bandario
@bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on DNA companies should receive the death penalty for getting hacked | TechCrunch 11 months ago:
You nailed it. Users cannot be trusted to not re-use login credentials.
I know we all hate it, but proper 2-factor authentication via authenticator apps must be the default position for everything.
- Comment on Remembrance 11 months ago:
She treated herself
- Comment on Australians’ tipping habits fail to keep up with rising restaurant prices, data reveals 11 months ago:
Great, good, gorgonzola. We don’t do that here.
These type of articles are designed to try and normalise this behaviour. Not having it. Price is on the menu and is tax inclusive. Get fucked.
- Comment on When a place is called " Heights", what does "heights" mean/refer to? 11 months ago:
That’s generally how it’s used in Australia. There will be an existing suburb named ‘generic suburb’, and developers will come and build a new housing development full of cookie cutter houses on 300m2 blocks with their gutters near touching eachother and call it ‘generic suburb heights’ as an attempt to give the schmucks that buy there some sort of feeling of prestige over the older neighbourhood with larger block sizes and more human compatible dwellings.
Other guy in here nailed it with the British origins but for some reason he’s been downvoted.
- Comment on Elon Musk vows ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as advertisers flee X over antisemitism 11 months ago:
To be clear, is he in hot water over what he said about the ADL? Or the fact that Nazi’s are proliferating on his platform and advertisers don’t like it?
- Comment on Streaming costs are rising, and there are more platforms than ever to choose between. Some people are going back to piracy 1 year ago:
Pretty soon it will ONLY be the pirates that have access to a lot of this content.
- Comment on Streaming costs are rising, and there are more platforms than ever to choose between. Some people are going back to piracy 1 year ago:
That is the bed they made and now the studios must lay in it.
I don’t care if they start distributing microSD cards, there MUST be a physical distribution format that is not linked to an online subscription.
- Comment on Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media 1 year ago:
In many cases I believe SOMEONE is paying these supermods.
It’s more about controlling public discourse than it is any sense of moral compass IMO.
It’s a fairly cheap way to control the narrative on just about whatever you like if you can steer acceptable speech around hot button issues on such a large platform.
- Comment on Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12 1 year ago:
I have embraced all the good parts of Windows 11. I will continue to cut out the telemetry and other creepy elements like the cancer that it is.
- Comment on Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12 1 year ago:
No thank you. Startallisback to the rescue. Ghost spectre to remove whatever bullshit they put in this time.
I’m not against progress, I just prefer my computer to leave the thinking to me.
- Comment on Redditor when women 1 year ago:
Sorry about the grainy, difficult to read image. I am on mobile and couldn’t find a better version right now.
I think you might have misunderstood one of the primary internet rules “There are no girls on the internet.”
If you squint, you’ll work it out.
- Comment on Earth Stopped Getting Greener 20 Years Ago 1 year ago:
Well that’s just great.
- Comment on Scottish couple facing $33k repair bill after driving Tesla in heavy rain 1 year ago:
Are you well regarded in your community? Because you are certainly regarded here.
- Comment on Referendum Results, Congratulations, Comiserations 1 year ago:
the Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws with respect to matters relating to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, including its composition, functions, powers and procedures.
It certainly isn’t specific.
Who will this person be, claiming to represent the interest of 200 distinct language groups? What laws will be made?
It’s little wonder it failed. You and I can’t even agree and it seems like we’re ostensibly on the same side of the issue.
- Comment on Referendum Results, Congratulations, Comiserations 1 year ago:
It got conflated because there are multiple global examples to where the constitutional change that passed was equally broad and has created a situation where you cannot sneeze in your back garden without first asking a first nations corporation for permission and paying the tithe. I’m not saying that some form of financial reparations should be ruled out, but landing it on the heads of people who purely through accident of birth grow up in a former colony is not going to fly. It ends up in a circular argument every single time. Perhaps the British crown should own their crimes and shoulder the financial burden of making things right? Certainly no questioning the lineage of those responsible there.
- Comment on Referendum Results, Congratulations, Comiserations 1 year ago:
recognising the original owners of the land in our constitution was really all it was meant to do
Without any detail about how these processes would actually work, this seemingly common sense statement is fraught with danger. This has been rightly recognised by those most likely to encounter legislative change around land management and compulsory engagement with indigenous groups. As you move outwards from inner city suburbs, the percentage of no voters increased and this should not surprise anyone at all…that doesn’t mean country folks are racist or that they don’t care about first nations issues. It means they are far more likely to have been caught up in the absolutely disgusting mess of previous government attempts to put a framework around cultural heritage issues or challenges to private land ownership.
The guarantee of ‘an indigenous voice to parliament’ completely failed to elucidate how this could possibly hope to deal with the fractious state of existing first nations groups who can not and will not work together or settle disputes over borders. Obviously this is a problem originally caused by colonisation and forced encampment, but it’s not easily put to bed. Right now where I live there are heated battles raging over native title claims; over boundaries and which family groups are the rightful representatives of each tribal group. 4 or 5 districts that cannot decide on who is the rightful native title claimant, all with various corporate backing fighting tooth and nail with a view to securing the imagined wealth of being ratified as the original inhabitants of one patch of dirt or another.
This is where it ends up:
dailymail.co.uk/…/Perth-tree-planting-event-axed-…
This wasn’t some mining company looking to explore for gas or resources…it was a group of people trying to carry out a waterway restoration project. To help undo damage to the land. They were asked to pay 2.5 million dollars to the Whadjuk Aboriginal Corporation for the privilege.
That CEO has since been rightly removed, but you get the picture. There are so many corporate groups out there just rubbing their hands together and hoping to turn this ugly mess into a gravy train. I have first hand experience dealing with these situations and it has been absolutely heartbreaking. White solutions to black problems seems to just lead to more exploitation and fresh wounds.
About 6 months ago we had some cultural heritage training delivered at work just as public discourse around ‘The Voice’ was starting to ramp up heavily. There were about 100 people present across a few sessions and I think they were extremely powerful for some people. Some minds were changed on a few issues and the facilitator was absolutely fantastic. Towards the end of the session I was absolutely shocked when that facilitator who obviously cares deeply about first nations representation told our group that she and her family would be voting against the referendum. Her statement was concise and to the point: “How can a single indigenous voice to parliament represent hundreds of groups who do not agree with one another?”
Obviously she is caught up in the aforementioned ongoing disputes, but I dare say after the heartbreaking presentation about generational trauma inflicted by white settlers trying to solve indigenous issues, she made almost 100 no voters right there.
To be perfectly honest I am completely disgusted by the way this proposal was handled from start to finish. IMO the Labor party has taken the olive branch offered by the Uluru Statement from the Heart and stomped it into the ground for attempted political gain.
They grabbed a divisive wedge issue and took it to a referendum with no real plan for how it was going to work. They failed to illustrate a workable framework or demonstrate what was going to be put in place to compensate private landholders for restrictions placed on development of the land they have purchased.
It feels as though we just set reconciliation back about 40 years, picked the scab from every wound imaginable…and for what? My heart breaks for indigenous Australians right now. They’ve just been told by the entire country that we don’t care about them. That hurts, because there’s simply no way that is the case. Again, our first Australians have been let down by a tone deaf white government that believes so hard that ‘they know best’ that they were prepared to put indigenous people on the gallows with a smile and forced the Australian people to pull the lever by keeping them in the dark and not presenting the full legal framework that would draw from that constitutional change.
It’s fucking gross.
- Comment on Decision to allow wider truck bodies paves way for electrification of big rigs in Australia 1 year ago:
It could grip it by the husk!
- Comment on How has your Lemmy experience changed over the past few months? 1 year ago:
That Lemmit bot that just keeps posting links to Reddit has got to go!!
If it’s worth posting or discussing, link the original article and make your own damn post. I don’t want a link back to Reddit.
- Comment on Monster hunter in a nutshell 1 year ago:
Even for the photoshop, I need context right fucking now!
- Comment on Should I putchase a 4-year-old nVidia TV Pro, another technology, or wait for next Gen? 1 year ago:
I had issues with that lack of HDMI 2.1 support.
Tried to pair mine with an LG CX OLED and could not for the life of me get it to reliably run at 4K.
It chooses its own dogshit res and it looks bad even though it scales well. Not about to watch a bad picture on such an expensive display.
- Comment on Marketing is in large part what necessitates marketing to begin with. 1 year ago:
Really? I disagree. I have this crazy belief that high value, high quality goods do not need advertising. Instead they create their own reputation and word spreads organically.
Then as profits begin to increase they will cheap out on materials and labour to eek out a few dollars more and destroy themselves because this is the game.
- Comment on SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million 1 year ago:
Starlink won’t beat FTTP or FTTN, but it sure as shit beats fixed wireless and sky muster.
Shit, just not having to deal indirectly with NBNCo every time there’s a problem (multiple times per month) has got to be worth $100 per month to me.
No regrets. FUCK NBNCO sideways, with an axe.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I think there’s other factors.
I worked for 12 hours today. When I came home and browsed ALL, it was exactly same posts as there was this morning. That’s a problem for getting return visits. I have resolved to take some of the energy I spend on comments and dedicate it back to posts.
- Comment on Greens agree to support Labor’s $10bn housing fund, breaking months-long impasse 1 year ago:
This is not a problem that can be spread over 20 years. People are homeless NOW. They’re hungry NOW. Hungry people don’t stay hungry for long.
Already break-ins are at a point that normal people are ready to kill. They don’t have 20 years to fix this shit; they will be eaten alive in their own homes before then and they will deserve it.
- Comment on Greens agree to support Labor’s $10bn housing fund, breaking months-long impasse 1 year ago:
Do you know how many god damn houses I could build with 10 billion dollars?
SO MANY FUCKING HOUSES, BECAUSE THEY’D ALL BE WELL-BUILT APARTMENTS.
Why do I feel like this is somehow going to achieve somewhere between diddly squat and fuck-all?
- Comment on Man dies from snake bite after trying to uncoil it from friend's leg (Mackay) 1 year ago:
I work in the bush. I’m well familiar with snakebite first aid, snake ID and all of the “Here’s what NOT to do” etc.
There is something that nobody likes to talk about regarding snakes in Australia. If you get bitten on a limb and you know what to do, you’ll probably be ok.
None of us like to talk about what happens if you get tagged on the torso, arse or head by a brown snake, taipan, small scaled snake etc. The fact is, you are probably going to die.
Further still, I can follow all the right first aid advice if I am bitten on a limb: Pressure immobilization bandages, lay still, wait for help. If nobody knows exactly where I am, I could be waiting days for help. Again, I’m likely going to die. I do my best to communicate my movements but Australia is a big place, and emergency GPS devices often fail under canopy cover.
This is something that is ALWAYS in the back of my mind. I wear good quality snake gaiters, make a tonne of noise and keep my eyes peeled but when you are walking through thick undergrowth where you can’t see the ground there’s really not much you can do about it. It will be the one you don’t see. Also lots of snakes climb trees, not just treesnakes - this is another thing most of us like to just ignore because otherwise we’d never go out in the field.
Between the plants and the animals it does sometimes feels like this country wants us dead.
- Comment on Danny Masterson Is Sentenced to 30 Years to Life in Prison for Two Rapes 1 year ago:
It’s fucking gross.
I’ve no idea how they convince themselves they’re going to get away with this sort of shit.
If that is their thing, I’m sure they could find any number of people willing to play around with consensual non consent instead of destroying someone.
- Comment on Danny Masterson Is Sentenced to 30 Years to Life in Prison for Two Rapes 1 year ago:
Why has a Hollywood celeb gotta be out there raping? Why? I just don’t understand.
- Comment on ‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen 1 year ago:
2012 Toyota. Toyota T-Connect didn’t become available until 2014.
It’s also a paid service! It requires a sim card and a plan, and would have relied on the factory entertainment unit which I have removed.
I think you are mistaking ‘black box’ type data logging with an always-on internet connection phoning home with the ability to turn features on and off which is a more recent and far more sinister phenomenon.
- Comment on ‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen 1 year ago:
My car is nowhere near that smart, and I don’t pay any subscription fees so I doubt I’m rolling around Australia with a data connection that I don’t know about.
