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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Nothing' done to address gaps created by teen social media ban, says children's commissioner⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Having worked with confidential data for a cohort that included people with Protection orders we had it drilled into us that any mistakes could (and had) cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars to remediate and that was with super specific tailored contracts to cover every contingency that the company had encountered in the past. That was 20 years ago. I can’t imagine those costs have diminished since then… The companies willingness to do everything to stay out of court and out of the headlines may have though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Nothing' done to address gaps created by teen social media ban, says children's commissioner⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As if any of this is about protecting children. At best that will be a side effect of the ban. It’s mainly about linking an ID to as much online activity as possible.

  Discussions with the office of my representative showed that they are treating all the issues that will arise from this as secondary. When I asked if tax payer money would be used to redress the absolutely inevitable data breaches when they happen I was told the eSafety Commissioner has the power to bring legal action against companies that don’t implement best practise with regards to data security.

  I asked where best practise was codified in legal terms and was then told that the government has published guidelines that state data gathered should be limited in scope and secured in a safe manner. In other words we are putting the horse so far in front of the cart it’s as though the horse is still in the stable.

  When I asked about penalties I was told that companies could be fined up to 850k per offense. However when I asked what was to stop a company that had just accidentally leaked say a million drivers licenses from simply closing shop and abandoning Australia to deal with the fallout rather than accept an multi trillion dollar fine I just got some limp hand-wavey statements about how companies would be compelled by the rules and regulations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the biggest problem facing the welfare system is decades of the Australian public having the recipients demonized as dole bludgers by populist shitbags. Every time I point out to my father that we give far more money in corporate welfare than we invest into people who are down on their luck I get the same tired bootstraps rhetoric. Taking support for aged pensions and family tax supplements out of the equation the actual amount we offer as support to people who can’t get a job through disability or lack of opportunity is an insult. If we taxed corporate entities and people squatting on virtual dragon hordes of property correctly the landscape would change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨White elephant? Hardly – Snowy 2.0 will last 150 years and work with batteries to push out gas⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Amateurs… here in Tassie we would just build between 3 and 6 stadiums with that sort of money. The hardest part would be finding enough hideously inconvenient spots that have insufficient infrastructure and potentially contaminated soil to site them. We know how to piss money we don’t have away on White Elephants down here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Throw away email! Are you going something illegal online that you would want to bypass the government and big techs absolute right to spy on everything you do! That’s it people will henceforth only get one single email address assigned at birth that they will be forced to use for all online interactions henceforth. I hope you feel ashamed of yourself with all the children you put at risk with your thoughtless selfish behaviour. Now upload an image of your face certified by a government official and a copy of your birth certificate just to be sure that terrorists, uh criminals, uh child abusers don’t win.

  *Please tell me this is the most superfluous /s of all time. *

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨save the planet 🌎⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Blaine is a pain and that is the truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The majority of Queensland councils are washing their hands of fluoridation under the watch of both sides of politics⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh god, my brother started spouting this nonsense at the same time he went vegan (which I don’t have a problem with) and anti-vax (which I REALLY do). He was also really eager to tell me all about how iodised salt was a conspiracy by the government to lower the IQ of the population. Oh and don’t get me started on his take on 9/11.

  I wound up telling him I wouldn’t discuss anything further with him unless he could bring receipts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australians are moving to Tasmania to escape climate change, but the island state is not immune⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah it’ll be fine, our premier is going to push past commonsense and planning advice to get Hobart an eye sore white elephant stadium. That’ll be a valuable asset to house all the displaced people moving down here.

  Honestly if we can’t build houses to match the current trickle of people moving here how do they think we will go when it becomes a flood, plus the government takes decades to do any infrastructure work so even if we throw up some housing you better not want a road capable of handling the traffic flowing to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australians are moving to Tasmania to escape climate change, but the island state is not immune⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Summer is coming. How long do you shower for?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Down here in Tassie we seem pretty well stocked for water as well. My family will likely be reining in our showers once it stops raining and the tanks are no longer covering our needs though. Right now the more we use the less strain it puts on our storm water drains. We might lean on the landlord to upgrade to a solar hot water system at some stage so our showers are closer to genuinely free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Queensland government rams through law changes to ban drug checking⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t matter how often these programs are shown to save lives there’s always some conservative stroking his rock hard erection while he talks about taking these programs away and fantasises about the number of young people he is indirectly murdering.

  I don’t take drugs (well except ones purchased from a pharmacy) never touched anything harder than a bit of weed, but I have at least one friend who has a child that survived their teens thanks to pill testing.

  What fucking ghouls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨REMINDER: Check your NBN speeds after the weekend upgrade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So glad I moved from a FTTP connected house to a Fixed Wireless serviced area.

  Although I am setting higher than advertised download speeds, which I think may be due to having a 4th gen connection in an area where almost everyone I talk to is using 2nd gen and doesnt seem to understand why you would want to update.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew what that was going to be before I checked the link. I see you are a cultured individual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cigarette prices to jump by almost 7% amid growing concern about Australia’s booming black market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they concerned about the profitability and long term viability of the black market? I mean why else would you go out of your way to incentivise people participating in it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Benjamin Netanyahu says Anthony Albanese 'betrayed' Israel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps he should come here and air his grievances in person. Oh wait he can’t now why can’t he travel anywhere that respects international law again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your preferred way of buying games? (digital/physical/physical digital)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry to come in a week later with a hot take.

  But something I think would be awesome, probably for GOG, would be for them to offer a backup service where they will put your GOG library onto M-Disc Blurays in 100Gb increments for a nominal fee, say $40 plus postage.

  For people who game preservation matters to it would be a solid statement. I doubt many of us can afford a salt mine to store the disks in but they are still about as long lived as you are going to get in a format that’s accessible for a home user (let’s be honest those disks will likely outlast the drives to read them with).

  For GOG the costs would be fairly minimal and since M-Disc is a pretty valid backup media they would gain that capability from a business perspective.

  Just something that sprang to mind while I was reading this thread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  See I also think that there is something to be said about how there’s people still out there making new music, performing it, recording. But business has captured the market and is drowning out the smaller players. The signal to noise ratio gets so skewed that even if the best song you never heard is only a web search away you may never listen to it because your streaming service will never play it. But the soulless corporate remix of a remix of a cover of a song from the 80s, you hear that 4 times a day because they have a marketing budget and algorithmic influence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I am misreading your comment here, but I am going to take it on face value, I have never written a song. In an interesting note believe cutting pages out of a bunch of books and sticking them together in a new binding wouldn’t make a compelling read, I also have never written a novel.

  I seriously respect people who can write songs, I would imagine they have or had passion for the art. I seriously doubt any song writer is out there thinking "Holy fuck this song is amazing, I really hope some shithead producer crops the chorus and mashes it together with a bunch of other tracks to make it completely meaningless. That would make it perfect.’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh down votes in lieu of a substantive argument. Love it. If there wasn’t a thread to pull on in all that word salad that would unravel the tapestry do you think maybe there’s something to my take on this matter?

  Anyway, don’t care, this isn’t Reddit so a downvote doesn’t mean shit, and you at least read some of my post. To quote a somewhat famous Doctor “Don’t you think she looks tired?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got stuck today in a part of my workplace where they have one of the local shitty radio stations playing, couldn’t have my headphones in as people kept coming up and talking to me, and a shitty pop music mashup plays and it struck me, this is AI.

  To clarify there is some shitty artist who gets the credit, but its just a selection of clips crossfaded and slightly processed into each other to make a new “song” out of a dozen pop songs. No actual creativity, no new material, just a quasi algorithmic blending of songs so that some soulless talentless grifter can claim they are an artist.

  It gets deeper though, as mixed in there are songs that couldn’t actually be performed live and acoustic due to the amount of sound engineering and vocal processing that went into the original versions of these songs.

  The whole thing is turning into an Ouroboros, they have worked out how to make perfectly bland, meaningless music and now the snake is eating its tail as the industry consumes that slop to manufacture more slop.

  Yet deeper, why does this beige bullshit get air time… Why its our old friend capitalist market forces, no one passionate about music wants to make this shit, its the people who want the fame and money and view music as the means to that end.

  We know that AI makes people dumber, we know that it leads to the atrophy of skill and talent, and we know the only motivation for its use is capitalist. AI is pop music.

  For what its worth I used italics on AI as I categorically refuse to believe this garbage is actually artificial intelligence. I am reasonably certain that actual artificial intelligence is the next fusion power, it’s going to be “only a few years away” from being viable until well after I die, but its just too good a marketing term to leave it alone while we make do with these stunted chinese rooms.

  Wow that rant blew up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: don't engage at all with conservative@lemmy.today⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just wonder what they get out of it. I mean I get stirring shit up, but I would be over it after a couple of posts and would be entirely unable to bring myself to play those sorts of dumb games on any sort of regular basis. Plus they have to know right? They idolise a child rapist while bleating about buttery males and activities in non-existant basements, you couldn’t be accidentally blind to this stuff it has to be wilful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: don't engage at all with conservative@lemmy.today⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that’s a given for me now… I drew a ban. I guess he really didn’t like me drawing the natural inference from Trumps recent behaviour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can 100% commit to that, but I would suggest that its likely white unlikely. I have a feeling it was offline on actual dead tree somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve certainly played with Matrix, got voice working but video was a struggle (I may have just stuffed up my STUN server install). Yet again this is an area that organised crime, terrorist groups etc have it easier, they can dictate what their members use rather than relying upon persuasion to get them onboard. I am pretty certain that the NSA have people dedicated to infiltrating these sorts of small scale chat apps, but like everything else who knows how many are actually in the wild and just have good enough opsec to avoid that infiltration (and yes how many they let stay open for intelligence purposes).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With the irony being I am sure I read an article a few months back about the rise in small scale private encrypted chat applications that some groups are spinning up because they don’t trust things like signal.

  I concede the point, maybe I am a bit blindsided by the level of knowledge I can bring to bear on this as I wouldn’t find it at all difficult to spin something up.

  I mean how trivial would it be to insert encrypted packets using a one time pad into meme images, half the conversations between my wife and I would look suspicious under those circumstances, a straightforward sequence of pre shared DSA pairs and the odds of ASIO being able to break it are miniscule.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And give up on making you explicitly hand over your identity… Sir/Ma’am/Other I believe you have misjudged the ever beneficent Google. This will simply be to augment the other fingerprinting methods they already use regardless of what they might say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You might be right, but its going to get harder for them to crow about the wins ASIO is making when competent people are spinning up more bespoke solutions they have even less hope of compromising. Plus when people go down the current path that the UK populace is what are ASIO going to claim next, VPNs have to be banned. You know Australia lacks the technical competence to implement that correctly, suddenly every business is having their workflow broken to appease a bunch of “intelligence” wonks. The further they over reach the more likely they will trip themselves up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes it would be, let’s hope more companies follow that example. The more companies that make it clear that Australian politics are never an excuse for compromising the privacy and safety of their users the more hope there is that the message will start to get through. Plus we could serve as a salutory warning for the rest of the world… “Wow go down the path of driving whole market segments out of your economy has bad effects on that same economy.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep seeing this suggested and while I think that would be amazing I really don’t think its likely. These incumbents are set up to make things difficult for new entrants to their market. With political will and engagement it would be possible, but in the current world political environment these payment processors would simply buy the right politicians & court officials to ensure that any legislative challenges would be killed in the nest.

  In the world we are in right now we need to instead focus on making the payment processors bend to the will of the majority not a vocal minority.

  We also need to start finding strategies to fight back against paedophilia as an accepted permission slip to let the worst people in the world get away with whatever they want. If its not a disqualifying status for the office of president of the US, then why does the existence of paedophiles mean we (vast majority not paedophiles I hope) have to sacrifice our rights, our privacy, and our free speech?