Zagorath

@Zagorath@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Sovereign citizens' sentenced to prison term in Western Australia for defiance of court order⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose the argument would be that you explicitly agree to that, and your employer doesn’t have any possible response if you choose to if kre it other than to sever your relationship.

  That, of course, is assuming they’ve even thought about it that much, which is probably giving sovcits too much credit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Sovereign citizens' sentenced to prison term in Western Australia for defiance of court order⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let delivery drivers keep their⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Happy cake day, banana!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  the official app tries to not be killed by Android woth the usual tricks (permanent notification, disabling battery optimisation)

  …

  You can (theoretically) control how often locations are tracked and sent but for me was using the location service constantly and draining battery quite a bit.

  Ah. Those are exactly what I was worried about. It’s not able to just happen entirely in the background the same way Google’s feature does, then? Kind of automagically?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  But not exactly how the app works. If it’s a Strava-like app you have to remember to run in the foreground, the value is a lot lower to me than something that either uses or replicates GPS’ automatic background behaviour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe not nursery rhimes about balloons⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Alpha being the elements up to iron?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  How exactly does it work from your phone’s perspective? Does it hook into Google Play Services location data? Do you need to install a different low-level application that replicates that functionality? (If so, what’s the battery life impact like?) Does it need a foregrounded app?

  I’m really interested in this, because like the author I’m really upset at Google killing yet another incredibly useful feature. But the article is a little light on details.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe not nursery rhimes about balloons⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  In astronomy, nearly everything is hydrogen or helium. Like, over 98% of all matter is H or He. So it’s very useful to be able to talk about H, He, and “everything else”. They call that everything else “metals”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨make fantasy great again!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds interesting. Do you recall the name?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not quite the same thing (particularly because of the motivation), but, uhh…I suggest you read about Abu Simbel, if you haven’t already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Research has revealed there are not one, but four different bluebottle species.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t mean to call you out. I was genuinely curious what happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Research has revealed there are not one, but four different bluebottle species.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Birds? Am I missing something, or did you accidentally comment on the wrong thread?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Check your energy rates!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If they call to ‘Ask what they can do to keep you’ or ‘Find out how they can do better’ just hang up. They have no decency, and nothing they say should sway you to give your money to companies that treat you like garbage

  Don’t hang up, tell them. Tell them “I’m switching because you jacked up prices beyond what’s reasonable.” If they offer to lower prices, say “no, it’s too late. I don’t want to be with a company that takes advantage of loyal customers in the first place.”

• Union wants 'presumed' right to work from home, as Labor weighs new lawwww.abc.net.au ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Utilities want control of consumer solar and batteries to help reverse price spikes they just engineered⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what @adingbatponder@fosstodon.org is trying to do is to reference the idea that corporations love to “socialise the costs, privatise the profits”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Utilities want control of consumer solar and batteries to help reverse price spikes they just engineered⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This was only 7 years ago.

  wtaf? My last place had an electric hot water heater. I moved in there over 10 years ago, and it was already old by then. I think it was resistive, not heat pump, but not 100% sure on that. Never had gas. What were those dudes smoking?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia lifts plasma donation ban for gay, bisexual men in world first⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  they’re looking for typo-O in particular

  They’re always looking for type-O, because O is the most able to donate. O- especially, which is the universal donor, though even O+ is great because it can donate to everyone with any positive type, which IIRC is like 80% of people. Other types are also important to donate because it lets them use the more specific blood type when possible, leaving the O-type blood for emergencies where determining blood type isn’t feasible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: US kids who said their social media, phone, or video game use was “addictive” were 2x-3x more likely to have thoughts of suicide or self-harm by age 14⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember spending hours tinkering with Linux in my bedroom as a kid

  I feel like the environment of subject-specific forums and IRC chat that Millennial geeks grew up with is very different from the centralised, generic, algorithm-driven social media that Gen Z grew up with, and non-geeky Millennials, Gen X, and Boomers adopted in the late aughts & '10s. That was really the best of what social media could do, with far fewer of the unhealthy downsides.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: US kids who said their social media, phone, or video game use was “addictive” were 2x-3x more likely to have thoughts of suicide or self-harm by age 14⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Late last year Australia passed a ban for the use of social media of under-16s. In principle I think this is a really good idea.

  Unfortunately they rushed it through without any thought as to how it would actually work in terms of age verification. It’s now been 6 months, which means we’re 6 months away from when it’s supposed to come into effect, and we still don’t have any idea how it’s actually supposed to work. But the principle behind it: the idea that social media is actually really not healthy for our brains, especially at a young and vulnerable age, is a sound one. And there’s only more and more research coming out to support that.

• Australian Red Cross Lifeblood loosens rules around LGBTQIA+ donating blood and plasmawww.abc.net.au ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Matrix cooked?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Omg thanks for linking that thread. The amount of removed and deleted content on Lemmy is so frustrating. I hate the fact that removed or deleted posts also completely nuke all the comments on it.

  Reddit’s approach is so much better in this respect. A removed post removed the OP’s text, but if it’s a link post the link remains, and all the comments remain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christopher Luxon ranked Australia's most trusted world leader in new poll⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Happy cake day!

  That was my exact response, too. Apparently he’s the NZ PM and leader of the conservative National Party, in coalition with the far-right libertarian ACT and the far-right populist NZ First.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia condemns LA Police for rubber bullets after quietly arming our own⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah exactly. He chose to get rid of it 40 years ago this year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia condemns LA Police for rubber bullets after quietly arming our own⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not nearly to the same extent as America, but in general, yes. Same direction, just less extreme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia condemns LA Police for rubber bullets after quietly arming our own⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey now, he might have been born here, but he’s not our arsehole. And he hasn’t been for 40 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  just use double-sided tape

  Could be a good use for one of those cases with slots for cards. Slide the drive in the slot, cut a hole for the USB C jack at the bottom, et voila.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plastics campaigners warn Australia’s pledge at UN needs to be matched with ‘high ambition at home’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh huh. The message is in French, so I guess they’re banned from their own instance? I feel like the “banned” message should make it clear whether it’s a community ban, a ban from my instance, or a ban from their instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plastics campaigners warn Australia’s pledge at UN needs to be matched with ‘high ambition at home’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh? How come @daniel_callahan@jlai.lu got banned? Their history doesn’t look particularly problematic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian teachers facing 'distressed' students need new Gaza guidelines, union says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Great to see the AEU come out explicitly calling it a genocide.

  Shame on SBS for hedging their comments so much. It really isn’t relevant; they had to go a long way out of the flow of the article and this news story just to say “hey, Israel doesn’t like it when you point out their genocide”.

• Australian teachers facing 'distressed' students need new Gaza guidelines, union sayswww.sbs.com.au ↗
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