What is this?
A map of sausage and cake availability on election day.
I still don't understand
It's practically part of the Australian Constitution. Or something.
But how do you get all of the sausage sizzles?
We crowdsource (or is it crowdsauce?) data from social media, the web, and from the stalls that people submit to us on this here website.
To let us know about sausage and cake availability (or the absence thereof), the best method is to use the "Add stall" functionality on our website - you can submit as either a stall owner or just a 'tip-off' as appropriate. You can also contact us via our various social media channels listed below.
To make this work, we've also used Australian Electoral Commission polling place data (likewise from the state and territory electoral commissions).
Here in Argentina we have a designated polling station. It's assigned by the government and it's usually like 5 blocks away from my home. In Australia you can choose where to go? How do they handle duplicate votes?
Yes in Australia you can vote at ANY polling station.
If you vote outside your local area there is extra steps and you need to let them know. They usually ask everyone; “if you’re voting outside of area”, join this line.
Extra verification and proof is needed if outside of area. I think behind the scenes, the fact you voted out of area is communicated back to your area.
Voter fraud is very low in Australia. With compulsory voting of all ciztiens, the quantity of votes is very high. We have 98% of the population enrolled to vote fyi.
So with these quantities, the incentive of say double voting fraud is greatly reduced.
Surprised that no-one has already mentioned the impact of the BDS movement.
This is from January this year:
“McDonald's has missed a key sales target, partly due to customers boycotting the firm for its perceived support of Israel. The fast food chain reported its first quarterly sales miss in nearly four years due to weak growth in its international business division.”
These global corporations probably arrogantly ignored the impact of young people especially ceasing and boycotting any future support. Sure maybe this isn’t you and your friends, but whole families and friendship groups across most counties have hard stopped visiting McDonalds regardless of the time of day or the latest burger specials. FAFO.
It may not be obvious to those inside the US, but the rest of the world aren’t feeling any motivation to get behind all American brands right now.
I think this talk of a boycott is ignoring the "new" appointment of a CEO in 2019 which has been posting impressive year on year profit % increase, I think this growth ie catching up to them rather than talk of boycott
Severance quietly covers the topic. The conversations in season 1 on the Macrodata refinement uprisings and that big painting of the event come to mind.
For anyone with a basic understanding of a tariff as a measurable levied tax on a product vs inflation as a general measurement of price increases, this has to be one of the most wild and best example I’ve seen in many decades of Doublespeak as defined in Orwells 1984.
“Why didn’t Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years?” the White House press secretary asked.
The statement is delivered with authority but is utterly nonsensical.
Biden’s federal spending undoubtedly contributed to inflation. So will tariffs, just in a different way. So why suddenly start caring about prices and what influences them? It’s interesting how people develop this kind of analytical blindness, when they are presented with a fact which challenges their political preference.
Fascinating article documenting a clear challenge over multiple versions of Rails. My read on the subtext of the article is that these issues of proper SQLite support within Active Record won’t fix with a clever gem or quick script but rather need dedicated effort in the rails core.
What surprises me a little is that the article is written just now in April 2025 but makes no mention of recent developments in rails.
Specially I’m referring to the Rails 8 release. My take away from Rails 8 is that one of the biggest features is significant work towards making SQLite very much a first class citizen of rails, with significant focus on enhancin support for it across the stack.
The text below is from the announcement: “Rails 8 No PASS required”
“Getting SQLite ready for production
On top of the trifecta of Solid adapters that makes it possible for SQLite to power Action Cable, Rails.cache, and Active Job, a bunch of work has gone into making the SQLite adapter and Ruby driver suitable for real production use in Rails 8.
At 37signals, we’re building a growing suite of apps that use SQLite in production with ONCE. There are now thousands of installations of both Campfire and Writebook running in the wild that all run SQLite. This has meant a lot of real-world pressure on ensuring that Rails (and Ruby) is working that wonderful file-based database as well as it can be.”
Surely this work bears fruit for the challenges the developer speaks of here. Curious as to if anyone has further insight into what extent Rails 8 addresses the highlighted shortcomings and further if there is a significant gap what would be needed to have this resolved for Rails 9 which I expect is underway.
Not mention in the article was the birth of the thumb drive or “USB stick”. For me at the time that felt like a huge step up from the floppy disk, heaps more memory space, faster transfers and a device that was so easy to plug in at a size that could be added to a keyring.
I remember saying "as soon as I can get 1GB for under $100, I'll switch from optical media..", and then the day that finally happened. That seemed like a bargain at the time.
I’m guessing a few here have already come across the streaming show “3615 Monique” also called “Cheeky Business” that tells the story of a few college students in France who launched a sex chat on the Minitel. The show captures the vibe of the time and highlights tech related issues many of which have stayed with us as the internet has grown.
> In the France of the early 1980s, still marked by the Giscard years, Simon, Tony and Stéphanie embody a new generation ready to do anything to appropriate this new decade without knowing in concrete terms what they are going to be able to do with their lives. From the depths of their suburbs, their revolutionary idea will contribute to the sexual disinhibition of an entire country. 3615 MONIQUE is the story of the collaboration of these three students who, despite their enmity, will do everything to realize their crazy project and reveal it to the world. Little by little, without their realizing it, this collaboration will transform into a fragile friendship - made of passion, lies, betrayals and sex.
Cool service, difficult to use website.
On my iPhone random videos kept full screening as i scrolled down and the site was almost unreadable with Firefox dark mode on (I’m reading at night).
Ah I didn’t consider phone usage haha. Didn’t expect people to edit video using phones. It theoretically should work. But I’ll take a look and see if it’s fixable.
It should be mobile friendly now. I did do some quick tests. While the format support on mobile is super limited. It actually runs AI extremely efficient. Crazy how powerful phones gotten these days.
A few months ago I would have been excited and telling my friends. But no longer. I had long been an outspoken Firefox advocate in my city. Fix your trust issue.
I think a lot of that was just an out-of-control spiral of self-confirmation happening in comments sections that was at best loosely connected to actual facts.
I think that finally along last there's been some real push back against it and it's no longer acceptable to just say it as if it's going to be the presumed default narrative because it really depends on what you mean and a lot of the criticisms were kind of nonsensical and without any sense of proportion.
I still basically trust Mozilla, they're a force for good, and I'm happy to use their services and do what I can to contribute to them being profitable and a successful counterpoint to Google.
That's not my point of view at all, and I have little issue with what happened and have no concern about Mozilla and privacy.
The endless repetition of these comments is becoming spammy - they have nothing to say but the exact same thing again. We get it; you don't need to repeat it. It's like someone writing, at every opportunity, 'I don't trust Meta' and adding nothing more.
I probably say this too much too, but it feels like just a justification to keep using shiny Chrome. Even though the recent ToS fiasco basically had the same language as Chrome's ToS, and wasn't really as bad as everybody freaked out about. People still just find whatever excuse.
Like fine if you like Chrome, just admit you love Chrome because it's shiny.
Exactly. I just feel like a point that originally was reasonable (around 2016 or so) became the spiraling echo chamber that became increasingly nonsensical and increasingly divorced from rhyme, reason, causation, logic, or proportionality. Case in point, Google Chrome has pushed web standards to consolidate its control over the web, but Firefox hid a cheeky reference to a TV show in its code one time! Those are incredibly different scales of offense.
You don't understand why someone who uses Firefox specifically because of its stance on privacy would be upset that the ToS are being updated to be "basically [the] same language as Chrome's"? Chrome, as in Google, the biggest name in tracking and ad-tech?
I haven't used Chrome since whenever they started logging you into the browser when you logged into GMail, and I'm sure most complaints about negative changes in Firefox come from long-standing Firefox users.
But I do care about privacy, and other people do too. And I can read between the lines, and never take PR for fact. What remains is that Mozilla is looking for new cash, and sees selling user data as a solution for that. They want to call it differently, they want us to think it's all OK, but it's not. It's still better than other browsers though.
>I have little issue with what happened and have no concern about Mozilla and privacy.
Others clearly do, so your dismissing also ironically adds nothing like the comments you referred to. Those who continue to ignore Mozilla's enshittification over the years are part of the problem; as are normies who fall for their marketing about privacy. Spreading awareness about this is important, whether here or other online fora.
It's not spreading awareness, it's just spam at this point.
> is important
How is it important to take down Mozilla? How is it valuable - maybe do something constructive if you are concerned. Even if you don't like them, aren't there many far more important things to do? Can you think of bigger problems?
I still don't understand It's practically part of the Australian Constitution. Or something. But how do you get all of the sausage sizzles?
We crowdsource (or is it crowdsauce?) data from social media, the web, and from the stalls that people submit to us on this here website.
To let us know about sausage and cake availability (or the absence thereof), the best method is to use the "Add stall" functionality on our website - you can submit as either a stall owner or just a 'tip-off' as appropriate. You can also contact us via our various social media channels listed below.
To make this work, we've also used Australian Electoral Commission polling place data (likewise from the state and territory electoral commissions).
Democracy Sausage incorporates data that is © Commonwealth of Australia (Australian Electoral Commission) 2025.
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