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- Comment on Go Private? 6 hours ago:
As others have mentioned, there’d seem to be hard downsides:
- Can’t send direct links to people without an account
- Harder for people to ‘discover’ the instance or check it out, which would surely reduce people signing up to the instance and participating in our community
So I’d be against it unless there’s really strong reasons for it. I haven’t really experienced bad server-load issues.
There’s conceivably a middle-ground where the instance becomes logged-in-only automatically under high load. That’d no doubt be a considerable extra work, but just throwing it out there as an idea. I still don’t think even that’s necessarily a great idea, because again, if the traffic is people showing interest in the instance, that’s a good thing in the long term. It’d be better than setting it to logged-in-only permanently.
I think this should be pretty much a last resort for any performance issues, and any other measure should be considered first, including spending more money.
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- Comment on Where will my vote go? 4 days ago:
You don’t need to vote below the line to choose your own preferences in the Senate anymore. ‘Above the line’ voting is now preferential, with at least 6 boxes needing to be numbered.
- Comment on Where will my vote go? 4 days ago:
Is there any resource out there that can show me where the preferences get fed to, so I can make an informed choice.
You choose your own preferences.
On the House of Representative ballot, this has always been the case.
On the Senate ballot it used to be the case that if you voted ‘above the line’, you could only vote ‘1’, and nothing more, and the parties decided the preference flow. That is not the case anymore. Now we have partially-optional preferencing ‘above the line’, numbering at least 6, or all the boxes above the line if you choose. (You can also number below the line if you want to pick your own ordering of the candidates for each party/group.)
- Comment on Menthol cigarettes banned and every stick to hold a warning 1 week ago:
Good point, thanks. I’ve added a content warning.
- Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 13 comments
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- Comment on 'Limited incentive' for Coles and Woolworths to compete vigorously on price, and margins have risen, ACCC finds 2 weeks ago:
This SMH live post provides a bit more information: smh.com.au/…/australia-news-live-accc-puts-most-p…
9.01am
Government pledges $2.9m to help suppliers stand up to supermarkets
By Josefine Ganko
As the ACCC supermarkets report reveals how the duopoly exerts power over consumers and suppliers, the government has announced $2.9 million in funding for produce industry associations to support education programs that will empower farmers to enforce their rights under the Food and Grocery Code.
Speaking at a press conference in Canberra, Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the funding was about “strengthening the arms” of the groups that represent farmers and producers. Treasurer Jim Chalmers, Assistant Minister for Competition Andrew Leigh and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher at a press conference in Canberra
Treasurer Jim Chalmers, Assistant Minister for Competition Andrew Leigh and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher at a press conference in Canberra Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
“We want to make sure that when our supermarkets are negotiating with our farmers, that we can strengthen the arguments of the people who produce our food.”
Chalmers added that Labor’s move to make the code mandatory and to introduce bigger penalties would also benefit suppliers.
Assistant Minister for Competition Andrew Leigh added that there were particular concerns around fresh food producers being required to agree to annual contracts, but then being subjected to week-to-week bidding, with the notion they will face much lower prices at the markets if the big supermarkets don’t stock their produce.
“This new initiative does ensure that the suppliers are going into those negotiations better able to take on the big supermarkets,” Leigh said.
- Parents, patients, doctors weigh in on [Queenland Health] hormone freeze debate for trans kidswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Australia’s new $5 note to reflect First Nations connection to country instead of King Charles 3 weeks ago:
RIP 😢🍆🐋
- Australia’s new $5 note to reflect First Nations connection to country instead of King Charleswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 13 comments
- Comment on Is there an Australian equivalent for boycotting american products ? 4 weeks ago:
Barcode numbers can sort of give an indication.
The first three digits are determined by the country the barcode was assigned in. The barcode can’t tell you the country of origin of the product, but it’s fairly likely the company that made the product is headquartered in the country indicated by the code (or at least has some administrative presence there).
Here’s a list of country codes for reference: www.barcodestalk.com/…/barcode-country-codes
Here’s a Snopes article about what the country codes can’t tell you: www.snopes.com/fact-check/bar-code-origin-point/
- Star Entertainment close to collapse with casino group set to run out of cash before the weekendwww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 9 comments
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- Comment on Labor says Dutton has questions to answer over timing of share purchases 5 weeks ago:
In some states, but not in federal elections
- Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on How often do you run backups on your system? 1 month ago:
Right now, I have a cron job set to run on Monday and Friday nights, is this too frequent?
Only you can answer this. How many days worth of data are you prepared to lose?
- Comment on Australia accuses China of 'unsafe' fighter jet move 1 month ago:
Europe is closer to China than us. Why aren’t the Brits, French and Germans doing this?
Australia is slightly closer to any part of China than Germany is, but Australia is much closer to the Paracel Islands (Germany is about 9000km, Australia about 4000km).
The rest of your comment is spot-on, though. There’s no way we’re getting those nuclear subs.
- Comment on Australia accuses China of 'unsafe' fighter jet move 1 month ago:
Yet another case of China aggressively placing its territory near American military assets. They must be stopped 😡😡😡
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- Comment on Two men arrested over Melbourne's 'Pam the bird' graffiti attacks 2 months ago:
WTF is a a “graffiti attack”?
- Comment on XXXX Capitalise On Great Northern Going 'Woke' By Saying Gay People Should Be Banned From State Forests 2 months ago:
- Comment on The synthetic vitamin leaving several Australians with major health issues 2 months ago:
Yeah, with ABC articles the last couple of years, generally the headline that appears on the page itself is far better than the sharing metadata headline.
- Grace Tame wears anti-Murdoch shirt to prime minister’s Australian of the Year morning teawww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 12 comments
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- Comment on Australian police say antisemitic crimes may be funded overseas 2 months ago:
Related article over on !news@aussie.zone - aussie.zone/post/17103248
- Comment on The series of anti-Semitic attacks that have shocked Sydney 2 months ago:
I agree with your comment entirely, so you may be misunderstanding the point I was making.
I agree it’s not surprising there’s been a rise in anti-jewish racism, especially since the Israeli state consistently tries to muddy the waters and conflate itself with jewish people in general (which is fucked).
The comment I was replying to (“Maybe if they stopped genociding people?”) appears to uncritically accept this conflation and the racist falsehood that the whole ethnic communities being targeted in these incidents are inherently connected or responsible for Israel’s genocide, and that needs to be called out.
- Comment on The series of anti-Semitic attacks that have shocked Sydney 2 months ago:
Done: aussie.zone/post/17098473
Would probably usually post this sort thing to c/news, but posted in c/Australia seeing as two other articles on the matter were posted there.
