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  • Yeah, I can never quite tell with articles sometimes..

    Among many elements of the story that absolutely fail to raise sympathy:

    [...] They planned to subdivide their block into 26 lots once the land was rezoned as residential, live on one block and drip-feed two or three others on to the market each year.

    ...just what we need -- a drip-feed of low-density housing.

  • Yeah nah, that's not the way. Sure people can get away with it, but it's really not eliminating the hazards.

    There's a bunch of non-obvious hazards which exist around cutting into containers which have held fuels, including but not limited to:

    • An empty propane container could have an gas+air mixture inside it in proportions which could explode.
    • Any liquid residue in an empty fuel container can be vapourised by the heat of the cutting, creating a fuel+air mix which can spontaneously explode from the pressure and heat, even without sparks (think: diesel engine principle but instead of a 0.25L cylinder it's a 200L cylinder).
    • An empty gas canister can be contaminated with heavier oils/waxes that could build up over the years of refilling cycles, creating the same hazard as noted for empty liquid fuel containers.

    Methods to reduce the hazard include:

    • Thoroughly washing the inside of the container before cutting (access can be difficult though).
    • Filling with water and cutting while full of water. (Container musn't be sealed, and the cutting method must be safe to use in a wet environment, and further hazards such as introducing oxygen into the container need to be considered).
  • ffs, every time someone from a community group asks me "Can you have a quick look at our basic website, we just need to change

    <reallySimpleThing>

    ", and I'm like "sure, i used to do web development, let's have a look [...] FFFFFFUUUUUC...."

  • Huh. Even Boeing doesn't want to be associated with Boeing:

    Boeing executives have repeatedly sought to make clear that the Starliner program operates independently from the company’s other units — including the commercial aircraft division that has been at the center of scandals for years.

  • I was all ready to rant about the problem of new developments being built before public transport infrastructure, but I checked the map and there are two railway lines in the vicinity!

    https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/12079848#map=14/-33.6923/150.8920

    ...that said, there is a distinct lack of cycle/pedestrian infrastructure and the style of vehicle traffic makes it hostile.

    Of course, the best solution to that is limiting car traffic to a single lane, no on-street parking, and a 20km/h speed limit.

  • Handy to have an offline translation dictionary. I've used QuickDic for languages I know how to type, but I notice there are a bunch of more specialised Japanese dictionary apps in F-Droid that can search by radical or OCR if you don't type or understand the characters.

  • Ah, that's good then.

    In Australia you really only need a name and date of birth and ID such as a passport or driving license number of the owner. No physical or even photographic proof. Some phone companies send the original sim a notification before moving it, but no response is required and moving the number often only takes 10~30mins.

    Banks in Australia commonly use sms codes as 2fa.

    A large percentage (20~30%?) of adult Australians have had their ID details leaked in recent years because there are no adequately enforced security requirements or data-retention limits. One of the largest breaches was the second largest mobile phone provider...

  • As in "Hi PhoneCompany, I'd like a mobile plan with you. Yes, I'd like to bring my old phone number over to the new account."

    Or "Hi PhoneCompanySupport, I'm @thingsiplay and i lost my sim, plz send me a new one. BTW my new address is ..."

    Ideally it shouldn't happen, but phone company security is pretty slack sometimes,