Dimand

u/Dimand@aussie.zone
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I'm yet to be forced to give any of these new identity tracking companies my personal data (I mean they ask but the workarounds are easier than finding my licence even if I didn't care). So just the usual level of internet soul selling to google, meta and the like.

I'm kind of keen to see what happens when someone with a popular site just says fuck it and actively doesn't comply after the government makes a fuss over them.

Thanks for putting your neck on the line for us!

I hate to imagine the colossal waste of time and money that would be involved in dragging any of this through the courts.

I was going to say minimal chance of anyone under 16 wanting to be on whirlpool, but that's probably untrue. I for sure used it as a source of info when I was that young. Can't remember if I posted at that age.

on AUKUS Public Inquiry · c/australia · 2 pts · 44d

To me the words "independent public inquiry" typically means something that is started/funded by government and then run by an independent agency or board to investigate the thing they are set up to do.

The fact that they call it different things on the same page doesn't exactly help with clarity.

If they weren't asking for people's money, I wouldn't care at all. But I suggest anyone that donates figures out what their $$$ will be actually spent on before they send any (let's hope it's not to pay Peter Garrett).

on AUKUS Public Inquiry · c/australia · 3 pts · 44d

Why is there a donate button for a public inquiry?

Ok, if you scroll all the way to the bottom of the site.

"A non-partisan, civil society inquiry into Australia's nuclear submarine partnership. Auspiced by the Australian Peace and Security Forum. Funded by Australia's civil society."

So not government backed in any way. I bet this confuses a lot of people. I dislike how it is named and presented, seems deliberately misleading.

At least with a compromised docker package any malware insude needs to break through the virtualisation layer. Not impossible but not considered trivial.

With the aur you are compiling and running arbitrary code at the OS admin level.

I am a fan of the aur but try and use it sparingly. It often causes more problems than it is worth. I hate to admit it but this recent issue has made me reconsider the value of flatpak....