[-] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago

Not the first, if he gets his way it will be a Banana Republic

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The article title (now?) has a second line which IMO is important to include in the headline. The whole title is currently:

Trump Named Delcy Rodríguez Venezuela’s Interim President and a US Partner in Governing the Country

Two Hours Later, She Publicly Rejected Washington, Called It an Aggressor, and Reaffirmed Loyalty to Nicolás Maduro

From the article:

US president Donald Trump said that Delcy Rodriguez had been sworn in as Venezuela’s interim president and had agreed to act in partnership with Washington—effectively allowing the United States to run the country.

“In essence, she is prepared to do what we believe is necessary to make Venezuela great again,” Trump said.

Less than two hours later, Rodriguez, who had previously served as vice-president under Nicolas Maduro, delivered a televised address to Venezuelans in which she made clear that she regarded the United States as an illegal occupier whose actions must be rejected.

“We are determined to be free,” she said. “What is being done to Venezuela is barbarism.”

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 21 points 3 days ago

Straight up theft, then

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It turns out the difference between what devices work for 000 on Vodafone and those that don't is quite literally a 1.3 Kilobyte text file!

That's the 'fix'.

This file has the VoLTE 000 settings for Vodafone.
Whereas Optus and Telstra have had settings and support for the feature since at least 2017. 

Your device Does NOT need Android 13 or higher, nor a 'Custom ROM' (if on an older version).

Your device simply just needs a little more than the 1KB worth of settings for Vodafone's 000 'SOS' Network.

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Reportedly Vodafone is also now moving to a more restrictive device 'whitelist' blocking 'unknown' capability devices, including some phones recently sold at Officeworks!

Seems TPG/Vodafone is trying to improve how the list 'looks' whilst not actually addressing the problem and punishing consumers in the process.

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NACC boss Paul Brereton has a disturbing history of giving misleading information. How much more evidence of poor behaviour is needed for him to resign?

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If you’ve been around, you might’ve noticed that our relationships with programs have changed.

Older programs were all about what you need: you can do this, that, whatever you want, just let me know. You were in control, you were giving orders, and programs obeyed.

But recently (a decade, more or less), this relationship has subtly changed. Newer programs (which are called apps now, yes, I know) started to want things from you.

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Allowing the opposition to set the national agenda has provoked an absurd situation that is debasing national politics, stymying important decisions and distracting us from the issues that really need to be addressed to improve lives and opportunities – in health, education, the care sector, inequality, social cohesion, climate change and innovation.

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Police now want to drop charges against a man they arrested last year for wearing a F*** Israel F*** Zionism t-shirt. But the man, Andrew Brown, wants his day in court. Michael West reports on a big test for free speech.

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Related to a class action regarding privacy violations in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

You can apply if you:

  • held a Facebook account between 2 November 2013 and 17 December 2015 (the eligibility period)

  • were in Australia for more than 30 days during that period, and

  • either installed the Life app or were Facebook friends with someone who did.

Try this link to see if the company has records of you or your friends logging into the Digital Life app. If there are, you should be able to use the “fast track” application.

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[-] brisk@aussie.zone 77 points 11 months ago

Aw man, I'm on Diaspora and I didn't even recognise the logo.

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 204 points 1 year ago

Reminder that the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is made up and the types don't matter

The perceived accuracy of test results relies on the Barnum effect, flattery, and confirmation bias, leading participants to personally identify with descriptions that are somewhat desirable, vague, and widely applicable.[10] As a psychometric indicator, the test exhibits significant deficiencies, including poor validity, poor reliability, measuring supposedly dichotomous categories that are not independent, and not being comprehensive.[11][12][13][14]

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 98 points 1 year ago

Note to studios: there is no amount of potential, unrealised profit that makes it ethical to install malware on another person's computer.

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 166 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The inquest heard that due to shortages, only Officer B took a body camera that day, but did not wear it for any of the searches he conducted. He told the inquest his priority was “to get out of the car quickly due to the way Bradley was walking”.

If we ever want to be able to have a just police force, this sort of thing needs to be considered sufficient evidence of intent to commit a crime. Either you have a body camera on, or you are a civilian, not a cop

The whole the article is incredibly damning; an illegal stop, a "proactive policing" policy which can so obviously only ever lead to injustice, violation of the right to walk away, targeting without sufficient evidence, police lying about callouts on the radio

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 85 points 2 years ago

Who could have ever guessed that naming different software the same thing would ever come back to bite them

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 126 points 2 years ago

"You may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the output generated using SDK elements for the purpose of translating such output artifacts to target a non-NVIDIA platform.,"

This is literally a protected right in multiple countries, so um...

🖕😎🖕

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 90 points 2 years ago

The FTC argued this would happen, it's the court that swallowed Microsoft's tripe. This is the FTC's "I told you, bro!"

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 120 points 2 years ago

The US Textbook industry single-handedly justifies the existence of Library Genesis (if it requires justification)

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