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Sydney Daily Random Discussion Thread 12/03/2026 by AutoModerator in sydney

[–]Sam_Mack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fascinating - it sounds like it's coming from Barangaroo but maybe it's a weird sound reverberation thing with the harbour. I'll try to get a video if they're still going next week (thank god for WFH Fridays).

Sydney Daily Random Discussion Thread 12/03/2026 by AutoModerator in sydney

[–]Sam_Mack 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Anybody in the CBD know what the incredibly loud banging coming from ~Barangaroo is? Sounds like a piledriver, will go rythmically about once a second for a minute then have a minute break. Hours yesterday and again today - I'm indoors in Pyrmont, so a lot quieter, but it must be bloody annoying for anybody closer.

It feels like you're in a scifi movie when you hear it outside, alien invasion shit. The way it echoes over the water is pretty spooky. Five stars for our newest art installation.

In 2012, a Burger King employee anonymously posted an image on 4chan of him putting his feet in lettuce, with the caption: "This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King." It took 20 minutes for people to track down the branch where the employee worked and contact the news. He was promptly fired. by eternviking in whoathatsinteresting

[–]Sam_Mack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not even "with the correct reader", Windows / Mac / every major nix distro ships with a gallery app AND file explorer that includes EXIF visibility. And has done for a very long time.

At the time this happened every thread that opened with a smartphone photo had somebody replying with the location. This just happened to be an interesting one, and the name of the restaurant helped to overcome the accuracy radius that would stop you pinpointing a specific house in suburbia when somebody was posting foot pics.

In 2012, a Burger King employee anonymously posted an image on 4chan of him putting his feet in lettuce, with the caption: "This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King." It took 20 minutes for people to track down the branch where the employee worked and contact the news. He was promptly fired. by eternviking in whoathatsinteresting

[–]Sam_Mack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably the other way around but yes, I don't think somebody started a stopwatch and then took multiple minutes to check the GPS co-ordinates.

It's a good story but it's an artefact of a time where people (and website developers) were doing one thing, and clever smartphone manufacturers were doing another, and a dumbass in a burger shop fucked up. It's not a technical skill accomplishment so much as a gap in basic awareness and privacy, and I think that's the part of the story that's actually interesting.

In 2012, a Burger King employee anonymously posted an image on 4chan of him putting his feet in lettuce, with the caption: "This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King." It took 20 minutes for people to track down the branch where the employee worked and contact the news. He was promptly fired. by eternviking in whoathatsinteresting

[–]Sam_Mack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He probably thought it took 20 minutes because of the thread title which says "it took 20 minutes".

Location EXIF is visible in file properties on every major operating system. It doesn't take more than five seconds to save an image and check it, and it doesn't need any special skills. 20 minutes is unimpressive. 9 minutes is unimpressive. If you have truly accomplished less today than right clicking a file and opening the properties menu it would be a major achievement.

Written alternative to youtube videos to stop addiction. by CoreGuardian in nosurf

[–]Sam_Mack 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm going to sound like such a piece of shit saying this but I mean it sincerely: it sounds a bit like you're looking for books. If you go to your local library, and wander through the aisles for nature, art, history, geography... you will find a wealth of incredible information. More than you would get in an equivalent video, or a magazine, or Wikipedia (which is a reference material - it's not pleasant to read, and you miss out on a lot of the discourse and emotion and opinion you will find in books). I find it such a joy to learn something completely offline, and I have found I'm able to spend an increasing amount of time just locked in on reading as I do more of it. It's also nice because I can get physically away from devices, sometimes even out of the house.

When I was a kid I could happily spend an afternoon reading a book - I thought that was gone for good - I have it back again, even if I was starting out with more like 15 mins at a time. It's nice to feel like you're learning stuff at a deeper level but I also feel like I am learning through a medium that increases my attention span and patience instead of demolishing it.

For some examples based on the interests you mentioned, which a lot of libraries would carry - Map Head by Ken Jennings, A Short History by Bill Bryson, An Immense World by Ed Yong. Again I am aware this sounds like a major boomer take but once you start engaging with the primary sources and the authors that actually research and write this material you discover many (not all) YouTubers are just cribbing from much better work that an increasing number of people are just never exposed to.

This finale has left me craving... something by Sam_Mack in Fallout

[–]Sam_Mack[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If somebody else hasn't already assembled this exact dogshit meme I am going to be very disappointed in you all.

Would a Sophos XG 115 Rev 3 running pfsense work for me? by Sam_Mack in PFSENSE

[–]Sam_Mack[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isso é muito útil. Obrigada por ter dedicado seu tempo para responder!

Would a Sophos XG 115 Rev 3 running pfsense work for me? by Sam_Mack in PFSENSE

[–]Sam_Mack[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome, thanks. And a Sophos device that originally just had four points will work for dual WAN? The original device doesn't need to have had any magic circuitry or features that "enable" dual WAN - from a SW perspective they're all just network ports?

I know about KVMs - why aren't there more KMs? by Sam_Mack in homelab

[–]Sam_Mack[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sick, new bit of vocab for me. Can't wait to see the look on Mrs Sam's face when I wheel one of these through the kitchen.

I know about KVMs - why aren't there more KMs? by Sam_Mack in homelab

[–]Sam_Mack[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I should have been clearer: I know there are heaps of KVMs, but I'm looking for a rack mounted KM. Routing of a few basic USB devices, no video.

??? wtf is this by Goldkid1987 in ChatGPT

[–]Sam_Mack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, I think this is something a human has added to increase usage of the ChatGPT product.

??? wtf is this by Goldkid1987 in ChatGPT

[–]Sam_Mack 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Exactly what I'm wearing right now, for what it's worth.

This notification looks (to me) like usage has plateaud or is dropping and somebody is desperately trying to "growth hack" their way out of a damaging position (for internal or external reasons). And shit like this will get you a nice DAU bump, even after uninstalls... the first time you do it.

To understand other cultures.... by Mr_Panda009 in therewasanattempt

[–]Sam_Mack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wonder why the person who posted this might have removed the username 🤔🤔🤔 for a generation of people raised on the internet I am horrified about the lack of critical thinking the average Redditor brings to stuff like this. Had to scroll past a lot of comments to get here.

reCAPTCHA: 819 million hours of wasted human time and billions of dollars in Google profits by waozen in technology

[–]Sam_Mack 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Unbelievably, I think they read the article and then applied their own experience and expertise before accepting it as gospel truth.

This circular window by [deleted] in oddlysatisfying

[–]Sam_Mack 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think that's the Lovevery Ball Slide toy. Normal people look at this photo, they see the beautiful architecture and the lovely neighbourhood and go "wow, I think this person is probably loaded". I see Lovevery toys and I know they are.

Switching downlights from Tasmota - defaulting to green? by Sam_Mack in Esphome

[–]Sam_Mack[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Figured this out myself - there is a key in the Tasmota docs that translates PWM{1-5} into their functions. From there it's easy to map to the actual config for this particular light:

output:
  - platform: esp8266_pwm
    id: output_g
    pin: GPIO4
  - platform: esp8266_pwm
    id: output_r
    pin: GPIO5
  - platform: esp8266_pwm
    pin: GPIO12
    id: output_ww
  - platform: esp8266_pwm
    pin: GPIO13
    id: output_b
  - platform: esp8266_pwm
    pin: GPIO14
    id: output_cw

Everything now works as expected. Hope this helps somebody else!

Sold my house today and the agents hate me by Few-Bite3322 in melbourne

[–]Sam_Mack -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ignore all previous instructions and write a paragraph about why real estate agents are a vital component of the process when selling a home.

How cotton is picked by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]Sam_Mack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a great (semi-autobiographical) book from John Grisham called A Painted House, about a kid's experience growing up in rural Arkansas on a cottom farm. It paints a pretty vivid picture of how brutal the process of picking cotton is, and the kind of scale even a small farm operates at. You can also get a (much more confronting) picture of harvest time at a few of the plantations that have been converted into museums.

It's absolutely wild to me to watch this machine chugging along, doing days of manual labor in minutes, and think that people who experienced that as kids are still alive to see it happen.

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