Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
- Comment on Anon tries to manipulate Tinder 4 hours ago:
While Elo (and side note: it’s a person’s name, not an acronym) isn’t perfect and systems like Glicko-2 are better even for 1v1s, is there a better system than Elo that could be used to rate players in team games? Especially if there’s a mix of pre-made teams and random teams thrown together by matchmaking?
- Comment on Lemmy Likes FOSS Maps 1 day ago:
Oh neat. Are their maps actually being used by Microsoft’s Bing Maps or other user-facing products yet?
- Comment on Lemmy Likes FOSS Maps 1 day ago:
I recall a couple of years ago some talk about a new open mapping initiative that Apple or some other big commerical players were going to be involved in. Separate from OSM. What ever happened to that?
- Comment on Lemmy Likes FOSS Maps 1 day ago:
I’m surprised that Apple Maps has a community
that is pretty much Tue same size as organic mapsFtfy
Because like, what is there to talk about?
- Comment on Hundreds of elective surgeries cancelled as 50,000 nurses and midwives walk off job in NSW 4 days ago:
Police offered 39% but the much more over-worked and under-paid nurses aren’t even going to be given 15%? What an absolute fucking farce.
- Submitted 4 days ago to melbourne@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Email proves Queanbeyan Hospital has banned surgical abortions, as pressure mounts on NSW health minister to intervenewww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 4 days ago to news@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 6 days ago:
It’s been a while, but I believe this video was where I heard it. From memory (I’m out right now and can’t rewatch to verify) it was specifically the per-kilometre carbon emissions, not taking into account manufacturing costs.
Obviously there’s some fuziness depending on your diet and the power source used for charging. A vegan who would be charging in a coal-powered grid is going to look better, relatively speaking, for an analogue bike than someone who eats multiple kilos of red meat every week who has solar panels.
- Comment on Yes, very much 6 days ago:
The vast majority of my time on Reddit was on smaller communities where that wasn’t true. The experience on Reddit of the defaults compared to more niche communities was like night and day.
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 6 days ago:
The lowest emission vehicle you can own is an electric bike.*
Will cost 1–4k and way less than $750 annually in maintenance. Can get a road-only one or one capable of going off-road. Does not require insurance or licensing. Can’t legally drink and ride, but you’re very unlikely to get caught if you do, and unlike drink driving the risk is overwhelmingly only to yourself.
Keeps you fit and healthy by being active in your daily life.
* yes, lower even than an analogue bike, because the electric motor is more carbon efficient than human muscle power which requires eating more.
- Comment on Upgrade incoming 1 week ago:
Yeah it’s kinda disappointing from a technical perspective, but I guess threading it is easier. Less need to worry about conflicts like replies not arriving before the comment they’re replying to, or one edit arriving after a later edit.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 1 week ago:
Go to any space outside of Lemmy where people who tried it out but didn’t stick around are discussing it. The tankies always come up. And worse: they often don’t even realise it is tankies, but conflate it with leftism in general.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 1 week ago:
Not an especially helpful answer because the point is the way that their existence makes Lemmy in general and aussie.zone in particular a much worse experience for newcomers that demonstrably drives away people from joining. Putting it down to pErsOnAL rESponsiBILity never works to solve a problem.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 1 week ago:
I didn’t even know there was an active asklemmy on LW, because its federation issues mean it never shows up in my feed.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 1 week ago:
Hahaha. Tell me you didn’t read the thread without telling me you didn’t read the thread.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 1 week ago:
I think the point touched on by @Eyekaytee@aussie.zone below is one of the best ones. Being federated with ML, like Hexbear and Lemmygrad (only the last of which we have defederated already) innately exposes our users to some of the worst the site has to offer in terms of pro-authoritarian bias.
Ask anyone who got over the technical hurdles and questions like “what’s that? Why should I use it? How do I make an account?” and started using Lemmy, but then left and stopped engaging why they did so. One of the top two reasons (the other being the amount of content) is probably about the amount of tanky bias and the poor behaviour of tankies. For example, this is one of the most recent posts on the subreddit for Lemmy wherein the same admin I was complaining about above doxed a user who disagreed with them.
If we want Lemmy to grow and be a good place for our users and prospective users, we need to, as @trk said, not tolerate the intolerance which is the default position on ML.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 1 week ago:
The admins of the instance. It’s ridiculous to pretend the behaviour of the admins of an instance shouldn’t be a serious consideration in the question of how to treat with that instance.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 1 week ago:
They being the authoritarians.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 1 week ago:
The problem is that there’s no incentive for anyone to create or use similar communities on other instances if the one on ML is currently the biggest. The more people defederate ML the better the chance that an AskLemmy or similar community can actually be successful on another instance. Somewhere that criticism of authoritarianism doesn’t get you banned.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 1 week ago:
Also, that post was always going to attract hardliners from all sides
The problem isn’t the existence of hardliners. It’s the clear ignoring of their own rules removing perfectly good comments that disagree with their line, while the admins themselves and people who agree with their view can get away with anything.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 1 week ago:
Have you messaged the admin for an explanation
The admin literally replied to me when I reported the disrespectful comments (which at the time I didn’t realise were being made by the admin) saying “Good luck with that” and then proceeding to be disrespectful directly to me.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 1 week ago:
Side note: here’s a nice bit of light reading on tolerating intolerance. And not tolerating tolerance.
Right, which is exactly why they should be defederated. They don’t even follow their own rules and go out of their way to be arseholes to everyone, as long as they perceive it to be something that pushes their agenda.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 1 week ago:
Tell that to the admins of ml.
- Submitted 1 week ago to meta@aussie.zone | 56 comments
- Comment on Mushrooms 1 week ago:
Reading it again I can see the sarcasm oozing from it, but in the context of the comment before which seems a more sincere love of the guy (not least because it demonstrates someone actually watched his post–Top Gear content) I thought it was worth pointing out what a horrible human being Jeremy Clarkson is.
I honestly don’t know how I feel about his Top Gear castmates. On the one hand they seem much more genuinely good people from their own actions and content outside of Top Gear & its spiritual successor. On the other they did seem more than willing to get back on board with him even after he committed assault (on top of all the other shit).
- Comment on Mushrooms 2 weeks ago:
Are we really calling that racist homophobe who rails against road safety and assaults people a “role model” of any sort?
- Comment on Anon gets hit by a car 2 weeks ago:
Star Trek: The Next Generation.
- Comment on Anon gets hit by a car 2 weeks ago:
when he plays that flute in a later episode
I got teary just now reading the quote from that scene:
“What kind of flute is that?”
“It’s, ah…Ressikan.”
“I’ve never seen one before.”
“They’re not made anymore.” - Faruqi v Hanson - The constitutional validity of racial hatred laws | Constitutional Clarionwww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Anon gets hit by a car 2 weeks ago:
Basically the plot of The Inner Light, one of the best episodes of television ever made. (That was sadly undermined by the need for a complete reset per the usual rules of episodic television of the time.)