batmangrundies

@batmangrundies@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scratch the surface of the Voice results, and a more complicated picture emerges — ABC News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck, imagine being this stupid.

  Imagine me typing> I:m moving to Canada to be with my friends. And still typing that dog-brained shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scratch the surface of the Voice results, and a more complicated picture emerges — ABC News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t say shit about my full set of motivations without breaking NDAs and dozzing myself unfortunately.

  But Australia is worse off environmentally than the public knows. And so many of us that worked in environmental analysis for big engineering firms, which are contracted by government, defence and so on, are gagged.

  When people try to blow the whistle, they are put into lengthy court battles which they never win.

  I worked on a project a few years ago around water theft, one of the other attached contractors had an analyst go to the media, blowing the lid off the scope of the issue. I have no idea what happened to her exactly, but I know they buried her in court.

  I’m moving to Canada, but more to be with friends, and spend the rest of my thirties and onwards enjoying my life. My twenties were brutal, I’m 35 and I’ve never had a holiday. I’ve been an activist for twenty years in Aus as well, this referendum and the result are painful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A hidden timestamp on a 'menacing' Neo-Nazi video aimed at Lidia Thorpe indicates who the likely architects are⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You never see these pricks on the street. Fucking turn up in Melbourne and let the Sharpies sort 'em out.

  I remember filling these cunts in when I was in my twenties. Big ups to the next generation, you have your work cut out. Happy to see ranks growing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scratch the surface of the Voice results, and a more complicated picture emerges — ABC News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’ve mentioned to some friends and family that my wife and I are moving overseas. I don’t use Facebook or anything, I’ve purposely not engaged in discussions with them about the Voice.

  And some of the hate and vitriol has been astounding. Full mask-off Aussie exceptionalism.

  The Voice was just the nail in the coffin for us. We’d been considering moving for a while. I wish Aussies really knew how fucked our work culture is. And how shit our pay is relative to the cost of living.

  They’re living in a fantastical version of Australia sold to them by a nationalist media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Referendum Results, Congratulations, Comiserations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Who is calling you a racist lol?

  No voters woke up ready to shadowbox today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Referendum Results, Congratulations, Comiserations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And I mean if you find yourself frequently susceptible to racist propoganda… Well, maybe…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Referendum Results, Congratulations, Comiserations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like anyone who seriously thought a No vote would lead to a better outcome are going to be disappointed when indigenous rights are not revisited until 2050.

  More importantly,.a Dutton or other LNP government can use this result to justify cute to funding and whatnot.

  Awful time to be an Australian. How utterly embarrassing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Living Wonders judgment shows Australia's environment laws are failing us in the climate crisis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Who knows?

  I’m done chasing a house and family in Aus. The wife and I are looking to sell up belongings, go meet up with friends in Europe and spend our time kayaking and trekking around the place on the cheap. I have a job in Toronto waiting if I want to settle.

  I’m done with Aussie work culture, shit Aussie pay (relative to professional roles overseas) and the worsening “fuck you got mine” attitude imported from the US that seems to permeate Aussie culture now.

  A lot of my mates already left, I only held on because I thought we were progressing and I am very connected to the land here. I don’t see it getting better anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We have a family premium plan and I still got this message. Guess I’ll cancel YouTube Premium now…

  I get most of the content I want via patreon anyway now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A big problem in Aus is the industry culture. They don’t care about using technology to improve results. They only care about cutting costs, even if the final product doesn’t meet the previous standard.

  And we’ve seen that with VFX across the globe, the overall quality dropped drastically. Because studios play silly buggers to weasel out of paying VFX companies what they are due.

  From what I hear, even DNEG is in trouble, and were even before the strike.

  It’s a race to the bottom it seems.

  My honest hope for the film industry is likely the same as yours. That we have smaller productions with access to better post due to improvements in AI-driven compositing software and so on.

  But it’s likely that a role that was earning $$$ before is devalued significantly. And while I’m an unabashed anti-capitalist, I think a lot of folks misunderstand what this sudden downward pressure on income can do. Cost of living increasing while wages shrink is an awful combination

  I’m 35, left a six figure job, folding my company and starting an electrician’s apprenticeship. To give you an idea around what my views about AI are. And of course this is as an Australian. We have a garbage white collar work culture anyway.

  I think there will be a net improvement. But I worry that others will fail to adapt quickly. Too many are writing off AI as this thing that already came and went, but the tools have just landed, and we don’t yet have workflows that correctly implement and leverage these yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a smallish VFX group here that was attached to a volume screen company. They employed something like 20 people I think? So pretty small.

  But the volume screen employed a guy who could do an adequate enough job with generative tools instead and the company folded. The larger VFX company they partner with had 200 employees, they recently cut to 50.

  In my field, a team leader in 2018 could earn about 180,000 AUD P/A. Now those jobs are advertised for 130,000 AUD, because new models can do ~80% of the analysis with human accuracy.

  AI is already folding companies and cutting jobs. It’s not in the news maybe, but as industries shift to compete with smaller firms leveraging AI it will cascade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Living Wonders judgment shows Australia's environment laws are failing us in the climate crisis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been an environmental activist for roughly 20 years. I’ve been arrested, I’ve been in fist-fights with Nazis, I’ve done it all.

  It feels like there are fewer activists today than there has ever been.

  I’m planning to leave the country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Living in privately rented homes linked to faster biological ageing, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am Australian.

  I’m glad to see the responses haha. I wish more Aussies could see how shocking it is, how far we’ve let tenants rights fall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Living in privately rented homes linked to faster biological ageing, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Real estate’s do regular inspections, every six months (it used to be 3) These are usually handled by the most junior agents.

  If you’re not home they can let themselves in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Living in privately rented homes linked to faster biological ageing, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It never feels like yours when you can be removed on a whim. Not having a place to call home is super taxing. Even a mobile home is a home, for most of our history we suspect we were nomadic mostly. But we took home with us and it was ours.

  Every six months some 18 year old.walks through my house and judges how I live. I have to hassle some psycho REA to perform basic repairs, I have no agency.

  It shouldn’t be shocking that it wears on our psychology.

  I have a dope camp set up, with a nice setup for small cooking. I regularly go out, on my own, and spend days away in the desert or the forests nearby. In those moments, I feel a relief that I don’t get at home in my rental. I own my 4x4, I own my solar panels and portable battery banks, I own my tent and so on.

  Even though it’s meagre compared to the house I live in, it’s mine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Industry Struggles to Curb Misuse as Users Exploit Generative AI for Chaos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In Australia we are currently voting on a constitutional amendment. It would create an advisory body that represents first nations people. It’s super basic, doesn’t really cover how it will work, because they can’t really even work on that until the amendment passes.

  The sheer amount of disinformation circulating is staggering. I was lucky enough to really avoid most of the drama, until I went and had a look this past week finally.

  What stuck me, was rather than the usual short posts and snarky racist comments, of which plenty exist. These long diatribes were dominant, on places like Reddit and Facebook.

  Then is struck me, they all sound like they were written by the same person. Not just a little, but if you had removed the names and pictures of the users, I would have flat out assumed it was the same person.

  We have opened Pandora’s Box. We don’t need “AGI” or whatever, this is plenty enough to do us in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue is that ads on YouTube used to be fairly innocuous. Now I get batshit conspiracies pushed, non-stop Aussie gambling ads and so on.

  Where I was once happy to sit through some food ads, or some tourism ads to support the platform. I’m not happy being blasted with non-stop, low-quality propoganda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel might have slipped that Windows 12 is indeed coming next year | Company CFO sees benefits of a coming "Windows Refresh"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I managed to solve that for some games by installing the proton EAC plugin. Squad works for instance.

  But games introducing kernel-level DRM I wouldn’t install on my Windows machine anyway. I guess the person I replied to potentially doesn’t know how to deploy a new operating system. So they might not care about all that anywho.

  But calling everyone else dumb because they don’t know how to do something is ridiculous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel might have slipped that Windows 12 is indeed coming next year | Company CFO sees benefits of a coming "Windows Refresh"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  These days it’s more “which games don’t work on linux?” Rather than “which games work on linux?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decision to allow wider truck bodies paves way for electrification of big rigs in Australia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Semi drivers are generally good.

  Dump truck drivers have Swiss cheese brains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should Australian cities adopt car-free days? - ABC listen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Even funnier given that urban planners in charge of our cities have stated time and time again that the future of our cities is car-free.

  The people whose job it is to plan our cities, are saying that we are transitioning to pedeatrian-friendly cities. This is a shift that occurred in education and best-practice some time ago. But age 60+ project managers are finally fucking retiring.

  But you are apparently in an “echo chamber,” lol. Peak projection from Wooki.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Lost all credibility': Call for VicForests to get the axe as logging ban looms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember kids.

  If Vicforests leave plant equipment laying around in sections of state forest, you can score free diesel engine parts!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huge new satellite outshines nearly every star in the sky⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Every light adds to light pollution though and makes it more difficult for earth-based astronomy. And that’s excluding events where satilites pass through observations.

  Extremely annoying, but inevitable I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keeping cats indoors is a rare solution where everybody wins⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry but New Zealanders generally make Aussies look like Woodstock-era hippies.

  They are very conservative generally.

  I wish people would stop putting NZ on a pedestal. They have ceded often to agricultural interests over environmental concerns resulting in untold damage. The damage they have done to their soil and waterways is apocalyptic.

  I always giggle at the idea of Billionaires “escaping” there not realising the soil is completely depleted already and the water table is poisoned by agricultural runoff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re past the point where we can stop it wholesale.

  We already have aquifers barely holding on, we’ve lost major sources of fresh water already.

  I’m all for climate action, but we also need to starting developing technologies for living in the bed we’ve made.

  Folks keep talking about climate change like it’s some future event. You are living through it right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Devices like this are a lifeline for communities in developing nations. Who are the first and worst affected by water shortages and salt water intrusions into their fresh water sources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They are the reason Steam instituted a refund policy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit’s new Contributor Program will let you cash out gold given to your posts by other users in real money.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully more people end up in the Fediverse.

  Seems to be a better representation of people’s views, probably because all the rage-bait and astro-turfing is missing.

  It’s insane how different the community behaves on Mastodon/Lemmy vs Twitter/Reddit.

  There are some instances with weird admins. But you can just jump instances. And dealing with people is better than dealing with corporations paying PR companies running bot networks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I’ll create an account and then block any of that data sharing on my router.

  My whole house I sent up with Hue lights.

  I’m Australian and I’ll be contacting the ACCC.