Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
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- Comment on Misogyny is thriving in our schools. Why aren’t we doing more? 1 day ago:
a school teacher is more likely to come from a wealthier, more conservative background
I couldn’t find stats for Australia, but in America teachers are statistically more likely to be Democrats than Republicans, so I don’t think this is supported.
It is also worth noting that, though I couldn’t find anything on Australian educators’ political leanings, teachers are one of the most highly unionised workforces in the country, and our centrist party (the one the media and many in the general public would call “centre-left”, like your Democrats) has explicit ties to the union movement.
a school teacher is paid poverty wages
In Australia they’re paid quite well. It doesn’t scale as highly for the average teacher as it does in many other highly educated jobs, but the base salary is pretty good. There’s the important caveat that teachers are largely expected to spend their own money on classroom supplies, though.
teachers are hired by administrators who are usually men, men who can have unaudited privilege
Teachers in Australia are hired by the department based largely on very impersonal factors like qualifications. There’s not a huge amount of room, at the level of classroom teachers, for that kind of bias to have as much of an effect. What more personal decisionmaking does happen is done largely by principals, who are former teachers themselves. Because hiring is done at the department level, principles can get involved in decisions like who gets a job at which school, but the fact that they have a job at all is much more impersonal. The promotion and hiring of principles and other non-classroom positions may be a different question.
That said, I’m not disagreeing with your main point. It is a systemic failure. At a scale far larger than merely within schools.
- Comment on Great job, good education, no home: is Australia’s bloated property market destroying the middle class? 1 day ago:
More supply is part of what’s needed, absolutely.
But there’s more to it than just that. The amount of incentives to invest in housing means more people bidding on a house, which raises the price of the house, which makes housing an even better investment, so more people bid on the next house, which raises housing prices even further. We need to cut that off by strongly disincentivising the use of housing as people’s primary investment.
There are other things that could be done, like a levy on unoccupied homes (including “holiday homes” which might be occupied only a few weeks or months per year) and on unregulated hotels (Airbnb). And better protections for renters. And preventing developers from land-banking or drip-feeding homes onto the market rather than building as much as they can.
Realistically, the housing market is so fucked, we need a mix of all of these.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 1 day ago:
not counting plugging in cars
fwiw you can get wireless car-mount docks.
- Comment on im frend :( 1 day ago:
Happy cake day, frend!
- Comment on Yeah, I was staring at her heart 4 days ago:
I usually stare at their mouth if I’m talking to someone. How else do you concentrate on what they’re saying? Their eyes aren’t the part that talks.
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- Comment on Let’s Encrypt Begins Supporting IP Address Certificates 1 week ago:
In much simpler terms:
Think of an IP address like a street address. 192 My Street.
There might be multiple businesses at one street address. In real life we address them with things like 1/192 My Street and 2/192 My Street, but there’s no direct parallel to that in computer networks. Instead, what we do is more like directing your letter to say “Business A c/o 192 My Street”. That’s what SNI does.
Because we have to write all of that on the outside of the envelope, everyone gets to see that we’re communicating with Business A. But what if one of the businesses at 192 My Street is highly sensitive and we’d rather people didn’t know we were communicating with them? @bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de’s proposal is basically like if you put the “Business A” part inside the envelope, so the mailman (and anyone who sees the letter on the way) only see that it’s going to 192 My Street. Then the front room at that address could open the envelope and see that the ultimate destination is Business A, and pass it along to them.
- Comment on As China prepares to invade Taiwan, a reality check: sitting on the sidelines won’t help Australia 1 week ago:
Damn has it really been three years?
Only 2.
unless this path is made absolutely impossible
That’s the problem though. Taiwan clearly does not want reunification. Peaceful or otherwise. Younger generations are increasingly in favour of either status quo (de facto independence without any official declaration) or even explicit official independence. And the increasingly aggressive rhetoric and actions from China are only pushing the Taiwanese more in that direction. Consider: in 2018 support for moving towards unification was at its highest in over 15 years, but then China’s human rights abuses in Hong Kong, and more recently its aggressive military drills in and near Taiwanese airspace and waters have driven that down to an all-time low.
So realistically, there are only two paths to unification. Through China doing a complete 180 on its foreign policy posture and showing it can sustain that reversal in the long term, as well as showing it can respect human rights. Or, through force.
- Comment on As China prepares to invade Taiwan, a reality check: sitting on the sidelines won’t help Australia 1 week ago:
Happy cake day!
unless it is made to pose a direct threat to them
This is some unfortunately weasely phrasing when it comes to international diplomacy. Don’t forget Israel claimed that Iran was “posing a direct threat to them” before they proactively decided to fire missiles at Iran.
I certainly hope China doesn’t invade Taiwan. But if they do, I have almost zero doubt that it will be after fabricating some sort of nonsense casus belli that gives them a veneer of legitimacy.
- Comment on Erin Patterson found guilty of three counts of murder 1 week ago:
I don’t think the jury necessarily made a mistake here to be clear. They had access to far more detail than us. I trust that the jury did a good job here.
Have you watched the SBS reality TV series ‘The Jury: Death on the Staircase’?
I have not. Is it good?
It was a frustrating insight into how difficult it is for some people to understand the difference between these two things
For me I think the problem might be the opposite. I’ve not been on a jury, but I think I might have trouble distinguishing between beyond reasonable doubt and beyond any doubt, and I might have trouble returning a guilty verdict in the face of anything other than 100% certainty. But I haven’t actually been there to know for sure how I’d react.
- Comment on Erin Patterson found guilty of three counts of murder 1 week ago:
Yeah I thought the same. Obviously the jury has access to much more detail than we do, but based on media reporting of the evidence I thought she probably did it, but I don’t think I could have returned a verdict of guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
- Comment on Erin Patterson found guilty of three counts of murder 1 week ago:
she can still appeal this decision
She can appeal, it’s important to remember that appeals can only be on the basis of a mistake of law. So for example, if the judge of the case permitted the prosecution to present evidence that he shouldn’t have allowed, or if it’s determined that his jury instructions were heavily biased, that might get up on appeal.
An appeal can usually* not decide that the jury was just wrong in terms of which evidence they decided was more persuasive than others. Based on the information that’s public so far, there’s almost zero chance of a successful appeal. Just because you or I, or even a High Court judge would have (based on media reporting of the evidence) decided it didn’t meet the burden of “beyond reasonable doubt”, isn’t sufficient for an overturning of the jury’s decision.
The media hasn’t been allowed to report on decisions made by the judge while the jury wasn’t in the room (which may have included discussions about whether particular evidence is admissible) while the trial was still ongoing to prevent potentially tainting the jury. Now that it’s over we might begin to learn that sort of thing. That’s where appealable factors might be hiding.
* Pell seems to put doubt into this, and frankly created an enormous amount of distrust in the legal system’s ability to hold power to account. There’s some very shaky legal argumentation behind it (basically: the defence presented evidence that, if accepted, would necessarily result in a finding of not guilty, and the prosecution did not specifically do anything to try to refute that evidence)
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 1 week ago:
But that’s not changing the design, really
Depends on what one means by “change the design”. It doesn’t make a fundamental change to the deeper architecture of the game, no. But it does require some relatively superficial changes, which are themselves a design problem of sorts.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 1 week ago:
There are, it may surprise you to learn, different types of game that have online connectivity for different reasons. And the appropriate EOL response may differ across those games.
“Live-service” games where the main gameplay is singleplayer but an online connection is required so they can enforce achievements and upgrades (…and “anti-piracy” bs) may be best served by simply removing the online component so it can all be done locally.
Online competitive games can be switched to a direct connection mode.
MMOs and other games with large numbers of users and a persistent online server can be run on fan-operated servers, so long as (a) the server binary is made available, and (b) the client is modified to allow changing settings to choose a server to connect to (it could be something as simple as a command-line flag with no UI if the devs are being really cheap).
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 1 week ago:
Devs have numerous options for how to address the SKG initiative. The top three that come to my mind are:
- Release server binaries (along with modifying clients to have a setting to connect to the right server)
- Modify multiplayer to work over LAN (good when the server’s only/main job is matchmaking)
- Modify the game itself to no longer require online connectivity
In the case of live service games, I would suggest option 3 is the most appropriate. If the main gameplay is singleplayer, but it’s online so you can dole out achievements and gatekeep content, the answer is simple: stop doing that. Patch it to all work in-client. And keep in mind that this will be a requirement at end-of-life from the beginning. If it’s an unexpected requirement, that’s going to be a huge development cost. If it’s expected, making that EOL change easy to implement will be part of the code architecture from the start.
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 1 week ago:
Happy cake day!
- Comment on Woolworths payment change as popular system [Scan&Go] gets axed: 'Devastated' 1 week ago:
Well, I went to an Aldi for a grocery shop for the first time today. Self-checkout was great! Not as nice as scan & go, which I’ll miss, but worth it. Cheers for the tip.
Not a fan of the bagging area though fwiw. It’s just an “area”, without hooks. I didn’t notice the camera thing. I think I’ve only ever really seen that at Coles.
- Comment on Uploaded by Renee Coffey, Member for Griffith 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Introducing reitti: a selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline 1 week ago:
I just took a really quick look at it, but under Importing data from Nominatim it says “
-country-codesallows to filter the data to be imported by country. Set this to a comma-separated list of two-letter language codes.”That’s a different section from the Importing data from a JSON dump section, which is where it only mentions
-country-code. But even that does seem to suggest it takes “all the parameters of an import from a Nominatim database”. So it seems like either the documentation for one of them is wrong, or both are lacking (because in fact both the singular and plural work). - Comment on Introducing reitti: a selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline 1 week ago:
If you do not configure anything, then Reitti will skip Geocoding and only display Unknown Place.
Ah ok thanks. This is what I was wondering.
Two follow-ups:
Can you specify multiple
COUNTRY_CODEs? (and if so, is the methodenvironment: - COUNTRY_CODE=country_one - COUNTRY_CODE=country_two
or
environment: - COUNTRY_CODE=[country_one, country_two]
or something else?)
And is this something that can seemlessly be retroactively changed? For example, if I set
COUNTRY_CODE=auand it works fine for Australia, but then I move to NZ, can I add (assuming the answer to my first question is yes) or change toCOUNTRY_CODE=nzand have all the NZ locations work on the already-recorded data, even if I made that change to my configuration after I had been in NZ for a few months? - Comment on Introducing reitti: a selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline 1 week ago:
Is that true even if you’re not in hybrid mode?
- Comment on Introducing reitti: a selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline 1 week ago:
I don’t actually have any personally. I’m still with Google Photos for now and hadn’t decided what to switch to, with Immich, Nextcloud, and the non-open Synology Photos being the top of my list. Legitimately, what a tool like this supports could be a factor I use to help decide.
How complicated is the code interfacing with Immich? Is it a piece someone not familiar with your overall code base could relatively easily pick up and make a pull request for?
- Comment on Introducing reitti: a selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline 1 week ago:
I love that it supports multiple formats for important location as well as multiple geocoders. But that makes me wonder, would it be feasible to support multiple image libraries? There’s a bunch of different FOSS photo libraries out there. I think Nextcloud is the main other one I’ve heard about ‘in the wild’, as it were. Or is there too much bespoke Immich code in there for that to be a simple plug-and-play option?
- Comment on Introducing reitti: a selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline 1 week ago:
Oh interesting. I’ve just read through that link, and I was assuming that something similar to the “external only” option would have been the only way it worked. More specifically, I thought it’d just store a list of historical points and display those on an OSM overlay. But it seems like even “external only” is much more involved than that.
What happens with self-hosted Photon if you specify a country, but then also visit another country? (I assume in hybrid mode it’s as simple as "use Photon in your country, use Nominatim otherwise?)
But yeah, definitely sounds like a Pi is probably not gonna cut it. I’ll have to see if my Synology can do it, or if the weird OS restrictions Synology imposes prevent it.
- Comment on Introducing reitti: a selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline 1 week ago:
Fuck yeah this is awesome! The detail of Immich integration is just the icing on top of an awesome cake!
How demanding is it on server resources? Am I likely to be able to run it on an old Raspberry Pi that’s also running a couple of other relatively light tasks? How much storage does it end up using over time? I’m probably going to try and get it running either on my Pi or my Synology NAS, though the latter has had issues with Docker containers in the past depending on the container’s dependencies…
- Comment on Fixed speed camera toppled hours before switch-on 1 week ago:
I get it, but is there an ideological cause?
There’s an ideology behind drivers who terrorise cyclists try to force them off the road, for sure. They should be labelled terrorists.
But vandalising a speed camera could just as easily be a selfish wish to not get fined.
- Comment on Kanye West was denied entry to Australia after releasing antisemitic song 1 week ago:
Yeah I agree. Using the upstream source also helps keep the canonical URL so cross-posts and reposts can automatically be detected to show users where conversations about the topic may have already happened.
- Comment on Woolworths payment change as popular system [Scan&Go] gets axed: 'Devastated' 1 week ago:
Yeah I’ve never seen it myself. I’m not sure how widely it’s been rolled out yet.
