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I didn’t realise how bad the ads were until I used a browser other than Safari. I kept on being told I had Adblockers enabled on every website I went to, and they refused to show me the content.

I then disabled the privacy protection features of Safari and realised that most of the websites had so many ads that they were completely unusable. It was easier to get the content using Safari Reader Mode than the unblocked website with ads visible.

The new “hide distracting items” feature does make a lot of pages readable to the point where you can realise that the published content is all shit.

A few years ago we lived in an estate with an off-brand fibre network.

The company had rolled out the infrastructure in collusion with the developer in hopes of monopolising the retail and wholesale, just like in the similar Telstra Fibre estates of the time.

The TCO called them out and they had to open up to third party retailers, but still charged the same wholesale price so retailers had to compete with quality of customer service and value-added service like VoIP.

The problem was that the wholesalers’ retailer was the only one that was able to provide decent Technical Customer Service, but since those business model had failed, they couldn’t afford to provide it.

I believe the wholesaler went bust and was bought out by Opticomm.

I agree; Facebook should only be a playground for Dirty Bogans to plan each others Gender Reveal Parties.

It should not be taken seriously by the Media.

All the “anger at the rollout of renewables” is just Astroturf by the fossil fuel industry.

If you do 30 seconds of research into the “No Windfarms”, “No Pylons” and “No Solar Farms” movements, you will discover that they are all run by a handful of marketing firms associated with the Fracking Industry.

There is no “anger at renewables”.

She should have tried to smuggle it in in the form or a golden cigarette case, golden cigarette lighter, golden pen and golden cufflink.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Scaramanga

IANAL, do you think it could be stretched to include SMS, MMS or RCS ? That would make Telstra, Optus and Vodafone liable too.

It won’t be a 3rd Party application. It won’t be the authentication provided by the device manufacturer either.

This is what myID and myGov is designed for, and is perfectly capable of. Knowing how the Shit Party and Shit Lite Party work, it will probably originally be some half-baked, easily circumvented 3rd party web service, created by a mate of a mate in exchange for “Political Contributions”.

Ironically the Rhyming Slang term refers to the Union side of the First US Civil War, but is more often applied to the Secessionists.

I also prefer using the term than “Columbophiles” because Seppos don’t identify as “Columbian” because there is another country called Columbia.

They don’t identify as “Septic Tanks” either but the rest of the world identifies them along that line.

The GDPR has been completely ineffective.

Instead of preventing immoral businesses from collecting our data, it has forced moral and immoral businesses to make their websites completely useless unless we give them explicit permission to collect our data. We get that stupid, ineffectual modal pop up whenever we visit their site, and no matter how many permissions we give them, they are forced to ask every time.

The thing is All-The-Countries are just as bad (if not worse).

At least we have preferential voting in Australia so (if we can educate our idiotic fellow voters) we have a (theoretical) chance to vote both major parties out.

Question; Would you rather incompetent public servants retaining one set of your personal data or multiple commercial interests collecting your personal data?

Except in the case of a data breach, your information is much more secure with The Government as long as they are kept accountable.

Unfortunately the Shit Party and the Shit Lite Party appear to be doing everything they can to prove that government is not accountable, (except for their “Lobbyists”).

They have legally banned them but they have not practically blocked them. They will still have the same amount of access they had previously, until Internet adapts to the new laws, and considering how small Australia is on the world stage. Compared with the EU with GDPR and the US with the DMCA, no-one is going to give a shit about the new laws.

What does mean that any local Internet providers will be held accountable, which means that the government has successfully destroyed any remaining chance for Australia to have any local technology industry.

The problem with the misappropriation is that Right-Wing Australian Seppophiles think that the Eureka Flag is the Australian Flag is the equivalent of Confederate Flag.

While there was some Racism against Chinese miners, it wasn’t to the extent of the Racism in the Deep South of North America.

Sometimes you are so tired that you can’t actively engage in something, but you want to engage with it so you passively engage instead.

This goes for gamers watching gaming videos, woodworkers watching woodworking videos or people with dirty houses watching lawnmowing/pressure washing/car detailing/rug cleaning videos.

You get some of the endorphins of achievement, without having to go through the effort of achieving something.

“When you are famous, they let you touch them, right on the cloaca”.

It would probably provide better ROI than giving your $2 to the bank every week.

It is a shame. Our Preferential Ballot is the envy of democracy’s around the world and the ALP and NLP are doing everything possible to destroy it.

Every person needs to leave them until almost last preference (except the fascists who should always be last preference) in the next election.

That sounds pretty good. The problem is that getting the Gin to @lodion may be a bit tricky. Also the quality of server administration may not be to the same standard as they dispose of the Gin.

I’ve seen it a few times when travelling. I think that the best way for a slow vehicle to indicate that it is safe to overtake is to indicate left (near-side, passenger-side, kerb/shoulder-side, whatever) and merge onto the shoulder. This is what the majority of tractors do in my local region.

This provides those following better visibility of the road ahead and allows them to make up their own mind.

Also, those following, just be patient. The only reason why the tractor would be deliberately driving slow to annoy you is because you a being a dickhead. Don’t be a dickhead on the road.

Here in Australia, Swags are the go-to camping solution for solo camping, and also couple touring.

A Swag is a local type of Bivouac sack that could just be anything from a blanket wrapped in a tarp, upto a custom canvas tent-like structure that can be quickly rolled out, with integrated mattress and separate stretcher.

A few of the lighter-weight ones have an opening on the topside where you can leave them open for stargazing on dry nights.

There are also hammock swags with insulation above and below.