### Issue 1871 - Wednesday 21st June, 2023

## In Today's Issue

- Australian Competition Tribunal puts nail in coffin of TPG & Telstra's network roaming scheme
- Photography site DPReview set to continue with new owners
- Reddit digs deeper hole in battle against moderator protests
- Distressed deep sea submarine used a wireless Logitech game controller to navigate
- Cheap Logitech keyboards, Ryzen 5800X3D CPU, 50" TCL 4K TV, Cygnett 30Ah USB batteries

## The News

### Australian Competition Tribunal puts nail in coffin of TPG & Telstra's network roaming scheme

TPG and Telstra's big plan to allow TPG's customers to roam onto Telstra's regional network and share its spectrum with Telstra was knocked back by the ACCC late last year. Today it was revealed in TPG's ASX filings that the Australian Competition Tribunal (I didn't even know that was a thing) has rejected the plan too. TPG is still keen, saying that it is "considering its options for further appeal, including a judicial review in the Federal Court". Optus had the most to lose from a stronger TPG, so it's unsurprising that its CEO is "delighted that the Tribunal has upheld the ACCC's original decision to block this anti-competitive arrangement".

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### Photography site DPReview set to continue with new owners

When Amazon announced it was going to shut down DPReview, the little corner of the internet photographers inhabit went into a severe depressive spiral. All that information created over decades documenting the start of the change from film to digital and an amazing database of information was set to unnecessarily die and vanish from the internet. Months later and Amazon has sold DPReview to a mob called Gear Patrol - "a team of creators, users and enthusiasts building the definitive resource for discovering products and the stories that surround them". For the immediate future at least, it means nothing is changing with DPReview and new content will start flowing again.

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### Reddit digs deeper hole in battle against moderator protests

Reddit has escalated its war with moderators, sending them notices explaining that "we are willing to work with you to process a Top Mod Removal request or reorder the mod team to achieve this goal if mods higher up the list are hindering reopening", begging them to re-open communities turned private. In response, moderators have been marking their communities as NSFW (preventing Reddit from showing ads) or encouraging users to shitpost, like r/melbourne for example, where you can only post things about Melbourne in Florida, not Victoria. There's some noise around Reddit replacing moderators in some of the bigger communities, but nothing concrete yet. Feels like only a matter of time.

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## Something I Saw On The Internet

### Distressed deep sea submarine used a wireless Logitech game controller to navigate

You've probably heard about the tourist submarine that took people extremely deep into the ocean to look at shipwrecks, and how they haven't heard from it for over a day during its latest expedition and that oxygen will run out soon. It's a sad story and I hope they get back to the surface ASAP, but these motherfuckers were using a "a slightly modified Logitech G F710 Wireless Gamepad" to control the sub. First of all, a cheapo game pad, as the sole way to control a metal tube containing four humans hundreds of meters deep into the ocean??? Second, it's goddamn wireless?!! It's unlikely the issue causing the loss of communications with the submarine is the controller's fault, but it's pretty wild that something so critical to human life relied on a $40 wireless game pad, not even a good one like an Xbox or PlayStation controller.

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## Bargains

- Logitech K855 TKL wireless mechanical keyboard - $74 at Officeworks
- Logitech MX Keys Mini (Rose) - $85 from Amazon
- AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU - $443.82 from gg.tech365's eBay store
- TCL 50" P735 4K TV - $595 from JB Hi-Fi
- 2x Cygnett ChargeUp Maxx 30,000mAh USB batteries - $129.95 from Cygnett

## Image Of The Day

A photo of Andy Warhol holding the mouse of an Amiga 1000 computer with a tilted monitor, shot in late 1985 by Edward Judice, to accompany an interview with Warhol in the January 1986 issue of Amiga World magazine. Metin Seven touched up the photo using a mix of ESRGAN ML models and some manual adjustments. Andy Warhol and Deborah 'Blondie' Harry were asked to publicly introduce the revolutionary Amiga 1000 computer in July 1985. Since then, Warhol remained kind of a figurehead for the artistic image of the Amiga. (Metin Seven / Internet Archive)

## The End

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