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- Comment on Caged eggs to stay on supermarket shelves until 2030 as Coles abandons pledge 5 days ago:
“Free Range” is regulated, but the threshold is unusually low compared to other countries.
Pastured or pasture raised is a much stronger standard but as far as i can tell not legally protected.
- Comment on Australia’s highest court denies decorated Afghanistan veteran Ben Roberts-Smith’s final appeal 6 days ago:
The only Australian veteran to be convicted over war crime allegations in Afghanistan has been army whistleblower David McBride.
The former army lawyer was sentenced last year to five years and eight months in prison after pleading guilty to charges associated with leaking allegations of war crimes to the media.
It’s honestly hard to keep straight in my head how awful everything to do with this is
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- Marles insists Australia ‘not supplying weapons to Israel’ but critics argue ‘parts of weapons are weapons’www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 4 weeks ago:
In Australia: yes and it’s commonplace. But like 70% of our media is American so unsurprising.
- Comment on Lifehack 4 weeks ago:
This post is not about keeping shoes on
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 month ago:
You may appreciate the Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License, though more alternatives are usually recommended.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 1 month ago:
There are already a bunch of them, including XMPP and Matrix which both implement Signal’s double ratchet encryption (via OMEMO, in XMPPs case)
- Comment on Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst 1 month ago:
- Comment on The secret deal behind the teenage social media ban 1 month ago:
This missing key provision — called the “exemption framework” — had been previously described publicly by the government itself as being crucial to making sure that the law would “protect, not isolate, young people”. The exemption offered tech companies a way out of the ban if they were able to prove that their apps weren’t risky for teens to use.
- Comment on Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios 1 month ago:
Lots of software has credits, historically they were often hidden in Easter eggs. Small software still often credits their creators e.g. in the Help>about menu item.
But games are different, they are primarily an artistic pursuit.
- Comment on Can Australia reach its 2029 housing construction target? Data shows we’re already falling behind 1 month ago:
To hit the target we need about 240,000 new dwellings every year, and new data shows we are already falling behind. The most recent State of the Housing System report predicts we will fall short of the target by more than 260,000 homes, an even bigger miss than was predicted the year before.
I think I know what this is meant to say, but it sounds like we’re building -20,000 homes a year.
Nygaard also questions whether the 1.2m dwellings target will significantly impact affordability. “The housing affordability challenges is the greatest for young and newly establishing households, for migrants, low and moderate income households, and First Nations Australians.
“These are also the households that are least likely to be able to compete for new supply.”
This is something that always bugged me about first home buyer grants. They have always had a requirement for new builds since that’s what they’re meant to encourage, but that also means huge swathes of the people that could most benefit from the grant (because the grant can make housing more affordable), can’t take advantage of them (because new houses are out of reach).
- Comment on KDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from dead 1 month ago:
It’s an alternative shell for Plasma, so theoretically you should be able to do anything in it that you can do in Plasma.
On my Arch box it installed a minimal set of Plasma utilities to support it, which means my setup is still very limited (and I can’t turn off screen lock!), but I haven’t tried if it would change if offered a full Plasma install.
I can most certainly launch Steam, Kodi, Jellyfin etc.
- Comment on 8BitDo Pro 3 Controller Announced with Swappable Buttons, Available for Preorder 1 month ago:
It’s not replaceable? That’s disappointing. I expected better or controller manufacturers since they’re not space constrained.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 1 month ago:
- Comment on South Australia Government considers requiring developers to build bigger garages. The cost will be paid by home buyers. Whether they have a car or not. 2 months ago:
In some fields Malinauskus is more right wing than his Liberal party predecessor. Urban development is one of the big ones.
This is the premier who says “urban sprawl is not a dirty word”, totally killed the right to protest in South Australia and is dedicated to commercialising the parklands. But he did undo the insane privatisation of the rail system so he’s not totally blind to a good thing.
- Comment on Perspective 2 months ago:
They absolutely do, and you’re arguing for the opposite position of the person above you
- The motel time forgot. How the housing crisis hits our most vulnerable - Michael Westmichaelwest.com.au ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Australia’s superannuation regulator is worried about your fund’s spending. Should you be?theconversation.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 2 months ago:
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 2 months ago:
I don’t see anything in the document suggesting that, although there’s also nothing stopping companies from doing that.
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 2 months ago:
I don’t see anything in the document as written that would stop users who aren’t logged in from turning off safe search etc… Of course it’s in the company’s interest to interpret it that way, but I would think an honest interpretation based on the current document would dramatically reduce the user value of being logged in to a search engine.
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 2 months ago:
Interestingly apart from effectively mandating “safe search” on by default, this doesn’t appear to attempt to restrict users who aren’t logged in.
- Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s whytheconversation.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 19 comments
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 2 months ago:
Hey it’s me the fun ruined here to ruin your fun.
Nuclear Ghandi was mostly a myth until Civilisation V where it was deliberately programmed in.
Also the concept of an integer wrapping around below it’s minimum value is still integer overflow, just like wrapping above it’s maximum value. Underflow does exist in the context of floating point numbers, when a calculation produces a result too small to represent in the floating point schema.
Buffer overflow is putting more elements into an array than can fit in the array, therefore trying to write beyond the end of an array. They’re a super common form of vulnerability exploit, particularly in older programs written in C. Buffer underflow is when something consuming from a buffer consumes faster than it is filled, and so empties the buffer. I didn’t actually know this term before making this comment.
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 2 months ago:
The modern English word “bear” originally came from a proto-Germanic word meaning one of “brown one” or possibly “wild animal”. There was an actual name for bears, but speaking it was taboo in case it caused a bear to appear, so the euphemism eventually replaced the real name.
When I learned this originally, I was taught that the true name was lost to time, but Wikipedia just says it was “arkto” so whatever.
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 2 months ago:
Just like bears
- Comment on Australia's sunscreen showdown — and why SPF might be misunderstood 2 months ago:
That product description sounded to me like a mechanical (not chemical) sunscreen. Unlinke chemical sunscreens those tend to have a visible whitening effect when applied properly. Given that the Choice tests were blind and on human skin, I can imagine a scenario where it was “rubbed in” like chemical sunscreen until invisible, and gave the absurdly low score as a genuine result of misapplication
On the other hand, two independent labs getting similar awful results is damning.
It’s unfortunate the responses from these companies are mostly along the lines of “nuh-uh”. It’s good that there have been some emergency retests, but I would have hoped that someone would have worked with Choice to figure out what was up rather than just telling them “you did it wrong”.
