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by crispinb 7y ago
Sure, but that needn't connote Australia waiting for everyone else. Given our extreme vulnerability to climate change (on most accounts, we're one of the worst-placed wealthy nations), our government should be fighting like hell o
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Yes absolutely, of course. No-one can deny the outsized political significance of those margins along many dimensions (marginal rural constituencies, the Liberal/Nat/LNP right-wing factions, Alan Jones' grumpy gossiping old m
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So many people here are still denying man-made global warming That isn't really true beyond the margins. Polls show that a large majority of Australians have accepted the science on climate collapse for two decades. Australians know
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by crispinb 7y ago
> which speakers of non-tonal languages generally have a really hard time with. Is this actually true? I only did some basic Mandarin, but its tonal system is so simple (and plainly transliterated) that it seemed like a non-issue to me.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Far be it from me to question the ageless wisdom of sages, Murdoch's withered organs, the Graun, et al
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by crispinb 7y ago
'Generations' are a myth of corporate shitculture. People are born every year, not in the discrete chunks dreamt up by lifestyle-column-addled decerebrates.
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The hate factory: how Facebook fuels far-right profit(theguardian.com)
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Given that on current trends, a summer like last year's (the hottest on record) is going to be the average one in 2-3 decades, much of rural Australia is clearly going to be practicably uninhabitable within current lifetimes. Perhaps f
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See how global warming has changed the world since your childhood(abc.net.au)
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by crispinb 7y ago
Not if specific means linking to FB! But, yes, there are many local businesses (notably pubs, cafes & some specialty stores) whose only online presence is there. Also some noncommercial stuff - eg in recent bush fires where I live, a lo
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There's some justice to that argument for access to strictly discretionary sites, but Facebook has been so 'successful' that it's now approaching monopolistic power, & is something close to required infrastructure. T
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> You think the post I replied to doesn't break (at the very least) that rule? I'm not sure whether it did or not - quick responses (which surely we all make at least sometimes?) aren't always very carefully considered. I&
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by crispinb 7y ago
I find exactly the opposite. I use adblockers, privacy badger, allow no third party cookies, and segregate google logins. It's pretty obvious from my google & youtube searches that they have no idea who I am or where I've been
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by crispinb 7y ago
> The idea that mindfulness creates better killers or justified immoral behavior also seems spurious to me Read Brian Daizen Victoria's Zen At War . OK, Zen, but the principle's the same. Effective mind training techniques san
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It doesn't work on linux installations I've had around. The experience of watching in-browser videos on linux is too poor to bother with (it's hot enough as is in an Australian summer). I either download (youtube-dl etc) or u
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It's fast and also magical, transmuting my laptop into an effective heater.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Too true. I live near a significant recent bush fire & had my first run for a couple of weeks this morning - clear breathable air is a joy! These periods are pretty uncommon however - compared to the regular temp inversions & associ
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by crispinb 7y ago
It's a fair question & I don't have a good answer. The city I enjoyed visiting the most was probably New York, but I'd hate to live there. All the large cities I've lived in (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, London, Gl
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by crispinb 7y ago
FFS a tourist picture of a pretty (if anodyne) area for the super-rich does not a broadly humane environment make. Sydney is a horror show of inhuman scale corporate concrete erections, car parks, and murderous texting drivers who all hate
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by crispinb 7y ago
As an Australian, I must say our nation does horrible cities. Sydney has a spectacular natural setting. Brisbane has nice parks. Melbourne's the best at night. But they're all splattered with hideous corporate-starchitect towers,
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by crispinb 7y ago
Installing an OS is something emphasised by enthusiasts but is nothing whatsoever to do with ordinary computer use. Most people don't even know where their files on their existing system are (let alone what they are). They will never g
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by crispinb 7y ago
> his operating system simply works, while all Linux distros do an extremely poor job at simply working Irrelevant. Regular consumers didn't install Windows - indeed before Apple's rise they didn't even know there was an
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by crispinb 7y ago
> The Linux desktop is still a clusterfuck today. This is true enough. But it has nothing whatsoever to do with why it's not more widely used, given that it applies to all desktop OS's (each in their own distinct ways). > Bi
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by crispinb 7y ago
Lots of software uses Fn key bindings by default. IntelliJ & mc come to mind first, but there are many others. Sometimes they can be remapped, but given the number of key bindings required by pro software, replacing roughly 1/5 of
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by crispinb 7y ago
> Not for any virtue other than its capacity to promote thriving and survival in an unstable future. It does not have this capacity. The overconsumption fetish (and its close ally, overwork) has brought the world's ecosystems to the
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by crispinb 7y ago
I don't think you can use them to automatically sequester urls to certain profiles though? That's a serious limitation for my use - eg. I always want gmail to open in my logged-in 'engoogled' container, and never wan
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I wish it was a bit more reliable - browser crashes and/or updates have lost all my containers several times. Nevertheless once you've got used to it, it becomes an essential feature. Another reason to be thankful for Firefox&#x27
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> If Apple really wanted to "hold people exclusively" to their platform, none of those things would be available outside Apple products. Rubbish. They can easily do both, and there's an existence proof that they do. > Y
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> why would Apple care whether an app you use on its platforms is written in one language or another? Because they want to hold people exclusively on their platform for upgrade & services revenue. They obviously have no scruples abou
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> Apple doesn't give a toss if your app is cross platform. This is an outstandingly silly statement. If I followed your example, that's where I would have stopped reading your comment. Apple's entire business is built on t

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