MsDropbear42 🦘♀🌈🐧

👍: Classic Oz+Eng lit, sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, satire; Linux+FOSS; Kindness; Gaia.

👎: Cruelty; RWNJs; Anti-Gaia.

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- She/Her.
- Straya born, Thailand reborn.
- Linux+FOSS distracts my sadness.
- Posts autodelete @ 3mths.
- For Follow-Requests, you MUST have Profile & Public posts, else i'll Reject.

26/8/23: After testing #Friendica pretty intensively over recent days & nights, i've decided now to give it a go as my new daily #Fediverse home. There's been many #Mastodon accounts, & a couple of #Firefish ones, since i decided to venture into the Fediverse last November, but none of them quite captured the full Goldilocks essence of what i desire in a Fedi client. Will this one be it? 🤷‍♀️

2/9/23: Unfollowed all my hitherto #trans* hashtags, as just too depressing & pointless 😭

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2024-03-14 10:24:52

Government that ‘cant afford’ to raise JobSeeker, finds spare $840m to give to Gina
The federal government who constantly tells everyone there is simply no way for them to find any money for raising JobSeeker recipients out of poverty, has suddenly found a spare $840m to give to mining billionaire Gina Rinehart to raise her out of needing to pay for her own mine.
“Good governance is about priorities,” said Anthony Albanese while wiping caviar off his face, “what people need to understand is that there is no magical pool of money for us to do things like assist renters or fully fund the NDIS. Well not without hurting the billionaires who need it most.”
“A Liberal Party government would have just handed over the money, where as we have said we would like some of it back at some point, please…Totally cool if not.”
“And that is how I fight these rich tories who spend millions to spread disinformation whenever I consider a progressive policy, sometimes I don’t even kiss their ring, I just polish it for them. That is what a Labor government does best.”
“This is an extra emotional deal for me, see growing up my mum never got the chance to give a billionaire $840 million of taxpayer money for a new mine. But now I have the opportunity to.”
chaser.com.au/national/governm…
#satire #AusPol #ShitParty #ShitLiteParty #FsckOffDutton #FsckOffGina #JobSeeker

2024-03-09 07:34:51

whitherthewest.com/2024/03/08/…
First two, then final, paragraphs.
Why Tolkien Hated Dune
J.R.R. Tolkien maintained a very private, but very negative opinion of Frank Herbert’s Dune. In Tolkien’s Library, entry 964, Tolkien is quoted as having written in an unpublished letter to John Bush, on March 12 1966, “It is impossible for an author still writing to be fair to another author working along the same lines. At least I find it so. In fact I dislike Dune with some intensity, and in that unfortunate case it is much the best and fairest to another author to keep silent and refuse to comment”. Tolkien does not elaborate, leaving the reasons for his intense dislike as an exercise for the reader.
However, when one peers under the hood into the underlying philosophies of the two authors, one can easily imagine the answer: Herbert and Tolkien are exact moral opposites. Tolkien was an avid Deontologist and Dune is pure Consequentialism.
Religious differences aside, the central argument between the two authors is the moral one. Tolkien is a modernist (or even pre-modernist); Herbert is a post-modernist: Tolkien encourages everyone to follow a single template of goodness; Herbert encourages cynicism and doubt of the institutions that produce templates, and shows the anguish experienced by Paul when he is forced into a template to survive. If one had to summarize these different perspectives in one sentence, Tolkien argues “Strive for goodness, and people will come to call it great”, whereas Herbert argues “strive for greatness, and people will come to call it good”.
#Tolkien #Herbert #LotR #Dune #Deontology #Consequentialism

2024-03-02 12:19:15

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@npub1h5a…lzf4 Not in my timeline it ain't. The one to which i replied, & screenshot, is the originating post in my timeline, otherwise i'd have ignored this silly thread.

2024-03-02 12:09:40

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@npub1h5a…lzf4 God knows where that pic comes from. Look again at your OP in THIS thread [a pic of which i posted, & it is not your pic here]. You did NOT say what you later claimed you did. In it you gave NO nuance, which is why many responses are debunking you.
Furthermore, your OP is entirely a spurious strawman proposition...will not fully replace #Windows or #macOS
Who on earth is claiming it would? That's a ridiculous premise. Humans being so diverse, will never agree on everything, ofc including something so comparatively unimportant as an OS. Afaik there's no Big Linux shadow group pulling global strings to make Linux the only OS. I can't imagine why you even made that OP. It is a true statement [for the reason i gave], but it is also fatuous, being about as meritorious as something likearsenic will not fully replace oxygen for human respiration

2024-03-02 11:55:21

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@npub1h5a…lzf4 @npub1gs9…uzte Pardon?I did say "in some cases".
Where?
Here's a pic of your OP. Where did you offer that qualification?
https://venera.social/photo/945444895165e305430dc81772595834-0.png

2024-02-28 01:26:16

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@npub159k…gvjs I expect you're prolly being only ironic not serious [i'm unsure], so i'll be boring & limit myself only to a serious reply.
I 💟🐧simply coz of the profound sense of liberation & joyousness it provokes in me.
Maybe that just sounds weird, but to the extent i can understand anything at all about me, that feels right.

2024-02-28 01:04:54

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@npub1c6e…7cuv nostr:npub1p45qg9vnqkn75s92f40f0c8vy4ztfmlkyf8vypwq54geks5kfpes80x9sxToo facebook, twitter
As i [deliberately] never used either of those, such metaphors mean nothing to me.
Yes, i'll keep doing me, ta. 😜

2024-02-28 00:07:40

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@npub1c6e…7cuv @npub1p45…x9sx Yeah, nah.
If that works for some peeps, & also you evidently, then that's excellent.
As it happens i do still have several active Masto accounts (active in that i've not closed them, but in fact they sit idle most of the time since i chose #Friendica as my daily fedi). You see, after discovering Friendica & trying to acclimatise myself to its very different GUI i rapidly realised that it has heaps of benefits over Masto; default post length being merely one. Knowing this makes it "impossible" for me to keep actively using Masto; it's like cutting off my nose to spite my face.

2024-02-27 08:47:46

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@npub1p45…x9sx To the various Masto peeps herein decrying the meagre 500 [a claim i enthusiastically support btw; 500 is far too little]. Did you not notice all the info in the OP? If atm you're on a Masto instance with only the lousy 500, you DO have options... albeit they need some actual effort by you:
change to another Masto instance with more than 500 [there's many, eg, 3 i have are 3000, 10,000 & 11,000 respectfully... but there's many others too]
change from Masto to alternatives like #Friendica [from which i write this post], #Hubzilla [both having essentially no limit], or one of the #Misskey / #Calckey instances or forks [2000+, iirc].
TL;DR = if you don't like where you currently are, move, don't just moan.

2024-02-20 07:12:52

Woolies CEO Storms Out on Self Checkout After Realising He’s Being Filmed
Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci has got up and walked out mid check-out, after realising he was on camera the whole time.
“I think we’re done here guys,” a furious Banducci said, getting up and walking out of the supermarket.
Realising that he’d been caught red handed scanning an avocado as a brown onion, he demanded to know if his shop was on or off the record.
“Absolutely everything is recorded and tracked you idiot,” an aide told him before convincing him to continue his checkout.
“Can we take that bit out?” he pleaded. “Sorry, I shouldn’t have done that”.
theshovel.com.au/2024/02/20/wo…
#satire #AusPol #Supermarkets #Duopoly #PriceGouging #ShitParty #ShitLiteParty

2024-02-19 05:12:06

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@npub1zzg…s940 @npub1adq…jgpy Don't disagree in principle, but in practice it's very tricky for Devs to presuppose to understand a user's preferred compromise of competing security & privacy settings vs outright usability desires. For geeky users especially i foresee much probability of such disagreements, whilst vanilla users might not appreciate their browser forgetting all their open tabs next launch [a v trivial example just to make the point].

2024-02-19 02:49:47

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@npub1zzg…s940 @npub1y8a…5cy0 @npub168e…9uaw nostr:npub1adqp2zgwnc9ej87eqmn27rtvjltaeugvshhag0gf7xngwlwsj2fqqhjgpyI test all browsers by default; that's because users tend to stick to defaults. ... I don't think it's right to have privacy protections available only to power users who know how to tweak settings and which settings to tweak
Here though, sorry, i still disagree, fwiw. Yes i definitely grasp the sense of "test defaults for ordinary users", but IMO the logic of this objective then rather falls on its face when your table includes several browsers that no "ordinary" user is ever going to select & install of their own volition.
Pls correct me if i am mistaken, but, just to focus on a quick dual comparison atm, isn't the primary difference between standard Firefox & one of its forks Librewolf, that whilst the former ships with no user.js & some comparatively lenient settings in prefs.js, the latter has toggled most settings to "high" in its prefs.js & uses a very hardened user.js? If so, then this would exemplify my discomfort with the site data presentation, as readers would wrongly infer that standard FF is simply inherently "lax", when that's really not accurate.
Similarly, though i regard Vivaldi as inherently less private than FF [when both have been "tickled up" with harder settings], it nevertheless would garner many more green ticks in your table if tested with the harder settings in its internal GUI Settings, + where applicable also its chromium-legacy chrome://flags. However atm, once more, an unaware reader of the table would simply conclude "oh, Vivaldi is poor". Indeed, periodically this is a combative trope raised in the Vivaldi Forum, using your table as an attack weapon. It just seems inequitable to me.

2024-02-19 02:28:38

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@npub1zzg…s940 @npub1y8a…5cy0 @npub168e…9uaw @npub1adq…jgpy Hello, & t/y for responding, including useful info; tis appreciated.I run PrivacyTests independently and I created much of the site before I was employed by Brave. I work for Brave as a browser engineer
Whilst i already knew the info you've now stated in this toot, i now readily concede my error or overreach & entirely apologise to you. My hitherto antipathy was that i had been carrying along in my mind, since discovering your site some years back, a lack of such disclosure on the site, which greatly prejudiced my opinion as i perceived it to be duplicitous. However, now i see that you have an entirely decent Full disclosure and transparency section at the bottom of privacytests.org/about which i seem to have either never noticed before, or did notice but subsequently forgot. In either case, the fault is entirely mine, hence again, i apologise.

2024-02-19 01:00:44

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@npub1adq…jgpy @npub1y8a…5cy0 @npub168e…9uaw @npub1zzg…s940 This really is rubbish. Peeps keep pushing this website, & it's duplicitous to do so!
the website owner is a Brave employee. No matter how loudly they claim otherwise, this site is NOT neutral & independent / objective.
it tests browsers in default config, not what they're actually capable of. Eg, two examples:
Vivaldi has innumerable settings that are disabled by default ootb coz THE central tenet of Vivaldi philosophy is respect for the user's choice. In the test pictured above, & btw also most/all the other test categories too, Vivaldi would have most of the crosses replaced with ticks if the settings were toggled.
Firefox & all its spins & forks have comprehensive #DoH settings in Preferences. In the main FF family [ie, Nightly, Beta, DevEd, Release, ESR], default DoH is set to minimal, but can be bumped up to intermediate or strong simply by toggling. All that Mulvad & Tor do is ship with those toggled. To conceal these facts is all part of this silly site's misinformation.

2024-02-18 10:23:37

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@npub1esm…xjlr Fixed it for you..... They grep'd for it.

2024-02-14 01:49:47

Of #Mozilla, #Firefox, & hideous corporate jargon.
From techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozi… this hideous gobshyte:Right-sizing the People Team
Given the reduction in staffing and lower headcount budget moving forward in MozProd, some roles have been consolidated in the People and other support services orgs so that we are offering the right level of support to our product portfolio. Optimizing our org to sharpen focus.
😡😱🤮🖕

2024-02-11 02:19:09

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
💯✅👍Misogyny is a resilient beast with much to protect, ready to shape shift as its survival demands.Women have been taking a more progressive view on politics all century. It is a growing trend that is repeated in Australia.
This is something to celebrate and encourage. Instead, the commentary has focussed on the more reactionary views of some young men – which threaten to embolden authoritarians. The pattern is unmistakeable but local specifics vary and matter.
As almost half the world goes to the polls this year, we will learn whether this generation of better educated, more aware and powerful young women are able to tip the results against authoritarian populists elsewhere as well. As Donald Trump regularly demonstrates, belittling women is a marker of this world view.
Australia, in its occasional role as an early marker of global trends, embraced this movement early. In the 2022 election professional women in the teal independents remade the traditionally conservative inner suburban heartland of the Liberal party in their image. The Labor party pre-selected record numbers of women and acknowledged their power to change the agenda.
This was in no small measure the result of the grand lessons of courage and refusal to be shamed, embodied by Grace Tame, Chanel Contos and Brittany Higgins. Their advocacy changed the political terrain – taking men and women on an empowering journey, changing laws, curricula and expectations.
They have since been battered by the business-as-usual brutality of the Australian political/legal/media machine.
By focussing on the political gap between young women and men, the beacon of hope is obscured. In Australia the data shows that young men are also more progressive than they were two decades ago.
#FsckThePatriarchy #Feminism #WomensRights #Politics #AusPol #Misogyny #Sexism

2024-02-10 00:58:45

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@npub12zw…uequ Tis so weird that i posted about this 24 hrs ago, & the fediverse went "meh" & ignored it. Now, for a different post, fedi suddenly awakens & notices. Prolly that damn invisible ink i keep accidentally using... 🤷‍♀️

2024-02-09 06:33:33

Rich people who claim to be ‘representing the real working class’ weirdly mad at idea of letting working class people relax after work
Leader of Opposing Peter Dutton has appeared in Parliament today to try and stop the evil unions working with Labor and the Greens from allowing the working class to disconnect and not respond to their bosses emails when they aren’t being paid to.
“The modern Liberal Party is the party of the worker,” he said, “and that is why I support making sure workers are forced to be available to work 24/7. Workers are best when they are made to never allowed to not be workers.”
“Working 9 till 5 is woke nonsense. Lazy entitled people think that the workers should be allowed to do other things with their day, but only the Coalition understands that the average quiet Australian worker loves rushing to respond to texts from their bosses at 3am.”
“The elites say workers should have rights, but I know the workers like to be jesters who dance on the command of rich people. Just the other day I even saw a working class person while she cleaned my office, before I had her fired for trying to look me in the eye.”
chaser.com.au/national/rich-pe…
#satire #AusPol #FsckOffDutton #ShitParty

2024-02-08 10:01:09

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@npub1q0a…hkdq I'm writing from Straya, & can't pretend to be up top date with all the finer details, so i apologise if this question is predicated on ignorance.
If #Labour / #Starmer has walked away from #LGBTQIA+ support, #environment, #ClimateCrisis, then... what is the actual point of there even being a Labour party? 🤷‍♀️
#UKPol

2024-02-06 07:14:55

The murder of Brianna Ghey - 30' PodcastA year on from the murder of Brianna Ghey, her killers have been sentenced, and her mother is leading an extraordinary campaign of compassion. Helen Pidd reports
💔😭
theguardian.com/news/audio/202…
#transphobia #hate #murder #legal #trial #guilty

2024-02-06 05:57:34

Turnbull: It’s Imperative To Elucidate With Regards To Politics That A Fundamental Comprehension Of Everyday Voters Must Be Attained
Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has this evening dished up an eviscerating verbal lambasting for the millennia.Turnbull dealt the smackdown while talking to the ABC as part of the Nemesis program, which aims to illustrate the sheer lack of work any of our politicians do because they treat their jobs like a game and are constantly bickering and fighting with each other.
Featuring as the focal point of the second episode, the man who is endlessly trying to prove he’s the smartest in every single room he goes into, gave a mellifluous and graceful explanation of the way he views politics.
“You see, I’m not trying to be sesquipedalian here, but one must understand the imperative nature of understanding with certitude the internal musings of the average Australian,” said Turnbull.*
“And I think that I am rather perspicacious in that regard, as a man who deeply understands the machinations of a blue collar Australian’s mind.”
“I’ve always said, and I think it should be the basis for every politician’s thought process, floccinaucinihilipilification of the average Australian’s philosophical outlook will spell the demise for any politician.”
Turnbull then paused, to see if the questioner was even remotely following what he was saying.
“That is where Tony (*tilts head back and looks down his nose) ran aground. He sought the obfuscation and discombobulation of the Australian psyche, in a desire to reduce it to one patriotic, thoughtless, regressive mass.”
“I simply could not stand for it.”
“So that’s why I explicated to the party that we have to move forward, and we need to put that prehistoric petrified impression behind us.”
“And I think we did that.”
*The Advocate has reduced the extra letters put into the spoken words of Malclom’s enunciation, in an effort to achieve some semblance of clarity.
betootaadvocate.com/breaking-n…
#satire #AusPol #ClimateCrisis #ShitParty

2024-02-05 02:34:37

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@npub1sfz…yt06 @npub1p75…dwjw Tbh i'm quite surprised that Liebs & Nuts are not routinely seen walking ahead of EVs, waving a red flag. 😜

2024-01-31 00:13:27

@npub1zkm…hcgp One of the distinct disadvantages, afaict, with the #Friendica web UI [ie, using a browser] compared to Mastodon, is the inability to see / access / use the Compose Post box unless one is scrolled to the top of the timeline. In Masto, with both its default & #AdvancedWebInterface UI views, the Compose box is always visible, hence available, regardless of any other timeline status. Tbh i find this restriction really frustrating in F.
For various reasons in F i prefer the Vier UI display option over Frio, but afaict my objection pertains to both.
Is there possibly some option buried in Settings that i might have missed, which when enabled makes the Compose Post box available any time, eg, from a top bar link as a popup modal?
Is there some AddOn for this that Friendica server owners could install that remedies this problem?
In absence of anything better, my inefficient workaround is to open a second tab of my F account, in which i then access the box to compose & send my impromptu post, without disturbing my position in my scrolled timeline in the original tab [eg, first thing each morning i scroll down & review all new posts since yesterday, but often think of something i want to say or ask that's not tied to any individual post i might be contemporaneously reading atm, six hours down my timeline].

2024-01-28 03:10:40

This is fantastic!
abc.net.au/news/2024-01-28/aus…
I absolutely adored the 4' B&W vox pop clip in Kings Cross; just hilarious & captivating. Listening to the voices & delivery therein was only part of the fun though; i was staggered by the massive invasion of personal body space by interviewer & interviewees compared to my own sensibility, plus i suspect that many of the interviewees were around my age now [60s] yet looked 20 years older [which is a major social trend i've observed over my lifetime; what "old" peeps look like has been getting older & older IMO].
#Straya #Strine #Orstralia #Australia #Language #Accents #Pronunciation #Linguistics #Sociology

2024-01-24 10:03:47

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@npub1lc5…nuhm @npub1gfs…mwqj Is this a logic-free zone? You do realise, don't you, that the search engine is not the browser, they're different things, and that default SE can be changed by the user. 😮

2024-01-17 08:47:54

Australians Who Don’t Have Fun on Australia Day Should Be Fined, Dutton Says
Australians who are caught not revelling in the delight of Australia’s national day would receive a $149 on-the-spot fine under a Coalition Government, the Opposition Leader has confirmed.Announcing the new measures, Dutton said 26th January was a special day for our nation and people better bloody well enjoy it.
“Australia Day is an absolute privilege and I would be very disappointed, furious in fact, if it wasn’t the highlight of the summer for each and every one of you,” Dutton said.
The Liberal Leader said Border Force and other national agencies would be used to personally ensure both citizens and permanent residents were having an absolute blast. “I don’t care what your excuse is. If you’re not having a fair dinkum crack at having a good time, then you better bloody well start enjoying yourself quick smart”.
Those not showing outward signs of enjoying themselves will be given one verbal warning, before being issued with the fine.
theshovel.com.au/2024/01/17/au…
#satire #AusPol

2023-09-10 09:29:01

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@npub1djp…8kck I was ridiculously thrilled when i realised that you & #Thunderbird have linked up for sponsorship. It seems to me to be a simply splendid #FOSS reinforcement, thus perfectly in step with your channel's ethos. 👏

2023-09-10 03:50:19

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@npub1sfz…yt06 @npub15tq…egj6 #VoteGreens ... every day & twice on Sundays. 😜

2023-09-09 05:17:48

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@npub1agu…j0sk Yep. I heard some silly rumour t'other day too about water being wet, & fire being hot. Honestly, just where do these gay trans leftie librarians get off!!