indomara
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- Comment on Reddit files legal challenge against social media ban for under-16s 1 day ago:
Starting on Dec 27th Aussies will have to prove their age before using Google search. It’s absurd.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 3 days ago:
I remember they made a statement about it and I think they stopped.
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 6 days ago:
I don’t see mine. Nightgown, no undies.
- Comment on Shiny beer cans and a crowd save party-loving pet parrot 6 days ago:
Aww what a nice story
- Comment on Too bad we can't all write notes and letters with such class 6 days ago:
This made me think of this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_Revealed
I think this is one of the first documented cases of someone “sending a nude”.
- Comment on Australia | Teenagers sue over social media ban for ‘violating their right to communicate’ 2 weeks ago:
You will eventually want to access a page or service and will be asked to upload an id and or scan your face to make sure it matches. I for one do not want to have to submit my private information in order to use the internet.
- Comment on So now that it's that time of year again in the US, what are some tips and tricks for dealing with that one relative who goes on about the same bullshit for hours and won't shut the fuck up? 2 weeks ago:
You know that quote “Blood is thicker than water”?
The entire quote is “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb”.
We found our family, and that bond is as strong as any blood.
- Comment on Public service announcement 1 month ago:
This is hilarious, you have a gift with words!
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 1 month ago:
In osrs there is a PvP mini game “soul wars” that I love playing absolutely incorrectly.
I follow teammates around and rapidly use kits on them to heal them, use weapon specs to stun whoever they’re fighting, that kind of thing. I don’t usually try to attack anyone.
While osrs does have some healing mechanics and spells, almost no one uses them, which I find really sad.
I’m fact, in soul wars they actually blocked the healing spells from working at all, a fact I learnt only after getting level 94 to cast them.
After all these years, no one had ever tried I guess, I had to have a friend edit the wiki so no one else would be surprised.
Anyway, a friend looked me up and apparently I was pretty high in the high scores for someone who doesn’t kill anyone.
- Comment on ‘Australia is not the USA’: Labor accuses Coalition of importing Trump-style culture war on immigration 2 months ago:
Yeah… I don’t think there are as many of those as you think.
No Aussie drivers licence, no healthcare, most places won’t rent to you, can’t build a life really.
It’s hard enough to build a life while minimising the data you spread around, but with the sheer number of services that require id and proof of right to be here I can’t imagine there are a ton of these people.
- Comment on ‘Australia is not the USA’: Labor accuses Coalition of importing Trump-style culture war on immigration 2 months ago:
Absolutely. My family and I want to the Brisbane “March for Australia” … I won’t bother retelling our experience again, check my post history if you like - but it wasn’t peaceful.
One of the lines we heard often from that screaming jeering pushy crowd was “I don’t mind immigrants, I’m not racist, I just don’t want the illegal immigrants here.”
Mate, we’re a fucking island, this isn’t America. We put the illegal immigrants in an offshore detention centre ffs. It’s not like they’re hopping the border.
- Comment on Wafrn (tumblr alternative with fediverse and bluesky support) has started using an alternate relay; this means that they depend on none of bluesky's infrastructure to work. 3 months ago:
Thank you! Is there an android client for it? It looks neat!
- Comment on [Important] Catbox Needs Your Help 3 months ago:
Aah, ok. Sad. ❤️
- Comment on Australia’s government trial of age‑assurance tech to keep under‑16s off social media says social media age checks can be done, despite errors and privacy risks 3 months ago:
Gross
- Comment on [Important] Catbox Needs Your Help 3 months ago:
Really?? Christ, people need to advertise it there, Imgur has been imploding and the community has no idea where to go. It’s been sad.
- Comment on [Important] Catbox Needs Your Help 3 months ago:
What is cat box?
- Comment on Neo-Nazis and politicians among protesters at anti-immigration March for Australia rallies 3 months ago:
Exactly. We hope more every day Aussie families will join next time. The standard you walk by is the standard you accept.
- Comment on Neo-Nazis and politicians among protesters at anti-immigration March for Australia rallies 3 months ago:
What was really sad is they held this march on the last day of the multicultural festival, and in Brisbane they started and ended it in the same areas that festival events were being held. It was designed to install fear.
- Comment on Neo-Nazis and politicians among protesters at anti-immigration March for Australia rallies 3 months ago:
Honestly, the response we got about counter protesting from most people in our lives that agreed the March was bad was “Oh, but isn’t that unsafe?”.
We are a normal middle class white family and we refuse to look the other way while this happens.
I haven’t been to a protest since I was like 17, but this isn’t Australian. This is not what I want for my country. You can want immigration reform without being a bully.
I hope more people will show up.
- Comment on Anti-immigration rallies held across Australia as clashes break out in Adelaide and Melbourne 3 months ago:
This was really sad. My family and I went to this today in Brisbane, our best friend said their friends were afraid to go out to lunch with them today, because their parents were verbally assaulted in a grocery store on Friday for being immigrants.
My husband stood there in his suit, I stood in my pretty dress with flowers, our daughters held signs that said things like “so bad even the introverts are here”.
The March was not peaceful and was definitely racist. We started off to the side, sitting with flags my daughters and I made with hundreds of countries on them, and eventually we were swarmed as the crowd veered to come right past us.
They screamed obscenities at us, pushed into me, pushed my husband, tried to rip the sign from his hands. They ripped down the flags we made. Blew an air horn in our faces.
Many claimed they were not racist but my husband got called a f-ing Jew multiple times??? Maybe it was the beard and the hat, I don’t know.
Eventually police came and stood in front of us while we packed our things and left. We would do it again, in a heartbeat.
Before the rowdy crowd came looking for trouble we had immigrants come up and thank us, hug us, and we want them to know that not everyone agrees with this march.
Not wanting immigration is not what this march was about. This march was about fear and racism.
- Comment on Neo-Nazis and politicians among protesters at anti-immigration March for Australia rallies 3 months ago:
Sigh. This was really sad. My family and I went to this today in Brisbane, our best friend said their friends were afraid to go out to lunch with them today, because their parents were verbally assaulted in a grocery store on Friday for being immigrants.
My husband stood there in his suit, I stood in my pretty dress with flowers, our daughters held signs that said things like “so bad even the introverts are here”.
The March was not peaceful and was definitely racist. We started off to the side, sitting with flags my daughters and I made with hundreds of countries on them, and eventually we were swarmed as the crowd veered to come right past us.
They screamed obscenities at us, pushed into me, pushed my husband, tried to rip the sign from his hands. They ripped down the flags we made. Blew an air horn in our faces.
Many claimed they were not racist but my husband got called a f-ing Jew multiple times??? Maybe it was the beard and the hat, I don’t know.
Eventually police came and stood in front of us while we packed our things and left. We would do it again, in a heartbeat.
Before the rowdy crowd came looking for trouble we had immigrants come up and thank us, hug us, and we want them to know that not everyone agrees with this march.
Not wanting immigration is not what this march was about. This march was about fear and racism.
- Comment on Australia’s amount of plastic waste surges as recycling rates fail to improve 3 months ago:
It’s not even the direct to consumer stuff that is the worst offender… Ever been to a cotton on when they are putting out new shipments?
Every single pair of underwear comes in an individual plastic bag and on a plastic hanger. The tables of folded undies? Each one was wrapped and hangered and the employees spend ages removing and disposing of layers of plastic.
Every shirt, etc. immediately removed from the plastic bag and either hung on it’s plastic hanger or hanger removed and folded on a table.
It’s disgusting. Multiply this by the thousands of fast fashion clothing stores and you can see how massive this problem is.
- Comment on Road safety data shows pedestrian deaths have increased by almost 50 per cent since 2021 3 months ago:
Absolutely this. I live in Brisbane, where Gympie Rd is also the major North/South highway. In order to drive from Gold Coast to Sunshine Coast, you end up taking Gympie Rd or pay to take the detour across the toll bridge to the East.
If you want to go from the city to the Northern Suburbs you pay the toll or take Gympie Rd. (Some suburbs have no choice of a toll road and simply must take Gympie.)
This road was never designed to be a major highway. It has schools on it, it has houses that face it. People die because this one road takes all the traffic.
On a smaller scale, take the large roundabout near my house at the intersection of Webster Rd and Hamilton Rd in Chermside. Just 350m West of that roundabout is Craigslea Primary School, and just past that, the high school.
The cachement for these schools extends East across that roundabout into the neighbourhood on the East side of Webster Rd. Every morning and afternoon on schooldays I see children lining up to try to cross the roundabout during rush hour.
This roundabout is right in front of a major hospital and right next to the fire and ambulance stations. It is very unsafe, and there is no safe way for children to cross. Lots of parents drive their kids, or the kids will take longer routes home to walk to a street with a crossing light.
Here is a snapshot of a kid crossing the roundabout on google maps: maps.app.goo.gl/5AW57JS8KDgvS4RS6
Gympie Rd magically turns from a highway into a proper freeway just 4.5km North of that roundabout, no on ramps or off ramps, you just cross the final light at Beams Rd and you are on a freeway North to Sunshine Coast.
- Comment on ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard 6 months ago:
Because we are the product…
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 6 months ago:
Oh yeah, they can get around it, but not without me knowing about it. If I find out, they lose the devices, simple as that.
You are right that parents who aren’t technical will have a hard time, but it’s not insurmountable. No devices in the bedrooms, ever. No downloading apps without permission ever. Google the app and give a yes or no.
When it came to it, wifi off at night and she got the basic Nokia phone. It’s a constant battle, sure but one we must win.
Also reminded her that no matter what, if she’s on our network, I will know what she’s up to. Instilling a healthy sense of fear is good. Router logs do not lie.
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 6 months ago:
I highly recommend Qustudio. It works on phone and PC, and allows you to customise exactly what is monitored or blocked so you can keep an eye on things in an age appropriate way.
We started monitoring after we found out our 12 year old daughter was catfishing a 19 year old boy. He had no idea and after we explained that she could literally ruin his life, and made her tell him her age he noped out of there. (Wisely.)
At first we had it set to monitor everything, report all searches, all app downloads, block porn, etc.
Yes she was able to get around certain features, like when she was young we had the phone locked past midnight… But it logs when it’s in use, so we them had a talk the next day and took away the phone or PC if needed.
As she got older we removed the block on all websites, and stopped monitoring any messages. We kept the software on to let us know when she was using her devices because she would often be up until 3am on her phone on a school night and we would then have a conversation about it.
We removed it when she was 17 or 18.
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 7 months ago:
I used to have a demonoid account too! Back then I could just torrent anything without a care…
Now I would need a VPN and a ton of reading to even begin. Sad times.
- Comment on The Fitbit Sense line is cooked because it was too good for Google 7 months ago:
I unfortunately am a victim of this. My Sense was great. Then a forced update pushed despite never allowing the Fitbit app to update. Now the battery life is horrible and I am of course encouraged to buy a new one and move my Fitbit information to Google.
- Comment on Dune Awakening - Story Trailer 7 months ago:
Wait, this is going to be a Funcom game?? Oh man, Funcom has made some of our favourite games! We adored Anarchy Online, and The Secret World is still one of the mmo’s I would recommend to anyone who wants to try a really unique modern mmo with an amazing story.
Unfortunately when they were developing TSW and Age of Conan, someone made the call to go all in on AOC which was just… not unique in a space saturated with that kind of WoW clone.
TSW ended up not having the cashflow (devs) it needed to release updates and expansions and it fell into disfavour once the player base reached end game. Which is really sad, because even as a “dead” game the story and gameplay are so good.
I really hope they have retained the devs that worked on TSW and have enough cash to push everything into this game. Make it unique like TSW and AO were, push a couple expansions, and there will be players.
- Comment on ‘Where am I going to go?’ Dismay as Queensland council begins tearing down tent encampment 8 months ago:
This is so wrong. The council claims to have offered everyone somewhere to go, but often they want to place people hours away from everyone they know, or split families up with the father in one shelter 45 minutes by car away.
With few trains and a ridiculous non-linear bus route system that takes “efficient” wandering routes, this 45 minutes is easily an hour and a half or more.
We live near a major bus interchange and our daughters are going to uni in the city. It is 20 minutes by car, and 56 minutes by bus. It would take 3-4 hours of the day for this family to visit wherever they have been placed. While trying to get their life together?
Criminalising homelessness is yet another step on the road to becoming more like America. I should know - I grew up there and this whole situation makes my blood run cold, because it’s what I left 10 years ago.