kudra
@kudra@aus.social
I like beets.
#UBI techno-#Georgist #4dayworkweek #ev #ebikes #parent #embryoadoption #auspol #health
Allergic to Friendface. Hoping fellow allergy holders & #Twatters decamp here (I was here in 2018! see: @kudra 😅)
Let's decouple our ideas of innate human value from jobs, mmk?
- Comment on Discussion Thread ❌️🤖😥 Friday 1st August 2025 5 days ago:
@melbaboutown @Taleya so true. I'm also not a fully fledged geek but have always created and hosted my own websites, I learned in the earlier HTML-only days. I really dislike the dependence on so much complex code to do basic things, it's aggravating to always have you be updating things... my oldest website keyword never gets updated though. It still has frames! 😂
- Comment on Discussion Thread ❌️🤖😥 Friday 1st August 2025 6 days ago:
@melbaboutown yeah I expected Discord would be in the list as it's used by tons of kids.
It all sucks!
Hosting your own website isn't as hard as it looks, but Fedi is a step up and I haven't tried it myself yet, though it is on the list, along with #selfhosting. I predict a lot of learning in these areas by a LOT of people, as well as local private mesh wifi & #LoRa networks.
- Comment on Discussion Thread ❌️🤖😥 Friday 1st August 2025 6 days ago:
@melbaboutown to be honest, that time of the internet was pretty good. Though the best time for me personally was when #livejournal was on the rise: a paid account allowed you to add RSS feeds to your friend feed, so pretty much everything I wanted was in one place, but filterable and with very clear security.
RSS reader with Fedi support so locked posts are appropriately protected, with something like Gotosocial widely adopted would be pretty hard to stamp out with the current laws and even without VPN. Also most of the nerds I know personally are already leery of the risks of hosting a masto or Lemmy instance, so something that made this combo easy would probably go down well, even with those I know who so far are avoiding Fedi: they are happily using Discord but what happens when they need to show their ID there? 🤔
- Comment on Discussion Thread ❌️🤖😥 Friday 1st August 2025 6 days ago:
@melbaboutown @RustyRaven what I think will happen is : social media age verification will drive under 16s AS WELL AS anyone who values their privacy to less well known social media. But as what is already happening with the UK, large Mastodon instances are pre-emptively blocking UK instances, we in AU especially larger instances will get blocked from connecting internationally. Not sure how Lemmy is going to go, but I think the International blocks will come long before local action from our own government.
I forsee VPNs and gotosocial in my future.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌏 Saturday 26 July 2025 1 week ago:
@SituationCake @YarraByte it's been fun following the hashtag on Mastodon, feels like the old Birdsite days.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌏 Saturday 26 July 2025 1 week ago:
@bacon very sensible!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌏 Saturday 26 July 2025 1 week ago:
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💈 Thursday 10 July 2025 3 weeks ago:
@MeanElevator @Catfish seconding The Boys, and I don't even like violent or superhero. It's very clever, but quite awful, and very watchable if you can get past the ultraviolence.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐞 Monday 30 June 5 weeks ago:
@Seagoon_ hmm good point!!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐞 Monday 30 June 5 weeks ago:
@Force_majeure123 @YarraByte I feel like I have noticed much less EOFY sales and offers than usual...
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎭 Tuesday 24th June 1 month ago:
@imoldgreeeg hope you feel better soon!
I have something I haven't been able to completely shake for a week and I can't be bothered getting new RATs and wondering if I should even bother with old ones... doesn't feel bad though and I'm a #novid but there's always a first time.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎭 Tuesday 24th June 1 month ago:
@imoldgreeeg are they old RATs?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍩 Sunday 15 June 2025 1 month ago:
@imoldgreeeg @CEOofmyhouse56 I mostly watch from the sidelines but I am rather happy to learn of this origin story.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Thursday 5 June 2025 2 months ago:
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎮 Saturday 10 May 2025 2 months ago:
@Seagoon_ @just_kitten oh there are definitely cameras in the carriages.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Saturday 19 😎 April 2025 3 months ago:
@melbaboutown yeah when you realise "the cloud" is just other people's computers and "free" SM & other lockin has always been designed from the outset to bait & switch and basically enslave you it makes you realise the real costs of not being free and open. I remember when I genuinely believed Google was a force for good.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Saturday 19 😎 April 2025 3 months ago:
@melbaboutown I am glad I don't have to think about FB as have never given them my data. I need to anonymise on several services to at least try and thwart the AI feeding frenzy, though I'm rarely active anywhere except on Fedi these days. But I need to move Gmail as well. It's more than many people are even equipped to try, sadly.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Saturday 19 😎 April 2025 3 months ago:
@melbaboutown @YarraByte in the process of DeGoogling and it's similar. Though so far I'm only partway through Photos. It was always the intention to bait and switch and capture financially once the difficulty of leaving became extreme. I was always aware of Facebook which seemed blatant to me: Google and M$ actually more subtle.
- Comment on Discussion Thread: Sunday, 9 March 2025 4 months ago:
@Grubbi @briongloid welcome! I am reading you from Mastodon, but I also have a Lemmy account, I just like to say hi from Mastodon occasionally to remind people it's possible 😁
- Comment on Colesworth exit gates 5 months ago:
@PeelerSheila jeezus! That sounds horrifying.
Glad I generally use a pram if I go to woolies but this totally puts me off going there too.
- Comment on Colesworth exit gates 5 months ago:
@prettygorgeous I avoid Coles now because of these fucking things. I have yet to see a Woolies with one though?
Honestly, ALDI as much as possible, or farmers markets where they exist
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 6 February 2025 5 months ago:
@Nath @tombruzzo the owners of private childcare centres are making a killing. It's criminal that the educators don't get better pay. What they industry needs is some smart career educators who band together and start a chain of centres as cooperatives.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 23 January, 2025 6 months ago:
@just_kitten @Taleya the other thing that sucks about WGAC is the toilet paper is coming all the way from China. We DO NOT need to ship bum roll from effing China, it's one of the least sensible things to buy from there, srsly.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 23 January, 2025 6 months ago:
@RustyRaven @Grackle who do they use to deliver? It would be good to have a backup if Yarn'n go down the gurgler.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 23 January, 2025 6 months ago:
@Taleya @briongloid had it with them about a year ago, just awful couriers, failed at least 3 delivery attempts in a row and I told them to go jump. Switched to Yarn'n, who so far haven't fucked up once, but I'm kindof waiting for it to happen, it just seems almost inevitable.
- Comment on Motorists able to lock in low petrol prices for 24 hours under Victoria’s new ‘fair fuel’ plan 6 months ago:
@Salvo @Zagorath EV batteries so far are generally outlasting the expected/rated lifespans significantly. Yes, the range reduces and first gen EVs have more marked range reduction, but batteries can be replaced and the old battery repurposed as a stationary home battery or similar for a significant period before ultimately being recycled.
- Comment on Motorists able to lock in low petrol prices for 24 hours under Victoria’s new ‘fair fuel’ plan 6 months ago:
@Deceptichum @Eyekaytee I drive my EV to and from the city from rural Victoria where PT is half an hour drive from my home, park it and take PT around town, or ebike. You may find name EV drivers are pretty pro-bike and pro-PT, they aren't mutually exclusive.
- Comment on Motorists able to lock in low petrol prices for 24 hours under Victoria’s new ‘fair fuel’ plan 6 months ago:
@Salvo @Deceptichum my #minicabMiEV weighs about half the average ICE ute, it also has tiny light commercial tyres. So choice of EV matters.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 👨🦯 Sunday, 12 January, 2025 6 months ago:
@Seagoon_ Awesome thankyou!
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 👨🦯 Sunday, 12 January, 2025 6 months ago: