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I think it is justified for any commercial interest to block all LLM data exfiltration technologies from all corporate workplaces. This includes CoPilot, Adobe AI Assistant, Google Whatever-they-want-to-call-it-this-week, ChatGPT and even on-device, but corporate-managed technologies like Apple Intelligence.

They should also block employees from using social media that use Algorithms to analyse and manipulate users.

I do appreciate the irony of using CoPilot to find adjectives for “enshitification”.

If you want a more accurate and useful definition of “enshitification”, try “Microsoft CoPilot”

It would give legal power to the Commercial Social Media platforms to collect more private information about us, which would they can then use for their own commercial purposes.

They will lose the 0-16 y/o demographic, but they aren’t a directly profitable market anyway.

The 16 year old demographic will be much more profitable, because they wouldn’t have been conditioned to deal with the predatory behaviour of commercial Social Media platforms.

For better or worse, I would trust our incompetent Public Servants with my personal information than a Private US American Business.

They already have my Financial Tax and Medical information and as long as the ATO and Medicare don’t get privatised it is (as) safe (as it can be).

No one wants an Australia Card, but if the alternative is to have the Private sector collate this information (and onsell it to the cheapest bidders), I will reluctantly accept an Australia Card.

IANAL but I believe the new laws are unenforceable.

I think it is safe for aus.social and aussie.zone to ignore the requirements, but maintain a campaign to get the new laws revoked.

As you said, there are bigger fish needing to fight these laws and will cop the worse of the legal backlash. That said, Minecraft servers are typically independently owned and run. It would be upto the individual server admins to regulate. Roblox would be liable though…

To U.S. Americans, anything to the left of fascism is “Left Leaning”.

Twitter had the appearance of being Left Leaning to the ignorant masses mainly because it was funded by Venture Capital.

When it matured and had to provide ROI, it became much more Right-Wing overnight. The oppression of 3rd Party Apps was the beginning of the end (even though Twitter wouldn’t have been what it was without Twitteriffic).

“BuT wOn’T sOmEoNe ThInK oF tHe TeChBrOs!”

The Fediverse attracts Left-Leaning contributors because the commercial microblogging platforms aren’t appealing to them. The commercial microblogging platforms (by definition) appeal to those who are right-wing. Now that the two biggest microblogging platforms are owned by either venture capitalists or capitalist puppets.

But for every fiscally responsible policy they put out there, there is some other policy that is completely unworkable.

Still, unworkable policies are still better than no policy.

And if the Greens were in power, they would probably attract the more progressive and fiscally responsible politicians into their ranks, which would result in more practical policies.

Edit: I do vote for the Greens first in every election (after any other special interest parties that are more appealing) and the LNP last (ahead of any fascist parties that are less appealing).

The more Green preferences ahead of the major Party’s, the better.

I’d be more worried about old people using social media.

They are much more susceptible to misinformation on the Internet than Young People, especially those old people who are creating government policy.

The Shit Party and the Shit-Lite Party are both too regressive. Albo is not being progressive but Dutton would be even worse, dragging us kicking and screaming into a second Great Depression.

We need a viable third Party.

Can everyone remember in the 1990s when the Democrats held the balance of power and were able to Keep the Bastards Honest?

The Greens aren’t an option, because they are too head-in-the-clouds to be able to maintain the economy.

I can go either way, however I do prefer self-serve if I am in a hurry and only have a few things. That said, the sluggishness of the Woolworths ones, and the Twenty Questions whenever I try to use them (and the inference from them that I am a thief) means that I will go to the service desk instead.

The friendliness of other Aldi customers is also refreshing. I have had other customers wave me through because i only have a couple of things; I usually buy a few Chupa Chups when I am checking out for those other customers, as a thankyou.

Safeway and Coles customers are typically more self-absorbed and militant about the queue.

We had a local IGA open in our estate recently. There are some things that are more expensive than Colesworth, but only by a small margin.

The same when a Foodworks opened where we used to live.

Being able to stroll to the supermarket is a nice luxury; it is quicker to walk to IGA than to drive to the nearest Coles or Woolworths.

The Aldi near us recently added self serve checkouts. They work, they don’t nag and they still have an attendant to happily make small-talk and help customers.

That is the thing. They will bite if the feel scared, so it you are competent, relaxed and crazy enough, you may be able to handle one like this. They also have a little beak.

The Venn diagram of venomous and dangerous is not a plain circle.

The problem is that the RBA increased interest rates to discourage individuals from borrowing more. The problem is that We had already borrowed so much that the increase was crippling.

They should have only increased rates on new loans and reduced rates on existing loans.

And of course, Channel 7 and Channel 9 have published hit-pieces against the Privacy Commission in defence of Bunnings.

They have broadcast video of employees being attacked!

I also have a small methane burner. /s Makes it a bit unpleasant when it has to flare off, but it keeps my phone charged.

The problem with global media is that every single outlier event gets hyped to such a degree that it appears to be a common occurrence.

And people had the nerve to name a Swimming Pool after him! /s