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- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 21 hours ago:
If you google Tankard-Reist you’ll find it’s not a conspiracy theory - she has actively tried to block queer representation at every level in every way for decades
- Comment on The Australian government recalls Google Pixel 6a 23 hours ago:
A product recall has a specific legal meaning in Australia (and the US).
A recall means the manufacturer and the distributer have a legal obligation to promptly make available a fix and to do so at no charge.
Tesla in the US has also addressed 99% of their recalls with over the air fixes. They’re still federally mandated recalls
- Comment on ‘Sheer luck’: how German backpacker Carolina Wilga was found after 11 nights lost in dense Australian outback 2 weeks ago:
Well I’m glad the article was updated to add the “stay in your vehicle” advice, I was shocked the original grauniad article didn’t have it.
I’m sure everyone on here knows but I’m starting to think they should hand out pamphlets at the airport saying something like
“Driving in the bush without adequate preparation kills tourists. If you don’t know what adequate preparation is you’re going to FUCKING DIE, so find out before thinking it’s just like driving to Paris via the Ardennes”
- Comment on Why, just why? 3 weeks ago:
If we have agreed to host them because they are applying for asylum, and we won’t allow them to work, then how … do these people see them sleeping and eating?
Not advocating for it, but I suspect in the minds of its proponents the other half of this initiatives is refusal to accept any asylum seekers into the country at all.
Either that or they wish asylum seekers to starve to death so they don’t come.
Could be wrong, I avoid the Faragists like the plague
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 4 weeks ago:
Hmmm that looks like parts listings for the Fairphone 4 to me, why do you ask ?
- Comment on Right to Repair Gains Traction as John Deere Faces Trial 5 weeks ago:
f the federal government set up a replacement program though, and shipped all the JD machinery to Ukraine where hackers know how to modify the software, everyone but JD would win.
Funny you should mention Ukraine, a decade ago (iirc) Ukraine hackers cracked the JD interface and started making available a tool for farmers to manage their own tractors - John Deere sued
vice.com/…/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their…
…medium.com/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-t…
Although I suspect you already knew that :-)
- Comment on Right to Repair Gains Traction as John Deere Faces Trial 5 weeks ago:
But help me understand how it’s possible that our “free market” is enabling this, unless it’s just a controlled market charading as free?
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There are very few markets in the US that actually achieve Adam Smith’s “perfect market” (perfect competition)
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The more expensive the individual item, the harder it is for there to be competition (costs of standing up factories, distribution and support, low volumes of sales etc), it’s extremely expensive to set up in opposition to John Deere
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There are other market statuses other than “controlled” and “free” - the vast majority of US markets are Oligopolies (few sellers many buyers). Processed / packaged foods for example - 99% of market volume is done by a couple of players.
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A century ago there were many farm machinery manufacturers - the individual machines were less expensive in real terms, and the complexity much lower. A virtual monopoly (one very large and a few smaller players) has formed through insufficient regulation to protect competition - the big ones gobble up the small and competition gradually dwindles
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- Comment on Women-only tower block in Acton to open next summer 1 month ago:
Next TERF media beat up coming in 3…2…1…
And here comes JK Rowling at a gallop, absolutely frothing at the mouth
- Comment on Conceived in secrecy and born in haste, Aukus (submarine deal) is on its last legs. 1 month ago:
Yep, those are the subs in question. A poor substitution at the time when it would have cost less just to swap to the French nuclear subs they initially offered
- Comment on Conceived in secrecy and born in haste, Aukus (submarine deal) is on its last legs. 1 month ago:
That’s interesting. I hadn’t noticed that. It’s entirely possible, but then that would have been during the Biden era so all bets are off with the Fanta Felon in office
- Comment on Conceived in secrecy and born in haste, Aukus (submarine deal) is on its last legs. 1 month ago:
Yep, unless the Brits can pull a rabbit out of a hat.
At least he gets to blame Morrison, and Macron already called Scummo a liar to his face so there will be some sympathy (albeit along with a lot of schadenfreude)
The French have been getting a lot of “I told you so” in in the last 6 months, particularly the “have your own MIC don’t rely on the yanks”
- Comment on Anthony Albanese says footage of Australian journalist being shot by LA police is ‘horrific’ 1 month ago:
They (CIA) couped Whitlam for trying to regain control over Pine Gap, nothing to do with mining, that was just Rudd (and I’m pretty sure the CIA was uninvolved in that knifing, that was just naked ambition over coming morals).
- Conceived in secrecy and born in haste, Aukus (submarine deal) is on its last legs.www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 17 comments
- Comment on An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate 1 month ago:
Hello, recent Reddit convert here and I’m loving it. You even inspired me to figure out how to fully dump Windows and install LineageOS.
I am truly impressed that you managed to replace a desktop operating system with a mobile os that doesn’t even come in an X86 variant (Lineage that is is, I’m aware android has been ported).
I smell bovine faeces. Or are you, in fact, an LLM ?
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 1 month ago:
"The foreign policy expert, a longtime Russia watcher, said she had first made a similar warning in 2015, in a revised version of a book she wrote about the Russian president "
I think in fairness that if she has been warning us for 10 years she’s entitled to a little bit of “I told you so” now that it is bleedingly obvious
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 month ago:
It’s an entire german state cutting off 800k p.a of MS revenue. That’s not piecemeal is it ?
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 month ago:
Schleswig Holstein (sp?) are doing so, ditto Openhagen and Aarhaus (DK) and I believe France are looking into it
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 month ago:
<sigh> I used to be one of those sysadmins, and the short answer is appropriate risk management, better network controls a locked down OS and immediate action to push out the patches for serious issues.
I quite frankly detest M$ but keeping your pc patched isn’t propaganda.
If you know enough to manage the risk (including proper network firewalls and good internet hygiene) then sure, keep going for a while. Zero days aren’t daily, they’re a handful per year.
On the other hand if you have no clue about ITSec then you genuinely need to upgrade asap because you’re metaphorically running around with your genitals exposed.
Your comment leads me to suggest you probably dont have the skills to do an appropriate risk assessment.
But you do you. I’m not your Dad
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 1 month ago:
So here comes alkaline rain to replace the acid rain we got rid of 40 years ago. Genius idea. Not
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 1 month ago:
Yep still exist.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 month ago:
No more security patches. That should be dead to you if you don’t want to host thousands of parasitic bots & malwares
- Comment on Wild camping on Dartmoor backed by Supreme Court 2 months ago:
I confess I remain confused as to the actual status of the land.
Is it “commons” ie owned by all who wish to use it, or is it private land owned by a single individual ?
- Comment on ‘Massive’ increase in pensioner shoplifters in past year 2 months ago:
Well spotted, yes indeed
- Comment on ‘Massive’ increase in pensioner shoplifters in past year 2 months ago:
Food retailers have seen a “massive” increase in pensioner shoplifters over the last year, a security firm has said
While I am sympathetic to anyone who has to shoplift to eat, I’d suggest a little skepticism after noting two things:
One the time period (almost exactly lines up with the period that Labour has been in power) and,
Two the source - the Telegraph is nicknamed the Torygraph for a reason…they are the mouth piece for the conservative party and make no bones about it.
I’m no fan of the Blue Tories - Sir Keir would comfortably fit into the Conservative party of a decade ago (before their heads exploded) - I’m quite disappointed in their performance. But I’d counsel a little caution on taking what smells strongly of a propaganda piece at face value
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 2 months ago:
Users aren’t likely to point out a bot when the rules explicitly prevent them from doing that.
In fact one user commented that he had his comment calling out one of the bots as a bot deleted by mods for breaking that rule
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 2 months ago:
You may wish to reword. The unspecified “they” reads like you think Meta have strict ethical rules. Lol.
Meta have no ethics whatsoever, and yes I assume you meant universities have strict rules however the approval of this study marks even that as questionable
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 2 months ago:
While that is indeed what was reported, we and the researchers will never know if the posters with shifted opinions were human or in fact also AI bots.
The whole thing is dodgy for lack of controls, this isn’t science it’s marketing
- Comment on Washington’s Right to Repair Bill Heads to the Governor 2 months ago:
That’s not only quite defeatist it’s not really true. Everything can be reverse engineered, obviously in some cases it’s not economical, but John Deere tractors and their obnoxious lockdowns are a classic case of where this leads to genuine value for people. JD robbing the farmers of the ability to perform simple repairs and charging huge bucks to do them ends up with costs on your grocery bill. This bill doesn’t directly impact that I don’t believe but it’s the simplest clearest example of why this is important.
This is brilliant news - we’re all better off for it.
- Comment on Washington’s Right to Repair Bill Heads to the Governor 2 months ago:
Great news. About time something good happened politically.
- Comment on Moving servers and rack equipment 2 months ago:
Nice, glad it worked for you