Mountaineer
@Mountaineer@aussie.zone
- Platforms, not parents, to be responsible for social media age limit, but penalties as yet undecided - ABC Newsamp-abc-net-au.cdn.ampproject.org ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 11 comments
- Comment on US judge says Google must open Android phones to rival app stores 1 month ago:
I’m just glad that this judgement travelled back in time!
It must have, otherwise Samsung phone’s wouldn’t have the Galaxy Store on them.
And Huawei phones wouldn’t have AppGallery on it.And things like aptoide, f-droid and taptap wouldn’t exist.
This is about Epic wanting their store to be available on the google store, and none of these articles understand that at all.
- Comment on Android apps are blocking sideloading and forcing Google Play versions instead 2 months ago:
Sounds like this is something developers bake into their apps, not something the phone enforces.
ie, if I develop an app, I can have the app check a special google “Integrity” API and if I get no response (or a negative response), just have the app close.
- Comment on Australians don’t know how far the energy transition has come – and that’s a problem 2 months ago:
Just one example of the lies and misinformation out there:
Smart people I know believe that we have to go Nuclear because it’s the only green way to achieve baseload.
When press on what baseload is, they seem to think it’s the minimum amount of power needed to keep the grid up.
Which for anyone listening in, is backwards, baseload is actually the minimum amount of load required because it’s un-economical to spin old coal burners down. That’s why people used to heat their water at night on the cheap, because the power HAD to go somewhere.
And there’s are smart people, just disinterested in the how and why of electricity generation.
They flick a switch, the lights come on.
Every 3 months they pay a bill and tut-tut about how expensive it is now “because of the green obsession”. - Submitted 3 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on South Australia locks in federal funds to become first grid in world to reach 100 per cent net wind and solar 4 months ago:
Liars do that.
Especially if they have a financial incentive. - Submitted 4 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 9 comments
- Comment on South Australia locks in federal funds to become first grid in world to reach 100 per cent net wind and solar 4 months ago:
That’s what makes this possible.
Part of this funding is to underwrite a new interconnect with the NSW grid, to increase the SA grids ability to transfer power in and out.
Having those interconnects means when we have a surplus or shortage of sun + wind in one location, we can transfer it from somewhere else.
The plan even relies on the ongoing backup of gas turbines, which will be turned off 99.9% of the time, but still require maintenance etc adding cost to the grid.
But the plan is to have enough solar + wind + storage to go 100% net green over any given year.
- South Australia locks in federal funds to become first grid in world to reach 100 per cent net wind and solarreneweconomy.com.au ↗Submitted 4 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on Laws to ban live sheep exports by 2028 pass parliament following lengthy debate 4 months ago:
Most people in the meat industry agree it’s a good move.
It’s only the unscrupulous and greedy ones that are kicking up a fuss.
Just because we raise animals for slaughter doesn’t mean we can’t minimise the discomfort the animals experience. - Submitted 4 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on As Fact Check signs off after 11 years, here's your guide to being your own fact checker 4 months ago:
Whilst I didn’t always agree with their pronouncements, having a fact checker at this time seems to me a very important thing.
They include reference to “a new in-house verification reporting team, ABC News Verify”, but that sounds like they’ll only be verifying their own news, which is nice, but not the point.
- As Fact Check signs off after 11 years, here's your guide to being your own fact checkerwww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 4 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on Julian Assange reunites with family as he arrives in Canberra 4 months ago:
You could read David Leigh’s book, in which he published the full decryption key: www.amazon.com/…/161039061X
That’s literally how he leaked it.
The wikipedia article on it has the whole “he said - she said”:
en.wikipedia.org/…/WikiLeaks:_Inside_Julian_Assan…Including the lie that @ChairmanMeow@programming.dev is parroting about Assange not caring about people dying.
- Comment on Julian Assange reunites with family as he arrives in Canberra 4 months ago:
That was an editor at The Guardian, David Leigh.
- Comment on Julian Assange reunites with family as he arrives in Canberra 4 months ago:
This didn’t happen, Wikileaks vetted information before releasing it for exactly this reason.
Name one person.
- Comment on Julian Assange released from prison and has left UK, WikiLeaks says 4 months ago:
Yes, the threats worked and the corrupt won.
Now he gets to see his kids.
I’d choose that too.
You can call it cowardice, I’d call it pragmatism. - Comment on Julian Assange released from prison and has left UK, WikiLeaks says 4 months ago:
The US get to show just how tough they are on whistleblowers and their associates.
Assange gets to go home.If I was him, I’d keep my head down and try to get to know my kids.
- Submitted 4 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on Does the Coalition’s case for nuclear power stack up? We factcheck seven key claims 5 months ago:
the cheapest and most widespread nuclear reactor design
Can you share this knowledge, please?
- Comment on Coalition announces where they want to build nuclear power stations 5 months ago:
Let me paraphrase the LNP here:
“Private companies have researched Nuclear and decided it’s not cost effective.”
“Financial institutions have investigated Nuclear and decided they WILL NOT INVEST.”
“But our financial backers at the Mineral Council and the private companies dragging the last of the profit out of their end of life coal power stations are insisting that we continue with our current market AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, so we’ve decided to announce an extremely long term plan, to scare private investment out of renewables short term.”
“Don’t worry, between NIMBYs in the target areas, laws surrounding nuclear energy, lack of local expertise and the general unsuitability of Nuclear for our widely dispersed yet small population, we won’t actually build more than one of these things.”
“Jokes on them, we were only pretending to be retarded.” - Fake job ads waste applicants' time and harm their wellbeing. So why are companies posting them?www.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 5 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on Lemmy 0.19.4 5 months ago:
Just to resurrect this thread from a week ago, posts I just made in /c/Adelaide are not showing thumbnails.
- Comment on Australia Community Anniversary Thread 5 months ago:
And thank you for modding.
I didn’t want to call you out by name.
You’ve already noticed that I’ve transferred here as my official instance. - Comment on Australia Community Anniversary Thread 5 months ago:
“Be the change you want to see in the world”.
Then a moderator was unhappy with my posts, so I stopped. - Comment on Australia will never elect a Donald Trump – and it’s due to one national trait[: our culture of not getting too big for your boots] 8 months ago:
Sure I read it, but Simon’s premise is incorrect.
Even his tangential commentary is incorrect.
Neither Kevin Rudd or Tony Abbott were booted for making “captains calls”, they were booted as fall guys by their parties before going to election. - Comment on Australia will never elect a Donald Trump – and it’s due to one national trait[: our culture of not getting too big for your boots] 8 months ago:
Oh I thought we were talking about “bad people who shouldn’t be anywhere near political levers”, not “egotisitical idiots”.
- Comment on Australia will never elect a Donald Trump – and it’s due to one national trait[: our culture of not getting too big for your boots] 8 months ago:
We elect “Donald Trumps” all the time.
Clive Palmer.
Craig Kelly.
Barnaby Joyce.
Bob Katter.
Pauline Hanson.
Jacqui Lambie. - Comment on "Regardless of what you think of Mr Assange, justice is not being done in this case:" Federal MPs pass motion urging US and UK to allow Julian Assange's return to Australia 8 months ago:
The US is reaching when they seek his extradition, and many countries in the world would outright deny the application.
And the basis of an extradition is that the crime was committed in the requesting country, even if it was done so remotely.Making heroin in the US is illegal.
Hundreds of tons of it are made in Myanmar every year without the US demanding extradition of the producers.
Until someone tries to import that heroin into the US, because THAT’s the crime in the US.As you point out, Assages only involvement in the crime was encouraging someone else to gather information for him - something journalists do all the time.
Whether or not we like Assange as an individual is beyond the point, there’s a definite “greater good” point to be made here.
War crimes were committed and covered up.
Without wikileaks, that may have never come to light.
Even without punishing the individuals involved, KNOWING that this information might leak out can help prevent these things happening again in future.Journalists need to be able to publish with protection.
And Assange being personally unlikeable doesn’t change the role he was acting in, no one should get to say “he wasn’t employed by the wall street journal”, or “she doesn’t have a journalistic degree”.
Because a foundation of law in all the countries involved here is that the truth is protected, and Assange published provable facts.And the US is trying to punish him for doing so.
- Comment on "Regardless of what you think of Mr Assange, justice is not being done in this case:" Federal MPs pass motion urging US and UK to allow Julian Assange's return to Australia 9 months ago:
You repeatedly speak of a trial: “he deserves to see trial”, “avoid trial”, “If he wants a trial here”. And his supposed guilt.
Assange is not a US citizen.
At no point during any of this was he in the US.There are no valid charges to even place against him, and if he was a citizen of a competing country like Russia, China, India etc we’d hear NOTHING about his role in any of this, because those countries governments would tell the US to sod off.
The truth here is that the US is desperate to get access to him so that they can make an example of him, so that others are less likely to share embarrassing US secrets in the future.
The little jabs about “worked with Russians” (ooh, he’s working with the ENEMY) and how “he’s guilty and he knows he’s guilty” (he must be guilty, he’s running!) are some straight up bullshit talking points from the likes of Tucker Carlson.
I mean not Tucker Carlson now (nose up Putins ass), Tucker Carlson then (SOME PEOPLE say that you beat your wife, I’M not saying you beat your wife, BUT a lot of people are saying it, and she had a bruise on her arm the other day. It does make you wonder, doesn’t it?)