My favourite (that I saw a human do) was asserting on unconstrained mocks with a typo (so they always asserted true)
Hundreds of tests. Not exactly pointless as they did call the code so maybe caught some issues. But we fixed the typo and barely half of them passed.
No idea how the software worked, but it did.
Isn’t that what OP is proposing?
Yay! Cuntdown and unusedworld pooworld are back!
Given the way things are looking. This is probably going to be the best policy announcement of the entire season.
Why aren’t they pushing the numbers more? A tax cut for most, and an additional 5bn in tax take sounds like a win. Yet it’s buried at the end of a PDF.
This is awesome.
They’ve called out the exploitation of our data, and built a platform to address it.
10/10
Most cellular data providers I’ve seen use CGNAT.
Hell, the last 3 isps I’ve used have also been CGNAT networks.
And with CGNAT, you share your IP with however many other people. Maybe not at VPN scale, but it’s not 1:1 like it used to be.
We’re going to embarrass the Australian defence planes.
Just fly those new helicopters right to Canberra.
No: Complicated location-based schemes would be awful. I used to live in an area with a number of time-based driving restrictions. The occasional “you got a fine because you drove down that road on the wrong day” sucked, and I lived in the area and knew the roads. I can’t imagine it was fun for visitors.
Yes: fairer charging. Move ACC levies to the usage not the rego. You can’t drive your work car and your personal car at the same time. Barely drive? You’re less likely to be in or cause an accident. Maybe even chuck in charges for general “harm” (ie polluters, massive American ‘trucks’, etc)
No: GPS tracking or even “magic technology device” can fuck right off. Who’s paying for ~6 million devices? Who’s managing all that data? Who’s overseeing all that data? What’s stopping the govt suddenly deciding “we’ll fine you immediately when you speed. Anywhere, any time”? I’d rather have the shitty prepaid paper system over GPS.
Yes: it is a good opportunity for innovation. But it’s also a good opportunity to funnel millions of not billions of money and data into the hands of a private overseas company to build, test, deploy and manage… Can we not?
Why stop at open banking?
Why not make blocking data scraping illegal.
Why not require any company in any sector with an influential portion of the market to publicly publish their prices in a machine readable, comparable, format.
Banks, insurance, fuel, groceries, internet, appliances, booze, utilities. Force them all to show their hand. Make it incredibly easy for comparison websites to operate. Let people find the cheapest prices.
I have a VW ID.4.
In NZ they have no internet connection, no subscriptions, basic driver assist features, made in Europe, not made by Tesla, and are (were?) as cheap as BYDs, MGs, and Model3s.
I think you should be prepared to make sacrifices. Either to your lifestyle, your principles, your safety or your wallet.
Eg. If the new RUC system comes with GPS trackers, what will you do? Abandon your car, abandon your principles, or act belligerently?
If NZ introduces an adult-ID system like the UK, what will you do? Give up ‘adult content’, or pay for an overseas VPN?
Can you afford to protest? To stand by your principles? To circumvent the systems?
It likely won’t come all at once. It’ll be slow and incremental. But privacy will keep being eroded. In this modern age data is money, data is power. Privacy is the anthesis of that.
All… five of them!
The other 7 are all lowercase. (One of you ignore site)
If this actually works, it’s amazing.
It shows just how performative the ID checking systems are.
I predict everyone is going to pay more as the revenue collection will be farmed out to private industry who will all not collude, but charge exactly the same fees.
Ah yes. The company backed by a hedge fund. The shining model of the underdog if I saw one.
As a recent EV and diesel owner, the current RUC system is dog shit.
But I’m not sure how they’re going to make it any better.
Allowing it to be post-paid when you do your WoF would just lead to a massive bill every year unless you stayed on top of it.
But what bills are the ones you don’t pay when you’re hard up? The optional ones. So that would stil impact the poorest despite “being fair”.
Unless they allow you to pay outstanding RUCs over the year, but I doubt that.
And neither of these options sound likely. The calls to “enable innovation” just sounds like a way to tack corporate fees onto a national tax.
Not mentioned so far:
I will not be surprised when they collectively stop mentioning some facts, then slowly start to deny them, then start to gaslight you into thinking you made it up.
August 6th, 2025
Breath of the Wild and moreso Tears of the Kingdom.
Not bad games. But not Zelda games.
BoTW did not play into the metroidvania that I felt defined a Zelda game. Plus it lent on the “sim rpg” style of eating, cooking, durability, etc.
Then ToTK just felt like a gimmicky cash grab. Copy paste terrain, “gadget building” straight out of some steam early access game.
Ultimately, both games felt like a hodgepodge of stolen concepts, slapped together. And the adoration that they received just makes me hate them more.