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[–] brisk@aussie.zone 4 points 2 hours ago

I appreciate that the author expended a whole paragraph making sure we didn't have any misconceptions about the plot of Face Off with John Travolta

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't this illegal?

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 4 points 7 hours ago

Two days ago Windows Update deleted my Linux EFI boot entry on another disk.

About a year ago an update broke Bluetooth so that I could never add or remove any devices. That had not been fixed last time I tried, several updates later.

About 5 years ago I was flat out unable to update Windows for 6 months, due to what turned out to be a bug when an unknown hard drive was attached.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

This reads like a showcase of why the chief minister and the CLP are unfit for government.

Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro led the charge by saying she expected the "usual offender apologists to criticise our efforts".

By the end of the week, the government had rolled out its planned changes, including bringing back spit hoods in youth detention settings and removing the principle of detention as a last resort.

Both are measures the royal commission into youth detention in the Northern Territory, sparked by a 2016 Four Corners investigation, explicitly recommended against.

So-called "offender apologists" were offered limited airtime within parliament house.

Ms Finocchiaro told a group of NT paediatricians who had written to her expressing "deep concern" over this week's changes that they were wasting their time.

The chief also sledged Opposition Leader Selena Uibo in parliament, saying while her party did not win the election, "she wins the award for being the biggest gutter trash politician in the chamber".

And an all-out "personal" attack on NT Coroner Elisabeth Armitage by Prevention of Domestic Violence Minister Robyn Cahill drew the ire of the sector.

Earlier this week, the ABC revealed more than 400 youths had been taken into custody at police watch houses during the first six months of the government's time in power.

They're totally unhinged.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 6 points 2 days ago

You may appreciate the Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License, though more alternatives are usually recommended.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There are already a bunch of them, including XMPP and Matrix which both implement Signal's double ratchet encryption (via OMEMO, in XMPPs case)

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago

Came here to post this. You need a very good reason to break with Dijkstra

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago

If you can't fine CoMaps at all, F-Droid has the anti feature "tethered network services" hidden by default. CoMaps is intending to remedy the anti feature

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's currently hit by the "tethered network services" anti feature, which is hidden by default.

They are working on removing the anti feature

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Why can't I find any of these (except frontend) going through the website?

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openhomefoundation/

 

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices. Not only is the company reintroducing new versions of old features which would allow police to request footage directly from Ring users, it is also introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices.

 

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/22369412

A discussion on Emergency Accommodation in South Australia, including first hand experience from the journalist.

 

A discussion on Emergency Accommodation in South Australia, including first hand experience from the journalist.

 

Mutual obligation is one of the last great shibboleths of Australian politics. Now the entire system is under scrutiny with potentially big implications for our welfare system.

 

When people think of Adelaide, they may ponder its good food and wine or its many churches. Historically, it was viewed as a well-priced place to live and work.

But years of surging property prices have made it less affordable than some of the world’s most famous cities, including London and New York, when income levels are factored into living costs.

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Snippets

People are not “placed” on the floor – that is what you do with bags, boxes and rubbish. But that was the word used by the Northern Territory police to describe the sequence of events to the media. Tragically, painfully, I think it says a lot.

Almost a million more people voted yes in the referendum than voted for the Labor party in the recent election. The combined Liberal National party vote was about half the no vote. While the majority rejected the voice proposal because they didn’t know, didn’t care or thought it was unfair, this cannot be mapped on to the political snapshot that the election provided. The referendum was not a proxy election. The door to meaningful, symbolic and practical recognition can and must be opened again.

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