rcbrk

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rcbrk,

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,

Easy with sudo apt remove --purge --allow-remove-essential --auto-remove systemd:

The predictable failure of things towards the end of apt running the above command. Still in a gnome terminal, but the apt script couldn’t even complete due to a bunch of stuff now missing

Uh-oh… a black vt on reboot, complaining that no inittab found…

:-D Time to go outside.

rcbrk, (edited )

It’s a talking-head video presentation on a well-known video publishing website.

Given your browser couldn’t show anything useful from that webpage, @kugmo offered a solution: just feed the URL into mpv, which happens to be excellent at playing audio/video from web pages if you also have yt-dlp installed.

rcbrk,

Siskin has been working well for some people I know on iPhone.

There used to be some settings you need to tweak, not sure how it is these days:

https://lemmy.ml/post/92538

Monal has also been getting some regular development and is worth trying out.

rcbrk, (edited )

Damn. 0.215 USD per round. (9mm)

rcbrk,

Is there a goatse version?

rcbrk,

Huh? Why not use K-9 or Fair Email?

They’re both excellent email clients.

rcbrk,

LineageOS still phones home to Google for most things.

Do you have a source on this? I thought LineageOS was completely de-googled now.

rcbrk, (edited )

Here’s an article with the main part of Keating’s address in a video at the top:

www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-15/…/102098142

Edit: Actually that clip misses so much of the meat of the matter. Watch the whole thing here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmgxAoa1n-8

rcbrk,

What’d be cool is if when you enter a URL the lemmy interface lets the poster choose an image or even cropped region from the linked page.

Spain orders Sam Altman's Worldcoin to shut down eyeball-scanning orbs due to privacy concerns (arstechnica.com)

Spain has moved to block Sam Altman’s cryptocurrency project Worldcoin, the latest blow to a venture that has raised controversy in multiple countries by collecting customers’ personal data using an eyeball-scanning “orb.”...

rcbrk,

That photo of Trump, Saudi King Salman and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi with their hands on a shining orb at an anti-extremism centre in Riyadh in 2017

rcbrk,

Huh. Whenever I’m in a situation where I have to use a laundry-powder/soap/shampoo/etc with fragrance: if I can still smell the fragrance then I figure it’s still technically dirty, so I need to keep rinsing.

rcbrk,

Excerpt from the communiqué:

[…] Specifically, this Communiqué analyses Australian government policy and the actions of individual members of the Australian Parliament to show that the Australian government and its most senior officials have both failed to prevent or respond to the genocide committed by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza and been complicit in the carrying out of this genocide in a manner which falls squarely within Article 25 (3)© and/or (d) of the Rome Statute of the ICC. The evidence compiled herein amounts to a reasonable basis for the OTP to conduct an investigation into such conduct of Australian nationals, and to seek the authorisation of the Pre-Trial Chamber for the same, alternatively, to consider the contents of this Communiqué in the context of the OTP’s ongoing investigation into the Situation in the State of Palestine.

Following 7 October 2023, when Palestinian militant groups led by Hamas attacked Israeli settlements and military installations, killing 1,200 Israeli civilians and military personnel while capturing over 250 individuals, Israel launched a devastatingly violent campaign against Palestinians in Gaza. Over 27,000 Palestinians have since been killed, and more than 1.7 million people in Gaza have been internally displaced. The Gaza coastal strip has been blockaded by the Israeli military, leading to food scarcity, sanitation concerns, the spread of communicable diseases, and widespread despair. Communications have regularly been cut, and the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have instituted a devastating bombing campaign that has almost completely destroyed Gaza’s residential stock, places of worship, food outlets, cultural institutions, and educational facilities. Concurrently with this material destruction, officials of the Israeli government and military have increasingly voiced their intention to “wipe out” Palestinians living in Gaza and have explicitly employed genocidal rhetoric consistently and publicly. As this Communiqué highlights, a wide range of respected scholarly and legal sources have determined that such circumstances amount to genocide.

Since 7 October 2023, the Australian government and individual government Ministers and political figures, such as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Defence Minister Richard Marles, and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, have provided explicit political, rhetorical, moral, military, and material support for Israel’s genocidal attack, despite their indisputable knowledge of the extent of the violent attacks. These actors have sought to provide political cover for Israel in international forums, justifying Israel’s bombing campaign as a legitimate right to self-defence that it does not, in fact, enjoy, and refusing to take any action that may positively contribute to stopping the genocidal campaign in Gaza. The Australian government, and its individual members, has, moreover, taken actions that further aggravate the ongoing genocide in Palestine through its cessation of funding for vital aid and humanitarian support. […]

The rest of the document makes for a well-referenced timeline on the actions by various Australian political figures in relation the the recent Israel-Palestine conflict.

rcbrk,

Despite writing to the station’s management, Keith Loveridge did not succeed in getting the air quality data.

He received this response from the then-CEO Phillip Walker.

“You seem to be under some impression that we are compelled to provide information to you – that is not the case, we are a privately run organisation and as such we correspond with you out of courtesy not necessity,” Mr Walker wrote.

rcbrk,

AUR has just as much ability to fuck you over as piping curl to sh as an installation method.

Check your PKGBUILDs every single time and make sure you (still!) trust whatever repos it’s pulling the source/binaries from.

rcbrk,

As long as there’s no cream in it, we’re good.

rcbrk,

Conversations on Android and Siskin on iOS.

One non-techie parent has Siskin running on their iPhone and it hasn’t skipped a beat in years of messaging using omemo-encrypted XMPP. For servers, they’re on tigase.im and I’m on conversations.im.

Here’s a guide on optimum siskin settings; I don’t know if defaults are better now or not.

Conversations.im is free on fdroid but it’s well worth paying something to the developer directly.

rcbrk,

👍 Fuck lawns. Grassland or gtfo.

Beetles and lepidoptera ftw.

photo of a largeish yellow-brown beetle with fan shaped antennae another photo of the same beetle, held between thumb and forefinger

rcbrk,

It started as a joke, finished as a journal entry.

rcbrk,

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,

You’re not supposed to handle them in Australia either, due to Australian bat lyssavirus:

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