Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
- Comment on Federation between Aussie.Zone & Quokk.au is getting even worse 2 days ago:
- Comment on Nauru officially changes name to Naoero 1 week ago:
with a rolled r
If you’re being super strict, that’s technically what /r/ means. But in practice, it tends to just get used to mean “your rhotic consonant”. That’s why you’ll note the same symbol is used for that part of the word in both English pronunciations and the Nauruan* pronunciation.
* do we need to update the spelling of the demonym?
- Comment on Not my president 2 weeks ago:
There might be some third-party version of Android you could put onto it that’d keep you more up to date? I’m not really sure, as I’ve never had a phone last that long with a usable battery, so I’ve never tried.
- Comment on Not my president 2 weeks ago:
Seems like your phone is very out of date. You should probably consider upgrading, for security if nothing else. (As in, if your phone is old enough to show the wrong message here, it’s probably also not receiving mainline security updates. A correlation, not a causation.)
Up-to-date devices showed “Critical AusAlert”.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to meta@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on [META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1 2 weeks ago:
I’ve written a bot for Lemmy before. You can see it on !dailygames@lemmy.zip if you’re interested. I agree completely re the messaging being as nonthreatening as possible.
- Camp to boost female firefighter participation ditched after one year [by the Qld Government]www.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to news@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on [META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1 2 weeks ago:
Also, in response to Nath’s advice, I’m considering if the group name should change to Overseas Tidings, yes because of the pun, but admittedly I didn’t even know that word so I won’t go forth with that unless there’s community backing.
I actually don’t know how much that will help. I think the problem comes from the fact that its ID is !worldnews, and no change to the display name can change that.
But I do kinda like the implications of it. The dictionary says tidings just means news, but at least to me it feels like it connotes a greater degree of relevance than “news” alone does. Like “what tidings do you bring‽” seems like a request for “what news that is relevant for me to know?”
- Comment on Israel's embassy takes rare swipe at Labor's platform on eve of conference 3 weeks ago:
Rare?
- Australia's Hong Kong, Tibetan and Uyghur communities condemn China's new ethnic unity lawwww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Daylight Savings 3 weeks ago:
It’s cos a significant majority of the population is on the east coast. 50% in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne alone, before you add the rest of those states. So for economic reasons, it’s convenient for the central states to be a bit closer in time to the eastern states.
- Comment on [META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1 3 weeks ago:
The bot would be immediately replying to a post a user has just made. I figure in that context, an hour should be more than enough time for the person who posted it to confirm that they’ve followed the rules.
- Comment on [META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1 3 weeks ago:
I suspect most rule violations are probably committed out of ignorance, rather than malice. Most people probably don’t read the sidebar.
I wonder if it wouldn’t be useful to have a very simple filter. A bot that replies to every post, and asks the user to check if they’re following the rule.
Going a step further, the bot could tell the user to downvote the comment if it is following the rule, in which case the bot would delete its own comment. Anything where the OP did not downvote the bot’s comment within, say, an hour, gets removed by the bot. Its message could also (optionally) threaten banning the user if the violation is clear. No automated enforcement of that, but if a human reviews it and finds that not only did it break the rule, but it very obviously did and there’s no excuse for not knowing it, the human could then follow up with a ban.
Would there be any interest in something like that? Either the whole thing or just the first half? I’ve had a little experience developing Lemmy bots before and would be interested to try my hand at it.
- Comment on Federation between Aussie.Zone & Quokk.au is getting even worse 4 weeks ago:
Not sure. Quokkau is also not a Lemmy instance. It uses a fork of Piefed. So I don’t know if that site even intends to track it.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to meta@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on Quokkau not federating correctly? 1 month ago:
I think today was the first time I actually posted something to an aussie.zone instance since making this post. And it seems that no, it’s still not working.
- Comment on Quokkau not federating correctly? 1 month ago:
More detailed update: the last post that did federate correctly was this one.
Interestingly, my comment on that one seems to not have federated successfully. See here. Unclear exactly what happened because the post itself federated, but I see exactly zero votes, not upvotes or downvotes, which makes it seem like there may have been a failure to federate fully.
- Comment on Quokkau not federating correctly? 1 month ago:
That’s a good question. I don’t immediately have an answer for you, but I’ll go back through my history to try and check. Unfortunately I haven’t been super active on Lemmy/Piefed lately so there’s not a huge amount of data to go on.
First thing I noticed was this thread: aussie.zone/post/33440103
My comments were clearly federating much more recently than my posts were. Though my latest comment (a reply to Dia’s last reply to me) did not appear. That last issue might be unrelated, because I did see something from Mia about needing to restart the server recently. Not sure.
- Comment on Quokkau not federating correctly? 2 months ago:
- Submitted 2 months ago to meta@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on Liberal vote plummets as One Nation scores historic win in Farrer 2 months ago:
the real question I have: is this more than the same rural/city divide
Could be just that. Take a look at the booth breakdown. Almost every booth inside Albury (the largest city in the electorate) went for the independent. The 2nd largest city, Griffith, is the home to the only other booth that went that way. The rest of the mostly-rural electorate went orange.
- Comment on Man charged with using newly banned phrases in Queensland tries to argue law 'insane' 3 months ago:
I wish he had a proper lawyer.
Yeah seriously. FFS.
- Comment on Man charged with using newly banned phrases in Queensland tries to argue law 'insane' 3 months ago:
Oh, I misread. The headline I read (not this one) said that he was pleading insanity.
- Comment on Man charged with using newly banned phrases in Queensland tries to argue law 'insane' 3 months ago:
Honestly disappointed. I’d have liked to see a straight up “not guilty” plea, and go hard and direct on the constitutional angle. It’s pretty obvious that the laws violate the implied right to freedom of political communication. They serve no function but that.
- Comment on Israel said it targeted Hezbollah, so we went to the site of a strike 3 months ago:
Not trolling. A genuine Nazi. They support Israel’s invasion specifically on the grounds of “lebensraum”.
- Comment on Israel said it targeted Hezbollah, so we went to the site of a strike 3 months ago:
Reminder to everyone that the person No1 is talking to here is a Nazi.
- Comment on THIS IS A TEST - Sexing an albino echidna- it ain't easy! (video) 4 months ago:
what’s the test for?
- Comment on One Nation now wrenching votes from Labor as it overtakes Coalition 4 months ago:
Taylor leads the Liberals. Canavan became leader of the Nationals last week. As the senior party of the Coalition, Taylor leads it
- Comment on I am a rocker! I am a roller! I am the out-of-controller! I am the Nightrider! 4 months ago:
Sorry, did you interpret that comment as pro-Liberal? Because that’s an absolutely wild take away.
- Comment on I am a rocker! I am a roller! I am the out-of-controller! I am the Nightrider! 4 months ago:
Raid US Military Bases
Hahaha. Hahahahahaha. Hahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahaha.
As if this Labor government would ever do something against the Americans.