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- Comment on Mona: Australia women's-only museum files appeal to keep men out 1 week ago:
small museum at the end of the world
The end of the world is a fair description, but small is not. It is the largest privately funded museum in the Southern Hemisphere and has 6000m² (64583 ft²) of gallery space.
- Comment on Mona: Australia women's-only museum files appeal to keep men out 1 week ago:
A single exhibit at a sex museum in Tasmania
Small point of order: MONA, despite how it sounds when pronounced as an acronym, is not a sex museum. It's the Museum of Old and New Art. You may return to your debate.
Personally, I'm finding the whole thing delicious. As someone who went to university in a building where the post-graduate / staff floor didn't have a female bathroom - likely because when it was built women were only expected to clean and serve tea in that space - I appreciate the artist and museum setting official legal precedent around this topic. And doing so with panache.
- Comment on There's a baby drought in Australia. Maybe we should fund IVF? 4 weeks ago:
I'm likely infertile, and no thanks. I'm having enough trouble existing and being employed with long covid on top of pre-existing medical issues for which i have long run out of medical options, certainly all that are available under Medicare. Maybe I would sort of want children if I weren't struggling to just eat, work and sleep? Or maybe the bleak future of humanity would still be enough to convince me not to condemn another person to it.
Falling birth rates might be a little more than just an IVF cost issue. Perhaps we should look into that instead of slapping on a subsidy bandaid and hoping it cures the symptoms.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 2 months ago:
That is not a level of power I officially possess, but it is a level of power that I am able to unofficially implement for the people who solely report to me. I am also able to tailor their roles and responsibilities to whatever causes them the least pain because their job titles are extremely non-specific, which is very helpful for both of us.
Both manager and non-managers are economically coerced into providing our time and energy. I try my best to reduce that burden for as many people as I can without being noticed by the people who are willing to suck the life out of others for personal gain.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 2 months ago:
The people who are marginalised by the process are the ones who will be doing the real suffering.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 2 months ago:
Hobbies indicate interest and aptitude. Someone who collects things might enjoy jobs and tasks related to organisation but not necessarily enjoy highly collaborative work that requires many meetings, whereas someone who enjoys team sports might enjoy the more collaborative social meeting type work instead of solo detailed organisation etc.
It is far from the first thing I would use as a hiring choice, but it does give me an idea of questions I might ask someone to figure out what would make them happiest.
- Comment on I'm a US citizen, people in other countries, what do you think when you read stories like these about the US health care system? 2 months ago:
In Australia, it's not too uncommon to hear people have conversations about how fucked the US system is. That's partly a symptom of how intertwined my life is with the topic of medicine and healthcare systems though, I'm sure most people have far fewer discussions about those topics than I do.
Having said that, I have certainly said "Thank God I'm not in the US" and received emphatic agreement in conversations.
I've also had a doctor say "well at least you're not in the US" to me during an appointment, after I expressed some displeasure at how much something was going to cost me - because i wasn't considered a valid demographic for that specific drug to receive the subsidy.
Socialised medicine doesn't mean free medicine, sadly. And our system has been run down by the ruling class attempting to emulate the US version's money-churning machine.
- Comment on Ecosia plants 200 million trees 3 months ago:
Can we... see them?
- Comment on Neo-Nazis confronted by Sydney police, banned from Australia Day events 3 months ago:
Thanks for trying, at least.
It's pretty concerning times when we have notably prominent neo-nazis in Australia though. I'm honestly surprised NSW proactively stopped him.
- Comment on i think im diabetic?? i dont want to be but its most likely 4 months ago:
Thanks, I try. I know what it's like to have subjective symptoms of something larger and medically very real dismissed by others to the point where more permanent damage is done than was ever necessary. While I don't wish that experience on anyone, it sadly seems almost a necessary experience for many people in order to be able to engage others with compassion.
I wish there were more empathy, especially in lemmy.world comments. I had hoped better for the fediverse than the current patterns of hostility in social media towards others with different life experiences.
- Comment on i think im diabetic?? i dont want to be but its most likely 4 months ago:
You don't have to apologise, you haven't done anything wrong. It is true that since people can experience sudden health issues very young, I was one of them. But if your only evidence for that happening is that you recently ate a common food that happened to be high in sugar, then there's no sign at all that this is something you are experiencing. You have no symptoms of diabetes, and blood tests as evidence that you don't have it.
You shouldn't ignore symptoms, which is why you need to look at the symptoms of anxiety that you seem to be experiencing. A panic attack is not something most people regularly experience, and definitely not because they broke their own omad rule with a food that has high sugar levels.
Please, look into deep breathing techniques fir the panic attacks and doctors who specialize in anxiety near you. I wish you all the luck and best, I know how anxiety can paralyze and negatively affect your life. But the good news is that you aren't powerless to change it.
- Comment on i think im diabetic?? i dont want to be but its most likely 4 months ago:
Friend, I mean this in the nicest possible way, with understanding as someone who has personal experience with both anxiety and insulin issues. I've noticed your name on a lot of threads which all demonstrate "catastrophization" and extremely high levels of fear over low risk situations. Levels of fear that are disproportionate. You need to see a doctor about it.
Anxiety isn't you being crazy or your fault. It could be something as simple as a chemical imbalance. You don't need to live like this though, it's exhausting being this afraid all the time and that energy could be far better spent on things that truly improve your life.
Please consider it, I know I'm not the first person to tell you this. Acknowledge the pattern, and talk to a professional. It's hard but very very worth it.
- Comment on I hate that I am become this person but: are delivery drivers just allowed to call and say 'please come and meet me' now? 5 months ago:
That sentiment is ableist as fuck.
You can revel in your superiority when you're tracking individual animals on your 3 day long persistence hunting trips and foraging your own berries. Agriculture and technology are entirely unnecessary, for prime specimens of humans like you.
- Comment on I hate that I am become this person but: are delivery drivers just allowed to call and say 'please come and meet me' now? 5 months ago:
Complain that they asked a question? Do you usually do that? I only ask because I save complaints for deliberately shitty service.
- Comment on I hate that I am become this person but: are delivery drivers just allowed to call and say 'please come and meet me' now? 5 months ago:
Are humans performing labor allowed to ask a question? Yes. Especially when they are performing dangerous work, which it legitimately is where I am. I have no desire to fuck with low earning people in dangerous jobs, so I wait outside for them when I see they're pretty close on the GPS.
When I had covid I put "have covid, knock and leave at apartment door" as the delivery note. It worked pretty flawlessly. My normal delivery message is "will meet you out front, do not call unless necessary", which works about 90% of the time.
The delivery people who actually piss me off are the ones who call/text "I've arrived" when I'm waiting outside and I can see they're still 3 blocks away on the GPS. Don't lie to me, even though i understand you're trying to reduce your wait time, and some people make them wait for 15+ mins.
The other ones who piss me off are the ones who take a 30min detour with my food because they're juggling apps and two different services have told them to go in opposite directions. Special shout out to the dude who literally rode past me while I was waiting for him outside, so that he could pick up an order for a different app instead of giving me my order. Thanks for chilling half my hot food too with what I assume was a cold drinks order, asshole.
- Comment on Average Lemmy Active Users by Month 5 months ago:
A lot of accounts are interacting (voting, posting, etc.) on lemmy-visible activitypub services within a 6 month timespan, but most accounts are not active users interacting every month.
It's actually a very positive graph. Many of the new accounts would be spammers, bots, throwaway accounts, alts of banned users, users making account on multiple instances because of downtime, etc. So it's normal to see growth over longer spans of time that aren't completely reflected in monthly active user statistics.
The current plateau is probably for the best, it gives developers time to catch up somewhat with the last growth spurt. There will be other social media platform clusterfucks in the future that will kick off future growth spurts.
- Comment on Could we not bring that to Lemmy, please? 5 months ago:
Is there something about the word "porn" that actually communicates "really pretty pictures of something but without any human creations" beyond its Reddit meme usage? Because it doesn't for most people.
Also, not all community rules and objectives need to be in the name and URL. The word "porn" in URLs is problematic for users sitting behind state or corporate internet connection though. Be kind to your local network administrators!
- Comment on If power corrupts, or power attracts the corrupt, why do we have moderators? 5 months ago:
Because for anything that is built, someone else will set out to destroy or manipulate it for their own purposes. For example, spammers will use social media to try to boost their SEO and as an avenue for free advertising.
As much as I'd love if everyone could act with the best intentions towards others at all times, there is too much motivation and reward for anti-social actions. As a result, we have to have a complex system of rules and enforcement.
- Comment on Optus outage: What caused the major network failure? 6 months ago:
More detailed tl;dr: Suspected Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) flooding possibly after software or firmware update.
Such degradation, so graceful.
- Comment on Optus outage nationwide 6 months ago:
That's a very generous and optimistic view of Optus' processes and infrastructure dependencies. I'm unsure why you would assume they're in any way robust, especially considering Optus' history.
- Comment on 'Crypto King' Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of FTX fraud 6 months ago:
For sure. Which is one reason I expect house arrest is so likely. All it takes is for one of the major multiglobals to be in some scheme that the government has decided to crack down on, and there's your leverage in sentencing negotiation. It's why I've given up on the concept of rich people going to prison, there's always another fish they can offer up for frying, because billionaire social circles are tiny.
- Comment on 'Crypto King' Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of FTX fraud 6 months ago:
Fair point, but maybe he's another one of these people who will get special considerations for information about larger companies that a government needs for evidence.
Who knows? I ought to stop cynically speculating, but the world is making it hard not to.
I do hope he's another Shkreli though, who annoyed the old money boomers with his ostentatious nouveau riche antics enough to become their poster-manchild for their "See? Bad things do (sometimes) happen to bad rich people!" campaigns.
- Comment on 'Crypto King' Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of FTX fraud 6 months ago:
I'll be very annoyed when he's probably just sentenced to
mansionhouse arrest, but for now I'll accept this good news. - Comment on All grown up 6 months ago:
Excellently satisfying spots. Kusama-san would surely approve.
- Comment on Hackers can force iOS and macOS browsers to divulge passwords and much more | Ars Technica 6 months ago:
Yeah, I hear you, fair point. I can't recall CVE numbers off the top of my head either.
Heartbleed was also a great name, whereas iLeakage is... a choice.I'll probably be referring to it as 'the latest Safari security failure', hopefully they can ensure that description stays relevant for a few weeks.
- Comment on The real double-slit quantum eraser they don't want you to know about! 6 months ago:
“The experiment is bullshit, we just can’t measure shit.”
The experiment is limited by our existing tools and evidence, and this will impact both its accuracy and our interpretation of the results, but it's the best we have for now and still worthwhile as a way of producing additional evidence for other researchers.
Also, researchers typically don't condense information into soundbites well, which prevents people from easily understanding and remembering the accurate information. Which allows bad interpretations by other people of the researchers interpretations of rough results to gain traction.
In other words, normal science problems.
An experiment isn't bullshit just because we can't achieve perfection in methodology or human analysis. And we can't perfect our theories and tools without multiple inaccurate answers being compared to find congruence.
The bullshit starts with the people whose theories which rely on the inaccurate parts refuse to modify the theory when the evidence disagrees.
- Comment on Hackers can force iOS and macOS browsers to divulge passwords and much more | Ars Technica 6 months ago:
Cha-ching! Good for those researchers, get that bag. It's much better than finding out the other way.
I'm still not calling it iLeakage though. They'll have to make do with the well-deserved cash.
- Comment on Hackers can force iOS and macOS browsers to divulge passwords and much more | Ars Technica 6 months ago:
Because Apple are pieces of shit which force Safari to underpin any Web interaction on those devices, which wouldn't be such a problem if mobile Safari were worth a damn.
But you're right and it's a valid point. I did miss that sentence on initial read and had forgotten about that problem. Thanks for the reminder!
- Comment on Hackers can force iOS and macOS browsers to divulge passwords and much more | Ars Technica 6 months ago:
Title
can force MacOS and IOS browsers
First paragraph
forces Safari
Of course it's fucking Safari. Yes it is the default browser and wrapper that apps will leverage, but Safari is not plural. Be better, ars tech.
iLeakage
No. I'm not calling it that. Stop trying to force catchy names, researchers. Because historically, you suck at it as a profession.
- Comment on The real double-slit quantum eraser they don't want you to know about! 6 months ago:
I wouldn't agree with your paraphrased characterization but I think the reason that the experiment results are widely misunderstood is for the same reason any retraction or updated information can't reach the entire same audience as the original information.
The experiment was popularised by Feynman in the 60's and widely discussed as the basis for quantum mechanic. Feynman generally was a fucking rad dude, but he did have a penchant for the poetic, which is probably why he was so popular. Einstein weighed in on the concept too, so big names with big topics in a lunar-landing sci-fi loving era. And quantum mechanics was a fun new mindfuck development in its own right.
So, when a few decades later, the tech catches up to the theory, in experiments by smaller-fame scientists, and the theory further refined; then you've got a legion of adults who grew up with the 60's romantic understanding published in mainstream media, teaching that to the next generation... and you get this.
I can personally blame Brian Greene's 2005 https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/54483/the-fabric-of-the-cosmos-by-brian-greene/9780141011110. His section on the experiment didn't feel right at the time, but feels aren't reals, so I just went with my very limited understanding of an expert's overview. The refined explanation now feels a lot more sensible, for what it's worth.