Salvo
@Salvo@aussie.zone
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Friday 3 October 2025 2 weeks ago:
Please listen to Tim Minchin’s song “Confessions”.
- Comment on Discussion Thread: 🎃 Thursday 2 October 2025 2 weeks ago:
I received a Jane Goodall diorama as a Lego Gift-With-Purchase.
I recently donated it (including the Jane Goodall minifig) to a Primary School Science teacher for her classroom.
I hope none of the little perishers steal the minifig!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪀 Wednesday 24 September 2025 3 weeks ago:
When you make Unmonitored Communication a Criminal Act, only Criminals will have Unmonitored Communication.
- Comment on Kmart broke privacy laws by using facial recognition technology, commissioner finds 4 weeks ago:
Lego.
Can you remember the drug bust in Cranbourne recently where they found thousands of dollars of Lego?
Drug dealers are trading their product for Lego; they are then selling it on Bricklink.
The Druggos walk into Big W or Target or Kmart, grab a trolley, fill it up with Lego and just walk out, ignoring Staff and Security.
This is who the facial recognition is supposed to target. They can prosecute an individual who is a multiple offender, but it isn’t worth the risk for a security guard to forcibly restrain an unpredictable single offender.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥸 Wednesday 3 September 2025 1 month ago:
When people call it “The Net”, I immediately picture Sandra Bullock in front of a computer screen.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 2 months ago:
Once again, the EU ^^ is overstepping their mandate. There is no benefit to endusers if Google, Opera and Firefox are forced to use WebKit for rendering on iOS only. There are disadvantages for Opera, (who are Nowegian), but no other European companies.
There are huge benefits to endusers if their phones batteries last more than 15 minutes because Google and Opera are trying to backdoor their privacy.
^^ the EU’s regulatory bodies.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 2 months ago:
I think there is an ounce of truth in that, but Corporations don’t “want” things. Investors want dividends and ROI. Executives want golden handshakes. Employees want a pay cheque.
Someone is financing the Astroturf campaigns. Someone is directing who they lobby.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 2 months ago:
This is like saying that Safari is just a reskinned version of KDE Konqueror. It is patently wrong and oversimplifies the development processes.
While Apple did use Konqueror as a base for WebKit, and some of that code was pumped back into Konqueror, they are not the same. Chromium was also based on WebKit but has had so much code replaced that it is also essentially different code.
I recommend Ken Kocienda’s book “Creative Selection” about the development of the iPhone and WebKit.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 2 months ago:
Although I would prefer to roll-my own but Ubuntu Touch, postmarketOS and SailfishOS all run on the FairPhone.
YMMV for software support, but the non-Android Linux-based phone OSs will suit most people’s needs, as long as Angry Birds isn’t a killer feature of their phone.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 2 months ago:
It’s still amused by the whole USB-C push to “Reduce eWaste”.
By legislating that everyone should use USB-C, they generated a lot of eWaste in the form of legacy USB-A, B, micro, lightning, etc, as well as requiring more cables in the form of USB-C to USB-A, B, micro, lightning, etc. cables in the transition phase.
The various different types of USB-C cables (power only, data only, Thunderbolt 4, etc) as well as the glut of different incompatible USB-C interfaces has made things much worse.
It reminds me of the XKCD comic about introducing new standards to reduce the number of standards.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 2 months ago:
The credit card game bans are all coming from one Australian Religious group.
Similar Astroturf groups are being used to create fake grassroots community groups to PrOtEcT tHe ChIlDrEn.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 2 months ago:
There are lots of people who make that assumption. These are also the most likely demographic to fall for a fake App Store scam.
That said, Apple have done a piss-poor job pruning their “Walled Garden”. If they really cared about user privacy, Facebook would have been banned multiple times for privacy violations.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 2 months ago:
I wonder how home-grown European companies like Fairphone will be affected by this.
- Comment on MD = oMega Dumbass 2 months ago:
Hydronium H~3~O^+^ is the most corrosive acids. Hydroxide OH^-^ is the most corrosive alkaline.
If you mix them together in a solution you get Hydronium Hydroxide; also known and (2)DiHydrogen Monoxide.
- Comment on They made his car "cease & desist" 2 months ago:
HP are already doing that with the policy on bootleg ink and toner.
- Comment on They made his car "cease & desist" 2 months ago:
I’m not going to listen to it but apparently it isn’t a dis track, it is a load of wank about how rich he is that he can afford a Cybertruck.
Apparently the author also declined to listen to it, but they are a Journalist; it is their job to listen to it.
- Comment on Real estate agents say new seller disclosure laws are 'bottlenecking' Queensland's property market 2 months ago:
New laws should be phased in gradually. They should have applied these laws first to new homes (0-3 years), then (a year later) established homes (4-15 years) and then finally to all homes.
The argument they can publish is that this provides home owners sufficient time to get their information together.
This will result in a gradual degrading of house prices so that investors and realestate agents don’t get all stroppy and start crying to Rupert.
- Comment on Hundreds more CSIRO jobs on the chopping block as experts raise fears over impact on science 2 months ago:
Liberal Party “we are going to kill all public sector jobs and privatise everything”
Electorate “no you are fucking not! We are going to vote for the other mob”
Other mob “we had a landslide victory, now we are going to kill all public sector jobs and privatise everything”.
- Comment on Hundreds of jobseeker payments cancelled illegally by government IT system, watchdog finds 2 months ago:
I find it amazing that the Nation that had the RoboDebt Scam is still using any AI bullshit to analyse citizens finances.
I grew up with a guy who eventually became a welfare cheat. He was eventually given a job for Centrelink as a Loss Management Assessor, a-la Frank Abignale.
The government needs more analysts like him, not some faceless algorithm.
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 2 months ago:
Leslie Bibb
- Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today 2 months ago:
I have seen title cards change on unwatched videos from something that is innocuous and directly related to the content to something with a scantily clad female, tangentially related to the video who is much younger than me.
While not technically Jailbait, the title cards are sexualised.
I mainly watch renovation, restoration, cinema, off-roading, engineering and fabrication.
The majority of this content is male-dominated and I do appreciate when videos aren’t bursting with aggressive machismo. I think the algorithm has determined that when I watch a video with a female host it is because it thinks I am being pervy.
- Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today 2 months ago:
Loops is a Fediverse equivalent.
It is not a medium that interests me, I have found the content on Loops to be mediocre.
That said, I have found the content on TikTok to also be mediocre and YouTube clips are just jailbait clickbait.
Yes, I know it is algorithm generated, but I am pretty sure everyone is just getting jailbait clickbait.
- Comment on Flu numbers rise while vaccine rates remain low, overwhelming hospitals 2 months ago:
They all argue that the last time they got the flu vaccine, they still got the flu.
What they fail to admit is that the vaccine resulted in only mild effects of the flu and the combination of the vaccine and a healthy immune system kept them out of hospital (or worse).
- Comment on 'Sounded like gunshots': 4WD ploughs through shopping centre 3 months ago:
So there was a street fight with machetes at Northland and the State Government banned machetes.
Does this mean they will now ban LandCruisers? If this is the case, it is a pity the car thief didn’t steal a RAM, Silverado or F-Truck instead!
- Comment on AI will shrink Amazon's workforce in the coming years, CEO Jassy says 3 months ago:
When the decisions they are making are “Outsource everything to India/China/ChatGTP” and “Fire all the employees doing the work”, they can quite easily be replaced.
- Comment on AI will shrink Amazon's workforce in the coming years, CEO Jassy says 3 months ago:
The only workforce that can be reduced by LLMs are those that just send emails back and forth and don’t actually do any real work.
The fact that Executives and Middle-managers are also the highest paid part of the workforce, maybe it can reduce payroll after all.
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 4 months ago:
My mate said “Huge news coming out of Canberra right now!”.
I guessed exactly what it was. The only bigger news would be if Russia or ‘Murica were performing a hostile takeover, which isn’t likely to happen while Labor is in power.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪷 Sunday 11 May 2025 5 months ago:
I think you might be right, especially with school holidays, but oil barrel prices are influenced by politics.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪷 Sunday 11 May 2025 5 months ago:
Anyone else notice the price of fuel since the Election?
It was about $1.70/l before the Coalition announced their 12 month excise discount of 25c. Then overnight fuel went up to $2/l.
Now that the Coalition has well-and-truely lost, fuel is back down to $1.60/l.
- Comment on Rinehart blames ‘left media’ for Coalition wipeout, claims Australian voters ‘very short on understanding’ 5 months ago:
Hobbyist arsehole vs Professional arsehole.