Greyghoster
@Greyghoster@aussie.zone
- Comment on Mozilla says its new Firefox terms don’t give it ownership of your data 2 months ago:
Then the words need to say what they mean. At the moment they mean that Mozilla own everything.
- Comment on Bold policy action required as Australia falls behind on social, economic and environmental well-being 2 months ago:
Difficult to do with culture wars and the Murdock media. Step forward with any plan for the future that looks to change anything and it will be vilified to the point that it takes a brave leader to do it. We don’t expect leadership from the LNP so that’s not a risk. Albo screwed up the Voice and he’s running scared.
- Comment on TikTok goes dark in the US as Trump says he's likely to give ban 'reprieve' 3 months ago:
Probably time to try Loops or something else.
- Comment on flouride 5 months ago:
Interesting. The article doesn’t actually say that fluoridation in water supplies is dangerous but that some researchers are questioning. Generally code for lack of scientific evidence. It also finds that early studies may have had a flawed basis (pretty much all early studies have been found wanting by later scientists) but doesn’t refute the results.The study mentioned in the article talks about high levels of fluoridation which I assume is in lab tests however these levels are not the case in water supplies.
The correct way forward is more actual science based studies.
- Comment on The Future Fund is Australia's rainy day fund. It has now become a political football 5 months ago:
It’s always been a football in that LNP and now Labor want it to solve investment issues. Same with Super.
- Comment on BOM and CSIRO State of the Climate report 2024 predicts more extreme weather as warming increases 6 months ago:
This is really to the point: “That’s a little bit like telling someone who’s got a large drinking habit or smoking habit, ‘you need to quit that as soon as possible.’”. We know we have the life threatening habit but can’t stop the addiction!
- Comment on 6 months ago:
Maybe the devil is not such a baddie and just gets bad press?
- Comment on How to cut your energy bills by 30 per cent with a heat pump 8 months ago:
In Australia, we have followed the British housing tradition and have really bad insulation too! We are working on fixing it but there is so much to retrofit.
- Comment on How to cut your energy bills by 30 per cent with a heat pump 8 months ago:
Sadly that was not the advice that they got.
- Comment on How to cut your energy bills by 30 per cent with a heat pump 8 months ago:
On the other hand, using a heat pump for replacing a hot water heater is definitely a good thing. Using a heat pump on an old water radiator system may not work well. Friends had to replace a gas heater for their water radiator system and were told that there wasn’t a heat pump unit hot enough for the retrofit.
- Comment on Use Zotero 8 months ago:
True, they can be hard to find.
- Comment on Use Zotero 8 months ago:
That’s the same as writing tests for software code after writing the code. A mystery without end or reliability.
- Comment on Disney says man can't sue over wife's death because he agreed to Disney+ terms of service 8 months ago:
Sounds like don’t sign up for Disney+
- Comment on Tim Robbins Says It’s ‘Deranged’ to Compare Trump Assassination Attempt to His 1992 Film ‘Bob Roberts’ 9 months ago:
Applying the razor to this, it’s more likely that a candidate who is extremely divisive and talks about persecuting and executing opponents as payback really just attracted karma.
- Comment on Belgian man whose body produces alcohol cleared of drunk-driving 1 year ago:
Almost everyone produces alcohol in their gut. Something to do with the yeast lining it.
- Comment on Worker shortage is restraining production, says Russia's central bank 1 year ago:
The workers sucked into the army, invalided and the workers who have fled Russia probably have had no effect. Nor the workers who have been sucked into the munitions and war materials machine. Great that the Russian economy had so many unemployed to step up.
- Comment on Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday claimed that Taiwan is part of China 1 year ago:
He’s like Trump, he’s short of money and has to deliver for his donors.
- Comment on Measles outbreak hits Eindhoven schools: 14 young children & an adult infected 1 year ago:
Don’t they vaccinate kids like they do in Australia? No serious measles in 🇦🇺
- Comment on Putin says Russia ready for nuclear war, but 'not everything rushing to it' 1 year ago:
Amazing, how does one get ready for a nuclear war? Build a deep bunker?
- Comment on People ‘hit the roof’ after Boeing plane's sudden drop, passenger says 1 year ago:
Definitely were a seatbelt at all times.
- Comment on Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks 1 year ago:
I am flabbergasted! An internet connected toothbrush was not on my radar. We all know IoT is a source of trouble with dodgy maintenance of software vulnerabilities but toothbrushes denying service?
- Comment on Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly 1 year ago:
Now there are ads as well as rising charges and competing streams that also cost and have ads. So it’s back to the old days and everyone is in it for themselves.
- Comment on They now put ads in cigarettes 1 year ago:
Australia has all cigarette packets an olive green colour with the usual graphic pictures as well as the same font used on all of them. Seems to work and the manufacturers have slunk off to their kennels.
- Comment on Just speak normally 1 year ago:
View it from their perspective, they all converse perfectly together because that’s how everyone told the time however other people want to change the rules. They aren’t being rude or impolite just using the system they grew up with.
- Comment on Just speak normally 1 year ago:
Just different and from a different school of thought. If you consider the convenience of conveying how close the time is to the hour, it’s actually a quick shorthand. I can see you don’t like it however it’s just the way people think of time. It’s not like they can’t do the math because if they have a digital clock they have to convert 9:45 into a quarter to 10. It’s the way they think about time.
- Comment on Just speak normally 1 year ago:
No it means that they grew up using a 12 hour, 60 minute circular time system. Habits form when you learn stuff and can last a lifetime.
- Comment on Just speak normally 1 year ago:
You probably grew up in the era of digital clocks and watches. If you used an analog watch you would know why it was easier to say a quarter to 10. 😁
- Comment on Google dragged to UK watchdog over Chrome's upcoming IP address cloaking 1 year ago:
So Google hides your IP address from everyone except Google therefore giving Google an unfair advantage in the marketing world. I think it’s time to use Firefox.