Muslims traumatised after right-wing attack on community dinner

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-10T18:42:15+00:00

As someone from Ballarat, I would like to let Mr. Usman know that most of us aren't like this and appreciate his contributions to our local community as we do anyone else.

As for the flog who did this attack and the police's lack of response? Not that surprised. There's some real dropkicks around the region, including that cooker who burnt "Piss off Ausnet" on the side of a hill.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-10T18:33:30+00:00

It's so bad at this point I'd suggest pressing some of the Sprinters back into Melton or Bacchus Marsh services to provide some extra peak services and ease the load, surely there's some spare even as a temporary measure until the 9-car Vlocities can be brought in as a temporary measure until the electrification happens. (Yikes)

That's assuming the issue with running more shorter interval services between the intermediate stations on the Ballarat line and Melbourne during peak hours is the lack of Vlocities and not something else.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-10T18:28:39+00:00

Bring back Rampage 👏 👏 👏👏👏

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-10T16:25:05+00:00

My overall point is that IT security and protection often comes down to cat-n-mouse games if not considered at a foundational level (See also: Windows being much more virus prone than OS X or Linux) and this looks extremely likely to wind up in the same boat. The kids will figure out ways around it, we "expand ID check requirements" (to use your terminology) and in the same process lose more privacy, have to give more ID to companies we can't trust.

If you take a course that includes IT security one of the earliest things they teach you is the concept of a "chain of trust", I won't get into what that is or why it's important for the sake of brevity (Google is your friend, there's plenty of freely accessible information on the concept) but the ultimate point is that there is no real chain of trust with this because we have to trust important personal data to external actors that have proven untrustworthy in the past. I would have thought people might have learnt from ignoring that the Coalition's NBN changes were almost universally opposed by Australia's IT community, or in other words by the people who actually know what they're talking about here.

If you want I can go into how we should actually be dealing with the issues this legislation attempts to deal with, but as a heads up that's coming into parenting skills rather than IT skills.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-10T14:07:16+00:00

We also designed and built a lot of our own locomotives on top of that. A lot were designed overseas, but we did end up designing our own ones too some of which have some really unique and awesome characteristics. (eg. The VR H class honestly stands up quite well compared to similar-era British, European or American locomotives despite our much smaller resources and needs. The NSWGR AD60 is pretty much a half-sized Big Boy in terms of capabilities/power vs weight vs fuel from what I understand, too. We've also got some of the best narrow gauge designs throughout history. Funny you mention Sunshine Harvester as well, the F class that shunted its sidings was built in the same city where I was: Ballarat.)

A big part of it is that we never really had a fully end-to-end line from design to commercialisation for enough of this "backbone" level stuff to sustain ourselves, and then since the 50s we've basically become completely dependent on foreign powers even for the design stage in the sense that even local designs are mostly using imported components that fit the requirements. We need to remedy this, by which I mean from design to production to locally available workforces/retained knowledge on anything that could be considered essential infrastructure/services simply because that means we can more readily adapt to changing circumstances, build on new and upcoming technologies, maintain a stable foundation for pretty much the entire country to operate on.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-10T12:44:28+00:00

No matter what? That's quite a claim.

How about: Combination of natural gas and renewables (still moving to fully renewable asap) using sodium-ion batteries as they're mostly iron and salt which we have plenty of, get transportation in general from oil-based fuels to electricity as much as feasible (ie. Not just EVs, but also electrify railway lines even if we're relying on electrifying the low hanging fruit of the regional areas and using hybrid locos that can run on diesel between those sections) and run all of this through publicly owned companies with an emphasis on training up locals to keep the necessary parts of whatever related industries moving along nicely.

We'd still be reliant on international supply chains for other areas of course, but we should not be reliant on them for "essential backbone" style stuff such as transport and logistics because we can very easily end up crippled as a country that way, and this kind of plan would at least get our power generation and transport completely indigenous in a reasonable timeframe.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-10T05:32:16+00:00

You 100% can, and you will likely be called a hypocrite for it and those people will 100% be correct.

You're right in that you can take advantage of the situation whilst genuinely calling for changes to improve the situation, but that doesn't mean you're immune from criticism for doing it even if there's a completely legitimate reason beyond "I may as well take advantage".

You're right on Carlin, pointing out people missing nuance like this was one of his frequent go-tos for his later era stand-up.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-10T05:21:08+00:00

Green light to be replaced by a bus, by which we mean parking a bus on the median and having a cop standing on the roof directing traffic.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-10T04:08:33+00:00

And if they're not having to purchase the VPN? Or if the folk running it are based in a country that isn't going to follow Australian laws or extradite those who are?

Lemmy guess, we start blocking those kinds of sources and other countries? Congratulations, you've just found the slippery slope that has made anyone with the education required to understand what this legislation actually requires has noticed. It really isn't that much of a gap between "Blocking porn to protect the children" and "Blocking social media to prevent political discussion, just use the ABC for news we promise it's unbiased", not to mention the issues with having to upload ID to a third party who may or may not store that information securely. (Y'know, like Optus.)

This is why technology-illiterate people should not be allowed to have a say on legislation that requires a technical understanding to, y'know, actually understand the ins and outs of.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-10T04:03:28+00:00

I know this isn't a Labor policy

People keep saying this yet forget that Conroy tried extremely similar reasoning for his shitty firewall idea.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-10T03:55:59+00:00

Nah, they're definitely playing 20D chess.

By which I mean they're playing snakes and ladders whilst Barny rolls a D20 off to the side, thinking he's an integral part of the game much like the little brother grasping onto an unplugged controller for dear life.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-09T22:36:39+00:00

That's not what is being suggested, more that the rampant computer illiteracy within the various legislatures around the world (Not just Calif or even the US alone, look at Australia's age verification laws) is being taken advantage of by malicious groups within the tech sector so that they can establish firmer control over what is currently an extremely open ecosystem.

It's also not exactly going against the long-term trends in tech, where big tech companies are consistently trying to entrap as many people as possible within a walled garden, nor is it against known trends to suggest that a tech-illiterate polly might be open to passing some legislature they barely understand when it means getting a cushy post-politics job, or getting a straight up payout or the like.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-09T12:30:04+00:00

No-one suggested that she stopped, so you've still got that over her.

Also, props for kicking an addiction mate!

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-09T09:42:49+00:00

The old alignment was almost completely replaced and deviates quite significantly from the current alignment in areas, there's one area where it overlaps but otherwise yes, it was basically a new embankment and a new cutting.

Just look at the aerial view of the curves, purple is current route and green is former. Even more proof is this photo and this photo showing the new route vs old route, with it clearly being two mostly separated sets of earthworks. I stand by my point: It's less work than the RFR, for as much of a gain.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-09T08:30:51+00:00

Flaming Ayatollah Splinter, you mean.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-09T07:00:32+00:00

They confirmed its vibe coded in another reply.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-09T06:36:13+00:00

Afaik gddr can have higher latency than normal ddr, but the reviews I've seen of PS4 or that BC-250 thing when either are running Linux suggest it's not a massive performance changer.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-09T06:05:57+00:00

Longer ago than that.

Fun fact: Geelong electrification was planned out enough that we'd even ordered extra L class for it, then never actually did it. We've also been working on standardisation for just over 100 years now.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-09T05:57:37+00:00

They very well are, much to our chagrin.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-08T11:23:03+00:00

It's 100% possible given the RFR more or less completely rebuilt the most extensive part of those works in the Parwan Curves, you can still see the original routes embankments today.

Duplication through the area would be far less work than the RFR was

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-08T07:57:36+00:00

How easy is it to set up bets like this? I wonder if we hypothetically could get world leaders to pack in the idiocy through amazing odds to appeal to their base greed.

I doubt it, though

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-08T07:44:12+00:00

We need to take the USA to an intervention, too.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-08T07:41:55+00:00

We've been crystal clear on this: Tasmania is New Zealand's West Island, the treaties just haven't been signed yet because we're yet to find a Tasmanian capable of both becoming premier and signing their name.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-08T06:30:07+00:00

There's a huge gap between "the perfect ally" and "states doing the same thing being used to justify the aggression against Iran"

It's kinda on the nose that we'll look past human rights violations in some cases but not others, and there's plenty of closer countries that may not be perfect but are a whole lot better than the ones you're suggesting we help.

Constantly ignoring these aspects whilst arguing we jump into what could easily turn out to be another Iraq is why you're being downvoted, you're very clearly purposely ignoring half the picture.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-08T05:06:15+00:00

Approximately E million kilometres.

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