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28 days agoOuch. Glad I don’t run Windows 11…
Australis13
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12·28 days agoNot sure this is oniony? Delulu was popularised by our PM and both tradwife and broligarchy have definitely made it into the political and social commentary lexicon.
That is deeply disturbing.
In the undertaking, Google commits to removing certain pre-installation and default search engine restrictions from its contracts with Android phone manufacturers and telcos.
This ought to be interesting. At least it will hopefully mean one less bit of bloatware on Android phones.
I’m not sure if this is petition is actually helpful. It is 4 years old and hasn’t been updated to note the renewed focus on this legislation: https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/the-eu-could-be-scanning-your-chats-by-october-2025-heres-everything-we-know
10·1 month agoDr Turni has also co-authored anti-vaccination papers with two other University of Queensland researchers, Dr Peter Parry and Dr Nick Hudson. None of them are medical researchers. Dr Turni specialises in agricultural microbiology, Dr Parry in child psychiatry, and Dr Hudson in agricultural metabolic biochemistry.
I wonder where these were published. Any reputable journal should have rejected them outright since the authors are speaking outside their areas of expertise.
National Fire Ant Program general manager Marni Manning said Dr Turni’s claims were not supported by credible science… Ms Manning said the University of Queensland should consider what impact Dr Turni was having on its reputation as an academic institution.
Also, how is UQ not jumping up and down over this? Universities have staff training that addresses exactly these types of situations (ethics policies usually explicitly mention not publishing outside one’s area of expertise) and they typically highlight how care must be taken to avoid connecting the university with personal views. At bare minimum I’d expect these academics to have had warnings from HR and the legal department as a result of this unprofessional behaviour.
I use Pi-hole, except that I originally retrofitted after setting up DNScrypt years ago to connect to Cisco OpenDNS. That’s not the only DNS server you can use with it, though, and it’s added more features since.
To use DNScrypt with Pi-hole on the same device, set DNScrypt to listen on 127.0.0.1:54 and point Pi-hole to that as the DNS server.
The only time I have ever had any trouble with this setup and DNS resolution is when the network is recovering from a power outage; there’s a race condition somewhere between the Pi and my modem/router that I’ve never found the time to pin down (given outages are so infrequent I just haven’t gotten around to it) and it’s easily resolved by rebooting the Pi.
Frustratingly I have just a few applications that are Windows-only and don’t work under WINE. I’ve filed bug reports but haven’t had the time to learn how to debug it myself, so am somewhat stuck dual-booting on one device for the near future (everything else is now Linux).
I know, but that year will be valuable for a certain family member who is stubborn and needs time to be eased into a new system. The problem is that now I have to set up a MS account for them just to get the extension!
Yes, I am likely to shift them to that as well.
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Family members have PCs that can’t support Windows 11 (not that I’d want them to get it anyway) and I’m not yet in the position to migrate them to Linux.
This type of behaviour makes me glad I’m most of the way to ditching MS entirely on my own systems.
Oh, there are definitely those that would take advantage of WFH arrangements, but on the whole the productivity increase from everyone else seems to more than offset them. I’d also argue that a lot of the issue should be resolvable through appropriate employee management without being invasive or too overbearing (e.g. many companies already have daily standups or weekly progress meetings as well as employee development processes which should make it obvious whether an employee has become less effective after starting WFH).
The irony is that that need for control is actually shooting them in the financial foot. There’s been a few different studies showing that the WFH and other flexible work arrangements (e.g. 4-day-work-week) increase productivity.
But yes, I agree it’s about control (as well as the investment in office space, often in the expensive CBD, which businesses hate the idea of not being used near capacity).
LLMs are being shoved into so many bits of software (office suites, programming tools, etc.) it doesn’t surprise me that something like this has happened.
Hopefully Newag (the manufacturer) loses this case. This is malicious design on Newag’s part.
As someone who grew up with wood heaters, I have to disagree with some of that. You are right that you need space to store wood, but maintenance is generally straightforward for many models of wood heater. “Costly” depends on your reference point - as the article mentions, cost of living and energy prices are likely pushing more people to use them, and if you live in a semi-rural or regional area, then you will often have a cheap supply of wood to burn.
It does take a little bit of practice to learn how to control the heat output, but most of this is understanding two things: 1) the lag between the firebox temperature and how rapidly it is burning wood, and 2) how different types of timber burn (lightweight timbers such as pine burn quickly, denser timbers like ironbark and redgum take longer).
The problem, as the article points out, is that one controls the fire (and hence heat output) by reducing the oxygen intake - which leads to incomplete combustion and a lot more particulates and pollutants in the air. Newer designs allow for more efficient combustion but still suffer the same basic problem.
Health bodies such as Asthma Australia and the Australian Medical Assocation want state and territory governments to ban new wood heater installs and phase out the existing ones in residential areas. But governments appear reluctant to impose such a ban.
If a ban is out of the question, then can we at least tighten the requirements on new installations (e.g. https://www.homeheat.com.au/wood-heaters/certified-wood-heaters/) and provide subsidy programs? As far as I can tell there is only one active one and that’s in the ACT: https://www.energy.gov.au/rebates/wood-heater-removal-program (Armidale NSW did have one but applications have closed.)
See also https://asthma.org.au/about-us/media/switch-from-woodfire-heaters-for-healthier-heating/
Yeah, that’s got my attention too. Definitely going to try them out now since I need an alternative for remote support for family.
This is definitely a decent starting point but not a complete solution, unfortunately. It’s not always cost-effective if you only want a few tracks from an album or need to import it to get it at all (or if it was a limited release it can be hard to find at all).