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LilBytes

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LilBytes··on Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout
Australia doesn't have any Airbus planes for domestic flights. :-/
LilBytes··on How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment
I'd say Moreton Bay was a region of Brisbane where Bluey is set, I don't think OP meant 'its from my suburb or street'.
LilBytes··on Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones
Great tool OP, thank you.
LilBytes··on Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms
Some ISPs use MAC address filtering.

HFC (Hybrid Fiber Coaxial) and FttN (Fiber to the Node) are such examples. The rest of them if you don't have a static IP or an internet routable address, use NAT (Network Address Translation) and in some even more exotic environments they use Port Address Translating (PAT), but it's been many years since I've seen PAT in any way at commercial, residential or enterprise setups in ISP space.

But PAT is quite common in the reverse and forward proxy space.

LilBytes··on YAML, Python and the Holy Graal
I thought it was about Azure DevOps, disgustingly I recognise some of the syntax from some of my own pipelines.
LilBytes··on Tesla shares 48V architecture with other automakers
That's funny, I assumed the same.

Not an employee, but a very happy reoccurring customer.

LilBytes··on San Francisco now at 35% office vacancy rate, highest ever recorded: data
I and most disagree:

https://www.mcc.gov/resources/story/section-writing-guide-go...

LilBytes··on San Francisco now at 35% office vacancy rate, highest ever recorded: data
It's not immediately obvious to a non US resident what that would be so a common courtesy would be to describe what the initialism was on its first use.

I wouldn't expect anyone to know what BNE (Brisbane) or DAR (Darwin) meant at first value.

LilBytes··on Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life
Its really not that hard. Just don't fuck around with backups, throw them all into Backblaze B2, S3 or what ever else.

I have the same setup as the person you're commenting to, initial setup was easy. Just test out your backup strategy thoroughly.

LilBytes··on Discord Is Down (But not reporting)
Seeing the same. Are you getting a "Sorry, you have been blocked" screen?
LilBytes··on AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B
My ISP has one of the better options where you can permanently lease an IPv4 address for a deposit of $100 AUD. The lease is indefinite, and when you don't want it any more you get the $100 back.
LilBytes··on To make dishwashers great again? (2020)
I honestly thought a second bash wouldn't help, but it's worth a crack. I'll give it a go.
LilBytes··on Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users
The last time I checked, you can't change this to use anything but Edge either.
LilBytes··on Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users
Yeah I'll do the same and report back. Might make a Show HN to talk about it.

I need to better understand how updates work however, turning off auto updates is a concern. So I'll mostly be focusing on usability and how updates are managed as part of their tooling.

1st edit: Noticed a few broken links on their site regarding updates, I've created an issue on GH: https://github.com/meetrevision/revision-tool/issues/38

2nd edit: I'm not sure how I feel about disabling Windows Defender. https://revi.cc/docs/faq/after/defender/

If you're not using Windows Defender, you'd want to use something else and I don't know what to recommend except Malware Bytes. I do have Malware Bytes running too so perhaps it's redundant, but as far as AVs (antivirus') go, Defender is the best of a very broad, bad bunch.

LilBytes··on To make dishwashers great again? (2020)
Yep! Make sure to keep the salt topped up.
LilBytes··on To make dishwashers great again? (2020)
I stopped using tablets and started using powder after watching this exact video by Technology Connections. Highly recommend the watch.
LilBytes··on To make dishwashers great again? (2020)
More likely a reflection of my partner and I's diet. A lot of broths, soups and similar. Even 30 minutes of the plate being static in the dishwasher means the food dries on and sticks.

We don't rinse our plates, just scrape them. If I have to hand wash 1-2 bowls and plates over the week it's a non-event. We're still saving a lot of water compared to hand rinsing all of our dishes before putting them in the Miele.

LilBytes··on To make dishwashers great again? (2020)
What I've noticed is it's heavily dependent on the dishwasher.

I've not had the privilege of having a new dishwasher till my most recent place, all the dishwashers prior have been 10+ years old. This new one though which is a Miele dishwasher has maybe 1-2 dishes that need to be manually washed per week at the very most. Whereas my older dishwashers it was anything from an extra 1-2 dishwasher loads per week worth of failed cleans.

LilBytes··on Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web
Not supported in Australia yet, do we know when this will be available?
LilBytes··on Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web
Same here.

Tried Tailscsle at home, took it to work and implemented it for our own needs.

Seems to me making nerds happy had a great conversion rate to paying customers.

LilBytes··on Ghostfolio: Open-source wealth management software
Hug of death? Unable to load the site.
LilBytes··on IP address blocking banned after anti-piracy court order hit Cloudflare
They could, but they'd need to take CloudFlare to court or similar to force them to disclose that information. Or drop them as a customer.
LilBytes··on My Kushy New Job (2010)
Thailand should be high up there these days.

Pun not intended.

LilBytes··on London Then and Now: Aerial Shots Show City Grow over Past Two Decades
I'd say from this thread, it's also difficult to make an informed decision on my what the city is like. Especially from two anecdotes like this.

Like always, it'll be some where in the middle.

LilBytes··on London Then and Now: Aerial Shots Show City Grow over Past Two Decades
That hurts to hear.

I grew up in Hartlepool (North East of England), moved to Australia when I was 19 and I'm 35 now.

I moved because I was stabbed, and can't count on one hand how many times I'd been assaulted and mugged in the 10 years prior. To hear the rest of the country is heading in a similar direction is a horrid reflection on the state of affairs in the UK.

LilBytes··on London Then and Now: Aerial Shots Show City Grow over Past Two Decades
What was your reason for loathing living in London?

Edit: reason I ask is because I assume it's costs, I can't imagine your apartment was cheap. I don't see much evidence that even SWE's can comfortably live there.

LilBytes··on San Franciscans are having sex in robotaxis
In Thailand currently and most of the pumps play a nice little 8 bit dance jingle. I'd take that over ads!
LilBytes··on Reinventing the E.R. for America’s mental-health crisis
Hard to say if positive outcomes for the average person in Australia started to decline before or after meth increased.

From my anecdotal (but significant observations), there's a coroally with people taking up hard drugs in townships where our youth have no observable pathways to a content adult life. It's my hypothesis people are giving up before they've started.

Regional Victoria and Regional Queensland, it's especially rife.

Edit: not to say other regional townships are worse or better, just haven't spent a significant enough time to observe it.

LilBytes··on The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X
And a strong difference in quality health care outcomes for people of all ages.
LilBytes··on The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
Well that Octopus and I have a lot of common.

* live in Australia

* love to eat Blue Swimmer Crabs

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