quokka1

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Victoria to ban state school logos on shorts, pants, skirts and socks from next year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  @Aussieiuszko My son't school tops are white. White. Who thought white was a good idea for Year 7 boys? Has to go in a bucket of whatever that pink bottle is at end of each day.
  And whilst high quality, they are only available from one supplier at stupid prices.
  Thankfully they're just starting a 3 year swap over to dark blue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  @p03locke @shalafi i have a primary email that uses a TLD released in 2014. I use it for any mails that aren't e.g. government or financial. The number of systems/servers/transports that haven't been updated to accept it is quite an annoyance.
  I avoid email anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  @ivanafterall @ramble81 IRC with emoticons

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨which softwares can I self host without public IP?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  @Confused_Emus @rtxn Figuring out DNS is always fun.
  And never ever ever make any, even small, DNS change on a Friday. Unless you don't like weekends.
  Is it time to break out the DNS haiku and pray to the name gods?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mail-in-a-Box - simple email server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  @miss_demeanour @Semi_Hemi_Demigod Now you'll have an open bottle of port in your cabinet for 10 years until you fancy another glass or a recipe calls for it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  @echodot @Redex68 off top of my head, script generation. making content more readable. dictating a brain dump while walking and having it spit out a cohesive summary.

  it's all about the prompt you put in. shit in/shit out. And making sure you check/understand what it spits out. and that sometimes it's garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tumblr to join fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  @Krompus @DoucheBagMcSwag

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All you can eat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  @DragonsInARoom @cantstopthesignal it's their time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  @angrystego @RangerJosey pretty sure we agreed on WankerPanzer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How JavaScript Overuse Ruined the Web⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  @hansolo @columbus this is the way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone knows your location⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @ParetoOptimalDev @asunaspersonalasst That's the thing that put me off. I brain couldn't reconcile the idea of de-Googling by buying something from Google.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking Optus doesn't provide ipv6 over cell. And starlink has cgnat.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @Nath @Skezlarr I asked iinet for a static IP once. It seemed to blow their mind. A nice lady rang back some time later and asked how many devices I have at home. I said probably 50-60. She then tried to sell me business ethernet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds complain about failing mobile phone service since 3G switched off⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @Zozano @FireWire400 They screwed over foreign roamers too. And turned thousands of perfectly good and compatible handsets into e-waste overnight.
  Oh, and conveniently made it so that the average consumer can only really buy handsets from the networks themselves if they want to be sure of compatibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bathroom Reno Question⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @Zane Sweet. Can you send them my details too? I'll deffo be giving them my address etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woolworths says it has more than 40 competitors in Australia – we went looking for them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @Baku My daughter (5) tried to sell some of her art on the pavement to passers-by.
  Clearly a competitor to a multi-billion dollar price-fixing, colluding, un-competitive duopoly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Live virus samples lost in major Queensland lab breach⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @Aradina @Zagorath if i were their boss i'd be so angry i'd be frothing!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So… Australia Just Banned Kids From the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @Lodespawn @Salvo The definition is currently loose enough to apply to iMessage. That'll be a fun discussion with Apple's lawyers.
  I'll likely be setting my kids and their mates up some sort of server overseas, maybe a Mastodon instance. I want them to learn to be social online, with some education and moderation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you want for Christmas?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @Seagoon_ @Catfish gimme

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @spiffmeister Sounds like I'll be using BHPMail, MinResX and Riosky

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @Nath lemmy.world need to buck their ideas up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @Cypher @rcbrk With a nice link between any nicks/profiles/gamer-tags you have and your actual MyGovID.
  Mmmm mmm mmm smell that lovely data!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @spiffmeister @Joker I'm interested in how they'll handle iMessage. And if they allow iMessage, why not Signal? And so on. Gonna be some interesting lines have to be drawn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @Baku @Nath Oh. So even if I set some things up in Singapore (closest with decent latency I think) then I, being resident here, can still be punished for not requiring age verification on it? That seems helluva over-reach.
  Mind you, whole concept is an over-reach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @Salvo CoPilot is the only "AI" thing not recently blocked on our work network. Knee-jerk, but OK. They're worried about data exfiltration and storage. But trust me, that should really be very far down the list of security/technology concerns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @Gorgritch_umie_killa @Lodespawn I'm envisaging them leveraging the single-sign-on type stuff they do for MyGov. But do you trust them, and the social site, to handle and appropriately, securely anonymise the Personally Identifiable Information in the transaction? And of course, that means that now under 16s need to have MyGov IDs. The idea of online nicknames etc being linked to actual persons should be a concern. Australia Card anyone?
  Of course they may have a completely different approach to it. I mean, every school age child already has a Student Number. That could be a data point for them. Who knows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @Gorgritch_umie_killa @Lodespawn Doesn't sound too big a technological challenge (think along the lines of when you sign into a website using Google or Facebook as your ID provider). But puts more hassle on site admins. And, more importantly, how are users going to know if a site is actually doing authentication or just gathering their ID data? Then there's the question of what sites they will try and include in the ban. Meta etc is a given, but Lucy's Australian Knitting forum? iMessage? Signal? Mastodon instances?
  Then there's the concern that all of a sudden Govt have a link between all of our online nicknames etc and our actual names. That's a massive issue in my eyes and they'll need to clarify if that's going to happen.
  In the end my son could, and probably will, just rent a private server in Singapore for a couple of dollars a month and VPN through that. I expect he'll set his mates up on it too. So instead of some kind of visibility of what he's doing on the home network, I'll have none.
  And we'll be paying handsomely for this whole exercise.
  I, like a lot of parents I'm sure, am actually in favour of not letting kids into those places. But I can't, yet, see how it can be done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @eureka @Gorgritch_umie_killa If it helps, CoPilot reckons

  "still thinking of a playful use of an alternative word
  Got it! Here are a few playful alternatives to "enshittification" that convey a similar idea:

  Crapification: The process by which something becomes crappy.

  Bummification: When things start to become a real bummer.

  Suckification: The act of something starting to suck.

  Trashification: Transforming into trash-quality.

  Downslopification: Going down the slope of quality.

  Flopification: The journey from success to flop.

  Funkification: Things taking a turn for the worse in a funky way.

  These options keep the humorous and playful tone while conveying the decline or deterioration of something. Do any of these fit the bill for what you had in mind? 😊

  "

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @eureka @Gorgritch_umie_killa suggestions for a new one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bunnings told to destroy 'faceprint' data after landmark ruling on facial recognition use⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @eraitch @zero_gravitas If you do use the self-checkouts there you can put a sticky dot over the camera as you approach it. They love it.
  And their "AI" exit-gates on the self-checkout pen that shut if it doesn't think it saw you paying can get in the sea too.