good morals in kids
I think you mean basic human decency
I mod some of the communities there and having reports arrive 8 days late for some rule violations 8 days ago by Lemmy.world users is annoying
I don't like it when they interview celebrities on 7:30. What? Is there no news that needs an in-depth look?
If the supreme court is going to make political decisions and try to interpret the laws in such a way to support those decisions then they should be an elected body.
The benefit is more so for other users on other instances. Lemmy.world in particular is causing a lot of trouble for small instances hosted outside Europe and North America. For example in aussie.zone local communities comments are taking 8 days to arrive from Lemmy.world because of the latency and how Lemmy processes federation serially. Hopefully in an upcoming release we'll get parallel processing of federated activities making this less of a problem
They've run a couple of stories now about small businesses getting ripped off or "duped" in the beauty industry now. I'm not sure I'm meant to feel sorry for them—their entire industry is based on telling women that they don't look good enough.
I accidentally went 18 seconds and got a microSD, just be careful of microwaves with different power for the correct parameters, but this is known to work
It is depressing studying science only to realise that whatever research you do to improve the world you will be ignored unless someone can profit from it. Truly an advanced civilisation
Looking at the article the insect repellant bottle looks a lot like a juice bottle, but still
The automatic updates are really good it would be better if they integrated with GNOME software, but it is still a distro I would recommend to people who want something that "just works". Atomic really is the future of linux
Their instructions aren't quite right, I did find that I had to change the icon theme back to adwaita myself using GNOME tweaks.
Yeah I use silverblue on another computer and previously on this one, but the killer feature of bluefin is that NVIDIA drivers and codecs are built right into the image (as with the other ublue images) meaning that you don't need to layer them and risk a bad upgrade. I'm planning on bringing the other computer over as well even though it's AMD, at least I'll get ROCm and the codecs.
Recently switched to bluefin from workstation, I was initially a bit held back by all of the GNOME customisations, but they're pretty straightforward to revert back to default. While I like the idea of automatic updates it would be nice if it integrated with GNOME software to make it easier to control. Otherwise if you're looking for an immutable/atomic desktop and want it to pretty much work out of the box I would highly recommend
driving while unhealthy, tired or whatever or taking drugs known to increase violent tendencies like alcohol.
If it was up to me, alcohol would be banned as well but such a ban would be largely impractical and there would also be a large black market formed just by how easy the stuff is to make—it literally used to be a learning exercise in year 12 chemistry in QLD. When it comes to driving when unhealthy or tired, there is generally a choice to not drive and if you do crash you will almost always be identified as being at fault. So it's not like there is no recourse for those poor decisions. With vapes the user cannot stop anytime they want, they're addictive and there are companies exploiting that.
It's a lot easier to avoid fog machines than it is people vaping. I've never seen a fog machine at the train station...
Not exactly, as they won't be promoting the vapes as they'll be plainly packaged and they'll be heavily regulated. They will still profit but not encouraging it
Are you saying that vaping is a good thing and a net positive?
A bunch of businesses will basically be shut down because of this … they can’t exactly pivot to something else
It's a damn shame too - I don't know what we'll do without all those businesses built around exploiting drug addicts
Thanks for linking that, their position makes a bit more sense now, at least by restricting them to pharmacies there won't be as much of a black market
Personally I believe this is a very poor take
With so many scams out there, especially now as we face the end of the financial year and the pinned "How to spot a tax scam" post being nearly a year old, I'm going to pin this thread as a place to share advice regarding scams or any new scams you might have noticed.
This isn't to say not to post scam related stuff in the main community but to create a place to keep track of scam related stuff which might get washed away over time.
Communities don't get cake days on Lemmy, but looking back at the posts in the Aussie Zone meta community, today 12/06 marks one year since @404@aussie.zone requested the community be created. Since then the top posts this community has had were:
- At 679 - 9 votes and 200 comments: YouTube Premium family plan price update ($17.99/month -> $32.99/month!) (by @trk@aussie.zone
- At 571 - 7 votes and 68 comments: The lack of ads! (by @Gbagginsthe3rd@aussie.zone)
- At 551 - 38 votes and 174 comments: Can we stop buying these stupid things? Thanks (by @R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone)
I had a look sorting by controversial and I'm quite surprised that the referendum megathread, which bot recruit @dalekerrigan@aussie.zone kept reminding everyone about.
Within this first year we also participated in the first ever lemmyvision contest, with our nomination ranking 4th.
We've also appointed some extra moderators since the start of the year-@Fluid@aussie.zone, @bestusername@aussie.zone and @eatham@aussie.zone-who have been doing a great job at keeping conversations on track.
What were your favourite interactions and posts on this community over the year? And what would you like to see the community move towards in the years ahead?
Thanks everyone for the wonderful year!
If you want a 100% efficient computer like me, all you have to do - and it's very simple!
Count all of the noise and heat as useful work.
Stumbled upon this when looking for help on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1cwag3q/are_race_conditions_racist/?chainedposts=t3_n8qi6n
Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann lodges a notice of appeal with the Federal Court after a ruling by Justice Michael Lee that on the balance of probabilities he did rape Brittany Higgins at Parliament House in 2019.
ABC News director Justin Stevens says comments made by political journalist Laura Tingle at Sydney Writers' Festival did not meet the organisation's editorial standards.
A new campaign — called I Am Not A Typo — is urging tech companies to fix ethnic bias in their algorithms to stop autocorrect mangling so many people's names.
Hello from across the fediverse!
If you've contributed to the conversation in discussions in this community you may have noticed you weren't getting a lot of interaction (at least from outside your instance: lemmy.world). There are a couple of reasons for this and I will unpin this post when the issues are resolved.
The problem is basically that lemmy.world is sending too many activities for aussie.zone to keep up with, this is mostly due to the latency going from Europe to Sydney. There are some features being developed for Lemmy to hopefully fix this issue (expected in 0.19.5). The delay currently means that activities are taking around 7 days to reach aussie.zone.
The admins of aussie.zone do a great job keeping the instance going as a place for us to gather and discuss Australia and related issues so please do not direct any criticism at them over this. To be able to properly interact with our community I would recommend creating an account on another instance for the time being (as far as I know lemmy.world is the only problematic one).
If you're interested there is currently a discussion ongoing in !meta@aussie.zone (link for aussie.zone users) covering this.
(Not me) Official video from David McBride's Official Youtube channel. If you don't know who he is - I don't blame you, with how little coverage this story has gotten
Criminologist and former NSW Police detective Vincent Hurley, who went viral lecturing politicians on Q+A, says there are immediate solutions to keep women and children safe.
Indian spies were kicked out of Australia after being caught trying to steal secrets about sensitive defence projects and airport security, as well as classified information on Australia's trade relationships.
cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/6041838
> ## The results are in! 🎶 > > Hey everyone! > > Thank you for participating, I gathered the votes submitted until this morning and put together this little graphics to announce the results, it looks like The Northern Boys were a clear favourite with their eccentric yet catchy song ; Azahriah and Bagarre, both ex-aequo, follow them closely in second position. > > Congratulations to everyone for submitting great songs! > > The ranking is based on the average position out of every vote, here are the details: > > 1. The Northern Boys - Sexy Train (avg. rank : 3.4) > 2. Azahriah - Introvertált dal (4.2) > 3. Bagarre - On est les mêmes (4.2) > 4. Royel Otis - Heading for the Door (4.5) > 5. Tiki Taane - Tangaroa (4.6) > 6. Cassette Beasts - Your Inception (4.9) > 7. Pil - Dronning af månen - (5.0) > 8. Lu Kala - Hotter Now (5.2) > 9. Puggy - Lost Child (5.5) > > The ranks are super close, I personally liked every single song and it was hard to have to rank them, because the last position didn't necessarily mean the song was bad. > > But wait there's more! Here's a ranking based on how many time each song was ranked first : > > 1. The Northern Boys - Sexy Train (21 times ranked first!) > 2. Tiki Taane - Tangaroa (13) > 3. Bagarre - On est les mêmes (10) > 4. Azahriah - Introvertált dal (8) > 5. Royel Otis - Heading for the Door (8) > 6. Lu Kala - Hotter Now (4) > 7. Pil - Dronning af månen (3) > 8. Cassette Beasts - Your Inception (2) > 9. Puggy - Lost Child (1) > > That means every single song submitted was at least one person's favourite song, which is heartwarming, everyone got to discover new music! > > There's even more! Here's a small list of every instance's most favourite songs (the songs that were most ranked highest for each instance), Belgium sadly didn't vote : > > - Australia (aussie.zone) : The Northern Boys & Tiki Taane > - Canada (lemmy.ca) : The Northern Boys > - Denmark (feddit.dk) : The Northern Boys > - France (jlai.lu) : The Northern Boys, Royel Otis > - Hungary (!hungary@lemmy.world) : Tiki Taane > - New Zealand (lemmy.nz) : Pil > - Programming.dev (programming.dev) : The Northern Boys > - United Kingdom (feddit.uk) : Bagarre, Tiki Taane, Lu Kala > - 3rd party voters : The Northern Boys, Bagarre, Royel Otis > > Again, I want to reiterate how thankful I am that y'all participated. I didn't expect any response at all for such a niche event in such a niche social media, it was scary to be responsible that everything goes smoothly, but so rewarding to see people coming together and sending songs, and discovering new music from you! > > ## What's next for Lemmyvision? > > I'm going to keep the community open if you want to use it to share lesser known songs from where you're from, that you'd like people to discover, feel free to use !lemmyvision@jlai.lu as you wish, as long as it's in the spirit of this contest. > > Obviously another edition will happen, and hopefully with more people, as Lemmy grows, and gathers more users, and I manage to make contact with more instances, there is an opportunity to discover even more music! If you'd like to help, feel free to send a message too! > > However, I do like the idea of having smaller scale, thematic, events, or just prompts in between, like how the speedrunning event AGDQ has the SQDG in summer ; I'll think about something, but feel free to share ideas as well. > > Thank you, and see you next year for Lemmyvision 2 !! 🎶
cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/5874257
> Lemmy users, you can now vote for your favourite song in Lemmyvision's song contest, an Eurovision-like song contest, in which various instances submitted a song of their choice! > > My sincere thanks everyone for your submissions, I have created a form where you can rank your favourite songs, it's available here : > > ➡️ Lemmyvision Voting Form - https://tally.so/r/nWNgKQ ⬅️ > > I'll leave the form open for a week and then collect the results! > > Make sure to check each submitted song thanks to the playlists @Ategon@programming.dev has created: > - Youtube Link > - Spotify Link > - Invidious Link > > Full list of songs: > - 🇦🇺 Royel Otis - Heading For The Door (aussie.zone / Australia) > - 🇧🇪 Puggy - Lost Child (!belgique@jlai.lu / Belgium) > - 🇨🇦 Lu Kala - Hotter Now (lemmy.ca / Canada) > - 🇩🇰 Pil - Dronning Af Månen (feddit.dk / Denmark) > - 🇫🇷 Bagarre - ON EST LES MÊMES (jlai.lu / France) > - 🇭🇺 Azahriah - introvertált dal (!hungary@lemmy.world / Hungary) > - 🇬🇧 The Northern Boys - Sexy Train (feddit.uk / UK) > - 🇦🇶 Casette Beasts - Your Inception (programming.dev / Programming) > - 🇳🇿 Tiki Taana - Tangaroa (lemmy.nz / New Zealand) > > You will be asked to rank the songs from your favourite to least favourite ; you may notice that users from specific instance cannot rank the song their instance has submitted, in order to keep things fair. Users from non-participating instances can still participate in the voting, and self identify as third party. Let me know if there's any issue with the form! > > Enjoy! 🎶
The Federal Court this week played host to allegations of cocaine benders, boozy dinners, $10,000 in sex worker and massage services charged to the Network Seven company card. The unexpected twist has its origins in a much smaller, Sydney political scandal.
On behalf of !australia@aussie.zone I am announcing "Royel Otis - Heading for the Door" as our official nomination. Documentation on the selection process can be found in this post: https://aussie.zone/post/8404273
