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- Comment on Authorities must effectively regulate social media instead of banning children and young people 1 minute ago:
Removing the benefits that social media brings will not achieve the government’s objective of improving young people’s lives, and ignores the fact that the harms extend beyond children and young people to marginalized people and groups. The best way to protect children and young people online is by protecting all users with stronger data protection laws and not personalizing feeds based on profiling.
Yes, 100%. I’m glad to see somebody with clout saying this. It’s been bizarre to see the government acknowledge something as harmful and malicious, and then only keep kids away from it instead of trying to stop it from being harmful and malicious.
No profiling by default sounds pretty good. I’d also throw in “feed algorithms must be public”
- Comment on I made a spreadsheet on info and pricing for every mobile plan in Australia (that I could find) 16 hours ago:
The post itself on lemmy is this link:
codeberg.org/libre-net-au/isps
Assuming you’re coming from Mastodon, I would be curious to hear how it federates?
- Australia took its interest rate medicine – and it has poisoned our living standards | Greg Jerichowww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 19 hours ago to australia@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on Netflix is removing nearly all of its interactive titles 2 weeks ago:
Now do the crappy mobile games
The removals also follow former Netflix gaming boss Mike Verdu — who just announced that he’s a VP of “GenAI for Games” at Netflix — telling *Game File’s *Stephen Totilo that the company wasn’t building interactive titles anymore.
Oh. Oh no.
- Comment on A robot retrieves the first melted fuel from Fukushima nuclear reactor. 2 weeks ago:
5 millimeters
Okay
(2 inches)
…what?
the size of a tiny granola bit
…what??
- Comment on Government to put pressure on opposition with legislation to ensure NBN stays in public hands 1 month ago:
The NBN can never live up to its potential while it’s required to turn a profit.
- Comment on Black and white are condensed rainbows 2 months ago:
The entire suite of new TLDs was dumb as a bag of rocks, but dot zip really takes the cake
- Comment on Dutch beach restaurants add sunscreen ‘shots’ to menu in fight against cancer 2 months ago:
"Offering this should be as normal as offering a napkin.”
selling the 30ml bottles at the cost price of €2.99.
Hm.
This bit is good though
Local authorities, sports clubs and schools have also been installing sun cream dispensers in public locations such as beaches and parks to encourage wider use.
- Australia’s privacy regulator just dropped its case against ‘troubling’ facial recognition company Clearview AI. Now what?theconversation.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- One of Australia’s most expensive commutes becomes the cheapest, as Queensland’s 50c public transport trial beginswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- AFP dismisses allegation witness gave false evidence to robodebt royal commissionwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on High ceilings are correlated with a lower exam score 4 months ago:
I added “exam hall”
- Comment on High ceilings are correlated with a lower exam score 4 months ago:
Larger halls doesn’t necessarily mean larger class sizes. I believe UniSA uses amalgamated exam halls; they fill the same hall to capacity with whatever classes have an examination requirement.
- Comment on High ceilings are correlated with a lower exam score 4 months ago:
This was all Uni SA
- Comment on High ceilings are correlated with a lower exam score 4 months ago:
Sorry, I clarified the title and broke your joke
- Submitted 4 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 14 comments
- Comment on The AMOC is based on the difference in the percentage of salt in the northern and southern hemispheres' ocean water which is based on the stream's circulation 6 months ago:
Schouldn’t
- Comment on KHAAAANNNNN!!! 6 months ago:
I didn’t realise dark owls were such a problem for early humanity
- Comment on histories mysteries 6 months ago:
- Comment on [BBC News] Claims that smart motorways tech leaves drivers at risk 6 months ago:
The agency’s operational control director Andrew Page-Dove says action was being taken to “close the gap between how drivers feel and what the safety statistics show”.
This sounds like a threat
- Comment on Standard notes: what about don’t put all your eggs in one basket rule? 7 months ago:
It’s e2e encrypted and locally encrypted. So the practical impact of the server is for syncing between devices.
The software has caused me endless problems though, and the free version has no support for formatting of any kind
- Whether Australia’s budget has a surplus tells us little about the government’s worth – it’s all on the choices made | Greg Jerichowww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 7 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on ⌛⌛ 7 months ago:
I am sorry for insulting your people
- Comment on ⌛⌛ 7 months ago:
Oh look there’s a whole Wikipedia page on it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_glass
Possibly an accidental byproduct of metal working
- Comment on ⌛⌛ 7 months ago:
Maybe tektites? Natural glass formed when lightning strikes sand. I only remember the name because they share it with the jumpy spiders from Zelda
- Comment on Linux share on Steam bounces back to nearly 2% for March 2024 7 months ago:
Consent has no relationship with technical ease.
I don’t know that Steam doesn’t record it anyway, but sharing OS is explicitly part of the data they show you that they will take if you agree to the Steam survey, which certainly implies they’re not doing so if you don’t consent.
The website situation is (arguably) different, as a User Agent is something your browser is giving the website on your behalf (in theory). From the website’s perspective, you are voluntarily sharing that information and any issues with that are between you and your browser.
- Comment on YouTube stops recommending videos when signed out of Google 8 months ago:
I’ll throw in, YouTube channels are all fully functional RSS feeds, and you don’t need to interact with YouTube at all to get your subscriptions.
- Comment on Stop this? 8 months ago:
All the adjacent windows have various minor ailments and phrases like “fix this? Treat that?” It’s trying to give an idea of what chemists can do for you.
In Aus chemists (pharmacists) are medical professionals, capable of providing medical advice and minor treatment, but a lot of people don’t consider going to the chemist for anything other then buying specific medecine (or for some reason, perfume or most egregiously, homeopathy).
And in case you’re still confused, the baby is crying (implied for medical reasons like colic)
- Comment on Sam Kerr allegedly called police officer a ‘stupid white bastard’, source says 8 months ago:
Amazing how different it feels to hear “racially aggravated harassment” vs “called police officer ‘stupid white bastard’”.
- Comment on Doing 1,000 hours of unpaid work to graduate is the reality of 'placement poverty' — and it's taking a toll on students 8 months ago:
www.fairwork.gov.au/…/student-placements
Being paid is, unfortunately, not a legal requirement if work experience is a mandatory part of your course.
In SA paid internships exist but are very competitive. Most of my graduating class was unpaid.
I’m very glad to hear that’s an expectation in Qld, companies should be ashamed to offer unpaid positions.