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Posts about food, games, tech, politics, being a single parent, and the small humans that wreck me

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StillIRise1963, to random
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I think we can now stop saying “google it” when looking for info. No one will find it there.

sortius,
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@StillIRise1963 hear hear, I know it's difficult for me to drop Google, but I've been making a concerted effort over the past few years to say "Do a web search" rather than "Google it"

rodhilton, to random
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How many days do you suppose we have before Dropbox announces they are selling everyone's documents to OpenAI?

sortius,
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@rodhilton @MadiqIzichi @zmh hehehe, that's literally a possibility for every single company these days 😖

What a world we've created

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@MadiqIzichi @zmh @rodhilton yeh, they changed it after there was massive uproar about them claiming ownership of other people's stuff. Still, it might remain yours, but that doesn't stop them from training AI on it

seachanger, to random
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thinking about rebuilding our public squares in a hybrid digital age

  1. encourage public entities to share public info on public channels, not private platforms

  2. embrace sharing in real life, use email, snail mail, private messenger, radio, newspaper, public forum, neighborhood scale gathering

  3. create and use nonprofit and publicly owned social sharing platforms, but prioritize real life sharing when possible

sortius,
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@seachanger I know this is something people don't want to hear, but I can only speak to my lived experience.

What kills communities is cars. As much as we like to think about "online communities" being communities, they are not. I'm not saying they're a bad thing, but they're not a replacement for actual community.

I spent the last 7 or so years living in suburban Melbourne; great despite public transport, car central. No one walked, everything was "a quick drive to <insert place>" 1/2

sortius,
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@seachanger I rode my cargo bikes, but even then, no one interacted with me.

It was until I moved back into the city I realised how much cars prevent day-to-day "hellos" in the street.

In the suburbs, where the car ruled, I was gaining weight, isolated, felt like it was killing me, but now I know people I live around, shop owners, even local figures (like "Carrot Man"); hell, I've even lost weight!!! All because most people walk or ride around here 2/2

stux, to Sony
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Well, I guess that’s it for ! It was fun as long as it lasted but like always, corporate greed has taken over

now required people to link their to their Sony-soon-gets-hacked-again accounts

I, like so many other players refuse this and just stopped playing all together since Sony just doesn’t give a shit about security

Review updated, guess they got what they wanted

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@stux I've seen some pretty poor defense of these actions, and I can't really swallow it.

They knew from the start that Sony was going to do this, they should have made clear that a Sony PSN account would be needed.

It's pretty deceptive, and I'd be pissed, too, even if I had a PSN account already

sortius, to random
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I'd forgotten about this, but was reminded when looking through some old notes.

Netflix has super secret categories that you can't find without using category codes (all explained here, with a comprehensive list of them https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/the-netflix-id-bible-every-category-on-netflix/).

A good example for us Aussies is trying to find Australian movies, look no more, category 5230 is where you want to look (https://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/5230)

decryption, to random
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sell your car or sell your apartment - problem solved

sortius,
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@decryption ~4 months back living in the city, not once have I thought "I should get a license and a car". Hell, I didn't even feel that in the suburbs.

People are ignorant, lazy, and will always come up with ways to justify owning 2 tonnes of metal to move <100kg of human about

skinnylatte, to random
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Eating ‘fire noodles’ at midnight because I can! (Look it up on YouTube if you don’t know what it is)

sortius,
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@skinnylatte here's hoping you don't wake in agony at 3am 😆

stux, to apple
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#Apple needs to explain that bug that resurfaced deleted photos

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24161152/apple-ios-17-photo-bug

sortius,
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@stux hehehe, they secured the OS from jailbreaking, unfortunately that isn't reflected as strongly in their user data security 😆

Whether it's Android or iOS, Windows or MacOS, the people making the OS are stealing our data all day, every day. It's bound to leak, and end up with "bugs" like these photos being raised from the dead

sortius,
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@stux Apple presents themselves this way, but Apple products are just as noisy, just as leaky, as anyone else's, they just have slicker marketing

sortius, to auspol
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I see we're already getting the centrist hacks painting it as a "tough budget" for Chalmers.

Fuck off.

There's nothing "tough" about the budget. It's fucking champagne and caviar... for the rich.

For the poor it's "We'll do what's fiscally responsible", a meaningless phrase created by meaningless people like Chalmers and Albanese

sortius, to auspol
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Bandt on the money, again.

Why are they acting surprised that Labor is backing gas? Labor is a party funded by fossil fuel companies, and bolstered by the MEU, once part of the CFMEU.

No one can be so naive to actually think Labor would take real steps against climate change, right? Look what the unions did to the last Labor PM that actually did

sortius, to auspol
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Equality Australia, who were mostly behind the successful Marriage Equality Plebiscite campaign, have a petition up about Cumberland Council in Sydney importing American book bans to the local library.

I don't normally ask people to sign petitions, but if you're in Australia, we need to end this practice before it begins, so, please do sign.

Book bans are causing immense harms in the US, we don't want or need it here https://equalityaustralia.org.au/our-work/areas-of-work/cumberland-council/

alexkidman, to retrogaming
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It’s Friday, which means it’s Retro Game Of The Week time! This week, who you gonna call… yeah, them, as I delve into Ghostbusters for the Sega Master System and Sega Mega Drive!


https://alexreviewstech.com/retro-game-of-the-week-ghostbusters-sega-master-system-mega-drive/

sortius,
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@alexkidman Master System. I think it was just not designed for it, so timings were off somehow

sortius,
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@alexkidman I still have trauma from that game... and that boss

sortius,
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@alexkidman for a young kid, it was difficult, that boss was always a pain. I think I beat it, but it was never one of my favourite games

msquebanh, to random
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The program is designed for people who have what are sometimes called .

A sunflower symbol displayed on a green lanyard, which is available for free at the airport, allows the wearer to voluntarily show that they have a -disability and may need extra time, patience or help.

Burns said the lanyard could be used by anyone with a hidden disability, such as autism, multiple sclerosis, COPD, dementia and hearing loss.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/travel/news/moncton-airport-adopts-international-program-to-recognize-people-with-hidden-disabilities/ar-AA1nzdD0

sortius,
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@msquebanh I like this idea. I feel bad asking for tram seats, even if my feet and back are screaming, or my IBS is causing me to double over in pain.

I don't feel like justifying my invisible disabilities to randoms 😖

sortius,
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@msquebanh yep, even if just to make interactions less uncomfortable. I'm sure I'm not alone in avoiding confrontation when it comes to travelling

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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We’ve put roughly 4,800 kms on two e-bikes in just over a year. ~2,800 on the Yuba (no riding Dec-March) since end of April last year and 2,000 kms on our Load4 75 Reise & Muller since the end of August, 2023. We’ve had lots of bus trips and I’m averaging only 9 kms of walking a day. Living without a car can be very fucking frustrating and limiting in a city like but I wouldn’t trade it for anything

sortius,
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@grivettcarnac for sure. I lived for a decade or so in Melbourne's less served suburbs with a trailer to start with (Thule, then Burley), then eventually moved to the cargo bike.

I've never had a license for a car, so it was a godsend.

Being Aussie, the thing that sealed it was being able to put two slabs of beer into the cargo container. I was in love 😆

sortius,
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@grivettcarnac I did trade my cargo bike(s) for inner city living, and while I do miss them a bit, no regrets. The main reason is the trams here in Melbourne; without them I'm not sure I'd feel the same. I'll probably end up getting a new cargo bike, just to have it, soon enough. 😆

Still, 4800km is quite insane. Even in the suburbs I was doing maybe 1500km a year. Nice work

sortius, to random
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Aaah, great, Biden, so hell bent on facilitating genocide, has now attacked the ICC, and, by doing so, legitimised Hamas' 7th of October attack.

By dismissing the charges of the ICC's prosecutors, Biden has made clear that the ICC is wrong in all counts, and that both Netanyahu, and Yahya Sinwar, are off the hook.

I'm not sure that should sit well with Zionists, or anti-genocide groups, but that's what Biden has done.

Tell me again how he's better than Trump

sortius,
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@msquebanh I just don't think they care. Centre-left parties have become full blown, far right, parties these days. The echo the same rhetoric they accused their opponents of just a decade or two ago.

America has become an utter basket case of Christo-fascism, ethno nationalism, and military-industrial complex, and that's just the Democrats 😖

sortius,
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@msquebanh yeh, I grew up with the two Bush Presidents invading Iraq, Obama was a breath of fresh air until he started justifying his drone strikes on weddings.

At that point I knew the American experiment was finished, or maybe it never even started.

As much as I think there's a large portion of Americans who are decent people, their political options are limited, and their governmental and electoral systems are designed to disenfranchise them at every turn

sortius, to random
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I'm seeing a lot of people fundamentally misunderstanding the difference between the ICC and the ICJ. Mixing the two up is the first tell-tale sign you should not be commenting on the ICC prosecutor's applications for arrest warrants

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