[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 16 points 2 weeks ago

The CEO of Vow, George Peppou, is taking a very different approach from these competitors. Rather than asking customers to pay $71 a kg for frozen shredded “chicken”, he says the company is embracing the high cost of cultivating cells by creating products to match the price.

“We selected going with these very high end products, very high end positioning … as a way of trying to shape and influence food culture as much as possible,” he says. While foie gras prices fluctuate significantly, at the time of writing Vow’s Forged foie was cheaper than the real deal.

I like this, just like how Tesla's first release was a roadster - it's not supposed to replace a Camry, why make a Camry with half the range and 4 times the price?
Start at the expensive end, match the quality and then work down.

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Me: Hi, I need some high quality components, you know better than office stuff, and I'm willing to pay a premium. Company: Great, we have a huge range. And as a bonus we've covered EVERYTHING in LEDs! Me: Err, can I get the good mechanical switches and silent fans without LEDs? Company: Ooh, that's a SPECIAL item! 3x the price!

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 22 points 4 months ago

By the end of Trump’s term

So, when he dies?
Because if ever there was US president who intends to try for "President for life", it's this guy.

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 16 points 5 months ago

Deer are a point of division in the hunting community.
I don't know the rules for all the states, but I can highlight the different approaches different places have with just 2 examples.

In Victoria, they only want to hunt deer "sustainably", so they have recognised "Deer Habitats".
It's also illegal to hunt them at night with a spotlight (the easiest method, they'll literally stand still and look at the light) or use a thermal scope (which of course helps silhouette a naturally camouflaged animal), even during the day.

In South Australia, we have shoot on sight laws - as in you're legally obliged to attempt to humanely kill feral deer when possible.

Kind of says it all, doesn't it?

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 17 points 1 year ago

Whilst I didn't always agree with their pronouncements, having a fact checker at this time seems to me a very important thing.

They include reference to "a new in-house verification reporting team, ABC News Verify", but that sounds like they'll only be verifying their own news, which is nice, but not the point.

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 15 points 1 year ago

The US get to show just how tough they are on whistleblowers and their associates.
Assange gets to go home.

If I was him, I'd keep my head down and try to get to know my kids.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Mountaineer@aussie.zone to c/jellyfin@lemmy.ml

https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-new-jellyfin-server-web-release-10-9-7

#Jellyfin Server 10.9.7
General Changes
Fix HDR detection for 4K Blu-Ray BDMVs [PR #12166], by @Bond-009
Log album name and id in normalization task [PR #11911], by @Bond-009
Try to add extracted lyrics during scanning [PR #12126], by @gnattu
Fix season backdrops [PR #12055], by @Shadowghost
Rewrite PlaylistItemsProvider as ILocalMetadataProvider [PR #12053], by @Shadowghost
Fix empty image folder removal for legacy locations [PR #12025], by @Shadowghost
Fix season handling [PR #12050], by @Shadowghost
Only cleanup children on specific exceptions [PR #12134], by @Shadowghost
Remove incomplete mediatype restriction from playlists [PR #12024], by @Shadowghost
Fix MicroDVD being recognized as DVDSUB subtitles [PR #12149], by @nyanmisaka
Fix Cleanup Task metadata saving [PR #12123], by @Shadowghost
Fix the Australian PG rating [PR #12043], by @oddstr13
Map IPv6 mapped IPv4 addresses back to IPv4 before running checks [PR #12094], by @Shadowghost
Do not override if is set [PR #12120], by @Shadowghost
Make m2ts extension case-insensitive [PR #12065], by @Rivenlalala
Overwrite supported codecs for livetv [PR #12017], by @gnattu
Check hearing impared flags with equality instead of contains [PR #12026], by @Bond-009
Fix local episode image thumb recognition [PR #12039], by @Shadowghost
Fix video embedded image detection [PR #12031], by @nyanmisaka
Fix replace all and respect metadata settings [PR #12028], by @Shadowghost
Fix Music Brainz release group query [PR #12073], by @Shadowghost
Fix mpeg-ts detection [PR #12046], by @gnattu
Do not fail user deletion if we have no playlist folder [PR #12037], by @Shadowghost

#Jellyfin Web 10.9.7
Security
Disable eval support in pdfjs [PR #5694], by @thornbill
Fix episode overview markdown render [PR #5680], by @Chaitanya-Shahare

General Changes
Fix loading hides too early [PR #5681], by @dmitrylyzo
HtmlVideoPlayer fix and cleanup [PR #5718], by @dmitrylyzo

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 23 points 1 year ago

Let me paraphrase the LNP here:
"Private companies have researched Nuclear and decided it's not cost effective."
"Financial institutions have investigated Nuclear and decided they WILL NOT INVEST."
"But our financial backers at the Mineral Council and the private companies dragging the last of the profit out of their end of life coal power stations are insisting that we continue with our current market AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, so we've decided to announce an extremely long term plan, to scare private investment out of renewables short term."
"Don't worry, between NIMBYs in the target areas, laws surrounding nuclear energy, lack of local expertise and the general unsuitability of Nuclear for our widely dispersed yet small population, we won't actually build more than one of these things."
"Jokes on them, we were only pretending to be retarded."

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It's been a long time since I was on the job market, but it was certainly disheartening how low the response ratio was.
I must have sent out 40 applications for every response, even an acknowledgement of receipt was rare.

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 20 points 1 year ago

My gut suggests it's a font issue, like librewolf is using a system font and firefox is using embedded or downloaded fonts.

backing that up with a search, I see there's lots of people complaining of font rendering issues of various types in the librewolf subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/LibreWolf/search/?q=font

I don't know what your fix is, but I hope this helps guide you.

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We have quite a budget collected over the last 5 years, and while we're really happy to see so many in the Jellyfin community contribute to us, we want to ask you to stop!

No, really. We don't actually need your money. At least, not here and now.

We have over $24,000 in the bank, and with average monthly expenses of only ~$600, that's over 40 months (3.3 years) of runway! So, we have plenty of money for the near future.

Thus, at this time, we want you to seriously consider donating to the authors of Clients you use, instead of (or in addition to) the main project. Client support is the hardest part of the Jellyfin ecosystem to keep going, and most of them are maintained by only a single person or very small team. With the API changes in 10.9.0 and the upcoming 10.10.0 releases, they're going to be very busy trying to keep up, and thus could really use your support in a way that the core project here doesn't right now.

So, if there's a client you use every day and that you love, consider finding it's author in our list of official clients, and sending them a little something instead (or too).

No, this doesn't violate our policy of "no paid development", because donations are just that - donations. We will still not honour bug bounties or similar, and still not use our collective finance here for paid development. So don't feel like you're doing something wrong, you're not!

I'll leave this notice up until we drop to ~1 year (12 months) of remaining runway, at which time we can re-evaluate where we're at.

Happy watching!

I personally would rather see then take some of the "extra" money and apportion it to suitable client projects themselves, but I can understand them not wanting to become financial administrators in that way.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Mountaineer@aussie.zone to c/jellyfin@lemmy.ml

https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-new-jellyfin-server-web-release-10-9-6

#Jellyfin Server 10.9.6
General Changes
Fix fallback artist when taglib fails [PR #11989], by @gnattu
Do not stop validation if folder was removed [PR #11959], by @Shadowghost
Use only 1 write connection/DB [PR #11986], by @Bond-009
Set ProductionLocations instead of Tags [PR #11984], by @Shadowghost

#Jellyfin Web 10.9.6
General Changes
Remove IMDb references [PR #5668], by @thornbill
Fix uneven slider value [PR #5667], by @dmitrylyzo

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 18 points 1 year ago

Only Google can make an RCS app

Yes and no.
You don't need to make your own OS, but you do need to implement support for the RCS protocol within your app, rather than piggyback on Googles APIs.

I don't like it, but there's no legal requirement for google to provide those APIs, like they did with SMS etc.

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 16 points 2 years ago

Think about your audience and the specific features that will potentially appeal to them.

Depending on who that user is, the same feature/quirk can be either a pro or a con.

There's lower user numbers here compared to something like Reddit, but the people involved tend to be of an average higher tech literacy.
So there's not as much noise, but there's also not as much signal.

As a user, you can spin up your own instance, which gives you complete control... But it also introduces a financial and moderation expense, not to mention inherently leading to fractured communities.

Just look at the Android discussion, it's occurring on at least:
Android@lemmy.world
Android@lemdro.id
Android@lemmy.ml

etc etc

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 17 points 2 years ago

I don't think it's strictly compliant, although they claim to have based it's syntax on Korn shell, which is the strictest definition of POSIX shells.

You can do pretty much everything in powershell that you can do in something like bash BUT, it will be done slightly differently, so trying to make a script cross compatible is pointless (you might as well just write it natively in powershell etc).

Powershell isn't inherently bad, unlike bash for instance which just allows piping out text output, Powershell can pass around true .net objects.
But if what you're looking for is cross OS compatability, you're pushing shit uphill.

99.9% of the time, I open powershell and just ssh into a "real" linux box.

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[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 18 points 2 years ago

I would definitely look to hire that kid with a high wage just to make sure he doesn’t hacke me again, if I were one of the companies he hacked into. Companies should really think about trying to hire these hackers because then the threats against them might go down ever so slightly.

I understand your thought, but some people just want to watch the world burn and you definitely don't want to bring that sort inside.
This guy seems to be driven, capable and lacking the common sense to know when to stop.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Mountaineer@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

So I just stumbled across something called Occupation: Rainfall, which is SciFi, made in Australia, set in Australia etc etc, so it ticks a lot of boxes for me.
Apparently it is a sequel to Occupation, and regardless of how these things actually rated with reviewers, I feel like I've missed something by being unaware they even came out.

And this is almost certainly because I've made a concerted (and broadly successful) effort for over a decade to avoid ads.

How does everyone here find TV, Movies, Music etc that may be of interest to you?

Just turn on the idiot box and put up with the spew?

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