Matt Phipps

@Matt_Phipps

Legal Counsel at Telstra. Geek. Gamer. Christian. Dad. Views are personal. Satire is for everyone.

Melbourne, AU
Joined August 2010
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    21 hours ago

    Former PM ’s claim, that 400 white farmers were murdered in South Africa in the last 12 months, is baseless. New :

    , , and 2 others
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    Apr 3

    Despite the Prime Minister's insistence to the contrary NBN CEO Bill Morrow's early departure comes before major questions about the project's problems are answered. My view:

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    Apr 2

    8 yo: We're learning to make websites at school. Me: Awesome, are you using Google Sites or something. 8 yo opens a text editor and types in 6 valid lines of html. Me: ... 8 yo: Dad, why are you crying?

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    Mar 22

    1/ We asked for stories about age discrimination. A group of workers laid-off from IBM told us they suspected they'd been targeted by age. We’ve spent the last 10 months investigating. Their suspicions were warranted.

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    Mar 21

    Ok, now I'm beginning to see the playbook for Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. They will use this scandal to entrench their monopoly dominance. Any attempt to reduce their power through interoperability or limits on FB's use of data will be met with 'we have to protect privacy'.

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    Mar 21

    Pete Dutton wants a great big new tax on everything, because it turns out the doesn’t have the money to build that intelligence panopticon he wants at the centre of all things.

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    Mar 19

    We have announced Telstra Calling for Office 365, in partnership with , to deliver cloud based calling experience to Microsoft Skype for Business and Teams.

    In partnership with we're pleased to announce the launch of Telstra Calling for Office 365, a native voice calling service supported directly from Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams. Read the article:
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    Mar 17

    the year is 2045. Alexa overhears you make a problematic joke and immediately alerts the US Army. They make a vlog raiding your home and no scope sniping you in close quarters. It goes viral and a portion of the adsense revenue is donated to your families gofundme

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    Mar 16

    Oof.

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    Mar 15

    Gold medal gaming as Intel leads push to get esports into the Olympics from the globetrotting

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    Mar 11

    Your next pay rise is always just around the corner, always just over the horizon. Promise. Pinky-swear.

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    Mar 5

    Always amazed by people who complain that refugees 'might' access Centrelink payments of $18k/per person per year while 'our elderly/homeless/etc go without' but are FINE with taxpayers covering $300k+ per person per year for immigration detention.

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    Mar 7

    Make her feel special. My cartoon.

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    Mar 3

    If you're collecting personal data, "how should I protect this?" is actually your third question. "Should I collect this?" is only the second question. The first question is "what would the worst people do if they got hold of this?"

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    Mar 1

    Just to be clear The left is a graph showing the popularity of games for video games in Australian households. 67% of Aussies play games The right is a graph showing the levels of gun violence in Australia It's almost like there's no link...Or, if anything, an inverse relation

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    Feb 16
    Replying to

    Reminds me of this blog about 'visualising zero':

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    Feb 3

    SA Govt and Elon Musk know that Australia’s wholesale electricity market is dysfunctional. So they’re going to game it harder than AGL and Origin, to SA’s benefit.

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    Feb 1

    Furniture jokes! Today’s cartoon has an ibis in it.

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    Jan 30

    Extraordinary breach. Hundred of top-secret of documents were locked in a government filing cabinet. That cabinet was sold at an ex-government furniture sale. The cabinet was locked, so it was sold off cheap. The documents shows the inner workings of five separate governments.

    should have remained sealed for at least 20 years. Now these top-secret documents are yours to explore
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    Jan 30

    The Federal Government's response to the Senate report on the future of Australian games development, in one picture

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