Zagorath @ Zagorath @aussie.zone

Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

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Full list of stores closing this feature and those that are keeping it but without the mobile payment here.

Anyone know of other stores, big or small, that have something like this? It's literally been the reason I was a relatively loyal Woolies customer the last two or three years. I've always avoided Aldi because they don't even have basic self-checkout. But nor do I really want to keep going to Woolies and Coles who apparently are actively undoing their advances, even if the point they're going back to is a bit ahead of where Aldi is still at...

I genuinely am devastated by this. Until a month ago, I lived somewhere that my two closest Woolies both had this, and it was such an enormous boon.

Having moved so now there aren't any stores anywhere near me with it, I'm so frustrated at having to carry stuff to then bag it once I get to the checkout. Or worse, bag and then re-bag everything twice so I can carry it, and then scan it at the checkout. I thought Scan&Go was going to be the new thing added, just not until stores are getting refurbished anyway, as they do from time to time. But hearing it's apparently being phased out really sucks. Such a step backwards.

I'd have been writing angry letters to Woolies, had they done this before I moved to where I can't use it anyway...

Happy cake day!

They didn't even do the most basic of work to attempt to put forward a front of journalistic integrity. They didn't give Vylan a chance to respond to the article.

Yeah that comment was a wild non-sequitur.

Are you being deliberately obtuse? The use of the word "even" here is, in the context of people who are assumed to be leftists, to suggest that the content of this video stretches out beyond just its intended audience, and even reaches (or at least, I am claiming it could reach) people outside the primary audience. Namely, liberals.

But I'm not calling them dumb. I'm calling them liberal. Which by the very nature of the two ideologies means they're not going to be inclined to believe a leftist's viewpoint. And Radical Planning (the YouTuber) is most definitely a leftist, espousing leftist viewpoints.

The only person who could interpret me as calling them "dumb" is someone that presupposes it is automatically an accusation of stupidity to say you oppose leftism. Which is, in itself, a way of saying "all liberals are dumb".

This guy is great! I think his latest video might be his best to date, because of how frankly it lays out the facts. I suspect even liberals could be convinced by his points in that one.

Bold of you to assume I didn't already have that permanently set.

As they said in the article, if you want to be sure the ID is legit you can scan the QR code.

Unfortunately at least for NSW, that seems like it probably isn't sufficient. In 2022, some serious flaws with NSW's QR system were uncovered. They might have fixed it since then, it's really not clear. But given how they reacted to the original report by denying there even was a problem and pretending the criticism was about privacy, my guess is they never fixed it.

I think that this article is kinda trying to allude to this issue, but it throws it in as some tangential points about how Queensland implements the ISO standard good security with its QR, and no other state does, separate from the main conversation about the visual inspection. I agree with you that the visual inspection is basically fine as it is, for lower-priority situations.

But reading between the lines, it sounds like they're saying NSW still does the QR codes wrong, and that Victoria and possibly other states followed NSW's bad lead, with only Queensland doing it right.

Yeah maybe. I'm not really sure whether 5 million years is enough time for the rest of the ecosystem to have evolved for their absence in such a way that their return would be disruptive. It's a time frame long enough that I could think maybe it is, but short enough that I'd also not be too surprised to learn it isn't.

The Queensland digital drivers licence does meet international standards, but experts say allowing visual checks undermines that effort.

The international standard, ISO 18013-5, outlines best practices about how digital licences are used, how information is shared and how data is stored.

Personally I'm not convinced the Queensland one's visual check is really so bad. In places where it's more important to be precise they use the QR code, and when it's less relevant (I'm in my 30s and got carded at a local pub just last week, to the amusement of the people I was there with) a visual check is good enough.

More concerning than the subject of the article, to me, is this news of fundamental security flaws from 2022 in how even the QR scanning version is implemented in NSW. It's unclear whether any progress has been made in addressing that.

The headline seems a stretch, considering their ancestors died out in Aotearoa millions of years ago, but it's still interesting history.

No, you can't move the existing account. But I think you can export your settings, including subscribed communities.

It might be a good idea to add a description to your lemm.ee account saying what your new account is, kinda like a forwarding address, because people will still be able to view your old account from their instances.

Most of this comment was my own speculation based on the details they've shared publicly. The details I know of publicly are:

• The seem to be profitable. Or at least in a relatively sustainable place; they talk about profit a lot, but usually in terms of how the "profit" is split between creators. I forget, maybe the Wendover "history of Nebula" video from a while back talked more specifically about profitability?
• They're choosing not to take outside investment. This is something the CEO, Dave Wiskus, talked about particularly with respect to the Lifetime subscriptions, describing those as their option for building up the sort of large amounts of cash that they might otherwise have gone to outside investment for, in order to fund bigger projects
• The fact that they are, quite visibly, expanding their range of content

The rest was me speculating about how the business model would seem to work based on those factors plus my limited, layperson's, understanding of their industry.

Wow, rare case where the ABC actually did a better job reporting on Palestine than others. Link here. Where's the video, Guardian? Why do you insist on emphasising the completely irrelevant point that a different officer's body camera was taken, and repeatedly quote the police talking about it as "unauthorised", but fail to mention that the police have decided not to investigate the officer's brutal assault?

When you're falling behind the fucking ABC when it comes to reporting on this genocide, you seriously need to up your game.

I legitimately think they're impossible to explain. Not impossible to understand, mind you, but to explain. The only way to ever learn to play a board game is by playing it, preferably open-hand, and learning it step by step in practice.

I will check these out

FWIW the specific channels I recommended were mostly based on stalking your user profile and grabbing a couple I thought might interest you based on that. But I didn't have much to go on from your Lemmy history specifically. They weren't necessarily the first ones I'd recommend to someone in the general public, or to someone whose interests I knew better.

if only I could figure out how to use peertube

From my experience trying Peertube, its biggest problem for now is just...the server infrastructure of existing instances isn't very good. I got really bad buffering. Maybe better server-side encoding could have helped with that. Maybe they need stronger server hardware with better outbound network connections. Maybe I just need to find a more locally-hosted instance to me. Maybe it's something else. But the user experience was really not good. Which is a shame. As nice as Nebula's sort of worker-owned co-op model is, true federated video would be really nice for those of us not privileged enough to become a member of the exclusive club. YouTube being basically the only real option really sucks, and I'm sick of alternative options like Gfycat dying off and losing all their content.

From everything I've heard, they're already profitable, and are explicitly choosing only to grow in a sustainable way, without taking on outside investment which could force them into enshittifying down the line. With a relative lack of need to show extreme growth, and a lack of reliance on outside factors like advertising (being subscription-based), the only major risk that I can see for them long-term is user churn. Which is definitely a risk, but with the ever-creeping growth of the range of content they have and (at least for now) an attitude of being customer-friendly, churn seems a relatively low risk.

As far as I can see, at worst, the platform dies if the YouTube channels of the people on the platform die because of the YouTube algorithm, and they get bad churn (with fewer new subscribers because of the aforementioned dead YouTube channels at the top of the funnel), and they don't get new more successful channels on before that happens. A scenario that's far from unlikely, but which I would describe as "catastrophic, whether or not Nebula exists today", so its existence for now as a hedge against more likely bad scenarios is still worthwhile.