Gorgritch_umie_killa
@Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone
- Comment on How Australia is Responding to a Second Trump Term 4 days ago:
Its a trade deal for military technology. Where the US already is in the superior bargaining position for re/setting terms, agenda, and prices.
I don’t know why anyone in Australia, or the world, thinks thats in jeopardy. Even the most craven of administrations would love this, as far as i know, uncapped ‘deal’.
At most the screws might be turned, but our unimaginative military leaders will always recommend we pay, or rely on the US’ decisions in regards agenda or terms.
They will do this, because they seem to have no genuine ideas for builing our own defense capabilities. Their answer is always the same.
A wise government would be directing companies around Australia to build up the Australian military industrial supply systen in the national interest. They should’ve given up the slower single large contract tendering processes when the Russians tried to decapitate Kyiv.
- Comment on Sydney marathon joins likes of New York, London and Tokyo as ‘major’ event 1 week ago:
Oh okay. I only have a vague sense of these things due to family members being big into running.
- Comment on Sydney marathon joins likes of New York, London and Tokyo as ‘major’ event 1 week ago:
Haven’t read the article, does this mean its classed as an Olympic qualifying event?
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 1 week ago:
That’s pathetic. That’s a pathetic misunderstanding… That’s stupid…
Anyways I’ll let you get back to your petty fears and misunderstanding… I’m sure you’d enjoy that… The crypto-rightwing are just like that. Aren’t you… You don’t know how lucky you are, or how good you have it, or why… That’s your problem, and your weakness.If i’ve understood what your saying, I wouldn’t call this comment a mildly impolite comment critical of authoritarian states. I think more time is spent in the comment on derision of the other party on the thread.
I’ve isolated the quotes above from the rest of the comment because they illustrate the point, (in my view), it seems they diverge from the subject matter under discussion to personal vilification.
I’d probably call that particular comment a contravention of the ‘Be Respectful’ rule.
Also: I don’t think theres a link address for the ‘here’ link. So i couldn’t look for more context.
The first section of your post, i think i agree with you i can’t see how those comments contain bigotry.
Have you messaged the admin for an explanation for what was seen as bigotry in the comments?
Sometimes a good faith message might elicit a good faith response, or even a reconsideration.
- Comment on David Crisafulli backtracks on promise to resign if crime victim numbers do not fall under an LNP government 3 weeks ago:
I’m so interested to see the results from this QLD election. The Katter-abortion issue i’ve really seen as analogous to the USA’s much talked about ‘October Surprise’.
- Comment on Nerd Update 25/10/24 3 weeks ago:
I think its through Kofi?
- Comment on About Community sidebar - Organising Source Links 3 weeks ago:
Reported on their community page.
- Comment on What happened to @unionagainstdhmo? 3 weeks ago:
Cheers. I’ll have to get stuck in tomorrow night on this now, its too late, time for rest and bed :)
- Comment on About Community sidebar - Organising Source Links 3 weeks ago:
I went through lastnight and did the whole list on c/Perth/WA to experiment.
- On my browser, firefox, it worked nicely.
On apps, less so.
- Jerboa doesn’t have the labels, just the arrow icon, but otherwise seems to work.
- Sync doesn’t seem to recognise Mark Up in the sidebar/about section, so its a mess.
Be interested to hear what it looks like on other apps/browsers and what peoples general thoughts.
I want to implement something like this on c/environment but if its going to look messy for lots of people, i’ll have another think.
- Comment on What happened to @unionagainstdhmo? 3 weeks ago:
Oh, i see! :)
- Comment on About Community sidebar - Organising Source Links 3 weeks ago:
Nice one Nath. Looks good.
- Comment on What happened to @unionagainstdhmo? 3 weeks ago:
got them, thanks for that.
- Comment on What happened to @unionagainstdhmo? 3 weeks ago:
Hooli dooli, Treevans on Mastodon! Hi, good to see ya!
Okay, this is great news! I’ve just been trying to understand what code blocking is. I’m not sure I understand it, but as long as the admins are fine with it, I definitely don’t mind the thread getting a little messy (temporarily?) to sort this.
- Comment on What happened to @unionagainstdhmo? 3 weeks ago:
Oh good idea. Never done that before. I’ll go on tonight and have a look
- Comment on Timeout errors in last few days 3 weeks ago:
Oh wow, yeah i thought it was just momentary, but that has happened to me also.
- Comment on About Community sidebar - Organising Source Links 3 weeks ago:
Okay. Thats a bugger, i guess they’ll just have to be a little messy. I’ve been playing around with markup, so hopefully using that’ll help organise things better.
Also, I don’t know why the mention links for you and Nath didnt seem to work, sorry, trying to learn.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to meta@aussie.zone | 8 comments
- Comment on What happened to @unionagainstdhmo? 3 weeks ago:
I’m dealing with a similar issue on !environment@aussie.zone . I didn’t think ahead to copy those two stickied posts containing all the source links at the top of the page.
Now it seems i’ve lost them? Its a shame to lose all that useful work u/treevan and u/bandhmo did. I’ve started pulling together a number of links to recreate something similar, but i know i won’t capture the vast plethora of resources they’d gathered.
- Comment on What happened to @unionagainstdhmo? 3 weeks ago:
Ah, so @unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone has done it, have they?
Yeah, we had a good chat a few weeks ago about some stuff, u/bandhmo wasn’t happy with some interactions that had occurred in some chats, not on Aussie Zone.
U/bandhmo did say they might come back one day, but felt they needed some rest/distance.
Its a shame, i actually found we had a lot to talk about. I’s hoping after a somewhat busy period i’m going through in my personal life, we’d be able to reconnect and push forward a few ideas we’ve had for Aussie Zone.
That chat is also where u/bandhmo asked me to become a mod for aussie-enviro. I’s happy to jump in, and i hope people are happy so far with how that whole thing is going. :)
This leads me to a concern I have, and u/bandhmo shares around the communities that i’d like to share. For some communities there are only a few people posting, to the point where it becomes more like a quasi-blog than a community.
So the question we have is, how to build a little more action in some of these communities to create a more sustainable, and fun environment?
U/bandhmo had the idea we could create a Community Leader type role in communities. I don’t know from the admin side what this might entail.
From what i understood, these people wouldn’t act as moderators, but be involved in supporting ongoing posts, in-community events, and along with the mods design the direction of the community they’re involved with.
I’d love to get peoples thoughts on this, and maybe start taking steps towards a vision like this?
To u/bandhmo if you’re reading. Have a break, but come back one day. I know i’ll miss ya! :)
- Comment on Emails from Aussie Zone 3 weeks ago:
Thats OVH VPN? Why are they blacklisted? Do they host something like a lot of spammers, or just not big enough so unintentionally blacklisted due to size?
- Comment on Emails from Aussie Zone 3 weeks ago:
I should look at settings more often. Feel like some of this wasn’t there last i looked, which was probably at the start of the year.
- Comment on Emails from Aussie Zone 3 weeks ago:
user trying to reset a password/recover account
Ooh, yeah, my nightmare scenario.
Yes, I can see which of you crazy people choose a light theme
If i want to burn my retinas by the blue light of a lught theme screen at full tilt at midnight no one can stop me!
- Comment on Emails from Aussie Zone 3 weeks ago:
Okay, i’m sticking my IT dummy hand up again.
What is this post about? I’ve never had/sent any emails from Aussie Zone.
Is there some sort of notification system i’ve not noticed or, i don’t know what else it could be…??
- Comment on More wealth in fewer hands — the great housing rort 4 weeks ago:
The Australia Institute was actually saying the increased demand in the last few years is less about population growth, as Ian Verender states in this article, and more about the drop in ‘persons per household’ phenomenon that happened during COVID.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Who is behind Australia's biggest ticketing company? | The West Report - Michael Westmichaelwest.com.au ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on 'It's going to scar them': NT to become first jurisdiction to lower criminal age of responsibility 1 month ago:
Oh great, this shit again. First thing Labor should’ve done when they came to power federally was revoke that country licensing deal the propagandists at Newscorp got from, was it the Morrison government?? I’m sure Labor waved ot through also though.
- Comment on Labor threatens to cancel visas for ‘inciting discord’ after protests against Israeli attacks on Lebanon 1 month ago:
Whats the issue for Labor here, are there really that many people in Aus that blindly side with Israel that its electorally suicidal to come out and say, ‘we’re with the rest of the world’? If so, then we should look at ourselves.
- Comment on Woolworths, Coles sued by ACCC for ‘misleading’ price drop claims 1 month ago:
Went back and watched that video, love ‘not just bikes’, those instore scanners are a really good idea, Costlesworthdi should have all employed these by now.
The only reason i can think they haven’t is the same reason i’d assume for independents and IGA’s the cost. Without knowing anymore about the costs, i’d assume its a mix of upfront payments for the scanners, etc, and a, out of proportion, per transaction clip of the ticket for ‘maintenance and service costs’, just like the bank cards have.
I love what you’re suggesting though, use QR codes on each product so customers use the hardware in their pockets to scan out their items as they go.
It would reduce those upfront costs so much, and could be done with less memory bloat like the Maccas type apps. If this doesn’t already exist we should round up some of the more tech focused users/mods/admins on aussiezone and do it ourselves, then use the revenue from that as an ongoing fund for the benefit of ‘aussiezone’ as Australia’s Social Web alternative. Lets do this!
- Comment on Woolworths, Coles sued by ACCC for ‘misleading’ price drop claims 1 month ago:
So, I wanted to find a good source for this, but i can’t after a short search and its late, so i’m just going to reply.
but if I did care a lot about the price, I would definitely be wanting to be able to check where I’m going to get the best deal. But I do like being able to check which products they’ve got so I can plan my shop
Prices and range of stock are likely controlled by IGA store owners themselves, this is not Metcash.
Metcash own the brand and do the majority of wholesaling for IGA. I think theres extras, like locally sourced produce, that independent IGA brand operators sell themselves without violating terms of the IGA brand agreement.
Due to the owner/operators of IGA stores having more price and stock control this makes it harder for things like online pricing and stocking, as each store is doing its own thing supplying their local area the way they think.
Like Mcdonalds franchisees the catalogues you get with those prices require the ongoing agreement of the IGA stores themselves.
A central data collection point is more complicated for Metcash/IGA than a single entity like ColesWortAldi. Each owner/operator needs to agree/supply a price and stock level, supply their information back likely working off multiple types of in-house operational systems across the IGA stores (also stock numbers, etc), then receive reflect and display the equivalent information as everyone else.
Its actually not dissimilar to Lemmy and its many servers.
All this said, your point about technophobia is probably very true, sometimes its straight up head in the sand, but also a key issue is these owner/operators run on tiny margins. Significant upfront costs, like built/hard tech often has, with obscure pay offs are a hard sell in these people’s positions, and the stores owners themselves need to put their hands in their own pockets more often than not.
Add to this that the borrowing capacity of an organisation like Metcash/IGA is a lot lower than the ‘single entity operators’ and you get a less competitive and slower moving beast.
Bonus though, the money you spend at an IGA is going to take a lot longer, if ever, to become leakage to some overseas investor, so a good argument for IGA’s is they increase the velocity of money swirling around in the Australian economy whereas others, Costco/Aldi particularly, cause AUD leakage quicker.