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- Happy Public Domain Day 2026 - the first time since 2005 that authors and artists have entered the public domain in Australiawikimedia.org.au ↗Submitted 6 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Cameron Corner celebrates New Year's Eve three times in one night, on three state borders 1 week ago:
Also, there’s three three-way time-offset junctions in Europe (at this time of year), but they all have ‘hard’ international borders. If the junctions were in the Schengen Area, then it’d be like Cameron Corner, but I don’t think you can legally walk freely between countries (and time zones) at these three points, without using an official point of entry (I might be wrong about that, though).
- Comment on Cameron Corner celebrates New Year's Eve three times in one night, on three state borders 1 week ago:
I got curious about whether this was possible in the U.S., and it looks like it isn’t!
There’s a point where 3 time zones meet - at the border junction of Nevada, Utah and Arizona - but that’s only during the northern hemisphere’s summer, when most of Arizona is on daylight saving time.
See here: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_time_offsets_by_U.S._s…
- Cameron Corner celebrates New Year's Eve three times in one night, on three state borderswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
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- Comment on Proposal to allow use of Australian copyrighted material to train AI abandoned after backlash 2 weeks ago:
Those are all different accounts, the number at the end of each is different
- Koala rescued from Brisbane city bus after death-defying dash across busy Camp Hill streetwww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
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- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 5 weeks ago:
I had previously got a similar impression from the eSafety Commissioner’s publication of those lists of platforms, but it does not seem to be the case they are actually defining regulation there. The lists seem to be, essentially, only statements of intent about which platforms that eSafety will seek enforcement of compliance on.
See here: …gov.au/…/which-platforms-are-age-restricted
eSafety does not have a formal role in declaring which services are age-restricted social media platforms. In the absence of any rules made by the Minister of Communications specifying a service is either an age-restricted social media platform or not an age-restricted social media platform, any determination that a service is or is not an age-restricted social media platform is a matter for the court.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 5 weeks ago:
Just be aware that there’s an infinitesimal chance (but not zero) that whatever you send may be sent to some government agency to demonstrate that we are complying with the law.
On this point, as I understand it, the personal information provided for verification can - and indeed should - be destroyed once it has been used for the purpose it was provided.
I assume you might need to keep a (non-identifying) record of how a user was age-verified to prove that you’ve been complying, but not the personal data used to do the verification.
Albo has been claiming that Australian privacy law requires that the data be destroyed once it’s used for age verification, but the language of the law I think has ‘reasonable’ in there, which gives more wiggle room than the GDPR, for example. It was discussed on the Law Report on Radio National: www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/…/105871968 (sorry, no idea of the timestamp, and there doesn’t seem to be a transcript either,
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastlewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Australia is bringing in ‘world first’ minimum pay for food delivery drivers – here’s how it will workwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- TPG Telecom says Sydney person died after outdated phone software blocked Triple Zero callswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
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- Comment on Good chance of aurora tonight, as two-year peak solar activity nears its end 1 month ago:
Damn! Hopefully you’ll have more luck tonight!
- Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on ‘Less like Monopoly, more like Lego’: Labor’s plan to scrap lock-in contracts 1 month ago:
Just put ‘archive.is’ at the front of the URL to de-paywall it. Works with most major news sites.
- Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 18 comments
- Comment on Warning over deadly virus after bat bites Pilbara woman 2 months ago:
It’s a reference to this comedy sketch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
And dockedatthewrongworf was playing along with the next line in the sketch.
- Comment on Warning over deadly virus after bat bites Pilbara woman 2 months ago:
Incurable once you’re symptomatic, and, to be totally clear for anyone not aware, invariably fatal. It’s a horrible death, too. Also, the incubation period can be anywhere from a few weeks to two years.
The ABC article could have benefited from making that clearer. It calls the virus ‘deadly’, but doesn’t impress upon the reader just how deadly.
- Comment on Warning over deadly virus after bat bites Pilbara woman 2 months ago:
You shouldn’t touch any wildlife if you can avoid it, but especially not bats!
- Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Aussies go viral for booing American national anthem at WWE Crown Jewel event in Perth7news.com.au ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 28 comments