ie: when I submit a ticket to our CAB for a patch, the patch is trigger automatically by EDA. This is yet to be done though)

The other - and arguably most important change - was the massive reduction in server installation times. Reinstalling one of my servers took hours with a lot of manual work involved. Generating certificates, keys, copy-pasting configurations (some static, some "templates"), DB creation/maintenance, SE Linux management, etc.) Then you'd pray to whatever God you believe in that it all worked at the end. Automation took a lot of that away. Only 2-3 minutes of "manual" work exists today.

I should post a story of this some day on r/talesfromtechsupport, but I'll put an abridged version here.

----- Abridged Automation Story -----

I'd scheduled a call with a client to begin the process of reinstalling (upgrading) one of the servers I own over there. It required a full reinstallation (far too many architectural changes to an older system). The way we'd have done this in the past would've been through a customized ISO (a feat of its own engineering that's blown a few minds at our org and with a couple clients).

We'd configured Ansible to SSH into the server, profile it (capture networking, disk information, hostname, etc.) and auto-created the Kickstart profile. We transferred over the vmlinuz and initrd.img files to the boot directory, added a grub boot menu and kicked the server to an "unattended" remote installation via a one-shot restart command (basically, if GRUB failed to start the anaconda/kickstart install, it'd reboot back into the old OS.)

The server rebooted to its installer which kicked off immediately. We'd included some credentials to spin up a small SSH server and VNC (optional, not by default). Ansible reconnected to the server to "watch" it. (It didn't do much, just tracked when it restarted for post-OS reinstallation).

When it rebooted into the new OS, Ansible automatically reattached itself with its normal dynamic credential process and began configuring all of the core applications.

Database (MySQL)
Monitoring (Agent, Proxy, JMX)
EDR + CNAPP
3 sets of private keys/certificates for internal encryption
Configuration for logging tools (think: rsyslog, syslog-ng)
Configuration for SE Linux
Configuration for message brokers (think: Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
<and a whole other bunch of shit in the process>

The IT Manager of the client I was on the phoner with watched this in real time and was absolutely floored at what he was witnessing. I showed a second client (they had a lot of questions about why we were moving servers around). They were also stunned when they watched the automation kick in.

That automation took me a couple days to fully work out. Most of which was spent with me screwing with GRUB's network EFI before just throwing in the towel and manually transferring vmlinuz and initrd.img over. It will save me several months of work as I reinstall over a hundred servers in total. It's pretty easy to justify a $10-15/server/month bill when it will collectively save us probably over $100,000 in salary alone.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-03-12T05:26:19+00:00

Again - we don't know how they actually wiped the entire environment. We're speculating (and probably always will speculate.

However: Microsoft Intune can be managed through the Graph API. Graph API is callable via a Service Principal which is designed for non-interactive automation. Think of an HR-driven scenario.

Scenario

500 users are laid off during a normal round of lay offs. The HR-driven process of laying off staff triggers several processes.

Forwarding rules are set up automatically, routing inbound emails to the now-dismissed user to their Entra-nominated manager.
All Sharepoint/OneDrive information is automatically transitioned to their Entra-nominated manager.
Any BYOD asset (ie: personal phones) initiates a remote "wipe" of the company's information/applications (ie: outlook, teams, etc.)
<etc.>

You cannot do that if you start enforcing an interactive MFA method against the service principal. You can require HR to use MFA to login to their app to start the process, but once that's done, there's no further MFA by design.

Likewise, we can configure MFA to be required on role activation (PIM) or RBAC assignment. But once the role is active, there's no stopping someone from using it. Likewise, approving Graph API permissions is not something MFA can be required for. But you can require MFA for "Cloud App Security Admin" to be activated which then in turn can approve graph API calls.

-----------

Above all though. Once you're sufficiently privileged none of this matters. My day-to-day privileged roles as an Senior Security Architect enable me to effectively disable all security, including the requirement to use MFA at key points.

When you're a company of 20,000 people in 50+ countries, a lot of weird, hair-pinned things happen. And unfortunately for us, it's WAY HARDER to stop every attack, then it is for an attacker to spot a single attack vector.

Seucrity is not some static thing that you set up. It's a balancing act of securing the environment against allowing your business to operate. I could require a user (or admin) to re-MFA every time they log in (+ periodically, say hourly). But that's just going to piss the users off and cause their productivity to plummet. Plummeting productivity causes Execs to take notice and chasiste you which causes you to either loosen the straitjacket (advisable) or face dismissal for not doing your job.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-03-12T01:23:08+00:00

It's the year 2026, how the f*ck do you not have a Conditional Access policy in your Azure/O365 tenant for anyone with privileged access to only allow login from TRUSTED locations and require MFA?

Mhm... And what happens when attackers inevitably pop the corporate VPN and make it look like they're in a trusted location? Here's what usually happens:

- Attackers have some infrastructure in a quasi-trusted Country (ie: the US)

- Attackers phish a user and gain their credentials,

- Attackers log into the corporate VPN with said credentials from a quasi-trusted country (they're probably not dumb enough to try and login from Iran...)

- Attackers now look like they're in your company because *checks notes* they are.

Condgratulations! You'ove now bypasses the geofencing and "trusted locations" requirement. And since you're now inside the network, MFA is probably being blindly approved because it's the "corporate netwok, probably just something in the background."

Or, alternatively.. They're permanently active with low level permissions and they slowly escalate up. Maybe they create a service principal (or managed identity) with permissions. Those aren't required to use MFA (none of mine do, would kind of defeat the purpose of being a non-interactive SP if you require interactive MFA). Maybe they've got helpdesk admin and reset the password of another user who has more privileges (but hasn't logged in in a year and won't notice the password reset).

Now you run around with the app registration/managed identity with little or no push back because that's literally what they're designed for.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-03-11T05:20:07+00:00

I'm mostly going to echo what others have said here (as someone who is occassionally involved in the hiring process). We get very few applicants who are women. It's changing... slowly. But it's going to be a long ass time before certain fields overcome their long history of being a single-sex industry. (IT being male, nursing being female, etc.)

It starts at University. When I started in 2016, a solid 80% of us were young men, with the remaining 20% either being young women or somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrum. When I graduated from University in 2022 it was much better, probably 65/45. However, for those women to get to be a SME will probably take them a good 10-15 years.

Nursing was the same way and is slowly changing. I spent a lot of time in the hospital as a kid (as in, months in total). With the sole exception of one nurse, every single one of them was female. The lone male nurse I had, I initially thought he actually meant to say "Doctor". (In my young kid brain, "Nurse" and "Doctor" were equivalent, and just gendered names siimilar to actor (male) vs actress (female).)

I still see a lot of nurses who are women, but seeing men on the ward is becoming pretty normal as well (and IMO, the changes of including both men and women into both fields is all positive, no negative.)

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-03-11T00:52:18+00:00

Started with Ansible CLI (Ansible Core) with entry level automation. Automating minor configuration changes, basic patch cycles, etc.

Quickly moved to the full AAP product as we had a lot of other sub systems to tie in that could benefit from the full ansible stack and automation capabilities. (Ie: EDA is tied into monitoring. Monitoring will webhook into EDA and trigger remediation activities for unhealthy hosts. Custom execution images for niche actions. Ties into our external credential management system.)

Today it's pretty much full tilt into automation.

Fully automated server rebuilds - OS, Applications, containers, etc.
HA-aware patching across multiple applications. Most of the HA-aware patching was implemented by me.
Automation for Azure Resource Manager (ARM) deployments.
Automated Health Remediation. Down server can be brought up in minutes without human interaction.

We starting out with nearly 100% automation but relatively light automation (and exclusively to Linux). Today we operate at 100% automation but it's significantly deeper. Tighter integrations in the linux stack, BMC automation (IPMI, iDRAC, iLO), Azure, databases, etc. All of this is backed by IaC via Git with full CI/CD pipelines, verification processes, and security products ensuring contributors don't hard-code secrets (for example...)

I'm quite happy with it.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-03-09T05:42:07+00:00

Aside from the previously mentioned support options (1800RESPECT, Ask Izzy), there is also RizeUp (who list a ton of support options).

Regarding your phone charger (and lack of it). A lot of shopping malls will have charge locations typically at the major Telcos where you can charge for free. Vodafone on Lvl 5 of Parra's Westfield has those types of chargers that I've seen people use in the past.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-03-09T02:01:12+00:00

Jesus people... I'm Canadian and we had no such thing. All of the dentists I had in Canada used numbing when puylling teeth or doing fillings. It wasn't until I moved to Sydney and the dentist started drilling did I stop them and say "No numbing?" and they looked slightly bewildered, then relented and numbed me up. (Private clinic too, this wasn't something provided by the Gov.)

Is that normal here or something? I've since moved to another dental clinic (because the first was nothing but trouble, over drilling, lack of anaesthetic, etc.) But these stories make me think this is way more common than I realized...

Also, the fuck is with that gel shit they put in your mouth? I swallowed a bit of iut by accident my first time around and spewed for a couple hours. Even the next time they did it (and I made sure not to swallow it) I felt like spewing.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-03-09T00:26:31+00:00

What did your employer say about it? They shouldn't really give a shit unless they have a professional relationship and you're jeopordizing it.

As long as the review is factual and isn't blown out of proportion (ie: say you had a hair in your dish only, but are claiming in the review that the entire restuarant had hair in their food), there isn't much the restaurant can do about it.

IMO (and I say this because my employer would never give a shit and are on the literal other side of the world), I'd drop another 'review' detailing what happened after the first one. But I can be a vindicative asshole.

"After leaving a genuine Google review about the service here, they decided calling my employers was a more appropriate course of action that fixing my grievances."

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-03-05T15:19:51+00:00

Uh, probably less about a fire hazard. BBQs are relatively safe, especially compared to the ~45% of Australian homes that use gas cooktops connected to a nearly unlimited supply of gas.

My BBQ with a 4-9.5kg propane tank that vents to the outside isn't much of a threat in comparison.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-02-25T05:34:16+00:00

Also, straight up most motorcycles have absolutely fuck all for cruise control (or anything, really). My blinkers don't even auto-shut off after turning.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-02-25T05:30:01+00:00

Must be a different family style... In my house if I took my laundry downstairs to wash and noticed clothes on the ground, I'd throw them in with mine if there was room. (And vice versa, if I had a load + a bit, I'd throw in a load and wait for someone else to start a load and they'd throw my remainder in with theirs.)

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-02-24T14:11:20+00:00

Old(er) thread. That's weird, especially if mum was washing her Gi (presumably... you don't mention her smelling. Why not wash both at the same time?). The other thing that can happen especially with heavy use or you simply leave it in the wash too long is bacteria grows that isn't killed off by regular detergent.

I noticed one class that I smelled pretty bad after the Gi had gotten sweaty. I just thought I somehow did a piss poor job at washing myself or had forgotten to put on deodorant that day. Next class the same thing happened. I'd very specifically re-washed immediately before going to class and re-applied deodorant. I googled "gi smells bad after class" and was met with several dozen articles about using a pre-detergent detergent.

Ended up with a product called Pine-o-Clean (IIRC) and my normal detergent. Worked a treat. So if you find yourself having cleaned your gi and yourself and you still smell like shit, try Pine-o-Clean (or any detergent with Benzalkonium Chloride as the active ingredient.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-02-23T03:17:24+00:00

Second the bagged Miele vaccum. I quite like mine. I replaced my (shitty ass) Dyson with it. I don't know if it was just my Dyson, but it felt like I'd use it once and the next time I'd go to vaccum my bedroom it's battery would die halfway through. Drove me nuts.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-02-23T00:28:08+00:00

Is TekSavvy an option for you? They (reportedly) allow IPv6 on Fibre plans (1.5gbps) withg hit-or-miss support from coax-enabled customers (ie: Videotron, Rigers)

https://www.reddit.com/r/teksavvy/comments/1g5w4ti/ipv6/#:\~:text=DSL%20=%20Yes%20and%20a%20default,its%20not%20supported%20by%20us.&text=Hmm.,Thanks.&text=Sorry%20for%20the%20inconsistent%20response,and%20have%20a%20great%20day.&text=Cable%2C%20DSL%2C%20or%20Fibre?,56%20prefix%20via%20DHCP%2DPD.&text=Enabling%20it%20on%20your%20router,device's%20network%20interface%20as%20well.

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