John Ready
@john-ready
News junkie (international, Australia, NZ, sports, privacy, progressive)
Australia's biggest whinger has now been on the front cover of @thesaturdaypaper.com.au three of the last four issues!
Oops! Google AI deemed an Unacceptable Risk for school age children (It's a long report but the Executive Summary tells all - an amusing aside is that it will give different answers to simple maths problems!) institute.commonsensemedia.org/risk-assessm...
Trust Sydney Trains! They've just had trackwork taking out all Inner West trains over the weekend, now they've discovered that "urgent trackwork" is necessary on that line! Did they stuff up over the weekend @johngrahamalp.bsky.social ?
There's already a Mr Fishface in the throng (per The Sun) - eho knows who is paying him, or whether he's self-funded
It's cosplay. He knows hr can't pay (by law) and is just grandstanding for the ignorant!
@johngrahamalp.bsky.social How can Sydney Trains announce the cancellation of a train at the exact moment that it is due? This is six stops after Central! Your idiot department must have known a lot earlier that the train would not be coming so why couldn't passengers be told or don't we count?
Vodafone Australia seems to have fixed their latest problem, but I'm wondering why they bothered to apologise this time when they seem to have data outages regularly? Was it because this time voice calls and texts were also supposedly effected?
Why does Google Play ask if I am interested in alternate games, then ignore my response and serve me up the same ad next time? Artificial unintelligence!
Westfield Australia have combined with television channel SBS to offer “Live World Cup Sites” in their shopping centres. They presumably don't expect a large uptake as only seating for 6 adults!
One of those party processes was a Conference that ex-Senator Cameron described as "stacked" (where the msg was "don't rock the boat until we get into power")
Hope they're better managed than in Sydney Australia. Lime lets users park the bikes across the footpath so as to impede pedestrians especially the elderly and people with prams. If they valued social behavior they'd ban such users for life!
It's not just because of surveillance and privacy reasons that companies should ditch Cloudfare in my opinion, but tge fact that they have frequent outages, and even when it's working it can take seemingly forever to get past their "security service" reach the actual webpage that you want
Where do these stats come from? Someone on Wikipedia has added the 2021 Census figures together to reach only 42%!
Thiel tried NZ back in 2011, gaining citizenship after just 12 days residence on the back of many investment promises. These days his Kiwi companies are shuttered, his refuge near Queenstown couldn't get Council approval, and his legacy is "mixed". Wonder what the Argentines are hoping for?
Hello @support.bsky.team This is the most ridiculous message ever! The whole point in changing my contact email address is because I no longer have the previous one!!!! (In fact if you try it any msg should bounce back to you)
Woolworths Australia said they'd consider feedback after installing dangerous security gates at the entrances to some supermarkets the other month. As usual, Woolies doesn't consider their customers and is expanding the installation of these gates. Pity your kids, and your knees!
A train fire is playing havoc with Sydney trains but I have to query the sense of running two trains right behind each other with the same destination and the same stopping pattern @johngrahamalp.bsky.social
I've just worked out why so many Nepalese living in Sydney's Inner West were dressed up yesterday (April 14). Happy New Year 🇳🇵
I'd ask why the US needs the UK to help with minesweeping in the Middle East, but then I read the other month that the US pulled its minesweepers out of the area just before the "war"!! (Great forward planning!)
Even more interesting is that Australia is not even in the top eight according to this index of democracies from 2024 (taken from a source link in above article which needs to be read in full)
I see that Waldorf Astoria have their sign up for their first hotel in Sydney, Australia. A bit premature I would have thought as that building must be a year away from opening. Some rooms will have lovely views from Circular Quay when it's finished.
Which is probably why ABC Australia didn't give a reason for the booing - wouldn't want to contradict "dear Leader"! I notice that Reuters had no such hesitation
Trouble is it's not going to happen! (Actually that's not "trouble" that's great news)
Knew I had a pic on file. (You'll need magnifying glass I'm afraid). August 2023 sub in Sydney Harbour
No it's not! It doesn't help your cause to spread fake news - there's enough of that coming from the American government!