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tavu

@ tavu @sopuli.xyz

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  • Aurora australis set to light up Australian sky as agencies monitor ‘severe’ solar storm

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  • Last night:

    May 2024 was better:
    April 2023:

    ...all from Melbourne's far outer west, using an old sony nex camera. Did my best to preserve it as perceived by my eyes. No enhancement or turning up the colour (like phones and some cameras do now with their baked-in AI enhancement).

  • Non-connected MP3/MP4 players

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  • Old phone which is supported by (even an old version of) LineageOS, kept permanently in airplane mode.

    Can be extra cheap in countries which have switched off 2G+3G networks, and old phones are more likely to have a headphone jack. You might even have one kicking around in a drawer.

    Audio output quality and headphone driving capability varies -- research on audio forums for what might be good. LG v-series were very good.

    If you're feeling adventurous you could crack it open and remove/short antennas & microphones and cameras.

    If it's usb-only or the audio section is poor quality, apple sell a cheap usb-c dac that's pretty good. (get it from a reputable source -- most are counterfeit).

  • Australia Post rival shuts operations without warning

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  • Good riddance. Yet another lowballing courier undercutting what should be a natural monopoly for standard parcels operated by public-owned AusPost (unless the Libs get in again and have a go at privatising it).

  • Last mile provider FAST Group's post-merger meltdown: PE-backer freezes fund amid financial red flags (tl;dr - Sendle no more)

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  • Good riddance. Yet another lowballing courier undercutting what should be a natural monopoly for standard parcels operated by public-owned AusPost (unless the Libs get in again and have a go at privatising it).

  • turning a raspberry pi 4B into a vpn router

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  • Usually they're normal x86 PCs with nothing unusual about them so just your Linux/BSD distro of choice. You can look up the processor model to see what crypto acceleration it can do, or see if there's any wireguard benchmarks available.

    Some have interesting processors like PowerPC, or other strange hardware, but avoid them unless interesting is what you're after.

  • turning a raspberry pi 4B into a vpn router

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  • You have the pi, give it a go.

    If it's inadequate then i'd recommend a used fanless thin-client type PC, such as a Wyse 5070, just make sure it comes with PSU and a few GB of RAM and SSD. And check reports of how much power it uses at idle.

  • I answered: Are VPNs essential?

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  • Most mass-marketed VPN services (the type marketed for accessing the internet) allow you to VPN into their private subnet where the thing you can access is their gateway router (which you use in place of your home gateway router/modem for connecting to the internet). You don't need a VPN service to use VPN software between two points you control.

  • RFK Jr admits to dumping bear carcass in New York's Central Park

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  • Plus, is he an abolitionist?

    Slavery, abortion, prison, or guns?

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  • ublock origin does not have this disclaimer. It works well and is widely trusted.

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  • If you're using Mozilla's level of endorsement as a metric, note this prominent disclaimer on the addon's page:

    ⚠️ This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing.

  • Yes, Australia’s big supermarkets have been price gouging. But fixing the problem won’t be easy

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  • landbanking

    Major conflict of interest for a big retailer to hold property beyond what they occupy themselves.

  • Thoughts on Google turning every device into a scanner for Find My Device?

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  • Nick Powell [horticulturalist] speaks up about Bunnings

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  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    Nick Powell [horticulturalist] speaks up about Bunnings

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    EM Eye: Electromagnetic Side-channel Eavesdropping on Embedded Cameras

    emeyeattack.github.io /Website/index.html

  • Free online screening of “Israelism” in Australia

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  • When: Mar 17, 6:00 PM AEDT

  • China revealed as country behind spy chief’s unnamed ‘A-Team’

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  • Spoiler (next season's twist): CIA also has an "A-Team".

  • Forking heck

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  • Apart from the pleasant one on the left, they're all the worst. The 4th from the right is almost good, but then you notice the creepy-as-fuck centre tine-gap length.

  • please don't use the dash

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  • ))<>((

  • Etherpad or Cryptpad

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  • Cryptpad:

    • Full-on google docs / office365 / libreoffice type replacement with collaboration.
    • E2EE
    • The complexity means it doesn't work well on mobile, takes a while to load on a slow connection, more frequent bugs. (3.5 MiB page transfer)
    • Self-hosting is complicated.

    Etherpad:

    • A competent collaborative rich-text editor. Doesn't do spreadsheets or presentations or [...].
    • Not E2EE (you need to trust that the server a bit more).
    • Lightweight, works on slower connections, works alright on mobile. (1.7 MiB page transfer)
    • Self-hosting quite simple.

    PrivateBin:

    • Super-simple plain-text/markdown pastebin. No editing possible once saved.
    • E2EE
    • Very small. Works fine on slow connections and mobile. (0.2 MiB page transfer)
    • Self-hosting very simple.

  • E-scooters are linked with injuries and hospital visits – but we can’t say they are riskier than bikes yet

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  • do cars, and don’t forget to include pollution.

    ..and the health effects of lowered physical activity, social isolation, stress of long commutes in traffic, inaccessibility of vital health and social services, ...and don't forget all the externalities to supply that 2 tons of vehicle, and fuel, and roads, etc.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    A ubiquitous tire rubber–derived chemical induces acute mortality in coho salmon

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding

    kitklarenberg.substack.com /p/signal-facing-collapse-after-cia
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Google docs infects html exports with google tracking redirects.

    fosstodon.org /@Joe_0237/111145684757912952
  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    Australia

    Government to overhaul privacy laws, including opting out of advertising, a right to be forgotten, and new rules for small businesses

    www.abc.net.au /news/2023-09-28/government-agrees-to-sweeping-privacy-reforms/102912458
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    tavu @sopuli.xyz
    Australia

    Government to overhaul privacy laws, including opting out of advertising, a right to be forgotten, and new rules for small businesses

    www.abc.net.au /news/2023-09-28/government-agrees-to-sweeping-privacy-reforms/102912458
  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    Energy $prices DOWN! Who's looking forward to the massive drop in the cost of their next electricity bill?

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    Pedestrians and cyclists implicated for their own mortality by Victoria Police in road safety education campaign. #australia

    themooraboolnews.com.au /pedestrians-be-aware/