Just say I wanted to (for no particular reason) try a non U.S. based alternative to GitHub. What would you suggest I try? Codeberg? Some kind of self-hosted solution?
"All of these hand-outs for families, and students and renters. Well what about the people who don't have a HECS debt? What about the people who don't have a mortgage? Who don't have to pay rent? Where's the handout for them?
"You wouldn't believe how hard it is right now. Try getting a builder to renovate a holiday house in Portsea - they're booked up until 2026! That's two years minimum without a second entertaining area over the summer months."
'did not seek to determine whether the prices or margins of Coles, Woolworths, Aldi or Metcash were "excessive"'
"very difficult to get to the bottom of that"
"part of the reason is the complexity"
Literally what is even the point of having the ACCC when they just come back with this weak ass report putting the very thing they were supposed to investigate in the "too hard" basket?
Oh it's "very difficult" to say whether they're price gouging is it? Oh is that too hard for you mate?
Here let me help out. Yes, they're price gouging. Plain as day. Not hard at all.
It's good to be back online here! Power is still out at our house in Everton Park but the server is back at Ash's and will hopefully hold out for now. In case of any future outages I'm elsewhere in the federated universe on @phocks@mastodon.social@phocks@threads.net@phocks.bsky.social etc if you wanna follow. Stay safe out there mates ✨
One thing I've come to realise over the past few weeks is that "it's hard to lay straight flooring when all the walls are crooked" and that might be a useful metaphor for various other situations in life too
There's a Tesla parked in our townhouse complex visitor parking but all the Tesla logos have been taken off haha wishful thinking no one will realise you're driving a nazi car there mate lol
Software developer. Data journalist. Code and stories for ABC News Story Lab. Sometimes musician/actor. Husband and father. Animal lover.(Admin for https://bne.social with @ash)------> alt @josh