[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's a consistent highly inefficient heat because it only smoulders, without a flame.

It will clog your chimney/flue with creosote.

It's also a horrible thing to do to yourself and your neighbours.

No efficient wood heater/stove is designed to burn like that.

If you want a slow release of heat you need to store it in masonry or water.

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

Masonry heater or don't even bother.

It's barely practical to run a typical modern Australian wood heater efficiently because they can't store the heat of a blazing hot efficient smokeless burn.

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

Yep, need to get a hot blazing burn then it's fairly clean (and efficient). Smaller wood is better -- just keep loading it in.

Trouble is, no one ever listens. They throw on massive logs then crank the airflow right down for the lovely slow burn through the evening, then wedge in the biggest piece they can find and close the airflow "so it's still burning in the morning" (*smouldering).

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by rcbrk@lemmy.ml to c/palestine@lemmy.ml

At a busy inner-city Canberra polling booth, a man confronted the incumbent finance minister with accusations of genocide.

Labor ACT senate candidate Katy Gallagher was leaving the Lyneham Public School polling booth when she was approached by James Godfrey, spokesperson for pro-Palestinian group Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

"You're a minister in this government and you're doing nothing," Mr Godfrey yells at Senator Gallagher.

"Palestinians in Gaza are being starved at the moment.

"Sixty days plus of no food, no water, no medicines and no fuel and your government is complicit in this genocide."

Pro-Palestinian protester confronts Labor Senator Katy Gallagher

Mr Godfrey says a Freedom Flotilla ship carrying aid bound for Gaza was recently attacked by drones.

"Our ship's been attacked in international waters off the east coast of Malta," he tells reporters afterward.

"There's been fires on board, and we're trying to transport humanitarian aid to Gaza and the Australian government won't speak out against it."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-02/freedom-flotilla-group-says-ship-struck-off-malta/105245778

-- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-03/federal-election-2025-live-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton/105245936#live-blog-post-176075

Related information/news:

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 26 points 4 months ago

These are Australian elections -- it is 100% paper ballots.

https://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/counting/

The starlink thing is just a backup link for communicating election-night preliminary count data counted by election staff at the booths. Then the ballots are transported to counting centres for the official count. Full legal results aren't known for a couple of weeks.

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submitted 6 months ago by rcbrk@lemmy.ml to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

..And you can imagine the job discrimination as an adult if you don't drive.

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 23 points 7 months ago

Rule 6: Provide an archived link to the tweet (or similar) being shown if it’s a major figure or a politician.

https://archive.md/es2lC

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by rcbrk@lemmy.ml to c/australia@aussie.zone

Australian Senate, last sitting of the year. No idea when the Social Media Ban debate is kicking off.

If anyone's keen, feel free to give a live run-down of anything interesting in this thread.

(sorry about all the edits, just trying to get a decent thumbnail: elevated photo of the Australian Senate)

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Of course, the real story here is how the elderly (and everyone else) are fucked over by car dependency and its associated suburban sprawl, shit public transport, and unwalkable neighbourhoods.

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submitted 8 months ago by rcbrk@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

The government is being pretty coy about the details, so most of the article is necessarily conjecture.

Selected excerpts from the article:

The definition of a social media service, as per the Online Safety Act

An electronic service that satisfies the following conditions:

  1. The sole or primary purpose of the service is to enable online social interaction between two or more end users;
  2. The service allows end users to link to, or interact with, some or all of the other end users;
  3. The service allows end users to post material on the service.

Under the proposed changes, it will be the responsibility of social media companies to take reasonable steps to block people under 16.

How will your age be verified?

The government's legislation won't specify the technical method for proving a person's age.

Several options are on the table, including providing ID and biometrics such as face scanning.

The government's currently running an age assurance trial to assess all the methods, and it's scheduled to continue into 2025.

Based on the results of that trial, eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant will make recommendations to platforms.

It's possible that Australians will be asked to provide their IDs or biometric data directly to social media companies in order to use their platforms, but that's not guaranteed.

Many of the big players, including Meta, have instead argued for the age verification onus to be placed on app stores, rather than individual platforms, as that would mean proving your age once — rather than every time you sign up to a platform.

It's also possible that a third-party company that specialises in ID verification will act as a go-between between users and social media platforms.

No matter which model is adopted, the prime minister has said privacy protections will be introduced to cover any data people end up providing.

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[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 28 points 11 months ago

Reader mode exposes a much better headline:

Scientists testing deadly heat limits on humans show thresholds may be much lower than first thought

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submitted 1 year ago by rcbrk@lemmy.ml to c/australia@aussie.zone

Tip of the iceberg when it comes to examining the corruption of land ownership in Australia. It's hardly talked about. The linked article doesn't even talk about it.

The public as a whole (and traditional owners) should be the only financial beneficiaries of rezoning.

I suspect private maximisation of rezoning profits is the reason behind why urban developments here are almost universally that awful single-story no-greenspace roof-to-roof packed suburban hellscape.

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 year ago

"Current AI models cannot forget data they were trained on, even if the data was later removed from the training data set," Han's report said.

Bullshit. You delete the entire model and start again.

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 87 points 1 year ago

Huh. Even Boeing doesn't want to be associated with Boeing:

Boeing executives have repeatedly sought to make clear that the Starliner program operates independently from the company’s other units — including the commercial aircraft division that has been at the center of scandals for years.

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[...] The 92-page document compiled by the legal team lays out a number of specific ways Albanese and other Australian officials have acted as an accessory to genocide, including:

  • Freezing $6 million in funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East amid a humanitarian crisis based on unsubstantiated claims by Israel;
  • Providing military aid and approving defenee exports to Israel, which could be used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the course of the prima facie commission of genocide and crimes against humanity;
  • Ambiguously deploying an Australian military contingent to the region, where its location and exact role have not been disclosed; and
  • Permitting Australians, either explicitly or implicitly, to travel to Israel to join the IDF and take part in its attacks on Gaza.

"The Rome Statute provides four modes of individual criminal responsibility, two of which are accessorial," [attorney] Omeri explained in a statement. [...]

See also: Birchgrove Legal's media release and communiqué to ICC

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by rcbrk@lemmy.ml to c/australia@aussie.zone

The Australien Government has made an ad about its Whistleblower Protection Laws, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

Take action: droptheprosecutions.org.au

https://www.thejuicemedia.com/honest-government-ad-whistleblower-protection-laws/

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 85 points 2 years ago

"South Africa, which is functioning as the legal arm of the Hamas terrorist organization [...]"

-- https://twitter.com/LiorHaiat/status/1745427037039280207 (https://archive.md/L7AwX)

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 years ago

Even though the company didn’t really do anything truly wrong in this case, as it’s simply users reusing passwords, they still should have been better/more proactive especially with such sensitive information

There's nothing special or new or unique or unforseen about the security requirements of 23andMe.

They absolutely failed to implement an appropriate level of security measures for their service.

Mandatory 2FA could've prevented this.

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Here are the github repository, issues and comments immortalised for posterity in IPFS:

The issues and comments are in github json format -- if anyone wants to collate them into a human-readable text or html file, please do so.

Edit: Its immortality of course depends on you to access and pin the content.

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