Nath

@Nath@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With the Social Media Ban coming in next month what's the plan?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not against this being a method people can employ for verification. But it won’t be the only method. I’m not going to ask a recovering alcoholic or a Muslim to walk into a pub and buy a beer.

  Also: it’s users under 16. Not under 18. While I’m not aware of any users under 18, we did have a 17 year old last year.

  This method has been considered, but it wouldn’t catch everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With the Social Media Ban coming in next month what's the plan?⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh I would be amazed if anyone in the government knows that Lemmy exists.

  It would be unwise to base any sort of response on this assumption. Section 13 of the legislation is pretty clear:

  (1) For the purposes of this Act, age‑restricted social media platform means:

  (a) an electronic service that satisfies the following conditions:

  (i) the sole purpose, or a significant purpose, of the service is to enable online social interaction between 2 or more end‑users;
  (ii) the service allows end‑users to link to, or interact with, some or all of the other end‑users;
  (iii) the service allows end‑users to post material on the service;
  (iv) such other conditions (if any) as are set out in the legislative rules; or

  (b) an electronic service specified in the legislative rules;

  I’ll cover these “legislative rules” in a sec.

  Most of the lists of affected sites you see flying all around the place are misleading, because they’re being used by the media to get engagement rather than helping people to understand the actual law. In short: every site that meets section 13(1a) above is bound by the law. Which includes aussie.zone.

  Services that eSafety considers will not be age-restricted social media platforms

  These exception lists are important. For reasons, the government has included a provision in the legislation to exclude sites from section 13(1a). There are a whole bunch of provisions in the overall legislation that hang on the magic words “legislative rules”. There are in fact 24 references to legislative rules in the legislation. If you read the thing all the way to section 240 (yes that’s not a typo), you’ll get to this bit:

  240 Legislative rules

  (1) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, make rules (legislative rules) prescribing matters:

  (a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed by the legislative rules; or (b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

  In other words, the communications minister can ad-hoc declare that any site/service that meets the criteria in section 13 is exempt from this law whenever she likes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With the Social Media Ban coming in next month what's the plan?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  We have had zero guidance from the government on what “reasonable steps” to ensure users are over 16 looks like. Frankly, I don’t think the government is ready for this law to come in. I won’t be at all surprised if we are given a new date.

  All I know is what we won’t be doing:

  1. We won’t be pulling a 4chan and totally ignoring the law.
  2. We won’t be asking for people’s ID. We are not equipped to deal with that.
  3. We won’t be introducing IP blocks from Australian IPs like some sites have done to the UK.
  4. We won’t be closing down.

  I know this isn’t really answering the question. But our stance hasn’t really changed from ‘wait and see what everyone else does to comply’. I have something of a game in mind, I’ll go that way if our hand is forced on short direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🪤 Tuesday 4 November 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a regular work day for everyone outside Melbourne. So I’ll be doing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🪼 Monday 3 November 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it always?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🪼 Monday 3 November 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Did Kerry Greenwood get a book in the works before passing?

  Shhhhh! Nobody tell my wife. That’s Christmas pressie fodder, that is!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🥁 Friday 31 October 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m having a two-day week after a five-day weekend. I did almost nothing, just went for a ride each day. It was amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outage Sunday Oct 26⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure what metrics those sites adopt to determine whether the instance is up or not, but clearly they’re in error regarding us being offline. I can’t even get the second link to show instances to find us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🧵 Wednesday 29 October 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can absolutely help with that. But not from here.

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  I’ll get into this when I get home in a couple of hours.

• NSW Mine Explosion at Cobar Leaves Two Deadwww.abc.net.au ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🧵 Wednesday 29 October 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cash economy is strong. I’m moderately sure my first few employers were paying me cash but not paying taxes/super etc. I was a clueless teenager getting cash envelopes and didn’t know better. I’m probably owed a couple hundred dollars in super from each of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outage Sunday Oct 26⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no intention to help you do either of these things. Maybe possibly feed you in a pinch, but absolutely not the other one.

• Outage Sunday Oct 26
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Julia Gillard endorses Donald Trump⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bold of you to assume we model our politics on yours. Politically, we resemble the UK more than the USA. We love you guys, but we don’t want to be like you, politically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Julia Gillard endorses Donald Trump⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When the comments are better than the article! 🍿🤣

  There have been questions raised recently over whether we should be tagging Betoota/Chaser/Shovel/Belltower/etc articles as [Satire] so people aren’t confused. I’m torn. I don’t want people from outside Australia seeing these articles and being misinformed (For anyone not Australian and unfamiliar with The Chaser: Julia Gillard does not endorse Donald Trump - we promise). This article is written for Australians as a bit of fun. I do however love seeing people who know nothing about the headlines/creators leap into the discussion with strong opinions.

  Australians are not a serious people. We genuinely enjoy laughing at the world and at politics in particular. Genuine discourse often comes from satirical posts. Take a look at the top ten posts in this community:

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  Nearly half the posts are satirical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🎪 Monday 13 October 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mini metro but with roads. I prefer the original, I’d have included it in my list, except that it came out several years later than the other games. The titles in that list are all from around 2008-2010, when that sort of game was the norm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🎪 Monday 13 October 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, Fieldrunners is one that loses its appeal once you have figured out how to reliably beat it on the hardest difficulty.

  I’ve just remembered there was a pocket version of Civilization. That one got played so much!! And very re-playable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🎪 Monday 13 October 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🎪 Monday 13 October 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idempotent. It’s a best-practice methodology for writing code. Run this code, it determines whether the thing needs to be done and does it. Run it over and over, and it will do no harm. It can be automated to run every 5 minutes to only do the thing when it is needed.

  A real world picture to explain the concept:
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  Push either of the buttons over and over and over. You’ll either turn the machine on/off, or do nothing.

  I’d been doing this for years before I knew the word for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🎪 Monday 13 October 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Flight Control
  Plants vs. Zombies
  Peggle
  Angry Birds (original one)
  Fieldrunners
  Asphalt 6
  Jetpack Joyride
  Doodle Jump

  I actually have a couple of these still installed. I think they all cost something like $1-$5 to install but that was it. No in app purchases, no ads etc. So nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BHP agrees to settle some iron ore sales to China using RMB instead of USD⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure the fact that this happened less than two weeks after China suspended all Iron Ore trade specifically with BHP is pure coincidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨D-d-d-d-drop the base!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And now you know the origin of the auspolitics community’s thumbnail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radicalisation expert concerned WA sovereign citizen gun crackdown could be 'counterproductive'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘We don’t believe in the laws of Australia’
  ‘Taking our guns away is unlawful’

  Do they hear themselves?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One might instead ask what happened to all the people who lived where our cities now stand?

• Jane Goodall, who revolutionised our understanding of animals, dies at 91www.abc.net.au ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More sunscreens pulled from shelves over SPF concerns⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If your favourite brand comes in at 20+ instead of 50+, it’s fine to keep using it. I won’t say this is a beat-up, but they’re making out like you should throw your sunscreen out, when 20 odd years ago all sunscreens were 24+ and that was normal. Just be sure to re-apply it every two hours if you are in the sun a long time.

  For most of the affected brands, this is more a potential issue with false advertising than public safety. Also noteworthy that most of the brands produced results from independent testing when approached for comment. The Cancer Council said they’re going to submit their affected products for another round of tests with another lab. So the brands are taking this seriously and most of them appear to be acting in good faith.

  Most of Choice’s tests were performed on ten volunteers in line with Australian and international standards. Three tests were performed on five volunteers.

  This is important to remember. We aren’t talking big sample sizes, here. It’s really important to shine a light on Sunscreens and be certain they are up to the task. But at the same time, don’t overreact.

  Ultra Violette’s Lean Screen SPF50+ Mattifying Zinc Sunscreen, which costs $52 for 75 millilitres, and returned an SPF rating of four.

  Ok, so this one is difficult to defend - I wouldn’t use it. 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🍩 Friday 26 September 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooh! That’s new (and awesome). It wasn’t when I left Melbourne. In fairness, it wasn’t $5 to Mandurah (where Spud’s train is going) when I left Melbourne, either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🍩 Friday 26 September 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahaha it’s funny how I see this view almost every day and take it for granted. Welcome to Perth. 😃
  Don’t get too used to our weather, it might make you cross when you get back to Melbourne.
  Try also not to think about how that train is doing the equivalent of Southern Cross to Geelong in a similar time for $5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Costs aren’t actually that high when the nerd labour is free. Hosting costs were around $200/mo last time I looked. It’s really a @lodion@aussie.zone question, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How important is an Albanese-Trump meeting?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’d be funny if he just didn’t bother meeting with the US president. Even better if he was in town doing stuff at the UN and then just not even trying to meet.