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7y ago
It's curious that RHEL/CentOS 8 is using nftables instead of iptables by default and yet the next release of Fedora will continue to use iptables.
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7y ago
Yahoo.com DNS servers are currently timing out all requests from where I am (for the last 15mins at least).
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7y ago
Unless you live in Townsville, Queensland which currently has high unemployment and a new coal mine scheduled to be constructed nearby.
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7y ago
Not suprising given the article only mentions one city council doing this.
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7y ago
As the recent federal election clearly demonstrated, the proportion of Australians who 'hate the current leadership' is a lot smaller than previously imagined.
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7y ago
Australia exporting coal to India and China is far more likely to be having climate change impact than anything it might be doing domesticaly in terms of power generation.
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7y ago
Not to mention superior sound quality! I've been listening to classical music on Spotify and it sounds awful to my ears using headphones, even with so called HD audio enabled.
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8y ago
>> Everyone is self-interested > Is there a citation I can refer to about this statement? 'The Book of Life', page 1
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8y ago
This article pertains to North America. In Australia there is less distinction between crows and ravens. Australian crows/ravens are infamous for their loud and obnoxious call precisely timed to interrupt your afternoon nap!
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8y ago
Here's an explanation of the 'aural boxing' technique used by the planes to find each other: http://www.navworld.com/navcerebrations/mayday.htm
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Why I Prefer Dynamic Typing Over Static Typing (2017)
(smashcompany.com)
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8y ago
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8y ago
Sure, go right ahead - just don't be self righteous about it. Don't become what you hate in that other person.
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8y ago
It's a great temptation to point the finger at 'those filthy rich people over there' but to someone else you and I are those filthy rich people. Let's all have an attitude of gratitude, and not forget that wealth isn
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8y ago
The example cited in the article is from Windorah to Birdsville (379km) - Google were estimating 11hrs. This has since been revised to 7hrs 47 however locals claim they do it in about 4hrs.
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Google Maps incorrectly estimating Australian outback trip times
(abc.net.au)
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8y ago
> The upper-eye bias is much weaker at a 90-degree rotation. "Ninety degrees is too weird," said Davidenko No kidding! I'm trying to imagine someone talking to me with their head tilted completely to one side.
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8y ago
I guess that rules out any chance of a port to Wayland.
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8y ago
> There is always one. No, not even one ;) Seriously though, it seems that every time I switch on to any news or current affairs show, they're talking about the gender wage gap. So clearly a lot of people are interested in this.
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8y ago
I was interested to see that the top 10 earners are all male.[1] I wonder if this is merely a reflection of greater male patronage of Youtube generally but the topics that these top earners are focusing on are not all stereotypically male i
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Tutorial: Internet of Things
(youtube.com)
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8y ago
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8y ago
Slides here: https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/system/event_attachments/attac...
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Nettools: Net config libs for Linux
(youtube.com)
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Why you shouldn't jump on the SPF bandwagon (2005)
(david.woodhou.se)
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8y ago
> This is not gonna fly This response on the 'linux-crypto' list seems to agree: https://marc.info/?l=linux-crypto-vger&m=153310819905231
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8y ago
" In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. " - Genesis 7:11
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Australia's new e-health platform crashes as people rush to opt-out
(zdnet.com)
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To play devil's advocate - a personal anecdote: in a previous job, a newly hired manager announced she was pregnant and going on maternity leave in 6 months - threw our department into chaos. To me it seemed clear that in her mind, get
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9y ago
No explanation yet as to the cause, other than to say via Twitter: "The outage was not caused by a DDoS or any other type of attack." https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/970781128331214849
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Signal down worldwide for 2hrs
(github.com)
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9y ago
The Facebook page loaded fine for me in Firefox Reader View!?
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