I think the worst part of it is that its not actually hopeless, at least not in theory. It's just that we, or more accurately the people with actual power, refuse to act because it would mean slightly less profit.

The reddit api blocking 3rd party apps pushed a whole bunch of people onto lemmy, and lemmy is very big on FOSS and Linux so it's been a gateway of sorts

I feel this will just breed resentmint

Is this guy not public domain yet, I thought that was coming up. Maybe next year? John Oliver did a whole bit on it

All this 'we can't afford it' happened when we went from 3 weeks to 4 weeks annual leave 20 odd years ago.

And when sick leave came in.

And when the weekend came in.

Every improvement to workers' rights gets met with the same outcry. We'd still be in workhouses if we listened to it.

In effect more wealth transfer from renters to the pockets of landlords, this time direct from their retirement or first house deposit savings. It's all national are here to do.

It's funny how cycleway skeptics demand this endless justification for each individual project, despite the huge body of research already confirming their effect, then immediately turn around and moan about the money spent on reports instead of infrastucture.

And by funny I mean a painfully obvious tactic to just delay and wreck things.

So why do they want people's iris scans? Like they say it's an easy way to verify someone signing up is a real person but is there some other nefarious reason I'm missing here?

I think the thing the government is doing is far worse than any reactions to it that you think need tone policing

Cool, we get to watch an national/act government tonight, a no vote in Australia overnight and a genocide tomorrow

I don't think it's surprising, but good research to have backing this up nonetheless. Pretty much every problem in this country can be traced back to the lack of affordable and stable housing. It makes complete sense to me that a state house with security of tenure comes out better than a private rental you know you have for a year at most (and likely less if no cause evictions come back).

Incidentally, the authors of this study have done a lot of research into housing quality too. They found that providing insulation grants for our notoriously cold and damp houses generated savings many times the cost due to less pressure on the health system and fewer sick days from school and work.

What really stands out with these incidents is that all the handwringing against the protests themselves and how they should be 'doing it the right way' is total bullshit.

Turns out direct action (up to and including violence) is justified... If you're delayed getting somewhere in your car by 15 mins. However, nonviolent direct action about our own government dithering on the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced is too much.

It's amazing this argument still gets trotted out, but in a way kinda not because it serves a purpose. It's an excuse to do nothing, or if we're being charitable a coping mechanism, to avoid confronting the reality of a very bleak future if we don't act.

I think Rod's point lands particulary well because it balances the urgency of the crisis with a bit of hope that small countries can act and can make a difference.

Bitter, nasty, regressive. Not a single positive thing on that list unless you're a landlord, millionaire or a bigot.

This goverment will be a complete disaster for thousands upon thousands.

An absolute dumpster fire of policies from national that are designed to make the housing crisis even worse and completely gut our climate response. He seems to think he can just hand wave it away and just repeat his lines over and over trying to tell us the sky is green. And it might work...

Add in act, who want to do even furtherand add a layer of cruelty over the top just coz, and I think a lot of people are in for a very hard time over the next three years if they become the govt.

Presumably they maintain full access because they control both ends. The encrypted part would stop others intercepting messages. At least that's how I've always read it

Edit: I'm wrong, end to end does exclude even the app provider from seeing messages. So yeah, either not enabled or they lied