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Reachable and up WRT W.Australia - perhaps DNS / otherwise blocked in your location.

> The people who pushed the button to launch the missiles that hit the school, and the people who ordered them to do that, are fully responsible here, not the tools they used.

Absolutely. A real issue here is the normalizing of "AI scapegoating".

The real failure? Not following through on human verification of a "strong lead".

The Iran school site absolutely was _once_ a target, in the distant past - it's sited on and within a former Iranian Guard post with airstrip, etc.

The part that needed strong checking was "history since last identified as a target" - and that site has a history of disrepair and abandonment.

The debatable issue was whether the larger site did indeed store significant military assets underground, etc. which was entirely possible.


The damage risked by Keto diets includes nutrient deficiency, liver and kidney problems, constipation, fuzzy thinking and mood swings.

Of these risks it's the potential veering into liver and kidney problems that deserves the closest monitoring.

See: https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/should-you-tr...

~ Howard E. LeWine, MD, Chief Medical Editor, Harvard Health Publishing


We all took risks in the 1980s, kids thrive on risk.

The element of risk existing is not the argument being made here by ggm - it's the morphing and stretching of of the acturial mortality and morbidity curve.

The claim being made is that unregulateled electric bikes mixing in neophyte road users, suburban traffic, uncapped speeds, etc is increasing the per capita risk for an age band over what it was when "we" inhabited that demographic tribe back in our short pant days.


Just one of GAIA's ways of getting rid of "elite overproduction" in an already overpopulated world.

Nitpick: The "Light Speed Equiv" of the "Voyager 1 Progress Tracker" appears meaningless

Thanks I'll kill it. you're right.

> you're just a ...

> the problem with people like you is ...

> your kind of thinking ...

  Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
~ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

While you are Not My Engineer and <disclaimers> .. are there any bloggers / vloggers that are or at least seem to be giving good advice that you are comfortable passing on?

Yes, there is an Australian dude that has pretty much seen it all, and he's paid his tuition fees so he's a lot more careful now.

I'll look up his name tomorrow, it's been years since I last looked at that (it's 5 am after a night of hacking so I'm off to bed).


Found it:

https://www.youtube.com/c/HBPowerwall

I like the simplicity, I don't like some of the wiring choices but I'm not sure if that is to be code compliant in Australia. Enjoy!


FWiW there are (several) AI "vetting" bots out there, eg: https://tropes.fyi/vetter .. not my thing, I bookmarked that one from an earlier HN thread, that particular tool graded the article hard over and firmly in "AI Slop" (their term) territory.

https://tropes.fyi/vetter/4a753e67


Those don’t work. Test it by generating some ai slop (get a 100% fake score) and remove the top five tells. And it’ll get a 100% human score.

Repeat with your own writing. Insert a few mdashes and a few of their favorite turns of phrase. To go from 100% human rating to 100% ai.


It's subjective, guitarists such as Knopfler, Clapton, Belew, Fripp, et al all rank highly for many.

I', m not sure I'd trust the judgement of any with a single absolute favourite <anything>, reality is generally rich with competing strengths and weaknesses.


> some version of it’s been passed in the UK and Australia.

Really? Can you expand on the version of Australian legislation that requires an OS to have age verification?

The AU legislation I'm aware of requires various social media sites to verify that users of those sites are not under some age, 16 or so.

That is not a constraint on the OS or on potential users, that's a legal requirement for Social Service providers.


I'm just catching up on the subject myself but, here's a news article:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/age-verification-sear...

It appears that the Australian and UK versions don't go as far as what seems to have been proposed in the US.


Australia's put the onus on vendors; you can't supply cigarettes to minors, you can't supply alcohol to minors, you can't social platform minors.

It's useful to get a feel on the policies and differences being rolled out before going over the skies and extrapolating from misconceptions.


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