vividspecter
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- Finally fixing capital gains tax is good – but linking it to another tax cut for Australia’s rich is bollocks | Greg Jerichowww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 day ago to australia@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on Ban under-16s from riding ebikes and e-scooters then require a driver’s licence, Queensland inquiry to recommend 2 days ago:
The problem is that overly onerous requirements will discourage even more people taking up biking, in a time where absurd numbers of people drive literally everywhere.
I can understand the throttle based e-bikes requiring a license, but limiting pedelacs which are no more powerful than conventional bikes is ridiculous and feels like a moral panic type action.
- Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on Old Bureau of Meteorology website still getting thousands of clicks 2 weeks ago:
It supported it for a while before the original site was switched over (a few years I think). I’ll take your word for it that at some point it didn’t.
- Comment on Old Bureau of Meteorology website still getting thousands of clicks 2 weeks ago:
The reg subdomain linked in the OP also supports HTTPS.
- Without stronger privacy laws, Australians are guinea pigs in a real-time dystopian AI experiment | Peter Lewiswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Concerns ‘AI slop’ used by University of Sydney-based institute to lobby for $20m gambling education fundingwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Concerns ‘AI slop’ used by University of Sydney-based institute to lobby for $20m gambling education fundingwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Tanning apps that offer ‘safe’ sun routines undermining efforts to tackle skin cancer 2 weeks ago:
Here’s a recent article and recommendations on the tradeoffs of sun exposure for vitamin D versus the risk of skin cancer: www.sciencedirect.com/…/S1326020023052949
tl;dr risk and benefit is based on skin colour primarily. Pale skinned people need very little sun exposure to get sufficient Vitamin D in most cases while being at much higher risk of skin cancer. For dark skinned people, the situation is reversed (need more sun exposure and are at less risk of skin cancer).
- Comment on Help open the source of the myGov Code Generator app 3 weeks ago:
I think a better approach would be:
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Support conventional TOTP codes that any other 2FA app supports
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Give passkeys first-class support (currently there is a bug where a passkey login is not counted as a real login, so you could lose your account due to inactivity if you don’t login with a password in a while)
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Similarly, allow passkey only login so there isn’t the vulnerability from SMS 2FA (or make it 2 factor with passkeys + password and/or 2FA)
I know some are wary about passkeys because they are often tied to a device, but common password managers now have great support for it (such as bitwarden and keepassXC) and you could even use a physical key instead.
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- Company handling Australia’s immigration detention playing key role in Trump’s ICE migrant crackdownwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on The capsicum paradox: new Australian supermarket pricing a ‘massive transparency fail’ for customers 4 weeks ago:
But that’s really besides the point of the majority of the article, as this is largely about converting customers online orders. If I’m ordering apples online, I’d want to buy on a per-unit basis (eg. 5 apples for the kids lunchbox), I’d be pretty miffed if I ordered 800g online - expecting 5 and only getting 4 bigger ones.
The opposite case is also annoying as I’d prefer to buy potatoes by KG and don’t care how many that comes to, but when selecting per unit the actual per-KG price isn’t known until after you have ordered.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 38 comments
- Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done?theconversation.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 63 comments
- Comment on Spiralling costs spark 'urgent' overhaul of $2.3b battery subsidy scheme 2 months ago:
You can also just discharge the battery to the grid if you have excess (or soak up more from the cheap middle of the day grid power, although presumably there are charge rate limitations).
- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 2 months ago:
Yeah, seeing that conservative hack Haidt being invoked undermines the whole premise.
- Victorian premier delivers formal apology to Australia’s First Peoples for ‘rapid and violent’ colonisationwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- The lesson of the Cronulla riots was that the beach was not for people like me. But it’s a myth I am increasingly resisting | Sarah Malikwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on Academics hit back after leading universities seek changes to key environmental legislation 2 months ago:
Labor made a deal with the Greens today so hopefully that means none of the Go8 requested amendments will occur. Gross behaviour in any case.
- Comment on 100 years ago today 3 months ago:
This is a bit like the opv vs fpv back and forth at the state level. Party in government thinks they can get a benefit from switching but it invariably backfires.
- 150 police visits in 20 months: Indigenous mother takes action after her boys subjected to ‘relentless’ checkswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Private health insurance offered little relief for my dental woes 3 months ago:
My (likely delusional) hope is that Labor are quietly working on this in the background, but haven’t worked out the details yet. But if they are, they should get on with it while they have a massive majority and the Liberal party are imploding.
- Nearly 90% of jobseekers unable to get long-term work despite millions spent on private job agencieswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 9 comments
- Comment on Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day 3 months ago:
Requires a smart meter, although they are getting rolled out to most people. My cheapskate landlord won’t address the asbestos ridden meter box so I’m stuck with a traditional meter for the moment though.
- Once Australia’s second priciest city, Melbourne has become more affordable. What happened – and will it last?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system? 3 months 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 3 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on Federal class action lodged over ‘racially discriminatory’ work for the dole scheme 4 months 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 4 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- More than 300,000 Australians had Centrelink payments cancelled illegally, new analysis showswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 5 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment