[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago

The symbol referred to was displayed like so: A man in a protest crowd holding up a hand-painted placard in the style of an Israeli flag with a swastika replacing the star of david, and the words "STOP NAZI ISRAEL"

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

XMPP lacks good clients and suffers from fragmentation of protocol standards implementation

  • For Android: Conversations is excellent, also on F-Droid if you don't want to use the Google store.
  • For iOS/MacOS: Siskin or iOS/MacOS: Monal.
  • For Linux/Windows: Gajim or Linux: Dino.

"Protocol fragmentation" is not a valid complaint about XMPP -- it's like complaining that ActivityPub is fragmented; but that's not a problem: you use the services (Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin, etc) built with it which suit your needs, mostly interacting with that sector of the federation (eg, Lemmy+Kbin), but get a little interoperability with other sectors as a bonus (eg, Lemmy+Mastodon).

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago

Yet another moment since Labor's re-election where I think "Ooh, Albo's going mask-off!".

Please let's have minority governments, our electoral and political system is ideal for it!

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 months ago

"Current AI models cannot forget data they were trained on, even if the data was later removed from the training data set," Han's report said.

Bullshit. You delete the entire model and start again.

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago
[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago

Same. Otherwise it's dnscrypt on the router that's gone wonky.

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 months ago

Glossary for non-Australians:

  • Newstart: Unemployment living* allowance paid by the government / aka "The dole".
  • ATSI: Aboriginal and Torres-Strait Islanders (the many indigenous peoples of what is now claimed as 'Australia').
[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 14 points 8 months ago

Presiding Judge Bas Boele said there was a possibility the Dutch government could allow the export of F-35 parts to Israel in future, but only on the strict condition they would not be used in military operations in Gaza.

Oh.. That's okay then. /s

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There used to be a sign "helping" cyclists already on the freeway by telling them "cross here with care":

sign directing cyclists on the freeway to cross the merging lane at a slightly safer location

But it was obliterated by a vehicle:

same sign, obliterated by a vehicle

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

All around Vic, too. They generally don't even put in a bike lane, just say "use the emergency lane". Here's a sequence of images for one on the freeway in to Melbourne from Ballarat, starting from the onramp:

Onramp with sign declaring bicycles permitted on this freeway

Further along the onramp, sign saying to form 1 lane

also on the onramp, yellow diamond sign with bicycle symbol

sign beside the now-merging lane directing cyclists to ride on the shoulder

sign at the end of the merge, 110 speed limit.

This whole stretch of freeway is 110 km/h (70mph). There are skid marks where vehicles have bailed out of a failing 110km/h merge.

The shoulder is the emergency lane. It's where drivers pull over into if there's an unavoidable hazard ahead or their brakes are failing or something.

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Something from here, if you want an Android device: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago
  • Proxima by Stephen Baxter
  • The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
  • Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement
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medication rule (lemmy.world)
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Transcript:

[showerthoughtsofficial]: When medication says "do not operate heavy machinery" they're probably mainly referring to cars, but my mind always goes to forklift.

[sauntervaguelydownward]: It has honestly never occured to me that this warning was about cars and not construction equipment

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Meanwhile India's incredible train network suffers continuing decades of neglect resulting in poor performance and tragic rail disasters.

We need a fuckplanes community to complement !fuck_cars@lemmy.ml.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by rcbrk@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

"Mr Rolles was arrested in late June, when he was pulled off the street in Sydney for allegedly blocking roads and obstructing traffic."

Since late June, Greg Rolles must produce on demand his computer and mobile phone for police inspection, and tell them his passwords.

He is not allowed to use any encrypted messaging apps, like Signal or WhatsApp. He can only have one mobile phone. [...]

These are the strict technology-related bail conditions imposed on some Blockade Australia climate protesters — a development legal experts have criticised as "unusual" and "extreme". [...]

Defence lawyer Mark Davis, who is representing some of the Blockade Australia activists, said the vagueness of the prohibition was concerning.

"It used to name the things you couldn't have, and then they made it all encrypted communication," he said.

"It could be you're on your PlayStation."

He also takes issue with the non-association rules, and the lack of specificity about what an "association" might be. Mr Davis said one of his clients had been pulled in by police after they reacted with a "thumbs up" emoji to Facebook comments [...]

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by rcbrk@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

So, this is interesting. I wanted to find that essay by @dessalines@lemmy.ml outlining the many issues of Signal and suggested alternatives, but DuckDuckGo had nothing for me. Not on the first page, not on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th page.

I thought maybe I just imagined the title, but sure enough, on searching lemmy posts, it was right there. Then I thought "hang on, there's hardly a mention let alone criticism of signal on any page of those search results!".

Hmm.. the wording might be a bit ambiguous, but let's compare:

All of the following except Gigablast returned a healthy list of results including the original essay:

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submitted 2 years ago by rcbrk@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

Does anyone know what this thing is? Some kind of decentralized, open source, anti-establishment, etc platform aiming to be an alternative to twitter, but we plebs aren't allowed to see or participate in the development process or even see any source repositories yet.

To me there's a bunch of red flags, but I can't put my finger on what I reckon they're flagging. It's that combo of roll-your-own-crypto and promises of decentralization and secret-open-source-development-model all tied together with node.js and blockchain.

No mention of other decentralization efforts, their envisaged place/relationship with the fediverse, ActivityPub, Mastodon, possibility of extending their new blockchain protocol ideas with other platforms. Nothing even about how they're better than the fediverse or whatever.

They were banned from twitter tho so they "must be legit"? The slides on the "tech" page mostly have this "COMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE - NOT FOR UNAUTHORISED USE OR DISSEMINATION" watermarks, which is pretty weird.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/G08ek

https://archive.is/panquake.com

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