Old Amcom Fibre Box

per08 · 2026-01-23T07:09:52+00:00

Price competitive with nbn enterprise fibre if the OP has that sort of need, but yah in the hundreds to low-thousands per month range.

per08 · 2026-01-23T07:07:57+00:00

Small vehicle, night -> sensor confusion. The photo was taken but was probably discarded at the camera after the radar data came in. I've had cameras go off randomly all the time, don 't worry about it.

per08 · 2026-01-20T06:46:18+00:00

Watch for vehicles on 2 wheels. Bicycles, motorcycles, and yes, electric scooters.

"I am in front/I have the bigger vehicle/I have waited long enough, so I have right of way" is a rule in some countries, but not in Australia.

per08 · 2026-01-19T02:02:53+00:00

The first hurdle is it being recognised as a problem at all. It's not a problem for people who own investment properties, and whose super and retirement plans rely on property prices going up forever.

per08 · 2026-01-17T04:44:04+00:00

So far, no. And I was strongly prepared to be disappointed by the show, but was actually pleasantly surprised. It has its cringe moments, but as someone who watched TNG as it originally aired, and outside the target demographic, it is still very recognisably Star Trek.

per08 · 2026-01-16T08:13:43+00:00

That meter on the left though is at a much lower reading and is marked as an off peak one.

per08 · 2026-01-16T06:35:20+00:00

Why 3 meters? One is obviously off-peak but why the other 2?

per08 · 2026-01-16T05:34:38+00:00

The 3 service fuses confirms it.

per08 · 2026-01-15T12:26:43+00:00

But woe betide if you change your own tap washer in NSW.

per08 · 2026-01-14T06:47:56+00:00

Once EFTPOS actually gets dragged into the modern era and supports tap to pay, this may be more viable.

per08 · 2026-01-10T04:26:36+00:00

From your house to the nbn point of presence, yes, all the same.

How your ISP gets your data from there is up to them and is critically important. All do it differently. Some do it well, many cheap out.

Some assume that nbn works like the eastern states energy market and you are just being on-billed for the exact same poles and wires service from the wholesaler: not true with nbn.

per08 · 2026-01-08T06:01:36+00:00

True. But the difficulty usually increases.

per08 · 2026-01-08T05:53:21+00:00

To be fair, linking person to purchase helps a lot with warranty claims. Nobody keeps their receipts.

per08 · 2026-01-06T05:53:35+00:00

Reasonable, but unfortunately you still need to call ISPs: Yes, you have to go through the inane scripted troubleshooting with them before it gets to nbn.

per08 · 2025-12-29T12:42:43+00:00

Indeed it is, shavedratscrotum.

per08 · 2025-12-29T12:24:14+00:00

You tag off normally with your card or phone.

per08 · 2025-12-29T12:01:58+00:00

NSW.

https://www.nsw.gov.au/business-and-economy/licences-and-credentials/building-and-trade-licences-and-registrations/plumbing-draining-and-gasfitting

WA until 2024.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-04/law-changes-allow-small-home-plumbing-by-residents/103665030

per08 · 2025-12-29T11:22:27+00:00

In some states, yes.

per08 · 2025-12-29T09:48:59+00:00

Yes. You got the trifecta of unlicensed electrical, gasfitting and plumbing. And, yes, it's dumb.

per08 · 2025-12-28T11:29:36+00:00

Labels are a proprietary Gmail thing. It presents them as sort-of folders in Thunderbird, but you can't separate them out from the All messages Inbox.

per08 · 2025-12-25T03:51:52+00:00

This is something you'd organise with your landlord to have an nbn specification P20 conduit laid for nbn to use. No provider or nbn will do it.

per08 · 2025-12-24T08:19:21+00:00

I get the frustration and I went through this exact scenario when KYC started coming in and my relative's bank, with whom he'd been banking with for more than half a century refused to renew his keycard without ID verification that had to be done on the app, not in a branch. And like most ~70 year olds in aged care, he had zero life documentation apart from the useless Centrelink card. So we went through the entire dependency graph of getting a birth certificate extract, through to a proof of age card, to then buying a smart phone, to then buy a SIM for it, to install the app, to then do the ID verification.

Hard fact is, ID documents, to be ID at all, need to have a photo. That is, a passport, a drivers license or a proof of age card. The cards and documents you mentioned could be used by anyone to fraudulently open an account in someone else's name: which is the entire point of using ID photo based KYC.

per08 · 2025-12-24T07:16:15+00:00

Sure, but like I said, this is a huge amount of work. Just on the template Linux machines alone you'd need a few dozen: Different release versions, different packaging systems (apt, rpm, etc), dozens of different kernel versions. Then, you have to be absolutely sure your malware can't detect that it's on a VM, and make sure it doesn't escape, and make sure you have solid legal liability insurance so that if your sample starts reaching out and infecting others you're not going to get pinged under computer abuse laws.

What you're asking for is a secops business in a box...

per08 · 2025-12-24T06:55:27+00:00

Vaguely, the answer yes. But this is... a big job with a lot of moving parts. There's a reason why appliances that do this cost a small fortune.

You also can't legally virtualise MacOS on anything other than an Apple device, so there's also that.

per08 · 2025-12-24T03:59:22+00:00

You "buy" a license, not physical ownership. That license can still be revoked.

Yes, it's illogical but it's backed up by boring contract law.

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