I was thinking about that, but that would require Me getting back on Twitter and riling the Orange Clown up about his Australian puppets.

I’m not willing to jump on that grenade because I no longe have a Twitter account and I don’t want anything to do with him.

We can only hope that the same thing happens to Dutton on Saturday.

I live in a safe Australian LNP seat, the odds are that on Saturday night, our neighbours and I are (very likely) going to continue having a Right-Wing member of Parliament.

That does still mean that even though they are voting for our local MP, they are also voting for a former 1980s Queensland Cop with a suspiciously large amount of money as PM.

I would be happy if every (Australian) Coalition candidate and all the Right-Wing independent candidates received Zero votes this election, otherwise there are too many Australian Fuckwits.

I’ve edited my original post.

Now we both look like Goofs!

No worries. I’m the silly bugger that mistyped. I’m trying to think of a way to blame AutoCorrect…

Sorry I meant 5 million individuals, not $5m

I disagree. It should have been a complete landslide.

The fact that Pierre Poilievre received any votes at all suggests that almost 5 Million Canadian Voters are still fuckheads.

It depends on what the roads were built for.

If they are built to handle 1500kg passenger cars, 3500kg behemoth SUVs and Pickups can really do some damage, especially at speed.

Passenger cars are getting heavier Light trucks (SUVs) are now being driven in lieu of compact station-wagons.

Vehicle classes are also getting larger and heavier. Subcompacts that used to weigh less than 1000kg are now about 1500kg and EV variants are over 2000kg!

So is over-inflation. Always inflate to the correct pressure as per the placard. If you are driving in unusual conditions,

My little Jimny weighs bugger-all but needs Light Truck tyres. On-road pressure is a very light 26 PSI. If I am driving through Sand, Mud or Snow I will deflate to an appropriate pressure and drive slowly. If I am driving over rocky terrain, I will also deflate to an appropriate pressure for better adhesion.

As soon as I hit the Tarmac again, I will reinflate back to 26. If I am carrying more weight or towing, I will inflate the rear tyres to 29.

The three biggest things that kill a tyre are;

• shitty roads
• aggressive driving
• heavy vehicles (like EVs and oversized SUVs)

That said, cheaper tyres are typically made of cheaper compounds that age poorly.

I have a Tent with built in LED lighting and the switch is illuminated, so you can find it at 3:00AM when you go for a wee. It uses 5V over a USB-A plug. Quite nifty!

The problem is that it does not adhere to the USB spec so after a minute, the power bank decides that nothing is connected and stops supplying power (as a safety feature). You then have to wake up the power bank back up to can find the light switch, which you can’t do without lights on.

Anyone who uses gMail knows (or should know) that their data is being used for commercial purposes. Any business that uses Google.Business or MS Office should also be aware that they are giving away all their corporate secrets, regardless of any “Opt-In”/“Opt-Out” broken promises.

If they get Apple Intelligence into a functional form, (and not an embarrassing hilarious punchline in an anecdote), the will be profiting of my data.

They can claim that it is Opt-In only (until a bug the next software update ‘accidentally’ changes my Opt-out status) and they can Anonymize my data, but that still doesn’t change the fact that they inferred that hey wouldn’t use my data.

At least their user abuse is still less than Mozilla and Google threw out the “Don’t be Evil” motto decades ago…

Is this the same “Opt-In” as keeping Apple Intelligence disabled between software updates?

Apple are haemorrhaging a lot of hard earned goodwill every time they try to move forward with their own AI.

That still doesn’t give them the right to mine the data that their users entrusted to them though a paid service.

It doesn’t matter how anonymised their harvesting is, they had an agreement with their subscribers not to invade their privacy like this.

We are better off with a LLM that doesn’t work than abusing the data entrusted to them by their users.

It won’t be long until the LLM bubble bursts and we all laugh about how stupid we were to think they had any use whatsoever.

I as lucky enough to use Apollo. As soon as it stopped working, Reddit became useless to me.

(Or not useful enough to use their horrendous website, old.reddit website or official app)

The thing about Federation is that one server of a few hundred users can federate with all the other servers of a few hundred units and also other Federated services.

The next thing you know, you have a social network graph of millions of people, on thousands of servers (and not one ad).

Affordable electric vehicles are e-bikes and Mass Transit on appropriate infrastructure.

Private electric cars and Ride-share electric cars are not a sustainable replacement for ICE vehicles.

Can you imagine what we would think if Heads of State discussed banning Twitter back in the day?

Some totalitarian countries did ban Twitter and other social networks years ago as part of their subjugation of their citizens.

Nowadays, banning Xitter (and Bluesky and Facebook/Instagram) would be liberating their citizens.