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Internal emails show months of unheeded warnings from the OAIC about overstated privacy claims in the government’s age check technology trial, which didn’t technically test or assess the products against Australian law.

The prime minister addresses MPs on Mandelson on Monday.

He's expected to lay out what was known about the former US ambassador's vetting. The former head of the Foreign Office, Olly Robbins, has also been invited to testify to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee on Tuesday.

It's another week of last-stage bills.

Plenty for MPs to pass before the King's Speech on 13 May, which kicks off the new parliamentary session.

And we have a couple of ten minute rule motions.

One is on quieter road surfaces, the other on juries in criminal proceedings.

MONDAY 20 APRIL

Victims and Courts Bill – consideration of Lords message
Applies to: England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
A broad set of measures that aim to restore faith in the justice system. Allows judges to require offenders to attend sentencing, restricts parental rights for child abusers, and expands access to the Victim Contact Scheme so more victims can stay updated about offenders’ cases, among other things.
Draft bill (PDF) / Commons Library briefing

Crime and Policing Bill – consideration of Lords message
Applies to: England, Wales, Scotland (part), Northern Ireland (part)
A wide-ranging bill that aims to tackle antisocial behaviour, knife crime, assaults on shop workers, and violence against women and girls, among other things. Changes include giving the police powers to tackle antisocial behaviour by introducing respect orders, creating a power to seize blades found on private property, introducing a new offence of assaulting a retail worker, and banning AI models optimised to produce child sexual abuse material.
Draft bill (PDF) / Commons Library briefing

TUESDAY 21 APRIL

Road Surfaces (Maximum Noise Levels) Bill
Bans road surfacing materials that generate in-vehicle noise above a certain level. Requires roads that already exceed that threshold to be resurfaced. Ten minute rule motion presented by Melanie Onn.

English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill – consideration of Lords amendments
Applies to: England and Wales
A wide-ranging bill introducing more devolution in England. Introduces the concept of strategic authorities – a new, larger tier of local authorities areas – and gives them more decision-making powers. Returns mayoral elections to the supplementary vote system, reversing the move to first past the post under the previous government. Bans mayors from also being MPs. Introduces a Community Right to Buy, giving local residents the first chance to bid for community assets that come up for sale before developers can buy them, among other things.
Draft bill (PDF) / Commons Library briefing

WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL

Criminal Proceedings (Juror Absence) Bill
Allows criminal trials to continue where a juror is absent or discharged, as long as the jury doesn't fall below nine members. Under current rules, trials can be adjourned when juror numbers fall, which causes delays and increases costs. Ten minute rule motion presented by Sally Jameson.

Pension Schemes Bill – consideration of Lords message
Applies to: England, Wales, Scotland
A wide-ranging bill reforming the pensions system. Requires defined contribution schemes to prove they’re value for money so savers don’t get stuck in underperforming schemes. Merges small pension pots worth £1,000 or less into one pension scheme. Creates multi-employer ‘megafunds’ in an aim to drive down costs, among other things.
Draft bill (PDF) / Commons Library briefing

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill – consideration of Lords message
Applies to: England, Wales, Scotland (part), Northern Ireland (part)
Aims to remove barriers to opportunity in schools and make the education system more consistent for children. Measures include free breakfast clubs for primary schools in England, a limit on branded school uniform items, and strengthening regulation around social care.
Draft bill (PDF) / Commons Library briefing

THURSDAY 23 APRIL

No votes scheduled

FRIDAY 24 APRIL

No votes scheduled

PREVIOUS WEEK'S VOTES

Passed

• Type 1 Diabetes Screening (Children) Bill – goes to second reading
• Crime and Policing Bill – goes back to the Lords
• Creative Arts and Culture (Broadcasting Requirements) Bill – goes to second reading
• Pension Schemes Bill – goes back to the Lords
• Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill – goes back to the Lords

Click here to read details of the bills in last week's newsletter.

It just kinda makes no sense to me. How can you improve the framerate by predicting how the next frame should be rendered while reducing the overhead and not increasing it more than what it already takes to render the scene normally? Like even the simplistic concept of it sounds like pure magic. And yet... It's real.

So I run Linux for a bit now but I am still not fully confident with downloading "random" Appimages or .tar archives (I don't even know how to run/compile the archives but that is another problem lol) from Github or something.

I try to verify the hashes or GPG signatures for all the programs but not every developer provides a latest.yml.

I revently noticed sometimes Github shows a sha256 sum next to the files in the release tab but not in every repo and is this just a second layer or is this a substitution for the latest.yml?

Is there something I am missing or should I not worry too much when using Appimages or Flatpaks because they are sandboxed anyways?

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/50783981

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As soon as you walk out of Taipei airport you realise you are no longer in China. Taiwan feels lighter, messier - in other words, cosier. Full of Chinese culture, sure, but without The Party looking over your shoulder.

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By the way, I had borrowed the qualifier ‘favourite place’ from Ying, my Chinese colleague from Shanghai. Ying, daughter of a Party family in a provincial capital in China's interior, was along to Taiwan at the time as an interpreter. She really wanted to look around there.

She enjoyed the country, the food, the people. So free, so friendly, she concluded after a week of curious inspection. You can just walk into a courtroom, and see how justice is done. And in the parliament building, you can enter the public gallery!

On the pavement of parliament, we encountered another protest demonstration, in the form of a flat cart with farmers and banners for more support to the agricultural sector. I teased Ying with it. Kíjk, Chinese democracy in action - without the chaos!

Because that is what you are invariably told as a Chinese citizen back home: democracy is a Western thing that does not suit our culture. The West is slyly trying to impose it to cause chaos in order to bring our proudly resurgent China back to its knees. Whole tribes in China believe it.

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Behold the unique phenomenon called Taiwan: an island of over 23 million people who have been engaged in a pretty successful democratic experiment for decades, in a predominantly Chinese culture.

It is a vital reason why Beijing wants to seize Taiwan: China's supreme leader Xi Jinping simply wants to control the renegade province, as Taiwan is called. Just as The Party wants to control everything that can threaten its omnipotence, from the Chinese military and civil society organisations to businessmen, scientists, lawyers, journalists and the church.

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[Taiwan is] an independent island that can sustain a strong democracy and a strategic economy. That is why the Lai government is tightening ties with Japan, hoping to buy continued US support by building expensive chip factories in the US, and targeting Taipei for more European connections at every conceivable level.

We ask for support, but we also really have something to offer you, is the Taiwanese government's motto. This obviously involves state-of-the-art chips (TSMC also sets up vital chip production in Germany) but also drones.

The war in Ukraine has convinced policymakers in Taipei that it needs to quickly set up a large drone industry of its own that is no longer dependent on Chinese parts. Taiwan has a good fine mechanical manufacturing industry that can be used for this purpose.

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Whatever government emerges in 2028, the Taiwanese deserve all the practical support they can get from the Netherlands and Brussels. Also - especially - from politicians and policymakers from progressive, social-democratic circles, for whom Taiwan can sometimes still be a far-off theatre.

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Choosing Taiwan means not being afraid of Chinese intimidation - just ask colleagues from Lithuania and the Czech Republic how they do it there. And also: regularly go and see for yourself in Taiwan, among the nicest Chinese in the world. Let them know you see them.

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Beijing has been trying to pressure European countries in many ways to isolate Taiwan for years. As recently as last February, for instance, the Chinese consulate in Strasbourg tried to prevent the staging of a Taiwanese-German theatre production, by successively approaching the theatre management and the mayor of Strasbourg with the message that the theatre would damage diplomatic relations between France and China.

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Ich bin ja über diese Gemeinschaft auf das Wort Zangendeutsch gestoßen und habe ein grobes Bauchgefühl, worin der Reiz besteht.

Aber ich fänds spannend, das von anderen erklärt zu bekommen.

• Kennt jemand den Ursprung davon? Also wie ist das entstanden?
• Warum ist das lustig?
• Gibt es nicht das Problem von Missverständnissen? Und damit eine Hürde für neue Leute?

By Robert Ariail


Since private institutions, even the most reputed and expensive ones, are primarily concerned with catering to the job market and not with imparting knowledge with a critical perspective, what we have in effect is a destruction of critical thought, which means fundamentally a destruction of education.

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