anenefan

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by anenefan 2mo ago
You are correct but it is not based on the sound, just if it starts with a vowel. If one listens to people speak, a common mistake, even I do it from copying the same in others, (depending on what crowd I've been around a lot,) is usi
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by anenefan 2mo ago
Well I suppose it's a theory ... but I'd guess they were not that familiar with the 00s, when places like Facebook that had poor moderation at the time (they didn't employ anything like a realistic number of moderators) start
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by anenefan 2mo ago
I'm obviously going to ignore the conditional goal posts at scale and cost effective ... burgeoning technology does not typically land with all the problems ironed out or have economy of scale . I used my searchfoo and Sage Indus
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by anenefan 2mo ago
I have no idea, I was going to say it was only showing the last 2 or three days as I've struck using one of the /foo in the past. I would have then suggested points but not a fit, at least one thread 11 hours old isn't there
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by anenefan 2mo ago
> "Electricity prices have also increased by something like 150 to 200 percent more than inflation over the past 20 years but mostly the past 6 years (so this decade) because state and federal governments seem to want ... " T
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by anenefan 2mo ago
Hmm well given that the removal of much material submitted by volunteers in the mid 00s was due to not having a notable reference ... and pretty reminders any submitted content should have a citable source ... how is much of the content not
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by anenefan 2mo ago
The difference [1] and nuances [2] between payg tax and payroll tax isn't something one expects the average person to be that aware of. Given the overall benefit to both state and federal bodies though the paid employment, 5% of wa
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by anenefan 2mo ago
Under 16s are banned ... it's a law and it is actionable if things go wrong that involves someone under 16 doing something as a result of social media being extremely negative impact on them or others. At the end of the 10s social m
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by anenefan 2mo ago
The simple answer why many news media closed down comments was the fact laws changed in some countries for content control that put the onus on the platform to moderate all content regardless if that via public comments.
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by anenefan 2mo ago
Don't make the mistake that a superb medical system exists here. It does not, with the bulk of diagnostic medical folks I have encountered could easily be described as daft or only there to punch in their time sheet, much of desperate
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by anenefan 2mo ago
For context, Australia was a place in the 90s where some big companies were trying to scalp mere individuals for tens of thousands for having a single low quality version of their media, and since then pressure placed on Australia by variou
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by anenefan 2mo ago
If I could I avoided sony and steered a number of other people away from them ... it was a good call [1] [1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/sony-slammed-over-new-data-b...
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by anenefan 2mo ago
Yes, but the under 16 ban remains. For context there was a public outcry years ago in Australia about the algorithms some social media companies were using, particularly those that were funnelling children into certain areas that many adult
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by anenefan 2mo ago
When I read this a near week ago I immediately thought maybe try to get timing from the ripple currents sent for off / on peak items but reading some limited info decided probably not accurate enough. Then I thought about the new digit
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by anenefan 2mo ago
There's been a few surveys, some better than others ... but the reality is they don't matter that much. The ban was just another way to skin a cat - that cat in particular were the algorithms that were targeting specifically youn
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by anenefan 2mo ago
I had a quick look. Yes I noted some apparently older links, one from the source didn't seem to list a date -- however it didn't render in my older browser with a big deny list. Others I checked [1] [2] suggest time used is bas
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by anenefan 2mo ago
Well there's certainly at least one major thing I've noticed. Have you seen any recent Australian based news footage of little under 16 hoons that have uploaded their stream to social media of them stealing cars and going for wi
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by anenefan 2mo ago
The ban does not need to be absolute, as I already mentioned in the above reply. To work, it doesn't need to be, to enforce absolutely would be a freaking nightmare, though vested social media interests would like the public to believ
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by anenefan 2mo ago
Read [1] [2] first to fully appreciate the artistic licence used in PM's article. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_snatch_pick-up [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-
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by anenefan 2mo ago
I think the average person here in Aussie land would have to agree it's having a positive effect - it's working. > Various studies have suggested that the ban hasn't been greatly effective, largely because teens have found
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by anenefan 2mo ago
Seems like an obvious target for a bit of creativity and a permanent marker when a US citizen who's lucky enough to have one of these new passports is travelling abroad.
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by anenefan 2mo ago
The actual golden rule of being visible to search engines as well as accessibility is build a site and pages with "if no javascript, then print simple html version of page." I recall days web coders were writing for three differe
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by anenefan 2mo ago
Actual title: Writing is too efficient I invested in a bit of time biting on " ... for tech platforms" -- surely not ... until finally looking upwards at the topic header. The opening paragraph soon makes it clear - media platfo
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by anenefan 2mo ago
Yes [1] [1] https://www.nasa.gov/science-research/astrophysics/nasa-scie... [2025]
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by anenefan 3mo ago
The It-must-be-important email service. The service is an intermediary. It's clearly identified with domains like @itsimportant ... and one happily gives to the more and more places that need the email for really important cases
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by anenefan 3mo ago
A lot of too clever people, various web site developers have decided that those who run scrapers are really dumb and use old tools that have or can not be modified and only use old agents. There are of course exceptions like angling sites
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by anenefan 3mo ago
Yes a lot of outdoor lighting is thanks to the idea that if there are bright lights pointed around the sides of the property it will discourage certain people being there, though it makes some people feel safer if they can look outside at n
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by anenefan 3mo ago
> "Even now, massive changes in the practice of lighting take place without much thought about the consequences. The most obvious example is the transition from incandescent light bulbs to LED bulbs earlier this century. We replace
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by anenefan 3mo ago
Wow that's interesting you don't have a problem loading afr. Maybe it's my ISP. Thanks for the link - it was that news cycle from end of March. [1] [2] Yes Big Tech was always going to say it wasn't going to work.
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by anenefan 3mo ago
I've not read the article. [a] Similar news topic headers found via DDG are somewhat dated to over 18 months ago. It could be a rehash or something new. However I can guess the main effort will be to play the "our algorithms

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