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- Comment on Microsoft Says It Has Stopped Using China-Based Engineers to Support Defense Department Computer Systems 3 hours ago:
I’m willing to bet it’s option B. Bet someone in management decided it would be best to cheap the fuck out now and then beg forgiveness later, and sell it as increasing security, than ask permission from the beginning.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 1 day ago:
That’s even less consumer friendly. If you purchase a game and it turns out to be shovelware that barely works and has a bunch of gamed reviews on the store page? Oh too bad sap, you got conned this is non-refundable.
Consumers had to fight for games that do refundable, I don’t think we should be quick to consider loopholes.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 4 days ago:
Fraunhofer IIS and Fraunhofer ISE are part of the same organization.
They are different institutes in the same Fraunhofer Society.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 4 days ago:
Yep staggering manufacturing dates is a good suggestion. I do it but it does make purchasing during sales periods to get good prices harder. Better than losing multiple drives at once, but RAID needs a backup anyway and nobody should skip that step.
- Comment on Indigenous Australians lose landmark climate court case against government 4 days ago:
Shameful as an Australian.
The legal argument was essentially, “bro our emissions are so minor on the worldwide scale that even if we’d met our targeted emissions reductiond it wouldn’t have made a measurable difference to today”. “- can’t hold the Aussie govt accountable for the rest of the world”.
So - whataboutism pointed at China and other nations.
Who the fuck digs up the coal and gas and iron ore and sends it to China and other industrial-centre nations knowing it will be burned / refined at great carbon cost? Oh that’s right, us.
We had a carbon tax for a hot minute that tried to capture these externalities into businesses so they couldn’t hide behind this rhetoric… and they lobbied and brainwashed the populace into voting out that govt the very next election, nearly 20 years ago.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 4 days ago:
I would absolutely not use refurbs personally. As part of the refurb process they wipe the SMART data which means you have zero power-on hours listed, zero errors, rewrite-count, etc - absolutely no idea what their previous life was.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 4 days ago:
Hey it’s those guys that invented MP3s.
- Comment on Scientists reportedly hiding AI text prompts in academic papers to receive positive peer reviews 5 days ago:
Rat (glad that was labelled) appears to have inbuilt zipper for accessing organs - not actually necessary to access his fourth testical tho, that one perches at the edge of his ball-pouch. I like the one label that just says ‘dck’.
Yep everything seems in order here. Thanks AI.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 5 days ago:
Halo 3 was peak.
I know some don’t like it because of some choices they creative team made that weren’t exact to the lore of the games, but I’ve been enjoying the Halo TV series. Had some moments that reminded me of the campaign and game series highlights. I’d say it’s worth a watch if you’re a fan - don’t be put off by the initial backlash.
- Comment on Wagga Wagga man charged with displaying Nazi symbols over shopfront poster 1 week ago:
Its the NSW police. They’re jealous that this shopkeeper can display images that are clearly parody, while they can’t display similar images in their private lives in earnest.
- Comment on Lead ammunition to be banned for hunting and shooting in England, Scotland and Wales 1 week ago:
Legislation sounds very positive for the environment. The article does say that shooting ranges are exempt as they have lead/bullet recovery systems in place and this legislation is more about protecting waterways and forests from being (further) polluted with lead shot. Military and police are excluded probably for the same reason as almost all their shooting is on-range.
The article doesn’t mention and I was hoping someone knows - what’s the common alternative metals used for rifle rounds and shotgun shells? Steel balls for shotguns?
Does it make a big difference to shooting/ballistics, as the alternatives would be less-dense than lead?
- Comment on Cancer rates in Australians under 50 are rising at a pace that's alarming doctors and scientists 1 week ago:
We consumed alllll the BPA when we were young and it was unregulated. Same with PFAs in non-stick pans and microwave popcorn bags. Probably dozens of other toxic things that are now regulated but when we were young were heavily used and consumed as we grew.
Aussies also eat a lot of sausages, pies and processed meats, which is now known to be a cancer causer - including bowel cancer. Now we’re getting to the age where damage from all the above starts to manifest as cancers.
The question is did we do all of those things at just a slightly higher rate which led to the higher rates the cancer scientists are seeing now and worrying about - because it’s not like they can go back in time and measure our environmental factors and inputs, they largely have to estimate.
- Comment on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon 1 week ago:
Today, you learned that not everyone on the Internet is from the USA.
- Comment on Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU data 1 week ago:
Ive not heard of this - were you on the standard Google OS? I wonder if that makes any difference.
I’ve been on custom ROM (CalyxOS) for most of the phone’s life.
- Comment on Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU data 2 weeks ago:
Before anyone rushes to replace their phones my Pixel 5 is nearly 5 years old, still on original battery (would be on at least 1200 cycles) and is presently sitting at 92% and claiming 1 day 11hrs remaining. Off the charger since 9:45 this morning and used for streaming music to my car while I was driving earlier. It still easily holds over 24 hours charge in my usage, so if I forget to charge it at night it’s usually around 40% in the morning and I can plug it in sometime in the morning to top up. Perfectly useable after almost 5 years, and this is pretty normal for Pixels in my experience.
Love the new EU measurement standards but per other people’s comments above they do not seem to mandate strict third-party testing, but rather rely on manufacturers submitting their results and adhering to the set test standards. This has not worked out well in the past, it should be mandatory third-party.
Cannot wait to see the return of user-replaceable batteries (thank you again, EU).
- Comment on Australian police beat an opposition politician so badly that she might lose an eye -- simply for being at an anti-genocide protest. 2 weeks ago:
Pretty much all protest rights were stripped away in the last decade state by state, mostly as a reaction to environmental and climate protestets. Liberal and Labor both supported them. Only the Greens and some of the minor parties and independents were against them.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Laws_governing_public_demonstr…
I believe the last ones were Adelaide. But before that it was Melbourne, Sydney, etc. Its fucked and the major parties have zero desire to change the situation as it suits them.
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 3 weeks ago:
Didn’t confuse them with anyone, they put out a quarterly report as all publicly-traded companies do, and they’re on track to do over $2 billion in profit this year ($17b revenue).
What I didn’t go into depths to describe is that the vast majority of their money goes to big labels and several big artists they have less-favourable (to Spotify) contracts with, because those big labels and artists know they can pressure Spotify to get a bigger slice.
So, they continue to give most artists, especially small/new artists next to nothing, exploiting them.
Nothing I said is innacurate IMO.
- Comment on Dr Fiona Stanley: ‘If we want better health outcomes, the last thing we need is more doctors and hospitals’ 3 weeks ago:
where a local doctor had refused to treat an Aboriginal child without upfront payment
I wonder why he’d do that…🙄
Racism, and because you don’t know anything more about the story - and yet you’re making the same assumptions… Welll.
The doctors claimed justification for turning them away is largely irrelevant anyway, as doctors cannot turn a patient away that is in dire medical need without ensuring the patient has alternative care options immediately available, eg: another doctor nearby. Telling them to fuck off to Perth 3 hours away is in breech.
That’s really good now instead of not being able to help 1 person he can’t help any, and it’s not like there’s a shortage of doctors or anything in regional Australia
GP shortage contributing to ‘bidding war’ as regional towns struggle to attract doctors
The story she’s sharing is from when she was around 30. She’s near 80 now. There was no shortage of rural doctors in the mid 1970s, so your complaint doesn’t even make sense.
About 10 or so doctors get struck off the register every year (of 10,000 doctors in WA), and it’s done by a thorough review process by the AHPRA. Its not like Fiona Stanley can just call a buddy and they’re gone - a whole team of people had to review the case, hear the doctor’s position in a hearing, and decide if the doctor had aggregiously failed in their duties and breached the code of conduct they’d agreed to uphold.
Discriminating doc can no longer get kids killed with negligence, and you take the position that the lady that helped flag the case for removal is “insufferable”? What a weird position to broadcast to the internet.
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 3 weeks ago:
How about just boycott it because it’s terrible for artists? It pays four tenths of a tenth of a cent per stream ($0.004), while raking in billions of profit each year.
Spotify’s whole business model is exploitation.
Listen to music on whatever service, then if you like the artists music - buy the album, or the track / single. Sure, you may support fewer artists this way, but each artist gets paid literally 2500 times as much (album averages 9.99).
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 weeks ago:
I’d love one and have checked back each year after their first model, but they still don’t sell to Australia - and I’m not going to buy something I can’t get direct parts and services for, and would need to go through third parties for.
If their model is a successful business I honestly thought they would have expanded beyond shipping/supporting only Europe by now, its been a decade since their first model. Maybe they’re still not a very big player / modest success?
- Comment on Antoinette Lattouf wins unlawful termination case against ABC 3 weeks ago:
Good, the ABC should be standing up for their presenters, even short term contracfors - not firing them to appease reactionary mobs. Especially not mobs bought and paid for by international interests that go against our own domestic interests. Shameful.
Need to drop all the neocons that the LNP stuffed into the ABC board and leadership - I don’t understand why Labor hasnt made it a priority. We currently have a former Foxtel and News Limited media executive, Kim Williams (whom is also an Israel hawk) as the ABC chair ffs.
- Comment on Just landed next to me. 3 weeks ago:
Maybe some kind of spider wasp aka tarantula hawk. They’re much bigger and IMO very pretty. Often attract some observers if they’re dragging away a big spider they’ve caught near a school or house. I’ve seen the orange and black common one most often, they’re loud and and can give you a shock if they fly past your head. Cheers www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/biosecurity/…/spider-wasp
- Comment on Just landed next to me. 3 weeks ago:
They’re not huge, under 2cm. They catch spiders and caterpillars according to wiki, I’ve mostly seen them with small caterpillars. And yep - back to their cool hexagon nests for the larvae and queen.
Here’s a webpage with a close relative Aus wasp that makes the same kinds of nests, lots of good pics. www.brisbaneinsects.com/…/PaperWasps.htm
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 3 weeks ago:
I know exactly the community you mean but I haven’t interacted with it much beyond occasional visits and upvotes. It’s sad to hear that perspective of Lemmy, because it does get rose-tinted as a bit of a leftist utopia and this is the first time I’ve seen the ugliness. I really appreciate it being shared.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 3 weeks ago:
Kids in my daughters class did a project about ‘an issue that is important to you’. They could pick anything.
Most of the kids talked about interesting and positive fields like environmental protection/space exploitation or some sport they love to participate in. Three of the boys chose to talk about ‘men’s rights’, and according to the teacher who I spoke to about it afterwards they were echoing Andrew Tate shit.
They were 10 years old at the time.
None of their parents are divorced either, so theres no ‘woe story’ from dad in the background to put any framing around this.
However, their parents are all conservative and all let their kids access Youtube with no oversight. So social media and lax/indifferent parenting are very much grooming the next generation into hateful misogynists like Tate.
- Comment on Just landed next to me. 3 weeks ago:
Paper wasp, nice photo. These guys are honestly fairly chill as long as you’re not close to their nest (like inside 1m), and they’re important pollinators and great pest removal experts.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t seen any radical female content creators personally, and there certainly doesn’t seem to be a large industry of them forming. If there is they’re very well hidden and poorly advertised.
But if that happens I’d absolutely be for talking people away from listening to them.
- Comment on AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic 3 weeks ago:
I’d say AI search summaries are somewhat useful for me 30% of the time. And I click through to the sources to confirm its summaries anyway, because they’re often oversimplified.
Often though, they’re goddamn useless.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 3 weeks ago:
I’m banging on about it? You highlighted it from my list and came up with the false narrative that I am somehow OK with womens-only clubs, something I’ve never claimed (that’s a strawman FYI).
You’re not interested to learn, nor to have an honest debate. Good luck with that attitude, you’ll need it.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 3 weeks ago:
These exaples are “not my world”, what does that even mean? You live on a different world? Examples have to be specifically from your zip code to be relevant discussion on a global web forum do they? Did you actually argue maybe all women are ok with being oppressed in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan? Because many have famously vociferously opposed it, up to the point of being executed and being shot in the head. One of them works at the UN now, putting together work like whats in this very article. www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24379018
The Garrick Club has incredibly powerful members including kings and prime ministers and hundred of members of Parliament. If you cannot see how excluding women from such a club is an issue of patriarchy then you are really not trying very hard to understand anything here.
And of course, everything is a strawman argument nowadays…
A strawman argument is stating a false weaker argument (or premise) of your opponent, to then argue against more easily than their real argument.
Your claim: there is no ‘formal’ system [of patriarchy]
Me: here’s several examples of formal systems of patriarchy.
You: I am being strawmanned!
