abhibeckert @ abhibeckert @beehaw.org

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Most work with microsoft edge, but i don’t know if the others worked with edge before.

The fact you say "most" and not "all" suggests this isn't a FireFox problem. Also, given how popular Cloudflare is (30% of global web traffic?) I'd bet if there was something incompatible it would be fixed. Immediately.

Last I checked - soccer players use their hands all the time - e.g. the keeper, and when throwing it in from the sidelines.

Rugby allows you to use your hands more often, but it's still not wide open. For example if a defending player tries to use their hands to gain possession of the ball that's a straight up penalty. On the other hand they can absolutely use their feet to gain possession the ball in that situation (though it's rare, since it could be classified as a dangerous play, and just like in soccer you can't do anything with your feet that could cause serious injury to an oponent).

The word football is officially defined as "any of various forms of team game involving kicking (and in some cases also handling) a ball".

More specifically, there are six games commonly known as Football.. and in Australia three of those games are very popular. Which means particularly here the word Football should be avoided.

I had to read the article to find out which one they were referring to. Ironic that the one it refers to is the least popular one, and yet they're suggesting it should be our "national" sport?! WTF?

I'd bet sites blocking ChatGPT will regret it when (not if) Bing starts using it for search engine relevance.

Among the imagined 25 pages is "compensation including a % of GDP etc".

I'm normally all for freedom of the press, but when miss-information is that bad, I'd be perfectly fine with sending journalists to jail.

Beehaw already isn't really federated since it has blocked lemmy.world, which is 10x the size of Beehaw now and will likely be more like 100x the size of Beehaw at some point.

I personally'd prefer if Beehaw was fully federated (especially with lemmy.world), but I think this weird half way point is bullshit. Fully defederating would be better than the current situation.

As for arguments/etc... I don't think the quality of discussion here is any better than Lemmy.world.

The Yandex N.V. "head office" is conveniently located in the third largest airport in the world, so people can pick up mail sent to that address without having to actually live in the country.

Their headquarters are very much in Russia, and the Netherlands address is surely about avoiding political sanctions.

There will be plenty who will argue “weelll she’s not really one of us is she?” but that only serves to tear apart our multicultural values

I disagree. I think, like the referendum, this issue is shining a light on the minority of people in Australia who don't share our multicultural values. The people who say "she's not one of us" never shared our national values.

That will, absolutely, tear apart relationships in Australia short term, however I think it will make Australia stronger in the long run. It's easier to deal with the racist fucks in this country when we know who they are.

Power plays like this demonstrate to that nobody in China is untouchable and furthermore a foreign citizenship is worthless even if you obtain one.

Surely what it demonstrates is once you have foreign citizenship, don't go back to China? That's not good for the Chinese economy.

Apple Maps reports speed cameras - fixed and temporary (if drivers report the temporary ones).

Probably one of the European mapping companies demanded more money than Apple was willing to pay. Report all the problems, they'll get fixed one by one. Apple will also detect problems automatically by comparing traffic data collection to their map.

The official government maps that are that bad.

For example we used to have a road running along the edge of our property which didn't exist. It was planned and budgeted 60 years ago but they never built it. The non-existent road was about 15km long and everyone who lived along it had no alternative. There was just a bush track which ran through private property (across a dozen properties).

Do you mean this royal comission?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psq52CUjqJI

That topic has been discussed regularly by ABC and on Insiders since 2016. So what if they covered other topics for a few episodes? It's a talk show. The topics and timing are limited by the availability of people on the panel.

If you want good coverage, by people who know what they're talking about, you have to wait for them to be available.

the company would need to factor in how close the nearest available housing that the employee can afford is to the office

Define "affordable".

Are we talking for a studio apartment with a fold out single bed that converts the dining room into a bedroom, or are we talking enough land for your teenage kids to ride their motorcycle around without noise complaints - because the neighbours are too far away to hear it. Something in between perhaps?

There's plenty of housing on the same city block as my office. And I can afford to live there. No way in hell would I choose to live there though.

My boss, by the way, lives so close to work he uses the company wifi network at home. He also starts work before breakfast and finishes work several hours after dinner, every day. And works weekends too. Your probably don't want to get into a debate with your boss about working conditions - chances are they work under far worse conditions than you do, even if they have a private office.

When did Apple brag about that? All I can think of is a brief ad campaign where the "PC Guy" had a cold. That's hardly a claim that Macs have perfect security.

Apple has, in fact, gone on the record as saying they don't think the Mac is secure enough, and that's why iOS is locked down as tight as it is.

18-20v tools are 6 cells

That's not my experience - my preferred brand* offers 18V batteries at 3Ah, 6Ah and 9Ah. They also have higher end tools that take 56V batteries - either 4Ah or 8Ah.

I haven't opened them up to check, but surely the higher capacity batteries have more cells.

(* preferred brand because it's the one I already have a bunch of batteries for... I actually regret choosing that brand)

That said, often when a battery ‘fails’, it’s actually just one 18650 that has failed and taken the others down with it.

Sure... but if you replace that one "bad" cell before it takes down the others, the battery might spontaneously combust and burn down your house while you're (hopefully?) not home. 18650's in series have to be the same voltage throughout the charge cycle.

But 18650 size is manufactured at much higher scales than other sizes, and therefore it's the cheapest, and therefore it continues to dominate.

The main barrier is when you need multiple batteries.

If you install a dozen 18650's in a device (or thousands in a car), they will work great as long as they're all at the same charge level and can maintain the same voltage throughout the discharge cycle. If they can't do that, then the battery could catch fire. Yikes. So any device with multiple 18650 cells will hard wire them together so the user is forced to use and charge and discard the entire set of cells as a single battery.

AA/AAA NiMH batteries won't catch fire if they're uneven, but being uneven will damage the batteries. You don't need to keep them together to be safe, but you do need to keep them together if you want the batteries to last longer than six months. Keeping them together can be a logistical nightmare and it's the main reason I've stopped using them... it's just too much work to keep all the batteries together (especially if the device is shared in a household or workplace). If you get it wrong, then they don't last much longer than disposables.

Disposable batteries have the same issue - but since they're disposable you're probably pulling four brand new batteries from a packet.

An 19650 cell holds about the same amount of energy as five AA batteries. So there are a lot of devices that can run well off a single battery, and those tend to be the ones that are user replaceable.

NiMH AA's have the same problem.

Most 18650's don't go down to 2 volts. They should be considered "flat" at 3.4 volts - going any lower risks damaging the battery (unless you know what chemistry it uses, some can go lower safely).

Allowing a rechargeable AA to get down to 0.8V is also risky, if you go much lower than that you will damage the battery.

An 18650 is essentially the same voltage as three AA's. And the amount of charge level they store is closer to five or six. The size and weight, on the other hand, is a bit more than one AA.

But the biggest advantage, by far, is a lot of devices can be powered by a single 18650 but would require multiple AA's to have acceptable battery life (or a high enough voltage). As soon as you have multiple batteries thing start to get really complex. Your batteries will never be at exactly the same charge state and that can potentially damage the battery and the device.

They consistently rank as one of the best banks in Australia on every comparison.

Hardly anyone knows what a Credit Union is - that's why they removed it from the name (it is still a credit union. And a credit union is a type of bank).

I have no experience with any of the other banks that score as well as Great Southern, they're probably good too but I'm so happy I don't want to switch. I went through close do a dozen banks before finding this one.