pHr34kY

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[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (8 children)

Rego is weight-based, but it's utterly fucked.

My 900kg hatchback costs $149 more to register than a ute up to 4500kg out in the country.

In the city, the rego difference is $1.10.

https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/registrations/fees-and-charges/vehicle-fees#registration-renewal-fees-for-light-motor-vehicles

What's worse, their FAQ says a lot of TAC claims for utes are paid by workcover, not the TAC. That's why it's cheaper.

...so people who purchase a roadblimp to use for school dropoffs are dodging the TAC charge, whilst being a much larger hazard than everyone else.

https://www.tac.vic.gov.au/about-the-tac/our-organisation/transport-accident-charge?drop=6

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (13 children)

We should charge rego by weight and volume. We should measure safety by damage inflicted, not damage deflected.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

You'd have to block whatever DoH server it's using. They usually fall back to regular DNS. I've found that a Chromecast will use Google DNS, but will fall back to LAN DNS when blocked.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Victoria already has some amnesty bins that could be repurposed.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

As much as I hate JIRA, I'd be fired 10 times by now without it.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I personally submitted Hisense's ACR servers to a popular DNS adblock list that's used by a lot of products.

And just like that, anyone with a VIDAA TV hiding behind a pi-hole went dark.

We should really make sure every TV gets checked.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Fuck, he's stupid.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No, and Rupert wants to change that.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Everything the federal government does is to the benefit of either Murdoch Media, the gambling empire, landlords or the mining industry.

I could also suggest that this ban was effected so Rupert could drive traffic to his news websites.

Seriously. Every law always benefits one of them.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It's a bit of a joke. I can break outgoing 000 calls on a Pixel 9a with a perfectly reasonable network setup. Nobody can roll a stable radio firmware these days.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

That's actually a good ad! I thought they stopped making those.

The punchline is that zombies are triggered by noise and the Kia doesn't set them off.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

I always liked the dramatic...

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I've never used em-dashes to represent them. Am I doing it wrong?

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