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by shirro 11mo ago
Making money and complying with the law. They are obligated to do both. In many countries laws are still enforced. Protecting their app store revenues from competition exposes them to scrutiny from competition regulators and might be counte
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by shirro 11mo ago
It could have been. The platform got taken over by a very different culture and has tended to serve different purposes. The web solves problems that are almost impossible to properly solve with a terminal, particularly with rendering of mor
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by shirro 11mo ago
Yep. Years ago I got sick of listening to people who don't believe in climate change and emission reductions due to tribalism crowing about the solar pv on their holiday house and their incredibly low electricity bills while cost of li
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by shirro 11mo ago
Meanwhile also in part of Australia where the states public electricity utility was sold in a fire sale to foreign investors. The owners gold plate the network so they can get away with charging some of the highest electricity prices in the
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by shirro 11mo ago
Terminal emulators are caught between emulating terminals and teletypes of the past and implementing new features and unicode is one of the struggles. The way most terminals and wcwidth handle the width of characters sometimes is not correc
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by shirro 11mo ago
Sounds like one of those extraordinary popular delusions to me.
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by shirro 11mo ago
The US is in a recession when the AI bubble is taken out. So obviously jobs are in decline. Machine learning hires are up because there are billions of dollars in circular financing. While consumers are generally receptive to assistive mach
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by shirro 1y ago
I doubt the employees will make a difference. It is likely more about the lobbying power of Microsoft and them finding a person at the right level who is receptive to their appeals and has the power to revert the policy. There are a lot of
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by shirro 1y ago
UV doses sufficient to cause erythema, mild sunburn, will trigger programmed apoptosis(programmed cell death) and if you don't have some other sensitivity to UV and do have psoriasis (another chronic autoimmune disease) after the sunbu
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by shirro 1y ago
I think it is probably a bit of both. There are some compelling reasons to regulate tech companies for the benefit of society and I often have no issue with the intention. The problem is governments invite the industry to design the regulat
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by shirro 1y ago
Australia's phase 2 industry codes build on phase 1 which was blocking csam and terrorist stuff and are into the child protection phase with age assurance and content restrictions. There are draft documents across a range of services i
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by shirro 1y ago
While Google are capable of being evil all on their own I wonder if the regulatory environment companies are facing around the world is contributing. It is going to lead to increasingly restricted systems with less choice for consumers. I r
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by shirro 1y ago
With udm14 and ublock origin on Firefox my first link is the official midjourney.com, then the subreddit, then the official discord, then wikipedia, then the offical Facebook page. That is just about perfect and covers what most people woul
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by shirro 1y ago
When all the commercial software is backdoored the criminals are going to use open source alternatives. Suddenly all my devices, my family and the tech community are in the cross-hairs of law enforcement. I don't want to be one of the
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by shirro 1y ago
I don't remember having "range anxiety" under S3 suspend on my old intel laptops. It just worked and they woke up reasonably reliably and quickly under linux if you had a regular thin and light with integrated graphics. I had
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by shirro 1y ago
Docker/podman can be an NPM left-pad solution. Ideally you skip a lot of work by using prebuilt docker files. I think there are times when it is just as easy and safer to use a systemd unit file. Ofcourse it depends a lot on the applic
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by shirro 1y ago
I have always hated the mad scientist archetype in media because it feels anti-intellectual and unrealistic but then you consider Unit 731, Joseph Mengele and all the experiments on black people, children, prisoners and service people in t
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by shirro 1y ago
Hey, that recipe is worth trillions of dollars of investment, the destruction of the natural environment and the displacement of huge numbers of talented and skilled people. Show some respect for our billionaire class.
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by shirro 1y ago
Can anyone explain to me convincingly why Singapore is in the Global South on development and economic grounds? I suspect the Global South at least as far as Asia is concerned is almost entirely about global political alignment. Countries i
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by shirro 1y ago
Fair comment. These blocs seem kind of arbitrary, particularly when a modern, rich and highly developed society such as Singapore is grouped in with struggling war torn nations struggling with basic survival but they likely serve a purpose
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by shirro 1y ago
Yep, living in a de-industrialised, undiversified economy, second most southern in the global north I can only wish by kids had access to a Singaporean education. Regional politics is complicated. Australia needs to be in the ASEAN group. W
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by shirro 1y ago
It is almost the same area if you exclude Alaska but considerably closer to the equator. Cat-dog disappears when shown the right way up so I think the Europeans were right to draw their maps upside down.
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by shirro 1y ago
The thing I resent most is the terms Global North and Global South. It seems like an offensive classification no matter which side you are placed. China is an incredibly rich, highly developed industrial economy with a history that goes bac
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by shirro 1y ago
An Australian reporter recently asked Trump how much money he has made since returning to office and if it is ethical for a person in his position. His org got locked out of a press conference in retaliation and we get the mafia boss threat
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by shirro 1y ago
Kimmel discussed the political response to Kirk's death, not the man, which is a class move that respects his family and the law. I can't see the problem. How many companies, media people and politicians need to bend the knee befo
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by shirro 1y ago
I still often go to mc over a gui file manager whenever I am doing something isn't straightforward to capture with a regular command. Like moving a group of files that isn't related by name, date, size etc. There are more linux-li
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by shirro 1y ago
It might be a cultural misunderstanding. It isn't a big deal. It's tricky because while we are using the same language we don't all share the same culture and influences. Perhaps it is less common to say positive things about
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by shirro 1y ago
Australian indigenous women do in fact have a higher risk of HPV and cervical cancer than the general population. We do need to do better but we also face some challenges in delivering quality services to rural and remote communities. Achie
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by shirro 1y ago
For years everyone in the programming community has been pushing for convenience and features and code reuse and its got to the point I think the ease of adding a third party package from the languages package manager or github needs to be
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by shirro 1y ago
Good stuff. Australia has a target for eliminating cervical cancer by 2035 and ofcourse HPV is responsible for a large proportion of penile, mouth, throat and anal cancers as well. All my kids got free vaccinations at school. It is shocking

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