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- 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 2 weeks ago:
Schouldn’t
- Comment on KHAAAANNNNN!!! 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t realise dark owls were such a problem for early humanity
- Comment on histories mysteries 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on [BBC News] Claims that smart motorways tech leaves drivers at risk 3 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on ⌛⌛ 1 month ago:
I am sorry for insulting your people
- Comment on ⌛⌛ 1 month 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 ⌛⌛ 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 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? 2 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 2 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 2 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.
- 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 2 months ago:
Engineering has 12 weeks full time.
Law has something, there was a scandal a few years ago v where students were paying huge sums for placements at some institutions
- Comment on If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly 2 months ago:
I’ve seen far too manny error messages claiming I did something I most certainly didn’t do. This seems like a good way to make those far more prolific.
- Comment on Want a 3D printer in New York? Get ready for fingerprinting and a 15 day wait 2 months ago:
What law affects this?
- Comment on Radical Equality 2 months ago:
You can embed javaascript or 3D objects in PDF, surely you can reorder some words
- Comment on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simple Websites 2 months ago:
This is an interesting sounding project, do you have a feed/blog/mastodon/mailing list you’re likely to announce on?
- Comment on The FTC isn’t too happy with Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard layoffs 3 months ago:
The FTC argued this would happen, it’s the court that swallowed Microsoft’s tripe. This is the FTC’s “I told you, bro!”
- Comment on Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 3 months ago:
Is that the OSS F_Droid feeder or the other one?
- Comment on Mothers know that this is a wholesome combination. 3 months ago:
That’s why you don’t stir
- Comment on Watchdog failed to act on contamination risk despite ‘damning’ asbestos findings 3 months ago:
This comment appears to have escaped it’s article.
- Comment on DO NOT MERGE 3 months ago:
Probably to get some other benefitof the PR system, such as CI tests
- Comment on There’s something about Mary: the Australians going ‘absolutely mad’ over Denmark’s new queen [actual article] 3 months ago:
Given the crown has a policy of interfering with neither the decisions nor appointment of the Governor General, we could become a Republic without changing the practical power at all.
- Comment on Peter Dutton calls for boycott of Woolworths after Australia Day merchandise dropped 4 months ago:
Target is also a completely different company
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 5 months ago:
There’s an Australian company targeting that market, although AFAICT is vapourware so far, and imo a little too low performance for the price
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 5 months ago:
Which EV manufacturer doesn’t use DRM or similar post-sale controls?
- Comment on Brad Pitt in a chicken suit and rating friends: jobseekers believed ‘condescending’ courses required to get payments 5 months ago:
The Jobseeker program has always been about punishing the poor. The sudden raise in payments and dropping mutual obligations when “normal” people were ending up on Jobseeker during covid was a blatant demonstration of that.
- Comment on He did though. 5 months ago:
As written the only person who could have communicated that story is Lot himself. Coming out of the desert with only your two daughters and two babies seems like it might be good motivation to embellish