As someone who grew up in a remote rural Victorian town, only coming to Melbourne as an adult, this to me is the strongest domestic indicator of what the current UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham recently announced regarding the 2016 UK Brexit Vote.

Growing up around and knowing varying types of personality traits from that region, consistently there was a greater understanding for the environment and how to manage it in order to benefit from it.

This was prevalent and consistent to those on farms and the many that rarely stepped foot on a farm. The inner town people weren’t much different from Melbourne suburbans, but most had a Greens leaning when it came specifically to environmental matters.

It was the more complicated social issues that were seen as a ‘city issue’, and a consensus that the Nationals were the only way to have a rural voting block, even if they aligned with what was strongly seen as a city party.

Personally I always felt that rural voters would be greater represented by a block of independents, rather than trading most of their votes to a city party for minimal concessions and the odd pork barreling, but that’s neither here nor there.

To see rural people, who exist and live in the very environment that they themselves often have a conscientious understanding of responsibility for, fall into emotional misinformation and manipulation, really brings home just how significant an issue of political manipulation farms are from outside each of our democracies.

We need to consider what political free speech means for Australians in Australia and how it relates to people from outside of Australian IP addresses, whilst avoiding the loss of the inherent right to privacy that is mutually necessary in a democracy.

Australians don’t have a right to free speech, but we do have the right to political free speech, I don’t see how people commenting or posting from an IP address outside of the Australian geolocation would fall under our right to that.

GrapheneOS?

Speaking of KPI’s, the other day I received a package from Amazon that had to be returned and I suspect it’s KPI related.

My assumption is that their warehouse staff KPI’s deincentivise putting on bandaids because the thing I bought had blood sprayed on it.

Got a refund, replacement & $50 credit.

Is the aussie.zone instance having trouble loading for anyone else?

Was a lot quieter than I expected.

Jacinta Allan has chosen not to step down, the Deputy Premier has declared a leadership challenge.

~The Age

Going through the settings in my GrapheneOS phone, it appears you can turn it off, but the government obviously wouldn’t want people doing so as it’d be off in a future emergency.

I thought it was today

Went with Reolink security cameras, cost double the megacorp brands for obvious reasons, will also VLAN isolate & eventually lock to VPN.

Had to unplug move some Ethernet cables while installing security cameras, should be fine now

what was that all bout

Yeah, if https://aussie.zone/ isn’t reachable at 00:00 then there is no automatic posting, the alternative is it keeps trying which risks the creation of multiple threads.

More often that’s the fault of Opticomm as I already have a local server rack, but sometimes it’s the lemmy instance itself.

It’s a close one, too bad it’s on Kayo!

Vic Public Transport to be free for the month of April

It’s the right thing to do, hopefully my already too busy and under-serviced line won’t be too much worse.

I’m just having issues with my Proxmox server atm.

@YarraByte@aussie.zone on a bit of a delay last night, sorry @TheWitchofThornbury2@aussie.zone.

My light switches don’t even work when it’s offline.

My Proxmox is acting up

Oops, hopped on a machine that was logged in as !YarraByte@aussie.zone

Spray bottle with fan does such a great job, optionally can refrigerate the water.