@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 @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

@Meuzzin @ajsadauskas But instead — and I see why they're afraid — Labor are throwing money at road users. Subsidising tolls with tax money, and doing it indirectly (with new paperwork).

The final Liberal premier did a mini-poison-pill by promising not to close any lanes on Parramatta Road. "You have the choice of a free road", great cynicism. You had the choice to remove induced demand, fool.

At least his predecessor designed a transport agenda with non-stroad new roads and metro lines.

@Meuzzin @ajsadauskas City West Link is a complete duplicate of the M4 East — in fact it was a failed prototype, using the M4's original corridor, compromised by cost savings (INSTEAD of tapping that equity market, but anyway …)

So instead of replacing Parramatta Road through the inner west in June 2000, we ended up with a second stroad! Brand new traffic lights in Leichhardt, recommended to drive into the city.

Get rid of it! Close it at Hawthorne Canal.

And rip 4 lanes off Parramatta Rd.

@Meuzzin @ajsadauskas There was the time the motorway tunnel under the river went broke — Brisbane's CLEM7

I like that they take the risk; so conceptually it's a pass from me, but a partial failure when it's a sweetheart deal.

Rail infrastructure is funded by taxes, built by contractors, and the users have to pay each time they use it too. So I have not much sympathy for the precise fact of paying to use a road.

In fact we should be removing lanes — not these, but stroads like Victoria Rd.

@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.