So… (spoiler alert for everyone who is only up to the June 2023 episode of APH in the Vice article):

In September 2023 the $10B housing bill was passed by Labor and the Greens.
Bit of a shame Labor held back for so long on the Greens amendments, but Labor did show here they can work around the inevitable delays of robust parliamentary discourse by approving interim funding for housing in June to get things started while the details of long term funding were nutted out the crossbench.

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On EOS’s website the R400 is described as “Lightweight 30mm lethality with precise mobile engagements up to 2 km” and “a high-precision weapon platform with the firepower of a 30 mm cannon”.

“The R400 also supports other weapons, such as machine guns, automatic grenade launchers, and anti-tank guided missiles. It is compatible with other EOS weapon systems through ‘plug-and-play’ functionality.”
[…]
An accompanying photograph shows Israeli Defence Ministry officials and industry representative standing behind an R400 system, which is the same image included in the EOS “Market Development Update” provided to the Australian Stock Exchange. An image of the cream and black weapon, set against a white background

The R400, manufactured by Electro Optic Systems (Supplied by the company, EOS)

In response to questions on whether EOS sought approval to demonstrate its R400, a Defence Department spokesperson insisted Australia had “not supplied weapons or ammunition to Israel since the conflict began, and for at least the past five years.

“As the circumstances of the conflict have evolved, the Government has calibrated its approach and has only approved new export permits to Israel for items for Australian defence and law enforcement that will return to Australia,” the spokesperson said.

“Defence has also been undertaking a process to scrutinise the pre-existing export permits to Israel. These pre-existing permits were all approved before the conflict began and none of the permits relate to weapons or ammunition.”

Asked whether it had sought permission to export the lethal technology, and whether the product had first gone to the United States, an EOS spokesperson told the ABC that that the company “complies with all relevant regulations at all times”.

“EOS operates under the trade control regulations of the countries it is based in, due to the nature of its products and technologies,” the spokesperson added.

“That includes detailed regulations in Australia and other host countries where EOS manufactures products, like the United States.”

Greens Senator David Shoebridge says the involvement of EOS exposes the Albanese government’s “lies” that Australia has not supported Israel’s military campaign against Gaza, a position reinforced this week by the Prime Minister during a leaders’ debate.

“What we can see clearly here is an Australian made weapon in the hands of the Israeli military in Israel in January this year and I think that really puts the lie to these denials we’ve had from the Albanese government since this appalling conflict started,” Senator Shoebridge told the ABC.

https://archive.md/KFP1e

Australian Knitting Mills, or Australian Woollen Mills… not really sure what name they go by.

It’s run mostly by a bitter old knitting machine technican / wizard with poor social and marketing skills, and his partner.

Last time I knew anything was from ~2021 visiting their factory in Coburg to buy some socks and long underwear, at which point they were already looking at moving/retiring to the east coast.

Bob told me they were the original manufacturer of Explorers, before his business partner wanted to take things in a different direction, whereupon they split the business and we can see Australian Woollen mills kept striving for high quality but didn’t evolve with the fashions while Holeproof set fashion trends and sent machines overseas but gradually enshittified.

The pair of “Ultra thick hiking socks” are my most frequently worn socks and are still going strong since 2021: https://www.aust-woollenmills.com/shop/hiking-sock-ultra-thick-100-merino/hiking

No online ordering, just phone and bank transfer. If you’re gonna make a massive order I’d call them to confirm when someone will actually be there, at either their Coburg (8 Trade Place) or Collingwood (13 Hood Street) places. There’s a few phone numbers scattered around their website.

You’re all still suckling at the opium teat of corporate media, whether via torrent or not.

The replacement battery you bought in 2017 was the last of the genuine stock for that 2012 Thinkpad model. Now it’s only poor quality aftermarket. Maybe just stick with the existing genuine battery – its 47 second runtime should be enough time for AC loss to trigger a custom script to make it hibernate.

LoL, blue shirt has no persistence. Anger and giving up gets you nowhere.

• https://budgetlightforum.com/ flashlights et cetera
• so many automotive forums
• https://eevblog.com/forum electronics engineering
• https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/ audio, lots of diy
• https://www.finishing.com/ - metal anodising/plating/finishing. This incredible forum has been running since before the internet, originally a BBS.
• https://www.automaticwasher.org/ washing machines and dishwashers
• https://elektrotanya.com/ electronics repair

Step one: don’t publish screenshots of your credentials on the web!

Never Use Text Pixelation To Redact Sensitive Information:

Let’s Enhance: A Deep Learning Approach to Extreme Deblurring of Text Images:

We can only hope Charles takes the opportunity that would avail itself:

Tl;dr: TSMC

These are Australian elections – it is 100% paper ballots.

https://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/counting/

The starlink thing is just a backup link for communicating election-night preliminary count data counted by election staff at the booths. Then the ballots are transported to counting centres for the official count. Full legal results aren’t known for a couple of weeks.

https://github.com/Enegnei/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor

Whittaker’s phrasing is ambiguous. Could be read as expressing one of a number of things:

• The paper/article is misleading and distracting from meaningful threats to privacy.
• That the original tweet is using misleading accusations to distract us from the article’s revelations of meaningful threats to privacy.
• That Appelbaum’s authorship of the research is an unwanted negative association which undermines the attention deserved by the threats documented in the paper which are misleadingly justified as necessary by eg. governments.

It’s difficult to know without a better understanding of Whittaker’s position on the various matters at hand, so I don’t know.

• Discourse
• Zulip

What ideally I’d like is some sort of good encrypted email […], which can achieve decent Android integration. Proton apps are pretty useless to that effect […]

Don’t need provider-specific apps if their services use standard protocols:

• IMAP: Fair Email or K-9 Mail(/Thunderbird)
• CalDAV: DAVx⁵

Open Food Network is worth a look.

Their repository is available.

And how much of that “cycling infrastructure” mileage and spending is on easy yet expensive and useless examples such as along freeways, in islanded suburbs where calm backstreets should suffice, or just mystery unconnected segments?

Does anyone know of any studies on this?

Anyone can now provide that service. Why pay OpenAI when you can pay a different service who is cheaper or provides a service more aligned with your needs or ethics or legal requirements?

Really interesting proposal! To a degree the structure of Lemmy/Mbin/etc may be quite close to the categorising and moderating aspect, and might be a good place to start collecting URLs to crawl.

Each community could be considered analogous to a (rather chaotic) webring. When an instance doesn’t meet your moderation expectation, defederate; if a MengZi user wants to see search results from different defederated segments, use a MengZi instance that federates with both, or just have both plugged into a searx instance.

The categorising side of MengZi could be (from an activitypub perspective) like a very cut down version of lemmy –each webring/category being a community, each website being a post, comments disabled or limited/filtered to hashtags.

A webring could be a specific sort of category/community, where a submitted website’s url’s page must contain specific metadata definining its membership in that ring or it is automoderated and removed. Such a category could automoderate the url and title to be the default page defined by its membership metadata. Existing webring html element standards could suffice.

A website could be crossposted to other categories, including to other instances, even to/from lemmy or other compatible activitypub sites. If a (cross)posted post is not a url returning the correct mime type for a category then it can be automoderated and deleted; same for other arbitrary criteria a category could define.

A website/post on MengZi could be accompanied by relevant crawling metadata, even full search database data available via the api for sharing to other MengZi instances to save duplication of crawling effort while distributing the database.