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- Comment on Yay 1 day ago:
sudo userdel -r project_tmp - Comment on Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery 5 weeks ago:
A possible ban on social media for under-16s in the UK is “on the table”, the technology secretary Peter Kyle has told the BBC.
- Comment on Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery 5 weeks ago:
The likes of lemmy instances may be either small enough to fly under the radar, or handwaved away by legislators with “don’t worry it’s not the target of this legislation”, or even be given easy access to ministerial exemption …for now (maybe).
The kicker comes in 10-15 years’ time when, say, a government’s donor inconvenienced by protests organised using a self-hosted forum then asks the government to crack down on the age verification requirements of that forum, effectively silencing it due to the requirements being too onerous for a small forum, or the userbase being unwilling to submit their IDs/faceprints/whatever.
- Comment on U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream 5 weeks ago:
Faaark, I’m agreeing with Malcolm Roberts!
- U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestreamlemmy.ml ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 81 comments
- 'It's going to scar them': NT to become first jurisdiction to lower criminal age of responsibilitywww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on PM warns of 'consequences' as thousands of CFMEU workers march across Australia 4 months ago:
Yet another moment since Labor’s re-election where I think “Ooh, Albo’s going mask-off!”.
Please let’s have minority governments, our electoral and political system is ideal for it!
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 4 months ago:
The footwear, or the logic gate arrangement?
- Comment on Telstra, Optus to delay 3G network closure amid public safety concerns 4 months ago:
Some 4G phones don’t support 4G calling correctly or with all networks.
Check whether your phone actually uses 4G (VoLTE) for calls – to sort-of test this, make a call while connected to mobile data and note whether the signal meter’s 4G indication drops to 3G(H+/HSPA) or something during the call.
A more insidious version of this issue is that some phones do VoLTE just fine, but only use 3G for 000 calls.
Some phones only support VoLTE with some networks. There’s a chance that an appropriate firmware upgrade could add support for some network/device combos.
- Comment on Rezoning = private profit?! (Couple loses property fight after highway swallows $5.5 million dream) 5 months ago:
- Comment on Rezoning = private profit?! (Couple loses property fight after highway swallows $5.5 million dream) 5 months ago:
Yeah, I can never quite tell with articles sometimes…
Among many elements of the story that absolutely fail to raise sympathy:
[…] They planned to subdivide their block into 26 lots once the land was rezoned as residential, live on one block and drip-feed two or three others on to the market each year.
…just what we need – a drip-feed of low-density housing.
- Rezoning = private profit?! (Couple loses property fight after highway swallows $5.5 million dream)www.smh.com.au ↗Submitted 5 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on This is ground control to Major Dumb... 5 months ago:
Yeah nah, that’s not the way. Sure people can get away with it, but it’s really not eliminating the hazards.
fnqsafetygroup.org.au/…/cutting-empty-drums.pdf …gov.au/…/explosions-when-cutting-used-fuel-tanks…
There’s a bunch of non-obvious hazards which exist around cutting into containers which have held fuels, including but not limited to:
- An empty propane container could have an gas+air mixture inside it in proportions which could explode.
- Any liquid residue in an empty fuel container can be vapourised by the heat of the cutting, creating a fuel+air mix which can spontaneously explode from the pressure and heat, even without sparks (think: diesel engine but instead of a 0.25L cylinder but a 200L cylinder).
- An empty gas canister can be contaminated with heavier oils/waxes that could build up over the years of refilling cycles, creating the same hazard as noted for empty liquid fuel containers.
Methods to reduce the hazard include:
- Thoroughly washing the inside of the container before cutting (access can be difficult though).
- Filling with water and cutting while full of water. (Container musn’t be sealed, and the cutting method must be safe to use in a wet environment, and further hazards such as introducing oxygen into the container need to be considered).
- Submitted 10 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on Is anyone else seeing more insects? 10 months ago:
👍 Fuck lawns. Grassland or gtfo.
Beetles and lepidoptera ftw.
photo of a largeish yellow-brown beetle with fan shaped antennae another photo of the same beetle, held between thumb and forefinger
- Comment on E-scooters are linked with injuries and hospital visits – but we can’t say they are riskier than bikes yet 10 months ago:
Those Dutch hospitals must be packed full of cyclists with head injuries…
