Ilandar
@Ilandar@lemmy.today
- Comment on Will Reddit's challenge to Australia's "social media ban" succeed? | Constitutional Clarion 1 day ago:
Thanks for the summary! I’ll definitely be following it more closely if she thinks it has some legs.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 2 days ago:
Sydney + Melbourne is closer to 40% of the nation’s population. Not really sure why you’re talking about states, that’s a complete strawman on your part.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 3 days ago:
Did you not read the page you linked?.Most of the incidents are in Sydney or Melbourne or their outer suburbs/districts. And yes, bigger cities tend to have more social problems.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 3 days ago:
Look through the list of terrorist attacks (successful and prevented) in Australia, you’ll consistently see the same two cities coming up. It is hysterical and/or arrogant to immediately frame this as a national issue when it’s just simply not. Australia is not mono-cultural, we shouldn’t be extrapolating out from two cities and pretending the other ~60% of the population suddenly has something to fear.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 3 days ago:
Well it happens in Sydney, and to a lesser extent Melbourne. It does frustrate me a bit that these things get framed as Australian issues when they’re often not.
- Comment on Reddit files legal challenge against social media ban for under-16s 5 days ago:
By that logic U16s could then just access whatever unrestricted if they don’t sign in?
Age-restricted results will be blurred by default unless you are logged in and meet the minimum age requirement. Those sites that are age-restricted will also require age assurance (porn, for example).
Also can you still access the connected email or need to get a new one if you don’t verify?
I’m not sure how Google will choose to implement it. Maybe age assurance won’t be required at all unless you try to disable the new restrictions. In the case of app stores, for example, no age assurance will be required unless you want to search for R18+ apps.
More information:
- Comment on Reddit files legal challenge against social media ban for under-16s 6 days ago:
Only if they are signed into a Google account.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Australia | Teenagers sue over social media ban for ‘violating their right to communicate’ 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s not gonna do much for the iPad kids being raised by YouTube, unfortunately.
- Comment on Australia | Teenagers sue over social media ban for ‘violating their right to communicate’ 2 weeks ago:
It’s pretty depressing to see how many people have been ignoring the genuine harm that can occur using social media.
I feel like most people agree that it can be harmful. The problem is more that they don’t understand enough about how social media works to realise that it’s a structural design problem with the technology itself and one that can only start to be addressed through government regulation. To a lot of people it becomes solely a personal responsibility problem. If a child has an addiction it’s solely the parent’s fault for allowing their child to become addicted. If an adult has an addiction then it’s solely their own fault for letting themselves get addicted. When it gets framed as an individual problem rather than a structural one, it’s easy to oppose any and all legislation on the basis of “well none of us have a problem so why do we have to pay for a solution/be punished?”. It’s difficult to understand how easily psychological manipulation can occur if you don’t understand the techniques being used.
Another, related, problem in this particular case is that a lot of people still seem to think the main problems are the more sensational things like child predators or violent content. Whilst those are very real and serious concerns, they are pretty extreme examples and getting fixated on them makes it very easy to ignore the more insidious effects of social media usage on developing brains. I guess that’s one of my main problems with the current implementation; it’s based around account ownership and some platforms like YouTube still use an algorithm and build a shadow profile with recommendations based on what you’ve viewed even if you’re logged out. For some of these platforms, the current legislation is going to do little to combat addiction (beyond signalling to parents that this stuff is bad, which is definitely important).
- Comment on Australia | Teenagers sue over social media ban for ‘violating their right to communicate’ 2 weeks ago:
The ban doesn’t really affect Gen Z, they are a lot older than you think. It’s only the tail end of that generation who will have to wait a few years.
- Comment on Australia | Teenagers sue over social media ban for ‘violating their right to communicate’ 2 weeks ago:
There’s absolutely no way this goes anywhere considering they can’t even vote for another 3 years.
- Comment on Australia's beloved weather website got a makeover - and infuriated users 3 weeks ago:
A consensus was quickly clear: “Please bring back the previous format,” one person surmised on social media.
“It’s awful, the most useful features are gone and it’s not user-friendly. A waste of taxpayer money,” another added.
Others said the timing was poor: “Why change it on a day of severe weather?”
There were some fans, including one who posted: “I like the new site. The front page is much cleaner”. But they were few and far between.
What a time we live in, when social media vibes are enough to determine a “consensus” of an entire population. Have we still not worked out that the loudest people are almost always the miserable ones? People who are happy/content don’t tend to waste their lives screaming online about how happy and content they are.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Revealed: some Australians have overpaid their Centrelink debt by more than $20,000 1 month ago:
It’s frustrating that this Labor government is so cowardly, because with the Coalition being a complete shambles now is the perfect time for them to actually look at big social services reform. We are well past the critical mass point with so many stories like yours.
- Comment on Revealed: some Australians have overpaid their Centrelink debt by more than $20,000 1 month ago:
“There’s nothing people need to do right now. From late October 2025, we’re contacting impacted people,” the spokesperson said.
So if we owe you, you’ll hound us with debt collectors until we kill ourselves, but if you owe us it’s just “trust me bro”?
- Comment on New BoM website has rolled out 1 month ago:
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- Comment on New BoM website has rolled out 1 month ago:
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- Comment on New BoM website has rolled out 1 month ago:
Having been behind a couple of these modernization efforts, no one ever likes them. People complain every time but the user testing doesn’t lie.
The people who complain about everything complain every time. Most see the new website, think “cool” or “where did everything go?” and get on with their lives. Places like reddit and Lemmy are disproportionately filled with complainers, because most people don’t care enough to get online and moan about every little thing in life. They are actually out in the world doing and enjoying things. This is why every single live service game subreddit is full of 24/7 whining from the same people. The majority of the playerbase is happily playing the game while these people are crying on social media.
- Comment on New BoM website has rolled out 1 month ago:
Are you guys all boomers or something? The old website was absolutely terrible and well overdue for an upgrade. It desperately needed a version that scaled well and was accessible for mobile users, since that is how we access the internet in 2025 (inb4 irrelevant anecdote about yourself). The only bad thing about the new one is that they’re still insisting on this cringe “The Bureau” branding.
- Comment on Australian unis rob staff, splash on Big 4 consultants, hoard billions - Michael West 1 month ago:
Corporations are like viruses. They have a singular but infinite goal and will destroy anything and everything in their never-ending pursuit of it.
- Comment on Two years after school phone bans were implemented in Australia, what’s changed? ‘The impacts were clear’ 2 months ago:
Ruqayah, who graduated from a western Sydney high school in 2024, thinks the bans were an “overreaction”. After going through high school with access to phones, she finished her final year with the phone ban in place and says fellow students were still finding ways to use them in secret.
If they’re being forced to use them in secret, then they are being forced to use them in a less disruptive manner. It makes it easier for the students complying in good faith with the ban to concentrate and goes some way to normalising a lack of visible phone use in schools. Teenagers are never going to 100% comply with a ban on their liberties, but if some of them do then it is an improvement.
When I was in high school, we changed from very lax uniform rules one year to strict ones the next. Of course there were some students who didn’t comply with the rules and continued to wear what they wanted and risk punishment, but because a majority of students did comply it made it easier for all of us. We didn’t feel like we were missing out or at risk of being bullied for complying with the rules. Over time, the culture of the school changed to one where students just complied with the uniform rule by default. I’m not trying to compare uniforms to smartphones here; it’s just common sense that you don’t abandon a ban overnight because it wasn’t instantly 100% effective.
- Comment on Two years after school phone bans were implemented in Australia, what’s changed? ‘The impacts were clear’ 2 months ago:
You don’t have to provide your ID, that is misinformation. There will be alternative measures in place for all services covered by the “social media ban”. You can also export your YouTube subscriptions to a different app and continue receiving a personalised feed whilst signed out. Apps like Grayjay and NewPipe allow you to do this.
- Comment on Is there any way of trying Battlefield 6 without buying it or paying £17 for a 1 month EA Play Pro subscription? 2 months ago:
It hasn’t changed much.
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There are 6 new maps, 2 are smaller and limited to certain game modes. None of the new maps are great, a couple are quite bad.
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Inconsistent footstep audio hasn’t been fixed.
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Shotgun secondary on Assault wasn’t removed, so there are still loads of OHK shotguns in every match.
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The movement penalties that existed in the beta are heavier (bigger weapon sway when landing from a jump, etc).
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Physics engine is kinda fucked. Infantry movement feels floaty and you can bounce off objects and fly in the air like there’s low gravity.
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They added a ladder as a default gadget to the Assault class. There are head glitches everywhere now, it’s very annoying to attack into on game modes like Breakthrough.
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Not sure if this was the case in beta, but smoke is locked to Support so you basically have to play that class on game modes like attack Breakthrough if you want to reach the objective.
If you liked it in the beta, you will probably still like it. If you disliked it, you will probably still dislike it. If you were on the fence like me, you will be glad that you only paid for a month of EA Play Pro and not the full game.
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- Comment on ‘Australia is not the USA’: Labor accuses Coalition of importing Trump-style culture war on immigration 2 months ago:
And they already have greater privileges than anyone else on a working holiday visa.
- Comment on SBS staff sworn off naming Palestine despite federal recognition 2 months ago:
By contrast, three days after the Albanese government’s recognition of Palestine, the ABC updated its own policies permitting ABC reporting use Palestine when referring to its geography, history, community and the intended state encompassing the Occupied Palestinian Territories, editorial director Gavin Fang said in an email reported by this masthead last week.
Is that in contrast? The ABC’s guidelines sound quite similar.
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- Comment on Two Australian women and four children escape Syrian detention camp and flee to Victoria 2 months ago:
One woman who was returned in the second repatriation, Mariam Raad, faced charges of entering Syria’s al-Raqqa province while it was under the control of the Islamic State. She pleaded guilty, and was discharged conditionally, without a conviction.
If you’re going to let them re-enter Australian society without a conviction, what are you afraid of?
- Comment on Albanese invites Arab 'hypermarket' to compete with Coles and Woolworths 2 months ago:
Foodland is just an IGA franchisee. Also it only operates in South Australia, and Drakes is only SA and Queensland.
Well yes, I live in Adelaide. That’s why I talked about what I’d have to choose from, not all Australians.
- Comment on Albanese invites Arab 'hypermarket' to compete with Coles and Woolworths 2 months ago:
There have been rumours about Lidl moving here for years now as well. I’m not against more competitors, but if another one joins I’d have 6 major competitors (Coles, Woolworths, Drakes, Foodland, ALDI, Lulu/Lidl/???) to choose from, plus smaller stores like NQR, IGA and all the local independents. I feel like it would just dilute the non-Colesworth share of the market further, leading to the closure of one or several of those smaller chains.