[–] 3 points 13 hours ago*

They may have experienced covid lockdown in Melbourne. Most of us don't feel like we are under an authoritarian government

They're right that our constitution doesn't give us rights. Our rights stem from common law and convention

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  • [–] 2 points 14 hours ago*

    This is the relevant section of the article:

    "Prawo Jazdy" was an alleged Polish criminal supposedly active in the Republic of Ireland. The name was listed on PULSE, a computer system used by the Garda Síochána, with at least 50 traffic violations, including speeding and parking violations, recorded across the country, but there were suspicious aspects such as each incident being associated with a different address. "Prawo Jazdy" was also listed as a name on the Fixed Charge Processing System (FCPS). An investigation was launched into this person whom the Gardaí considered to be Ireland's worst traffic violator. An internal Garda memorandum in June 2007 revealed that, upon consultation with an online Polish–English bilingual dictionary, prawo jazdy was not a personal name, but instead the Polish term for 'driving licence', misidentified by Garda officers as the traffic violator's name due to the phrase being printed at the top right-hand corner of Polish driving licences (with the licensee's name and personal details printed beneath in a smaller text size). The error became public knowledge in February 2009. The Gardaí received the satirical Ig Nobel Prize in literature in 2009 for the mistake, but did not attend the award ceremony. The prize was accepted by Karolina Lewestam, a Polish philosopher and writer, and a "holder of a Polish driver's licence". The situation was a source of embarrassment for the Gardaí. It generated discussion on issues such as cultural ignorance or institutional racism within the Gardaí as a result of changing ethnic demography in Ireland due to immigration from other European Union member states. In 2013, a common format for driving licences was implemented for all newly issued documents across the European Economic Area (EEA), of which both Ireland and Poland are part.

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  • [–] 1 point 14 hours ago

    There's always gonna be a small little file on the drive telling the system how to use the drive or whatever. They should account for this, and make drives just that bit larger so you get the exact advertised capacity after that file is created.

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  • [–] 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 child)
    mkdir "
    "
    

    will create a folder with a new line as its name

    Edit, even more cursed:

    Running mkdir $'\e[2J' will create a folder with the "clear screen" escape sequence as its name, so entering it and running pwd will clear your terminal screen

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