Re: [LINK] RFI: How should virtual group members interact with one another?

[Andy Farkas]

On 18/08/2020 3:47 pm, Roger Clarke wrote:


In 2020, what would the Link Institute recommend as that channel?



I've been using IRC for about 30 years and am still on it...


irc.oz.org


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Re: [LINK] COVIDfail – the Australian coronavirus tracing app that can’t find anyone

[Andy Farkas]

On 9/7/20 6:04 pm, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:


COVIDfail – the Australian coronavirus tracing app that can’t find 
anyone ...




Minister for Health Greg Hunt said on ABC News Breakfast this morning

that the app has found 200 people affected.


How true a politician's words are is up to you to believe.


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Re: [LINK] Australians Record World’s Fastest Internet Speed At 44.2 Tbps

[Andy Farkas]

On 2020-05-24 20:21, Karl Auer wrote:

Please tell me this is just dry humour... 



You either forgot the :-) or won't answer the question


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Re: [LINK] Australians Record World’s Fastest Internet Speed At 44.2 Tbps

[Andy Farkas]

> Australians Record World’s Fastest Internet Speed At 44.2 Tbps


What would you want to stream in at 44.2Tbps?


Disk drives can't record that fast... watching 4k (or 8k and more in the 
future)


video streams doesn't need that much bandwidth.


I'm quite happy to wait a few minutes when I copy 2+GB files around

on my local network.


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[LINK] Fwd: reccomendations of conference / party audio video software ?

[Andy Farkas]

An email from another ml I'm on. Mentions of "jitsi"

-andyf



 Forwarded Message 
Subject:reccomendations of conference / party audio video software ?
Date:   Sat, 21 Mar 2020 17:06:56 +0100
From:   Julian H. Stacey 
Organization:   http://berklix.com/jhs http://stolenvotes.uk
To: po...@freebsd.org



Hi ports@
Any reccomendations of conference / social group party chat server 
software ?


As much more of the world goes into lock down & social distancing, ie
not meeting friends at the pub / restuarant etc on Saturday night
etc, BBC has shown some social groups have arranged a matrix of 10
to 20 faces from cameras on each of 10 to 20 screen, so groups can
chat virtualy, & drink localy @ home.

That needs servers. Doubtless there are big commercial firms offering,
but if some of us think it may be interesting adding such software
to our FreeBSD servers for use by friends, Any reccomendations what
to add from ports/ ?

Might it all be in https://www.freebsd.org/ports/multimedia.html
or more likely scattered ? Keywords to search with ?

What about client apps on android, apple & MS ('cos most friends are non 
tech & dont run BSD or Linux PCs etc)


What about bandwidth per user, dont want to impact server hosts.

If most of this has been asked before, an URL to a FAQ would be fine thanks.

Cheers
--
Julian Stacey, Consultant Systems Engineer, BSD Linux 
http://berklix.com/jhs/

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Re: [LINK] Media Blockchain

[Andy Farkas]

On 2020-03-07 08:05, Tom Worthington wrote:

... an Open Discussion Session on Media Blockchain: 
https://jpeg.org/items/20200130_blockchain_discussion_proceedings.html



Sounds like a solution looking for a problem to me.


All your base are belong to us.


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Re: [LINK] .nsw.gov.au and privacy

[Andy Farkas]

My list of blocked URLs (always adding to it):


# cat banned_urls
acl banned_urls url_regex -i ^http://sa.windows.com
acl banned_urls url_regex -i 2o7.net
acl banned_urls url_regex -i addthisedge.com
acl banned_urls url_regex -i adnxs.com
acl banned_urls url_regex -i advertising.com
acl banned_urls url_regex -i advertising.gov.au
acl banned_urls url_regex -i atdmt.com
acl banned_urls url_regex -i clicktale.net
acl banned_urls url_regex -i counter.yadro.ru
acl banned_urls url_regex -i data.microsoft.com
acl banned_urls url_regex -i deployads.com
acl banned_urls url_regex -i doubleclick.net
acl banned_urls url_regex -i google-analytics.com
acl banned_urls url_regex -i googleadservices.com
acl banned_urls url_regex -i googlesyndication.com
acl banned_urls url_regex -i googletagmanager.com
acl banned_urls url_regex -i googletagservices.com
acl banned_urls url_regex -i intellitxt.com
acl banned_urls url_regex -i keywee.co
acl banned_urls url_regex -i metaservices.microsoft.com
acl banned_urls url_regex -i metrics.brightcove.com
acl banned_urls url_regex -i nr-data.net
acl banned_urls url_regex -i ping.chartbeat.net
acl banned_urls url_regex -i taboola.com
acl banned_urls url_regex -i unrulymedia.com
acl banned_urls url_regex -i websitealive.com
acl banned_urls url_regex -i webtrends.com
acl banned_urls url_regex -i webtrendslive.com
acl banned_urls url_regex -i yieldmanager.com
http_access deny banned_urls


Suggestions for addition welcome.


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Re: [LINK] Man 'hacks' Google Maps traffic measure using a trolley of smartphones

[Andy Farkas]

On 7/02/2020 2:14 pm, Paul Bolger wrote:

I picture Google's AI having a paranoid episode when the 'traffic jam'
approached the Google office: "The cars are coming to get me!"


The point the artist was trying to make was to show how much people 
rely/trust the interweb.


Give me a Gregorey's any day!


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Re: [LINK] Atheros CSI Tool

[Andy Farkas]

On 2020-01-22 18:18, Jevan Pipitone wrote:


Some people may be interested in the research papers cited on the "Atheros CSI Tool" 
website below, under the heading "OpenWRT version".


You're on the wrong maillist.


Jevan.



Actual message: 256 characters (34 words)

Signature: 7653 characters (mostly bullshit - I didn't actually read it)

Are you Todd in disguise?

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Re: [LINK] NBN fault maintenance

[Andy Farkas]

On 05/12/2019 18:39, David wrote:


   So much for the Abbott/Turnbull multi-technology-mix.



Turdball will forever be remembered as the asshole that fscked-up our 
digital future.


-andyf

PS. Had a bit more to say about the , but after redacting the rude 
bits there wasn't much left...


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[LINK] Aren't you glad you opted out?

[Andy Farkas]

Told you so?

Of course a massive database of everyone's medical records are safe from 
hacks:


 
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/25/my-health-record-failed-to-manage-cybersecurity-and-privacy-risks-audit-finds

...oh, wait

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Re: [LINK] Cancer cure through gene therapy

[Andy Farkas]

On 12/11/2019 22:39, Jevan Pipitone wrote:


Any thoughts on this?


Yes. Perhaps you should read up on what LINK is about:

 http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

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[LINK] Can Big Brother be stopped?

[Andy Farkas]

I really think they're trying to take this a bit too far:

 
https://www.zdnet.com/article/home-affairs-pushes-its-face-matching-service-for-porn-age-verification/

"Whilst they are primarily designed to prevent identity crime, Home Affairs
would support the increased use of the Document and Face Verification 
Services

across the Australian economy to strengthen age verification processes."

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[LINK] The lines of code that changed everything

[Andy Farkas]

[I've played Spacewar!, still use IRC, and have source code for 
Mosaic-2.5 that

I used to compile on a 386 - am I getting old? :)]

 
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/consequential-computer-code-software-history.html

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Re: [LINK] Melbourne International Games Week .. 5th-13th October

[Andy Farkas]

On 03/10/2019 20:53, Stephen Loosley wrote:

Melbourne International Games Week

http://gamesweek.melbourne/melbourne-international-games-week-back-2019


The newest games and innovative technology from Australia and around the world 
will be on show at Melbourne International Games Week (MIGW).



Congrats to the Untitled Goose Game developers.

https://goose.game/

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Re: [LINK] Apple Asia's Time-Server is >2 minutes fast

[Andy Farkas]

On 29/08/2019 11:43, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:

On 29/08/2019 11:15 am, Roger Clarke wrote:

Very strange.

By switching to the European server, I got proper time back.

Not good if you're running anything that requires notary-level DTS.


If time is that important you should be using NTP/Stratum technology

https://ntpserver.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/ntp-server-stratum-levels-explained/



Why not go straight to the source: http://www.ntp.org/

The time server at Apple Asia seems ok to me:

# ntpdate -q time.asia.apple.com
server 17.253.82.125, stratum 1, offset 0.019416, delay 0.19731
server 17.253.66.253, stratum 1, offset 0.004917, delay 0.06952
server 17.253.66.125, stratum 1, offset 0.003579, delay 0.07239
29 Aug 12:08:04 ntpdate[56377]: adjust time server 17.253.66.253 offset 
0.004917 sec


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[LINK] Apollo 11 in realtime

[Andy Farkas]

https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/

Happy 50th!

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Re: [LINK] NBN Co's 'Netflix tax' slammed as push to protect net neutrality grows

[Andy Farkas]

On 04/07/2019 12:39, Jevan Pipitone wrote:

Why did they intruduce unlimited internet quota (unlimited downloads and 
unlimited uploads) then? They could have left it as 50GB/month or whatever they 
pick, but they made it unlimited and now they're complaining?



Sorry, I tend to ignore emails where a signature is more than twice the 
length of the message


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Re: [LINK] NBN Co's 'Netflix tax' slammed as push to protect net neutrality grows

[Andy Farkas]

On 04/07/2019 06:05, Paul Bolger wrote:

As a matter of interest, can traffic categorisation work if the end users
are using encrypted VPN connections?



I typed "vpn nsa decryption" into duckduckgo. Most of the results say "yes".

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Re: [LINK] NBN Co's 'Netflix tax' slammed as push to protect net neutrality grows

[Andy Farkas]

On 03/07/2019 14:34, Paul Brooks wrote:

The kickoff article is at
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-co-floats-its-own-netflix-tax-527507, after 
the
question in the NBN confidential discussion paper ...


"Confidential". Yep, need to keep secret how our glorious NBN is being 
built.

The people do not need to know.


,,, at this stage we really don't
know what they might have been thinking ...


"We've spent Fifty One BILLION dollars (and then some!) upgrading the
copper network to be slightly faster. How can we get the money back?"


... if it would result in increased charges, its a non-starter.


Wishful thinking, Paul.


I'm not sure the Network Neutrality argument applies, since presumably whatever 
'price
response' mechanism would apply to all video streaming equally, but it 
certainly has
gotten 'buzzword bingo' journos buzzing.


It's all about net neutrality. You imply it yourself - "all video 
streaming" is

segregating network traffic. Why should NBN care what traffic is on their
network? Surely it can handle the exponentially increasing data that was
predicted to occur decades ago? Oh, wait...

NBN peeking into our packets is wrong. That what RSP's are for.

Will electricity companies have a different rate for power used to run your
TV? Fridge, stove, lights... basic rate. Aircons - h, a luxury item!

There was a vision for Australian internet. The people didn't want it. We
get what we deserve. Thank you Mr. Trumble.

-andyf

PS. Now I'm even more depressed

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[LINK] How to watch election coverage

[Andy Farkas]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6uB6GqU0AEtax6.jpg:large

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Re: [LINK] ‘We have been cheated’: Australia's biggest cities dudded with inferior NBN

[Andy Farkas]

On 15/05/2019 23:04, Jevan Pipitone wrote:

I think it would be good have an option for a customer to be able to 
pay for fibre to the premises (FTTP) to be installed


https://www.nbnco.com.au/residential/learn/network-technology/technology-choice-program

Costs a non-refundable fee of $330 to get a quote. They'll probably tell you
to sod off.

I don't know how much it would cost, to install an optic fibre from 
the node to the premises. 


You cannot get a fibre run from the node to your house. It has to go all the
way back to the FAN (a lot further than the node). More kilometers of fibre
means more $$. This is why it is so expensive.

Maybe the government can subsidize the cost for people that want it, 
to make it affordable.


Now I have to wipe the coffee off my monitor and keyboard thanks :)

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[LINK] Honest Government Ad | 2019 Election (Season Finale)

[Andy Farkas]

Not sure if I've posted these guys before, but this is one of their best:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJrXI3rBbSA

PS. NSFW

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Re: [LINK] Millimeter-wave 5G will never scale beyond dense urban areas, T-Mobile says

[Andy Farkas]

overhyped 5G


Yes.

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[LINK] Missed

[Andy Farkas]

Never forget:

 https://mrjohnclarke.com/projects/clarke-dawe

It's like he was here just last week... Richard Shinnery lol


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Re: [LINK] Amazon to offer broadband access from orbit

[Andy Farkas]

The filings lay out a plan to put 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit ...



   *  SpaceX ... more than 12,000 satellites ...



* OneWeb ... plans to put hundreds more in place ..



* Telesat ... plans to have hundreds more launched ...


So not only is humankind leaving behind a heated-up, poluted dying 
planet for our great-great-great grandchildren, we're leaving behind an 
extreme amount of space junk for them to clean up too. Maybe we won't be 
able to leave Earth due to too much shrapnel in the way


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris

"As of January 2019, more than 128 million bits of debris smaller than 1 
cm (0.4 in), about 900,000 pieces of debris 1–10 cm, and around 34,000 
of pieces larger than 10 cm were estimated to be in orbit around the Earth."



The regulatory process is likely to consider whether Amazon can guarantee that 
its satellites won’t interfere with the thousands of other satellites expected 
to operate in low Earth orbit, and that the satellites will be disposed of 
safely at the end of their operating life without adding to orbital debris.



"consider" eh?

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Re: [LINK] IT and Higher Education in the 2019/2020 Australian Federal Budget

[Andy Farkas]

On 02/04/2019 22:18, Tom Worthington wrote:

The 2019/2020 Australian Federal Budget: https://www.budget.gov.au/

Some items of interest:

IT: 
https://blog.tomw.net.au/2019/04/it-in-20192020-australian-federal-budget.html


Higher Education: 
https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2019/04/educaiton-in-20192020-australian.html





"In a budget speech of 4,140 words — the climate was mentioned just twice.

What we wanted was real policies on climate change. What we got from
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg yesterday were cuts to the renewable energy
agency, almost $40 billion in subsidies for big polluters, and the return of
Tony Abbott's worthless emissions policy."

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[LINK] It's called Driver Assist, not Autopilot

[Andy Farkas]

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/04/03/researchers-trick-teslas-autopilot-into-driving-into-oncoming-traffic/

Also from the article:

"Keen researchers have remotely flummoxed Teslas before. These are the guys
who, a few years ago, remotely slammed on the brakes of a Tesla Model S from
12 miles away, popped the trunk and folded in the side mirror, all while the
car was moving."

...

"Currently, fiddling with the external, physical environment isn’t where the
efforts are going to secure self-driving systems against attack. That should
perhaps change, the Keen researchers believe, given that such attacks are
feasible, and they should be factored in to design companies’ efforts to
secure the cars."

These from some of the comments:

"We *already* have perfectly good self-driving vehicles – they’re called
taxi’s and buses."

"... we need to get to the point where we can trust the cars to drive
themselves 100% of the time and I can be safely and legally drunk and
asleep in the back seat ..."

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Re: [LINK] The Huawei 5G debate

[Andy Farkas]

On 15/03/2019 10:04, David wrote:

Spyware in exported network equipment isn't anything new, it's been happening 
for 20 years.


Do you have any links to back up this claim?

I've been in the industry for more than 20 years and haven't heard of this.

Sure, Cisco 1921 routers needed IOS updates every now and again, but I
don't recall reading about spyware

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Re: [LINK] Facebookdown, #Instagramdown...

[Andy Farkas]

On 14/03/2019 15:43, Scott Howard wrote:


... All Facebook data is stored on their own systems, in their own datacenters.


On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 10:22 PM JLWhitaker  wrote:


... What was weird was that saved items are behaving strangely. I can still



I still fail to comprehend why people "store" stuff on 
multinational-corporate-data-troving-ads-in-your-face company's computers.


There are more adjectives I could use, but evening wine has kicked in...

I can foresee my daughter being taught in school how not to send a dick-pic.

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[LINK] Ugly 90s websites

[Andy Farkas]

Ugly 90s websites immortalised in new archive thanks to National Library 
of Australia:


 
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-13/australias-ugliest-90s-websites-are-archived/10894098

"John Howard was the first PM to have an official website"

 https://trove.nla.gov.au/

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Re: [LINK] Believe him? I'd say he has his own agenda

[Andy Farkas]

On 12/12/2018 17:17, JLWhitaker wrote:



https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-12/encryption-laws-mike-burgess-australian-signals-directorate/10612570 





Yeah, I read that last night


In a rare, public statement, Mike Burgess has struck out at seven "myths"


Maybe it was because my BS-o-meter was red-lining, but I didn't get to 
seven.


He said that agencies would have unfettered power under the encryption 
laws


Is that one of the "myths"?

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[LINK] AssAccess

[Andy Farkas]

 https://alp.fail/

As a "tech expert" I agree.

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Re: [LINK] The "health" record security model

[Andy Farkas]

On 11/11/2018 11:48, David wrote:

He revealed that medical information (other than a summary of any allergies?) 
isn't held in a structured database but is a collection of PDF documents!  Can 
you imagine a patient lying unconscious in ED while a doctor makes a cup of 
coffee and settles down to plow through them?



Off Topic: using your MYHR account as a personal cloud document storage.

Imagine scanning in old photos as PDF and uploading into myhr, saving other
non-health related documents... who's checking the validity of what's 
uploaded?


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[LINK] Morrison's Big Blue Bus

[Andy Farkas]

https://www.pm.gov.au/media/doorstop-kunda-park-qld

Clarke & Dawe couldn't of done better:


JOURNALIST: Prime Minister, you’re on the bus tour. Why are you flying?

PRIME MINISTER: Well the bus is going all the way up to Rockie and that’s
where it was always planning to go. I mean, it’s a big state and I need to
cover as much of it in four days as I can. So we were never planning to
take the bus to Townsville, we’d always planned to take that last leg up
to Townsville by plane because that was the most effective way to get
there and to spend the most time there with people on the ground. I mean,
these visits aren’t about sitting on a bus. They’re about actually engaging
with small businesses and our supporters and the people of Queensland and
listening to them.

JOURNALIST: Then why have the bus?

PRIME MINISTER: Because it gets me from A to B.

JOURNALIST: Will you be taking the bus to Rockhampton from here?

PRIME MINISTER: Yes. The bus will be going to Rockhampton from here.
That’s right.

JOURNALIST: With you on it?

PRIME MINISTER: I’ve got to get there earlier than the bus tonight.

JOURNALIST: So you will be flying to Rockhampton?

PRIME MINISTER: I’ll get into Rockhampton tonight and I’ve got a programme
tonight in Rockhampton and the bus can’t get me there quick enough so I’ve
got to fly.

JOURNALIST: So you’ll be flying to Rockhampton and the bus will catch up
with you and then you’ll fly onto Townsville?

PRIME MINISTER: I’ll be flying onto Townsville. And your point is what?

JOURNALIST: I’m just interested in the point of the bus if you’re not on
it.

PRIME MINISTER: I am on it, I just got off it.

JOURNALIST: But not onto Rockhampton or Townsville?

PRIME MINISTER: Yeah well it’s a practical thing. I want to spend as much
time on the ground with Queenslanders, and when I can be on the bus and go
from place to place on the bus, that’s great. But I’m not going to sacrifice
time with Queenslanders, listening to them and hearing them and talking to
them about what’s important to them just to satisfy the media’s interest in
the timetable for the bus.


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[LINK] FTTN will be used until 2040

[Andy Farkas]

Good article, sad outcome:

 
http://johnmenadue.com/laurie-patton-the-nbn-sinks-deeper-into-a-technological-mire/

It's things like this that make you wonder how corrupt LNP are:

"I even spoke personally to Mr Turnbull (when he was Prime Minister)
and subsequently briefed his then chief-of-staff. Of course, that very
person, Drew Clarke, headed up the Communications Department when the
fateful decision was made to junk the original NBN model. He now sits
on the NBN Co board!"

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Re: [LINK] Giants Join Australia's Cryptowar

[Andy Farkas]

On 04/10/2018 17:07, Stephen Loosley wrote:

"The government told the ABC's AM today the coalition had spent a year consulting 
with industry on the bill, and added that security agencies needed to keep up with 
technology. ®"



Ha! Luv that last bit

I really shouldn't say anymore, so I won't.

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Re: [LINK] Exposure draft of the anti-encryption bill

[Andy Farkas]

On 27/09/2018 10:27, Andy Farkas wrote:


https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about/consultations/assistance-and-access-bill-2018 





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW-OMR-iWOE

thejuicemedia's take on it (NSFW - language)

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Re: [LINK] RFC: A Capable Email-Client, e.g. for a Mac

[Andy Farkas]

On 29/09/2018 06:58, Roger Clarke wrote:

I'm desperately looking for a replacement email-client for Eudora.



Pine was always my favourite but I believe it is unmaintained now.

I've been very happy with Mozilla Thunderbird for the last decade
(it can be configured to display email in the correct way - green
text on black background)

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[LINK] Exposure draft of the anti-encryption bill

[Andy Farkas]

 
https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about/consultations/assistance-and-access-bill-2018

A "sample" of the >14,000 submissions.

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Re: [LINK] "REVEALED: Controversial My Health Record system with 'military-grade security' has ALREADY been hacked nine times"

[Andy Farkas]

On 02/08/2018 12:45, Christian Heinrich wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6016957/Controversial-Health-Record-hacked-nine-times.html

'The remaining two breaches were the result of a consumer accessing a
My Health Record that was not their own due to a processing error by
the Department of Human Services.'

BTW I only quote the most reputable source of #FakeNews :)  The link
for the Herald Sun is behind a paywall.




https://m.news-mail.com.au/news/nine-data-breaches-linked-to-my-health-record-kept/3482511/

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Re: [LINK] Urgent: MyHR Opt-Out

[Andy Farkas]

On 18/07/2018 13:25, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:



And people can take photos of their meds, or cut up a bit of the box it
comes in and put it in their wallet or purse, or write it down.. And
you don't need the internet or computer skills.

And a lot safer than giving your data to the government.



...and if you get assaulted, beaten up, left for dead, and they steal
your purse/wallet?



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Re: [LINK] Urgent: MyHR Opt-Out

[Andy Farkas]

On 16/07/2018 10:44, Roger Clarke wrote:

Here's the information page provided by the Australian Privacy Foundation:
https://privacy.org.au/campaigns/myhr/

It contains a considerable amount of information that the government has failed 
to communicate to the public.



Confidence level decreasing...

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/government-left-red-faced-by-health-privacy-commissioner-s-website-bungle-20180717-p4zs1t.html

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Re: [LINK] Federal Budget 2018

[Andy Farkas]

On 11/05/2018 08:40, Tom Worthington wrote:

On 09/05/18 13:25, Stephen Loosley wrote:


... Tom usually summarizes the budget for IT ...




Hasn't been mentioned before, but Sammy J is doing a hilarious job.

I find his 'Government Coach' ones the funniest.

His latest one is coaching Sco-Mo on the after-budget speech with
Leigh Sales. Well worth the chuckles:

https://iview.abc.net.au/programs/sammy-j/

Enjoy your new washing machine :)

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[LINK] Error-prone

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"How can we solve traffic jams, emissions and accidents? Self-driving cars!"

 https://madewithmonsterlove.itch.io/error-prone

"... illustrates perfectly how self driving cars are vastly superior to 
their
human counterparts in terms of traffic grid lock, efficiency and 
avoiding road

accidents."

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[LINK] ICANN takes Whois begging bowl to Europe, comes back empty

[Andy Farkas]

 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/25/icann_whois_gdpr/

"Perhaps unsurprisingly then, its own answer as to whether it is
a data controller is written in indecipherable legalese:

...

Which is a very long way of saying: God, we hope not."

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Re: [LINK] Student media blocked from budget lock-up

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On 13/04/2018 09:10, JanW wrote:

At 08:38 AM 13/04/2018, Andy Farkas wrote:

We can also expect that this year, like most years, the Budget will have
a big effect on students."


I reckon Malcolm's idea of "big effect" will not be positive either and he's 
wanting to avoid a riot in Parliament.



Well, Trumble never actually said that.

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[LINK] Student media blocked from budget lock-up

[Andy Farkas]

http://junkee.com/student-media-budget-release/154010

"This year, the government told all student media organisations in the
country that they weren’t invited.

...

The ban is a particularly strange move, considering that only last week
Malcolm Turnbull told media that this would be a “baby-boomer Budget”.
We can also expect that this year, like most years, the Budget will have
a big effect on students."

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[LINK] 30 down

[Andy Farkas]

Hew does it again:

 Turnbullnator 30: Judgement Day: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7488RL5KKY


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Re: [LINK] What are the fastest DNS providers?

[Andy Farkas]

On 06/04/2018 09:32, Kim Holburn wrote:

Cloudflare made headlines by introducing its new, fast Domain Name System (DNS) 
resolver


I read an interesting (and technical) blog the other day:

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dns-filesystem-true-cloud-storage-dnsfs

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[LINK] The NBN: Only 80% done disappointing us

[Andy Farkas]

I quite enjoyed reading this short article by Mathew Reddin, the 
adjectives and

superlatives are exceptional :)  I guess being a movie critic helps.

 http://thebigsmoke.com.au/2018/03/23/the-nbn-80-done-disappointing-us/

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Re: [LINK] nbn(tm) in deep do-do

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On 07/03/2018 17:05, Andy Farkas wrote:


Oh, and this pic brought up a couple of interesting points:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXpK3haV4AAEfWN.jpg



https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-node-crushed-by-car-twice-in-two-weeks-487526

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Re: [LINK] Thought Volvos were supposed to be safe?

[Andy Farkas]

Exterior and interior views of what happened:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPvSS5PhO7M

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[LINK] Thought Volvos were supposed to be safe?

[Andy Farkas]

 
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-20/uber-suspends-self-driving-car-tests-after-fatal-crash/9565586

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[LINK] nbn(tm) in deep do-do

[Andy Farkas]

The other day I mentioned that nbn(tm)* are struggling. Yep, the pretty 
graphs

seem to agree:

http://www.mclarenwilliams.com.au/nbn-co-rollout-progress/

Heads are going to roll when Labor get a look at the cooked books.

Oh, and this pic brought up a couple of interesting points:

 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXpK3haV4AAEfWN.jpg

- lucky to not be electrocuted when stepping out of the vehicle
- perfect example of why not to use cast-in bolts to plinths instead
of shear bolts.

-andyf

* they paid someone $700,000 to change their name so might as well use it

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Re: [LINK] NBN Co refuses to disclose cheapest FTTP connection costs

[Andy Farkas]

On 27/02/2018 07:34, Andy Farkas wrote:


nbn(tm) are in deep do-do.


Oops, forgot the link:

http://www.innovationaus.com/2018/02/NBNs-astounding-results-fail

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Re: [LINK] NBN Co refuses to disclose cheapest FTTP connection costs

[Andy Farkas]

On 26/02/2018 17:26, Kim Holburn wrote:

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-co-refuses-to-disclose-cheapest-fttp-connection-costs-485904




nbn(tm) are in deep do-do.

Won't be able to hit required ARPU of $52
75% of FttN unable to get 100/40
47% of the HFC area will need new leadins
Take-up rates slowing down
...the list goes on

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Re: [LINK] Where's Tim Minchin?

[Andy Farkas]

On 15/02/2018 18:02, Paul Bolger wrote:

I have to go to Facebook to see ABC videos?



"or you'll find yourself in hell with Barnaby Joyce"

The link worked for me so should be good enough for everyone else :)

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[LINK] Where's Tim Minchin?

[Andy Farkas]

 https://www.facebook.com/abcnews.au/videos/10156322486999015/

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[LINK] Windy Weather

[Andy Farkas]

Was shown a new weather map today:

 http://windy.com/

Has all sorts of weather information in real-time. Very similar to
earth.nullschool.net - I'd even go so far as to say it's the same
code-base.

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Re: [LINK] ABS could find out how you vote.

[Andy Farkas]

On 29/09/2017 19:59, Forename Surname wrote:

https://marriagesurvey.abs.gov.au/privacy-policy#barcodes



https://imgur.com/FErbUWp

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Re: [LINK] Researchers Have Linked a Human Brain to the Internet for the First Time Ever

[Andy Farkas]

On 21/09/2017 09:39, Kim Holburn wrote:

https://futurism.com/researchers-have-linked-a-human-brain-to-the-internet-for-the-first-time-ever/


it essentially turns the brain “…into an Internet of Things (IoT) node on the 
World Wide Web.”

Surely we need a ig noble award for technology that should never have been 
invented.



The 2017 ig noble awards ceremony was last week.

An aussie won the economics prize!

"Matthew Rockloff and Nancy Greer, for their experiments to see how
contact with a live crocodile affects a person's willingness to gamble."

http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/

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Re: [LINK] The experts agree, Turnbull’s NBN is ‘a national tragedy’

[Andy Farkas]

On 10/09/2017 11:52, Scott Howard wrote:


On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 6:02 PM, David Boxall  wrote:


Globally, the majority of connections are now through FTTP.



I presume Mr Tucker has numbers to back that up?  It's certainly not the
case here in the US, and I doubt it is in most countries (with a few
notable exceptions)


http://point-topic.com/free-analysis/world-broadband-statistics-q1-2017/

See figure 6.


America now has 250 “gigabit” cities using FTTP, proving a boon for local
economies. Australia has none.


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Re: [LINK] Chrome and Autoplay

[Andy Farkas]

On 15/09/2017 21:12, Stephen Loosley wrote:

Chromium Blog

News and developments from the open source browser project
https://blog.chromium.org/2017/09/unified-autoplay.html



I am switching to a new browser:

 https://iridiumbrowser.de/

"The Iridium Browser is based on the Chromium code base. All
modifications enhance the privacy of the user and make sure
that the latest and best secure technologies are used.

Automatic transmission of partial queries, keywords, metrics to
central services is prevented and only occurs with the approval
of the user."

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Re: [LINK] Multi-tech mess fleeces the nation

[Andy Farkas]

On 09/09/2017 00:20, Stephen Loosley wrote:

Multi-tech mess fleeces the nation


By Michelle Rowland  September 8, 2017
http://www.innovationaus.com/2017/09/Multi-tech-mess-fleeces-the-nation



Ahhh yep. Michelle has penned a truth.

Poor sods that succumbed to Malcs snakeoil salesmanship

Sorry to say: "told ya so."

Oh wait... my kids, and their kids, and probably THEIR kids
will be living with (M)alcolm (T)urnbulls (M)ess for decades.

There IS NO upgrade path. All nodes will have to be ripped
up and scrapped. 60 thousand of them (?)

And old yanky-doodle billy-boy says there are no plans to
upgrade anything... can't afford it.

I hate Abbott/Turnbull so much for what they did

-andyf

ps. yay! they got their stupid non-binding, non-compulsary
$122mil waste of tax-payers money postal vote! A policy
win! Let's take *that* to the next election; a promise we
kept

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Re: [LINK] FTTH in rural Iceland

[Andy Farkas]

On 08/09/2017 04:32, ham...@cloud.net.au wrote:

I'm on holiday in Iceland and currently staying at an Airbnb just outside of 
Laguar. Look it up on Google maps - it's not a big place.

So I was intrigued to find a fibre connection in the basement, with an 
invitation from the host to use the fast WiFi and unlimited downloads. The TV 
seems to be streamed too.

4g seems pretty widespread too although occasionally I have been on GPRS only.



Seems you have better coverage than Greenland:

http://imgur.com/gallery/WJPj0gp

:)

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Re: [LINK] Aussie internet pain after Asian subsea cables cut

[Andy Farkas]

Link Instutie researchers took ordinary SSD solid state disk drives 
and packed them in briefcase sized modules. Each module has 500 SSDs, 
and has a 30,000 terabyte capacity. Forty of the modules are packed 
into two modified external fuel tank on the F/A-18E aircraft, for a 
total of 1,200,000 terabytes.


You can actually get a Petabyte of storage in 1U of rack space these days:

 
https://www.pcper.com/news/Storage/FMS-2017-Intels-EDSFF-Ruler-SSD-Form-Factor-Details-Emerge-1-Petabyte-1U-Chassis

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Re: [LINK] Australian government agencies, and clouds.

[Andy Farkas]

"Microsoft is launching two Canberra regions ..."

W!  Thump. Thump.

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PS. Journalism is becoming a dying art.

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Re: [LINK] Peter Martin Economist (?) blames Labor for NBN!

[Andy Farkas]

On 10/08/2017 09:50, Hamish Moffatt wrote:


Which bit of his argument do you disagree with?


"There's nothing inherent in the NBN that's strangling its speed and
giving customers grief; it's inherent in the pricing model it adopted
to make it look as if it could make money."

It's not clear which Martin said this, but it's blatantly wrong.

I've mentioned before that nbn(tm) have hobbled the nodes by only
providing 1Gbps download per 384 customers (with 1Gbps up).

Want 100Mbps? "I'll gladly pay for it!" Sorry, you're too far from the
node.

Want faster than 100Mbps? "I'll gladly pay for it!" Sorry, you're on a
node.

They also changed the initial built-in redundancy and fault tolerance.
(ring topology to star)

Oh, did I mention Malc's blatant lie about upgradability? I'm sure I
have.

As for why people are on 12/25Mbps plans? Telstra. Try and get a
faster plan using their web site.

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Re: [LINK] NBN spin

[Andy Farkas]

On 06/08/2017 15:52, David Boxall wrote:


Our government (via nbn™) is looking increasingly desperate.


Did you listen to the Senate Estimates Committee hearings this week?

Paul Budde was a legend, explicitly blaming the govt:

 https://youtu.be/q33oSnxGqk0

Here's the day before where Bill Morrow and Rue (the multi-million 
dollar men) got all

their lies wrong and kept painting themselves into a corner:

 https://mega.nz/#!68AVTSKI!k4iXdcfnMnMd_hWh0X9V2UAr46VG5KC9AAp37BvFOxQ

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Re: [LINK] NBN costs

[Andy Farkas]

On 31/07/2017 16:40, JanW wrote:

Some bright spark from some dodgy tech company came in with a nice colour 
brochure. Can't think of anything else that make sense.



Yay for the new season of Utopia! :)

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Re: [LINK] NBN costs

[Andy Farkas]

http://www.afr.com/technology/web/nbn/what-a-bunch-of-ding-dongs-heres-why-the-nbn-is-far-worse-than-you-think-20170728-gxl1t7

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Re: [LINK] NBN costs

[Andy Farkas]

Pardon the French, but the asshole is full of shit (no pun intended).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6DDYOJ8phQ

Mr. Trumble, please explain how a node is upgradable? Oh, you rip it all 
out and start again? M, more affordable


[sorry all, it's been a bitch of a Monday]

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Re: [LINK] Hackers break into voting machines in minutes at hacking competition

[Andy Farkas]

On 30/07/2017 15:31, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:

“The scary thing is


Yes.

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Re: [LINK] Renewing your drivers licence online

[Andy Farkas]

On 24/07/2017 14:05, Narelle wrote:

This means you have to agree (ie clickwrap) to an onerous set of terms
and conditions that apply to all aspects of the toll system just to
update a minor thing.



I read this one the other day:

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/07/22000-people-agree-to-clean-toilets-for-wifi-because-they-didnt-read-the-terms/

...not sure of it's validity though as I'm beginning to suspect that some
things on the Internet may not be true ;)

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[LINK] Oh My Dog. nbn(tm) taking it to extremes.

[Andy Farkas]

They pay for this stuff to be written. A lot.

Pity the current copper they're using will have to be replaced by 2027

http://www.nbnco.com.au/blog/connected-homes/cws-its-7am-in-2027-and-your-alarm-has-sounded.html?cid=socmed%3Atwitter%3Aoutbound%3Ablog%3A07%2F06%2F17

"You hold your wrist up towards the front door and your embedded chip
confirms your identity, allowing it to unlock. Balancing your plate of
croissants, you pat your pockets instinctively, again forgetting you
don’t have a wallet or keys anymore. You’re about to leave when you
see Alex’s light flashing on the screen near the door. “Yes, Alex?”

Your hear the dryer pop open down the hall: “Don’t forget your jacket.”

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Re: [LINK] John Oliver and Net Neutrality

[Andy Farkas]

On 10/05/2017 11:37, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:


I have a question.

If you try going to gofccyourself.com you get redirected to the FCC site



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_302

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Re: [LINK] All the tech in the 2017-18 federal budget

[Andy Farkas]

On 10/05/2017 00:28, Stephen Loosley wrote:

All the tech in the 2017-18 federal budget

E-health, BoM infosec, cyber office, and more.

By Allie Coyne  May 9 2017  8:30PM
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/all-the-tech-in-the-2017-18-federal-budget-461083?utm_source=feed_medium=rss_campaign=editors_picks_editors_picks=true


They say it was a Labor budget, but you can tell the Lib bits...


Just over $374 million will be spent over the next two years to give every 
Australian an electronic health record by default.


Hasn't this been done before?


The Immigration department has been handed $95.4 million to improve its storage 
and processing of biometric data and introduce a new risk processing system for 
travellers.



Mmm, biometrics. "Please spit here. beep!"

"A, sorry. Computer says No."


A ban on the creation, use or sale of sales suppression technology that allows 
busineses to hide sales for the purpose of avoiding tax.



Sales suppression technology! Where can I get one?

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[LINK] metadata

[Andy Farkas]

What could possibly go wrong?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-28/afp-officer-accessed-journalists-call-records-in-metadata-breach/8480804

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Re: [LINK] Network error: What will be the cost of a patchwork NBN?

[Andy Farkas]

On 11/04/2017 19:34, andrew clarke wrote:

https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2017/april/1490965200/paddy-manning/network-error



Brilliant. Sums up exactly what has happened. Can't flaw the article in 
any way.


“It’s a clusterfuck.” <-- nailed it.

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[LINK] A sad day

[Andy Farkas]

"One of Australia's best-known satirists, John Clarke, has died at the 
age of 68."


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Re: [LINK] Australia completely cashless?

[Andy Farkas]

Professor Holden said there were huge advantages to a cashless society, 
especially for governments.



Nailed it.

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Re: [LINK] Jan's NBN experience

[Andy Farkas]

On 27/03/2017 11:05, Scott Howard wrote:

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Andy Farkas <an...@andyit.com.au> wrote:


Jan is on a 12Mbps plan. Modern-day wifi (802.11ac) can do 300Mbps. My
ancient wireless access point (WAP) can do 54Mbps (802.11g).


No, it can't.   802.11g maxes out at slightly less an 20Mbps useable, less
with more than one client active or if there's other wifi base stations
around.


Confusing Mega-bits with Mega-bytes and 2^20 with x1000 is a
marketers dream come true.


Still more than the 12Mbps, but not the numbers you're claiming.


I'm just stating what's printed on the box. And wikipedia.


And before someone starts claiming that HFC isn't up to delivering 12Mbps
at peak times, the simple fact is that I have no trouble sucking down
280Mbps over HFC no matter what time of day or night I test...


As the Communications Minister, Malcolm F'd up our NBN with his
MTM plan big time. It'll be his legacy. Other countries are different.

-andyf

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Re: [LINK] Jan's NBN experience

[Andy Farkas]

On 27/03/2017 10:30, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

On 27/03/17 11:24, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:

So what's the problem?


Could still be a local wifi problem


Come on guys, it's not a wifi problem.

Jan is on a 12Mbps plan. Modern-day wifi (802.11ac) can do 300Mbps. My
ancient wireless access point (WAP) can do 54Mbps (802.11g).

Just saying. It's probably a NBN issue.

-andyf

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[LINK] Spells Against Autonomy

[Andy Farkas]

Interesting thoughts:

 http://www.bldgblog.com/2017/03/spells-against-autonomy/

"...ensaring the sensory systems of autonomous vehicles"

"even a person wearing a t-shirt with a STOP sign on it can affect
the navigational capabilities of autonomous cars"

"rogue highway painting crews"

-andyf

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Re: [LINK] Australian households, businesses on NBN slam +óunreliable+ó connection

[Andy Farkas]

On 17/03/2017 17:15, JanW wrote:

At 06:03 PM 17/03/2017, Andy Farkas you wrote:


Have you noticed that Jan isn't here? :)

LOL - I'm here, just reading.


Hehe.. you're usually a bit more vocal.


The NBN installer came yesterday and put in their gear.


A new plate in the wall?  Alongside your other HFC connection?


Right now I'm still on the ADSL I've always had. No indication of interferences.



ADSL uses Telstra's ageing copper. HFC is a completely separate network.
Both should never have been used in a new National Broadband Network (NBN).
Now we have Malcolm's Terrible Mess (MTM).

You are lucky you can co-exist with ADSL. It's the unfortunate users who 
have

been shafted with FTTN that are having issues; they get cut off from ADSL
immediately, and if the FTTN doesn't work... weeks of no internet or phone.

-andyf

PS. I've said it before: this is not an anti-MTM forum.. must. 
stop.. angry.


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Re: [LINK] Australian households, businesses on NBN slam +óunreliable+ó connection

[Andy Farkas]

On 17/03/2017 12:42, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

On 17/03/17 13:09, Andy Farkas wrote:


Page 32 & 33.


Are you referring to the HFC Domain section? I don't see any figures 
at all in there about users or node connection bandwidth.




Which part of page 32 don't you see?

Table 5: Copper DSLAM Node Deployment Options

And on Page 33: Figure 23  AAS Interfaces

It just beggars belief that anyone could expect 1Gbit to be enough for 
that many users...


You see why I get angry now?  Turnbull F'd it up BIG TIME.

-andyf

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Re: [LINK] Australian households, businesses on NBN slam +óunreliable+ó connection

[Andy Farkas]

On 17/03/2017 11:53, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

On 17/03/17 12:01, Andy Farkas wrote:


*My* point is that bandwidth to a node (FTTN) is limited. 1000Mbps.
Divide that by 384 users (node capacity). You get 2.6Mbps per user.
RSP's can't make it go any faster no matter how much CVC they buy. 


Just out of interest, where do you get your figures of 1000Mbps and 
384 users?


The NBN Network Design Rules.

 http://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbnco2/documents/network-design-rules.pdf

Page 32 & 33.

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Re: [LINK] Australian households, businesses on NBN slam +óunreliable+ó connection

[Andy Farkas]

On 17/03/2017 09:24, rene wrote:

On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:59:39 +1000, Andy Farkas wrote:


On 16/03/2017 17:33, rene wrote:

[...]

that even if NBN Co. supplies a perfect service to some area, if an
ISP retailer in that area skimps on provisioning/contention ratio,
then their customers will not receive the requested speed,


No, NBN can only provide a certain amount of bandwidth to the nodes.
The RSP cannot make it any faster. They must share the limited BW
between themselves.

Perhaps what I meant wasn't clear. I meant that even if NBN Co. supplies
sufficient bandwidth to a particular node, an ISP's customers still won't
get the paid-for speed if the ISP chooses to have contention ratios that
are too high. That is, if they fail to pay for sufficient CVC capacity from
NBN Co. and/or sufficient backhaul from an upstream carrier.


I fully understand what you were saying. RSP's need to find the balance
between the amount of CVC they purchase and the amount of bandwidth
they are selling.

(They have to do this 141 times if they want to provide nation-wide.)

*My* point is that bandwidth to a node (FTTN) is limited. 1000Mbps.
Divide that by 384 users (node capacity). You get 2.6Mbps per user.
RSP's can't make it go any faster no matter how much CVC they buy.


There have previously been cases of people blaming FTTN for slow speeds,
when the cause was actually the ISP's contention ratio. See, as one
example, the case in this article:

The NBN: Truth in the battle of FTTN and avoiding new FUD
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/Feature/415565,the-nbn-truth-in-the-battle-of
-fttn-and-avoiding-new-fud.aspx


That article is old - before the RSPs knew what to expect. Most now
have a better idea, and increase their CVC appropriately.



FTTP speeds will also be slow if an ISP's contention ratio is too high.
There've also been complaints about that since long before FTTN (nodes)
existed.


Again, before RSPs knew what to expect.

At least your FTTP is limited to only 2600Mbps / 32 users
81Mbps. See why I'm envious? :)

-andyf

PS. I'm on Fixed Wireless. There are probably close to 200 users on
my tower. Backhaul from the towers is a measly 100Mbps.

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Re: [LINK] Australian households, businesses on NBN slam âunreliableâ connection

[Andy Farkas]

On 16/03/2017 17:33, rene wrote:

Imo it's far more likely the problems are caused by the un-named ISPs
having inadequate contention ratios in the subject areas (or even all
areas).


Yes and No. The problem is due to the ridiculous 141 POI infrastructure
that was imposed.


  The News Corp article's credibillity suffers, imo, from the failure
to mention


Yes, newCorpse failed to mention a lot of things wrong with turDbull's MTM.


  that even if NBN Co. supplies a perfect service to some area, if
an ISP retailer in that area skimps on provisioning/contention ratio, then
their customers will not receive the requested speed,


No, NBN can only provide a certain amount of bandwidth to the nodes. The
RSP cannot make it any faster. They must share the limited BW between
themselves.

Do you need a link to NBN Design documents that show how it was severely
hobbled by the honorable () current PM turdBull?

I envy your FTTP connection, as it should've been for 93% of Australia.

-andyf

PS. I get angry every time NBN issues come up. IT'S ALL TURDBULL's FAULT!
He should not be allowed to live this down, it should be engraved on his 
tombstone.


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Re: [LINK] WikiLeaks Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed

[Andy Farkas]

On 08/03/2017 21:01, Stephen Loosley wrote:


Wikileaks has carefully reviewed the "Year Zero" disclosure and published 
substantive CIA documentation while avoiding the distribution of 'armed' cyberweapons


Yeah, I looked at the "leaks" earlier this morning and pretty much found 
nothing.


It was basically saying "with this code we can do this" but no actual code.

Nothing to see here, move along.

-andyf

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Re: [LINK] Demand 'still not there' for 1Gbps: NBN Co

[Andy Farkas]

On 12/02/2017 16:17, JanW wrote:


I'd have to go do some research, but my bet is that the demand growth is 
exponential over that time. So why not 1Gb/sec? Or even higher in the next 5?



Oh Jan, Jan, Jan Mr. Trumble and his yes-men have told us that all we'll
need is 15Mbps by 2023. Didn't you read the Vertigan/Ergas report? One
of several that Mr. Trumble spent^Wgave millions of dollars to the authors?

The +$20million being spent on advertising obviously hasn't been affective
enough... the $700,000 spent to change their name seems to have slid
right over your head..

/s

-andyf

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Re: [LINK] Waiting all day to connected to nbn and he doesn't show?

[Andy Farkas]

On 09/02/2017 07:16, JanW wrote:


LOL. I clicked the link, the page came up, and no content.


Pretty sure that's the point:

you: "What do I do if the tech doesn't show up?"

nbn: "Nothing."

-andyf

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Re: [LINK] Telstra just launched a mobile network 10 times faster than the NBN

[Andy Farkas]

On 01/02/2017 12:56, David Boxall wrote:
Stand by for anotherchorus of "the NBN is obsolete" and "the future is 
wireless". 
 

SYDNEY — Mobile internet has overtaken the NBN on peak speed, with 
Telstra today launching the world’s first Gigabit LTE network.


In a media demonstration in Sydney, a computer connected to Gigabit 
LTE was put through several tests on speedtest.net, connecting to a 
non-Telstra server. The peak speed reached 886Mbps – showing it was 
capable of downloading data up to 10 times faster than the maximum a 
home user can reach on the NBN.




Telstra have pledged to do this:

 
http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/nbn/telstra-to-publish-nbn-speed-data-in-the-wake-of-nbn-co-being-criticised-for-leaving-consumers-in-the-dark/news-story/f6bf5c371ac158e777b88b682559ef16

(apologies for the ridiculously long URL - it's news.com.au, say no more)

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Re: [LINK] BREAKING: Donald Trump Makes His First Move to End "An Open Internet"

[Andy Farkas]

On 01/02/2017 16:25, Stephen Edgar wrote:

Here’s a link with a little more background on that, and quite a few less 
adverts!

http://www.learnprogress.org/trump-end-open-internet/


On 1/2/17, 1:48 pm, "Link on behalf of Antony Broughton Barry" 
 wrote:

 
http://alternativemediasyndicate.com/2017/01/25/breaking-donald-trump-makes-his-first-move-to-end-an-open-internet/



Another fascinating link:

 
https://www.statista.com/chart/7845/trump-reaches-majority-disapproval-in-record-time/

And my favourite:

 https://www.statista.com/statistics/470781/donald-trump-in-one-word-usa/

-andyf

PS. That learnprogress.org site seems to have an agenda against Trump. 
It seems extremely biased to me.


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Re: [LINK] NBN ads

[Andy Farkas]

On 29/01/2017 10:39, Jan Whitaker wrote:


Question: why does a monopoly essentially public utility need to advertise at 
all?



Do you not remember my little rant last month?

 http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2016-December/104352.html

$20m in ads for Jan-Sep 2016.

Is MSM interested in holding them to account?  Nope. Murdoch.

The announcement that they're hoping the rollout will reach 50% of
premises by June this year is another fudging of numbers:

 
http://www.itwire.com/telecoms-and-nbn/76472-nbn-rollout-progress-a-?pyrrhic-victory?-says-patton.html

"NBN Co has set a target of a total footprint of 5.4 million homes and
businesses to be connected to the NBN by 30 June."

Umm, there were 12 million premises at last count

-andyf

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[LINK] NBN Co has 5 of 10!

[Andy Farkas]

Been a bit quiet lately (probably a good thing) but just thought I'd
post this (unconfirmed) image:

 
http://cdn.thinglink.me/api/image/869538424288182276/1024/10/scaletowidth#tl-869538424288182276;1043138249

[they'll probably get a pay-rise sometime this year too!]

-andyf

ps. HNY to all!

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[LINK] NBN reduces Commonwealth's net worth by $8.8 billion

[Andy Farkas]

[urge to rant about MTM rising]

http://www.itnews.com.au/news/the-nbn-has-cost-australia-88bn-in-net-worth-444600

"The PBO said it had no idea when NBN Co was expected to start paying 
dividends
to the Commonwealth, leaving it unable to predict when the network 
builder will

have a positive impact on the underlying cash balance"

[$29.5bn initial investment, then a $19.5bn loan. What did Malcs say 
about "cheaper"?]


[Labor's NBN was only going to cost $45bn with a ROI of 7%. MTM ROI is 
down at 3.2%]



Also a good read:

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/view-from-the-street/the-federal-government-presents-a-tale-of-two-taxes-20161214-gtaq4u.html

[urge to rant about MTM still rising, but I'll try and keep it to myself]

-andyf

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[LINK] MTM gets better and better. NOT!

[Andy Farkas]

https://content.akamai.com/PG7659-q3-2016-state-of-the-internet-connectivity-report.html

Akamai releases its Q3 2016 Report

"Quarterly changes were mixed and modest in the third quarter, with
nine countries seeing speeds increase and six seeing them decrease.
Gains ranged between 1.3% in Malaysia and 8.1% in Indonesia, while
declines varied from 0.1% in the Philippines to 8.2% in Australia."

Thank you Malcs!

Oh yeah, what was that about "25Mbps for all by end of 2016"? Oops.

-andyf

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[LINK] You just know this MTM is gonna have problems when...

[Andy Farkas]

NBN internet Cabinet found UNLOCKED in Public street:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LosIH9kNokM


-andyf

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