NigelFrobisher
@NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
- Comment on 'Something really shifted': Inside the software company that laid off 40pc of its staff 1 week ago:
Writing code never has been and never will be the bottleneck. What we’re finding is that the actual bottlenecks come under a lot more pressure from all the code that is being produced.
Of course, in this case the actual operational capabilities are vastly less important than what the c-suite believes to be true, or at least what they want to protect to their shareholders.
- Comment on Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Is Just Training A Generation In The Art Of The Workaround 2 weeks ago:
They’ll need that training soon enough anyway.
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 3 weeks ago:
It’s about the vibe.
- Comment on Government urged to let Iranian women's football team stay in Australia until safety is assured 3 weeks ago:
What’re all the chuds doing in here? Did Elon pull out some more server racks he didn’t want to pay for?
- Comment on 'They're safe here': Australia offers entire Iranian women's football team asylum 3 weeks ago:
Such a bullshit political stunt. When are we granting the US team asylum so they don’t have to return to an unsafe country where they may be incarcerated without representation or simply executed in the street by state militia?
- Comment on Senior ADF source confirms Australian Army preparing for war 3 weeks ago:
You want us to be better than us?
- Comment on Australians will have to verify their age to watch pornography from Monday. Here’s what you need to know 3 weeks ago:
You’re supposed to leave them in hedges.
- Comment on Pornhub’s owner to block Australians over age check laws 3 weeks ago:
You didn’t hear this here, but Vivaldi browser comes with free Proton VPN.
- Comment on Three months into Australia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s, has it been a success? 4 weeks ago:
And as it’s too soon to have results, we’ll push through even more draconian measures while we wait, just in case.
- Comment on Australians roll down lawns of Parliament House to protest against fence 5 weeks ago:
Grass stains on denim are no joke.
- Comment on Power Games: Who’s driving high power bills? 5 weeks ago:
Is it shareholder value?
- Comment on Lesbian group seeks legal exemption to exclude trans women from events 5 weeks ago:
When minorities forget that reactionaries hate all of them equally.
- Comment on Trump Tower planned for Surfers Paradise will be Australia’s tallest building and ‘best resort’, local developer claims | Gold Coast 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, but think of all the builders, contractors, architects, tradies and taxes in Gold Coast that Trump will never pay for this.
- Comment on Exclusive: Albanese government expresses interest in setting up privileged faith advisory body | Rationalist Society of Australia 5 weeks ago:
So there was a whole referendum and campaign to stop indigenous peoples from having this, but I guess if it’s white christian lobbyists with money they can just do it then.
- Comment on 12M Aussies personal data leaked - and 1 Billion worldwide 5 weeks ago:
The fact this database even exists is pretty dubious from a data sovereignty point-of-view.
- Comment on Man jailed for a year after endorsing neo-Nazi views and making antisemitic speech at Sydney rally on Australia Day 1 month ago:
Why? What’s happening? I never hear anything from over there.
- Comment on Australia in danger of becoming an ‘artless country’ as enrolments in creative courses collapse 1 month ago:
No-one who’d seen Ricketts Lane would ever accuse Australia of being artless.
- Comment on Queensland moves to ban pro-Palestine slogan ‘from the river to the sea’ under sweeping new hate speech laws 1 month ago:
When you want to prevent terrorist incidents but all you have is a can of guzzoline.
- Comment on Five young teens on life under Australia’s social media ban: ‘It’s not a big deal any more’ 1 month ago:
Funny how little difference the “ban” made to them. My favourite was the girl who made an adult account who is now becoming radicalised by the newly accessible political content.
- Comment on Is Australia a Good Place To Be Transgender? | FairyPrincessLucy 1 month ago:
Just came back from the Melbourne Pride march. Plenty of blahaj to be seen there.
- Comment on Australia’s strongest gun reform since the Port Arthur massacre has become law. Here’s what you need to know 2 months ago:
Oh I see. Doesn’t the anarchist cookbook txt that’s been going around for decades tell you how to make dum-dum rounds?
- Comment on Australia’s strongest gun reform since the Port Arthur massacre has become law. Here’s what you need to know 2 months ago:
Is “carriage service” a weird legal way of saying bus?
- Comment on My petty gripe: a large flat white is an oxymoron – a bastardisation of the drink Australia gave the world 2 months ago:
So it’s just coffee with milk in?
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 3 months ago:
Pretty over this always being at the top the feed tbh
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 3 months ago:
Thank God. I couldn’t bear to go through that again.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 3 months ago:
Is it ok if I turn 16 on December 11th?
- Comment on UK's rival to the Tim Tam can no longer be called chocolate 4 months ago:
Rivals? The thing Tim-Tams ripped off more like. They’re pretty mid biscuits though, mostly notable for being individually wrapped to go in your lunchbox.
- Comment on Governments keep making our housing crisis worse – and they’ve just done it again 5 months ago:
What percentage of MPs are landlords again?
- Comment on Albanese invites Arab 'hypermarket' to compete with Coles and Woolworths 5 months ago:
How come Aldi Nord, Aldi Sud and Lidl have exactly the same format then?
- Comment on Hit-run driver Jake Danby spared jail time by NT Supreme Court after describing victim as an 'oxygen thief' 6 months ago:
Which memorials has Albo been removing?