"While concerning, this case does remind us that there are many layers of protection built into the electoral system to ensure it is secure."

"The system ensured there was accountability, although it seems likely there was some kind of failure to identify immediately that the container had not been delivered to the counting centre."

My confidence in the AEC remains strong. It is a little concerning that the container wasn't noticed immediately, but it doesn't appear to be anything malicious. Just an oversight on both sides for a scenario that will undoubtedly be corrected.

I think they'd have made a point of saying that the temporary staffer was facing further consequences or wouldn't be a part of future elections if there was more to this. The fact they haven't and that the case was sealed/intact leads me to believe it was an innocent mistake.

We know that this particular murder received a lot more media and police attention than the hundreds of others of murders that happen every year in New York.

I think the difference with this murder boils down to how people have reacted to it. Normally when there's an act of violence like this, people tend to think something like 'that could have been me' - being the victim. The difference in this case is that many people are thinking the same thing, but putting themselves in the position of the shooter instead of the victim.

The biggest problem we faced in 2020 was that the federal government of the day dropped the ball. One of the federal government's primary duties is border control. The borders should have closed and national quarantine facilities engaged to control and protect repatriated citizens.

This ended up being left to the State Governments. And in fairness, the premiers stepped in and filled that void as best they could. It was heartening - party politics took a back seat to addressing issues that faced everyone. Internally, the states had a real mixed bag of responses - and their varying levels of success should be case studies on how to approach this in the future. Melbourne locked down, and while that was no fun for anyone, the death rates of Melbourne are a tiny fraction of any comparable city in the USA.

WA just shut the whole border. This had its challenges, but from within we cruised through 2020 and 2021 as though there was no pandemic. A couple of short, sharp semi-lockdowns in there when the odd minor outbreak threatened is all.

NSW dabbled a bit with locking down, but opened up again too quickly. We saw the effects that had on case numbers.

It isn't that the public doesn't trust the measures employed - it's that they were a patchwork of different measures and they had varying degrees of success. Hopefully, the next time this happens, the federal government will learn from 2020 and step in with a nation-wide response that we can all get behind.

A lot of this is on us (the consumers). If they put produce on the shelves that isn't perfect, we don't buy it. So, it gets wasted. Either

1. at the farm before it is loaded onto a truck,
2. at the warehouse before it is sent to store,
3. at the dock before it is put on display,
4. by the customer, who will pick the 'nicer' fruit/vegetable from the pile.

We can't entirely blame the supermarkets for this, though they absolutely deserve some of the blame. Having the ability to buy an apple with a bruise on it for a fraction of the price of the perfect apple is both good for the environment and a way to help address the rising cost of living.

Not sure they'd go for it, as they care more about the loss of the sale of that perfect apple than they do about the food waste.

I demand they keep it up. So there.

The author has a MacBook and has discovered that the new Apple Silicon is terrible for games. Particularly 32-bit games. It turns out Valve hasn't re-made these 10-20 year old games to compensate for Apple's hardware compatibility changes.

Somehow, that's Valve's fault and a sign that they're going down the drain.

That's only legal in like two countries.

Who the hell would want to drive within a kilometer of the MCG when there's an event on? There are trains and trams right outside and they are sooooooo much quicker than cars.

Honestly, that stadium is filled every weekend for half the year. People should know better.

I was Googling like mad just this week on how to execute a cmdlet as Admin from within a script that isn't running with elevated privileges. The results all basically came back with some variation of "just run the script as Admin".

This is the right way to do it. I'm glad it's coming.

semi-succesful

18 Million subscribers, Billions of views, has had Kobe Bryant and the US president as guests on his channel. If that's "semi-succesful", what on earth is your yard-stick for successful?

I don't always agree with his takes, but I honestly can't think of a better or better-known tech reviewer.

Hi all, I've seen a few posts on other instances about the latest Israel/Palestine flair-up turn into mini wars. Both sides have wide support on the fediverse, so you are very likely to encounter people you disagree with in any post that even references it.

If you are going to engage, please keep it civil. Opinions and genuine discorse are welcome, individual attacks on users are not. Understand that we don't tolerate personal attacks at aussie.zone. There are other places in the fediverse if you feel like fighting and being nasty.

One "sorry" statement, then on to the next agenda item.

I can't think of a clearer example of the cliche 'it is easier to ask forgiveness than permission'.

Everyone knows they would have had to work around the tree had they consulted the community. So, they just didn't do that.

Not that I'd expect them to unless forced to by law.