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- Comment on Mount Gambier woman appears in court charged over damage to city's Cast in Blue sculpture 4 days ago:
Lucky birds were all killed off by mining pollution so their poop would not be a problem.
- Comment on Mount Gambier woman appears in court charged over damage to city's Cast in Blue sculpture 4 days ago:
They died off because they had trouble finding worms to eat.
- Comment on This roof paint blocks 97% of sunlight and pulls water from the air 4 days ago:
Good question. Sometimes I forget I am not on Reddit talking to a 12 year old.
- Comment on This roof paint blocks 97% of sunlight and pulls water from the air 4 days ago:
Developed at University in Sydney where new housing developers are obsessed with black roofs.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-30/…/103762116
$15,000 cheaper to use tiles mass produced for housing estates, compared to the same tiles in a lighter shade.
- Comment on This roof paint blocks 97% of sunlight and pulls water from the air 4 days ago:
Same as when a bird shits in the dam you drink water from.
- Comment on Reddit’s CEO Debuts As A Billionaire 20 Years After Cofounding The Company 4 days ago:
(1) He didn’t share them
(2) He wasn’t a dinner if Reddit (but was an early developer).
The excellent documentary on him is online for free (watch it before it gets taken down): youtu.be/9vz06QO3UkQ
- Comment on Data stored in Canada can be subject to foreign courts, government paper warns 4 days ago:
Ah, you mean for Canada data sovereignty.
Or they could change the law. Other companies abide by local law.
- Comment on Data stored in Canada can be subject to foreign courts, government paper warns 4 days ago:
I can’t make sense of what you wrote.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 4 days ago:
put a VPN condom on before they put their data inside
What if Proton is your VPN?
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- Comment on Italy will be the latest country to require age verification for porn sites 5 days ago:
Here in Australia we saw a bigotted Eddie Booth in BBC’s Love Thy Neighbour(1972-1976). He was a fanatical Labour supporter. What was that about?
- Comment on Italy will be the latest country to require age verification for porn sites 5 days ago:
I heard good things about Labour post war (from Gary’s Economics) but put it down to war recovery.
1974-1979 is what I will look more into thanks to you.
- Comment on Italy will be the latest country to require age verification for porn sites 5 days ago:
Which party, anywhere in the world, has been true to their word once in power?
- Comment on Italy will be the latest country to require age verification for porn sites 5 days ago:
Australia and UK are at the directing if Internet ID control and both are Labor/Labour party led.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 1 week ago:
My friend in Australia had a judge lie that he pleaded guilty to a previous crime (in reality the chips dropped the charge). That kind of bias can invalidate her decision should he appeal (there were plenty of other errors in the decision too).
However it is near impossible to find a lawyer who will appeal and point out the judge lied because that lawyer would fear coming up against the corrupt judge in future.
- Comment on Revealed: some Australians have overpaid their Centrelink debt by more than $20,000 2 weeks ago:
Litigation isn’t like Hollywood movies. No matter how good your evidence, you can still lose and then have to pay not only for your own legal fees (about $100k) but for the other side too.
- Comment on Revealed: some Australians have overpaid their Centrelink debt by more than $20,000 2 weeks ago:
They inexplicably tripled Mum’s aged care fees. They admitted their error when I rang but said they wouldn’t amend it into the next quarterly review (in two months time!).
I asked for a letter acknowledging the error so that I could get the nursing home off our back but Services Australia said they can’t do that: “just keep paying the wrong fees in the meantime… trust us bro”.
- Comment on Greens and Australian Christian Lobby form ‘unholy alliance’ to shut down late-night pokies in NSW 2 weeks ago:
The Catholic club in my suburb renamed itself (to the name of the suburb) perhaps to obscure their reliance on pokies.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, I misread it as 2025. Saw what I wanted to see. Thanks. Humbling.
- Comment on Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot 2 weeks ago:
Critical thinkers are not solely informed by social media.
- Comment on Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot 2 weeks ago:
First graph settings calls 35-50yo GenX. That is Gen Y.
- Comment on ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web 2 weeks ago:
So many of them that it is scary. And educating them will probably often elicit the stubborn response: “I don’t care, I like it, it’s convenient and the errors ain’t like me” (at least if their attitude towards privacy is any indication).
- Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territorywww.bbc.co.uk ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 45 comments
- A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propagandawww.newsguardrealitycheck.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 4 comments
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- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 2 weeks ago:
The ocean is the same as the Hadron Super-Collider, just reshaped.
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 3 weeks ago:
If they live in China, good luck figuring iut which of the Chans there are these four.
- Comment on ICE just bought new tool to monitor hundreds of millions of smartphones. Experts say it’s dangerous 4 weeks ago:
Paragon’s “zero-click” Graphite program can quietly invade the mobile phone of its target and extract its contents, even from encrypted apps.
How? Screen scraping? That would involve installing malware on each phone.
- Comment on AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study 4 weeks ago: