Ilandar

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Ilandar,

It appears to have a 10 GB limit per month, which is so low that it would essentially be useless for most common torrenting purposes I can think of.

Ilandar,

How often would you be forced into torrenting those mediums and how great is the risk? E-books do not need to be torrented as there are plenty of alternative ways to access them (including legal methods such as libraries). Audiobooks potentially do, but AFAIK are not prosecuted to the same extent as films and TV or video games. It can definitely be convenient to torrent music and it is a riskier medium than e-books or audiobooks, but similar to e-books there are plenty of alternatives to torrenting. I just don’t see why you would bother signing up for a free VPN if that’s the stuff you’re after.

Ilandar,

Rent assistance is going up by 10% which is a lot, don’t bother checking the actual number though.

Yes this bit did make me laugh. Rent assistance only makes up a minority of an individual’s payment, so an increase of 10% is like less than $10 a fortnight or something lol

Ilandar,

I don’t think anyone is actually so clumsy that they need a phone like this. If you think you are, it’s likely because you’re not focusing enough on using the phone when you’re using the phone. Inattentiveness is a major cause of phone drops from what I’ve seen and experienced.

Ilandar,

I didn’t say anything about building sites. I was responding to the part of your comment where you claimed you need a fugly brick phone because you’re clumsy.

Ilandar,

Oh, it will impact a lot more than one private search engine. Watch The AI Dilemma presentation given by Asa Razkin and Tristan Harris last year if you want an idea of what could be coming.

Ilandar,

Slightly outdated already, with AutGPT being a thing.

That’s the really disturbing thing and what makes this challenge so different to all others humanity has faced to date. I think Asa even referenced in the presentation that some of his slides were going out of date on a daily basis, that’s how fast the technology was moving.

Firefox version 126 introduces search data telemetry collection and enhanced copy without site tracking option (blog.mozilla.org)

With the latest version of Firefox for U.S. desktop users, we’re introducing a new way to measure search activity broken down into high level categories. This measure is not linked with specific individuals and is further anonymized using a technology called OHTTP to ensure it can’t be connected with user IP addresses....

Ilandar,

All of their telemetry is opt-out. This is nothing new.

Ilandar,

I’m not inherently against anonymised and aggregated data collection by services and organisations I support. I understand that it is difficult to compete in the tech industry without this, and in the case of Firefox I believe it is very important that they continue to survive as a mainstream alternative to Google’s market monopoly (even if things are trending in the wrong direction). I also understand that opt-out makes a lot more sense than opt-in for this kind of tracking, since opt-in would significantly reduce and skew the amount of data they had access to and limit its ability to improve the product. However, I think their explanation here is a poor one:

Having an understanding of what types of searches happen most frequently will give us a better understanding of what’s important to our users, without giving us additional insight into individual browsing preferences. This helps us take a step forward in providing a browsing experience that is more tailored to your needs, without us stepping away from the principles that make us who we are.

Again, I understand that it’s not always possible to provide an explanation that is as transparent and detailed as some users may want, but you need to do better than this. I am struggling to see how my browsing experience can be improved through this type of data collection. I don’t want or need a browser that is “tailored to my needs”, and that type of language sounds privacy-invasive to me. If you genuinely believe that what you have planned is going to improve my experience then you need to do a better job of explaining that before you ask me to provide more data.

Ilandar,

That’s a good pickup. Definitely something to be watching out for in the future.

Ilandar,

This reminds me of that intentionally bad Simpson’s art page that went viral on Facebook several years ago (probably a lot longer than it feels like).

Ilandar,

Or Mr Bean’s attempt at restoring Whistler’s Mother lol

(Okay maybe not that extreme…)

'From the river to the sea': Labor senator breaks ranks to accuse Israel of genocide (www.sbs.com.au)

She directly addressed Albanese: “I ask our prime minister and our fellow parliamentarians, how many international rights laws must Israel break for us to say enough? What is the magic number? How many mass graves need to be uncovered before we say enough? How many images of bloody limbs of murdered children must we see?”...

Ilandar,

This seems like a perfect example of why increased diversity in parliament is a good thing. Her age and background allow her to offer a different perspective to her colleagues on matters such as this.

Ilandar,

David McBride is a former British Army major and lawyer for the Australian Army. He leaked documents to the ABC which formed the basis of its reporting on unlawful killings (murders) of Afghan civilians by Australian armed forces. He attempted to seek protection from prosecution through Australia’s whistleblower laws, however the Australian Government denied expert testimony through the use of public interest immunity laws so the case went to trial and he was recently sentenced to five years and eight months imprisonment.

Ilandar,

McBride had been concerned about what he saw as systemic failures of the SAS commanders, and their inconsistency in dealing with the deaths of “non-combatants” in Afghanistan. In an affidavit, he said he saw the way frontline troops were being

improperly prosecuted […] to cover up [leadership] inaction, and the failure to hold reprehensible conduct to account.

He initially complained internally, but when nothing happened he decided to go public. In 2014 and 2015, McBride collected 235 military documents and gave them to the ABC. The documents included 207 classified as “secret” and others marked as cabinet papers.

Source.

Ilandar,

Same article:

Much has been made of McBride’s reasons for going to the media, but this focus on motives is a form of misdirection. Whistleblowers take action for a host of reasons – some of them less honourable than others. But ultimately, what matters is the truth of what they expose, rather than why.

That is why we recognise media freedom as an essential part of a healthy democracy, including the right – indeed the responsibility – of journalists to protect confidential sources. Unless sources who see wrongdoing can confidently expose it without fear of being exposed and prosecuted, the system of accountability falls apart and gross abuses of power remain hidden.

It is also why the formal name for Australia’s whistleblower protection law is the “Public Interest Disclosure Act”.

This law is designed to do what it says on the tin: protect disclosures made in the public interest, including those made through the media. It recognises that sometimes, even when the law imposes certain obligations of secrecy on public servants, there may be an overriding interest in exposing wrongdoing for the sake of our democracy.

.As a highly trained and experienced military lawyer, McBride knew it was technically illegal to give classified documents to the media. The law is very clear about that, and for good reason. Nobody should be able to publish government secrets without a very powerful justification.

But nor should the fact that a bureaucrat has put a “secret” stamp on a document be an excuse for covering up serious crimes and misdemeanours.

In McBride’s case, the judge accepted the first premise, but rejected the second.

Ilandar,

Your link doesn’t appear to be working. Here’s an archived version of that article.

Ilandar,

Assuming you’re living in the southern half of the country, I think jjimdak is pretty good around this time of year when it starts getting colder. Don’t worry too much about specific vegetables or glass noodles or anything like that (unless you want to). Really the core of the dish is the marinated chicken, so if you follow that bit then you can add whatever you want alongside. I like it with white medium-grain rice but that’s also totally up to you.

Ilandar,

No, not really. Maybe just start with a simpler one like this where the sauce has fewer and more common ingredients. You don’t even need the fish/oyster sauce - my partner just uses soy sauce, sugar and corn syrup (and sometimes a little corn starch for thickening and chilli for heat). If you don’t already have soy sauce at home, buy some Kikkoman as the flavour is more consistent with Korean cooking. If you buy gochujang as well you can combine that with the soy sauce to make a similar dish - dakbokkeumtang. Just remember to add garlic and spring onion too as they contribute a lot to the flavour of both dishes.

Ilandar,

The understanding young people have of the world around them is so heavily influenced by algorithm-based social media now, and English-based social media is in-turn heavily influenced by American current affairs which tends to dominate the algorithms. It is very hard for the trial of one Australian whistleblower to compete with that and even if students are aware of it the pro-Palestine/pro-Israel student movements are so much more appealing. They give those young people the opportunity to become part of a global movement and feel like they are effecting real change beyond their own borders. Additionally I’m not sure if the Afghanistan War is actually relevant to the current generation of undergraduate students. They were very young during the period in which it was something Australians felt strongly about and likely can’t connect to the historic war crimes committed by Australian soldiers there in the same way they can connect to the war crimes they are seeing in their feeds now.

Ilandar,

Men (and children) did die, though. That’s the point.

Ilandar,

Yes, although I did find it a little ironic that when I went to Wikipedia to check this it specifically mentioned “at least 10” deaths. All human lives are equal, of course, but to me there is an important distinction between the deaths of completely innocent and uninvolved civilians vs the deaths of service men and women to have chosen to involve themselves in a conflict. Western bias makes it easy to overlook this point, but those civilians who were murdered are literally just us in a parallel universe. We owe it to ourselves as much as anyone else to properly investigate these crimes and bring the perpetrators to justice. And if governments and military organisations are unable to do this transparently, then anyone who does (journalists, whistleblowers, etc) should be celebrated and protected.

Ilandar,

I think often when people think of other people dying they internalise it as a headline does. Such and such died, ok that’s sad I guess.

Exactly. I touched on this in another reply but this could easily be us in a parallel universe (or even our own, one day). We are civilians too. The murder of civilians by armed forces should concern us, regardless of where they live in the world. I wonder how this person would feel about the situation if it was reversed, and a whistleblower in another country was being prosecuted for revealing the murders of Australian civilians by foreign armed forces.

Giro Rest Day thread (lemmy.world)

First rest day of the Giro d’Italia, what’s on your mind and what have you been watching? It doesn’t have to be Giro-related, Itzulia Women and Tour de Hongrie just wrapped up too. Heck, if you want to talk gravel or MTB, that’s cool, I hear Lucinda Brand is tearing it up on gravel, and the MTB World Cup is still going...

Ilandar,

I guess I’ll be using the rest day to catch up on the race itself (I’m several stages behind). The Giro always seems to catch me unprepared.

Ilandar,

Comments like this are why no one takes privacy advocates seriously. Really? No better than Google? You guys are fucking delusional.

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