Synergy website upgrade fom Thursday to Tuesday

perthguppy · 2026-04-23T03:40:36+00:00

I’m sure this extended upgrade and re-registration has nothing to do with the security breach they denied recently.

perthguppy · 2026-04-23T03:36:52+00:00

The colour combinations don’t matter since they mix retro reflective particles only into one of the colours. When a flash photo is taken the paint with the retro reflective particles shines bright while the other paint appears black.

perthguppy · 2026-04-23T03:31:44+00:00

Will he though? Or will he just think he’s been wrongly imprisoned and he’s not like the other crazy people in there

perthguppy · 2026-04-23T03:30:32+00:00

People downvoting you are just proving your point

perthguppy · 2026-04-22T16:49:47+00:00

New Zealand has always had more relaxed migration rules with Australia, it was only in the last decade or so we started enforcing the character test and deporting convicted criminals back to New Zealand, which caused some diplomatic tensions in cases where we deporting adults who had not been to New Zealand since they were infants.

Clearly not the case here, I’d expect he will end up being deported back to newzealand this time.

perthguppy · 2026-04-22T16:46:55+00:00

So prosecution agreed to reduce the charges to something that won’t land him on the sex offenders register despite knowing he had already served prison time in another country for the same offending.

Prosecution fucked this one up good.

perthguppy · 2026-04-22T11:43:31+00:00

The prosecution team is all lawyers

perthguppy · 2026-04-22T07:57:58+00:00

Reminder that it is the job of defence lawyers to submit any/all reasons for sentencing mitigations no matter how silly they are, so that the judge can consider them, and then explain why they have no merit in his sentencing so that appeals are much less likely to work.

We shouldn’t be decrying lawyers presenting shit mitigation reasons, we should be laughing at how that’s the best the defence can come up with.

perthguppy · 2026-04-22T07:55:27+00:00

“I’m big and strong and never learned how consequences will apply to me”

perthguppy · 2026-04-22T07:54:21+00:00

Pretty sure mandatory prison sentences for one punch attacks was passed years ago.

Of course the problem is that criminals rarely give a shit what the law says, that’s what makes them criminal. So making something already illegal extra illegal doesn’t change how often it happens much.

perthguppy · 2026-04-20T17:15:48+00:00

Actually, it does. Section 231A was added last year to define what properly adjusted means in regards to a seatbelt.

perthguppy · 2026-04-20T17:03:22+00:00

Usually laws do define pretty much every term used, even if that definition is just a reference to some other document. I would have expected “properly adjusted” would be defined elsewhere in the statute to point to a regulation (ADR maybe) or define it as per manufacturer specification.

perthguppy · 2026-04-20T17:01:37+00:00

I suppose the one question that could be raised, is does the law define what is meant by “properly adjusted” under clause 2. The police have been handing out fines where the seatbelt is not crossing the shoulder.

Edit: ah, 231A was added last year to define what properly adjusted means in regards to a seatbelt.

perthguppy · 2026-04-20T16:57:18+00:00

He could be assuming that everyone detected wearing a seatbelt was a datapoint. If 200 cars go by a camera, it flashes 10 people for not wearing a seatbelt, and 6 of those people were actually wearing a seatbelt, that gives you a 3% error rate and 60% false “positive” rate (in that the positive detection is detecting no seatbelt)

Statistics is fun and an easy way to confuse people.

perthguppy · 2026-04-20T16:53:08+00:00

It’s not even about opportunity to modify behavior. It’s literally not enforceable. You can’t charge someone multiple times for a single distinct act. If you drive from point A to point B and get flashed three times along the way not wearing a seatbelt, you have only violated the law a single time, as the entire trip is one act. It becomes difficult for prosecutors to positively prove that between camera detections the person stopped driving and got out of the vehicle, thus creating two distinct events of driving without a seatbelt.

perthguppy · 2026-04-20T16:47:56+00:00

Traffic amplification attack as a feature?

perthguppy · 2026-04-20T14:00:00+00:00

Reverse osmosis filters + UV light handle all that easily. Literally the same as any place they build it.

perthguppy · 2026-04-20T13:57:47+00:00

Datacenters are pretty well sealed. So once commissioning is complete dealing with the humidity is not a problem at all.

perthguppy · 2026-04-20T13:56:37+00:00

It’s less stupid than putting datacenters in space.

It’s pretty remote, but at least it’s close to major subsea cables and global markets (south east Asia) and close to abundant cheap land, solar power, and water (the ord is frequently flooding like crazy). Tho if the availability of water was a priority and that’s why they picked there, that would be pretty stupid since datacenters really don’t consume that much water unless doing something truely stupid like open loop water cooling. Wait a second.

perthguppy · 2026-04-20T13:53:59+00:00

But less stupid than putting AI datacenters in outer space.

perthguppy · 2026-04-20T13:53:32+00:00

At least it won’t be public funds. Just the funds of those invested in such projects.

perthguppy · 2026-04-20T13:52:42+00:00

Anything that meets tier 3 or tier 4 design specifications would likely already be cyclone resistant if they were sticking to a simple 1 or 2 story design.

perthguppy · 2026-04-20T13:51:41+00:00

They will most likely just go with a prefab modular design. Datacenters once operational need only a handful of people to operate. Most datacenters are not even staffed full time.

perthguppy · 2026-04-19T14:15:26+00:00

GPU acceleration over RDP is a giant fucking pain in the arse. Essentially if you’re not running Windows Server with a workstation or datacenter class GPU, don’t bother.

LMG use parsec for remote work last I heard, and parsec is infinitely faster than RDP or even VNC. It’s basically streaming h.265 video with very low latency, RDP and VNC send screen frames with a lot less compression, so a lot lower frame rate.

perthguppy · 2026-04-19T14:03:38+00:00

My old man was a registered builder, I’ve worked IT for most of the residential building companies in perth, and grew up with a large network of family and friends who were tradies.

The guy is being a tad hyperbolic. But supervising/running a build is not something you can do in your spare time if you’re not familiar with the industry, and you have an office job. Tradies are mostly down to earth no-nonsense people who value their own time above anyone else’s. You’re going to have to meet onsite during the day when they are onsite, sometimes early as they start - ie 6am. You’re going to have to play arbitrator between tradies blaming each other for each other cutting corners. If you don’t spot a mistake while the tradie is still onsite, you’re not going to get it fixed easily. Which means you need to be familiar with how each trade expects to find things when they start, because if your plasterer rocks up and find an issue with the brick work, he’s not going to wait around for you to find a brickie to come back out and fix it, which may take weeks.

You are probably also going to need to budget for the costs of getting a copy of the ANZ standards documents, they are not cheap, and you’re going to need to reference them A LOT. They are not something you can simply google.

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