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NSW police responding to reports of shooting at Sydney’s Bondi beach – follow latest

Police say anyone at the scene should take shelter and more information will be provided when it is available

A very local musician (literally a few suburbs over from me!) who's got a cracker of a country album I reckon. The production is somewhat amateur and his voice can't quite hit a few of the notes he aims for, but it gives it a charm I love. It's the perfect music for hanging out at a local bar, talking crap with your mates, and nodding along with some beaut tracks from a live band.

If you're Australian you'll recognise lots of slang terms in the song.

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"A 55-year-old man is in a critical condition after suffering severe injuries to his arms and legs when he was mauled by his pet dog inside his Camperdown home. Six ambulance crews rushed to the apartment on Pyrmont Bridge Road about 10am on Monday after reports of the attack. The large dog is one of three that lived inside the home."

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tl;dr - have two unraid servers in geographically independant locations, want to use them as duplicate / redundancy storage of some shares.

• Unraid server at home, 120TB of storage but only need to sync ~10TB total which is spread over 3 shares.
• Bare metal Ubuntu server at work, 12TB of storage, but only need to sync ~6TB total over the equivalent of a single share.
• Have a second Unraid server with 26TB of storage I plan on taking to work. I want to backup my ~10TB from home to work, and my ~6TB from work to home.

Currently have Crashplan running on both ends which keeps up fine with the work data size, but will take literally years to upload home volume as it is so dang slow (~3Mbps, constantly stopping to rescan millions of files) so want something else in place ASAP. Will leave Crashplan running too. It'll catch up eventually.

Home has 400Mbps upload, work has 100Mbps upload so speed shouldn't be the issue.

Is Syncthing the answer? Was thinking of doing a read-only share on the sending end.

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I'm on a 100/40Mbps HFC plan, and have an ongoing issue where the internet in general (browsing, file access, email, cloud hosted products, etc) will just grind to halt.

For example, I can be accessing our CMMS and suddenly a page load will take 30+ seconds to complete. Never times out, just takes forever. Or I'm using our accounting software which syncs remotely and saving an invoice or opening a purchase order will stall for a minute.

This behaviour goes on for maybe 5 minutes or so and then goes away again. It can occur once or twice in a 10 hour day at the office, or not at all, or sometimes half a dozen times in a one hour period.

• Local network use is unaffected (for e.g. accessing SMB shares to a local server)
• All PCs and laptops connected to the LAN are affected so its not PC-specific.
• Ping is unaffected and hovers around 12ms to geographically close remote servers, with no packet loss or jitter.
• Speedtests of any kind always return around 95/35Mbps at any time be it peak / off peak / when problem is occurring / when problem is not occurring
• VOIP does not seem to be affected despite being on the same network and I can talk on the phone while the internet is otherwise wading its way through treacle.
• Happens with my current ISP (Leaptel), but also happened the previous ISP (Aussie Broadband) who are 100% completely different companies and I believe use completely different peering/routing/backhaul/etc.
• DNS seems irrelevant and occurs using either the ISP DNS, Cloudflare, Google, or Quad9
• Some websites like Facebook and Google work, but other websites like Lemmy (any instance), Reddit, my CMMS, various wholesaler sites hosted both in AU and worldwide, are affected.

Are there any steps I can take to try and identify what causes this random delay? Its just enough to be really frustrating, especially when you're trying to look up something while on the phone and have to be like "so yeah hows the wife? hows the kids? hows the....dog? .... pet bird doing anything interesting?" as you wait for a damn page to load. I need fast internet so I dont need to make small talk dammit.

PCs are all on cat5e or cat6 (depending on when the cabling was run), to a Ubiquiti Dream Machine SE which is connected via cat6 to the NBN HFC modem.

Driving, gymnastics, break dancing (ESPECIALLY break dancing)... Anything that can't be timed or measured or otherwise objectively decided should be removed from competition.

How do you quantify "style"? How do you ensure there is not biase from judges based on their knowledge of the competitor, be it country they are representing, or personal connections, or racial / religious opinion? How do you fairly compensate for what your personal opinion considers "worth" more when it comes to a trick or routine compared to another?

Swimming, running, jumping, throwing things a distance are all things that can be measured and ruled against a standard that every competitor uses. It's fair and it's removed from any bias.

The Olympics are supposed to be about competition between athletes and shouldn't be affected by popularity or politics, which anything with an interpretive aspect to the result will suffer from.

So yeah, remove the feels sports and limit the Olympics to reals sports.

10 years / 250,000k just announced by MG in Australia - including electric vehicles (and thus batteries)... Not bad considering the anti-EV crowd are always declaring battery packs to have a 3 year lifespan!

MG has introduced the longest factory warranty ever offered by a new-car maker in Australia – 10 years or 250,000km, whichever comes first – five years after rolling out seven years of coverage across its line-up.

And unlike Mitsubishi – which in October 2020 became the first brand to market a 10-year warranty, but with only a 200,000km distance limit – there is no mention of a requirement for customers to have their car serviced within the MG dealer network to access the full decade of coverage.

While MG’s new 10-year warranty is longer in time – compared to its previous seven-year offer – it now has a distance cap of 250,000km, rather than unlimited.

In effect from today (1 August 2024) for all newly-registered petrol, hybrid and electric MG models, the new warranty applies to vehicles not deemed to be "commercial use" – such as Ubers, taxis, food delivery couriers and driving schools.