Ilandar
@Ilandar@aussie.zone
- Comment on Bunnings told to destroy 'faceprint' data after landmark ruling on facial recognition use 1 day ago:
The real question is…does this apply to my dog too?
- Comment on Major Centrelink payment update for millions following ‘landmark investment’ 1 week ago:
Services Australia will continue to publish quarterly data and said this will help ensure “transparency and accountability” for Aussies.
This is the first time in the department’s history it has released the quarterly data.
Hope it continues!
- Comment on Australians who think inequality is high have less faith in democratic institutions, study finds 1 week ago:
I suppose a lot of people who might be roughly characterised as ‘right-wing populists’ and against status-quo neoliberalism would find the Greens unpalatable, though.
The unpalatable bit for many, particularly young men, is the social progressivism of these parties. I see it time and time again: guys who would be easy Greens voters based on their economic policies don’t take them seriously because their perception is that left-wing politics is primarily focused on issues of gender and sexuality. They don’t consider these issues comparatively relevant and get attacked quite viciously online for this position which feeds into this broader alienation problem they are going through due to the shift away from traditional gender roles that would have given their lives meaning. Feeling alienated by the left, these guys drift right towards groups that validate their feelings and welcome them.
I don’t necessarily think this is a completely fair perception of The Greens, but the reality is that we live in an age where young people’s views are heavily influenced by their social media algorithms. And if those algorithms are constantly feeding them culture war shit , particularly from the US, then it is understandable that they feel this way. Currently, I don’t see an organised attempt by left to combat this problem, nor even an admission that we have agency over it. The focus still just seems to be on blaming the right for manipulating these young men.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago:
How do you know it drives people away from joining if they didn’t join?
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago:
Don’t go to .ml communities if you dont like their moderation. Their users don’t brigade us so I’m not sure why we would need to defederate from one of the largest instances, especially given the issues with lemmy.world.
- Comment on Customers suddenly find their new phones can't make calls or send texts 2 weeks ago:
They’ve been warning everyone for over a year. They’ve been individually messaging affected phones for months. Nobody can really say they didn’t get warning.
This is quite a misleading way of framing the communication. The telcos were clear about 3G phones no longer working many months ago, but it has not been clear at all which 4G phones would be blocked. Communication about this second problem only started recently and even then it was very unclear. Blaming consumers for not throwing out their new phones when they are receiving mixed messages over whether they will continue work is hardly a rational position.
- Comment on Australia's prime minister rejects China's claims that his country is rife with 'racism and hate crimes' 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think that’s accurate. Wikipedia’s page on ethnic succession theory describes something quite different.
- Comment on A thousand Australian university jobs are at risk. Who’s to blame for the dire financial state? 3 weeks ago:
So are any of these VCs taking pay cuts themselves? Some are on exorbitant salaries.
- Comment on Australia's prime minister rejects China's claims that his country is rife with 'racism and hate crimes' 3 weeks ago:
There’s a name for this kind of phenomenon that I’ve forgotten, but essentially it repeats with every wave of new migrants. They move here, get racially vilified by the existing Australian community for being different, then slowly pick up the same whiteness mentality over the next few decades so that when the next wave of migrants occur the previous wave is often among the most aggressively racist towards them.
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Grill’d faces Australia's ‘first-ever' fast food strike over low-pay, 'unfair' conditions claims 4 weeks ago:
Yes, that was my experience at OTR. I worked there for like 7 or 8 months before quitting and they’d only just started the “training” around the time I left and even then it was super slow, like one session a fortnight or something. The HappyWash employee at my place was immediately moved into the store when he completed his traineeship (they had a different one to us) so the company put him on the retail traineeship and lower his wage back to $16 or whatever it was. Then they hired a teenager to fill the HappyWash role.
- Grill’d faces Australia's ‘first-ever' fast food strike over low-pay, 'unfair' conditions claimswww.sbs.com.au ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on South Australia’s upper house narrowly rejects ‘Trumpian’ bill to wind back abortion care 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like the SA Liberals are providing free campaign material for Labor to destroy them with in the next election. As if they even needed it, the Libs are a complete mess.
- Comment on George Negus, veteran Australian journalist and TV presenter, dies aged 82 5 weeks ago:
Last month one of his sons, Ned, said his father was in an aged care facility and was mostly “non-verbal”.
“For those of you who don’t know, my dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s around five years ago,” Ned wrote. “He’s now non verbal most of the time (mind-blowing for me but also any of you that know him).”
Very sad way to go out for both himself and his family and friends. I’ll always remember the days watching George Negus Tonight as a youngster, not really understanding what any of it was about. It used to come on after the kids shows finished so I usually watched a bit of it before dinner.
- Comment on 'How are we going to escape?': Indonesian working holiday-makers say they were 'scammed' 5 weeks ago:
These stories always make me so sad because the mistreatment of people on working holiday visas has been a widespread problem for such a long time and yet there is seemingly little desire for a solution.
- Comment on Australian families switching to cycling as car-running costs rise - ABC News 1 month ago:
I don’t know about the rest of Australia, but that’s not really the case in Adelaide. There is a pretty strong cycling culture here and a lot of proper bike stores for commuters, road cyclists and mountain bikers. Hosting the Tour Down Under for 25 years has really helped with that. But for whatever reason the government has never really invested in infrastructure that would help.daily commuters.
- Comment on Australian families switching to cycling as car-running costs rise - ABC News 1 month ago:
Cycling infrastructure development in Adelaide and SA always seems to be based around tourism and leisure. Like if you want to do a family day trip, or you’re here on a cycling holiday or just want to spend your day somewhere there are quite a few good cycling paths that all connect up with minimal need to cross or ride on roads. But the daily cycling infrastructure is absolutely terrible. Most “bike lanes” on suburban roads are narrow, damaged and filled with rubbish and many motorists do not respect them at all. Thankfully we are allowed to ride on the footpaths so that reduces the danger somewhat but it’s also pretty inconvenient since footpaths are even less consistent in terms of terrain.
- Comment on New Yorker’s ‘Social Media Is Killing Kids’ Article Waits 71 Paragraphs To Admit Evidence Doesn’t Support The Premise 1 month ago:
This is a pretty clickbaity counter-article that doesn’t review the original in good faith. The New Yorker article is not titled ‘Social Media Is Killing Kids’ but rather ‘Has Social Media Fuelled A Teen-Suicide Crisis?’ with a lead of:
Mental-health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans, and parents and lawmakers alike are scrutinizing life online for answers.
So the implication that the premise of the article is to demonise social media is completely wrong, since it’s actually an investigation into the issue. That’s also the reason it’s long (another strange complaint from a guy whose 3000+ word response is only ever his opinions).
The “moral panic tropes” are testimony from real parents whose real children killed themselves. And these real parents think social media was responsible. It strikes me as pretty low to hand wave away the grief of these real people because it inconveniently feeds into a narrative you have some instinctual problem with.
The author tries to frame the balance of the New Yorker article as some kind of gotcha. Like it’s somehow a bad thing that this other writer took the time to consult with and quote experts who provide a different opinion. Personally I would much rather read that then something like this which was basically the equivalent of a reddit eXpOsEd thread.
- Comment on Australia’s 3G Shutdown - Telcos to Block Working 4G/5G Phones! 1 month ago:
I just gave up and bought a new (secondhand) phone at the beginning of this year. I returned one of my older phones (Galaxy Note 9) to stock as a backup but I’m not even sure if that will work now because it’s a grey import (even though it has working VoLTE currently and supports all Australian network bands). It’s a bit sad that I have this little collection of otherwise great older phones that still receive updates to their custom ROMs but will now be useless as phones.
- Comment on Australia’s 3G Shutdown - Telcos to Block Working 4G/5G Phones! 1 month ago:
In fairness it is a poorly written and confusing article (the guy is not a writer by profession, just a communications expert trying to draw attention to the 3G shutdown). I shared the video just in case people had a hard time understanding the main takeaways, since Hugh Jeffreys did a good job summarising them.
- Comment on Australia’s 3G Shutdown - Telcos to Block Working 4G/5G Phones! 1 month ago:
It sounds like they are over-complying in response to recent legislation:
This is due to an update to the ‘Emergency Call Service Determination’ (ECSD), in the explanatory statement it says:
“Subsection 6(2) directs ACMA to include requirements for providers to identify mobile phones unable to access Triple Zero, notify the user, provide assistance if necessary to access an alternative mobile phone, and cease providing service to the affected device. Providers will also be required to not provide service to a prospective customer seeking service with an affected mobile phone. This requirement makes clear the responsibility providers have to ensure mobile networks provide access to the emergency call service.” […] “The amendments to the Determination to be made under section 6(2) are to be determined and commence in full by 1 November 2024.”
- Comment on Australia’s 3G Shutdown - Telcos to Block Working 4G/5G Phones! 1 month ago:
The author of the article claims AMTA is not a reliable indicator of VoLTE compatibility:
Additionally Tools like the ‘AMTA 3G Lookup Service’ are not accurate or reliable. AMTA knows this, hence why you need to agree to a long list of terms & conditions before using it.
This new ACMA policy is deeply disturbing because many consumers, including myself, own fully functional devices that can make VoLTE calls and emergency calls, yet are deemed “incompatible” by the telcos.
These are devices with the exact same hardware and software as ‘officially supported’ devices, the only difference is the telcos didn’t sell them.
- Comment on Australia’s 3G Shutdown - Telcos to Block Working 4G/5G Phones! 1 month ago:
Vodafone’s 3G network has been switched off for 9 months at this point, I don’t know if customers would still be getting messaging about it. Though there was a section in the article about issues with roaming for international visitors in January:
As a result of the Vodafone 3G switch-off in January, inbound Roaming customers have been receiving text messages advising they will no longer have access to voice, text or data and emergency calling whilst roaming in Australia.
Even customers with 5G iPhones have received such text messages.
- Comment on Australia’s 3G Shutdown - Telcos to Block Working 4G/5G Phones! 1 month ago:
He published another article recently about exactly that. It sounds like the telcos are putting in less than the bare minimum of effort and the government has been too clueless to hold them to account. And when it does try to legislate it has done so in a nonsensical way that risks hurting more than helping.
- Comment on Australia’s 3G Shutdown - Telcos to Block Working 4G/5G Phones! 1 month ago:
If you prefer video/audio, Hugh Jeffreys covered this here.
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- Comment on Aboriginal NT police officers detail allegations of 'racist culture' in human rights complaint 1 month ago:
I didn’t know about this but it does not surprise me at all. Sad how we live in a country where racism against our indigenous peoples is so normalised that we are no longer shocked by these revelations, and yet there is also zero appetite from the public to actually do anything about the broader issues behind all of this.
- Comment on YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50% 1 month ago:
Exactly. “Sparking backlash” just means these people whined for 2 minutes like they always do, before reaching into their wallet once again.
- Comment on Woolworths, Coles sued by ACCC for ‘misleading’ price drop claims 1 month ago:
The IGA down the road had self checkout but no one ever used them because they would call the operator after almost every item. Recently they just got rid of them and replaced them with old fashioned checkouts.
Actually something similar happened at one of my local Drakes Mini stores. I was wondering why they put these machines in and then removed them within a year, maybe it was staffing related like in your case?
- Comment on The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it. 1 month ago:
Corbyn was also good friends with Ken Livingstone, who said some very strange things about Hitler and the Jews.