Think, if they started from the top they could retain talent and remove the easily replaceable dead wood. Based on the chairman apparently having a $1.1 billion net worth, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t need any further income for instance.

Over here in Australia the government is being told that the equivalent that we are having foisted on us lacks key supporting measures (like an equivalent of GDPR, actual hard and fast laws to penalise the misuse or failure to adequately secure citizens data, etc).

In spite of this and genuine commentary from children’s advocacy groups saying the legislation is not fit for purpose it is being steamrolled through because “won’t somebody think of the children”.

It does make me wonder how many children are going to be cut off from their support networks and escape routes that this might harm, potentially fatally. How much blood of Australia’s youth is our government willing to have on its hands so that our intelligence community (and we are part of five eyes so it doesn’t stay on our shores) can have a shiny new toy?

Now simply provide ID to every website or app that has any social interaction component, after all the only way to protect our children is to submit to a massive invasion of privacy.

What do you mean this runs the risk of hurting marginalised and or abused children who lose an avenue to seek help and guidance to escape or ameliorate their situation?

Stop understanding nuance and prepare for the line our intelligence community wants you to swallow instead.

In all seriousness if social media is too corrosive for young people maybe its time it was banned entirely, the reason for these half measures has little to do with children and their safety and everything to do with removing all privacy and anonymity from online activities.

I’ve been seeing these things on the Google News feed on my phone I keep disabling that keeps getting re-enabled for some mysterious reason. It’s literally gotten to the point lately that if something is presented as a fact by google I automatically disbelieve it. What really concerns me is the people who don’t take that stance.

Absolutely filthy ideas. A social safety net for citizens? Thats a corporate prerogative get your hands off it peasants.

Affordable housing? Won’t someone think of the poor investors, they can barely afford their small fleet of yachts.

Affordable healthcare? How would the poor employers ever compel their wage slaves to work themselves to death if the alternative death sentence wasn’t available.

Affordable groceries? I think you will find Trump has already solved this, if you can’t afford to eat a substandard meal every 2nd day that sounds like a you problem, did you even try to be born into generational wealth.

You are so right, socialism is just plain evil. After all it’s never worked anywhere that it’s been left to develop without external forces doing everything they can to destabilise and delegitimise it.

As a filthy foreigner who just doesn’t get why America is the way it is I wonder if you could actually conceive of how socialism would bring material benefits to you? I am just going to assume you are not part of the limited sub section of society that would “suffer” under socialism, specifically the multi-millionaire/billionaire class.

Plus a single mayor being a socialist, even a hardcore ideologically pure socialist, would bring a tiny of sliver of socialism to your capitalist hellscape, is capitalism so fragile that having that tiny enclave of barely socialism would seriously endanger it?

Anyone using a Version Control system to do 3d design work, if I was smart I would be using this for the stuff I design to 3d print. But I’m not so I just have directories full of STL and 3MF files with occasionally somewhat descriptive names. Oh or 3d artists working on games, videos etc. People who are doing architectural design? Just people with other random interests? I suck at staying organised but I gave Forgejo a go and as long as you follow the getting started guide and keep it on an internal network its pretty straightforward to get started, complexity goes up if you are wanting to use it externally or in more co.plicated scenarios I believe.

So I have a genuine question if you don’t mind indulging me. Are you into trolling people or are the beliefs you espouse your sincerely held beliefs?

Wow does your offer include Premium Netflix and Amazon Prime? Because the other scammers who are offering me IPTV are bundling Netflix and prime thanks to their exclusive relationships and I wouldn’t want to blindly hand my credit card details over to someone who can’t build exclusive (and implausible) relationships!

I always forget how dog shit US consumer protection laws are. In a civilised nation that sort of conduct could and would get Steam in hot water. Here in Australia raising a price just to show a discount is bait advertising and the ACCC will ping companies for doing it. Oh and I know you are thinking about relevance, but complying with Australian laws is why steam returns are as easy as they are these days (and also why the Bethesda Fallout games have stims in place or morphine, but you take the good with the bad). Regardless, Lemmy is an international platform, I think presenting accurate information for everyone rather than bending to the quirks of a single market is a better way to go. Regardless this conversation has now taken far more effort than its worth, so feel free to have the last word, but I am done. Have a great day.

That’s a bit insulting to others around the world. I find it no great issue to click the link to see my regional pricing.

Having worked with confidential data for a cohort that included people with Protection orders we had it drilled into us that any mistakes could (and had) cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars to remediate and that was with super specific tailored contracts to cover every contingency that the company had encountered in the past. That was 20 years ago. I can’t imagine those costs have diminished since then… The companies willingness to do everything to stay out of court and out of the headlines may have though.

As if any of this is about protecting children. At best that will be a side effect of the ban. It’s mainly about linking an ID to as much online activity as possible.

Discussions with the office of my representative showed that they are treating all the issues that will arise from this as secondary. When I asked if tax payer money would be used to redress the absolutely inevitable data breaches when they happen I was told the eSafety Commissioner has the power to bring legal action against companies that don’t implement best practise with regards to data security.

I asked where best practise was codified in legal terms and was then told that the government has published guidelines that state data gathered should be limited in scope and secured in a safe manner. In other words we are putting the horse so far in front of the cart it’s as though the horse is still in the stable.

When I asked about penalties I was told that companies could be fined up to 850k per offense. However when I asked what was to stop a company that had just accidentally leaked say a million drivers licenses from simply closing shop and abandoning Australia to deal with the fallout rather than accept an multi trillion dollar fine I just got some limp hand-wavey statements about how companies would be compelled by the rules and regulations.

I think the biggest problem facing the welfare system is decades of the Australian public having the recipients demonized as dole bludgers by populist shitbags. Every time I point out to my father that we give far more money in corporate welfare than we invest into people who are down on their luck I get the same tired bootstraps rhetoric. Taking support for aged pensions and family tax supplements out of the equation the actual amount we offer as support to people who can’t get a job through disability or lack of opportunity is an insult. If we taxed corporate entities and people squatting on virtual dragon hordes of property correctly the landscape would change.

Strange how none of the links at the bottom of your page work. Do you have a Privacy Policy and Terms of Service or do you just have the words there because other websites do? I hate to sound cynical but your page looks like a scam. Well that and the reselling of Netflix and Amazon Prime seems a bit unlikely.

Care to comment on that?

Thanks, once I realized it was an invidious link I went hunting myself anyway. Not sure why go-away thinks I am a bot.

Device looks pretty good, will be curious to see some reviews.

So apparently all the browsers on my phone are denied by this website.

I have this strong mental image of MAGAts hearing about this and hiring these guys to knock down the houses they live in to own the libs. I mean they already voted in a rapist conman who was guaranteed to sink the economy to do the same, I’m wondering if there is any limit to the masochism they will indulge in to hurt other people.

Amateurs… here in Tassie we would just build between 3 and 6 stadiums with that sort of money. The hardest part would be finding enough hideously inconvenient spots that have insufficient infrastructure and potentially contaminated soil to site them. We know how to piss money we don’t have away on White Elephants down here.

It’s a ritual that we have a whiskey when I go to pay my rent. Couldn’t be nicer. It’s just hard to reconcile with some of the more irrational beliefs. Honestly my dad is worse in some ways, my dad would have been much happier if he was born 40 years earlier. Australian Society in the 50s would have been a lot more his pace.

I don’t know anyone else’s inner world obviously, but reading between the lines of what he said it sounds like that era of German history disrupted his family enough that there is no romanticisation going on.

Plus he told me about an occasion where he confronted some stupid teenager who decided to go to a nearby shopping centre in a reproduction Waffen SS uniform and rather forcefully told him to leave when the police said it was distasteful but they couldn’t do anything about it (before the bans on publicly showing Nazi iconography).

I think he is a standard Lib Nats voter that has the usual amount of mindrot from watching a bit too much SkyNews (more than 15 seconds qualifies as far as I am concerned).