guillem
@guillem@aussie.zone
Testing the waters.
- Comment on Bunnings told to destroy 'faceprint' data after landmark ruling on facial recognition use 2 days ago:
Does anyone know whether they published said statement and where?
- Comment on Australian businesses selling essential goods and services to be forced to accept cash payments 3 days ago:
If you have pen and paper and the key to the drawer you don’t need a working POS on the spot to accept cash while comms are out and record the transactions later.
And exactly: where does the cash appear from? That’s the “should always be an option” part.
Of course there’s drawbacks for everything: less secure for staff if you accept cash vs inability to do anything when comms fail if you don’t.
There might be a further point, although I haven’t looked into the reasons: Sweden started the cashless experiment before and they are backpedaling now.
- Comment on Australian businesses selling essential goods and services to be forced to accept cash payments 3 days ago:
I don’t disagree with cashless being the preferred method, but cash should always be an option because e.g. in case of disaster, the infrastructure that cashless depends on can be impaired for a while.
- Comment on Wednesday it is, my dudes. 4 weeks ago:
Interesting, I say CROAC. Probably there’s a lot of geographical variation.
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 4 weeks ago:
I cannot vote but as a recent arrival I’m in the process of getting the picture.
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 4 weeks ago:
Oh okay, I think I have in mind some politicians that fit into the description. Thanks!
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 4 weeks ago:
What is a cooker party? Google is not helping.
- Comment on 'How are we going to escape?': Indonesian working holiday-makers say they were 'scammed' 5 weeks ago:
_The couple said they had not made a complaint to the authorities.
“We didn’t want to get involved in things that are complicated, because we are afraid the problem will become more complex,” said Dimas._
if they did they might make things a little bit better for people coming after them. I hope they change their minds.
- Comment on Redesigning Australian State Flags 2 months ago:
I just learned that the British colony of Queensland, Australia, adopted the Maltese cross as the state badge and on the flag in 1876 for reasons unknown
- Comment on Statistics 3 months ago:
- Comment on Making ends meat: Australians can save up to $20 a kg [on meat] by changing where they shop 4 months ago:
Saw this somewhere else on Lemmy: Image
- Comment on Head of nursing body sacked following financial investigation 5 months ago:
It’s not in the text of the article but in one of the images showing a screenshot of a post of hers regarding the issue.
- Comment on Head of nursing body sacked following financial investigation 5 months ago:
Nice server name!
- Comment on Head of nursing body sacked following financial investigation 5 months ago:
Independently from the whole story, how can someone with responsibility in a health related governing body, in a public professional statement, give any kind of credit to Mercury retrograde?
- Comment on Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain 6 months ago:
“Everything is ETA” is a running joke when talking about politics in Spain.
They even sent some puppetteers to prison on accounts of terrorism for making such a joke publicly.
- Comment on Investors with questions: how a ‘clean food’ farm scheme born of Covid vaccine fears descended into rancour 6 months ago:
Gotta love English adjective-participle ambiguity.
- Comment on Think $5.50 is too much for a flat white? Actually it’s too cheap, and our world-famous cafes are paying the price 7 months ago:
To be honest it isn’t my benchmark, I was just adding that to the context in the same way I could have added any other differential circumstance: my point is that it’s more complicated than what the article says.
And that it’s probably less about “someone think about the baristas” and more about the benefits, but that’s another story.
- Comment on Think $5.50 is too much for a flat white? Actually it’s too cheap, and our world-famous cafes are paying the price 7 months ago:
Just for a bit if perspective: the average monthly salary in Switzerland is around $11000 so maybe $10 for a flat white is more affordable.
- Comment on Solving the supermarket: why Coles just hired US defence contractor Palantir 9 months ago:
Palantir promises a ‘total view’ of an organisation that allows full control and optimal decision-making. […]
By placing Palantir at the heart of its operations, […]
They are describing, etymologically and geometrically, a pan-opticon.
- Comment on Support for Australia Day celebration on January 26 drops: new research 9 months ago:
Foreigner here. Would you like a different date? When? Or would rather re-define the current one?
- Comment on Cane toads are slowly marching across Australia. What's the most humane way to kill them? 10 months ago:
If freezing is not an option, the RSPCA recommends eugenol: …org.au/…/what-is-the-most-humane-way-to-kill-a-c…
- Comment on With COVID surging, should I wear a mask? 11 months ago:
They do them and it’s a very mature technology. Ask for toric contact lenses.
- Comment on Strangely Engraved Rock Is Giant 'Treasure Map', Archaeologists Say 1 year ago:
It’s right there in the headline.
- Comment on Strangely Engraved Rock Is Giant 'Treasure Map', Archaeologists Say 1 year ago:
I agree but I don’t think bad journalism practices are the way to fix that. If something, they will drive readers further away eventually.
- Comment on Strangely Engraved Rock Is Giant 'Treasure Map', Archaeologists Say 1 year ago:
I think tldr’s are justified if the headline is clickbaity or misleading.
- Comment on NSW Labor rejects renewed calls for pill testing after festival deaths 1 year ago:
The problem with the tragedies averted is that you can’t count them. EnergyControl have been active in Spain for two decades now, and I’m quite sure they have quietly saved lots of lifes, apart from having become the de facto source to factcheck every new drug scare from the media. Last year in an unrelated conversation with an aussie he was telling me how he felt most of Australia’s culture was copied from somewhere else as if that was a bad thing, and my point then was that the pro of that is that you can copy just the good stuff. My point stands: EnergyControl is something I think you won’t regret copying.
- Comment on Seven Peter Dutton lies on Voice to Parliament corrected - Uluru Statement from the Heart 1 year ago:
I’m a foreigner and my knowledge on the matter is as short as my time in the country, but…
Isn’t thefavct no.1 a point against? The Parliament is free to ignore those representations. Maybe I’m not making the right parallellisms but looks like every other party in my country of origin slapping a rainbow flag on their slogantpo cater to me without offering me anythong of substance.
