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DeltaTangoLima

@ DeltaTangoLima @reddrefuge.com

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Just an Aussie tech guy - home automation, ESP gadgets, networking. Also love my camping and 4WDing.

Be a good motherfucker. Peace.

  • What is the proudest you have ever been towards your significant other?

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  • Watching her give birth to our daughter. No drugs. Just natural child birth (in a hospital).

    Years later, discussing childbirth with her (now) 20yo daughter (my step daughter), when asked why she did it that way for all three of her kids, she simply said it was something she wanted go go through, to feel connected to the experience of having her kids.

    Awe and pride don't even begin to explain what I felt (and still feel) for my wife.

  • Is there a place I can give review/rating to any random object or service?

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  • Where do you host your self hosted piped instance so it's ip doesn't get blocked by youtube?

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  • Entirely self-hosted at home, on Proxmox. My Piped server (as well as many others) can only reach the internet via my Mullvad VPN.

  • Large crowd of protesters gather at Land Forces defence expo in Melbourne's CBD

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  • Protesting is a fundamental democratic right

    Peaceful protesting, sure. A lot of what we saw today was far from that.

  • Could I patent harmful technology to prevent it from being put on the market?

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  • Well, thanks for the fall down that particularly horrifying rabbit hole. I can only imagine the pain these women went through, given this was at a time that predates anaesthesia.

  • Bollards installed in Melbourne CBD as tens of thousands anti-war protesters plan blockade

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  • Unfortunately not. I need to park nearby in case I have to go to another one of our work locations out west. Public transport isn’t an option for those locations, and I need my vehicle.

  • Bollards installed in Melbourne CBD as tens of thousands anti-war protesters plan blockade

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  • Jesus. I hope all the fuckery is done by the 16th. MCEC is the only place I can park when I have to go into our city office.

  • Thousands of anti-war activists to disrupt weapons expo as Melbourne braces for biggest protest in decades

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  • Nah. Won’t let me access at all unless I login.

  • Thousands of anti-war activists to disrupt weapons expo as Melbourne braces for biggest protest in decades

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  • Looks like The Guardian is putting some news behind logins now. Shame.

  • Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body

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  • Absolutely nothing bad could ever come of this

  • Is it good employer strategy to pay my employees just enough so that they can't save money, so that they can never walk away from the job?

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  • If your strategy as an employer is how to keep your people in indentured servitude, that makes you a cunt. Be a good boss - help your employees achieve their goals and get to the next step in their career. That will help you attract newer talent when you need it.

  • FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist

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  • Oh, sure. I get that. Sending yourself reminders is absolutely understandable. Sending yourself documented evidence of your plans to defraud someone is entirely different.

  • Entity control from iOS widget

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  • I use Shortcuts with NFC tags to automate some stuff with HA, and could probably achieve something on an entity by entity basis.

    My point is that we used to have the ability to put a widget on the screen with about 6 or 8 entities on it, for simple, single-click access. And now we don't. Seems silly to have taken it away from us.

  • FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist

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  • In a 2017 email to himself, Smith calculated that he could stream his songs 661,440 times daily, potentially earning $3,307.20 per day and up to $1.2 million annually.

    Great idea, but why would you email yourself about it?

  • Afternoon, officer, I'd like to report a collision

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  • Maybe the cop lives there, decided to bring his work with him

  • TGx down?

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  • Isn't the picture from Logan?

    Edit: oh, it's called johntucker.jpg.

  • "I want to hold them captive all day long:" Australian mining boss opposes staff leaving office for coffee

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  • lol - what abuse? He said these things in an earnings presentation, probably to board and investors.

    All I'm saying is that the headline itself smacks of outrage reporting, and there's no more substance in the article itself to add context to what he said, and how. So, I choose to engage a little critical thinking and consider that he might have been responding to a investor question along the lines of, "This is a mining company - why the fuck are you spending money on a restaurant and childcare centre?".

    And I don't see any evidence anywhere that his people are enduring shit jobs. Their building has a restaurant, a gym and a childcare centre. Putting aside his choice of words, it sounds like he's investing heavily in trying to alleviate employee pain points, so he gets the best out of them. I'm not seeing anything anywhere where he's forcing people to work long hours, or for shit pay, or under any number of other shitty circumstances.

    Like I said: outrage reporting.

  • TikTok must face U.S. lawsuit over the platform's viral “blackout challenge” that several parents blame for their children’s deaths, an appeals court ruled

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  • Later in the same comment I mention how I think social media only benefits the corporations that run it.

    It’s pretty clear what I meant.

  • "I want to hold them captive all day long:" Australian mining boss opposes staff leaving office for coffee

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  • As the one calling the shots, he’s entitled to run the business that way.

    As employees in a free society, his people are free to leave if they don’t like it.

    If he turns out to be wrong and the arse falls out of the company as a result, the board will hold him accountable.

    No one is forced to do anything here. Everyone is able to make decisions that change their outcomes.

  • "I want to hold them captive all day long:" Australian mining boss opposes staff leaving office for coffee

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  • Honestly, this headline is outrage reporting at its finest.

    It sounds to me like this guy was simply paraphrasing (in an earnings call) his desire to encourage people to stay in the office for a more complete day. He's backing that up by alleviating a lot of the reasons for people to spend time away from the office: restaurant, gym, and even a childcare centre with doctors and nurses.

    It's not like he's locking the doors until 5pm each day.