anenefan
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I am aware that back a few years ago, 2018 iirc federal law was introduced which granted additional powers to law enforcement in regard to telecommunication equipment, though only skimming though the rules, but not greatly understood - I was left to assume if the device is discovered via a search, the law can view and copy data the device stores or accesses if they so desire.
I actually have an old pixel phone that given to me and has GrapheneOS ... but like the rest of my cheap phones, I only use them for phone calls, texts, photos, time piece, maybe once a year utilise GPS and a hotspot when the signal from the nearby towers are good enough to get some bandwidth. [Mobile networks as such that my usual location can be so iffy even receiving a simple sms in a timely manner can be a challenge]
[1] https://www.treefruit.com.au/orchard/orchard-equipment/machi...
I guess somehow they missed a timber felling induction course or just seeing a chainsaw in practical applications - though cutting slowly and gently is called for time to time, but mostly it's high rpm, cut quickly to point where shear will occur or as clean a cut as possible. Pneumatic chainsaws are available [1] [2] [3] [4]
Apparently they were applying the quasiturbine idea as an engine - internal combustion -- I tried to search to see why their motors didn't take off - the first decent promising result was from 2014 talking about high wear and temperature issues ... unfortunately the result is from a site (wouldn't be the first forum I've seen to ban links to it for ... reasons) doesn't appear to use static links and made their dynamic links to articles meaningless such that data found during a previous crawl, upon visiting later on, the link takes one to a more recent answer, the old answer appears to be lost to its espace.
[1] https://eclipseenterprises.com.au/product/campagnola-pneumat...
[2] http://www.abgpl.com.au/product/Pneumatic-Chainsaw-Model-Tim...
[3] https://ajpind.com.au/products/spitznas-chain-saw
[4] https://contractorsupplymagazine.com/pages/Spre/CS-Unitec-Pn...
My phones are strictly sms for text, I've no interest in google messages or other alternatives since the signal strength is low - I'd rather get messages in a timely fashion - not in a day or two.
I had though though the power is in the hands of companies, they are govt owned [1] [2] I am inclined to say thankfully the power grid up our way is not in the hands of private energy companies or fly by night riff raff - the types that make promises of cheap power but offer up confusing power plans that are actually not that cheap, especially given what I've heard from those unfortunate enough to have been caught that I've chatted to down south. Every so often some grubby fingers try to talk up moves to entice the govt to privatise the energy grid ... something which nearly happened in the 00's.
If prices have risen steeply from the 90s in Queensland, a good guess would be it's due to a need to raise capital to further extend power networks as well as repair / replace a lot of the much older original wooden poles that reached their end of their long life as well as pull out many of the newer poles sourced from where ever, which though they initial passed muster, failed relatively quick.
I searched the rest of teh web instead and revealed an article from last year [1] ... reads very close to what I found at [2] which is today - yesterday.
The Chinese have also been working with a couple hundred doctors to create an LLM that can help with triage.
Done correctly there should be little doubt with anyone who's had ended up questioning some of the silly things said, that a LLM will be a lot more accurate, not have to be told about certain drug interactions, considered rather than ignored the rare side effects of some potent medications and not spiral into a cascade of additional issues due to missteps and treating for symptoms that, had they bothered to read the warning labels, realised the patient was hitting a tipping point.
I certainly aim to have add a health directive for hospital admission that I prefer a doctor is very much aware apparently normal blood pressure is not definitive of being properly hydrated. I meet a dozen of so last year that seemed blindly unaware and argued the point with me ... it's sad that pretty much the obvious things (check points) came to pass as I said they would. I'm forever mad at myself for not insisting a nose tube for my Mother who though other things were at hand was suffering mostly from what was extreme dehydration - just beaten down and the mental exhaustion of BS all around me.
[1] https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/microsoft-says-it... (July 2025)
[2] https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1016690/... (Oct 22 2026)
I would suspect a timing issue. A couple of decades ago some sites within Australian gov ... .edu used to do that as a method to guess if the person was within Australia but it really messed with those on satellite.
There was a more expensive pumped hydro projects planned but ultimately the proposed Aud 62 billion development was shelved. [1] I note there's now a near Aud 3 billion dollar pumped hydro project with a storage capacity of 12 GWh proposed west of Eungella, Qld [2] [3] about 20 to 30 miles to the west (further inland) from where the large Pioneer - Burdekin project was to be built. This time around there seems to be a lot more details included, like power infrastructure etc - unlike the Pioneer Burdekin project where community interaction was farcical - no one with authority could publish a map or communicate just where the wall of the lower dam was going or how high, where the power lines were going or any thoughts for HVDC transmission for robustness out to the industry that ultimately would seek out an all year round stable power supply, and absolutely no assurances that those who had livelihoods in an already well developed agricultural area below the lower dam wall out to the coast would not be slowly displaced by industries that would move into the area as part of construction, and then subsequent industrial / technological developments.
I feel like a lot of product that are development, gain acceptance, uniformly embraced and ... finally becoming a necessity, high capacity battery prices will slowly increase higher than inflation in a couple of decades onwards.
[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-02/lnp-scraps-pioneer-bu...
[2] https://www.capricorniapumpedhydro.com.au/project
[3] https://epbcpublicportal.environment.gov.au/all-referrals/pr...
Edit: missing word would -> would not ... brain to hand issue when words are skipped I guess.
However I have my suspicions [1] that there's plenty of people who've either opted to milk as much as they can get from the project or padded bills for reimbursement as the taxman is paying ... or they're quietly in league with the crowd who are very much against renewable power.
The blow out in costs is being used presently by some of the more influential cats to try and talk up why government should not involve itself in critical infrastructure ... after all it's better when private interests do these things ... pinky swear they'll never sell at prices that squeeze the public for every little bit they can get ...
As much as it is, it's going to cost less than having to decommission a single nuclear power plant.
[1] From what slowly occurred for the years after covid on federal and state funded road upgrades in my neck of the woods, moved from high percentage of actual workers with a few safety folks ... until it reached silly proportions of non workers standing around the road works and weeks passed on with little occurring ... steaming when at one quarter mile section there was 14 or 16 safety personnel while two blokes with spades were busy. Later I'd chat to one of the guys who worked there and he spelt out that the contractors were getting every ounce out of it as they could ... the stinger being there's sections not even 5 years after completion that with all traffic travelling on one side for too long, it's failed and now it's not just the sides of the roads that have to be redone but the entire road.
I would probably have opted for the first method, from within firefox's settings. Else opted for something different like about:config and searched out DisableLaunchOnLogin setting
[1] https://www.askvg.com/fix-firefox-automatically-launches-whe...
I feel that they're overlooking medical conditions like like gastro paralysis and gastroparesis which some sources link or associate a proportion of cases with spinal injuries. Gastroparesis when severe can cause periods of dehydration which greatly affects the every day function of the lower gut and gut's normal microbiome.
Looking for more information I noted [2] which goes into some depth in regard to Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) in mice, while they note large difference to human digestion track, it offers clues for future efforts to treat those who have gut related issues due to spinal damage or wear and tear associated with getting older.
[1] https://news.osu.edu/spinal-cord-injury-reshapes-gut-microbe...
[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12745463/ (Dec 2025)