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19 hours agoSure. My own opinion is that all of these systems are retro and they’re awesome.
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8·1 day agoYes. And despite that, one in three Australian homes now has rooftop solar.
Renewables supplied over half the national grid in Q4 2025, with roughly 7 GW of new capacity added that year alone. Nearly 200,000 home batteries were installed in the second half of 2025.
One in three new vehicles sold now has some form of electrification, with hybrids leading the shift and petrol sales dropping 10% last year.
Even heavy industry is moving. Australia already operates the world’s largest fully driverless freight rail network - Rio Tinto’s AutoHaul runs 1,700km of heavy-haul trains across the Pilbara, controlled remotely from Perth, straight from the mine to the deep-water port at Cape Lambert.
Battery-electric locomotives are now in trial on those same lines. Electrification is happening at every scale here - rooftop, road, and rail - often despite the politics, not because of it.
Some of the downstream processing infrastructure is already there, we just needed one more push. Hopefully this is it.
Time to stop exporting the raw goods (coal, steel, gas, hydrogen, lithium etc) offshore and then buying it back. Time to actually process it here and use it.
I’d like to think Trump is actually doing the world a favour by showing us what a fair weather friend America really is. His doctrine of America first may force the rest of the world to stop depending on America entirely.
In capital cities, it’s…reasonable. Takes too long to get from A to B, but you can do it, usually.
In regional areas, generally not great.
Australia is heavily car centric for the most part.
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The Wii, Xbox 360 and the PS3 launched 20 years ago.
That’s roughly the window between the NES and the PS3.
#RetroAndProud
Don’t. Chances of finding a pre 2021/23 model are slim, and if you happen to connect it to the net carelessly, it will auto bork itself.
Get a raspberry pi
If you mean the GCCWTV, google patched that out in 2023. You can still ADB into them just fine to ADB push or pull apps or files (after you install adbtools), but you cannot install CFW (like lineageOS) any more.
I think probably the best way to get something like lineageOS on your TV is to get a raspberry pi (or a CM4 module + HDMI board) and flash that. You should be able to pair your preexisting Chromecast remote with it and the interface should be seemless.
Don’t make me tell them about them about the *arrs, usenet and jellyfin. Minds will be blown :)
The *arrs + JF + sabnzdb + torrents = complete and total replacement.
That exact stack has been the ruin of many a poor boy.
Just a hop, step and a leap from there to Proxmox and complete ungovernablity (host ALL your own replacements - Immich, Syncthing, Lemmy instance, Pi Hole, Paperless, Calibre, Navidrome…all the black magics)
DANGER. HERE THERE BE DRAGONS. (Expensive ones)
6·4 days ago^ I can confirm this. It’s why I refuse to interact on Reddit anymore. Fuck em.
I’m building one. It treats you how you treat it, by classifying tone and content and responding in kind, adapting on the fly / with decay curves. I do it using a local classifier swarm (7 micro, sub LLMs) and a decision tree.
You can set it to IDGAF mode by default. Still useful…just zero fucks given.
(Ignore the “Powered by OpenAi” bit. That because GPTmobile thinks anything using OpenAI shaped endpoint is an OAi model)
https://bobbyllm.github.io/llama-conductor/blog/claude-in-a-can-1/
They have em and you can use em, but you can also turn them off AFAIK.
The bots they have are pretty good too. Lots of open source heavy hitters with ZDR (zero data retention policies)
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/llms-privacy.html
PS: no affiliation with kagi at all. I just like their product, even though their search engine conflates me with someone else.
Yep. Last I looked, they used both GAFAM and their own infra (teclis)? I think the goal is to eventually move solely to their own infra / web indexing.
Tbh, I dunno how much longer “search” is going to be a unique category. I think we’re probably going to need to move to personal AI fetch tools, as grim as that sounds, that can filter out shit news sources using trusted domains, white lists / black lists, as blockers etc. Think like ublock but for search.
I think that’s how lots of people use ChatGPT tbh; I’m not a fan of that. I’d favour a more local / self hosted AI agent. Something like Perplexica?
https://github.com/kiranz/perplexica
Actually, fuck it: maybe I’ll build that myself.
The surface web is cooked / enshittified almost beyond use and we might need to fight fire with fire.
I hear you - a one off purchase (or a $50-100 for 5yrs) would be a selling point. Hell, I’d even buy credits like I do for USENET.
https://stephango.com/quality-software
Just let me pay in one lump sum. Not a fan of rolling subscriptions; never end up using the whole quota, so unless there’s a rollover it gets wasted.
Self hosted SearXNG is an option but it’s going to be pulling from Bing, Google etc, so the result quality ceiling is capped by those engines. Kagi is trying to be a better search engine overall and not just a private wrapper around existing ones, IIUC.
Personally, I find myself not really searching much any more. I sort of know which sites I need and go there directly. Anything low value goes thru ddg-lite or (gasp) my LLM.
EDIT: Huh…my LLM just told me to sit down
“Kagi supports PayPal and OpenNode (Bitcoin) as alternative payment methods. Crucially, these do not create a subscription. They top off your account with credits, which then fund your Kagi membership. That’s essentially the lump-sum/credits model you described”
Well then…I sit corrected.
1·5 days agoFWIW Extra shit I cooked last night. It’s live now, so deserves a PS: of its own
PPS: I inbuilt as spam blocker as well.
- allow-list / deny-list domain filters
- DDG-lite junk-domain blocklist
- ad/tracker URL rejection
- relevance gate before any provenance upgrade
Enjoy :) Blurb below
“But what if it just… Googled it?”
We can do that. But better.
You: Who won best picture at the 97th Academy Awards? Model: Anora won best picture at the 97th Academy Awards. See: https://www.wdsu.com/article/2025-oscars-biggest-moments/64003102 Confidence: medium | Source: WebWithout
>web, that same 4B model said “The Fabelmans.” Then when I pushed it, “Cannes Film Festival.” With web retrieval, the router searches the internet, scores every result deterministically (phrase match + token overlap + domain trust), and only accepts evidence that passes a hard threshold. Garbage results get rejected, not served. The model never touches the answer - it’s extracted straight from the evidence.Retrieval cascade:
Cheatsheets → Wiki → Web → Model. Each step fires only if the previous one missed. The model is last resort, not first call. Sound familiar?I asked it who wrote a paper and it invented “Dr. David J. G. Smith” - a person who does not exist. After wiring DOI/Crossref fallback for academic metadata:
You: Who wrote The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine? Model: Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page. See: https://research.google/pubs/the-anatomy-of-a-large-scale-hypertextual-web-search-engine/ Confidence: medium | Source: WebDeterministic extraction from metadata. No model synthesis.
>webis provider-agnostic - ships with DuckDuckGo (no API key, no account) and supports Tavily, SearxNG, or your own adapter. Add your own trusted domains in one config line (there are a bunch baked in already, like pubmed). Every answer comes with aSee:URL so you can verify with one click. Receipts, not pinky promises. PS: I even cooked in allow-list / deny-list domain filters, junk-domain blocklist and ad/tracker URL rejection so your results don’t get fouled with low quality spam shit.
1·5 days agoFWIW Extra shit I cooked last night. It’s live now, so deserves a PS: of its own
PPS: I inbuilt as spam blocker as well.
- allow-list / deny-list domain filters
- DDG-lite junk-domain blocklist
- ad/tracker URL rejection
- relevance gate before any provenance upgrade
Enjoy :) Blurb below
“But what if it just… Googled it?”
We can do that. But better.
You: Who won best picture at the 97th Academy Awards? Model: Anora won best picture at the 97th Academy Awards. See: https://www.wdsu.com/article/2025-oscars-biggest-moments/64003102 Confidence: medium | Source: WebWithout
>web, that same 4B model said “The Fabelmans.” Then when I pushed it, “Cannes Film Festival.” With web retrieval, the router searches the internet, scores every result deterministically (phrase match + token overlap + domain trust), and only accepts evidence that passes a hard threshold. Garbage results get rejected, not served. The model never touches the answer - it’s extracted straight from the evidence.Retrieval cascade:
Cheatsheets → Wiki → Web → Model. Each step fires only if the previous one missed. The model is last resort, not first call. Sound familiar?I asked it who wrote a paper and it invented “Dr. David J. G. Smith” - a person who does not exist. After wiring DOI/Crossref fallback for academic metadata:
You: Who wrote The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine? Model: Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page. See: https://research.google/pubs/the-anatomy-of-a-large-scale-hypertextual-web-search-engine/ Confidence: medium | Source: WebDeterministic extraction from metadata. No model synthesis.
>webis provider-agnostic - ships with DuckDuckGo (no API key, no account) and supports Tavily, SearxNG, or your own adapter. Add your own trusted domains in one config line (there are a bunch baked in already, like pubmed). Every answer comes with aSee:URL so you can verify with one click. Receipts, not pinky promises. PS: I even cooked in allow-list / deny-list domain filters, junk-domain blocklist and ad/tracker URL rejection so your results don’t get fouled with low quality spam shit.
Yes. It’s gotten worse with age too. Just another wonderful “perk” of aging hardware running ASD.exe
The big thing that freaked me out / made me worry about early onset dementia was the dropping of words when speaking or typing, forgetting names and reduction in motor coordination.
Having studied martial arts for 30+yrs, it was quite the mind trip when I suddenly started getting confused about left vs right … but could still do some incredibly intricate manouvers.
Apparently declining androgens worsen ASD. I have some research bookmarked that confirms all of these symptoms.
TL;DR: yeah - me too.