Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
- Comment on 🤔 Does my Lemmy instance support video streaming? 3 hours ago:
which can break progressive video streaming and even basic image loading in strange ways
Is this what’s caused the problem we sometimes have with image loading?
- Comment on He's just eccentric 5 hours ago:
*couldn’t’ve
- Comment on He's just eccentric 5 hours ago:
I think that upgrades your autism to audhd.
- Comment on Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in CA for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. The woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor with 16,000 citations. 6 hours ago:
He is shunned among liberal gun nuts like me
Sorry, but, umm…you are aware that “gun nut” is not a compliment, right? Nor a neutral term. It’s pretty directly an insult towards people who oppose common sense gun regulation à la Australia. Because they are “nuts”, meaning crazy.
- Comment on Australian flag cost more than other country flags in a game from New Zealand 19 hours ago:
Well fuck you too. ^Kidding.^ ^Love you NZ.^ ~Mostly.~
- Comment on The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans 1 day ago:
The highest-ranked person I’ve received classified intel from is the Secretary of the Interior :(
- Comment on The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans 1 day ago:
Holy fuck this is deranged
- Comment on [Satire] Nation exhausted by election that hasn’t even been f***ing called yet 1 day ago:
I think Albo probably wanted to call it for early April, immediately after the successful Western Australian result. But then Cyclone Alfred hit and it would have been bad politically to call it then. Now he has to deliver a budget before the election, which completely changes the calculus.
- Comment on What TV cancellation are you most upset by? 3 days ago:
Without a doubt, Netflix’s The Society. Made all the worse for the fact that it was renewed for a second season, and was less than a week away from starting shooting that season when COVID lockdowns began. Rather than postpone like so many other movies and shows did, Netflix decided to cancel it entirely.
The Society had so much potential as a really engaging mystery as well as some serious sociological storytelling. It’s so disappointing.
- Comment on Anon gives a former president some feedback 6 days ago:
Declaring war on a concept has never gone well
for the states, has it?Ftfy.
- Comment on !ask@lemm.ee, an Ask community that can be used by Aussie.zone! 1 week ago:
The final bullet point in this thread. They say they will eventually enable it, but given how slow they’ve been so far (even that post is 3 months old and seems to imply they’ll update soon, which they obviously still have not), I have very little faith in this being in any sort of reasonable timeframe.
- Comment on !ask@lemm.ee, an Ask community that can be used by Aussie.zone! 1 week ago:
Nah, LW is pretty obviously falling back behind again, after having seemingly caught back up a few months ago.
The issues are correctable in the latest versions of Lemmy, but LW is still on an ancient version because they refuse to update. And they’ve said that even when they do update, they won’t be turning on the multi-threaded feature which would fix this issue.
- Comment on Anon is smarter than a genius 2 weeks ago:
There is a real systemic problem with healthcare. I dunno if it would have applied to Jobs, but with normal patients, the quick get-in get-out assembly line–like approach to healthcare means patients don’t feel well taken care of, which is a stark contrast to pseudoscientific woo-woo like chiropracty, reiki, naturopathy, and other “alternative medicine”, where the practitioners take their time and make the patients feel listened to. Is it any wonder that some people, especially those of minorities that have historically tended to be treated even worse by actual medical professionals (women’s “hysteria”, black people “feel pain less”, fat people “just need to lose weight”, etc ), are becoming more likely to embrace the thing that makes them feel good, rather than the thing that actually works?
IMO alternative medicine practitioners who discourage their customers from going to real doctors should be imprisoned. But the big problem is a lack of funding to real doctors to allow them to spend more time providing more personal care to patients.
- Comment on Israel activists infiltrate Labor Party in 'grassroots' putsch to hit Greens - Michael West 3 weeks ago:
I would say “infiltrate” implies that:
- There is a relatively large group of people who
- Coordinated with each other to
- Join an existing political party which
- They would not (or would not all) have previously had strong close engagements with in order to
- Try to influence policy with respect to a specific area or areas of interest.
For 1, “relatively large” merely means enough to create a highly visible caucus within meetings. 1 or 2 probably wouldn’t do it unless the group being infiltrated was very small. In a large meeting, even 10% would be relatively large. In smaller groups, a higher percentage might be needed (1 person in a group of 10 is easier to dismiss as a crazy fringe than 100 people in a group of 1,000).
2 may be very difficult to prove. 4 even more so.
4 could include voting 1 that party, engaging informally with them in social media or IRL, volunteer work, etc. But mostly it’s an internal feeling that would be literally impossible to prove.
You can’t necessarily prove it absolutely, but even proving 2 alone provides pretty strong circumstantial evidence that the rest of it is quite likely.
- Comment on New community request - Amber Electric Users 3 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t it be more useful to have a community about “Australian energy” or something similar? Anything about Amber could go there, but so could AGL, Origin, etc. Questions about comparing them could sit alongside discussions of a specific one.
- Comment on Ads are a plague 3 weeks ago:
But I don’t want the ad revenue. I want my car not to advertise to me.
- Comment on Ads are a plague 3 weeks ago:
Merely driving from a to b is not the only purpose. They’ve sold it as being able to safely navigate, control your media, etc. If they were upfront and said “you cannot safely update your navigation or play/pause media while at lights, because we show ads”, they’d be in the clear. But by the accounts I’ve heard, it seems they didn’t tell people ahead of time what they were buying.
- Comment on Ads are a plague 3 weeks ago:
I’d take it back and demand a full refund. This is a dangerous, irresponsible product that does not fulfil the purpose it was marketed for.
- Comment on Legendary ABC chief election analyst Antony Green to step down 3 weeks ago:
ABC should pay him to supervise a replacement analyst/presenter for the next election
They’ve basically been doing that. His replacement has been on the ABC in a secondary role for most elections over the last few years. It’s been pretty apparent that he was being groomed to replace Antony Green once Green retires.
- Comment on Legendary ABC chief election analyst Antony Green to step down 3 weeks ago:
Honestly I didn’t know his name, but by his face, that’s exactly who I would have predicted. It’s been fairly obvious that they’ve been grooming him for the role for some time now.
- Comment on GP visits to become free for most under $8.5b Labor [campaign] Medicare promise 4 weeks ago:
And mental health.
- Comment on GP visits to become free for most under $8.5b Labor [campaign] Medicare promise 4 weeks ago:
This comes literally the day after the Greens announced the same policy. This is excellent news and good policy. It shows that even when they don’t win, voting for the Greens is a good move, because it demonstrates the strength of progressive beliefs in this country, and forces Labor to listen to the left.
- Comment on Hurry it along chucklenuts 5 weeks ago:
Yeah in truth I haven’t used physical money in ages either. Tap to pay is so much more convenient, and even before cards started having that, inserting and entering your PIN was still way more convenient than the annoyance of cash. If I find out a place doesn’t take card, I’ll usually just walk out.
- Comment on Hurry it along chucklenuts 5 weeks ago:
With coins on the bottom, you can close your hand over the notes and the coins will sit comfortably in your palm. Then you slide the notes out easily.
- Comment on Hurry it along chucklenuts 5 weeks ago:
Pro tip if you’re handing over money: give the coins first, and then notes. It makes it much easier, because coins on top are likely to slip off and require more careful handling.
- Comment on THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS 5 weeks ago:
Wow, that’s incredible. I thought for sure it would be a difference of something like 2–5%. But to actually be barely one third of one percent‽
Out of curiosity, I looked it up. Officially a pool ball is 57 mm diameter ± 0.127 mm. If we add and subtract that to different axes of the ball, that’s actually surprisingly close, coming in at 0.44% bulge, not a whole lot more than Earth’s 0.34%. It’s actually closer than I expected.
- Comment on Dropbox discontinuing Vault, moving it to a normal folder 5 weeks ago:
Actually it’s worse. They were told by the UK that they need to provide a backdoor globally.
And yeah, I’d say that’s a pretty safe assumption. Especially since we only know about the Apple one because of an internal leak, with neither Apple nor the government willing to comment,
- Comment on THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure how true that is. It’s smoother than anything else, but the degree to which it is oblate makes it less spherical than, say, a pool ball, doesn’t it?
- Comment on THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS 5 weeks ago:
and lumpy
Barely. Shrink it down to the size of a pool/billiards ball and Earth is actually smoother.
- Comment on Not the same 5 weeks ago:
No, it’s not. The joke is that there is a correlation, but that actually correlation doesn’t mean causation. But here we have a situation where there is neither correlation nor causation.
The problem is that the joke suggests that correlation is when A -> B (or at least it appears as such). Implication (in formal logic) is not the same as correlation.