rcbrk 2 weeks ago • 53%
Should one sympathise with car-supremacists?
World News
For the first time, humans were exposed to a deadly combination of heat and humidity. Here's how long they lasted - ABC News
rcbrk 3 weeks ago • 100%
Reader mode exposes a much better headline:
Scientists testing deadly heat limits on humans show thresholds may be much lower than first thought
rcbrk 3 weeks ago • 100%
Privacy
Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
rcbrk 3 weeks ago • 100%
Most
people^1^, even in this very thread, clearly don't [...]
- Signal shill-bot personas.
Privacy
I got a new job. whatsapp group (20 people) is migrating to signal because I don't use it.
rcbrk 3 weeks ago • 100%
Privacy
I got a new job. whatsapp group (20 people) is migrating to signal because I don't use it.
rcbrk 3 weeks ago • 100%
Privacy
I got a new job. whatsapp group (20 people) is migrating to signal because I don't use it.
rcbrk 3 weeks ago • 100%
news
Thousands of construction workers strike over federal government's national CFMEU crackdown
rcbrk 3 weeks ago • 100%
One-Term Tony II
(Although the last one was more like "half-term tony".)
rcbrk 3 weeks ago • 100%
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!
LibreWolf rcbrk 4 weeks ago • 100%
Oh, I agree. I don't think it's a particularly useful reference page -- more of a biased agglomeration on a substrate of preconceived opinion, but the initial pile-on of downvotes without comments felt a bit like the usual Mozilla-fanaticism.
I tend to upvote posts not because I agree with them, but because I'm interested in people's responses to the ideas within them.
rcbrk 4 weeks ago • 100%
So many downvotes..
I'm only about 10% in (and just skimming), and it's a rant but it's coherent and well-reasoned.
Starts off as a dive into Mozilla's rank hypocrisy and doublespeak around privacy.
Melbournercbrk 4 weeks ago • 100%
ß or β?
Non-Political Memes
Punctuation is important.
rcbrk 4 weeks ago • 100%
MP Bob Katter would disagree that crocodiles are non-political: https://youtu.be/_ih1EuMLspY
rcbrk 4 weeks ago • 100%
What are your tips on glasses? I choose standard uncoated lenses nowdays after finding that anti-reflective/anti-scratch coatings often scratched easily or had an optically-rippled surface, but maybe things have improved?
Showerthoughts
If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?
rcbrk 4 weeks ago • 100%
The footwear, or the logic gate arrangement?
Facepalm
Privacy
I got a new job. whatsapp group (20 people) is migrating to signal because I don't use it.
rcbrk 1 month ago • 100%
If that's the main problem then that's easy to solve! Simply use a free public xmpp server.
I mention the self- and paid-hosting options because businesses tend to like having a sevice agreement backed by a contract, and may have additional specialised requirements not provided by free services (xmpp or otherwise).
Privacy
I got a new job. whatsapp group (20 people) is migrating to signal because I don't use it.
rcbrk 1 month ago • 100%
XMPP. A business can self-host, there are public servers, or there are many businesses which offer customised xmpp hosting as a service.
I can be federated with other xmpp servers or be a locked-down work-only service, or federate with chosen other servers (such as a client company's xmpp servers).
rcbrk 1 month ago • 100%
If you're having trouble getting dry chickpeas (or other dry legumes) to cook properly, sometimes it's not your process at fault, but the legume itself. The older the legume, the worse they cook.
Ideally <1 year since harvest, ok 1~2 years, tolerable 2~3 years; all depending on how they've been stored, too.
But yeah, nice fresh dry chickpeas, soaked for 12-24hrs with a pinch of sodium bicarbonate, should cook to a lovely texture without a pressure cooker in 40-60 minutes.
Possums
rcbrk 1 month ago • 100%
And how to make it:
Linuxrcbrk 1 month ago • 100%
An excellent discrete maths textbook for those missing the inclusion of the subject in the course: Discrete Mathematics - An Open Introduction, 3rd edition by Oscar Levin
Open Source
Disable shutdown when phone screen locked
rcbrk 1 month ago • 100%
Need some kind of fake power-down mode baked into the OS, which locks encrypted storage and switches on an unresponsive black screen tracking mode.
rcbrk 1 month ago • 100%
Some 4G phones don't support 4G calling correctly or with all networks.
Check whether your phone actually uses 4G (VoLTE) for calls -- to sort-of test this, make a call while connected to mobile data and note whether the signal meter's 4G indication drops to 3G(H+/HSPA) or something during the call.
A more insidious version of this issue is that some phones do VoLTE just fine, but only use 3G for 000 calls.
Some phones only support VoLTE with some networks. There's a chance that an appropriate firmware upgrade could add support for some network/device combos.
rcbrk 2 months ago • 100%
The part of an espresso machine where the water passes through the coffee. Called a brew group in the automatic machines (and they can get mouldy and horrible). Should at least remove the shower screen or filter screen from the group and scrub out the old rancid coffee tar with a cloth/toothbrush.
Pouring a shot of plain water should smell and taste like clean excellent hot water.
rcbrk 2 months ago • 100%
Figure out how to pull apart the group head to give it a good clean (at least removing the shower screen). All machines need that occasionally, work machines get absolutely rank.
Memesrcbrk 2 months ago • 100%
Jojo Rabbit is a good one.
Technology
After hitting a power-output milestone, fusion technology is ready to graduate from small-scale lab experiment to full-sized power plant.
rcbrk 2 months ago • 100%
Huh: 
Asklemmy
What life hack is so simple yet so effective, you're shocked more people don't know about it?
rcbrk 2 months ago • 100%
rcbrk 2 months ago • 100%
Arkenfox is a tool to assist setting up stock Firefox.
Australia
Rezoning = private profit?! (Couple loses property fight after highway swallows $5.5 million dream)
rcbrk 2 months ago • 100%
Yeah, I can never quite tell with articles sometimes..
Among many elements of the story that absolutely fail to raise sympathy:
[...] They planned to subdivide their block into 26 lots once the land was rezoned as residential, live on one block and drip-feed two or three others on to the market each year.
...just what we need -- a drip-feed of low-density housing.
www.smh.com.au
Tip of the iceberg when it comes to examining the corruption of land ownership in Australia. It's hardly talked about. The linked article doesn't even talk about it. The public as a whole (and traditional owners) should be the only financial beneficiaries of rezoning. I suspect private maximisation of rezoning profits is the reason behind why urban developments here are almost universally that awful single-story no-greenspace roof-to-roof packed suburban hellscape.
Lemmy Shitpost
This is ground control to Major Dumb...
rcbrk 2 months ago • 100%
Yeah nah, that's not the way. Sure people can get away with it, but it's really not eliminating the hazards.
- https://www.fnqsafetygroup.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/cutting-empty-drums.pdf
- https://www.worksafe.vic.gov.au/safety-alerts/explosions-when-cutting-used-fuel-tanks-and-metal-drums
There's a bunch of non-obvious hazards which exist around cutting into containers which have held fuels, including but not limited to:
- An empty propane container could have an gas+air mixture inside it in proportions which could explode.
- Any liquid residue in an empty fuel container can be vapourised by the heat of the cutting, creating a fuel+air mix which can spontaneously explode from the pressure and heat, even without sparks (think: diesel engine principle but instead of a 0.25L cylinder it's a 200L cylinder).
- An empty gas canister can be contaminated with heavier oils/waxes that could build up over the years of refilling cycles, creating the same hazard as noted for empty liquid fuel containers.
Methods to reduce the hazard include:
- Thoroughly washing the inside of the container before cutting (access can be difficult though).
- Filling with water and cutting while full of water. (Container musn't be sealed, and the cutting method must be safe to use in a wet environment, and further hazards such as introducing oxygen into the container need to be considered).
Programmer Humor
Do you have this guy at work? I do
rcbrk 3 months ago • 100%
ffs, every time someone from a community group asks me "Can you have a quick look at our basic website, we just need to change <reallySimpleThing>", and I'm like "sure, i used to do web development, let's have a look [...] FFFFFFUUUUUC...."
rcbrk 3 months ago • 89%
"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.
World News
Is Natural Gas a Fossil Fuel Trap or a Bridge to Clean Energy?
rcbrk 3 months ago • 100%
Science Memes
Academia to Industry
rcbrk 3 months ago • 100%
💩🤑🤖🚀
rcbrk 3 months ago • 66%
x.x.x.x))<ICMP>((1.1.1.1
Technology
After hitting a power-output milestone, fusion technology is ready to graduate from small-scale lab experiment to full-sized power plant.
rcbrk 3 months ago • 100%
Potatoes 🥔🧂🍟
World News
Two astronauts wait to come home as Boeing races to understand spacecraft issues
rcbrk 3 months ago • 98%
Huh. Even Boeing doesn't want to be associated with Boeing:
Boeing executives have repeatedly sought to make clear that the Starliner program operates independently from the company’s other units — including the commercial aircraft division that has been at the center of scandals for years.
www.commondreams.org
>[...] The 92-page document compiled by the legal team lays out a number of specific ways Albanese and other Australian officials have acted as an accessory to genocide, including: > > - Freezing $6 million in funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East amid a humanitarian crisis based on unsubstantiated claims by Israel; > - Providing military aid and approving defenee exports to Israel, which could be used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the course of the prima facie commission of genocide and crimes against humanity; > - Ambiguously deploying an Australian military contingent to the region, where its location and exact role have not been disclosed; and > - Permitting Australians, either explicitly or implicitly, to travel to Israel to join the IDF and take part in its attacks on Gaza. > >"The Rome Statute provides four modes of individual criminal responsibility, two of which are accessorial," [attorney] Omeri explained in a statement. [...] See also: Birchgrove Legal's [media release](https://birchgrovelegal.com.au/2024/03/01/birchgrove-legal-files-case-for-complicity-to-genocide-to-the-hague-international-criminal-court-media-release/) and [communiqué to ICC](https://birchgrovelegal.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ICC-Referral-Australian-Government-Ministers-and-Opposition-Leader-04032024_BLG.pdf)
www.youtube.com
>The Australien Government has made an ad about its Whistleblower Protection Laws, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. > >Take action: droptheprosecutions.org.au https://www.thejuicemedia.com/honest-government-ad-whistleblower-protection-laws/
Don't use Firefox, use Lynx. Better yet, boycott http etc entirely. Gopher or die. Why are you still using a backlit display? Pipe your terminal into a passive character LCD and go to bed when the sun goes down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsOaahWFfug Alt-ASCIIart image for those already on a 20x4 display (modified to fit in a 20x4 display): ``` text ╔══════════════════╗ ║Debian GNU/Linux ║ ║ttyACM0 Login: █ ║ ╚══════════════════╝ ``` This is your life now. Modern computing has revealed itself to be mostly unreasonable. Go outside; potatoes need harvesting, the birds are eating your tomatoes, and the chickens haven't been fed yet.
[@daniel@gultsch.social](https://gultsch.social/users/daniel) [wrote](https://gultsch.social/@daniel/111929678072451151) > Appealing the removal didn’t yield any result. Google just repeated the same statement "the app was removed because it uploads the contact list" without even acknowledging any of the arguments I made in the appeal. > > I understand that most of my audience here on Mastodon is more ideology aligned with F-Droid but the app sales on Google Play store have contributed significantly to me working (almost) full time on #Conversations_im. > > Without the revenue from Google Play I can’t afford this.
www.theguardian.com
Archived version: https://archive.ph/uKaZc Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20231219210750/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/dec/20/us-officials-monitored-pro-assange-protests-in-australia-for-anti-us-sentiment-documents-reveal
[Panquake](https://lemmy.ml/post/139820) have released some source code. Not for Panquake itself, but for a link shortening service. I suppose it's a brand-exposure exercise. https://talkliberation.substack.com/p/panquake-early-release-pnqk-now-available
www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au
www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au
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
www.reuters.com
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](https://lemmy.ml/c/fuck_cars).
> ActivityPub-enabled microblogs are gaining popularity as a replacement for Twitter, but ActivityPub is for more than just microblogging. Many other popular services also have open-source alternatives that speak ActivityPub. Proprietary services operated by commercial interests usually deliberately limit interoperability, but users of any ActivityPub-enabled service should be able to communicate with each other, even if they are using different services. This promise of interoperability is often limited in practice, though; while ActivityPub specifies how multiple types of content can be published, the kinds of content that can be displayed or interacted with vary from project to project.
peoplesworld.org
> JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP)—Indonesia’s Parliament unanimously passed a long-expected revision of the country’s penal code on Tuesday that criminalizes sex outside of marriage for citizens as well as foreigners, prohibits promotion of contraception, forbids progressive political thought, and bans defamation of the president and state institutions. > > The amended code also expands an existing blasphemy law and maintains a five-year prison term for deviations from the central tenets of Indonesia’s six recognized religions: Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism. > > Citizens can face a 10-year prison term for associating with organizations that follow Marxist-Leninist ideology and a four-year sentence for spreading communism. Anti-communism has long been a tenet of the Indonesian state. > [...] -- December 6, 2022; By Niniek Karmini
Description: - Fortune magazine headline "Europe's energy crisis sets its sights on another victim: Car manufacturing" (2022-10-12) - Jeremy Clarkson 2-panel "Oh no!", "Anyway." meme.
Excellent documentary on farmed and wild-caught fish regarding the effects of pollution, contamination, industrialisation, fraud, corruption, etc. Focuses mostly on human health issues, but touches on the relevant environmental and other issues too. TL;DW: Don't consume farmed fish. Don't consume big fish. Eat small fish. Alternative links: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=RYYf8cLUV5E
www.abc.net.au
**"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 [...]
> Victoria’s Department of Education [Australia] is expanding its monitoring of devices’ internal traffic from staff to students' own devices at a number of schools. > > The expansion will result in Zscaler SSL root certificates being installed on not only school-provided devices, but students’ personal devices if they connect locally to a school network. > >**The certificate allows student browser traffic to be decrypted for inspection, while still presenting to the user as if they were protected by HTTPS.** > > [...]
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/190491 > *Jacques Baud is a former colonel of the General Staff, ex-member of the Swiss strategic intelligence, specialist on Eastern countries. He was trained in the American and British intelligence services. He has served as Policy Chief for United Nations Peace Operations.* I'll let someone else do a tl;dr..
So, this is interesting. I wanted to find that essay by [@dessalines@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines) 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](https://lemmy.ml/post/81033). 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: - [DuckDuckGo "why not signal"](https://archive.ph/IeWpR) - NOTHING - [Google "why not signal"](https://archive.ph/j5tTb) - Plenty of results! Dessaline's essay is first up, followed by a plethora of discussions about the essay on HN, Reddit, lemmys, mastodons, and more. Not evil! ..this time. - [DuckDuckGo "why not signal" dessalines](https://archive.ph/09kpY) - Okay, so DDG has indexed it just fine. Maybe dessalines is "downranked" à la RT.com? - [DuckDuckGo "why not market socialism"](https://archive.ph/mKuAb) - Nope, finds one of dessalines' socialism essays just fine, half way down the page. All of the following except Gigablast returned a healthy list of results including the original essay: - [Qwant "why not signal"](https://archive.ph/T7EWn) - [Bing "why not signal"](https://archive.ph/MwiNa) - [Brave "why not signal"](https://archive.ph/4n1MA) - [Gigablast "why not signal"](https://archive.ph/Sjiwf) - [Mojeek "why not signal"](https://archive.ph/fRiUd) - [Startpage "why not signal"](https://archive.ph/7dhKj) - [Yandex "why not signal"](https://archive.ph/ffQLv) - [Paulgo (searxng) "why not signal"](https://archive.ph/ksOg7)
 gemini://cadence.moe/gemlog/2020-11-16-federation-and-its-consequences.bliz https://archive.ph/QvWU5
panquake.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/139820 > 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 >
panquake.com
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