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  • A lot of the major anger is coming from businesses and government and to be completely honest…

    If the system your business or government agency has implemented requires 100% up time and relies on a cellular network or any network or power grid for that matter, guess who’s responsible for ensuring that there is adequate redundancy to insure a outage does not occur or is very unlikely to occur…?

    Ding ding ding that’s you, you are the one responsible, or the person who you had design it and set the standard and enforce it…

    Business and government agencies/services implemented systems with a single point a failure to cut costs, when I absofuckinglutly guarantee that a network engineer brought up that maybe they should add redundancy and was shot down by bean counters.

    And now that it’s blown up in their fucking face they have turned around and are trying to redirect attention from shareholders and the public back on to Optus.

    Optus fucked up, but no more than if a power line came down when the power company had one of their trucks back into it and the power went out.

    If people are going to die if the shit you are designing doesn’t work, or you business is going to loose tons of money, that’s your responsibility to design and implement something that does not have a single point of failure.


  • Firstly it’s not a Max version.

    Second, the Australian airforce and Boeing developed this plane together and have already had it in service for many years with fantastic success and reliability.

    I believe the UK RAF also has some in service.

    It’s been operated with many of our allies on joint operations and sometimes with observers as they all knew that their AWACS fleets were in pretty desperate need to be replaced and were accessing it.

    It is by far the most capable platform of this type, and it’s a ready to go mature design that the countries looking to come on board have already been operating along side and supporting in real operations.



  • I just want my operating system:

    1. To have a logical settings layout, perform well, be stable

    2. Be fully and easily compatible with most mainstream programs and games without having to screw around too much.

    Give me back windows 7, add dx12 support, update the back end with any kernel and scheduler updates, call it windows gamer edition. Then fuck off out of my life Microsoft.

    Nobody wants to “use an operating system” we want to run programs and do it efficiently, i feel the vast majority of changes Microsoft has made since windows 7 ended has been to the detriment of that.

    I can only hope that now with Vulcan becoming more popular and the rise of steam os on the steam deck that we will start to see native Linux aaa games being a thing.


  • Almost 40% of most democratic country’s populations would probably agree with most dumb and provocative ideas presented in a poll… especially now days with how partisan everything has become.

    That said the Australia/ USA alliance is more important than any particular administration or head of government either our Australian government or the US government.

    It’s an alliance of enormous mutual benefit that frankly is not going anywhere.

    Australia is an enormous unsinkable aircraft carrier rich in resources, far enough from potential adversaries in the region to provide extremely strong defence in depth in the region. We use common platforms and tactics in battle, and have extensive integrated combat experience.

    Perhaps even more important than any of that, it would be politically unacceptable I believe to our populations to turn our back on each other at this point, so many of us have personal friends and family in each other’s country.

    We might occasionally have disagreements like any family does, and we might not like everything about each other but that’s how it goes with family. Any other country trying some shit I feel will find out fast that our alliance is stronger than it has ever been.

    The US, UK and Australia have a bond forged in the fire of conflict and quenched in blood, anyone who wants to try and fuck with one should probably be ready for a fight with all… not to be overly dramatic.






  • Oh man, look I don’t want to get into picking sides or whatever and it’s extremely cold hearted to look at is so frankly… but.

    Israel is going to completely annex all of Palestine by force and fully occupy them even more than before…

    They are already fully mobilising everything and looking steamroll anything that can’t get out of the way or that stands and fights.

    The general vibe I’m seeing is they will do their best to straight up crush everything once and for all, while they feel they have the geo political cover to probably get away with it.

    So many people are going to die.





  • 46c… lmfao what a stupid headline.

    That is absolutely NOT “hot”or “overheating” for a piece of tech under stress.

    The phone housing is the heat sync, and the phone is more powerful than many people’s few year old laptops.

    Not to defend apple but this is just trying to sensationalise and farm clicks, my pixel 7 used to get way hotter doing just normal tasks to the point I was getting overheat warnings and the screen would shut off.

    Now if it was more like 55c I could see that being an issue at least from a comfort standpoint.

    On top of this, pointing a thermal camera as an emissive surface like glass… not the most accurate way to actually get a temperature reading, they should have used a thermal couple… but I’m guessing that would have showed an even less exciting click bait number.


  • In diplomatic speak, this is actually very strong language.

    As an example one of the most extreme diplomatic phrases would be “x country has committed an unfriendly act”

    Where do you think the saying “diplomatically speaking” comes from?

    When the words you say can end in people dying or economic ruin, it makes you somewhat strongly consider exactly which words you should say.

    In order to avoid… more aggressive negotiations from occurring.

    The fact that their statement is clearly committing them to removing the barrier is strong language especially with the military power imbalance between the Phillipines and China.

    China in the South China Sea is a bit like a 4 year old seeing what they can get away with.