gary

joined 10 months ago
 

I like to use RSS feeds to automate my lurking and reading, and its my favorite way to engage with this site. Unfortunately, they haven't been working for several months, which is disappointing and caused me to drift away. Please, get them working again!

Other Lemmy instances work - This is the only instance I attempt to subscribe to which runs into issues. That's not to say if its exclusive here, just that this is the only one I know of.

I use an instance of FreshRSS to read feeds. The logs say: Error Message: cURL error 22: The requested URL returned error: 403 [https://aussie.zone/feeds/c/australia.xml?sort=New]

I get a similar error message for other requested feeds on this instance.

Thanks.

[–] gary@aussie.zone 7 points 6 months ago

This feels like a law that should have been put in place like 30 years ago lol. Digital photomanipulation has been possible for a long time. Including tools like Photoshop's "content aware fill" feature that has been around for about 15 years, and could be used to conceal faults in photos with a few clicks by users with no experience.

Oh well! Better late than never I suppose.

[–] gary@aussie.zone 6 points 6 months ago

Hospitals must do better with birthing parents, but this shit isn't an answer. If I can be insensitive for one sentence, trusting somebody who calls themselves a 'birthkeeper' on social media fucking reeks of laughably obvious bullshit from my perspective as an outsider. I can only find sense in it, in the double whammy of psychological trauma and physical trauma from a bad hospital experience, especially during such an emotionally intense life event like giving birth. Having PTSD from an awful experience would make one vulnerable to medical woo, and its why hospitals must do better.

There's also a lot of anti-caesarean rhetoric, which is disturbing. I don't want to say its 'on the rise', as anti-caesarean rhetoric has been a long-running theme in pseudoscience. As the other reply to this thread says, its antivax nonsense applied to birth. I can concede discussions on potential medical over-reliance on caesarean might be worth having, but there is an ideologically-driven medical woo side who actively want caesareans to be a procedure performed rarely to never. Its part of the misogyny of medical woo, the slight possible negative impact caesareans have on potential future pregnancies matters more than completing your current birth safely. Antivax nonsense applied to birth sure, but also prolife nonsense applied to birth; protecting children who don't exist yet at the cost of parents actively giving birth and the children who are currently being born.

[–] gary@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago

Oh boy a High Score ;-p

Greens aren't gonna win in my electorate anyway, so Oh Well. I always put progressive independents above the Greens anyway, but was already going to give the Greens the highest vote out of all the major parties. This looks like a useful tool for undecided voters at least.