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by sjy 6y ago
I have been maintaining a PDF library this way using GoodReader for about 10 years now. You can connect it to most cloud storage services or any SFTP or WebDAV server, and sync annotations with Acrobat, Preview, Okular, etc. on the desktop.
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by sjy 6y ago
In my experience digital signatures are not widely used in “business processes” facilitated by people sending around PDFs. Most are signed with a pen and scanned, or signed by embedding an image. Such signatures have value as a signal of th
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by sjy 6y ago
Wayland was the default in Ubuntu 17 and is still the default in Fedora. I like it because dealing with multiple displays and tearing under X annoys me more than dealing with screen capture under Wayland. “Not really usable outside a very n
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by sjy 6y ago
Facebook and Google aren’t hard-coded into the law. The law applies to “designated digital platform corporations.” The executive government can add or remove companies from the list at “runtime” (without passing a new bill), but the explana
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by sjy 6y ago
2(a)(ii) is picked up by (b) and (c) because they refer to “such comments,” ie. comments as defined in (a).
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by sjy 6y ago
The text you quoted contains the carve-out: the comments must be “made on a part of the digital platform service that is set up and able to be edited by the registered news business.” If the text of a law is ambiguous or obscure, courts can
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by sjy 6y ago
I am sure they will fight to minimise their costs one way or another. Rather than challenging the validity of the law, another strategy might be to submit to the arbitral process and come up with a strong argument that, for the purposes of
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by sjy 6y ago
Google has a significant presence in Australia, including an office, many employees, data centres, and bank accounts for accepting payments from Australian customers. It would be very unusual for a company like Google to blatantly violate A
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by sjy 6y ago
It’s now been a year or two since various HN commenters proclaimed that Australia had “nuked its tech industry from orbit” when the new encryption laws came in, but that doesn’t seem to have come true. https://news.ycombinator.co
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by sjy 6y ago
The code would only apply to Google and Facebook, but may be applied to other digital platforms in the future “where fundamental bargaining power imbalances with Australian news businesses emerge.”
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"In the first instance, the Government has announced that the mandatory code of conduct will apply to Facebook and Google. However, the Treasurer may also make subsequent instruments in the future designating other platforms where fund
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by sjy 6y ago
If the system fails, and consequently newspapers fail, while tech companies thrive, how will that demonstrate to newspaper CEOs that big tech isn’t stealing their revenue?
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by sjy 6y ago
“Conservative” is consistently used to describe the right-wing party in a two-party system. It’s not a coherent ideology.
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by sjy 6y ago
The exposure draft doesn’t give Google/Facebook the right to opt out by “discriminating” against (ie. dropping) protected news sources. Refusing to comply with this could be punished with an infringement notice under Australian law.
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by sjy 6y ago
“Discrimination in this context will be considered to occur if the news content of a registered news business is disadvantaged in comparison to other news content in terms of the crawling, indexing, ranking, display, presentation or other p
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by sjy 6y ago
There’s a difference between a VM host with the technical ability to carry out a targeted MITM attack against its customers using hardware-level access, and a provider that sells MITM as a service.
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by sjy 6y ago
Portugal’s tax take as a percentage of GDP tracks pretty closely to the OECD average. France, Sweden etc have significantly higher rates. https://data.oecd.org/tax/tax-revenue.htm
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by sjy 6y ago
If you have enterprise IT who can disable WebRTC in your browser settings, you have a helpdesk who can whitelist approved video conferencing tools.
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by sjy 6y ago
The enterprise networks I’ve been on don’t give endpoints direct internet access. You can only access the web through an authenticated proxy. This forbids SSH, unless you set up additional infrastructure to tunnel it in HTTP.
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by sjy 6y ago
Needing to spend all day calling donors in order to stay in office sounds a lot like “special interests driving ... what the agenda is” to me.
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by sjy 6y ago
Doesn’t the system already work like this? The federal government is responsible for the things enumerated in the Constitution (accepting, as you say, that the scope of these powers has become wider in practice over time). The states are re
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by sjy 6y ago
They are “domestic dependent nations,” which are more like states than foreign nations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal_sovereignty_in_the_Unit...
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by sjy 6y ago
Surely the public (ie. non-lawyers) are a vanishingly small proportion of the people who read beyond the syllabus?
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by sjy 6y ago
The argument for reparations is not about punishment for past crimes. It is about remediating inequity that still exists today as a result of those crimes.
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by sjy 6y ago
“The great purpose is automatically to quiet all titles which are openly and consistently asserted, to provide proof of meritorious titles, and correct errors in conveyancing.” https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/19
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by sjy 6y ago
See page 31 of the paper [1] discussed in the article, under the heading "Harm to Consumers." [1] https://www.omidyar.com/sites/default/files/Roadmap%20for%20...
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by sjy 6y ago
Same here, but now when I run past other people using wireless devices the sound breaks up. Still probably better than a cable swinging around.
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by sjy 6y ago
HFP 1.6 does not solve the problem. Surprisingly, there is no solution [1]. HFP 1.6 supports "wide band speech with the mSBC codec," but this sounds terrible compared to the CD quality sound you get from the unidirectional A2DP pr
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by sjy 6y ago
So I’m told, and yet searching my mail from the iOS mail app over IMAP is slow and unreliable, so I use the Fastmail app, even though it is slower to launch. Have you found a mobile IMAP client that works? notmuch [1] looks like it would so
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by sjy 6y ago
I’ve never been able to search my entire mail archive quickly over IMAP, using Gmail or Fastmail. Mobile IMAP clients seem especially slow and inconsistent.

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