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- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 2 days ago:
Signal has been a good option because you can get “normal” people to use it, which hasn’t been true for many of the alternatives (except Telegram, but that’s a mess).
- Comment on Trump May Launch Wireless Phone Brand 1 week ago:
Maybe they are planning to take back that spectrum they gave to Boost/Dish on a pinky-promise that they’d actually become a competitive network, during the Sprint and T-Mobile antitrust case.
- Comment on Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience 2 weeks ago:
Needs to provide FSR 4 to compete with Switch 2.
It can’t unless FSR4 is backported to RDNA2/3. There’s some work on Linux to do that, but there is a significant performance hit at the moment.
- Comment on Australia’s bowel cancer rates are world’s highest for under-50s. Scientists wonder if the gut microbiome is to blame 3 weeks ago:
Obesity is a major predictor of colorectal cancer, which has become more common since the 1990s. Physical exercise and fibre intake may also be independently associated with lower rates of colorectal cancer as well.
- Comment on After parting ways with EA, WRC gets new home and six-year deal to "reboot" rally series 3 weeks ago:
I was talking about Nacon (the new/old WRC publisher) not EA or Codemasters, but agreed.
- Comment on What's your recommendation for a small NAS? 3 weeks ago:
It’s just saying it’s not supported, not that it doesn’t work. Depending on your country, I doubt that warranty voiding claim is enforceable either.
- Comment on After parting ways with EA, WRC gets new home and six-year deal to "reboot" rally series 3 weeks ago:
Seems to be just going back to the previous publisher, which didn’t exactly release amazing rally games when they had the license. Maybe they’ll surprise me, but I suspect Dirt Rally 2.0 and Richard Burns Rally will continue to be the main options for a while longer.
- Comment on Australia has had record flu cases this year – and that’s before winter arrives. What’s going on? 4 weeks ago:
In some states like WA and Queensland but not all. It should be nation wide.
- Comment on Australia has had record flu cases this year – and that’s before winter arrives. What’s going on? 4 weeks ago:
They should really make it free for everyone if they want increased uptake. It’s not exactly expensive, but any price at all is going to disincentivise people.
- Australia has had record flu cases this year – and that’s before winter arrives. What’s going on?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 19 comments
- Sound it out: Victorian children improve reading ‘leaps and bounds’ thanks to phonicswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 5 weeks ago:
It’s because of testing the game on different versions of Proton, which is treated as a hardware change. The fault lies entirely with Denuvo, and with anti-consumer DRM in general.
- Comment on Abortion pills to be easier to access after Greens bill passes in NSW despite opposition from Tony Abbott 5 weeks ago:
He lobbied the party to oppose the bill. Which is unsurprising, because he prevented an abortion bill from being available during his time in the Howard government as health minister. And because he is an extreme right-wing religious ideologue that still has power in the party.
- Abortion pills to be easier to access after Greens bill passes in NSW despite opposition from Tony Abbottwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
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- Comment on Chromium Blog: Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome 1 month ago:
I use it for my self hosted apps, but yeah, it’s rarely useful for websites.
- Comment on Voters, ‘left media’ to blame for Coalition wipeout: Rinehart 1 month ago:
- Comment on Here's where things went right for Labor, and very wrong for the Coalition 1 month ago:
Also I’m cracking up at Andrew Bolt blaming the voters for the loss:
“No, the voters aren’t always right. This time they were wrong,” Bolt wrote. The reason for the loss? It was because the Liberal party “refused to fight the ‘culture wars’”.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | How To Vote 2025 1 month ago:
Interesting, which electorate? I redid the survey and got the same results (could be consistent with IP).
It’s possible to match with Palmer just because he’s throwing out a bunch of policies that might sound good but have no logical consistency or anything backing it. Probably the survey should account for that if it isn’t already.
In any case, you can select your own preferences and build your own paper, which is the main reason I posted it.
- Welcome to Country is not an election issue, so why are we talking about it? I think I knowwww.smh.com.au ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
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- Comment on DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub 1 month ago:
It’s not always takedowns either, just the developer deciding to nuke their own repos. Real annoying, although it’s making me more vigilant about forking/mirroring important repos.
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- Comment on A minority Labor government could be truly progressive – and the conservatives know it | Lenore Taylor 1 month ago:
There’s often this revisionist history about things as well. Labor wouldn’t negotiate with the Greens over the original ETS, and the Greens get blamed for it not passing. Only a few years later they work together and make a better policy (the carbon price). Abbott comes in and tears it up. Current Labor supporters either conveniently forget this ever happened, or they somehow argue that Abbott would have teared up the carbon price but not the ETS.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 1 month ago:
I think there’s room for both, as in the old days there was typically an IRC channel along side forums that was typically a secondary channel (but not always).
But yeah, forums would be ideal, preferably with federation support so there is no need to make an account with every single one.
- Comment on A minority Labor government could be truly progressive – and the conservatives know it | Lenore Taylor 1 month ago:
The false dichotomy rhetoric of “they’re better than the other party” is just insufferable, and the US has shown us how the two-party duopoly plays out.
Just make sure you preference Labor ahead of the Coalition. That’s the risk of “both sides” rhetoric, although I would hope that most people here understand this.
- A minority Labor government could be truly progressive – and the conservatives know it | Lenore Taylorwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 23 comments
- Comment on Mental health experts concerned about Coalition plan to scrap workers’ right to disconnect 1 month ago:
You may have found their new slogan:
Vote Liberal, the biggest cunts on Earth.
- Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments