Covid, yes, but not widespread lockdowns (and some other stuff from the “early covid” period) which is basically what the article is reflecting on. For example, I hadn’t really thought about how it could affect child social development due to significantly reduced social exposure.

This isn’t really a “covid is over” piece. ‘It’s still a serious human pathogen’ wouldn’t be a sub-heading if it was.

Good stuff, sometimes aggressive measures need to be taken to look out for the interest of the shareholders. Plus the fuel discount is a perfectly timed Christmas gift, exactly what Australia needs in a cost of living crisis. Bravo Woolies, very proud to have my superannuation invested in a company that cares!

I try 🫠

I’ve never seen the stats before and 8% seems really high?? Is there some subset of Australia that tips all the time that I rarely see?

Edit: nvm, the stat is confusing as other commenter pointed out.

The number of payments with tips has remained stable throughout the last year with 0.52% of payments throughout the hospitality sector including a tip in August 2023, according to Lightspeed.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/22/3f/79/223f79659f9505af980b57038f82a008.png

“I often wonder: where did I go wrong?” Graeme Pearman says. “Why didn’t people respond? Is that my responsibility?”

When Guardian Australia meets him at his home on the outskirts of Melbourne, the veteran climate scientist is frustrated.

“If you go through the whole process and the rigour of conducting science, [you think] at the end of the day surely people will understand what you’re saying – they will incorporate those risks into what they do,” he says.

“Well, it doesn’t work that way.

“The reality is that for a period of nearly two decades, Australia went backwards [on climate action]. From a personal perspective, yes, it’s frustrating.”

Precursor: f I was feeling hopeless about the climate, what of the scientists? So I asked them

Given that they remind readers what brands an Android phone phone could be, I don’t think the article is aimed at many aussie zoners.

I guess they’re trying to drive home that the scammer isn’t coming at you with a poorly worded email riddled with typos here - the overlay can look legitimate (even if in some cases it still has typos lol). Probably would’ve been a bit much for them to cover every banking interface tbf.

I really enjoyed Scienceworks and the Melbourne Aquarium as a kid. Not sure I’d go far as to call them must-see, but worth checking out if your crew is keen on them!

I guess there’s going to be some interpretation about what a high vs low result really is (like how a 6/10 rated game or movie is “low”). I personally thought the raw results would have been lower based on some of the doomposting elsewhere in the thread.

I know you’re joking, but thankfully they were done away with: https://www.aapnews.com.au/news/australia-permanently-cancels-kyoto-carryover-credits (not the best source but the most important part is at the start)

Thanks for your valuable contribution to !environment@aussie.zone 🫠

The list of options participants were given:

• Eat less meat (50% reduction)
• Stop eating meat
• Avoid food products imported by plane
• Use public transport
• Recycle things more
• Buy fewer new things
• More energy from renewable sources

Some of it is a bit less actionable then “eat less meat”, but they’re still pretty concrete.

If you believe the study enough to mock the outcome, then yes, apparently they’ll take other actions:

“They are very happy to get more energy from renewable resources, to recycle things more, to buy fewer new things — which all do have an impact.”

In addition to not qualifying by most definitions of open source (as already mentioned), CC is not recommended for use in software: https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-commons-license-to-software

We recommend against using Creative Commons licenses for software. Instead, we strongly encourage you to use one of the very good software licenses which are already available.

[…]

Unlike software-specific licenses, CC licenses do not contain specific terms about the distribution of source code, which is often important to ensuring the free reuse and modifiability of software. Many software licenses also address patent rights, which are important to software but may not be applicable to other copyrightable works. Additionally, our licenses are currently not compatible with the major software licenses, so it would be difficult to integrate CC-licensed work with other free software. Existing software licenses were designed specifically for use with software and offer a similar set of rights to the Creative Commons licenses.

Edited link for kbin/mbin users: https://creativecommons.org/faq (scroll to Can I apply a Creative Commons license to software?)

Through long and weary travels,* I bring the gift of source preserved by the workers of the great archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20140831164530/http://bjorn.tipling.com/if-programming-languages-were-weapons

* (they weren’t that bad honestly, a kind soul that took the journey 9 years ago made mine much shorter)

Honestly I was pretty content with the fees involved when I used it for Euros a couple years back. Afaik the fees aren’t trivial but at least they’re not steep (unlike e.g., using PayPal to do the same thing) - I didn’t really feel robbed but it’ll depend on what your expectations are!

I’ve used Wise (formerly TransferWise) for international transfers a couple of times. They use “mid market” exchange rates so tend to be on the cheaper side as far as total loss of value on a transfer (fees + exchange rate losses).

Admittedly it’s been a couple of years since I last looked around at these services though!

Regarding Fedia.io, it’s currently inaccessible as I’m working with developers to debug the problems and sadly symfony exposes way too much in debug mode

https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/111235710730201071

Not that it really matters much, but here’s the original version of the image: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/google-android-phone-characters-group-royalty-free-image/458243847