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Try this while on a VPN and in incognito mode: https://amiunique.org/fingerprint
I bet you'll be surprised at the methods companies use to fingerprint you - browser agent, Do Not Track enabled/disabled, timezone, screen size.. not accepting cookies is also a data point to filter you by.
I initially thought you meant discrimination between rich and poor, but "grab money from everyone" still discriminates against people that can't afford the visa/passport.
Citizens have rights and eligibilities that non-citizens don't. That's not discrimination that needs to be addressed; it's national sovereignty. Non-citizens aren't eligible for HECS, aren't eligible to vote, aren't eligible for a passport, and aren't eligible for federal jobs. Non-citizens aren't eligible for these because they are not Australian.
Live here and choose to become an Australian, or live here and choose to not become an Australian. Choose the latter and you'll need a visa.
For the record; I think the Returning Resident visa fee is exorbitant. I also think the suggestion that Australians should pay more so it's fair for non-Australians is ridiculous.
- Australia allows dual citizenship
- Republic of Korea requires you to relinquish your Korean citizenship if you become a citizen of another country
- Girl with 'no options' chooses to keep her Republic of Korea citizenship
- Australia imposes visa fees that apply to non-citizens of Australia
- You suggest Australian's that are born here, or choose to become citizens here, pay more to make it fair
Walk me through this logic? Why should people that choose to join (or are born in) Australian citizenry pay more to make it fair for a limitation of RoK citizenship?
Let's discuss whether the visa fee is too high, for sure. But suggesting a penalty for Australian citizens to "not discriminate" against someone that has chosen not to become a citizen is absolutely ludicrous to me.
I'm not an electronic engineer either, but I reckon you're right.
Getting them out of government would be a good start.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-09/coles-just-hired-us-defence-contractor-palantir/103443504
If the petition goes somewhere, it would be great to see a general ban on them operating in Australia. Of course, this is a far shot dream with a bunch of ramifications.. but one can dream.
Maybe look into getting a GL.inet travel router with WiFi and a Chromecast/Android stick. I use that when I travel. Setup a WiFi network on the travel router and setup the Chromecast on it for when you're at the hotel.
At the hotel, either jack the travel router into a network port then use your phone to sign in to the hotel's network, or configure Repeater/WISP to get the travel router to connect to and re-broadcast the hotel WiFi (again using your phone or PC to sign in). Going Repeater/WISP brings a sizeable performance hit due to the lack of radios but it's definitely do-able.
If you're hosting Jellyfin externally, job done. If not, you can configure OpenVPN/Wireguard on the travel router and your home router and connect privately that way.
Source: Tech worker who had a requirement to be overseas 80% of the year in different hotels :)
https://www.gl-inet.com/collections/travel-routers
https://wifirepeater.org/openwrt-wisp-repeater-mode-configuration/
Grabbed, thanks for bringing it up! Looks really interesting :)
Absolutely. As more manufacturers leave the consumer market for the lucrative DC market, cloud gaming will become the norm as most of us won't be able to afford hardware at home.. and that makes me really sad. We'll start to see the end of homelabs and self-hosted software, as well as our gaming rigs. Nvidia and Microsoft both offer cloud gaming platforms and are both neck-deep in AI & AI hardware.
We may also see DIY chips and new innovation to bypass the hardware availability problem, but as we become more reliant on AI/LLMs I worry that we'll lose that innovation. The bubble pop cannot come soon enough.
The peak temperature broke the previous record set at the same station in 1998 by 2C.
The previous record wasn't 2C; it was 13.4C and that was beaten by 2C.
“It is also about 20C above normal for this time of the year. That is a huge anomaly,” he added.
Researchers stationed on King George Island, 160km from Esperanza, reported large areas of the landscape where bare ground was visible after the mercury rose to 4.6C on 6 June.
Even at the top of the 500-metre summit of the nearby Collins glacier, Muñoz witnesses rain melting the ice.
“There was a direct impact on the glacier, which should be receiving snow now. It should not be suffering ablation at this time of the year. This is obviously not good for the glacier,” he said.
March to October is winter in Antarctica.. "this time of year" is the middle of winter. We're cooked.
I'm running into the ID verification problem too! I uninstalled the app and when I reinstalled, I couldn't find my 2FA code in Microsoft Authenticator. Now I need to submit my government ID and do the face scan stuff.
I'm very much against all the ID verification stuff as of late, for the same reason you state.. I asked a friend to give me a PDF export of my profile and I'll maybe come back when the ID verification requirement changes.
Deleted my previous comment - you're right, it's not able to identify the screen resolution etc without JavaScript.
Unfortunately I'm still fingerprinted though - no JavaScript is itself an identifiable marker.