Posts by rainynight65@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AQYMXrevtGXYzXlJBI by rainynight65@mastodon.social
2022-12-13T04:50:06Z
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@tsomof @bryan_edwards @philipp I would argue that rent is also theft when wealthy investors price regular home buyers out of the market, forcing them to rent. Happens in Australia all the time.
(DIR) Post #ASVsKsPm0GykZsCVgu by rainynight65@mastodon.social
2023-02-09T19:46:05Z
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@lauren dude who unfollowed you probably doesn't realise that Musk inserted himself and Starlink into the war effort of his own volition - nobody asked or forced him to. Then he wanted to send an exaggerated invoice to the DoD, and got told where to get off instead.
(DIR) Post #ATFvoxjSgIMY7FYILY by rainynight65@mastodon.social
2023-03-04T01:01:50Z
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@lauren how synthesised voices work? Is it text-to-speech, or does it simply replace your actual speech?
(DIR) Post #ATdA5LF5yIlWuMN4z2 by rainynight65@mastodon.social
2023-03-15T06:00:02Z
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@lauren what is the 'corner ID bug'? The network logo showing in the corner?
(DIR) Post #AUpBVDW8CJQ0Vra3RQ by rainynight65@mastodon.social
2023-04-19T23:04:35Z
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@lauren that should have been the end of it - him dying. A suitable exit for the second of Patrick Stewart's most iconic characters, after Professor X passed away in 'Logan'.
(DIR) Post #AYHN1TAOt1xJAQHTUm by rainynight65@mastodon.social
2023-08-01T07:02:14Z
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@tilvids unrelated, but I started requesting an account on tilvids.com, but stopped when I got a banner saying my account would not be able to upload videos. Is that as intended? I am looking for a decent Peertube instance to share train-related videos. So far the only instance where I was able to create an account also had a 5mb daily upload limit.
(DIR) Post #AlWRBqIvq7vjmBr6H2 by rainynight65@mastodon.social
2024-08-31T09:46:53Z
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@stux but of course. When everyone is digging for gold, the best way to get rich is to sell shovels and pickaxes. When everyone is wanting to get rich doing nothing, the best way to get rich is selling them courses on how to get rich doing nothing...
(DIR) Post #Apef3yDYT6IpWzWO4O by rainynight65@mastodon.social
2025-01-02T00:28:24Z
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@futurebird it's astounding to think that in many western countries, libraries are one of the few remaining public spaces where it's fine for people to linger without the expectation of spending money. Even parks and such are now rife with coffee vans, weekend markets and the like. Trains are filled with screens bombarding you with ads. Tech bros want to fill cities with autonomous vehicles, to displace public transport networks. You're not being melodramatic at all.
(DIR) Post #ApgPvQZSZWzzrg9hr6 by rainynight65@mastodon.social
2025-01-02T20:48:10Z
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@futurebird $300 a year?? That's a rip-off. Even if Norton was any good, you'd get more than adequate anti-virus software for a fraction of that amount.
(DIR) Post #AqeQsnKmkwSVp01SkK by rainynight65@mastodon.social
2025-01-31T03:09:03Z
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@gamingonlinux At this point in time I will say to Debian 'Good on you', but also ask 'Took you until now to figure this out?'.
(DIR) Post #AqvMeC4OcbKYgnpyxE by rainynight65@mastodon.social
2025-02-08T23:44:13Z
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@futurebird @paulc we've been lucky. Our laying chickens have a large, fully fenced area with a big pen inside to themselves. So far nothing has tried to get in and attack them. I know we have foxes and wild dogs in the area, as well as eagles who like to take the odd chicken. Main drawback is sometimes the hens go crazy for weeks on end and we get way more eggs than we can reasonably consume. And then other times an egg a day is a lot.
(DIR) Post #AqvMzoqxcaNl3Srggq by rainynight65@mastodon.social
2025-02-08T23:48:11Z
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@futurebird @paulc Not in Australia, not just yet š¤£
(DIR) Post #AqvO2ZWDBwQaJn2JGq by rainynight65@mastodon.social
2025-02-08T23:59:51Z
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@futurebird @paulc š¤£Between Australia Post and USPS I'm not sure you'd be getting your money's worth at any price š³
(DIR) Post #ArFqsyMuUV265ijgfo by rainynight65@mastodon.social
2025-02-18T20:57:01Z
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@davidrevoy what I love most about this is that they didn't even consider that as 'conservative parents' they might not be the target audience. Not for one second do they imagine there might be things out there that are not made specifically for *them*.
(DIR) Post #As1cLkQChJ8L0DCQzY by rainynight65@mastodon.social
2025-03-13T22:00:29Z
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@futurebird I have a long, but fairly smooth commute. About 35-40 minutes by car, then another 45 minutes by train. No changing of trains, step on, ride to destination, step off. I only do that max twice a week. There have been the odd issues with the trains in my city, but largely they're reliable.
(DIR) Post #AtZPD7gwLzE8rD9oga by rainynight65@mastodon.social
2025-04-29T03:05:33Z
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@futurebird That just makes me sad.
(DIR) Post #AvRrFCdqiEfNe1fmDI by rainynight65@mastodon.social
2025-06-24T05:39:14Z
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@collectifission Your [1] is *precisely* the moronic source I'm talking about. To attribute the deaths from the Banqiao Dam disaster - a dam that has never produced a single of electricity and in fact was never even *equipped* to do so - to hydro-power, is a mental contortion that's beyond idiotic and only serves to distort facts and figures. I'll leave it at that.
(DIR) Post #AwuiHYbsk5Ezr9QyRc by rainynight65@mastodon.social
2025-08-07T03:24:14Z
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@davidrevoy Love it.
(DIR) Post #Axlyjw5yuhQ1RpwWcC by rainynight65@mastodon.social
2025-09-01T20:08:39Z
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@futurebird I love audiobooks. I love how different narrators breathe life into the text. One of my fears is that there will be a push for AI to replace live narrators in audiobooks. I have stopped using Audible, and found software to export the books I bought and store them locally. Yes, it's a pain if you're not tech-literate, but I found it fairly doable.
(DIR) Post #Ay5HUIC8ZSueUFJaee by rainynight65@mastodon.social
2025-09-11T03:38:15Z
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@futurebird Especially outside the US.I was taken aback yesterday when I got the breaking news notification that *Trump* had announced Charlie Kirk's death. I was like "who?".Some of the things he is being quoted as saying ring a bell, but I've never associated them with his name. He wasn't high profile like Joe Rogan, Richard Spencer or Milo Y.