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WaterWaiver

@ WaterWaiver @aussie.zone

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I once met a person that never drank water, only soft drinks. It's not the unhealthiness of this that disturbed me, but the fact they did it without the requisite paperwork.

Unlike those disorganised people I have a formal waiver. I primarily drink steam and crushed glaciers.

  • Abandoned bell tower in Banitsa, Greece

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  • Lots of rural Greece is abandoned. Not much work there any more.

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    Boats

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  • Is it parked in the middle of the road? Love it :3

  • Discussion Thread 🍎 Saturday 4 April 2026

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  • Perhaps it's an indicator of local financial stress? I used to find thrown out working or near working printers in my area, not any more.

  • Just a friendly welcome post

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  • Wait, you're not an alt of Kolanaki? GET EM!

  • The voters have spoken

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  • RamptantParanoia is sans Brackium Emendo, what is there to worry about?

  • The voters have spoken

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  • Sans Brackium Emendo, thus you're fine by me.

  • How the Iran war could derail the AI boom

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  • He (He1) gas molecules are absolutely tiny, they love to leak through everything.

  • Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

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  • Crap, I do not.

  • Feelin' a little doomed, ngl (AnonHistory)

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  • I love the unchanged guy on the left.

  • Is anyone able to identify this fried component?

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  • Is it a 3-terminal device? You may have to desolder it to find out. That also lets you poke around with the insides (hollow? layers?)

    Probably a capacitor, either 2 terminal or 3 terminal. I was originally thinking GDT but it looks like even the SMD varieties are mostly cylindrical shaped rather than rectangular prism.

  • Blaring sirens on smartphones to warn Australians of major disasters under emergency alerts overhaul

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  • Some places in the world probably abuse it for non-emergencies. Imagine the reach for marketing!

  • Fire ant eradication attempts may be helping the invaders, study finds

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  • The study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aec.70174 (not free)

    I hate news articles that do not link to their sources and I hate paywalled science. If people have no legal or free way of verifying the claims made then they'll choose sides from these news articles based on rhetoric, not science.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Music/poem mashup

    Highways and Byways

  • lightbulbs

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  • plus a phosphorus layer on top that smooths those two perfect lightwave color peaks in the wavelength domain into a broader light spectrum

    The phosphor absorbs some of the blue and downconverts it to green and red. Some of the blue is let through for us to see. The mixture of R, G and B looks like white to us (but not necessarily to other animals with different cones in their eyes).

    2 kinds of light emiting diode (LED) junctions inside - red and blue

    I've never seen a red LED die inside a white LED. I've only ever seen blue dies on their own.

    Technically UV-pumped white LEDs exist, but they're rare and I've never seen one. They're less efficient and require a third phosphor (to make the blue).

    You can remove the yellowish looking phosphors on the LED with a small pick to reveal the blue die underneath. Fun fact: some high-power "red" LEDs are actually blue leds + phosphors, not that it's a particularly good choice but it's a thing: https://halestrom.net/darksleep/blog/018_led_cob_cutting/

  • Shikaku of the Day [2026-02-01]

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  • Master was easy (18 mins), still stuck on the expert one though. My solutions almost work :(

  • The copyrightability of fonts revisited: Matthew Butterick

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  • Site seems offline now, says "Closed Jan 30th"

  • One flash, one packet?

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  • Something to be wary of when interpreting the datasheet:

    • Act10 = LED blinking when Ethernet packets transmitted/received at 10Mbps.
    • Act100 = ...
    • Act1000 = ...

    Bad wording on their part. What they really mean is: "LED blinking when Ethernet packets transmitted/received AND the link is currently in a XYZMbps link speed mode". The mode is negotiated once after you plug a cable in and usually does not change after that, regardless of how much data you try to send.

    Technically each linkspeed/mode is a whole ethernet standard of its own, but we mostly gloss over that and pretend to end users that they're backwards compatible.

  • A new look for Snikket on Android

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  • Similar here.

    Family is mostly OK on it. We used to have issues with iOS devices not noticing some new messages & calls, but that seems to have stopped a few months ago. Family is usually impatient about me getting to my phone and rings me using 3 different services in a row, one of them Snikket xD

    Have not yet managed to get any friends onto it.

  • Anon goes to therapy

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  • My boss told me this is due to the skills shortage.

  • OpenWRT router

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  • Thing is, its EOL, per Asus. Does this mean that it won’t be supported on OpenWRT for much longer?

    OpenWRT tends to support devices longer and better than the OEM, but it depends on the popularity of the chipset inside the router.

    Many different routers by different companies are almost identical internally, because they use the same chipset. Eg the RT-AC3100 seems to be a bcm53xx variant, of which OpenWRT supports a few dozen products. Support will probably only be dropped when every single one of those devices goes EOL and several years pass (ie no people left contributing/maintaining it and the builds break somehow).

    Router chipsets can be very long lived. Many new devices use decade old chipset designs. Some chipset families have almost identical chips released every few years with slightly different peripherals, clocks & pinouts; but are supported by the same kernel drivers.

    (This is all much better than the world of mobile phone hardware support. Maybe it's because of different market pressures? Not to mention you don't have a monopoly that benefits from keeping the hardware fractured. Imagine if people could make a competitor to Android that works across most devices)

  • Australian News @aussie.zone
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    ABC Mediawatch: possible link between new social media online age requirements and appeasing the gambling industry

  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    abc.net.au/news/?future=false no longer works

  • Electronics @discuss.tchncs.de
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    Pretty part of the week: Lian Xin XDMD camera autofocus coils

  • AusFinance @aussie.zone
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    Bait and switch: my mum just tried changing to Sumo for electricity, they signed her up to a more expensive plan with a different tariff to what was discussed over the phone.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ca
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    Drive Though Supermarket Concepts (3 videos)

  • Electronics @discuss.tchncs.de
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    Wifi networks and home automation systems are expected to last 50+ years.

  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    Don't send that Plutonium guy to jail

  • Electronics @discuss.tchncs.de
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    Cursed schematic symbol of the week: carcinised NPN

  • Electronics @discuss.tchncs.de
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    Unexpected use of FR2 of the week: Phenolic gears

  • Electronics @discuss.tchncs.de
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    Pretty part of the week: Murata Chip EMIFIL LC (tiny little handlebar L-C-L filters)

  • Pictures @aussie.zone
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    Found a small cave under my house

  • Electronics @discuss.tchncs.de
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    Pretty part of the week: Ruishen RSCM11548 3-winding common-mode choke

  • Ask Science @lemmy.world
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    Air conditioner efficiency: what do they change other than using more materials?

  • AusLegal @aussie.zone
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    NSW

    What happens if you fall ill or have an adventure during jury duty?

  • What is this thing? @lemmy.world
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    Steel pipe with brass barb and white-green filling found in bushland

  • On the Telly @aussie.zone
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    AI edited history program on SBS, "Apocalypse D-Day" (2024)

    www.sbs.com.au /ondemand/watch/2374216259693
  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    Old theme ABC news link

    www.abc.net.au /news
  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    Media Release: The BOM issues a warning for a G4 geomagnetic storm

    media.bom.gov.au /releases/1224/the-bureau-issues-a-warning-for-a-g4-geomagnetic-storm/
  • Aussie Enviro @aussie.zone
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    Bushcare at Wolli Creek: Met a turtle