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I’m an electronics/software engineer and consultant, mostly working in biometrics and security, previously in satellite/wireless/RF communications. Very […]

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i hope this email finds you well
November 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Mozilla: we are developing our AI features for Firefox with user input and emphasis on user choice

users: please stop. no-one who specifically uses alternative browser Firefox wants this. our choice is no

Mozilla:
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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The Onion wins again
July 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Even now, the story is "Labor was forced into this by the fossil fuel industry"

No: Labor and the fossil fuel industry are ideologically aligned. We know this BECAUSE THEY CONSTANTLY SAY IT OUT LOUD
May 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Line at the early voting at St. Stephen’s Coorparoo is *massive*! All the way around the corner and down the street. Moving fairly steadily at least though.
May 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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So well put by George Monbiot. Applies to our tepid Labor government here in Australia too. People don’t want to be regarded only as economic units, and if you block leftist reform they reach for hard-right chaos.

"The democratic recession does not begin when a far-right party takes office. It […]
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aus.social
March 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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@ajsadauskas Do buy electric; just don’t buy Tesla.
March 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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do not turn off the bus.
March 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Wild... But from the start the whole caravan thing seemed super weird and didn't really make any sense. So not super surprised that it was a hoax...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-10/nsw-police-strike-force-pearl-caravan-dural-arrests/105032876
Breaking: Police say Dural caravan filled with explosives was 'fabricated terrorist plot'
The Australian Federal Police said the caravan, filled with explosives, was "never going to cause a mass casualty event".
www.abc.net.au
March 10, 2025 at 6:49 AM
While we wait for #cyclonealfred, it's Interesting the effects what stopping most of the cars and trucks for a day or so can do...
March 7, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Good read.

"Trumpism, whether full-strength or in the watered-down form seen in Australia, is not an answer to the failure of neoliberalism. But until centre-left parties can escape the mental prison built by decades of soft neoliberalism, it is what we are likely to get."

Neoliberalism is […]
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aus.social
February 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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News Corp in Australia are running campaigns to try and incite violence towards Jewish people, and film / report on the incidents - this attempt was botched and now the internal documents planning the provocation in News Corp's system are leaked

@crikey.com.au

www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/14/n...
February 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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News Corp specifically has been one of the main sources of violence, abuse, tension and disharmony in Australia. Hateful people, hateful company.

They have both a profit motive and an ideological motive to stoke hate in the community, and they have gotten pretty good at it
February 14, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says it's a "disgrace" the social media ban bill has been "railroaded" through the parliament by the two major parties. She says the reason it's being rushed is because Dutton and Albo are worried if people knew the consequence they wouldn't support it.
November 27, 2024 at 11:31 PM
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Albanese is such a coward.

"Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has intervened to scupper a deal with the Greens over environmental reform that Labor promised at the last election, addressing business concerns but circumventing his Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek.

"This masthead has been […]
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aus.social
November 27, 2024 at 10:03 PM