This is the first comment about switching to Linux that makes me feel positively about the idea

While I don’t necessarily agree in this case, you did remind me of something Justice Kirby (an Australia Hugh Court (our highest court) Judge) wrote in his dissent in Carr v Western Australia.^1

“He was a smart alec for whom it is hard to feel much sympathy. But the police were public officials bound to comply with the law. We should uphold the appellant’s rights because doing so is an obligation that is precious for everyone. It is cases like this that test this Court. It is no real test to afford the protection of the law to the clearly innocent, the powerful and the acclaimed.”

^1 232 CLR 138, 188 [170].

Wait, you have to pay to use your phone as a hotspot?!

Particularly an issue when you’re googling an obscure software issue, you just get spammed with the same copy/paste “troubleshooting” steps. Which usually boil down to “reinstall this completely unrelated driver”.

Just reading this caused a small spike of ice cold fury within my soul

I remember on reddit once someone from the US complaining about people assuming their bar had EFTPOS machines/pay wave saying “You wouldn’t go to the grocery store without your wallet?!”

And me, in Australia just being like…but… I do? I almost never take my wallet with me to the grocery store…

(Although, because my student public transport card is the only thing I can’t put on my phone, going out for drinks is one of the few times I’m almost guaranteed to have my wallet) (also because I want to have backups if something goes wrong while I’m inebriated)

I needed to see this, just in general, today

I emailed MSI support to get a new hinge for my F key. They repeatedly told me the entire keyboard needed to be replaced. After several days of back and forth, and me assuring the support person that, no I just need the key hinge, and that yes, they could just send me the hinge and I could fix it myself, they relented.

Took 30 seconds and didn’t mean that a perfectly good keyboard be trashed.

Australia’s federal legislation making non-consensual sharing of intimate images an offense includes doctored or generated images because that’s still extremely harmful to the victim and their reputation.

Two relevant quotes from this article^{Paywalled link, I’m afraid}

A summary of the book the author (Dr Linsey McGoey) wrote on the subject: “billionaires who make their fortunes through corporate practices that undercut workers and deepen inequality — like corporate tax avoidance, insufficient sick pay and the immoral gap in pay between executives and low-paid workers — are not the solution to problems they generate.”

“Asking Bill Gates to fix inequality is like asking an arsonist to hose down your house after he just set it on fire. Philanthropists might have the deep pockets to fund the fire engine and water hose, but the money is coming from making our houses unlivable in the first place.”

How do you use it? I’m realising that I really need to actually figure out how to use AI

My whole childhood the Gates was touted as this super altruistic, good rich person who was all about charity. It was only after I found out about the whole Oxford vaccine thing (indenting my aside/rant)

Gate’s urged Oxford to exclusively allow AstraZeneca the rights to their vaccine “rather than sticking to the university’s own guidance that any deal it makes include non-exclusive and royalty-free licensing”, a deal with no guarantee of accessibility or affordability. Given that the vast majority of the funding of this vaccine was public funds…fuck that.

that I found out that the Foundation was always just a way to rehabilitate an image of ruthlessness I never knew he had. I guess it worked, given how he was discussed when I was growing up, but hopefully he won’t be able to do it again.

It’s interesting how different people interpret attitude in vastly different ways. Because where you (and others I’ve seen in other threads) find him smug and an asshole, I only ever found him to be extremely sincere and excited to learn and educate.

Although, I’d love to know what channels you watch that cover similar topics! Wasting time on YouTube doesn’t feel as unproductive if the videos are educational…

I swear I blinked and suddenly AI was so ubiquitous that I feel like I’m living, studying and writing incorrectly…

I started seeing them in Sydney, like 3 months ago but suddenly they’re everywhere and a store opened down the road from me.

And every time I see the name my brain pronounces BYD as “buy” with a “d” on the end and makes a stupid pun about purchasing one.

Yeah, plus it feels like the trends for my age group are just the trends from younger people, but with a slight delay

Thanks for sharing! I ended up following it up with the video this creator did on BluScutti and this top comment from BluScutti himself genuinely made me tear up a bit:

“Amazing video scout! Its amazing to be in one of your videos since your videos are what got me into the Tetris scene in the first place.”

Just fucking cool

Little pig boy comes from the dirt

I wasn’t disagreeing that it’s been called both; I just haven’t heard the other name in a decade or so. Probably a filter bubble thing.

The traditional name, Uluru, is what is commonly used in Australia.

(I’m genuinely not trying to be a dick, I’ve just not heard the British name used in decades)

Give me that quick save/load function