I'm Hiding 🇦🇺

One is an error margin, the other a factor of safety!

My mail server is in the cabinet above my desk.

I guess you’re right - my mail provider does have all my data - but my mail provider is Me!

Just because the Americans are asleep doesn’t mean the Australians learnt to speak other languages!

Heck, I’m not sure we’ve even got the hang of English half the time.

Not here it’s not!

Infinitely disappointed it’s not this one

People still have 2G?

We haven’t had 2G for nearly 8 years. 3G was killed late last year.

It’s such a pain, so many devices don’t support 4G, let alone VoLTE.

Surely 2G isn’t that hard to keep running? It has far better range than 4G, meaning fewer towers are needed. Just keep one or two bands around to make voice calls easier.

Absolutely not, I 100% agree.

To your point about who borrowed from who - one of my favourite examples is the story of Noah’s Ark, or less specifically, “The Great Flood”. So many religions and mythologies have a Great Flood story. It’s fascinating to see how similar or different certain people’s recounts were of historical events like that.

Like I say, at this point in my life I’m still of the opinion that a good chunk of the Bible means well, but who knows? One of these days I might run out of sci-fi novels to read and go cover to cover, old testament to new. It’s certainly possible my mind might yet change.

I admit I haven’t read the entire Bible. I’m not a particularly pious Christian, and I certainly don’t mean to try to convince anyone towards or against religion. Certainly, religion has its problems. That said:

I also love science. I’m an engineer, not a conspiracy theorist. I know the dinosours existed, I know evolution happened, I know the Big Bang was a thing. However, that doesn’t mean Jesus wasn’t a man who lived approximately 2000 years ago. It doesn’t mean he wasn’t a great teacher. It doesn’t mean there aren’t lessons to learn in any of the Bible’s stories.

Because that’s what they are: stories. They’re not 100% perfect recounts of events that happened. Heck, they’re most of the time not even 1% perfect recounts of events that happened. But some of them still have some wisdom worth sharing, just the same. At least, I think so.

Call Cousin Vinnie

It gave you a boatload of money in SC3K

Get your hands off my penis!

The rooster came before the egg?

Oh won’t you please take me localhost??

So, potato wedges?

There is a reason why I don’t use Windows on devices I own.

This. This is the reason.

The good thing about ChatGPT is that it gives you a starting point for languages you’re not familiar / rusty with.

As an Australian I had a heart attack before I read the title.

You don’t just pick up a handful of redbacks, you fool! You kill them with fire and sleep with one eye open for the next month!

Most people filter it, but some drink straight from the tank.

Another Australian - when I was young, my area was in a terrible drought with some of the toughest water restrictions in the country. While you can drink water from the tap, pretty much everyone still drinks rainwater to this day.

I’m actually quite pleased with what I’ve ended up with now. One of the features of the Postfix / Dovecot server I’m running now is that I have recipient delimiters - for example, if my email is hiding@aussie.zone, I can sign up for Mastodon with hiding+mastodon@aussie.zone, and everything they send me will be automatically filed into the Mastodon folder in my account. Additionally, I know exactly who is selling my data this way. It’s a great system and avoids the unfortunate predicament you currently find yourself in!

They did kill it for me. I was grandfathered into the G Suite software because I signed up back when it was free. Last year they turned around and said “we know we told you that, as an early adopter, you could have this forever; but now we’re kicking you out unless you start paying.”

And then they killed IMAP access (without oauth) moments later. Fortunately I was fast enough to set up my own mail server and copy my family’s emails, photos, documents, etc. out of Google. I haven’t trusted them since.