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- Comment on A cuppa Jill 7 hours ago:
The modern English word “bear” originally came from a proto-Germanic word meaning one of “brown one” or possibly “wild animal”. There was an actual name for bears, but speaking it was taboo in case it caused a bear to appear, so the euphemism eventually replaced the real name.
When I learned this originally, I was taught that the true name was lost to time, but Wikipedia just says it was “arkto” so whatever.
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 1 day ago:
Just like bears
- Comment on Australia's sunscreen showdown — and why SPF might be misunderstood 2 days ago:
That product description sounded to me like a mechanical (not chemical) sunscreen. Unlinke chemical sunscreens those tend to have a visible whitening effect when applied properly. Given that the Choice tests were blind and on human skin, I can imagine a scenario where it was “rubbed in” like chemical sunscreen until invisible, and gave the absurdly low score as a genuine result of misapplication
On the other hand, two independent labs getting similar awful results is damning.
It’s unfortunate the responses from these companies are mostly along the lines of “nuh-uh”. It’s good that there have been some emergency retests, but I would have hoped that someone would have worked with Choice to figure out what was up rather than just telling them “you did it wrong”.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 4 days ago:
Just to be clear before I respond to the rest of this comment, my position is that Peertube solves the sustainability problem and in no way am I suggesting Peertube will replace YouTube
I do not expect the vast majority of channels to survive the end of YouTube, as is normal for any paradigm shift.
P2P is completely achievable using NAT Hole Punching. I have no clarity on if Peertube is doing this but since there’s already a trusted server involved it would be silly not to.
In a hypothetical, unlikely future where YouTube dies and people generally move to Peertube, I expect the majority of content creators to pay small fees to have instances host their videos. I expect small, free but restricted instances will continue to be the home for amateur videographers as they are today. The more technical folk will likely self host, and groups of like minded creators will pool efforts to run group specialist instances (not unlike Nebula).
Frankly the most likely scenario is YouTube dies and everyone starts posting videos to Instagram or Tiktok or something equivalently anti user.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 5 days ago:
Content creators. It’s hard to host everyone’s videos, and it benefits monopolists to imply that doing so is necessary, as it prevents new entrants. It’s not nearly as hard to host your own server (or pay for it to be hosted). It becomes harder when you suddenly become popular, a situation which Peertube explicitly compensates for by sharing the distribution effort between viewers, which scales with popularity.
Signal makes it’s own bed like YouTube by being a single centralised server for everyone. Nobody every asks “who pays for the servers” when it comes to Matrix or XMPP
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 5 days ago:
Not precisely what you’re after but sepiasearch.org
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 5 days ago:
Peertube has already delivered the sustainable model: creators host their own videos and viewers assist distribution.
- Australia condemns LA Police for rubber bullets after quietly arming our ownindependentaustralia.net ↗Submitted 6 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 20 comments
- Comment on sites to post laser files? 1 week ago:
Honestly I think this is a gap in the community.
They’re more project focussed but you could consider <hackster.io> or <hackaday.io>.
Maybe consider cross posting this question to an open hardware community?
- Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- Deafening silence at flawed process. NACC and the Robodebt investigation. - Michael Westmichaelwest.com.au ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Sustainable 3D Prints With Decomposable Filaments 2 weeks ago:
Mixed material objects cannot (generally) be recycled. This is focused on multi-material prints, so you can easily split out your PLA and TPU etc. for recycling. Also good if you’re directly recycling into new filament.
- (Opinion) A shameful death after a supermarket scuffle shines a light on Australia’s unfinished business | Julianne Schultzwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 9 comments
- Comment on Sustainable 3D Prints With Decomposable Filaments 3 weeks ago:
It’s for separating materials for recycling, not compost.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions are getting more expensive 4 weeks ago:
how did we get to a point where every creator is limited to one box?
US Antitrust has been asleep for decades, and as soon as it opened one bleary eye the oligarchs took over the government.
- Comment on There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic. 5 weeks ago:
People bought excess of lots of things, toilet paper just was more noticeable more quickly because of it’s huge volume to value ratio, and slow restocking (in part because of that ratio, it’s not worth warehousing so there was little flexibility in the supply chain).
One the shortage started becoming obvious it was self-perpetuating, you needed to buy what toilet paper you could when you could because you didn’t know when you would be able to buy again. The supermarkets near me at the time had no toilet paper restocked for more than three months as supplies got redirected to “higher priority” stores.
- Comment on Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier 1 month ago:
I’m curious if it’s actually preference or if it’s supply side. From casual browsing Toyota looks to have completely eliminated their small cars (e.g. Echo) and their smaller cars (e.g. Yaris) are getting bigger and more SUV-like. Volvo stopped selling their station wagons in favour of SUVs and I can’t think of any station wagons left on the market. Most of the EVs in the Australian market seem to be SUV-like, especially the MGs which have dominated the “remotely affordable” category for a while.
It’s possible the manufacturers are just responding to consumer demands, but I’d like to see some evidence of who’s driving the change.
- Comment on Peertube number of Active Users are going up last couple of months 1 month ago:
You can also do that in Tubular, if you prefer a FOSS option
- Comment on Sovereign citizen who kidnapped her child sentenced to two years' jail 2 months ago:
We import all sorts of fringe political positions from the US. There’s even a cohort of “second amendment” gun advocates, despite having no bill of rights. The actual second amendment lets the federal government take over state debts.
- Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on “I Want Every Young Mum Back In The Office Permanently” Says Multimillionaire Childcare Profiteer 3 months ago:
What a grotesque human being.
Thanks!
- Comment on “I Want Every Young Mum Back In The Office Permanently” Says Multimillionaire Childcare Profiteer 3 months ago:
I can’t find any articles relating to this, let me know if you find one!
- Comment on Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ 4 months ago:
Bill Gates doesn’t have anything to do with Microsoft anymore
- Comment on Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk 4 months ago:
With USA’s secret subpoenas we literally can’t know that
- Comment on TIL: Deer are popping off down here 5 months ago:
Lots of little things that don’t like being stepped on, but no really big predators. No wolves, coyotes, bears etc. Dingos, cats and tassie devils only really hunt small stuff.
- Comment on New Year's fireworks accidents kill five in Germany 5 months ago:
- Submitted 5 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
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- ‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the yearwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 6 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments