Faceman🇦🇺 @ Faceman2K23 @discuss.tchncs.de

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In ranked choice voting systems, single issue parties have a meaningful purpose, they don't need a full platform covering every topic of running a country, they just need to show the major party that gets their preference flow that people support their cause and they need to take note of where those votes came from

Massive first preference vote losses maybe, but the preference flows would still trickle down to two major parties, it always does.

That preference flow data can then be used to shape future legislation to keep voters on their side and even to pull swing voters from the other sides, or at least that's how it is supposed to work when the media isn't actively working against you.

"hey we only won because of votes from this minor single issue party, maybe we should consider our position on that issue"

might be from one of those FPTP countries where democracy is barely holding on in the first place.

I've been voting pirate party for years now, though thankfully I am in a country with ranked choice / preference voting so I'm not damaging democracy by voting for a third party, in fact I believe I'm actively helping democracy by using the tools given to me.

In Australia they are now part of the Fusion Party, which combines pro-science, pro-choice, pro-environment and secular minor parties.

You pretty much have to run MYOB in a VM, or possibly via WINE. I keep an older windows laptop around at work for MYOB duties. As far as I know there are no alternatives that have anything near the feature set, or the integration with the ATO and other services that MYOB offers.

These days with it all being cloud based there is some web browser based functionality but in it's current state it is much more limited than it should be.

I'm looking for it too, will let you know if I find it.

Ah yes, the joys of automating everything to the extent that when someone does happen to be a guest in your house that you need to give them a ten minute lecture on how to turn on the lights because "it's all automated" but "you're still working on it"

Most of my top picks have been said already, but none has mentioned Vivy yet.

So. I'll say Vivy

there is some evidence of shadowbanning, where your comment isnt removed and you can still see it, but it is hidden from others.

Yea I have 100tb of these weird Linux ISOs, I have no idea how they even got there either.

Gotta download at least a few actual Linux ISOs to be a real datahoarder.

If you are into self hosting there is a very good tachiyomi plugin for Komga which is a manga and comics server you can self host and fill with your own content, it also supports connecting to multiple servers.

I have 2 Komga instances running on my home server (one for normal manga and one for the.. other kind), content is collected by FMD2 which automatically downloads series I have set to monitor (similar to sonarr but less polished). then in tachiyomi I have access to all of that content streamed across the web to my phone and boox e-reader anywhere in the world. it's pretty neat but the only missing feature is synchronising read status and position across devices.

Yes but a landline call, made over a 5g modem connection is not a GSM phone call, it is a sip data call that gets separated out to the emergency system at the isps end, its a higher priority stream than data, but its still data. They didn't work.

They could have made the modems use GSM phone routing for emergency calls, but they don't. It's all sip data.

Huge number of landlines now go through SIP tunnels over the NBN.. so if your internet is down, no phone calls, not even emergency unless you have purposefully designed your network with failover to another provider. the few remaining physical landline connections become data at some point now too, so if that backend goes down, not even the emergency calls will go through.

Many of the consumer routers supplied by the ISPs now have failover to a 4g/5g connection, but it's always the same network of course, so the failover is useless unless there's some actual work done by the providers in allowing emergency failover to their competitors.

It's probably possible and safe for roms, but then there are already more or less complete packs for basically every console and retro computer ever made so it's not that useful.

This year I know one of the jockeys (they used to be my Neighbors), I don't know what horse he was on, I'm not googling it and sending that to my google algorithm, I refuse to watch it or give the industry as a whole any of my attention.

It needs to die, and the gambling that goes with it.

I weep for your phone bill, I used to do that to send emails from my Sony Clie when wifi was still pretty new and rare in public.

Are we old. I think we're old.

The only mmo's I ever really spent any significant time with were FFXI (on dial up for most of the time I spent with it so my experience wasn't great) and GW2. not mentioning eve... we dont talk about that..

There was a free MMORPG called Planeshift (I played quite a lot in 2005 or so, it's still around and being actively worked on) that was very elder scrolls inspired, I put a lot of time into in the past too but being a small free amateur project it didn't have a lot of players.

I just don't have the time or motivation to give modern MMOs the attention they really need to make progress, and I was very much a solo player at the time so progress was slow and hard.

I think if I was to pick up a new one it would be FF14, it has a balance of open gameplay and story which a lot of mmos ignore, it seems like a good community but as with all mmos they really dont want you to just drop in a play a couple of hours every second weekend, they want you to get in daily and stick to a routine, which I just cant commit to these days.

I went with momentary push-button switches connected to zigbee dimmers behind the wallplates. Cost more but it's much more sensible, particularly for double switch situations where you just parallel up the switches.

Hey, Jeff's here! Neat.