Jump to content
The Corroboree

at0m

Members2
  • Content count

    903
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    10

Posts posted by at0m


  1. Get yourself some hotter chillies than habs! I always get my super hot seeds mail order from the hippy seed company on the central coast of nsw. He sells seedlings cheap from his house too.

    I've been meaning to but I'm incredibly slack. For awhile, I was under the impression mine were bhut jolokia as it's what they were given to me as/marked as.


  2. Recipes, growing tips, photos! I want it all!

    I've been growing red habs, choc habs and some misc. jalapeños for awhile but it's fairly bland. The red hab. I put in the ground when I moved house a few months ago went absolutely crazy in a few months. Nearly quadrupled in size! It's only just producing ripe fruit now though... seems a bit late?

    I come asking for tips though... how do you increase the strength of your chillies? I'm looking to make some hot sauces at some point down the track and I'd love to be using my own, home grown, stupidly hot, satanic level pods. I'll probably order some online before then and try and get a rad recipe going.

    Excuse the terrible photo and the messy garden but here's my current red hab. bush:

    8pFS5jG.jpg

    (Related: Interested in buying some seeds and/or ridiculously hot fruits. PM me)

    • Like 3

  3. Please note: bluelight was not affected by this security breach, as we run on a dedicated server with ssl disabled.

    Secure by being insecure!

    It's like "I wasn't affected by the dodgy keval vests because I don't wear kevlar vests"

    This isn't much of an issue anymore. It was basically a 0-day. Cloudflare (which a lot of sites are behind) was patched a week /before/ it was announced and any sysadmin worth their salt patched their servers in ~24 hours, 48 at a stretch.


  4. A lot of people still had coins in gox because it's an exchange. They were likely verified there and didn't see the point in (or were in the process of) transferring to another exchange where they'd have to re-verify their identities, etc. Additionally, I will admit, gox looks like one of the nicer bitcoin exchanges. It had all the features of a good exchange but the code and management was horrible.

    Fwiw, my favourite BTC wallet is Electrum. The biggest reason being it using remote blockchains which means you don't need to download the 13gb (more?) blockchain which is just unfeasible for some.

    • Like 2

  5. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-26/community-gardens-a-biosecurity-risk-to-horticulture-sector/5285472

    Australia's peak body for the vegetable industry believes community gardens pose a biosecurity risk for the country's horticulture sector.

    The criticism comes on the back of the Federal Government scrapping the $1.5 million Community Food Grants program, created by the former Labor government under the National Food Plan.

    Ausveg's William Churchill says his industry has welcomed that decision, and says the money could have been better spent developing export markets for growers.

    "A lot of these gardens may not be in the best nick, so to speak, and the issue we then have is with infestations with either pests or diseases, and then that becomes a threat in itself to commercial horticultural operations that need to comply with strict adherence to quality assurance guidelines," he said.

    "What happens when we start to get biosecurity risks is that growers may have to take pre-emptive action to prevent pests from arriving on their properties, and what that does is that it means they have to keep the product in the ground longer, rather than being able to get it out to consumers.

    "So the end issue with having community gardens more prevalent out there is that a biosecurity risk becomes far more likely if community gardens start to grow."

    Mr Churchill has also raised concerns about food safety at farmers' markets.

    "We've seen a litany of examples where people have passed themselves off as other growers," he said.

    "We have concerns there as well there about food standards and quality assurance programs that are in place."

    But Michael Croft, from the lobby group Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance, says Ausveg has 'lost the vegetable plot', and that the real risks to Australia's biosecurity are not community gardens.

    "By claiming the axing of community food grants was good policy, Ausveg is working against the best interests of Australian vegetable growers - particularly those that supply the domestic market," he said.

    "To make matters worse, Ausveg repeats calls for further trade liberalisation - a double-edged sword.

    "Free trade agreements, and the import competition they bring, are the main reason for Australian vegetable producers' woes, as the SPC Ardmona saga demonstrates.

    "That Ausveg can't or won't see this fact beggars belief."

    Mr Croft says community and fair food projects are not risky, and that, according to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, they are the fastest growing sector in Australia.

    "In attacking community and fair food initiatives, Ausveg are needlessly turning their fire on thousands of individuals and an increasing number of groups whose numbers include the strongest, best informed and most articulate supporters of Australia's horticulturalists," he said.

    "These are groups and individuals that Ausveg should be applauding and supporting."

    • Like 8

  6. "every" is a HUGE over generalization. HUGE.

    They can't/don't track face to face transfers, they likely don't track (and even if they did, not much info would be available) cash/branch deposits, they obviously have (if they want them) bank-to-bank transfer records but again, when you're not dealing with main exchanges, you're just sending/receiving $ from some random dude which I imagine happens hundreds of thousands of times a day.

    • Like 2

  7. I just moved my garden into my new place and my life saver was Styrofoam. You don't get as much control as if you were using some gloves but for my large peru's they definitely helped. The goat suggested those big, hard and thick ( :wink: ) car washing sponges but I left it until the last minute an didn't find any.

    • Like 4

  8. from what I understand there was already a case against iinet in australia where these companies tried forcing ISP's to legally be bound to enforce their copyrights, and that case fell flat on it's arse, with the judge ruling that ISP's are only providing internet access, and that they have no burden to filter that access. I'm pretty sure it went along those lines anway. So there's a definite precedent in that case to tell these right-wing nutjobs that somehow got our top jobs to get fucked.

    I think that was iiNet vs Copyright holders or something though, wasn't it? Not Australian ISP(s) vs The Govt. Very different ball game :\

    • Like 1
×