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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It might help if the media didn't continuously frame this like a two horse race

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Microwave ovens are also non-ionising. Non-ionising radiation can cause things to heat up, but lacks the subtle damage that ionising radiation can do.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Mobile phone radiation is non-ionising. There is no known mechanism for it giving you cancer. Regardless of mechanism there's ample research on the topic, and no sign of a link

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How about Usenet (1980)?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Despite the headline, this is being done by Thunderbird, not Mozilla

Thunderbird is completely independent of the Mozilla Corporation, the makers of Firefox. But the Mozilla Coperation[sic] supports Thunderbird by hosting many of the Thunderbird infrastructure and resources.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-faq#w_who-makes-thunderbird

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Harvesting personal information while impersonating official electoral comms.

While they technically have the right authorisations on them, the envelope and postal vote form I received could easily be mistaken as official from anyone not paying 100% attention.

According to the article the websites both take all your information then redirect you to the actual postal voting registration, potentially leading voters to think they've already submitted for a postal vote when they haven't.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Mozilla doesn't run Thunderbird

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I really hope this doesn't impact the client too significantly. A substantial part of why I use Thunderbird is to keep out of these "ecosystems".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

In essence keepass is an open database format and a bunch of different software tools have been written to interact with it. You can quite happily share the same keepass database between different software, e.g. synced between desktop and mobile

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

We import all sorts of fringe political positions from the US.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

You might want to wait until after the May election to see whether Australia is immune to the rise of fascism.

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