I don’t have great hopes for the Australian election 6 months away.

ISPs often have SMTP relay servers. If you hook into that, your mail gets instant street cred.

It once played perfectly fine under WINE, then Roblox explicitly blocked it for no good reason.

They got the “Win” key into the ANSI 105 key layout and the ISO/IEC 9995 layout.

I actually hate it because I end up with a Microsoft logo on hardware that is supposed to be generic.

It’s funny how when I jumped to DDG a few years back, I felt like I was sacrificing the quality of results for better privacy.

These days you get the best of both.

The Melbourne demographics has changed wildly in the last 15 years. I’d suggest visiting first to make sure it’s still what you’re expecting.

It’s 16°C in Melbourne at 10:30AM right now.

1ml of water is 1g.

Here’s a Starbucks Espresso marked as 2g of protein per 100ml and 4.4g per serve.

The best example is the slab ‘o’ Coke from Woolies.

Sugar is marked as 10.6g/100ml and 39.8g per 375ml serve (yes, stupidly large), and 24 serves in the pack.

Syrups are typically sold in grams. But 200g of sugar and 100ml of water would be more than 100ml of total product by volume, and 300g by wileight. If anything, it would be labeled 66% sucrose because it’s one third water.

Australia does this right. Everything has a percentage.

Nutritional panels have:

• Serving size
• Servings in the pack
• Energy, sugar, fat salt. etc per 100ml or 100g, and per serving.

Alcoholic beverages have “standard drinks” per bottle which factors in ABV and volume.

I can quickly see that a drink has 9g sugar per 100ml and know it’s 9% sugar. Easy.

I think adblocking is the best thing I’ve done for my children.

They’re the friendliest ones.

I have stopped and set fire to three redback nests this week, but there’s a huntsman happily living in my garage right now who isn’t going to harm anyone.

It won’t even fix their car.

He stepped back from running his company and got into philanthropy. That’s what all billionaires should do.

Once you’ve taken enough, you’ve gotta work on how to give it all back.

The Australian government would have you believe that we’re in the middle of some kind of CP endemic and everyone needs to suffer for it.

This will catch precisely nobody, as the criminals will immediately move to a different platform, of which there are many.

I host my own mail. If the AFP want to inspect it, they’ll need a warrant.

I go wired. I use a pair of Sennheiser HD497 headphones I’ve had for 20 years. They still sound decent with a USB-C adapter at one end. It gets used daily on the train to work, and at work for zoom calls.

Everything about wireless annoys me. The price. The futzing around to pair it. The constant recharging. Having to “prepare” them before going out. The awful encoding artifacts. Radio interference. Walking around looking like an autistic kid with noise-cancelling earmuffs…

Windows doesn’t even have a software repo.

As a worst-case scenario, AFTL could just make you download it from the website and it would be exactly as bad as Windows UX.

Granted, but it divides by two multiple times. Take a good, round number like 1024 and you can halve it 10 times in a row.

The metric system handles thirds by just using multiples. Like, you buy a 1200 wide benchtop and then you can fit a three 400 drawers under it.

You could technically do the same in hex and the base numbers are all (x^y + x^(y+1)) which represent well.

Hexadecimal is always best.