Nath
@Nath@aussie.zone
- Comment on Minimum wage, parental leave and road fines: what’s changing on 1 July 2 days ago:
That’s a lot of us on minimum wage. On the surface of it, 2.6 Million sounds like roughly 10% of us. But the reality is even more grim than that. The number of people working is only a sub-set of Australians. According to ABS, there are about 14,620,600 Australians working. So, 2.6 Million is about 18% of workers.
- Comment on Trial finds age assurance can be done, as social media ban deadline looms 2 days ago:
If Government-issued ID is used, it cannot be stored past the length of time it takes to verify
That just reverses the circle of trust. If I can’t trust the users not to lie about their age (“trust me, bro”) in a DM, then the users can’t trust me not to keep copies/sell their private information (“trust me, bro”). That’s a super-flawed verification method.
- Comment on Trial finds age assurance can be done, as social media ban deadline looms 2 days ago:
… I don’t believe I should have to tell a JP that I use aussie.zone.
I wasn’t exactly proposing it as a solution, the amount of manual work it would generate to have millions of Australians going to JPs around the country with this for all their social media sites staggers the mind. But if it were to be implemented this way, I’m not really sure how to get around the issue of naming the explicit sites you visit. You don’t want it to be a blank “this person is verified on every site”, because that’ll be abused by everyone (and their kids) on every site. There needs to be some sort of personalisation to the verification.
And before anyone proposes it: I have zero interest in you sending me your personal ID. We are not equipped to store that level of sensitive information, and this is a side-hobby. We don’t take the site anywhere near seriously enough to take that sort of responsibility on.
- Comment on Trial finds age assurance can be done, as social media ban deadline looms 3 days ago:
At first I laughed, but in honesty I can’t think of many better verification methods.
My concern with it is the cost and requirement for non-drinkers to acquire alcohol. It’s pretty insensitive to ask a recovering alcoholic or a Muslim for example to go into a pub and buy a beer. Maybe have it as one possible verification method?
You could also get a a piece of paper notarised by a JP.
‘The individual known on Aussie.zone as Gorgritch_Umie_Killa has presented identification to me that demonstrates to my satisfaction that they are over 18’ (signed and stamped).But neither of these methods are technical solutions.
- Comment on Trial finds age assurance can be done, as social media ban deadline looms 3 days ago:
Adhere to the regulations, whatever the fuck they end up being
I’ll send everyone a DM: “Hey, are you over 18? Yep? cool.”
I have verified that all our users are over 18. 👍
- Comment on Antoinette Lattouf wins unlawful termination case against ABC 3 days ago:
It is kinda relevant. If you are hired to do a job for five days. And you are paid the agreed amount for those five days, even if you are told you don’t need to come to work days 4 & 5, are you actually that hard done by? What damages are you seeking?
I mean - the court answered this question: Justice Rangiah said the “appropriate award of compensation” for non-economic loss was $70,000.
The ABC recognised they did her wrong. My biggest concern with Aunty’s response is this “We extend our sincere apologies to Ms Lattouf and wish her well in her future endeavours.”That sounds like a ‘we will not be hiring you again’ to me. After recognising they shouldn’t have taken her off the air. I think they should have her back.
- Comment on Trial finds age assurance can be done, as social media ban deadline looms 3 days ago:
Oh this again. I had forgotten about it. According to the bill’s definition of “Social Media”, we (aussie.zone) meet it. Which means we need to somehow adhere to whatever the government deems necessary to confirm our userbase’s ages. Thing is: I can’t see any instance outside the country caring about this law. Why should they?
I genuinely have no idea from a technical standpoint how you’d enforce this.
- Comment on Antoinette Lattouf wins unlawful termination case against ABC 4 days ago:
This is a really interesting case. I’m a little surprised at the result, to be honest. While I agree with it (she was absolutely taken off the air for her political opinions), I also concede that the ABC did in fact pay her to the end of her 5-day contract.
Hopefully the next time a bunch of special interest people put pressure on the ABC, they’ll have more of a spine about it. Honestly, what possible power did 100-150 or so people have over the ABC that the’d fold so easily? It boggles the brain. Oh no! 0.0008% of Australians really don’t like an employee! Let’s get rid of her!
- Comment on 'Sovereign citizens' sentenced to prison term in Western Australia for defiance of court order 4 days ago:
It’s taken all day, but I’ve managed to listen to this in the background at work in between stuff.
I finally got to the end, and realise there’s a part 2! Oh man. I’m not entirely positive I can take another hour of talking about these loonies.www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIrcWtuLkdA
So far, the tl;dw is “These people are wrong. None of their bullshit actually works, and some have lost homes or ended up in prison over their idiot ideas”.
Which brings us full-circle to this article of two guys being imprisoned over their mistaken belief of being outside the law.
- Comment on 'Sovereign citizens' sentenced to prison term in Western Australia for defiance of court order 5 days ago:
My employer is a corporate identity that is giving me instructions all the time. I often even follow them.
- Comment on Australia’s first lab-grown meat will be on menus within weeks 1 week ago:
Cool, how long ago was this?
A couple of years ago at a University Open Day.
- Comment on Australia’s first lab-grown meat will be on menus within weeks 1 week ago:
I have tried a tiny sample of what was meant to be a hamburger pattie/mince thing. It was not big enough to really judge - but it gave an idea.
It tasted different, the texture was definitely different to what you know. But it wasn’t bad. I think we’d get used to it. They said they were nowhere near making a steak be similar.
- Comment on Leading tax expert calls out ‘confected outrage’ of wealthy Australians over Labor’s $3m super plan 2 weeks ago:
Remember that whole thing 15-20 years ago about “Occupy” and taxing the 1% etc?
This whole thing affects the top 0.3% of the population. 99.7% of us won’t be affected by it. There should be very wide popular support for this.
Hell, I wish I were affected by this policy. This is an awesome problem to have!
- Comment on Academic warns failure to pass Labor's superannuation tax changes could quash chance for broader reform 3 weeks ago:
Unless you are a teenager, you’ll be retiring far sooner than 50 years. Less than 20, for me (hopefully).
- Comment on Academic warns failure to pass Labor's superannuation tax changes could quash chance for broader reform 3 weeks ago:
Three million?! Who the hell has that much?
At that point, 5% interest will give you an annual salary of $150k. You can comfortably live off that and never touch the Three Million!
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 3 weeks ago:
Full disclosure: I honestly thought everyone could. 😆
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 3 weeks ago:
That sort of vote manipulation wouldn’t be posted to this community. 😄
I’m a little surprised at how many people have seen this post. More people subscribe to Meta/browse Local than I would have guessed. Whichever it is, I love how engaged our users are in the health of the instance. You guys are great!
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 3 weeks ago:
You are absolutely allowed to downvote anything you’d like to see less of. Yours was one of the two legitimate downvotes I was speaking of.
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 3 weeks ago:
Nah, Eureka is legit. He just doesn’t think news should be in Australia. And that’s perfectly fine. There will come a time where we are getting enough content that we’ll want to introduce that as a rule.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to meta@aussie.zone | 34 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It has been reported, yes. I got the report because it was an aussie.zone user who reported it. As an admin, I can remove the post, but that will only remove it for aussie.zone users.
For reports on communities on other instances, I rarely take action unless one of my users is causing issues or the post is spam/something super nasty.
- Comment on Billionaire Gina Rinehart criticises ‘relentless attack’ on former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith 5 weeks ago:
Middle-income tech nerd criticises Gina Rinehart for:
- Being completely out of touch with Australians.
- Constantly releasing media statements on issues like we should care what she thinks (and the media for publishing them).
- Being on the wrong side of history on just about every topic.
- Her awful poetry. Seriously, mine is better and I don’t write poetry.
- Complaining that paying people in Australia more money than she pays workers in world African nations is an issue, while choosing to live in Australia and being a parasite on us.
- For defending a dude who did do some amazing heroic stuff as well as well as committing war crimes, domestic abuse, bullying and generally being a jerk.
- Comment on More DDOS(?) traffic 5 weeks ago:
Ha! We are not even the biggest instance in Australia. Nor are we the oldest or most used.
The biggest/oldest Australian instance I know of is Blahaj. While you can argue they’re more global than Australian, I count them because 1. I am super proud of them and what they’ve built and 2. Ada is in Brisbane and active in our communities. 😀
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 5 weeks ago:
My client is spending waaaaaaay more money on Microsoft Online than it ever used to on software licenses. Every single user in the business is costing 🇦🇺$30 per month alone just for their Office suite. That’s before you get to the Azure stuff. Some hosted apps cost over 🇦🇺$1k/month to host in Azure.
Before you go too strongly after Microsoft for charging so much, this is cheaper than what we used to pay for running our own SharePoint, Exchange etc farms as well as the infrastructure required to host websites/database etc. All that has been outsourced to Microsoft Online and saves significant money.
Microsoft is doing very well out of its own cloud fees and can cope with AWS, Google and all the smaller private cloud operations getting some of that action.
- Comment on Star Ownership 1 month ago:
The hubris of claiming ownership of most of the galaxy because it’s above our little piece of rock aside, I liked the thought exercise.
I am now imagining that Earth falls under the night sky of some distant planet and we fall under their dominion as a result. They just haven’t gotten around to implementing their rule over us because of some stupid thing like spiders on our planet make it too difficult to impose. Or the Star Trek Whale thing. 😆
- Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on News and Politics in /c/australia: "She'll be right", or "not on, mate"? 1 month ago:
I mostly let the upvotes lead me on these sorts of questions. We aren’t algorithms - I’m happy for something worth talking about being posted on Australia (I do it often enough).
As a counter question: if you’d prefer to see less news and politics, what sort of content would you prefer to be posted instead? There might not be enough.
- Comment on How many times will i hear about the evil left if the greens loose their leader 1 month ago:
Antony Green said on Saturday night that he believed Mr Bandt would end up retaining Melbourne.
Antony Green said 2 hours ago that he believed Mr Bandt would end up retaining Melbourne.Greens leader Adam Bandt looks like he’s in a good position to be re-elected in the seat he’s held since 2010.
Postal votes had been breaking strongly to Labor, with Bandt getting just 23 per cent of preferences from them. For victory, he needs that number to be above a third.
The good news for him is that all four of the polling places counted today have beaten that target.
Based on current preference flows, Bandt trails his Labor opponent, but if today’s counting trend continues, Bandt should be re-elected.
At this stage, no early voting centres have been recounted. - Comment on [Satire] Bunnings announces hostile takeover bid for all 8,000 polling booths to regain control of sausage sizzle market 1 month ago:
For reals though: you wouldn’t want to be the community group that gets a Bunnings slot on an election date. It would decimate your sales as everyone already had their sausage. People buying a second at Bunnings would not be the norm.
- Comment on Commonwealth Bank investigates ‘issue’ that has locked thousands out of account 2 months ago:
Does CBA not add a virtual card to the phone’s wallet? I don’t need to actually open my bank’s app to make a purchase swiping my phone. I only need to unlock the phone (and you can configure it to make small purchases with the phone locked if you like).