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  • Two months into the social media ban, a teenager says it's 'useless'

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  • Existing institutions are still controlling the narrative, just that people aren’t believing it.

    One good think about the GenBS bubble is that those people that aren’t complete drones improve their BS detectors.

    The problem are that there are still plenty of complete drones who still believe everything that is fed to them.

  • Two months into the social media ban, a teenager says it's 'useless'

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  • It was never about protecting children. It was always about spying on citizens.

    And now the Albo is giving all our personal data to the Seppos, we are pretty much screwed.

  • Telstra warns older iPhones may be unable to connect to Triple Zero [or any number, after recent update from Apple]

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  • iOS26 is just a shitshow in a dumpster fire.

    Apple needs to rollback all devices running iOS26 to iOS18 and admit that they screwed up.

    It (and MacOS Tahoe) are almost as bad as Windows 11, and that is a big statement.

  • Why most Australians won't get a weekday off for Anzac Day in 2026 [but Western Australia and ACT do]

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  • 20 business day month. (For the sake of the Accountants)

    If we had 25th of 28th off, in addition to Good Friday and Easter Monday, April would only have 19 workdays which would confuse the Bean Counters.

    Meanwhile, March is going to have 21 workdays. (Same with May and June)

  • iOS 26.3 Release Date: Apple’s Critical iPhone Update May Be Later Than Expected

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  • Besides Liquid Glass (which is not only non-compliant with basic Accessibility requirements, but is also hideous), a lot of apps (like Photos) have had perfectly functional features hidden or completely removed in lieu of dysfunctional (and in most cases non-functional) Apple “Intelligence”.

    I may be wrong; if I am, please tell me how to access Geotagged photos using a Map.

  • AI = Actually Incompetent

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  • Just replace every reference to “AI” with “BS”.

  • Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts

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  • Meanwhile, they love to use flawed LLM models to calculate premiums and assess claims, as long as they are more expensive or cheaper than the human experts come up with.

  • iOS 26.3 Release Date: Apple’s Critical iPhone Update May Be Later Than Expected

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  • Hopefully it is delayed because they are extracting every terrible UI change they introduced in iOS 26.0

  • Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday

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  • It appears that since Win10 is no longer being supported my Microsoft, it is now more secure than Win11.

    (yes I know that there will be huge security holes in Win10 that will never be patched, but right now!? It appears to be the better option)

    I may have to give up on Debian with Linux-Surface on my old Pro4 and revert back to Win10.

    I will keep Debian+Steam on my gaming machine though…

  • Prusentages

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  • So literacy is improving; Up to 73% from 72% 3 years ago!

    #SilverLining #Sarcasm

  • Cycling without a helmet and high-visibility jacket may be made criminal offences in Ireland

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  • We used to wear helmets whenever we rode after witnessing a fatality on the Great Victorian Bike Ride when we were teenagers.

    Dude had his helmet hanging on his handlebars, came off at speed and skidded on his head. When the Ambos came (they weren’t called Paramedics back then), he was still alive, but his brain was exposed.

    We never wore our high-vis vests though, they were loose and would droop off our shoulders and we would get tangled.

    There was also the story about the dad so was fooling around with his kids bike without a helmet in the back yard; fell over, cracked his head and died instantly; (plausible, but unproven).

  • Trump threatens Canada with a 100% tariff over its China trade deal and escalates feud with Carney

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  • World leaders need to laugh in his face and say “do you understand how tariffs work?”

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    Queensland PhD candidate accused of plotting to firebomb Australia Day event wanted AI-driven society

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  • So is everyone’s fascination with LLMs.

    If I want someone to tell me bullshit, I would prefer real creative, human generated bullshit.

  • Australia Post rival shuts operations without warning

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  • “company merged with two US firms” Bloody Seppos.

  • Summer festival-goers continue to abandon truckloads of camping gear

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  • The old adage “Take only Photos, Leave only footprints” has not been drummed into kids these days.

    If the tent came back missing a single peg, we would get a hiding.

    If our campsite has anything but leaves and twigs after we left, we would be sent back the next weekend to do an Emu bob.

    We also cleaned up after each other because of the story about Everybody, Somebody, Nobody and Anybody.

    I feel really old!

  • Summer festival-goers continue to abandon truckloads of camping gear

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  • The equivalent tent nowadays would be $600-$1200

    The bottom end is taken over by crap that I wouldn’t let my dog sleep in and the top end are for prosumer/competitive cross country hikers.

    Mid range pricing is either cheap crap (rebranded by scammers) or last years model or expensive product.

    This relates to camping equipment and also hardware and electronics.

  • France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year

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  • The worse thing* is that now they will all be known as “Australian-style”.

    We used to be known for our electoral system and a variation of the butterfly swimming stroke. Now we will be known for a lame-arse attempt to restrict people’s access to content “for the children”*

    *this is not actually the worse thing about this legislation; it actually puts at-risk children at more risk.

  • Why isn't this website more popular?

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  • I reckon that is one of the reasons. Lemmy’s (and the entire ActivityPub/Fediverse ecosystem/graph) attracts people with a positive, progressive attitude.

    Advertising is based on passive attitude and thrives on negative attitudes.

    There was a lot of negative being accepted (and sometimes actively pushed) on some instances, but most other instances defederated from them.

  • Why isn't this website more popular?

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  • Not the only case of this happening; Corporate Social Media providers do not want the Fediverse to succeed at all.

    Instagram (and Fascbook, and WhatsApp, and Threads) all censor references to PixelFed.

    If you cross post, it is best to watermark your photos with your PixelFed address.

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    Salvo @aussie.zone

    Vehicle camping at Mueller River, Croajingalong