[-] Sternhammer@aussie.zone 1 points 6 hours ago

It my experience. I don’t normally catch the train but had cause to use the AirTrain and Redcliffe lines on Friday and Monday. Once the button lights up you can press it and the doors open automatically once the train stops.

[-] Sternhammer@aussie.zone 20 points 2 weeks ago

The one on the right is an “Emotional support vehicle”.

[-] Sternhammer@aussie.zone 21 points 3 months ago

Yes, additive colour theory is based on red, green and blue (RGB). These are the colours you see if you look at your TV screen very closely.

Subtractive colour theory uses cyan, magenta and yellow. In printing black, abbreviated ‘K’, is added for contrast—CMYK. These are the inks used to print the dots you see if you look closely at a magazine photo.

I think people are confused by this because they’re taught a bastardised version of subtractive colour theory, using red, blue and yellow, at a very early age.

[-] Sternhammer@aussie.zone 11 points 3 months ago

Good luck getting Optus, a communications company, to promptly and accurately communicate with its customers.

[-] Sternhammer@aussie.zone 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Tower Bridge has its own website which has a little information about what’s inside (though it’s mostly trying to get you to do a tour).

[-] Sternhammer@aussie.zone 8 points 9 months ago

I hope this isn’t Microsoft becoming more Apple-like. That said, if this leads to a restriction on the use of cheat-capable controller accessories such as the Chronos Zen then it could be a significant positive for FPS console gamers.

It reminds me of Apple locking faster charging and data transfer on USB-C to their own proprietary USB cables.

Are you sure of that? It was certainly rumoured before the release of the iPhone 15 Pro that Apple would require MFi cables for high speed data transfer but I don’t think that turned out to be true. As far as I can tell any high speed USB-C cable will allow full speed transfer from an IPhone 15 Pro. It might need to be a Thunderbolt 3 cable, especially for recording to external SSD, not sure, I’m no expert, but I don’t think it needs to be an MFi cable.

[-] Sternhammer@aussie.zone 8 points 11 months ago

I think Brink was game that killed my naive trust in the hype machine. So much anticipation, so much desperation to enjoy it, so much disappointment. From there on I only believed the hyperbole from proven developers but eventually Destiny killed even that. Now I’m a bitter shell of a gamer who lives by the creed, “never pre-order!”

[-] Sternhammer@aussie.zone 14 points 1 year ago

And yet it often leads to more satisfying narratives.

[-] Sternhammer@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago

I use it constantly in city and rural areas and find it works pretty well for me.

[-] Sternhammer@aussie.zone 19 points 1 year ago

How absurd. This kind of thing could happen to anyone.

I hope Adidas cops heaps of negative publicity over its pursuit of this hapless woman.

[-] Sternhammer@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Have you read any Iain M Banks’ The Culture novels? Incredible writing. Most of his books have interesting twists in them, some of which will fuck you up. They are the type of books that you wish you could read again for the first time. The author died in 2013 so there are no more coming.

  • Consider Phlebas
  • The Player of Games
  • Use of Weapons
  • The State of the Art
  • Excession
  • Inversions
  • Look to Windward
  • Matter
  • Surface Detail
  • The Hydrogen Sonata

Other SF books by Banks:

  • Against a Dark Background
  • Feersum Endjinn
  • The Algebraist
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  • Hundreds of drones are missing after a technical malfunction saw them fall into the Yarra River
  • What's next? Divers are attempting to retrieve the drones from the bottom of the river at Docklands.

…Mr Lorusso said the descending drones did not cause any injury nor result in any damage to property.

"The drones did exactly what they should've done with any technical glitch and they auto-rotated and landed. Unfortunately, when you're over water they auto-rotate and land into the water," he said.

"We were there to do a brilliant show for the Matildas so we were very disappointed and bummed out in that aspect but I'm very grateful that everyone is safe.”

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Storm Bay living up to its name. Taken in July 2022. Sony Alpha 7iii, FE24-105mm, 𝑓22, 1/3s.

[-] Sternhammer@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While Australia as a culture has a much higher threshold for swearing than most, and certainly the prudish Americans, I suppose federation means people will see the titles of Aussie.zone threads in their feeds so your decision makes sense.

At the same time I’d hate to see us get all uptight about swearing in routine discussions.

In summary: Swearing in titles: fuck no. Swearing in comments: fuck yes! :)

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