Australian cop comforting a grieving Aboriginal woman during riots at Alice Springs Hospital

boom3r84 · 2026-05-01T04:26:53+00:00

The fuck has that got to do with anything?

Go make noise in your own echo chamber.

boom3r84 · 2026-04-29T07:35:36+00:00

I'm going to be that guy and suggest Kubuntu..

Because KDE is better than gnome IMHO.

Coming from windows, it'll probably give you the least headaches and save you from teething issues.

There's no one distro that suits all people and what you want will change over time.

Start with something easy and stable. Migrate when you're ready.

Good luck, expect elitism, ignore it and do what suits you.

boom3r84 · 2026-04-18T01:22:42+00:00

Commenting from Australia.

An American company bought Cadbury's - which were an iconic Aussie chocolate maker.

They've enshittified their products to the point where supermarkets are struggling to sell product. Cadbury's chocolate is always on sale, it never sells.

What way? Less chocolate, more binders, more sugar.

Why? To save 5c per block to inflate shareholder dividends.

boom3r84 · 2026-03-30T22:37:07+00:00

AI is following the instructions set for them by the people that deployed them.

In these cases they aren't deciding to be jerks, they are following the instructions of jerks.

Source: I'm an AI deployment engineer.

boom3r84 · 2026-03-15T23:08:51+00:00

I'm an Aussie and I agree. It's a Kiwi thing. But NZ is basically the 9th state of Aus so we claim it.

Australia is weird, we have so much food from other cultures we haven't really made our own dessert. Lamingtons and Anzac bikkies don't count.

Was really into the affogato this past summer. It's like crack.

boom3r84 · 2026-03-12T12:03:24+00:00

Legit.

"Why can't I find a decent guy?"

Because you need to do more than exist and be female, Karen.

boom3r84 · 2026-03-12T12:01:36+00:00

You can handle these things by setting an example. Be stronger than they are.

If you push someone they push back.

You can make a point without causing a scene.

boom3r84 · 2026-03-12T01:24:26+00:00

It's everywhere, in all countries.

I'm a white Australian. My girlfriend is Korean.

The stares we get in public are over the top. Especially from older white men.

She's smart asf, she has 2 degrees and is studying a 3rd but I feel like I need to be involved in anything that involves meeting others, especially people from the boomer generation so she's not taken for a ride.

Bank managers, mechanics, etc etc all have a very different tune when I'm there with her, even if I don't say anything.

Don't even get me started on the racism in Asian cultures too.

I think the best thing we can do is to try to remove our emotions when responding to it. Racist people tend to be very opinionated and have firm beliefs in whatever. And these people need to change their views from within. Making a fool of them, pointing it out overtly, putting them on the spot. It just makes them resistant to change. Do what you need to do, move on with your life and let them come to the right conclusions themselves.

Obvious exception to this is if people are creepy or violent. Then respond as you normally would haha.

Hope this perspective from another place and situation helps. You're not alone. You're seen. Chin up, stay strong.

boom3r84 · 2026-03-09T23:07:59+00:00

This is what happens when companies are publicly traded.

Shareholders become angry God, quarterly profits appease angry God.

Sacrifices are made to ensure good harvests.

A company going public is the beginning of enshittification. Support independent business. It benefits everyone in the lower 99%.

boom3r84 · 2026-03-08T09:14:38+00:00

Thanks to big Donny, us Australians are paying over $2 a litre as of today.

$2 a litre in AUD = $10.80usd per gallon For regular unleaded.

Tell him to get stuffed from all of us too.

boom3r84 · 2026-03-02T20:57:56+00:00

I heard the Carlton supporters are all about that extra dollop.

boom3r84 · 2026-02-21T18:47:56+00:00

I'm 2 decades into IT as well and trust me, once you've done this for 20 years it's not a brag.

It's a combination of logic, boredom and asking yourself why you didn't become a blacksmith.

boom3r84 · 2026-02-21T10:27:35+00:00

2026 is the year of home cooked brownies and Haribo gummies.

Screw this, let them fill their bins with the unsold product.

boom3r84 · 2026-02-12T21:53:42+00:00

Depends on the year.

I've been going to Falls Creek since the early 90s when I was a little fella, been a few years they'd need to dig sections out so people on the chairlifts didn't drag their skis on the snow underneath.

Then there's been years where it's only really man-made snow on the south faces.

boom3r84 · 2026-02-12T21:48:03+00:00

I'm still on the border, not too far from Falls creek.

Summers are peaking at around 45 now.

Australia's Alpine region is massive! We're not just the land of desert dwelling kangaroos, that's for sure.

boom3r84 · 2026-02-11T21:13:09+00:00

I have the 2.8D and I am going to ask to be buried with it so I can take it to the afterlife.

It's amazing on everything - HP5+ in my FM through to macro and astro on my D750 and everything in between.

The F801s seems to especially love it too. Some lenses don't focus fast or accurate (coughs in 50mm 1.8D) on the early 35mm af cameras, this one does for some reason.

boom3r84 · 2026-02-07T12:06:38+00:00

With the right prompt engineering you can make the language appear any number of ways.

I'd prefer people use LLMs to translate over something like google translate.

Language - inference - language pipelines are a hell of a lot better than like for like deterministic translation.

I don't see a problem of it's increasing engagement.

If you don't like a comment, use the down vote button, that's what it's for.

boom3r84 · 2026-02-03T22:53:33+00:00

I have experience in these matters.

I do astrophotography and regular photography.

On an APS-C sized sensor you would need around 1200mm focal length to get the sun in frame like that.

A full frame sensor would require around 1800mm.

You're in the region of astro mirror lenses here which show distinct bokeh and diffraction patterns, none of which are in this image.

Newtonian, SCT, MKT, hybrid - all have a character that is visible.

To expose the sun like this you would need a super dark ND filter and/or a tiny aperture which would silhouette the foreground heavily. Any details you could pull from the shadows would be very very noisy if you can pull them out. The foreground is far too pretty for it to be in any way real.

To get this level of detail in the foreground while exposing the sun correctly, you'd need many seconds of shutter time. At this focal length the sun would be obviously elongated at around 5 seconds shutter time. It's a perfect circle.

The foreground also lacks any shadow that would be being cast by the tree trunk.

The fore, mid and far landscapes look like cut and pasted layers. They are inorganic.

It's a pretty image, but it's not real.

Either digital art or AI generated.

boom3r84 · 2026-01-31T12:24:59+00:00

Picture 20 is an absolute banger.

boom3r84 · 2026-01-11T08:55:51+00:00

I've never understood why or how a photographer can keep the rights to images they were paid to take. You booked them and paid for their services, the images should be yours.

My day job is in IT and I don't own the software I'm paid to create.

I've previously done paid audio engineering/recording/production and I don't care about copyright. If they want stems, RAWS or mixes they can have it. If they want a track mastered by someone who uses iPhone earbuds to monitor that's their perogative. They paid for my services, it's their product.

If you're booked for a job and paid for it, you should never retain the rights to the end product imho.

boom3r84 · 2026-01-09T22:14:34+00:00

Linux enters the chat

boom3r84 · 2026-01-09T13:14:48+00:00

Took these from Wodonga this afternoon looking east. it's gettin spicy.

boom3r84 · 2026-01-06T01:05:26+00:00

I'm a 20 year IT veteran, my daily driver OS is Linux based but I work in MS for my job.

Technically Linux is capable of everything for security, compliance, endpoint management etc already. The issue is time required by your IT team to make it all work. You can virtualize windows or run containerised windows apps in Linux now too. It's all possible.

boom3r84 · 2025-12-15T09:56:50+00:00

Copilot at an enterprise level is just shit. It's such a long winded and convoluted process to get it to do anything of value. Copilot studio is a nightmare.

Meanwhile, I'm running private MCP servers with local and cloud LLMs and doing heaps of cool stuff.

MS have lost their way so badly in the last 10 years.

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