naevaTheRat
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Despite all my rage I’m still a rat refreshing this page.
I use arch btw
- Comment on ABC radio kills third party internet radio streams and embedded links. 4 days ago:
ABC radio also often contains way more enriching stuff than news. Longform discussion with experts, interviews and dicussions with random citizens affected by something, curated musical showcases (a good blend of classics and modern stuff like videogame music) that aim to teach audiences about a genre and promote Australian performers.
It’s legit some of the best stuff out there for entertainment that grows you and connects you to the broader political project that is Australia.
Fucking stupid to wall it up and make it harder to listen to than corporate slop.
- Comment on ABC radio kills third party internet radio streams and embedded links. 4 days ago:
However was this solved before the ability to surveil everyone all the time? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
You know, we don’t actually know what roads are efficient. Let’s gps tag every car. Actually we don’t know at what hours of the day people need water, we could optimise this if we put a camera in everyone’s house.
I swear neolibs are more in favour of restrictive surveillance than the most ardent ML
- Comment on ABC radio kills third party internet radio streams and embedded links. 4 days ago:
Baffling
- Comment on ABC radio kills third party internet radio streams and embedded links. 4 days ago:
Oh they also killed RSS feeds for news.
- Comment on ABC radio kills third party internet radio streams and embedded links. 4 days ago:
I can only assume it’s a prelude to requiring an account like iview (guess who doesn’t watch abc anymore) for Metrics and licensing fees.
I’d rather we just fund the broadcaster and make it easy to use hey? A modern browser is not a default piece of software to have running. They’re some of the most bloated and ridiculous things that exist.
This country is fucking stupid, the government just repeatedly self owns by not understanding the purpose of providing easy and free access to state services. Having a national broadcaster to create a sense of community and shared purpose, and to lift up and inspire your citizenry along the safe lines you desire is like a really good thing if you’re a centralising bureaucrat.
Neoliberal business brain will be the end of community.
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- Comment on Minns doubles down on unconstitutional anti-protest laws. 3 weeks ago:
I think he’s a bit worse. He’s come out against democracy, protest, civil rights, and the though court. He’s also explicitly and uncritically backed the police in some of the worst mass police violence we’ve seen in recent times.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on NSW Court of Appeal Strikes Down Minns Anti-Protest Laws 4 weeks ago:
Piece of shit Minns still won’t admit he fucked up. The entire nsw labor party is in bed with whatever fucked up faction is behind him.
From corruption to genocide, who knew the corrupt fucks were holding back the authoritarians from power.
- Comment on The future is now. I generated this on the AI Horde, then converted it into a 3d model and printed it! 2 months ago:
That is genuinely interesting. The image suffers from the usual flaws in composition and style but the 3d model is corrected. Like the eyes aren’t fucked, the toes are fixed. Or at least from the angle you photographed.
Do you know how the tool works technically? Like what it’s doing mathematically? Or have a good link?
- Comment on The AI bubble bursting might be one of the best things for open source models 2 months ago:
That won’t happen. The chips themselves are useful for loads of industrial applications and the infrastructure itself is nontrivial.
Relatively cheap would still be tens of thousands of dollars.
- Comment on Police seize art posters depicting Trump, Putin and Netanyahu in Nazi uniforms from Canberra bar 2 months ago:
Pretty derpy, we’ll see how this plays out in court.
- Our lords and masters line up behind the USA against a rules based order and the precedents established at Nuremburg.www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 months ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Reddit and Kick added to child social media ban 6 months ago:
There’s so many. I was there 2000 years ago when we just hung out on IRCs and xmpp.
If you actually dig into the studies a lot of the excessive socmed time of kids is chatting. what we used to do with MSN and shite.
Kids will find a way to hang out and share stuff. Probably better that it happens in the light.
I am reminded of older attitudes towards sex and teens. Preventing kids from being open about their sexual activities didn’t make it safe, it meant that people fucked in filthy places and didn’t have a proper education, or made friends with someone seedy as to get porn.
We should provide safe® alternatives, not ban things and then pretend that bored teenagers aren’t some of the most creative people on the planet.
- Comment on Reddit and Kick added to child social media ban 6 months ago:
I wish we could just regulate algorithmic recommendation and make companies over a certain size liable for content they promote (like publishing houses are) instead.
I am really concerned that this will do nothing to stop general social degradation and may actually cement the power of large operators by making smaller companies of ambiguous status legally risky; also pushing children to engage with hellscape platforms like 4chan or platforms run by other states Australia has less ability to regulate.
Also it’s a fucking privacy nightmare, but I’m aware that us tinhatters are alone in our damn Cassandra complexes as everything we’ve warned about happens over and over again.
- Submitted 6 months ago to news@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 7 months ago:
A right winger misrepresentating a situation to appear more sympathetic? Say it ain’t so.
- Comment on Fears Vitamin B6 levels in energy drinks like Red Bull and Monster could contribute to rise in B6 toxicity cases 9 months ago:
There is a massive rise in b6 poisoning. Although it’s in fucking everything leading to double dosing. E.g. magnesium supplement? b6, hangover cure? b6, energy drink? b6, multivitamin? b6 etc
…org.au/…/pyridoxine-toxicity-from-over-the-count…
TGA gonna regulate it. Rare win for that horrible body: …org.au/…/sweeping-vitamin-b6-restrictions-propos…
- Comment on A survey found 1 in 6 men admit sexual feelings for children. So is paedophilia increasing? (2023, linked study is worth a read). 9 months ago:
But… you didn’t take a look at the report and were talking about the most anodyne interpretation when they
a) explain why 18 b) explain the scope c) break down the kinds of attraction by age group d) break down the kinds of offences
Asking if you looked at the report and what you thought about one of the most shocking things is completely reasonable.
- Comment on A survey found 1 in 6 men admit sexual feelings for children. So is paedophilia increasing? (2023, linked study is worth a read). 9 months ago:
Why did you have to be so rude and smug earlier? you hadn’t read that part of the report so you didn’t have a good reason to assume I was making shit up.
I copied the title of the authors in that piece, I don’t want to inflame people, I wanted a discussion of something I found extraordinarily shocking.
- Comment on A survey found 1 in 6 men admit sexual feelings for children. So is paedophilia increasing? (2023, linked study is worth a read). 9 months ago:
Would have sexual contact with a child younger than 10 years if no one would find out (4.0%)
- Comment on A survey found 1 in 6 men admit sexual feelings for children. So is paedophilia increasing? (2023, linked study is worth a read). 9 months ago:
It happened the other way because the vast amount (97%) of convicted offenders are men, and that expert consensus is men are vastly more likely to offend. People have limited time and money, so research is funded when it is able to clearly state its impact.
I wish we had infinite resources in the academy, but we do not.
- Comment on Report into NSW strip searches last decade. 1.5% of strip searches resulting in any sort of conviction above possession. 82.4k strip searches performed. 9 months ago:
There are many requirements in the police training manual. For instance anyone being searched at all is meant to be taken somewhere private and their dignity preserved. I assume most people have seen this not happen.
Same gender is one such requirement.
- Comment on A survey found 1 in 6 men admit sexual feelings for children. So is paedophilia increasing? (2023, linked study is worth a read). 9 months ago:
At least one Australian expert says between 3% as likely as men to 25% as likely as men to offend. See below.
You can just look stuff up you know.
Joe Sullivan has spent 26 years counselling child sex offenders in the United Kingdom and is visiting Australia to attend an international police conference at Bond University on the Gold Coast.
While experts agree the majority of paedophiles are men, Dr Sullivan says women are responsible for more offences than previously thought.
“What I can say for certain is that it’s way more prevalent than people fully appreciate or understand,” he told the ABC.
"There’s some research to suggest it could be as high as 25 per cent.
“However, when you look at the representation within the criminal justice system it could be as low as 3 to 4 per cent of overall convictions.”
- Comment on A survey found 1 in 6 men admit sexual feelings for children. So is paedophilia increasing? (2023, linked study is worth a read). 9 months ago:
😬😬😬
- Comment on A survey found 1 in 6 men admit sexual feelings for children. So is paedophilia increasing? (2023, linked study is worth a read). 9 months ago:
Well it’s hard to say. Their sampling is pretty good, although mostly reflects the white population here as they discuss.
We don’t really have better stats than self reports, and this is a good study of self reports. You could dive into the data to see exactly what are the major areas, they’re probably not assault and more likely to be pornography.
Keep in mind it’s not uniform, the wierdos and freaks are amusingly less likely to. It’s more likely to be the well dressed guy with a family. So social elites. Depending on your crowd you might be pretty unlikely to know someone who does this.
- Comment on Report into NSW strip searches last decade. 1.5% of strip searches resulting in any sort of conviction above possession. 82.4k strip searches performed. 9 months ago:
Australia, or at least NSW, is a police state. You are getting filmed, tracked, your browsing history saved, your financial purchases archived, you need government ID regularly updated which requires entering your biometrics into a database.
This /is/ what living in a police state is. No it’s not as bad as it could get but we are already there.
- Report into NSW strip searches last decade. 1.5% of strip searches resulting in any sort of conviction above possession. 82.4k strip searches performed.rlc.org.au ↗Submitted 9 months ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on A survey found 1 in 6 men admit sexual feelings for children. So is paedophilia increasing? (2023, linked study is worth a read). 9 months ago:
They headline is the summation of the distinct people that answered at least one question in the grouping: “Men who have sexual feelings towards children” with an affirmative response
- Comment on A survey found 1 in 6 men admit sexual feelings for children. So is paedophilia increasing? (2023, linked study is worth a read). 9 months ago:
It’s obviously more important to judge people on what they do but just the prevalence is wild.
Some no doubt is power, given wealthy men are more likely. I think power destroys human minds and no amount is safe.
Even so, when I look at like 20 year olds they look and act like, well, children. Definitely not people I’m attracted to. I’m only 35, and I would say healthy 45-30 ish is what seems hot to me. Although I will admit I’ve always been drawn to people based on if they’re clever (and how much they’re across RAAC ;p)