Those are, as you noted, audio-less WEBM files, not MP4s (though it may have automatically transcoded a video into that format). It’s essentially a more-efficient form of animated GIF, not really a video in the sense that non-technical end-users likely think of it.

Yeah I agree. It’s tough, but the people responsible for this need to be held accountable. But the only way that can ever happen is if victims report the crime.

Part of it may be, as another comment mentioned, that reporters often are not believed or taken seriously by police and immigration authorities, and in some cases can even end up penalised. A hard institutional change to make, and I don’t have a lot of faith it can be done (police being what they are and overwhelmingly standing up for those with power at the expense of those without). But even worse, even if the change was made here, communicating to victims that they will be safe reporting to authorities in Australia (especially if they might be used to authorities being likely corrupt and unhelpful where they’re from). One thing that might help is if we had a guaranteed amnesty from any honest mistakes in the working holidayer’s visa status if they contact immigration to allege wrongdoing (with the amnesty holding even if their complaint is not upheld).

I also hope Indonesian authorities crack down hard on any Indonesian residents doing false marketing on behalf of these predatory businesses.

More people exist who cannot drive than who have to drive due to disability. Car-centric infrastructure is incredibly ableist.

Lemmy uses for its markup a language called “markdown”. It’s the same one used on Reddit, Stack Exchange, as well as in a modified form on Discord.

Markdown requires two line breaks to define a new paragraph to allow you to break your paragraphs across multiple lines, a useful ability to have with writing that’s going to be tracked by Git, or displayed on some old-school text editors. It also gives you the ability to separate between two paragraphs
and one paragraph with a line break in it.
Which is a useful thing to be able to do in some circumstances, like when writing poetry, or sharing your results in [email protected]. To enter a “line break”, end a line with two spaces and then press enter only once.

I don’t think Lemmy does take MP4 files. Where have you seen that?

Or if you want, something like SoundCloud or (from a quick Google—I don’t know how reliable this is) Vocaroo.

Catbox isn’t ideal because a lot of countries and ISPs block it, but it allows uploading of arbitrary files. MP3 files should work fine.

Counterpoint: ‘ABC “centrist” political boomer comedy written by Rob Sitch’ could also describe Utopia, and everyone here is (quite rightly) saying that’s an excellent show.

Of course he fucking won’t. If we did decide to become a republic, it would be us declaring that we no longer care what he says, so if he did try to stand in the way it wouldn’t have any effect.

Not that I see it happening any time soon. Australia’s constitution is notoriously difficult to change; it’s politically impossible to change it without bipartisan support, and the current Liberal National Coalition is the furthest right they’ve ever been.

threat to up-and-coming social networks

This is the serious danger. The established guys welcome legislation, especially if it’s onerous to comply with but doesn’t actually affect the bottom line too much. That essentially locks in the likes of Facebook and Google and ByteDance who can easily afford to comply, while making it harder for smaller social networks to compete.

Maybe the computer platform developers need to introduce some sort of anonymised age/identify verification API

Interesting. If it were a setting locked behind a parental control password, that might make it much harder for kids to lie about, which is an interesting idea. I had previously suggested that, in the vein of the UK’s earlier-proposed “go to the pub to get age verified”, we could have the government themselves do the age verification, but do it with blinded digital signatures to preserve anonymity of the user from the government—the government would know that you have an age verified token, but not where you used it.

But I quite like this idea of building it in to the platform itself, instead. The user’s device would, when parental controls set up the user’s age, created a signed token verifying the age using a signing key which is itself signed by three platform vendor. Or, alternatively, they could at that point in time send an API request to the platform vendor to sign their age verification token (blinded), which the device would send (unblinded) along with any account creation requests, or at some other stage when age verification is necessary.

This is a bad take. It would work if D&D 5e were the only rules in existence, but it isn’t even the only version of D&D in the conversation, pretty alone the wife breadth of other systems out there. I’ve been singing Pathfinder 2e’s praises for nearly 2 years now, and if the problem with PF is that it’s too crunchy, there are numerous other much lighter systems out there like Dungeon World or 13th Age.

By all means, use 5e if it works for you, but that shouldn’t stop criticism of it in places where the rules can be exploited, especially if other systems lack those exploits.

The source was provided over 2 weeks ago now. If you don’t want to read it that’s fine, but don’t go whinging about a lack of sources.

What does a van offer that a small truck wouldn’t?

A much, much higher degree of safety. Because vans don’t typically have those absurdly high and long bonets that make it so you could run over multiple children without even seeing them there.

Cadbury Bubbly does it too, though sadly I haven’t seen any of it on shelves (apart from the mint variant, eww) for a few years.

I’m guessing he didn’t know she was Native American and just saw a non-white person and assumed non-white=immigrant. Never mind that even if she were of Asian or Latin descent it’s entirely possible her family had been American for generations.

https://aussie.zone/post/14343908

But no, it’s definitely Israel that are the good guys here. 🤦‍♂️

it means that one ticket of councillors can have 51% support but 100% of all seats on the council

Or more problematically, it can have 26% support and 100% of control over the council. Since you only need 51% of seats to effectively get 100% of control.

Palestine playing the victim

Umm, yes? Because they literally are the victim? Of an active genocide that started in October last year, and of apartheid and colonisation that has been going on for decades.

Until Israel goes back to the 1949 borders at least (realistically, that leaves the Gaza strip insanely restricted, and the UN’s 1947 plan for Gaza was so much better), and leaves Palestine alone and punishes Israeli settlers, while ceasing treating Palestinian Israelis as second-class citizens, Israel will remain by far the worse party in this scenario.

!sexmemes at whatever instance that community is in.

Every one of Innuendo Studio’s videos are absolutely excellent.