@MorpheusB when the proposed solutions are always decades away, this justifying ‘transition fuels’, it stinks like extending fossil fuels rather than solving the problem. We have technologies now that can help, but no, let’s delay the solution. #auspol#climate#fossilfuels
@bakuninboys email is one that I’ve always steered clear of. The risks are high, especially things like losing control of your domain name. Whoever gets your domain gets all your email. No thanks. Then add spam, viruses, managing blocklists. Then the issues of uptime, lost email, etc. All too hard for me!
@Bern@geordie Ventoy makes the usb-booting process pretty easy! Just drop isos onto the partition on the drive, and it'll be instantly bootable. Can drop in as many isos as your usb drive will fit, then choose from them up boot time.
In the most glorious "fuck you" I have seen in a while, you know the book that Cumberland City Council banned because they're homophobic bigots - Holly Duhig's "A focus on Same Sex Parents"? Well, the publisher, BookLife Publishing, have made a PDF version of the book available for free.
Sure be a shame if it was shared far and wide now, wouldn't it?
Every time you ban a book filled with hope and kindness, and care and love, we will resist.
There are so many issues I have with citizenship and our security but one of the biggest hypocrisy of our gov is allowing people to keep their Australian citizenship if they fight for another country.
Who is to say is a friend or an enemy and there are so many people coming here and want citizenship because of wars in their country which has made it unsafe for their family. They want our citizenship and don’t want to be part of a war.
A person should automatically lose their Australian citizenship if they fight in another countries forces. No exception. They can re apply when they work out if they really want to live in a safe country. #auspol#citizenship
@samhkennedy the exception were always stuck with is that we can’t make people stateless. So if they’re not a dual citizen, we can’t revoke their citizenship either way.
Jack Dorsey is furious that #Bluesky has attracted "very very common" people. He also doesn't like the idea of moderation tools facilitating the banning of racists.
All these tech billionaires are like a version of the movie Big, in which a pre-adolescent boy wakes up in the body of an aging Howard Hughes. Or Colonel Kurtz. Or a sardine. #JackDorsey
@Richard_Littler I'm of the view that moderation shouldn't be necessary. The fact that it is necessary makes me cross. But its not the moderation that annoys me, its that fact that it was necessary in the first place. Couldn't people just not be dicks? The answer, sadly, always seems to be no.
I see another employer has gone to the wall and said to employees: "You wont get paid your entitlements. Too bad, so sad."
So I'm starting to think that maybe employers over a certain size, say 10 full-time equivalents, should be required to pay into an Employee Entitlements Insurance scheme.*
Yes, I know it will drive the Libs and the various chambers of commerce berserk. That's what makes me think it's probably a good idea.
@Dinkenfunkle workers need to be classed as higher order creditors than investors. Investors put their money in knowing there was risk. Employees aren’t investing money, they are being paid for their time. It should be employees first, customers second, investors/lenders last.
If that looks dodgy, don’t lend/invest with them. That choice isn’t a luxury employees have. #auspol
@john1954moi my phone screen is like my teenage bedroom. If I clean it up, how will I be able to find anything?! So it’s just stuck as it is, disorganised, but at least I know where to find each app.
@oldrawgabbit this is the best way I’ve seen this expressed. Too often it’s people using the other plastic in shops to argue against banning plastic bags. It’s not the lag of bags that’s the problem, it’s the presence of all the other plastic forced upon us! #auspol#plastic
@Salvo I started in 2020, couldn’t be arsed shaving with the lockdowns. But yes, the moustache treatments are fairly unnecessary. I bought some, used it for a week, haven’t touched it since. Maybe if you’ve got a beard down to your knees, otherwise natural skin oils are sufficient.
@stib@nacho_borracho the ability to make a twenty minute job take hours is amazing. And then somehow it’s your fault that there’s no time left for other things!
@ktempestbradford even the ones that use computers can only install and manage software via app stores. Pressing install on Steam is the extent of their experience. It’s like going back 20 years to when kids didn’t have any computer experience from home. They only learn it at school.