Greyghoster

@Greyghoster@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Coalition’s attack on the climate authority is a cynical attempt to put ideology over facts – it must be called out | Kylea Tink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Politicians are generally loose with the truth but the LNP really take it to a nasty level of lying. It all seems to be about winning the election however it really is about setting up an agenda for radical gutting of our society.

  It’s wishful thinking but they may have committed a Shorten manoeuvre where they scare the electorate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta, X approved ads containing violent anti-Muslim, antisemitic hate speech ahead of German election, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to block Meta. That and Twitter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine won't sign minerals deal, sources tell Reuters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t believe that they are actually dependent on Starlink given that Musk is a Russian sympathiser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I shrink heatshrink in an explosion proof room?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How about heating up a soldering iron outside, turnoff and unplug then take it in and use the residual heat?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT may be shifting ‘rightward’ in political bias, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well this is lovely. As they say, you are what you eat. If you eat monsters (or the writing of monsters) …….

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Church of England refuses call for gluten-free wafers and non-alcoholic wine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So the wafer and wine are irrelevant and this is merely theatre?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About 'Women in Leadership' From Its Websites: Report⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The sad thing is that this was all telegraphed and baked into the platform. If people are kicking themselves now, it’s too late.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Washington lawmakers weigh new artificial intelligence regulations.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand, why pass laws when everything else is done with executive orders. How can you have a proper coup if halfwits have to pass laws?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta AI can now use your Facebook and Instagram data to personalize its responses⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fortunately I use neither.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta tells Brazil it's only axing fact checkers in USA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds that’s going to work well. It wasn’t going so well to start with but apparently they are still on top of Pixelfed!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flouride⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. The article doesn’t actually say that fluoridation in water supplies is dangerous but that some researchers are questioning. Generally code for lack of scientific evidence. It also finds that early studies may have had a flawed basis (pretty much all early studies have been found wanting by later scientists) but doesn’t refute the results.The study mentioned in the article talks about high levels of fluoridation which I assume is in lab tests however these levels are not the case in water supplies.

  The correct way forward is more actual science based studies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taliban bars Afghan women from hearing each other's voices in new edict⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are republicans that are making notes for the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the devil is not such a baddie and just gets bad press?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia’s 3G Shutdown - Telcos to Block Working 4G/5G Phones!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like if you bought your phone from Apple or Samsung or JBHIFI you are stuffed. Can’t believe it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to cut your energy bills by 30 per cent with a heat pump⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Australia, we have followed the British housing tradition and have really bad insulation too! We are working on fixing it but there is so much to retrofit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to cut your energy bills by 30 per cent with a heat pump⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly that was not the advice that they got.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to cut your energy bills by 30 per cent with a heat pump⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, using a heat pump for replacing a hot water heater is definitely a good thing. Using a heat pump on an old water radiator system may not work well. Friends had to replace a gas heater for their water radiator system and were told that there wasn’t a heat pump unit hot enough for the retrofit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X caught blocking links to NPR, claiming the news site may be 'unsafe'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m starting to think that social media sites of a certain size are more like common carriers (in the telecommunications sense) than news or discussion sites. As such they should be bound to deliver clear moderation and ensure that everyone able to be connected and communicate with in the clear rules. Ie. screw the algorithm and weird owner interference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Use Zotero⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True, they can be hard to find.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Use Zotero⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the same as writing tests for software code after writing the code. A mystery without end or reliability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russian ransomware gangs account for 69% of all ransom proceeds⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine Putin is happy to have his share. The main question is whether it’s to his bank account or to the Kremlin’s to help pay for the war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Normally I would agree however this doesn’t appear to be a Microsoft update but a CrowdStrike update. Given that everyone is worried about ransomware etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How many systems in the world’s military went down, you know in war machines of Russia and Israel and Ukraine?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conspiracy Theorists Say Global Outage Was an Attack on Trump⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty obvious that if you are a blinkered radical, then everything is about you and your cult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rebuilding homes in Gaza will cost $40bn and take 16 years, UN finds⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that Israel was planning to turn it into high resorts and accommodation. All that needs to be done move those inconvenient Palestinians out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the smarter members of society. At least he attempts to vote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Congressman rebuked for call to bomb Gaza ‘like Nagasaki and Hiroshima’⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He will be brought back into line by the oligarchs. There has already been talk of Gaza being prime beachfront land. They definitely don’t want it radioactive ☢️.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia produced new school textbook that distorts the history of the war against Ukraine and urges teenagers to join the army⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought Russians referred to motherland not the fatherland. Is this a Putin shift?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“We cannot support it:” Polestar follows Tesla out of car lobby over Toyota led campaign⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s amazing that catching up with the rest of the world and using safer more efficient technology already in use is so expensive and so difficult to implement. Who do they think we are, all LNP supporters?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook ate and then ignored the news industry. It's hard, but we should leave it be⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s one of the reasons I subscribe to a couple of news outlets, I value the news and someone needs to pay. Most people have forgotten that they used to “buy” newspapers, after all, everything is free on the internet.