zero_gravitas @ zero_gravitas @aussie.zone

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It looks like someone has done it at some point! Though with a blocky head and in bronze colour for some reason. It turned up in image results and looks like it is from a deleted Etsy listing, so it's not available any more.

There's plenty of Christ the Redeemer 3D models available (eg. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3636051), which should be pretty easy to adapt to keycap for anyone who can do 3D modelling.

The same company actually sells two other licensed 40k keycaps that would be quite impractical, just not as much as the statue. The two pointy helmets make the other helmets and the macrocannons look comfortable by comparison.

That would be awesome 😆

EDIT: This fucker developed a short within like an hour of my closing the case back up. Now I have to either use my multi-meter to learn the entire 130-key matrix, or I have to desolder all the switches and kill the calculator function to turn the board into a hand-wired custom, though that would allow the left side function keys to be different from the top-row ones. Sigh.

Damn it! From a historical preservation perspective I hope you try to restore the original electronics, but I realise that could be a lot of hassle. Good luck whatever route you choose!

WTF is a "graffiti attack"?

Found this: https://au.news.yahoo.com/great-northern-cancels-national-park-campaign-after-backlash-from-4wd-enthusiasts-044327200.html

Unicomp still makes this extra-chunky layout in a buckling spring: https://www.pckeyboard.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=UB40B5A

Why would you event need a mouse with that many arrow keys!?

I still gotta get a tape player

Sincere question: Why? They sound terrible, and get worse over time. Is there any reason to use them? Aren't they just generating plastic waste at this point?

The article says:

To me the reasoning is simple, local bands make tapes, it’s easy to put your own music on them, and to share them with friends.

But all of these apply equally to Bandcamp or any other way of sharing digital files, or even CDs (I can't imagine it's meaningfully easier to churn out copies of cassettes than CDs).

I suppose, though, that if local bands are making them - whatever their reasons - then that's reason enough for a listener to use the format. I also guess if people are getting second-hand tapes, then that's not generating new plastic waste, and there's probably stuff to that's not available digitally in any format.

Anyway, I was watching this video recently - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DWtkSVNvTg - and it was quite interesting, but I've been wondering since then why people would use tapes.

Yeah, with ABC articles the last couple of years, generally the headline that appears on the page itself is far better than the sharing metadata headline.

Related article over on !news@aussie.zone - https://aussie.zone/post/17103248

I agree with your comment entirely, so you may be misunderstanding the point I was making.

I agree it's not surprising there's been a rise in anti-jewish racism, especially since the Israeli state consistently tries to muddy the waters and conflate itself with jewish people in general (which is fucked).

The comment I was replying to ("Maybe if they stopped genociding people?") appears to uncritically accept this conflation and the racist falsehood that the whole ethnic communities being targeted in these incidents are inherently connected or responsible for Israel's genocide, and that needs to be called out.

Done: https://aussie.zone/post/17098473

Would probably usually post this sort thing to c/news, but posted in c/Australia seeing as two other articles on the matter were posted there.

Conflating all Jewish people with Israel is fucked and is also a key propaganda tactic of Israel.

What is going on in Sydney??

Police say they're investigating whether some of these crimes were commissioned by "overseas actors": https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8057j0mz5mo

So that's interesting. It might go some way to explaining what seems like a sudden onset, though I wouldn't be surprised if it's also been driven by a copy-cat phenomenon.

Not a Sydneysider, but I wouldn't say there's a 'strong anti-semitic feeling' anywhere in Australia - at least not in comparison to the levels of villification faced by any non-'white' ethnic group.

I thought this was interesting:

"We are looking into whether overseas actors or individuals have paid local criminals in Australia to carry out some of these crimes in our suburbs," Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Reece Kershaw said, adding that it was possible that cryptocurrency was involved.

from: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8057j0mz5mo

If these attacks are commissioned, it'd make some sense of the graffiti that misspelled "Israiel".

I don't think there's any actual rule or guideline, but I personally tend to post more casual, less serious things in !australia@aussie.zone, and more serious stuff in !news@aussie.zone

Oh, I'm aware, it's just bizarre even with that context. But yes, important to note for anyone not aware.

Haha, I saw it around when it was originally posted. It's just so bizarre I didn't know what to make of it. I couldn't find an extended version or anything describing the context around it.

The number of US bases/facilities and personnel on Australian soil is set to massively increase, too. Pine Gap has been a festering national shame for decades, and successive Australian governments have only made moves to make things worse.