RiseUp is slow and intended for activists and the politically vulnerable. It’s not for poor people who cannot afford a $5 a month VPN. You will be fucking over people with much more legitimate use cases than yours if you start using it for torrenting.

Most of them are built around lazy algorithmic feeds like this. It’s very hard to search for specific things, you’re just expected to eat whatever they serve up to you.

I’m not sure about the medium-term future, but in the short-term you’ll still be able to install APK files after the changes go through. Google is retaining installation via ADB for now, and applications like anyapk make it so that you don’t need to plug your phone into a PC and open up the terminal.

It seems to be a fairly common problem on cheaper/mid-range headphones with plastic builds. I had some Shure SRH840s about a decade ago and they broke in a very similar fashion, but it was too difficult and expensive to repair them. Since then, I’ve only bought headphones that are fully modular and user-repairable. My main pair is the AIAIAI TMA-2 Studio, I’ve replaced several parts on them over the years (including the headband which lasted a long time but eventually broke last year).

This is how I feel as well lol

I’m willing to jump through some hoops for messaging services, assuming all my friends and family do the same, but for just general social media I am perfectly content to wave goodbye. It is so far from being an essential part of my life.

Mine broke yesterday. The headband base part unfortunately has a weak point and can snap out of nowhere under very minimal force (e.g. taking the headphones off your head, as happened to me). Hopefully it’s an issue Fairphone has looked into and fixed, mine were a secondhand pair purchased a year ago so I’m not sure if there have been changes made since (seems maybe not, based on this recent thread). The replacement part appears to be exactly the same, but unfortunately because I’m in Australia it’s too much money and effort to get two (it snapped at the same time on both sides) sent out via parcel forwarding (which, to be fair, I knew when I bought them). Hopefully I can 3D print some replacement parts because they are really good headphones otherwise, especially for the price I paid.

Soulseek is amazing, it’s by far the most comprehensive music piracy tool I’ve used.

Correct!

A fair point, I should have specified former member of organised crime. Especially since they still seem to care about their standing with current organised criminals.

Your second sentence is what’s important. It doesn’t matter whether he was previously a member of an organised crime gang and if you’ve seen his reporting you’ll know his stories are very unique within Australian journalism because he has so many contacts and so much trust. The ABC was right when it said, “Mahmood Fazal does extremely challenging, impactful and important public-interest journalism for the ABC…”. He’s not a reporter than can just be 1:1 replaced by some generic journalism degree graduate.

The real problem is that it seems like he still has more than just connections to that world, which is putting himself and others at risk and compromising his professional integrity as a journalist. You definitely can’t have an active participant in the crime world working at the national broadcaster. However, it’s important to remember the guy making all the accusations is untrustworthy so we will need to wait to see how much is true.

I convinced my “non-techy” partner to try Firefox after a fresh OS install and she had zero issues adjusting. I wouldn’t even call it an adjustment in fact, she just continued using it the next day and never ran into a single problem. A lot of the reasons she still used Chrome were just down to complete misconceptions about how to use a web browser, like thinking she needed Chrome to be signed into her Google account or that she would lose all her bookmarks and stuff if she switched. I also got my mum to switch last year - again, the only reason she used Chrome was because she was confused about the difference between Google Chrome the web browser and Google the search engine. Google has a monopoly on these people without doing anything deserving with their product, it’s just pure marketing and market dominance.

Modern smartphones are so over-engineered.

It’s frustrating that this Labor government is so cowardly, because with the Coalition being a complete shambles now is the perfect time for them to actually look at big social services reform. We are well past the critical mass point with so many stories like yours.

“There’s nothing people need to do right now. From late October 2025, we’re contacting impacted people,” the spokesperson said.

So if we “owe” you, you’ll hound us with debt collectors until we kill ourselves, but if you owe us it’s just “trust me bro”?

Betoota Advocate being employed by Labor makes this less funny than it otherwise would be.

The biggest invasion to people’s privacy is generally through the apps and services they use, not the operating system. If you don’t switch to FOSS and privacy-respecting alternatives wherever possible, you’re not actually gaining much from changing the operating system. So whilst I do try to prevent as much tracking as possible at the OS level, it doesn’t trouble me that much. The loss of some privacy is worth being able to use any phone, at least for me.

gottem

Ilandar used Confusion!

It’s super effective!

Having been behind a couple of these modernization efforts, no one ever likes them. People complain every time but the user testing doesn’t lie.

The people who complain about everything complain every time. Most see the new website, think “cool” or “where did everything go?” and get on with their lives. Places like reddit and Lemmy are disproportionately filled with complainers, because most people don’t care enough to get online and moan about every little thing in life. They are actually out in the world doing and enjoying things. This is why every single live service game subreddit is full of 24/7 whining from the same people. The majority of the playerbase is happily playing the game while these people are crying on social media.

Are you guys all boomers or something? The old website was absolutely terrible and well overdue for an upgrade. It desperately needed a version that scaled well and was accessible for mobile users, since that is how we access the internet in 2025 (inb4 irrelevant anecdote about yourself). The only bad thing about the new one is that they’re still insisting on this cringe “The Bureau” branding.

Yes, I’ve wondered exactly the same. Will that be millennials like me (not actually me though lol) in another decade? Again, a lot of the polling so far suggests that us and zoomers move to the right slower than previous generations, but we are still young enough for a big shift later in life. I do feel like there is a certain age at which men often become quite grouchy and stubborn, which are conditions that can lead them down the right wing populist rabbit hole.