Don’t go to .ml communities if you dont like their moderation. Their users don’t brigade us so I’m not sure why we would need to defederate from one of the largest instances, especially given the issues with lemmy.world.

They’ve been warning everyone for over a year. They’ve been individually messaging affected phones for months. Nobody can really say they didn’t get warning.

This is quite a misleading way of framing the communication. The telcos were clear about 3G phones no longer working many months ago, but it has not been clear at all which 4G phones would be blocked. Communication about this second problem only started recently and even then it was very unclear. Blaming consumers for not throwing out their new phones when they are receiving mixed messages over whether they will continue work is hardly a rational position.

Depending on where they live, it could be more likely their first phone is an iPhone.

Take your pick!

It sounds like you don’t understand what whiteness theory is. It is not an argument that only white people can be racist.

What are you referring to? I searched for this and the results were just the CMG story. That wasn’t even proof that the technology existed, let alone was being used.

You focused on the wrong part of my comment. The issue isn’t that you have Google accounts or use YouTube, it’s that you seem to have very little understanding of how much data is being collected about you through these avenues. Instead you focus on some conspiracy theory about phone microphones which is still yet to be proven despite years of technologically illiterate people telling us that “the only way they could have known that is if they were listening to me!!!”. I don’t understand how you get to the point of posting in a niche privacy community whilst still being so completely clueless and misinformed.

Person in a privacy community using YouTube and multiple Google accounts thinks the only way they are being tracked is through phone microphones…you can’t make this shit up.

I agree that this circular echo-chamber effect is problematic, particularly in forums like reddit and Lemmy where early user voting often determines the tone of a discussion. Too many people assume a comment is correct or incorrect based on its score, or the number of similar comments, rather than whether a credible source was provided that supports whatever claim was made. It’s particularly bad in privacy and security communities because so many of the people involved have a higher level of base paranoia that makes them vulnerable to conspiracy theories and misinformation.

It’s not about disagreeing, it’s about the likelihood of the person in question inciting or aggravating hatred and violence within Australia.

I don’t think that’s accurate. Wikipedia’s page on ethnic succession theory describes something quite different.

So are any of these VCs taking pay cuts themselves? Some are on exorbitant salaries.

There’s a name for this kind of phenomenon that I’ve forgotten, but essentially it repeats with every wave of new migrants. They move here, get racially vilified by the existing Australian community for being different, then slowly pick up the same whiteness mentality over the next few decades so that when the next wave of migrants occur the previous wave is often among the most aggressively racist towards them.

Are you thinking of a different cave? The only Nutty Putty death I’m familiar with is that 26 year old caver who got stuck upside down and died. Like it’s definitely horrific and sad but he wasn’t a kid and should have known there was significant risk involved.

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The government is proposing to introduce two new serious vilification offences with higher maximum penalties, but it is not clear whether yesterday’s neo-Nazi protest would fall within the scope of the laws.

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Dr Roose said recent changes to laws that had seen people successfully prosecuted for performing the Nazi salute had forced neo-Nazis to change their behaviour.

“They used to have swastikas, they used to do the salute at every protest, they now can’t do that,” he said.

"They’ve become quite skilful at reaching the threshold but not necessarily stepping over it.

I’m not sure I see the contradiction either. From the reporting it doesn’t sound like the neo-Nazis broke any laws. Are you aware of something which says Victorian Police can only use capsicum spray on people breaking the law? This suggests they also have the power to use it as a deterrent before illegal behaviour has occurred, which I imagine could have been the case if they were attempting to separate neo-Nazis from pro-refugee activists.

I guess but taking action against Israel is not really consistent with her election strategy of winning over Never Trumpers.

Baku is literally a high school aged teenager so it’s not surprising a discussion-based social media platform filled with adults could get overwhelming for them. As I said to them once before, I was in their position back when old school forums were a thing and it was tough trying to fit in as a teenager when everyone else was in their 20s or older. You doubt and question yourself a lot more at that age, often unfairly. I agree that they were a good poster here and hopefully they’ll return one day.

Have you actually watched the oath? You’re acting as if there is some kind of hypocrisy here, like she was perfectly happy at the time and is now contradicting a previous position. But her swearing in was also a form of protest, she intentionally got it wrong the first time around and was quite literally coerced into correcting it by the President of the Senate.

Potential fragility aside, I think flip smartphones (at least the cheaper ones without a proper outside screen) solved the problem for me since I was never really a one-handed user of my XZ1 Compact. I liked the smaller size because it fit into every pocket safely and the smaller screen was more annoying to use and therefore less addictive. Flips have a similar barrier in terms of having to physically open the device to use it. It’s a shame that even the cheaper models are getting the bigger outside screens now, though. It just makes these devices more addictive and more fragile.