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.
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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.
Wow thanks for your contribution scammer.
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!
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.
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).
Oh I got him to agree that the NSN should be openly repudiated by any of the "reasonable" people who were just there for every day run of the mill racism. He is one of those people who is "just using common sense". He unfortunately is a fan of the Gish gallop and one of the biggest frustrations for both of us is that I kept tackling his arguments in order starting from the first.
Look I get it, he has worked hard (and I know he has that's not just hyperbole) and feels indignant that this means he has to pay a larger share of tax than people who are not as financially sound as he is, and so some wannabe populist talking head telling him "Oh it's all the immigrants soaking up the prosperity of the nation!" is compelling. When I pointed out that if we just taxed big business and big finance correctly he started to come around, before haring off down some other tangent.
Ultimately I think I will just have to avoid politics, bit awkward to be arguing with the person who decides if your lease gets renewed when it expires. But if it does come up I might just start throwing out figures for Fuel Tax Credits paid to mining companies, or tax avoidance by tech giants, or multi-millionaires and billionaires funding political action against the best interests of voters.
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.