Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
- Comment on Flying High Dubai. MWM responds to ABC Media Watch 5 days ago:
Wow, this is the first I’ve seen about it being a potential false flag. Is there any sort of consensus around this?
- Comment on G7 countries to release 100 million barrels of diesel and oil to curb fuel prices 1 week ago:
Interesting possible consequence of this is that it could reduce pressure on the Republicans in the lead-up to the midterm elections by reducing the cost of petrol and therefore the impact of inflation to the average American. Which Europe probably doesn’t want, since it’s Trump’s ability to do whatever he wants unchecked that’s caused this problem in the first place.
- Comment on Man Opts Out Of The Algorithm By Throwing His Fucking Phone Off A Bridge And Going To The Pub 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think I’ve ever heard that about Lemmy. It has basically the same algorithm as Reddit. It might work for Mastodon and Friendica, relative to Xitter and Facebook, though.
- Comment on Labor vows to listen to voters after One Nation's historic WA upset 5 weeks ago:
If the AUKUS flip-flop didn’t do it, there’s zero chance that requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a fair price in a situation where the entire world knows they’re currently being allowed to rip us all off will have any impact on other industries.
- Comment on Labor vows to listen to voters after One Nation's historic WA upset 1 month ago:
Most gas is already under contract. Breaking those contracts would massively hurt our economy
Nah fuck that. There aren’t alternatives they can reasonably turn to. The only thing hurting our economy is allowing companies to steal from the Australian people without paying for our resources.
Courts can’t overturn it if Parliament enacts a law specifically saying they can do it. There’s certainly nothing in the constitution that would prevent this.
- Comment on WA Labor candidate Georgia Tree quickly walks away from influencer asking her about her background working for Woodside | Punters Politics 1 month ago:
oh haha very convenient timing. I took the time to do that exact same search myself before refreshing and seeing your message posted 8 minutes ago. But yeah, their About page makes it clear that they’re a legit journalist, so I’ve already updated the title to reflect that.
It’s not Substack by the way, but Ghost.io, based on a DNS lookup.
- Comment on WA Labor candidate Georgia Tree quickly walks away from influencer asking her about her background working for Woodside | Punters Politics 1 month ago:
Oh yeah I’m a big fan. Only discovered him a few months ago but he does great stuff.
But in this case he’s not the one being referred to as an “influencer”. That was the creator of the video Punter Konrad is commenting on in this video.
Which as it happens, I just discovered was created by an actual legit independent journalist, Jesse Noakes.
- Comment on WA Labor candidate Georgia Tree quickly walks away from influencer asking her about her background working for Woodside | Punters Politics 1 month ago:
Punter Konrad isn’t the influencer referenced in the title. Konrad is commenting on a clip made by someone else. And I’m not 100% sure, but I don’t think that person was a YouTuber. Instagram or TikTok is their stomping ground, I think.
I definitely would use YouTuber if it were someone primarily from YouTube.
- Comment on WA Labor candidate Georgia Tree quickly walks away from influencer asking her about her background working for Woodside | Punters Politics 1 month ago:
It was simply the most accurate term I could think of. They’re not a proper journalist, even if in this context they seem to be doing some pretty damn good (if not especially difficult) journalism.
- WA Labor candidate Georgia Tree quickly walks away from influencer asking her about her background working for Woodside | Punters Politicswww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 13 comments
- Comment on Federation between Aussie.Zone & Quokk.au is getting even worse 2 months ago:
- Comment on Nauru officially changes name to Naoero 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago to meta@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on [META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1 2 months 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 months ago to news@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on [META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Rare?
- Australia's Hong Kong, Tibetan and Uyghur communities condemn China's new ethnic unity lawwww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 2 months ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Daylight Savings 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago to meta@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on Quokkau not federating correctly? 3 months 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? 3 months 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? 3 months 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? 3 months ago:
- Submitted 3 months ago to meta@aussie.zone | 7 comments