• Chozo@fedia.io
    12 days

    Does the author assume that the reader doesn’t know what Australia is? “Australia! You know; the place with kangaroos, shrimps on barbies, and toilets that flush the other way around!”

  • eicker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12 days

    Australia saw smart glasses and said: what if Google Glass, but with better cameras and worse boundaries? A workplace ban is understandable where confidential data is everywhere. But calling it world leading feels premature: the real challenge is writing privacy rules that survive the next pair of glasses too, not just banning today’s model.

      • Geobloke@aussie.zoneEnglish
        11 days

        And the murder spiders, murder snakes, murder birds, murder fish and serial killers. I hate how we’ve been turned into the Bluey country, we have so much more diversity!

        • Tom Arrr@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11 days

          If it makes you feel better, we sold Bluey to the poms, and now they are making bank from it 😀.

          It’s the Australian way.

          • Geobloke@aussie.zoneEnglish
            11 days

            It does not

            That hurts as much as seeing Holden go under so Gina could make a few billion extra

            • Tom Arrr@lemmy.worldEnglish
              10 days

              That one hurt a lot, having been employed directly in their supply chain. We lost so much knowledge and talent just because the lnp hate unions so much

              • Geobloke@aussie.zoneEnglish
                10 days

                Not in the supply chain or even close. But it was an emotional hit especially being from Adelaide and knowing that the government didn’t think Aussies could build stuff any more

  • miraclerandy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12 days

    I see TimTams mentioned and I gotta say how good they are. If you haven’t tried them, you need to. So good!

    • myyass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11 days

      I want to try some Vegemite; don’t worry I have a large jar of Marmite in the fridge, I know what I want.

      • WindyRebel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11 days

        I’m an American that developed a taste for Vegemite the Aussie way with butter. I want to try Marmite now.

        • myyass@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10 days

          It’s pretty good and a good supplement. I, thankfully, can get it at the local grocery store.

  • ian@feddit.ukEnglish
    11 days

    “I went into the shop and said ‘do you sell pervert glasses? I wanna buy some pervert glasses’. So I bought a pair. And I was wearing ma pervies, and walking down the street. But they didn’t work! Everything looks the same. All the people… no different! Still dressed. I mean. What are they supposed to do? Bloody waste of money!”

      • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10 days

        “An Hilarious”?

        I suppose they decided to add the word “hilarious” at the last minute, completely forgetting to change the “an” to an “a” before printing it.

        • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9 days

          It’s from the 1950s or 60s. Maybe it was British made, or could be whoever wrote the ad copy used the British convention of “an” before words starting with “h”.

            • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5 days

              It’s somewhat archaic or pretentious now, but I still hear things like “an hotel” on Brit TV from say the 90s.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    12 days

    As a fan of Aussie dash cams im kinda sad. I can only imagine the videos we’d get with Aussies walking around with a dashcam on their face.

      • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
        11 days

        To deprive us of watching crazy situations. I thought it was to stop pervs.

        • sqgl@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          11 days

          To be clear: filming without permission is legal, broadcasting is not. The moral panic is not going to be easy to translate into law.

  • ZidaneRick@lemmy.patton.id.auEnglish
    12 days

    Aussie here, I don’t think that this is a bad move at all. The meta glasses are at a price point that makes them rarely seen in the wild, however Kmart (yes it still exists here, but different owners) has recently had a sale of $20 “recording glasses” that can easily have their recording LED turned off and with a few modifications you wouldn’t even know they had a camera.

    I can understand them doing this in government facilities, as some won’t even allow you to have your phone in certain spaces.

    I do think with tigher guardrails (detection of environments, like if a set of meta glasses enter a restroom or what looks like a restroom it should disable recording entirely.) it could be allowed but we really don’t need to encourage kids that secret recordings are ok.

    • roundabout@feddit.orgEnglish
      12 days

      How would you implement it? On a glass that the user controls (root), it would be impossible. Of course, I do not like bathroom recordings, but there’s no sane way to block them.

      • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11 days

        Of course, I do not like bathroom recordings, but there’s no sane way to block them.

        sure there is, ban them.

        it’d be insane to simply throw your hands up and say ‘well can’t do anything about it’. stop giving the creeps better creeping tools.

        • roundabout@feddit.orgEnglish
          7 days

          And I would NOT be opposed to banning the glasses. I would be opposed to forcing nonfree AI on the users, because that would make them lose control.

          • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7 days

            I would be opposed to forcing nonfree AI on the users, because that would make them lose control.

            no one brought up this canard so stop distracting.

        • roundabout@feddit.orgEnglish
          7 days

          They are already mostly banned, but software is not the right way to enforce that.

          • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7 days

            but software is not the right way to enforce that.

            agreed, make them illegal to import and fine anyone violating that law.