Greyghoster

@Greyghoster@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Computerisation, the paperless office etc all were supposed to generate better quality of life for workers. It was how it was sold. The reality is that staff numbers were reduced with work and competitive pressures increasing rates of stress and depression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please remember to spread the word about this :(⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, this is an unexpected image and a fun fact for the next party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What happens at work is work but at home there is always Linux and Libreoffice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 90% of JPMorgan employees reported a decline in morale following RTO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So they want to make their employees sick and have proof but continue anyway?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk’s AI bot Grok blames ‘programming error’ for its Holocaust denial⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just goes to show when you let billionaire megalomaniacs run large public services you have them trying to create a world to suit themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a couple of things about battery storage, a grid built on renewables needs ride through capacity and it needs to be able to meet surges in demand. In fact all grids do. Batteries do that and remove the need for hot standby gas generators but at the moment due to lack of capacity, not all fossil fuel generators. A lot of focus is on batteries as the backup for loss of wind or sun, the spread of renewables over a large geographical area and interconnected grids provides greater assurance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots being installed around Australia and are a lot cheaper than gas power generation for covering peaks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s where batteries and other storage systems come into play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla says its new Firefox terms don’t give it ownership of your data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably time to try Loops or something else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flouride⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True, they can be hard to find.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Use Zotero⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨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’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.