Salvo
@Salvo@aussie.zone
- Comment on What happened in Canada is the appropriate reaction when a dictator says he wants to take over your country. 8 hours ago:
I live in a safe Australian LNP seat, the odds are that on Saturday night, our neighbours and I are (very likely) going to continue having a Right-Wing member of Parliament.
That does still mean that even though they are voting for our local MP, they are also voting for a former 1980s Queensland Cop with a suspiciously large amount of money as PM.
I would be happy if every (Australian) Coalition candidate and all the Right-Wing independent candidates received Zero votes this election, otherwise there are too many Australian Fuckwits.
- Comment on What happened in Canada is the appropriate reaction when a dictator says he wants to take over your country. 8 hours ago:
I’ve edited my original post.
Now we both look like Goofs!
- Comment on What happened in Canada is the appropriate reaction when a dictator says he wants to take over your country. 9 hours ago:
No worries. I’m the silly bugger that mistyped. I’m trying to think of a way to blame AutoCorrect…
- Comment on What happened in Canada is the appropriate reaction when a dictator says he wants to take over your country. 9 hours ago:
Sorry I meant 5 million individuals, not $5m
- Comment on What happened in Canada is the appropriate reaction when a dictator says he wants to take over your country. 9 hours ago:
I disagree. It should have been a complete landslide.
The fact that Pierre Poilievre received any votes at all suggests that almost $5m Canadians are still fuckheads.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Peter Dutton for Dickson 5 days ago:
I am sure the AEC will do everything in their power to make sure that is an honest and legal election.
I really fucking hope that the people of Dickson vote in their own interest.
- Comment on NSW National Parks seeking feedback on proposed changes re. camping fees and bookings 1 week ago:
I think that the key would to not have the bookings managed by an outside contractor, but monitored by an outside auditor.
I reckon that half of the Ghost Camping issue in Victoria is either ParksVic don’t want too many people at a campsite or the Bookings contractor gets paid a commission on bookings, so add fake bookings to boost KPIs.
The other half are arseholes who think that they would enjoy an empty campsite more than a campsite with other friendly people.
- Comment on Queensland council races to reverse mayor's EV charger halt, with funding on the line 1 week ago:
Which isn’t even a slap on the wrist. For modern commercial journalism, being called out on MediaWatch is a promotional opportunity! “Look how much we can corrupt reality, advertise with us”.
- Comment on Queensland council races to reverse mayor's EV charger halt, with funding on the line 1 week ago:
Commercial “Journalist” needs to be held to a higher standard.
They should voluntarily do a retraction article of the same duration in the same time slot explaining exactly how they screwed up and how they will restore their integrity in the future.
If they don’t, the industry regulator needs to call them out on it.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Taco Bill however is a staple of day drinking mummies and 17 1/2 year olds who want to polish off a whole fishbowl margarita while eating inauthentic TexMex that (while not as good as GyG or any of the independent Mexican restaurants) is much better that Taco Bell.
- Comment on Light switches should be glow in the dark 1 week ago:
I have a Tent with built in LED lighting and the switch is illuminated, so you can find it at 3:00AM when you go for a wee. It uses 5V over a USB-A plug. Quite nifty!
The problem is that it does not adhere to the USB spec so after a minute, the power bank decides that nothing is connected and stops supplying power (as a safety feature). You then have to wake up the power bank back up to can find the light switch, which you can’t do without lights on.
- Comment on Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology. 2 weeks ago:
Anyone who uses gMail knows (or should know) that their data is being used for commercial purposes. Any business that uses Google.Business or MS Office should also be aware that they are giving away all their corporate secrets, regardless of any “Opt-In”/“Opt-Out” broken promises.
- Comment on Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology. 2 weeks ago:
If they get Apple Intelligence into a functional form, (and not an embarrassing hilarious punchline in an anecdote), the will be profiting of my data.
They can claim that it is Opt-In only (until a bug the next software update ‘accidentally’ changes my Opt-out status) and they can Anonymize my data, but that still doesn’t change the fact that they inferred that hey wouldn’t use my data.
At least their user abuse is still less than Mozilla and Google threw out the “Don’t be Evil” motto decades ago…
- Comment on Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology. 2 weeks ago:
Is this the same “Opt-In” as keeping Apple Intelligence disabled between software updates?
Apple are haemorrhaging a lot of hard earned goodwill every time they try to move forward with their own AI.
- Comment on Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology. 2 weeks ago:
That still doesn’t give them the right to mine the data that their users entrusted to them though a paid service.
It doesn’t matter how anonymised their harvesting is, they had an agreement with their subscribers not to invade their privacy like this.
We are better off with a LLM that doesn’t work than abusing the data entrusted to them by their users.
It won’t be long until the LLM bubble bursts and we all laugh about how stupid we were to think they had any use whatsoever.
- Comment on A good voter's guide to bad faith tactics 2 weeks ago:
The only How-To-Vote card anyone should ever read is the one published by the AEC. It is called a ballot.
The spruikers loitering at polling booths (who are all contractors and don’t give a rats arse who’s junk mail they are foisting upon voters) should all be banned.
- Comment on The 24-year-old rule that lets politicians use your data however they want 2 weeks ago:
Whenever I get political advertising (by email, phone or SMS), I advise the caller that I am on the Do Not Call List.
When they bring up this excmptoon, I reply that I will vote for whichever politician removes this exception.
I am confident that my feedback does not get passed on…
- Comment on AI in Australian workplaces: Michael used AI to write a work email. It ended up costing him $2000 2 weeks ago:
I think CopyWriting is an under appreciated art form.
I had an apprentice that was moonlighting doing contract CopyWriting for a large advertising conglomerate.
First he tried writing himself, then he outsourced to India, then he used ChatGTP, finally, he just submitted nonsensical Lorem Ipsum text. He still got paid and still kept getting contracts.
I think this is more critical about the Advertising industry than CopyWriters.
- Comment on AI in Australian workplaces: Michael used AI to write a work email. It ended up costing him $2000 2 weeks ago:
They do fine for themselves but they are detrimental to the rest of the business.
- Comment on AI in Australian workplaces: Michael used AI to write a work email. It ended up costing him $2000 2 weeks ago:
Should have cost him his job.
I recently found out that a major health insurer is encouraging all staff to use CoPilot for everything.
I am so glad that they don’t have my health data.
- Comment on Channel 7's Spotlight on EVs, fails to identify any EV maker that actually uses 'dirty nickel' from Indonesia - techAU 3 weeks ago:
But it can’t be sensationalist and support the fossil fuel agenda unless it is about EVs!
No one gives a rats arse about below-the-poverty-line foreign miners in a foreign country unless it can be used for a media magnates political agenda.
- Comment on 'Won't back down': Inside the anti-wind farm crusade threatening Australian Labor seats 4 weeks ago:
Not all of them. Most of them have just been suckered into a Astroturfing campaign by a Marketting campaign by the fossil fuel industry.
- Comment on 'Limited incentive' for Coles and Woolworths to compete vigorously on price, and margins have risen, ACCC finds 5 weeks ago:
Those sort of exclusivity deals should be made illegal.
Unfortunately, a Duopsony is just as destructive to the market as a Duopoly.
- Comment on Dutton slammed over threat to cut 36,000 public service jobs 1 month ago:
These People consider Government getting in their way. They want a Feudal Anarchy where the rich and powerful can dominate and dictate over the poor.
The problem is that Government regulation of Polluters and Environmental protection and oversight is getting mixed up with restricting public citizens.
For instance, not being able to go 4WDing in State Forests causes people to become radicalised and susceptible to Corporate manipulation. The next thing you know, you have Outdoors enthusiasts voting for clear-felling of National Parks.
- Comment on Is there an Australian equivalent for boycotting american products ? 1 month ago:
They were manufactured in China.
The best things to boycott are Services. If everyone cancels their Netflix, Amazon Prime, AppleTV/Music and YouTube Premium for an extended period it would definitely send a message.
I’m currently looking at an alternative to iCloud Drive for my family’s backups. The Apple One Family subscription is still the most cost-effective solution for backing up everyone’s Phones and iPads, but a Roll-Your-Own solution is on my project sheet, especially after what happens in the UK!
- Comment on Facebook searches for Cyclone Alfred were blocked for containing content breaching 'community standards' 1 month ago:
Frollows fired Tony Biggs after he played NWA on air.
He is immortalised in the song “Arnold Frollows is a Genius” by Front End Loader, which was a sarcastic criticism of him.
- Comment on Facebook searches for Cyclone Alfred were blocked for containing content breaching 'community standards' 1 month ago:
Because the ABC and BOM have experts who are also enthusiasts.
As much fun it is to criticise the BOM when it is 34 degrees and rainy when they said it would be 33 and sunny, they are still the most accurate source of weather information.
The ABC (and independent public radio/TV) only interest is (should be) serving their communities. The ABC does have to satisfy their political and corporate overlords (look at what Arnold Frollows did to JJJ) but is a more reliable source of reality-based news and information.
When the ABC (and RRR/PBS/MBS/etc) stuff up and get to “corporate”, they loose supporters. Think of what happened when Sportsgirl tried to become a RRR sponsor…
- Comment on Dutton slammed over threat to cut 36,000 public service jobs 1 month ago:
A lot of people thought that the actions of other Right-Wing governments performed were electoral suicide.
Next thing you know, they are in power.
UKIP/Tories, Trump 1.0, Trump 2.0.
The pundits said that none of them would get in. Next minute, Brexit happens, Trump 1.0 happens and then against all logic, Trump gets voted in a second time.
- Comment on Facebook searches for Cyclone Alfred were blocked for containing content breaching 'community standards' 1 month ago:
I love to bash Meta, but this is purely a problem for two reasons;
A) /a certain demographic/ only get their News from one source. This is the same problem regardless of where you get your News from.
B) News feeds and filtering is automated. There are no human editors; it is all algorithmic. Simple user-defined algorithms are OK, but the more they get modified by Fake Understanding, the less useful they become.
- Comment on ‘People spontaneously strip off and join us’: nude cyclists send message you don’t need to be buff 1 month ago:
Did it derail the chain?