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- Comment on Bunnings told to destroy 'faceprint' data after landmark ruling on facial recognition use 19 hours ago:
fwiw, personal privacy isn’t the reason I close the door, it’s consideration of others.
- Comment on Australia versus the world: How we rank on air quality — and the city lagging behind 3 days ago:
Ah, making a clickbait article about a ranking and quoting the experts telling people not to just look at the ranking!
Thanks, Antibait Aktion!
- Comment on The country is done for 1 week ago:
Zedda is a new one to me, but I reckon it will stick.
- Comment on Harry Houdini Flew a Flimsy Aircraft in Diggers Rest. But Was He Really the First to Fly in Australia? 1 week ago:
But Was He Really the First to Fly in Australia?
Obviously such a question depends on the definition of flight, but it would have been nice for the article to give an honourable mention to Lawrence Hargrave, who lived in Australia since age 15.
Of great significance to those pioneers working toward powered flight, Hargrave successfully lifted himself off the ground under a train of four of his box kites at Stanwell Park Beach on 12 November 1894.
Obviously very different to a piloted and controlled flight like the Wright Brothers and these examples, but certainly notable.
- Comment on The country is done for 1 week ago:
by not using the countries name
“America” is not their country’s name either (“USA” is actually closer, now that you mention it)
- Comment on The country is done for 1 week ago:
no one says Gen Zed
Odd choice of example, I hear it often.
- Comment on Who was our best Prime Minister and why? 1 week ago:
Who was our best Prime Minister and why?
- Comment on University of Sydney, NSW Liberal Party to investigate after students tear up sexual assault report 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, dismal job from the ABC this time. If you want a better account with quotes, there was one shared here.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago:
it seems to just be a constant drama among everyone, is it not?
Correct, it is not. That isn’t close to constant nor everyone.
i want to block the whole instance
See instructions from our admin here: aussie.zone/comment/13007067
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago:
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I can’t find any comments in that linked post ‘talking about blocking that instance’ or ‘moving to different software’. Nor do I think a designated drama community on another instance is a good litmus test for opinions.
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The only post I’ve found talking about blocking that instance, apart from OP, is a troll post you made (on a post about the UN voting on the blockade of Cuba which almost the entire UN has consistently voted against every year for over 30 years [wikipedia])
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- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy is a Fediverse software which is able to federate content with other instances and even other Fediverse softwares (e.g kbin). Federation is what allows an instance (e.g. aussie.zone, the one I’m on) to interact with others (e.g. reddthat.com, lemmy.ml, mander.xyz, etc.), so we can visit their communities, subscribe, post, vote on their posts, comment, and more.
Defederation is removing federation, which in this case would mean aussie.zone can’t interact with lemmy.ml, view their communities and posts, etc… It would occur if the aussie.zone admin sets the site to stop federating with lemmy.ml.
Defederation can be useful if an instance is abusive and systematically federates unwanted content, for example in early days before the reddit API exodus, there was a particular ‘free speech’ instance with a lot of neo-nazis which was defederated by most other instances before it shut down. In another case back then, some troll was registering new accounts every day on any instances without signup questions, so they could evade bans and post shock pornography on lemmy.ml. lemmy.ml ended up defederating from every open instance until they secured their registration form to avoid the abuse. You can see a list of federated and blocked instances by going to an instance and clicking on the Instances button at the bottom of the page. You can see aussie.zone blocks a few dedicated pornography instances, and a few explicitly political instances.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago:
The admins of that instance are pretty blatantly disregarding their own rules in order to push their agenda. If that shouldn’t be grounds for defederation, I don’t know what should.
I personally don’t think staff of a community or instance choosing how they administrate posts there is a solid grounds for defederation, nor do I think defederation is a useful response.
If you find their moderation and staff intolerable (and fwiw I also think some of those bans are poorly justified), I recommend you block those communities or their instance from your account. But I don’t think blocking their users from contributing here and blocking us from contributing there is appropriate.
- Comment on University of Sydney, NSW Liberal Party to investigate after students tear up sexual assault report 2 weeks ago:
Further details: the USyd student magazine’s article on this.
- Comment on Alternate Web UI for aussie.zone 2 weeks ago:
It’s nice to have access to a compact layout. The in-built Lemmy compact themes are ineffective, as far as I can tell.
- Comment on Australia's prime minister rejects China's claims that his country is rife with 'racism and hate crimes' 3 weeks ago:
Did you verify that, or did you just copy paste a machine-generated comment?
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 4 weeks ago:
afaik, ‘cooker’ has risen as a slang term for the wackier conspiracy theorists:
From Wiktionary:
- (slang, Australia) A person who makes or uses illicit drugs, especially methamphetamine or cannabis.
- (slang, derogatory, Australia) A person who is cooked in the head; a crazy person.
- (slang, derogatory, Australia) A conspiracy theorist, especially one who is involved in politics.
- Comment on Reminder that NSW local gov elections are on again tomorrow 2 months ago:
Reminder: no out-of-area (‘absent’) votes in this election.
Council elections may not the be most exciting I find them much more interesting, because while my vote is still statistically negligible, it’s much more powerful than in a state or federal election. So less popular choices have a higher chance of competing.
Unfortunately* it feels like most of my local candidates have almost identical policies, so my second and third preferences might as well be a coin flip. At least I know who’s going last.
- Comment on PM warns of 'consequences' as thousands of CFMEU workers march across Australia 2 months ago:
Seriously, watching that interview is a little painful with all the interrupting to try and railroad the conversation. I haven’t seen it so bad outside of Faux News in the US.
- Comment on Gina Rinehart urges government to ‘drill, baby drill’ and build Israeli-style ‘iron dome’ in northern Australia 2 months ago:
Seriously, shame on the opportunistic people who bothered giving her a platform.
- Comment on The Cat Empire postpones shows as musicians vote no confidence in MSO 2 months ago:
It’s a sharp reminder of the industrialisation of art as entertainment, more than as expression.
- Comment on 'Brutal culture' at Channel 7 leaves staff suicidal, distressed, and despairing 3 months ago:
Crosslinking: aussie.zone/post/12573641
- Comment on AFP counter-terrorism operation that targeted 13-year-old with autism cost more than $500,000 3 months ago:
Are the AFP employees (coppers) aware they are the wrong people to be handling this? They had an opportunity to help this kid, and instead just accelerated a terrorist operation until they could punish the victim.
- Comment on NSW government ends WFH as workers are ordered back into the office 3 months ago:
Seriously, I’ve had a union organiser lament that WFH was making it hard to work with a certain part of the company. You can’t just set up a lunch or coffee meeting if everyone is in on different days (it’s not a co-operative role).
- Comment on Young Australians falling down a 'rabbit hole of hate', ASIO boss warns 3 months ago:
Eh, while that hypocrisy is real, your post didn’t really describe the situation. When it comes to ‘terrorism’, in the past few years and much of that article, ASIO have consistently been talking about neo-Nazism (particularly the NSN). Neo-Nazis are not anti-capitalist nor a minority group defending themselves (they are a clear aggressor). And of course they’re bad for liberal democracy/capitalism and too foolish/idealistic to work alongside capital like 1920s fascists, instead desperately resorting to lone-wolf terror acts (to try and incite a nonsense ‘race war’), so yes, they’re being readily branded as terrorists, and correctly - they are explicitly aiming to promote terror.
As for the other cases being discussed like the Wakeley stabbing, I don’t see how that’s in the self-defense of a minority group. As far as I’ve seen, they’re not attacking fascists or CEOs, or trying to enact systematic change. There’s right ways to do political violence or self-defense, and these cases don’t seem to be them them.
“This is the new thing, people will go to violence with little or no warning, and they [have] little or no planning in some of these that I’ve talked about,” he said.
- Comment on TIL about the 1968 Olympic 'Black Power Salute' and the white guy in that photo 3 months ago:
Both US athletes intended to bring black gloves to the event, but Carlos forgot his, leaving them in the Olympic Village. It was Peter Norman who suggested Carlos wear Smith’s left-handed glove. For this reason, Carlos raised his left hand as opposed to his right, differing from the traditional Black Power salute.
Classic “she’ll be 'right” attitude, Pete.
- Comment on Question about Australian towns 3 months ago:
(has been answered in aussie.zone/post/12260517/10873558 , posted a minute after yours)
- Comment on Question about Australian towns 3 months ago:
Anecdotally, the one in a park near where I lived (furthest suburbs of a city) was much large than that. Some examples of larger ones can be found just by searching images of
australia war monument in park(not including the huge ones in some cities, like the Anzac Memorial in Sydney or the Canberra Australian War Memorial) - Comment on Question about Australian towns 3 months ago:
As some other mentioned, the monuments were often built soon after the war by people who had recently lost their relatives. When there were massacres of Aboriginal peoples, they obviously didn’t have the authority and resources to build similar memorials in towns, and to be blunt, the towns probably had few people who cared enough to build anything on their behalf, even now there are few public memorials (and often small ones) of massacres and Aboriginal loss. And that difference you pointed out reveals a lot about we see the historical effects of who has power and who writes history.
- Comment on Question about Australian towns 3 months ago:
I haven’t really thought about this much, because military commemoration is just normal here and I thoughtlessly assumed it was similar around the world. And I didn’t really consider how unnecessarily big many of them are. Sure, it’s easy for me to point to the US and say ‘that’s what real military worship is!’ but you’re right that there are many reminders of war around, most obviously the monuments in parks and national ceremonies (ANZAC Day, Remembrance Day). You mention that you have a foreign background; do you mention this because the monuments are not normal where your background is, or is it because our wars are offensive and seem atrocious to have statues for?
It’s important to understand the intended purpose of many of these as similar to a gravestone, it’s meant to be a respectful reminder of the town’s loss rather than glorifying war, like Aussiemandeus said it’s the towns wanting future generations to be aware of their town’s sacrifice for the war effort. However, there is also the fact that national ceremonies are sometimes used as propaganda to glorify wars of invasion or imply they were all honourable: the only one of those ANZAC wars where Australia was actually invaded was WWII (various attacks), all the others were joining political allies (first UK, then US) in other continents in imperialist wars, and in many of the wars they were clearly invasive and Australia’s participation should be denounced (including the Korean War, Vietnam War and Middle Eastern conflicts).
So while I can tolerate (critically) the community monuments commemorating dead soldiers, especially those built after WWII when sacrifice was in the self-defense of the country, we must also be critical of those trying to glorify war and imperial conflicts, just as we should be critical of those who glorify or trivialize the colonial invasion of this continent.
- Comment on Nine Publishing on strike. Request the public avoid Nine mastheads including Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Financial Review, and Brisbane Times. 3 months ago:
I don’t blame the workers for the constraints of their garbage company. I doubt they can just pick what they want to write about, they’re ultimately working to survive and taking the jobs on offer. Plus, systematic pressures on mass media are a whole thing.
If the workers get a pay rise, it digs into Nine Publishing’s egregeous profits. There’s also the broader impact of successful strike action on the rest of the labour movement in our fights for decent conditions. Solidarity is strength.
