vividspecter
@vividspecter@aussie.zone
- Once Australia’s second priciest city, Melbourne has become more affordable. What happened – and will it last?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system? 2 days ago:
My suggestions off the top of my head:
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Abolish mutual obligations - it’s punitive, expensive, and causes significant harm to the most vulnerable while doing little to help people gain employment
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Raise the payment - there have been some very minor increases and fiddling around the edges but the payment is still well below the poverty line
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Bring back the CES - private job providers are worse than useless and have little ability or intention to help the most vulnerable.
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- Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Federal class action lodged over ‘racially discriminatory’ work for the dole scheme 3 weeks ago:
The lawsuit covers 2015-2021 so peak Morrison years unsurprisingly, although it appears the scheme hasn’t been entirely dismantled yet.
- Federal class action lodged over ‘racially discriminatory’ work for the dole schemewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- More than 300,000 Australians had Centrelink payments cancelled illegally, new analysis showswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 15 comments
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Australia is about to get a centre for disease control. How will it tackle public health challenges? 1 month ago:
Timely, given what is happening in the US. Hopefully this is a truly independent organisation that can’t be easily compromised by the government of the day.
- Comment on ‘A fundamental part of growing up’: Why Aussie kids can’t swim any more 1 month ago:
Stannis?
- Sydney Marathon 2025: thousands turn out and records tumble in race’s debut as a major – in pictureswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- About 3m Australians affected by unlawful Centrelink debt calculation to be eligible for up to $600 compensationwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 11 comments
- Australia Post suspends parcel deliveries to US on eve of Trump’s new import tariff schemewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Traffic pollution contributes to more than 1,800 premature deaths per year, study estimateswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Academic labels Julie Bishop ‘hostile and arrogant’ in tearful evidence to ANU inquirywww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Mark Baxter stopped talking about his upbringing to break through the ‘class ceiling’. Now he’s fighting for changewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Can you house-sit instead of renting? Australians turn to pet-minding to escape the housing crisis 2 months ago:
Can you pick fruit in the middle of nowhere instead of renting?
- Comment on Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube 2 months ago:
so this is a far cry from the “ban” it has been hysterically portrayed as in the media.
I agree the media reporting has not been great, but the concern is more about slippery slope type effects where this will be extended to cover more and more sites. Some would argue that “slippery slope” arguments are fallacious, but I think there is a point here, especially when laws that can be argued to “protect children” are hard to roll back due to the political risk (and are easy to expand for the same reason).
- Comment on Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube 2 months ago:
Will anonymous access still be allowed? I remember there was some vague wording about logged in vs logged out in terms of search engine, which seemed to suggest that only logged in users would be affected.
- Comment on Chinwag's age verification process 2 months ago:
This is satire I presume from the jokiness of the whole thing, but being able to purchase a token in person by just showing an ID (without any storage of data) would be a less intrusive method then the “have your ID and/or face collected and stored for an undisclosed period of time” approach.
- Comment on PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming 2 months ago:
They might mean exclusives, of which none of those apply. But I personally don’t think exclusives are a good thing anyway.
- Victorians could soon have the right to work from home two days a week under Australian-first lawswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 2 months ago:
I also don’t see Swanstation going away any time soon, even if it gets no new features. It’s pretty close to feature complete in the ways that matter anyway.
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 2 months ago:
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Don’t use social media when you wake up, or before bed
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Set time limits (like with leechblock-ng)
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You probably don’t need to read the news every day to be reasonably informed
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- Comment on Recommendations for a version control system 2 months ago:
Having a web UI is useful even if you’re not using the extra tools. Not mandatory of course, but nice.
- ESO devs at ZeniMax reel from Microsoft's 'hollow' layoff emails, with some wondering how a 'carcass of workers' is 'supposed to keep shipping award-winning games'www.pcgamer.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on OpenAI just launched its new ChatGPT Agent that can make as many as 1 complicated cupcake order per hour, but even Sam Altman says you probably shouldn't trust it for 'high-stakes uses' 3 months ago:
I’m guessing it’s the AI agent stuff. Which at the moment is literally just automating browsing through a website.
Apparently there will be APIs to do this in the future. Ironically, AI wouldn’t even be needed for that to be useful.
- Comment on KDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from dead 3 months ago:
mpv supports Dolby vision (along with the Jellyfin clients that depend on it), but if you mean with streaming services, that’s unlikely to happen due to DRM.
- Comment on Misogyny is thriving in our schools. Why aren’t we doing more? 3 months ago:
Personal responsibilty approaches to behaviour change have never worked and never will work. You might as well be shouting into the void for all the good it will do. You need to address these sorts of issues at the societal level.