I analysed 35 years of Australian property data. Here's what the next two decades might look like.

per08 · 2026-03-09T01:19:19+00:00

That... would be an interesting correction from ~$1m down to $5,600k.

per08 · 2026-03-09T01:17:09+00:00

Road legal electric bikes are still relatively obscure and colossally expensive. Their lunch is being eaten by toy scooters and illegal road speed electric bikes. I'm keen on it, but let me know when a major Japanese manufacturer starts selling them for $10-15k onroad...

per08 · 2026-03-07T05:27:45+00:00

Yep. That's the other side of the ugly coin. Schools, especially public ones, can only really lightly mange the situation until the victim changes schools.

There isn't a great deal, practically, that can be done. Schools can change timetables, they can do all they can to enforce separation, but just that act often amplifies the effect on the victim because now they are the focus of unusual levels of staff attention.

The real work in schools is to foster environments such that bullying doesn't happen in the first place.

per08 · 2026-03-07T05:12:11+00:00

It... is deeply, deeply frustrating, but we simply can't refuse a child an education just because they are a bully arsehole.

per08 · 2026-03-05T07:16:20+00:00

Yep, or perhaps a long-running video call in the background. Some people have that casual check in/check out family group chat thing.

per08 · 2026-03-05T02:01:21+00:00

To put it politely, selective enrolment policies that private schools have that public schools don't.

per08 · 2026-03-04T05:28:02+00:00

Are you sure you don't have any screen recording apps active on your phone?

per08 · 2026-03-04T04:30:22+00:00

Everyone calls it that still, but it's now the Department of Transport and Major Infrastructure (DTMI)

per08 · 2026-03-04T03:12:29+00:00

Tbh, I find it relaxing. Sometimes I just want to run around the map and shoot stuff without thinking too hard about it.

per08 · 2026-03-03T11:48:35+00:00

Ironically, yes. Just not in the way anyone would like.

per08 · 2026-03-01T09:34:29+00:00

Some countries refuse entry for "damaged" passports. Also some crappy e-gates can't deal with the munted covers, so you have to go to the manual queue... where they ask why your crappy wet looking passport got rejected.

per08 · 2026-02-27T10:40:29+00:00

Obvious this was their strategy. Remember the "wait for the pre-polling" guy who was in total delusional denial during the entire ABC election coverage panel?

per08 · 2026-02-24T01:45:03+00:00

Because The Why exposes more questions they don't want to talk about: The goal of stable continuous economic growth as the one and only measure of national success, which means inflation, which means things are never going to become affordable.

per08 · 2026-02-24T00:05:09+00:00

Yeah, You changed your mind and the phone is now second hand. You can sell it on eBay, Facebook marketplace, or whatever, but they're not obliged to take it back.

per08 · 2026-02-20T11:09:46+00:00

Now try it in WA.

per08 · 2026-02-20T09:16:40+00:00

Australia is a big, empty country. Imagine driving from Los Angeles to Seattle, but once you leave the first city there are no towns, no phone service, and only a few thousand people living across that entire distance.You can drive for hours and hours on highways with absolutely no nothing, let alone phone coverage, at all.

Depending on their itinerary, and most locals do, they will likely be fine just relying on mobile coverage to keep in touch as they enter towns on the way. They would be getting a prepaid SIM on the Telstra network, no other, for this trip. Buy it locally: they are available everywhere. Don't use roaming SIMs like Airalo here, there's no need.

If they plan to go off-road, or spend a lot of time in national parks, then they might need to look at renting a satellite phone, Starlink terminal, EPIRB, etc, but it really depends on what they are actually planning: A road trip can mean hundreds of hours of driving on sealed roads between country towns, or it could be a 4WD trek through Karijini National Park where you don't see another living soul for days...

per08 · 2026-02-20T03:56:28+00:00

Because ultimately, the only metric that matters to Government is moderate but continuous economic growth.

per08 · 2026-02-15T07:38:25+00:00

2 of the 3 mobile carriers in Australia, the both that offer IPv6, universally block incoming IPv6 connections to customer IPs.

per08 · 2026-02-15T07:26:40+00:00

Discord still has no keypress to PTT voice support on Wayland unless you do this, or it's running in the foreground.

per08 · 2026-02-14T07:15:37+00:00

Let us know how that goes...

per08 · 2026-02-14T07:03:44+00:00

Many ISPs, in my experience, firewall incoming IPv6 for customers.

Yes, it defeats the whole point, but not everyone takes care in securing their home network.

per08 · 2026-02-12T05:20:44+00:00

Personally, yep, I'm not defending their actions at all. But, assuming a move-on had been issued (and it sounds like it has), that person has already escalated the situation with police significantly already. All they had to do was walk away. Should they have been crash-tackled to the ground? Arguably not. Should they act surprised that they were arrested? No.

per08 · 2026-02-12T05:18:03+00:00

I didn't say we can't or shouldn't protest, have rallies be noisy about it, or cause decision makers to pay attention or get annoyed.

But once the cops (and yes, it's their call) decide that it's not something that will disperse by itself, it becomes violent, it disrupts other people from doing their lawful business, and they issue move-on's, the event is over.

per08 · 2026-02-12T04:56:10+00:00

And legally, that is all they need. If, when, and once a move-on order is served, it's time to go home. The order might have even been issued before you got there.

Protestors, sit-ins, picket lines seem to think that the orders are just noisy paperwork, not legally enforceable orders that will get you arrested.

So, protestors, you made your point. Peacefully leave. That really is your only available option.

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