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• Australia Post suspends parcel deliveries to US on eve of Trump’s new import tariff schemewww.theguardian.com ↗
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• Traffic pollution contributes to more than 1,800 premature deaths per year, study estimateswww.abc.net.au ↗
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• Oasis Driver for Windows Mixed Reality on Steamstore.steampowered.com ↗
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• Academic labels Julie Bishop ‘hostile and arrogant’ in tearful evidence to ANU inquirywww.theguardian.com ↗
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• Mark Baxter stopped talking about his upbringing to break through the ‘class ceiling’. Now he’s fighting for changewww.theguardian.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you house-sit instead of renting? Australians turn to pet-minding to escape the housing crisis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ↗
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• ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  • Don’t use social media when you wake up, or before bed

  • Set time limits (like with leechblock-ng)

  • You probably don’t need to read the news every day to be reasonably informed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for a version control system⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ↗
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• ⁨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'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Powerful US lobby groups urge tariff retaliation against Australia’s ‘socialised medicine’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bring on socialised dental. The horror when our entire population has healthy teeth!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear of 'being cringe' blamed for lack of dancing on nightclub dance floors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure if this is anything new, but maybe it’s getting worse. Most of my friends when I was younger wouldn’t do anything more than the “stand still and sway” method of dancing because they didn’t want to look silly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cancer rates in Australians under 50 are rising at a pace that's alarming doctors and scientists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the reasons people do use roads is that they are often flatter and in better condition, and you’re not competing for space with children and dogs. But better that than cars with all the risks that come with them (collisions and noise/air pollution).

  However, the health benefits of regular exercise tend to outweigh the risk of air pollution (although perhaps not in severely polluted cities like in parts of India). So it’s probably still worth it that’s the most convenient place to exercise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cancer rates in Australians under 50 are rising at a pace that's alarming doctors and scientists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Obesity is also a major factor for all-cause mortality, including cancer (and bowel cancer specifically which is one the diseases increasing in incidence).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South Australia Government considers requiring developers to build bigger garages. The cost will be paid by home buyers. Whether they have a car or not.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Property Council SA is mentioned later in the article. And in this case, they are right, as this is another subsidy for people with gigantic vehicles that must be borne by all of the people that have smaller cars (or no cars at all).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia’s had two more years of gambling ad harm since the Murphy report. It’s time for Labor to show some courage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When pressed on his reticence to implement a full ban [on gambling ads], Anthony Albanese has repeatedly implied that gambling is part of Australian culture.

  Culture doesn’t happen in a vacuum, nor is it some sort of iron clad thing that never changes. Government policy has been a major contributor to addressing various public health issues that have historically been seen as cultural, and the same can apply to gambling.

  Although I feel Albanese himself has a bit of a blind spot on this issue. He was one of the people who came out against the proposed greyhound racing ban by the NSW Liberal government in the 2010s, which has always tainted my view of him a little.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was clear from context I was talking about X.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of those are lesser evils compared to X, and that’s probably the best you can hope for. And Bluesky is the obvious alternative lesser evil choice of you want a like for like replacement and aren’t open to Mastodon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re technically inclined, self-host navidrome or jellyfin.

  If you just want music and don’t care about the streaming part, bandcamp (although it does have some basic streaming I believe.

  If you want streaming and aren’t technically inclined, Tidal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I get where you’re coming from, but it’s not like there aren’t multiple obvious alternatives (and not just on the fediverse). And someone clued in enough to boycott Spotify should have no trouble finding those alternatives.

  And the platform being owned by an outright Nazi should give even the most out of touch people pause.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention giving 100s of millions of dollars to fund Joe Rogan and his extreme right-wing propaganda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minimum wage, parental leave and road fines: what’s changing on 1 July⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good to see, but shame that unemployment and study payments haven’t been raised in real terms.