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- Comment on Perspective 23 hours ago:
They absolutely do, and you’re arguing for the opposite position of the person above you
- Comment on Anon describes experience 1 day ago:
Sidereal, tropical or anomalistic?
- Comment on Anon describes experience 2 days ago:
Have a look through the history section. The concept of periodicity substantially predates the quantisation of the atom. The modern table certainly considers atomic orbitals to be key, but the groups were absolutely created based on common properties.
- Comment on X Corp. and eSafety Commissioner decision by the Administrative Review Tribunal of Australia 1 week ago:
Introduction for some context
The applications before this tribunal have their origin in a social media post insulting Teddy Cook, a transgender man. The post, which among other things refers to Teddy Cook as a woman, has been blocked in Australia as a result of action by the online safety regulator. The person who posted the material and the platform on which it was posted have both challenged the decision of the regulator to issue a removal notice. The broad question to be answered is whether the post meets the statutory definition of cyber-abuse material targeted at an Australian adult. The more focussed question is whether I can be satisfied that the necessary intention to cause serious harm to the subject of the post has been established. Based on the evidence before me, I am not satisfied that it has. Consequently, the decision of the eSafety Commissioner to issue a removal notice is set aside
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 1 week ago:
Automation meets ersatz automation
- Comment on We're soon giving America another US$500m for submarines. But are we pushing on string? 1 week ago:
Australia will get submarines the same year it gets high speed rail.
- Comment on Jigsaw Trolley Problem 1 week ago:
Commenting before reading other comments
::: solution to grid puzzle The henchmen’s discussion implies that the letter row and number column both have at least two balls in them (required for “I don’t know, but I know you don’t know)”. B’s statement to A makes it clear to A that the letter must be either row C or D depending on the number he knows.
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- Comment on A cuppa Jill 2 weeks ago:
The modern English word “bear” originally came from a proto-Germanic word meaning one of “brown one” or possibly “wild animal”. There was an actual name for bears, but speaking it was taboo in case it caused a bear to appear, so the euphemism eventually replaced the real name.
When I learned this originally, I was taught that the true name was lost to time, but Wikipedia just says it was “arkto” so whatever.
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 2 weeks ago:
Just like bears
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? Google says a new AI tool on its search engine will rejuvenate the internet. Others predict an apocalypse for websites. 3 weeks ago:
- Federal watchdog finds ‘no corruption’ in $2.4m settlement to Brittany Higgins after alleged rapewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to news@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Scott Morrison receives Australia's highest honour for leadership during [COVID] crisis 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like a good time to revive Housefyre
- Comment on Highbrow politics posting: Anyone else noticed that Susssan Ley is David Littleproud with some foundation, mascara, lippy, and a wig? 1 month ago:
- Transparency. Is Labor's large majority a threat to truth in government? - Michael Westmichaelwest.com.au ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Surge in refusals for freedom of information undermines trust in Australian government, watchdog warnswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to news@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Judge suggests NSW police had ‘absolutely no evidence’ to justify main strip-search in class actionwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to news@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Former Greens leaders urge party to stand up to Labor ‘arrogance’ as jockeying begins to replace Bandt 1 month ago:
Is there any technical or policy reason that they need a new leader? Or did Adam Bandt just step down? Presumably most of the parties that have no MPs still have a leader.
- Comment on Tulsi Gabbard Reused the Same Weak Password on Multiple Accounts for Years 2 months ago:
Material from breaches shows that during a portion of this period, she used the same password across multiple email addresses and online accounts, in contravention of well-established best practices for online security. (There is no indication that she used the password on government accounts.)
This is… not interesting
- Comment on Bandt's project to change the Greens failed. Along the way, he helped wreck the appeal of minority government 2 months ago:
It’s disappointing to see that an article with such a flaky premise is written by the political editor of Crikey.
The shift from purely environmental policy to a broad progressive platform that he ascribes to Adam Bandt was complete when Di Natale was party leader, possibly before but I’m not doing the research that this editor should have done to check.
Marginally more controversially, while I think Labor was probably successful at painting the Greens as “obstructive” over the HAFF, they did exactly what they should have; they voted against bad policy, negotiated with the government and got a hell of a lot better policy passed. What else could the job of a minor party possibly be?
Most controversially, I don’t think the author is even wrong about the misalignment between who traditionally votes Greens and who their policies have the biggest impact on. But, the idea that they should tailor policies towards their voters instead of, you know, maintaining anything resembling ideological integrity, is a gross “realpolitik”-style attitude that our political landscape could do without.
- Comment on The inarguable case for banning social media for teens 2 months ago:
the biggest Nanny State the world has ever known
What’s this in reference to?
- Comment on The inarguable case for banning social media for teens 2 months ago:
This is exactly the conversation that happened in Parliament over the Australian social media ban and its absurd.
There is a broad recognition that in a regulatory vacuum corporate social media created toxic and addictive “engagement”-maximising algorithms that harm all facets of society exposed to them.
So a solution is proposed: ban it for children.
When exactly, did it become fine for corporations to actively and deliberately harm people as long as they were old enough? How about preventing the harm?
It would be just as easy for a government to ban opaque and engagement maximising feed algorithms. But they went with the option that allows “tech” giants to keep harming the less marketable 80% of the population.
- Comment on Suffering from minor party confusion? Some links I found helpful 2 months ago:
That’s extremely disappointing. I was thrilled to see a Fusion candidate on my lower house list, as that sheet is usually effectively Lib/Lab/Green, and Fusion theoretically contains several parties I’d love to have the chance to give my vote to.
I’m dismayed to discover the candidate is actually a “Democracy First” member.
- Comment on Australia urgently needs to get serious about long-term climate policy – but there’s no sign of that in the election campaign 2 months ago:
It might help if the media didn’t continuously frame this like a two horse race
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 2 months ago:
How about Usenet (1980)?
- Comment on The Coalition's and Labor’s faux postal vote forms are a blatant scam 2 months ago:
Harvesting personal information while impersonating official electoral comms.
While they technically have the right authorisations on them, the envelope and postal vote form I received could easily be mistaken as official from anyone not paying 100% attention.
According to the article the websites both take all your information then redirect you to the actual postal voting registration, potentially leading voters to think they’ve already submitted for a postal vote when they haven’t.
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- Comment on The Nine Circles of Scientific Hell 3 months ago:
What’s in plagiarism?
- Comment on Meta fires 20 employees for leaking 4 months ago:
Bit of an interesting contrast with Amazon, who encourages leaking
Tap for spoiler
This is a pee joke
- Comment on CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google 4 months ago:
I already hate them for access gating based on unnecessary labour, and deliberately making access more cumbersome for people not using chrome and using VPNs
But what really peeves me off, even though it’s much less important, is that they don’t localise them.
Where are the crosswalks? What the hell is a crosswalk. How many trolleys in this picture? None, that’s a picture of a tram!
