There was an email on Friday, UQ want the camps to leave as they are a distraction as the university heads into the examination period at the end of Semester 1. It seems that UQ don't want to budge on the Boeing relationship, so I doubt the campers will either. news.com.au has a dramatised article on the situation:
I think we need a video on why it would be a good idea, because I can't think of one (at least for the general public). I mean it is a good idea from the perspective of people with multiple properties and mortgages even on their own home because it will keep prices high
(Not me) Official video from David McBride's Official Youtube channel. If you don't know who he is - I don't blame you, with how little coverage this story has gotten
I find it amusing how confidently incorrect they are quoting some BBC article (because the BBC would have the best idea as to what is going on in Australia).
According to the affidavit, McBride wanted Australians to know that “Afghan civilians were being murdered and Australian military leaders were at the very least turning the other way and at worst tacitly approving this behaviour”.
He continued: “At the same time, soldiers were being improperly prosecuted as a smokescreen to cover [leadership’s] inaction and failure to hold reprehensible conduct to account.”
Riddle me this then: Why would he hand evidence of war crimes being committed to a journalist if HE wanted people to know that soldiers weren't committing war crimes?
That Four Corners episode came out fairly recently. Tell me, what motives would Dan Oakes, an investigative journalist with a reputation, have to disparage a whistleblower who is about to be prosecuted? I dunno, maybe he doesn't want to be the target of prosecution himself and distancing from him is protection?
Why do you keep referring to the BBC article? It's quite poorly worded and oversimplified for an international audience. You won't find many articles about David McBride's motives from before the case because he was secret then, the ABC gave him up.
David McBride is an idiot who misinterpreted what was happening as a defence lawyer investigating war crimes
War crimes happened
Commanders and Politicians aren't smart enough to cover up war crimes committed by PR exercises like Ben Roberts-Smith by investigating otherwise innocent soldiers
Or B:
David McBride is not an idiot
War crimes happened
Commanders and Politicians are smart enough to attempt to cover up war crimes committed by the likes of Ben Roberts-Smith (Australia's most decorated soldier, was used to 'sell' the war to Australians).
I choose B, but hey, you know better because of some random BBC article and an ABC hit piece
He couldn't have taken them to Spain: that wouldn't be responsible and he'd probably get busted. He could destroy the documents, but he wouldn't be able to take credit and try to drive up more awareness. Don't mistake intelligence for stupidity
I'm pretty sure he thought war crimes were happening, he just thought they were investigating the wrong soldiers to cover up for higher-ranking and more decorated soldiers like Ben Roberts-Smith to pretend that they cared about war crimes
Alon Levy, co-lead of the transportation and land use program at New York University’s Marron Institute, has spent years studying why some countries are able to build transport infrastructure cheaply and others aren’t....
The light rail makes sense on the Gold Coast as there are fairly well defined routes that need to be serviced by the majority of people going to the Gold Coast, i.e. tourists.
As someone who previously thought Airtrain was just some dumb marketing thing from QR, do they only get money if I catch the train to the airport or does it apply if I catch the Airport train, not necessarily to the airport? I'm assuming it's the former
This petition is part of the Stopkillinggames.com campaign led by Scott Ross (Accursed Farms), to end in Australia the practice of software licensors to render purchased software completely unusable at arbitrary points in time....
I'm a long time Windows user who has experience with WSL. Last year, I needed a laptop for university, and out of laziness, opted for a Macbook since, although they're expensive as hell, are reasonably reliable....
There's a lot of people here promoting whatever crazy niche distro they use and I'd caution against some of the options presented here. I'd recommend the following criteria when choosing a distro for development (depends on the development but I'll assume since you're study computer science something like Python, C/C++ where distro packages are important):
Up-to-date packages: You don't want to come across some bug in a library that was fixed 2 years ago or miss out on the latest features or standards
Stability: You likely don't want to rewrite your code to account for a major library update immediately because otherwise your code won't run - it also makes it easier to share with other people as you can target a specific OS
QA: Possibly having maintainers that keep an eye on bugs and packaging mismatches to create a coherent system is one of the greatest features of the Linux desktop. For example I had an Arch update stuff me around for an update where the maintainer of the CUDA toolkit package did a major upgrade without any coordination with the maintainer of the proprietary nvidia driver package, making CUDA unusable.
Here's a quick list of how distros fit these criteria:
Arch: (1)
Debian 12: (2, 3)
Linux Mint: (2, 3)
Ubuntu LTS: (2, 3)
Ubuntu 24.04: (2, 3) - Some packages weren't updated to their latest versions like KDE Plasma
Fedora Workstation 40: (1, 2, 3)
Fedora Silverblue 40: (1, 2, 3+) - My personal choice however, it's a bit different from normal distros, see below
NixOS: (1, 2) - You can define specific package versions but with the large repos I doubt there is much QA going on
Debian Sid: (1) - This is the development branch of Debian
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed: (1, 2, 3+) - Very advanced automated testing
Void Linux: (1, 2, 3-) - Claim to be stable rolling release, updates come slowly after some testing
Note on atomic distros and toolboxes/distroboxes:
I personally use Fedora Silverblue with a few distroboxes (basically docker containers you can interact with) for development (Fedora) and Steam (bazzite-arch-gnome).
With an Atomic distro the root filesystem is not mutable - you don't generally install packages there but setup an aforementioned container and install you're environment in there.
toolboxes and distroboxes are usable on any distro so your desktop environment and any applications like Steam, Firefox, etc. are able to be updated to a different cycle/philosophy to your development tools.
The main advantages of an atomic distro are:
Fast updates that you download while the system is running and on next boot you will immediately be in the updated environment (no need to wait for updates to apply);
Everyone runs the same configuration (or very close to) which is why I gave Fedora Silverblue a + in the QA category. This means you are less likely to come across rare configuration issues which are difficult to test (i.e. there is less entropy in the system)
The main drawbacks however:
It's a relatively new paradigm on the Linux desktop (despite being basically what Android does) so there's not as many people using Fedora Silverblue as Fedora Workstation.
Desktop environments:
On MacOS and Windows you only get one choice as to how the desktop looks and feels, here we have a few choices:
GNOME - the most popular choice and is the default for most major distros, with strong backing from major players like Red Hat. It implements a completely new way to interact with your computer borrowing behaviour from both Windows and MacOS. While not terribly customisable (at least not through settings, extensions can do pretty much anything), it's generally not necessary if you just want to focus and get stuff done
KDE Plasma: probably the second most popular choice, while not the default for the major distros there are versions like Kubuntu (Ubuntu), Fedora KDE Spin (Fedora Workstation) and Fedora Kinoite (Fedora Silverblue) which implement it. By default Plasma has a Windows like behaviour however it is customisable to behave pretty much however you see fit.
Cinnamon: Not as popular - used by Linux Mint to provide a familiar experience to migrating Windows users.
XFCE: Also not as popular but is a good lightweight option
Tiling Window managers - not a full dekstop environment like you would expect from the other options but provide a unique keyboard-based workflow making use of virtual desktops/workspaces and window tiling rather than floating windows.
I hope this comment is helpful for you, and the choices are really overwhelming - but worth it, and I'd recommend playing around with whatever you've got time to do to find what works best for you. If you're planning on running on an Apple Silicon based device most of these distro options are unavailable, I'd recommend looking into Asahi Linux based distros - don't use Manjaro as they aren't endorsed by the Asahi project
I've never actually used NixOS (I did use Nix once to save my ass on Arch because of the aforementioned CUDA thing which I will not let go), but my reasoning for it not having as good QA as Fedora Atomic Desktops is the large number of possible configurations to test for, as well as testing GUI programs. But I understand the way the project is being developed and designed with things like flakes there is certainly potential for much more stringent QA, however, it still feels a bit like an "in development" thing that's probably not at the stage where users can expect to use it without coming across things they can't do etc. (Not that Silverblue doesn't have that).
I was watching it the other day and someone came and waved at the camera. Craziest thing I've ever seen on there, but I didn't think about it for too long, if I did - I would miss the drop.
The generals get to choose which information is available to the court, but the generals also have the most to gain from McBride being convicted. It would surely be unconstitutional for the court to convict McBride as he cannot defend himself, surely allowing the High Court to overturn it? I don't actually know that much but this whole thing is BS, the media are actively avoiding it and the ABC and Crikey have decided to label him a culture war villain.
I usually have some respect for the Katters because they seem to do a really good job for their electorates, but this is a bit dumb. It just seems to be following the LNP narrative about crime in this state
Thanks for that I was going off the top of my head and must have conflated youth crime with crime. The Castle thing makes more sense than being being a film reference, still a very stupid concept. Does it mean we can have pools of boiling oil above our driveways, cannons along the fence, a moat a catapult? It's just dumb and a distraction from the real issues
I'm not sure it's worth the price they're asking though, especially if poor takes from Bernard Keane are common and not caught by editors or even checked for sanity
It looks like ABC must have changed the internal layout of their pages for whatever reason. It seems like the bot is just selecting the first block quote as the entire article.
On The Register for example it selects the div with the id #body. For ABC it seems that it looks for the class Article_Body which I can't find on that article. I might have a closer look later if I've got some time and try to get a PR in if it doesn't get fixed.
Thanks! I thought it might've been a wildcard thing but wasn't sure. They really don't want their articles summarised do they (or they're probably trying to discourage AI scrapers)
Absolutely could be the case with things with specific tasks. It's always a good idea to share what your development environment is so others can replicate and if they're using something a bit different they probably know what they're doing anyway
Worth a read, he's probably right. I don't think domestic violence is committed by evil men, no one is born evil. Something needs to be done about addressing the root problem
I went to an all boy school. Sexist and disrespect towards women and girls pretty much went unchallenged by the majority, it was mostly hidden from the teachers but they rarely would interfere. There was an instance in year 12 where one of the prefects made a comment which was pretty disgusting at a year level assembly, a female teacher who was there I had a class with later that day took issue with it as well. The comment was supposedly a joke, however it wasn't the sort of joke where it's intended to be funny because the view is stupid or outdated. I probably could've done something about it, but I think my discontent with the student leadership and the groups involved was already established so my voice wouldn't have carried any weight. At least it didn't when we brought other allegations against student leadership to the head of senior school in year 11.
I've got no idea what those people are doing now but I can only hope they've changed their views
Maybe they store the tracks in an uncompressed format to preserve quality. But you'd probably want to only use it for active projects to avoid the hike. Though there is potentially a conflict of interest there - as with any project that offers cloud storage. You'd have to see if a patch to reduce the file size would be accepted or not
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Why Super for Housing is a Bad Idea - Purplepingers ( youtu.be )
NOTE: Video sponsored by the ACTU...
Gina Rinehart demands National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait ( www.theguardian.com )
Streisand Effect, do your work!
If you're seeing this, I'm in jail. ( www.youtube.com )
(Not me) Official video from David McBride's Official Youtube channel. If you don't know who he is - I don't blame you, with how little coverage this story has gotten
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Cross River Rail to be renamed after Elizabeth II if LNP wins Queensland election ( www.abc.net.au )
Huh? It's not that big ( aussie.zone )
What open-source software would you like more people to know about?
‘The cheap option’?: why the Gold Coast may be on track to build the most expensive light rail in the world ( www.theguardian.com )
Alon Levy, co-lead of the transportation and land use program at New York University’s Marron Institute, has spent years studying why some countries are able to build transport infrastructure cheaply and others aren’t....
Airtrain negotiations back on after Bailey breakdown ( www.brisbanetimes.com.au )
Archive/non-paywall link.
Stop Killing Games Australian Petition - Open for Signature Until **20 May 2024** ( www.aph.gov.au )
This petition is part of the Stopkillinggames.com campaign led by Scott Ross (Accursed Farms), to end in Australia the practice of software licensors to render purchased software completely unusable at arbitrary points in time....
Moving to a Linux distro for dev
I'm a long time Windows user who has experience with WSL. Last year, I needed a laptop for university, and out of laziness, opted for a Macbook since, although they're expensive as hell, are reasonably reliable....
University of Queensland Palestine protest fury turns to Boeing ( www.news.com.au )
David McBride vs Goliath: chapter infinity minus 5000: sentencing. Come to Canberra Supreme Court May 14, 8am rally. #operation500 ( sh.itjust.works )
-> ALT: a Poster incl a picture of David with a x drawn over his mouth....
This kind of Legislation worries me...
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David McBride vs Goliath in a nutshell ( sh.itjust.works )
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Why are Australia's unemployment payments so inadequate? Experts say they have been deteriorating for decades ( www.abc.net.au )
it is what it is ( lemmy.world )
'I don't think it's that hard': The former cop who says he knows how to save more domestic violence victims ( www.abc.net.au )
India's Modi government operated 'nest of spies' in Australia before being disrupted by ASIO ( www.abc.net.au )
Roy was distraught when police seized his beloved roosters, saying 'I have failed as a father' ( www.abc.net.au )
Roy lost his roosters over a noise complaint, he's hoping the premier can intervene as he did with Molly the magpie...
Audacity 3.5 Released with Cloud Saving, Beat Detection, Pitch Shifting, and More ( 9to5linux.com )
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