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by ajdlinux 8y ago
While this legislation is not well-drafted, it's got some giant flaws, it was passed without consultation, and (at least from my non-extremism-expert point of view) it won't do a huge amount to stop the rise of extremists (whether
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
Media reporting appears to suggest that number includes the supermarket chain they now own.
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
Note that they're also New Zealand-based - I don't know the numbers but I wouldn't be surprised if average retention there is a bit higher than the Bay Area. (Someone correct me if they have stats that say otherwise!)
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
> Surely kids still try to make gunpowder I'm in my mid-20s, having grown up in a jurisdiction where home fireworks have been banned for many years. Apart from my year 9 science teacher, who let off an explosion down one end of the
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
Right, and then after making that initial assessment, I'm going to guess they didn't just stop walking, write out and sign the incident report and pull out the radio to let the station know that they were pretty much done here and
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
> Doesn’t seem like a great way to tell the age of a skull. Going to take a guess and say that a brief glance at the teeth is probably not the _only_ age determination method they applied before determining their course of action.
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
As much as I want to, I also like not being a jerk to my friendly local cafe owner who's already busy enough without having to figure out how to do a web presence.
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
I do notice small businesses using Facebook in lieu of a website - I find myself having to check Facebook to find today's specials menu at the two cafes I normally buy lunch from...
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
Indeed - the Talos machines are the first new PPC desktops in quite a while. The IBM POWER CPU series is far from dead, just post-Macintosh / PS3/Wii/XB360 consoles, it's not really something you see in the consumer spac
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
There's still a reasonable PPC Mac/Amiga hobbyist community, many of whom will tell you about how much purer PowerPC is compared to the evil ugly x86. As someone who does PPC Linux kernel work the pragmatic part of me would like t
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
It's very confusing reading tech career advice when you come from a company where "staff engineer" is one level above incoming grads and "senior engineer" takes 10 years...
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Nasa's flying telescope SOFIA chases down a moon shadow(abc.net.au)
4 points by ajdlinux 8y ago|1 comments
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
> People respond well to things that make them feel safer, regardless of whether they're actually safer So as privacy advocates, what do we say if we see a highly intrusive surveillance system that does make people actually sa
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
There are plenty of use cases where the host you're connecting to isn't completely untrusted but rather it's semi-trusted. Web hosting provider, university machine, etc - all multi-tenant environments which have a tendency to
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
Yes, it's a bad law. Yes, in large part that's because it's vague. No, it's not so vague that it's impossible to figure out any limits to the implications for service providers. The worst vagueness is in specific ar
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
Most parts of the Amendment Act have come into effect as of the day after assent (9 December 2018). The fact that they get this wrong is probably a good indication of how much you should trust the rest of their analysis on how this may affe
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
Or, alternatively , maybe it's just not true that you need to do this, because maybe the law doesn't work how most software engineers automatically assume it does, and maybe it doesn't apply based on citizenship... (It&#x2
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
Not to denigrate the hard work of developers (particularly open source developers) who work on very complex application software like Thunderbird, but software designed for regular users needs to cope without cleanup scripts. (Yes, yes, I k
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
> The items mentioned above should be done periodically, not just once While helpful advice - if you need to do this manual maintenance regularly, the application is broken.
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
I have ~1 million emails in Thunderbird. The GUI thread often gets blocked waiting while it's trying to open messages. Search is horrifically slow. This is on a fairly decent ThinkPad X1. One day I'll finally take the plunge and j
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
Thunderbird struggles with managing and searching large mail archives in a way that Gmail doesn't. I use Thunderbird for a work email account, and its GUI thread regularly gets blocked while trying to search or open messages. To be fai
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
Sure, the FISC isn't amazing from a rule-of-law and transparency point of view. But it's still a court made up of judges whose day jobs are serving in the regular courts, and if you compare the amount of public literature, legal a
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
The Director-General of ASD vs a Huawei employee on Twitter today: https://twitter.com/MikePBurgess/status/1065375012125761536
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
I'm a Blendle user as well, and I really love the concept - the main thing I would like is integration between Blendle and the original publication site, because people post links to the original newspaper, not to Blendle...
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
While this might be technically true, my impression has always been that Fellows are still viewed as above DEs, and paid more, and there are absolutely Fellows working on the engineering side of the business.
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
I'm in the Linux Technology Centre - we've got an extremely strong open source culture over here.
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
I'm a current IBMer, and there is a process for getting CLAs signed - it's a bit bureaucratic if it's not a CLA for a company we already work with, but otherwise IBM has no problems with contributing to projects like that.
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaser_APEC_pranks
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Federal MP inundated with complaints about ACT drone delivery trial(canberratimes.com.au)
2 points by ajdlinux 8y ago|0 comments
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
And conversely, that idea didn't even occur to me, in the slightest , when I read those tweets. To me it's crystal clear that it's an expression of indignation at three civilians being murdered by way of comparison to the ri

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