Recognise the mass shooting for the tragic but extremely rare occurrence that it is, address the intelligence failures that led to the shooters not being discovered earlier, and leave protestors and lawful gun owners alone

Just gotta get them first before other people scratch up the discs. About half the movies I borrow from my library have read/write errors

This country has spent the last 25 years voting for policy designed to supercharge housing prices and sell out future generations. Even with our current crisis we still vote to drive prices up. No government with a plan to even stagnate housing costs has a hope in hell of being elected. Australians won’t have it. Besides younger and poorer demographics who walk through life knowing they’ll never own a house and that their peers want to keep it that way.

What do you need me to clarify?

Australia is also overwhelmingly against affordable housing. Being in the majority doesn’t make it right

This is pretty much every government’s response to a big sensitive data leak. Draft laws requiring companies to collect even more of it to be stolen

Yes all we need is a kneejerk reaction while the public is reeling from a tragedy

There’s a reason prices for everything increase after they announce inflation is up

See people here want gambling ads banned, but the PM has ties to gambling lobby groupa so the gov won’t touch it. But when it comes to laws nobody wants like giving cops more invasive surveillance power the government can suddenly expedite them at record speed. We live in a fake democracy

It was also the brainchild of an unelected American with CIA ties who for some reason gets to decide what we can and can’t see on the internet under the guide of eSafety

Membrane because I’m poor

I get where you’re coming from but it was all the result of user requests. People were asking Proton to make more services and apps for years

Not that I was planning to visit the US anyway but I guess this seals it

They’ll probably treat having no social media as suspicious even if it’s true and deny you entry

I just want LibreOffice not to be a sluggish bugfest on macOS

And I’m sure if citizens do anything to remove malware on their devices they’ll be criminally charged too 🤡

Pretty much. Iirc there are a handful of places in the US that allow license plate covers but it’s usually illegal to obscure it for any reason when driving on public roads

• You have to hand over a huge amount of personal info about yourself & others to estate agents when renting a property - which they then sell to advertisers & you have no opt-out
• Similarly, landords can require you to use a proprietary app for rent payments, which of course collects & sells your private data too
• Burner phones are effectively illegal (telcos are required to collect & retain ID of every phone number they register)
• Telcos and ISPs are required to collect & retain logs of all your activities for a minimum of two years
• In some cities police can detain & search you & your property for no reason, and require you to remove any facial coverings
• It’s illegal to refuse to hand over passwords to cops (6 years jail is the max term I think)
• Police can hack your device, take over your social media, delete or modify your data for an investigation, or survey any digital device if they “think it is likely to be used by someone subject to a warrant” (this particular bill was announced and then rushed through parliament in less than 24 hours to give the public as little time as possible to protest it
• Some social media sites (including github(wtf)) are now required to age-verify all users beginning next month. Which will obviously lead to mass leaks & breaches of private data which the gov will turn a blind eye to

This is Australia. I hate it here

Exactly. The lead dev can come across as frustrated or confrontational on his social media posts but really the amount of noobs criticising Graphene for nonsense reasons or repeatedly bringing up other ‘secure’ OSes to him that he’s already thoroughly debunked again and again like e/OS would drive me insane

This shit should be strictly opt-in. As much as I hate overbearing governments, they should’ve stepped in and made it illegal to use already collected data for a new purpose without first obtaining permission. What about people who lost access to their accounts or who’ve died or something?