quokka
@quokka@aussie.zone
- Comment on Should big tech be allowed to mine Australians’ text and data to train AI? The Productivity Commission is considering it 3 weeks ago:
And Telstra can’t sell everyone’s encrypted messages if we can collectively move on from SMS.
- Comment on Should big tech be allowed to mine Australians’ text and data to train AI? The Productivity Commission is considering it 3 weeks ago:
Well we either accept this, get a movement going where we give the AI millions of deliberately false SMS to ingest, or start using a better messaging solution. Not WhatsApp or Signal.
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 4 weeks ago:
Personally, I’ll spin up a Mastodon (or similar) instance for my kid and his mates.
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 4 weeks ago:
You mean apps that they’d really like you pass age verification by having MyGovDigitalSurveillanceDefinitelyNotTrackingYou app?
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 4 weeks ago:
Yep. And meanwhile the kids will be chatting/abusing in Google Docs. Or IRC servers they spin up for free in AWS or whatever. Or, shock, SMS.
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 4 weeks ago:
offshore extremists use such platforms to communicate.
Yes, yes they do. But that is not justification for reading everyone’s messages.
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 4 weeks ago:
as with Signal, is not really about what you’ll use, but what alternative gains traction and you can persuade your contacts to use. I hope one of the decentralised alternatives is able to rise to mainstream status.
- Comment on Sovereign citizen who kidnapped her child sentenced to two years' jail 4 months ago:
There’s a few in Perth. They occasionally paste some laughable text in the local papers proclaiming that they are sole bodies and not beholden to taxation. Or some other bumph. It’s odd that all sovshitness seems to come down to not paying taxes, while still using all the facilities that taxation provides.
- Comment on Sovereign citizen who kidnapped her child sentenced to two years' jail 4 months ago:
It exists wherever they say it does surely?
- Comment on Sovereign citizen who kidnapped her child sentenced to two years' jail 4 months ago:
I believe she was in state housing. Classic sovshit shitfuckery.
- Comment on Hundreds complain about failing mobile phone service since 3G switched off 7 months ago:
This is a pretty good rundown of how fucked it is medium.com/…/australias-3g-shutdown-telcos-to-blo… And now why there’s more interest in “restoring” IMEIs to compatible, but blocked, handsets than there was a year ago.
- Comment on Hundreds complain about failing mobile phone service since 3G switched off 7 months ago:
The problem was that some handsets (including ones sold by the networks as “4G”) would drop to 3G for 000. Even same models on different firmware behaved differently. So the regulator said to ban any the networks weren’t 100% sure were compatible. With 30(?) days’ notice. And the online IMEI checker is incomplete/useless too. So now the only realistic place for average consumers to buy known-compatible handsets is from the network operators. At their prices, with their software.
- Comment on Australian bosses on notice as 'deliberate' wage theft becomes a crime 7 months ago:
“Could”. Call me when a scumbag boss actually gets even half that max penalty
- Comment on What time can you mow the lawn on a Sunday? Here's a state-by-state breakdown of weekend noise restrictions 7 months ago:
Then you need to man-up and buy a proper one
- Comment on What time can you mow the lawn on a Sunday? Here's a state-by-state breakdown of weekend noise restrictions 7 months ago:
Love that basketballs get a specific mention for WA
- Comment on So… Australia Just Banned Kids From the Internet 8 months ago:
This is the kicker they don’t seem to understand. Kids just going to sign up to vKontakte or Weibo or Pedro’s stamps collecting forum in Spain. Or any overseas Mastodon etc
- Comment on Australia hardware chain breached privacy with facial recognition — commission report 9 months ago:
Are they somehow suggesting that if Fighty McStealy had been facially-profiled on entering the store that he wouldn’t have done a meth rampage against old mate in a green apron?
- Comment on Bunnings told to destroy 'faceprint' data after landmark ruling on facial recognition use 9 months ago:
I’m getting sick of having to explain to people that “i’Ve gOT noTHIng tO HiDE” is naive bullshit when this comes up
- Comment on Customers suddenly find their new phones can't make calls or send texts 9 months ago:
This guy had a good take on it all
medium.com/…/australias-3g-shutdown-telcos-to-blo…
The end result is that basically if you want to get a handset you know will work, the average consumer’s only real choice is to buy from the network. At their prices. Funny how things work out.
- Comment on BYD’s hybrid EV ute that could rival Australia’s bestselling vehicles goes on sale 9 months ago:
If I had to choose between this or a phev Ranger, it’s this every time.