Luke Hand

@lukehand
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Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. Photos from walks and little nothings, mostly. šŸ‘šŸ» 
Luke Hand Diary podcast (daily eps, 1-2 mins about my day). https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/luke-hand-diary/id1570320531
LUKEHAND podcast (eps drop sporadically, comedy). https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/lukehand/id1260332519
.@pdkoenig @daringfireball yes - came to say exactly this. Also, perhaps Apple is trying to offer AI features without completely trashing their environmental policies? The Apple blogosphere applauded Apple’s environmental policies and green energy successes for years. It’s interesting to see people barracking for Apple to match the offerings of companies that clearly aren’t paying any mind at all to environmental impacts. šŸ¤”

"Trans women have no advantage in women's sports, studies confirm this result"

A bunch of weird people: "nuh uh, science says otherwise!"

What do these tools think a "study" is and what do they think "science" is.

@ianbetteridge I think that if Tim treated Drumpf like we’d all hope he would (and as I imagine Steve would have), then Drumpf would quickly start ordering that Apple be sold to the US government or put back doors around their privacy stuff, etc etc. Tim would have no control of the company if things went that way. I know it sucks that Drumpf is a bully. It would be nice if there were any kind of leftist political opposition. Tim is doing well in a very difficult situation imo.

Calls grow to ban popular 'status symbol' on Aussie cars: 'Way past time' https://au.news.yahoo.com/calls-grow-to-ban-popular-status-symbol-on-aussie-cars-way-past-time-190014774.html https://au.news.yahoo.com/calls-grow-to-ban-popular-status-symbol-on-aussie-cars-way-past-time-190014774.html?guccounter=1

Can we change licensing to allow ONLY tradespeople to own a Ute? There are far too many utes on our roads driven by people who do not deserve to own them.

#Australia #DangerousCars #LargeVehicles

Calls grow to ban popular 'status symbol' on Aussie cars: 'Way past time'

Bull bars are contributing to Australia's road death toll, one academic has warned.

Yahoo News Australia
@marcintosh tapping the blob also plays/pauses. Like we need another control on screen. This is part of what’s annoying about the state of iOS at the moment - there’s a lot of ā€˜oh well just add x on this screen to help this particular situation on this particular screen’. Breaks consistency and predictably. šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.

I hope it helps your transition off US tech!

https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/

Getting off US tech: a guide

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

Disconnect
@noheger why is there a Paused blob at the top of my screen? 😩 I thought we were moving controls to the bottom of screens? So many little ā€˜just works’ things in iOS aren’t bothered with anymore. Sad.

Regime change in Afghanistan to remove the Taliban resulted in the return of the Taliban

Regime change in Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein resulted in the rise of Daesh (ISIS)

Regime change in Libya to remove Ghadaffi resulted in chaos and a decade plus of civil war

Each showed images of locals celebrating. Each ended in tragedy.

Violent regime change does not work. It never has. Because it is driven by oil and profit, not people and principles.

I’m not enjoying living in neoliberal fascism.
@mdebal He wrote an article or gave a quote about Biden being too old and non compos mentis during the last presidential election campaign. Which appears to have been accurate. So the Democrats replaced him with Kamala. Jeff appears to hold some misplaced anger about Clooney having and voicing his opinion.