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Tenderizer

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  • Not paying attention in the Grub menu

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  • Fast-boot normally involves saving Windows to a swap partition and basically just half-hibernating. If that swap partition is shared with Linux it'd get overwritten and the boot method would swap to the slower one.

    As far as I know there's no way to make a swap partition be exclusive to Linux or vice-versa.

  • Not paying attention in the Grub menu

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  • Only if you have a swap partition, and if you dual-boot then that swap partition is gonna be overwritten all the time.

  • Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned

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  • They're just as personalized. Google knows everything.

  • How Australia's social media ban threatens free expression

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  • Apparently there was some academic research making the rounds a few years back about this (and legislation moves slow). Of course, the law is still written by tech-illiterates.

  • Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline

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  • He did. Where he said the article looked AI generated and so he wasn't going to waste any time with it.

  • These platforms are currently exempt from the under-16s social media ban. But that could all change

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  • There's a really simple solution to this that e-safety refuses to consider. Let anyone make an account but limit public interaction until age is verified. That way they could apply the ban to everything from Reddit and 4chan all the way to Steam and Github without major disruption (well, maybe with Github it'd be a bit disruptive).

    And while they're at it they should do something about algorithmic brain rot.

  • Australia | Teenagers sue over social media ban for ‘violating their right to communicate’

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  • And Gen Alpha is pretty cooked. They're gonna forget entirely about the ban in a week, if they even notice (because the ban only applies to accounts and not many even use social media logged in).

  • Australia | Teenagers sue over social media ban for ‘violating their right to communicate’

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  • They won't.

    They shouldn't need to.

    They will still need to under the current form of the social media ban.

  • Australia | Teenagers sue over social media ban for ‘violating their right to communicate’

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  • I don't know about you, but in every circle I'm in the concern is just the abysmal implementation that not only doesn't address the actual problems but kind of makes them worse, and it'd be really easy to write a better policy that properly addresses that without any ID being involved.

  • Australia’s under-16s social media ban is weeks away. How will it work – and how can I appeal if I’m wrongly banned?

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  • So ... it gets worse. Apparently they're quietly rolling out a porn ban, and part of that is that you won't be able to "log in to a search engine" without verifying your age. As I understand it a YouTube account is kinda different from your google account but the same isn't true for google search.

    In the past I thought that even though I don't like it, social media addiction is the issue of the decade. But half the issue is also digital privacy. This not only fails to meaningfully address social media addiction but it also actively worsens digital privacy. This whole crusade is counterproductive.

  • Australia’s under-16s social media ban is weeks away. How will it work – and how can I appeal if I’m wrongly banned?

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  • Officially Steam is not included but they reserve the right to add it back. https://www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/industry-regulation/social-media-age-restrictions/which-platforms-are-age-restricted

    As for gmail, I can't find a clear answer or even anyone who's asked the question. The whole account deletion thing is stupid, they should just remove all the safety consequences of having an account (limiting interaction, hiding public profiles, etc). Actually they should just make me e-safety commissioner, because I'd do a far better job.

  • Australia’s under-16s social media ban is weeks away. How will it work – and how can I appeal if I’m wrongly banned?

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  • I'm already fully prepared for all my social media accounts to be deleted (because there's no way in hell I'm giving google my ID).

    If they go after Steam or my email then I'd be in trouble, but I think those'll be fine.

  • Liberal Party formally abandons net zero by 2050 climate target

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  • Actual zero is impossible. "Actual net zero" is what we should aim for (climate accounting with offsets can get a bit freaky)

  • What are “rusted-on” Labor voters thinking ?

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  • This post misses another reason for voting being rusted-on Labor. The alternatives are more interested in virtue signalling than actually forming and keeping government. Labor have delivered meaningful results to Australians, in some areas they've not delivered but they've lost every election where they promised solutions to those issues.

    Minor parties have historically blocked forward progress. The ETS, the HAFF, the logging ban in Tasmania, etc. Labor has historically delivered forward progress (Renewables, Superannuation, etc).

  • Should Newcastle to Sydney bullet train really be first link built of Melbourne to Brisbane route?

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  • The first leg should be short and intrastate. The first step is building any high speed rail at all.

    The most important thing is to keep building. Once you stop the knowledge is gone.

  • At least three nations 'willing to kill' on Australian soil, spy chief says

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  • It's way more than three ... was my first thought, but I'm starting to rethink that. I don't think China would go quite that far, and once China's out a lot of other countries seem unlikely.

    India's definitely one. America two. Russia or Israel are three.

    I don't buy the allegations against Iran, I don't think North Korea's interest extends all the way here, and Myanmar's got bigger concerns.

  • In China's dangerous interceptions, see the breakdown of peaceful world order -- [Opinion]

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  • Reminder that ASPI gets money from the US government and US weapons companies.

    They say they're independent, but regardless I doubt a think tank that believes in peace would receive such funding.

  • Julia Gillard endorses Donald Trump

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  • I was going to comment on how Gillard's soullessness and treachery made the headline believable, but then I remembered Abbott eating the raw onion and I couldn't pass up the chance.

    EDIT: I just went to double check and the first autocomplete on "Tony Abbott" was "Tony Abbott Onion".

  • Julia Gillard endorses Donald Trump

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  • That was Abbott, not Gillard.