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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian Government funnelled $2.5B to Israeli arms manufacturers⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  On another note, is “labeling”/“Tagging” a Lemmy feature, or are you talking figuratively?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Benjamin Netanyahu says Anthony Albanese 'betrayed' Israel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s has said similar things of Macron. It’s just Australia came to the table a bit later, so his latest round of vitriol is more targeted at us.

  “I say to President Macron, Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Starmer: when mass murderers, rapists, baby killers and kidnappers thank you, you’re on the wrong side of justice” You’re on the wrong side of humanity and you’re on the wrong side of history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israeli politician to address Australian event virtually after visa cancelled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Foment. Nice word usage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Legendary film critic David Stratton dies peacefully aged 85⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The loss of a cultural icon, and what a beautiful life at that. He left all of us wanting more–which I guess is as good an impact as any of us can hope for in our lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still throwing shrimp on the barbie: why is Tourism Australia’s advertising stuck in 1984?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree we should be putting our indigenous people front and centre of our commercials. It would feel lest scummy if we could do that a bit more with our overall culture. The article uses NZ as an example, but they’re considerably further along than we are when it comes indigenous issues (IMO).

  I’m not so sure about the rest of it though. In the '80s we tried to market Australia as sophisticated and modern, and it was a flop. Tourists visit countries because of romantic ideals, not because ads are truthful. What would be a more a appealing ad for Paris?

  A) Thriving tech hubs and business centres B) Cycling through the Marais with a baguette and a bottle of champaign (with not another tourist in sight)

  Likewise, tourists aren’t visiting Australia because they want to embrace the multicultural suburbs in our larger cities. They want to see what they can’t see at home. If we were making ads trying to get skilled migration, then sure–sell the cities. But for tourism, its BBQs on deserted beaches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many Australians are fighting with Israel's military in Gaza? This group is monitoring⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re both agreeing on the same thing, but arguing over it’s extent. You both believe that Israel has a large amount of influence outside of its borders, and it uses that influence to enact its will.

  Control is more than influence. Control implies they can issue orders, impose binding conditions and have formal decision making authority over another country’s actions. Israel’s influence is softer than that. In practice, perhaps, Israel has a de facto control over other countries. But even then it will be a stretch as that generally implies a puppet state.

  I think pro-invasion proponents are looking for reasons to label any criticism as anti-semitic. Using language such as this gives them that reason. I think a stronger alternative is to use the term foreign interference, which is closer to what is actually happening, and buckets it with simaliar cases of which the media has been more vocal. E.g., China and India.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was taught to admire Churchill. I stopped admiring him when I started to see a pattern of sacrificing others for his own vanity. Esp in WW1, but also during peacetime too.

  However I will never fault him for standing up to the Nazi expansion of Europe. Fuck fascists. Nazis, Christian Nationalists, or otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Traditional owners call for diaries of WA settler who killed Aboriginal people to be released in full⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the second article I’ve read today with this theme. Fuck we bare a horrible debt that must be repaid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The massacre of sleeping settlers that unleashed a savage war in central Queensland⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow that was horrible. But well worth the read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High Quality Offline Music - マリウス⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe there’s more too it, but I really don’t get the last note about Tidal: Essentially, if you use Tidal, you should know the CEO is has a large ego and is a crypto bro.

  I’m sure he’s very annoying, but I’m not inviting him to my house for dinner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Authentik vs Authelia?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use authentik and like it. The learning curve isn’t that steep so not a lot of wasted investment if you decide to ditch it for something else. No password flow with webauthn is pretty cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Lied to their workers’: CBA’s ‘shameful act’ while sacking staff [Deceptive offshoring of hundreds of tech roles]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yuck. What a dog act but a slimy company. Glad I took my banking elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hardware Suggestions For A Beginner?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO, you want ram more than you want processing power. Most of the time your containers will sit dormant and just consume memory. However since you want to run Jellyfin, get a recent CPU which can do hardware decoding of popular codecs. There’s charts online that show what generation can handle what codecs. Ideally you don’t want that done by software. You should still be able to find something cheap.

  In terms of placement. It depends a lot on noise IMO. If you’re running something small without magnetic storage, your probably fine to stick it anywhere. If you have several data-centre grade hard drives, you will probably want to keep it somewhere where you wont hear it all day.

  In terms of upgrading, I’m not sure if its as much of a concern as you might think. I run probably about 30 docker containers off a NUC clone and a seperate NAS. I can always add more drives to the NAS, but otherwise its fine. Also, many of my services scale to zero with sablier+traefik, and I schedule filesharing for low bandwidth times. This makes things pretty manageable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian doctors call for clampdown on social media influencers allegedly glamorising poker machines⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Influencers are pests and an insidious blight on humanity, but this feels like a new low for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia's Federal Court clarifies: Anti-Zionism and criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-01/…/105480506 is mentioned here, but it the framing is a bit different and the ruling a little more detailed. (Probably a better source out there but I’m also on my phone)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NSW to ban people from appealing if working with children check denied⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume a working with children check wouldn’t have a high standard of evidence and a candidate probably doesn’t need a conviction to fail the test. E.g., it would be enough for a previous employer to say “Oh yeah we couldn’t prove it but we had some serious complaints that he was fiddling kids”. If that is the case, I really don’t feel comfortable with this direction. If its more of a case where theres some established quantifiable criteria that would never reasonably pass appeal, the sure… but I don’t get what this solves except to save resources.

  It strikes me as a opportunistic politics to appeal to the emotion of voters–which is just tacky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could this be the death of Australia's nightmarish welfare system?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  100%. There’s so many people who want to “touch” the project so they can get some credit for it, making things take easily four times as long as it should and in the end you have an unmanageable, noncompliant mess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it wrong or uncommon to judge people primarily on their worst moments/acts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When asked how he could admire an airforce general despite being a pacifist, MLK jr responded "I judge people by their own principles – not by my own.” Judge that redditor by the principle of someone whose career is helping children but instead exploits them.

  I agree it doesn’t matter how many children he’s helped. I’ve heard from my Hindu friends that good deeds won’t naturalise bad Karma. Im not religious and don’t believe in karma, but I think this is well grounded. It doesn’t matter how many children he has helped, it doesn’t change the fact that he has damaged so many others for sexual gratification.

  The guys a vile worm, and think you’re right to judge him.