@DavidDoesLemmy oh just research? I can't see any harm in running experiments if they're for thorium or fusion. But the real billions need to be spent now, on batteries & factories for batteries. We can be a big player exporting these ... this decade! If we had the courage.

@DavidDoesLemmy @Zagorath This type of “small bet” would cost 10x more than the same bet on batteries and grid upgrades. The nuclear option is nothing more than a massive carbon tax, except this time it’s a nuclear tax, and it’s funding the nuclear instead of reducing it.

Every time someone proposes to spend NBN levels of money, or multiples of NBNs, ask yourself what the coalition would say if they were against it.

@ajsadauskas @unionagainstdhmo @Baku Wow, it's actually starting

We'll see more of this elsewhere — local and worldwide, but the pointy end was regional Victoria, obviously in hindsight. They had a "ffs finally" parity with the cities, a 3rd network as a dividend of switching to digital.

Last week the UK announced the beginning of the end of Freeview … what do you think, beginning of the end of Australian FTA @SydneyCityTV ?

https://tvtonight.com.au/2024/05/mildura-digital-television-to-shut-down-on-june-30.html

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars So when are they going to have the courage to close the City West Link and most of Victoria Road through Rozelle? You shouldn't be using those "streets" unless you're local (or a bicycle).

We're halfway to solving these stroads. Let's do it.

@lps @AstaMcCarthy @ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology

Hmm I looked into this a year ago. But from this screenshot, it’s only talking about resolution. I’m after bit-depth and colourspaces, and yes you’re very right about avoiding transcoding.

I throw a lot of CPU/GPU at my encodes, more than other people would. And so I’d prefer it if others wouldn’t transcode it. I’m happy to live within some rules — just tell me a CBR or VBR maximum …

@AstaMcCarthy @lps @ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology I’m all down for that, especially for non-video. For video I’ll have to self-host as if it’s Web 1.0 because PeerTube will reprocess and mangle my videos.

@lps @AstaMcCarthy @ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology Everything I’ve been doing in the last 12 months is HDR experiments

I’m starting 2 new channels soon, and one of them will be SDR only so I think I can publish that onto PeerTube easily

@lps @ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology When YT’s “musk kitchen sink” moment happens, I’ll switch over

For now there’s a few things missing, like HDR, and current leadership at YT is surprisingly understanding how to keep an ecosystem fertile

But already I know to actively maintain a backups folder of all my uploads. Which is interesting — so do they. YouTube preserves every upload, and has periodically reprocessed the originals to higher quality (less downgrades).

@Noit It's almost like the road lobby wanted HS2 to fail or something

@Noit Funny how we never see the same reports for motorways — that do exactly the same thing!

All sorts of standards are being applied to HS2 that don't get applied to a road that length, from cost per mile, to blowouts, to land acquisition, to animal habitat, to community consultation … and just general media scrutiny.

@spmatich @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars @australia thanks for letting me know this!

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars @australia I suppose the possible silver lining here is that Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop is so huge and decades-long that (if done far enough ahead) you could shuffle one of those other sections into the time slot and not lose much momentum?

@ajsadauskas @jroper @tom_andraszek @TheOne whoa 🤯 have we all misused the phrase "rebuild in their image" since the first time someone threw insults about building statues, and metaphoric statues to mean "in their semblance"?

Was it originally a nice thing to say? Maybe it used to imply the person had creativity and imagination.

@ajsadauskas @jroper @tom_andraszek @TheOne Put a bow on that toot 🎀 that about covers it

His election night speech (like many others on those nights, an insight into the real person), gave me a little hope. I'd love to fill the apparatchik with boldness and confidence, to rebuild a state in his "image" — as in, imagination.

@Danwwilson @tom_andraszek @ajsadauskas @TheOne it hasn’t always been this way

Read the story of the Lincoln Highway from 100 years ago. Roads didn’t connect towns. You had to pop your car on the train.

@tom_andraszek @Danwwilson @ajsadauskas @TheOne #billiondollarnews hey look, Car Money is like Dog Years

@ajsadauskas @jroper @tom_andraszek @TheOne I'm 100% willing to be convinced I'm wrong on this, so please do, but:

Would every $1 that's spent on this be more effective (eventually) if channelled into frequency etc?

What's that concept of "memorisable timetable" that's not even a timetable because it's every 10 mins?

@jroper @tom_andraszek @ajsadauskas @TheOne Also weird how the same party started a metro network, laid heaps of light rail track — on many streets with new bans on cars and buses

I just hope Chris Minns doesn't cancel any more rail projects than he promised already

I'm already quite worried that he and Donna Davis will start removing "On Demand" bus services from the Parramatta electorate

/end rant

@jroper @tom_andraszek @ajsadauskas @TheOne I've gone off on a rant now … all I ask is for policies that:

• make roads cost money not free

• make arterials that aren't streets

• make arterials that are invisible

• rip up asphalt from "stroads"

(like Parramatta Road, Princes Hwy, Military Road and replace it with bike lanes, lines of trees, outdoor seating)

Neither major party offered all of the above but, weirdly, so weirdly, one of them had gone hard with the first three