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@ Zagorath @aussie.zone

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Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

  • Circuits #845 2026-02-06

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  • Yeah someone pointed out to me on another site that the creator's notes explain it. Amusingly, I knew that, and even while I was doing the puzzle thought that I would have to check the creator's notes to understand. Then promptly forgot to do that as soon as I finished.

    now I've read it, it's honestly kinda lame as a schrodinger's puzzle. A good one should give a single clue and have multiple possible answers.

  • Circuits #845 2026-02-06

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  • Crossherd #335 2026-02-06

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  • Crossherd #335🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩Time: 0:25🐐crossherd.clevergoat.com 🐐

  • Circuits #844 2026-02-05

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  • Crossherd #334 2026-02-05

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  • Crossherd #334⬛️⬛️🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️Time: 0:35crossherd.clevergoat.com 🐐

  • Technology Connections - You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

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  • Oh huh, really? I thought Europe used calories.

  • Circuits #843 2026-02-04

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  • Yeah very unusual. I enjoyed it!

  • Circuits #843 2026-02-04

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  • Crossherd #333 2026-02-04

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  • Crossherd #333⬛️⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️⬛️Time: 0:25🐐crossherd.clevergoat.com 🐐

    Nearly got it without seeing any of the downs. Unfortunately messed up 8 across.

    I put "cry". 1 down being kebab made it pretty obvious that was wrong, and I realised what 8 across was based on that.

  • Campaign group behind attack ads on Australian Labor, Greens and teal candidates was funded by coal industry lobby

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  • I cannot contain my shock at this news.

  • Circuits #842 2026-02-03

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  • Crossherd #332 2026-02-03

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  • Crossherd #332⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️Time: 0:27🐐crossherd.clevergoat.com 🐐

    The anti–New York Times crossword using Luigi as an answer is great.

  • Australia Under-16 Social Media Ban: Unintended Consequences

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  • I’m not using my usual archiver because for some reason they’re ddos-ing some random dev’s personal blog

    Fwiw they seem to have stopped that. At least when I checked a couple of days ago.

    web.archive.org is a little more work to use and sometimes fails on paywalls that archive.today/.is doesn't, but it's 100% morally upstanding as an archival tool.

  • Circuits #841 2026-02-02

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  • 3 was the last one I got, quite a tough one.

  • Circuits #841 2026-02-02

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  • Crossherd #331 2026-02-02

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  • Crossherd #331🟩🟩🟩⬛️⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩Time: 1:04crossherd.clevergoat.com 🐐

  • Norway’s crown princess had years of contact with Epstein, files suggest

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  • Ah it was Kurzgesagt? Yeah that...really checks out. That dude is sketchy af.

    I've just gone down a rabbit hole of old Reddit threads. This comment by Brian of Real Engineering is the source for that claim. At the very least, it shows they weren't interested in putting in effort to grow the platform into the fantastic place it has become since their departure. At worst, Brian's speculation as to their motives paints them in a very unflattering light.

    But it seems it was my mistaken recollection that it was specifically about discussions relating to the "creator-owned" business structure.

    You can read further down in that thread for a comment of my own summarising why exactly I described Kurzgesagt as "sketchy af" above. Or for more detail, here's another thread on the subject where I go back and forth with someone staunchly intent on defending Kurzgesagt despite the overwhelming evidence against him.

    I'm pretty sure this is the thread that got me silently banned from all CGP Grey–related subreddits, too. Not a proper ban, but all my comments are silently auto-removed, presumably by Grey's bot account that mods all his subreddits. I went months cheerfully commenting in Hello Internet (RIP) threads and getting no engagement before I realised I had been banned. Back then I was actually a huge fan of Grey's in spite of my growing frustrations with some of his content, so that really stung.

    Oh and just for fun, here's another thread I came across with some other people detailing some of the grift-like penny-pinching behaviour from Grey, wherein he treats his audience not as a community but as a resource to be extracted...until it's no longer useful: https://old.reddit.com/r/JetLagTheGame/comments/1iom4n4/whats_bens_beef_with_cgp_grey/

  • Norway’s crown princess had years of contact with Epstein, files suggest

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  • Without clicking I already know what both of those videos will be.

    CGP Grey is a liberal hack. He's very skilled at explaining things in an entertaining and easy-to-understand way, but he's really bad at making it clear when what he's "explaining" is his (or someone else's) opinion and not an actual fact. And when it is his opinion, far too often it's a bad one, tainted by some of the laziest liberal status quo bs.

    This is one such example, and Shaun's response is justifiably scathing.

    I also found it particularly telling when he did his "guns, germs, and steel" explainer (a book that is widely criticised by historians for its vastly oversimplified explanations), and he responded to criticism by laughing it off, and saying there was no problem. But when he later did a video and made a minor mistake by using the name of a submarine-based missile for what was actually a ground-based missile (or something along those lines), he made a huge deal about how important his integrity is and how he could not possibly live with himself if he allowed that misinformation to go uncorrected.

    Suffice it to say, I was not particularly surprised when I later learnt the reason Grey pulled out of Nebula was that he (and Veritasium, IIRC?) wanted a business model/corporate structure which would allow him and other early members to profit off of the work of later-added members. An opinion that put him at odds with the other early founders like Wendover and Real Engineering, who preferred the more equitable model.

  • Calibre 9.0 Open-Source Ebook Manager Released

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  • Apart from the notification that there's a new version with AI, I can't say that I've noticed AI in Firefox at all. And I haven't even bothered (as far as I remember) going anywhere to try and turn it off.

    That certainly doesn't feel remotely comparable to Chrome and Chredge.

    Their blog post about it seems pretty clear, and it sounds good to me.

    • First: Every product we build must give people agency in how it works. Privacy, data use, and AI must be clear and understandable. Controls must be simple. AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. People should know why a feature works the way it does and what value they get from it.
    • Second: our business model must align with trust. We will grow through transparent monetization that people recognize and value.
    • Third: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.

    And considering they're a non-profit, I don't see any particular reason to doubt their honesty.

  • You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

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  • Yeah unfortunately Lemmy is really bad with YouTube links. It refuses to grab the title for the suggested title feature. (Though IIRC Piefed also fails on this.) It doesn't pull any relevant information for the automatic description/summary feature displayed below the post. (Another problem Piefed shares.) And it doesn't generate a thumbnail. Ever.

    On Lemmy, unlike Piefed, you can specify a specific URL as the thumbnail for any post on the submission page. This gives you a way to fix the problem when Lemmy fails to automatically generate a good thumbnail. And unfortunately, when Piefed does a better job at generating thumbnails for its users, it doesn't federate those over for Lemmy users to see.

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    Is Australia a Good Place To Be Transgender? | FairyPrincessLucy

  • Bicycling @lemmy.world
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    Kangaroo accidentally hops into the middle of the tour down under

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    I made my home lab immutable with Terraform | XDA

    www.xda-developers.com /made-my-home-lab-immutable-with-terraform/
  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
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    Coalition on brink as Nationals quit shadow ministry

    www.abc.net.au /news/2026-01-21/nationals-coalition-littleproud-ley-hate-laws/106254676
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    Threat of Coalition split as three Nationals quit opposition frontbench

    www.smh.com.au /politics/federal/three-nationals-shadow-ministers-expected-to-resign-from-opposition-frontbench-20260121-p5nvoj.html
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    Woolies' new AI system fundamentally changes the role of the shopper

    www.abc.net.au /news/2026-01-20/woolworths-google-ai-items-shopping-groceries/106243642
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    Banning hate groups in Australia | Constitutional Clarion

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    Liberal election autopsy delayed after Dutton suggests report defamatory

    www.abc.net.au /news/2026-01-18/peter-dutton-election-loss-liberal-party-report-delayed/106240876
  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
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    Promoting and inciting racial hatred - the proposed new Australian offence | Constitutional Clarion

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    Adelaide Festival board members, chair quit after author's cancellation from Writers' Week

    www.abc.net.au /news/2026-01-11/fallout-amid-writers-week-cancellation-of-randa-abdel-fattah/106217646
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    $2 delivery fee on Sundays & public holidays $20 for all island deliveries even for people who pay for Delivery Unlimited

    Supermarket giant [Woolworths] to slap customers with additional charge

    honey.nine.com.au /money/woolworths-delivery-new-additional-fee-for-sundays-public-holidays/3c592b68-144d-4ae3-a6ed-354a32932dd9
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    Australia’s red and yellow beach flags can confuse tourists. Is it time to change them?

    www.theguardian.com /lifeandstyle/2026/jan/02/australias-red-and-yellow-beach-flags-can-dangerously-confuse-tourists-is-it-time-to-change-them
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    What to look for in building/buying a server?

  • Bicycling @lemmy.world
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    The UCI rule changes for 2026 you need to know about

    www.bikeradar.com /news/the-uci-rule-changes-for-2026-you-need-to-know-about
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    Nextcloud AIO containers all stuck on "Starting" on Synology on first setup

  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    It took years to come up with a plan to cut road deaths, and just 11 days to kill it

    www.smh.com.au /national/nsw/it-took-years-to-come-up-with-a-plan-to-cut-road-deaths-and-just-11-days-to-kill-it-20251129-p5njg5.html
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done?

    theconversation.com /australias-roads-are-full-of-giant-cars-and-everyone-pays-the-price-what-can-be-done-268212
  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
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    Coalition shamelessly uses tragedy for political gain

    www.smh.com.au /national/nsw/coalition-shamelessly-uses-tragedy-for-political-gain-20251217-p5nodb.html
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    Will Reddit's challenge to Australia's "social media ban" succeed? | Constitutional Clarion

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    Greens Preferences Flow to Labor – 2010 and 2025 Compared | Antony Green

    antonygreen.com.au /comparing-greens-preferences-to-labor-2010-and-2025-compared/