[–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

"the community taking over" is not the whole point behind open source.

There's plenty of open source projects that need 100s of developers with niche credentials and experience to maintain.

If mozilla dies, and that's the current trajectory, then ladybug or similar will be our refuge.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    only an Australian would brutally genocide a bunch of indigenous people

    Yes atrocities were committed against Australia's indigenous. You're welcome to talk about that as much as you like. I will however point out that colonists the world over mistreated the indigenous wherever they found them. That doesn't diminish Australia's culpability, but don't throw stones at glass houses or whatever.

    at least my direct ancestors aren't convicted rapists

    This one is an interesting one. While some of the convicts transported to Australia probably were convicted of rape, it was far less common than things like petty theft, fraud, vagrancy, prostitution, and that type of thing. Violent criminals just didn't make great colonists, and were usually executed.

    You'll find that most Australian's wear their connections to this era with some kind of pride. For example the first of my ancestors to arrive here was convicted of man slaughter. He had a drunken brawl in a bar and pushed someone down a flight of stairs, and they died. He was an accomplished clock maker, and worked on the mechanism in the town hall not far from where I live.

    He's the only convict in my lineage of which I'm aware, but I admit there may of course be one or more rapists unknown to me, but I suppose I share that in common with most people including your good self.

    My comments weren't intended to be a "country pissing contest". I was merely pointing out this particular interaction will be difficult to understand through the lense of American gun culture.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (5 children)

    There's some context here you might be missing.

    The hero points the shotgun at the murderer but it appears he either didn’t know how to use it or wasn’t prepared to shoot someone.

    There's a third option that would be lost on Americans but obvious to everyone else: seeing that the attacker was no longer an imminent threat, the guy chose not to execute him.

    The comment I replied to has a very American perspective, and its obvious to everyone who is not American.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Here in not-america we generally don't kill people who are not an imminent threat, like someone who has been disarmed.

    I've seen the video of the guy being disarmed and moving away towards the bridge, but not the part where he re-armed himself.

    Even if, in this particular case, the perp did rearm and injured more people, our hesitance to shoot someone who is not an imminent threat has no doubt prevented the deaths of many thousands of people over the years.

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Ah yes, disabled people are defective and should be cared for in special facilities for their own protection - lets call them wellness resorts. Also they should be prevented from having children and perpetuating their defective jeans. Also they should have to contribute to their own upkeep doing easy jobs like picking cotton fruit. Also depressed people are defective too soo....

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    I dont really know what the solution is.

    The harder you mandate it, the more people will get nutty about it.

    I do feel that anti-vax nutters are internalising the benefits of vaccinations (by benefiting from herd immunity) but externalising the risks (by enjoying healthcare when they get sick).

    In Australia unvaccinated kids dont get government support for things like day care or parenting payments et cetera.

    I employed a young woman who was earning $700 a week buy paying $500 a week for day care because they refused to vaccinated her. They were living on the husband's salary. It seemed pretty bleak to me.

    Like in Australia you need to save every dollar to buy a house or retire. Sure you can have a few baubles but no one can afford $25k a year for this kind of idiocy.

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    Australia’s high court has unanimously backed the government’s 2024 decision to refuse the rightwing provocateur Candace Owens a visa to enter the country.

    The full bench of the court ruled on Wednesday that the minister’s denial did not infringe an implied constitutional freedom of political communication.

    Last October the home affairs minister, Tony Burke, refused Owens’ visa application before a planned national speaking tour, arguing that she had the “capacity to incite discord”.

    Burke said at the time the US conservative influencer and podcast host, who has advanced conspiracy theories and antisemitic rhetoric – including allegedly minimising Nazi medical experiments in concentration camps – did not pass the “character test” to receive a visa under the Migration Act.

     

    I'm self employed. I need to record how much time I spend on whatever task for whatever client.

    Sounds simple, but I'm terrible at it. I always get to the end of the day without having recorded anything and not knowing what I've actually done.

    Basically, I'd like to create a text log of the active window title, and take a screen cap.

    I'd like to do this periodically as in every 15 minutes or so.

    For the text log I just haven't been able to achieve this at all.

    For the screen caps I can use flameshot to take a screenshot from the CLI, but it makes a sound and shows an animation which is sub-optimal.

    Any suggestions of where to look much appreciated.

    Edit: I'm not asking for a time tracking app. I want something to log the active window title and take a screen cap so I can figure out what I was doing and write it in my time tracking app.

    Edit: I'm narrowing in on a solution.

    Firstly, a lot of previously available solutions don't work because of recently implemented security features in gnome.

    You need to enter unsafe mode by entering the following in the looking glass tool (which you can access by running lg in the alt + f2 dialog):

    global.context.unsafe_mode = true
    

    thereafter, this can grab the active window title for you:

    gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell --object-path /org/gnome/Shell --method org.gnome.Shell.Eval "global.display.focus_window.title"
    

    ... and this can take a screen cap for you:

    gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell.Screenshot --object-path /org/gnome/Shell/Screenshot --method org.gnome.Shell.Screenshot.Screenshot false false /tmp/screencap.png
    
     

    I'm feeling a bit despairing filling out my ballot, because there seems to be so few candidates who have even a vague idea of what governance is supposed to be.

    You can see the candidates here:

    https://www.albany.wa.gov.au/council/council-business/candidate-profiles.aspx

    I haven't studied them in detail, but of the 24 I would say less than a third have "reasonable" platforms (even if I disagree with them).

    There's about 8 who are mask-off anti-trans anti-woke anti-dei MAGA dickheads, (and I suspect several more who haven't been as forthright about their views).

    The remainder are just hapless idiots who very clearly don't understand governance.

    Hopefully, the candidates aren't indicative of the opinions generally held by the populace.

     

    I probably have a pretty naive / 2 dimensional understanding of politics but, I just don't understand Nampijinpa Price.

    I'm not particularly well informed as to the plight of first nations peoples, but my understanding was that their interests are better aligned with progressive parties with social policies.

    From her wiki:

    Price's activism and views focus primarily on issues faced by Aboriginal communities, and she is a vocal advocate for conservative Aboriginal politics in Australia. She has highlighted the high rates of domestic and other violence in Aboriginal communities, and advocates for a law and order approach. She is critical of welfare dependency and "opportunistic collectivism". She opposed the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament, and thinks that calls to change Australia Day and the Australian flag are counterproductive to Aboriginal advancement.

    All of these positions are more or less the opposite of the positions I would expect aboriginal people to take up.

    The best I can surmise, is that her views are indeed a rarity amongst First Nations People, and because of that she's a highly desirable member for conservative parties to kind of have their policies "blessed" by a token First Nations Woman.

    Is it really that simple? Or am I missing something ?

    My Cargowagen (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
     

    Just wanted to show off our Cargowagen.

    We've had this for 9 months or so, and just ticked over 2,200km before taking this photo.

    The trailer is an unrelated brand "croozer". It fit's my twins nicely and has a max cap of 40kg. I swapped out the standard tyres for 2.5i squishy ones for a more comfortable ride - it's always going over kerbs and sometimes one wheel is off the tarmac.

    The bike was costly - about 8 weeks average wage in Australia.

    The furthest we have travelled in a day is 54km. That was about 90% of a single charge on one battery. The bike does have a slot for a second battery which I don't use presently.

    I do use it to drop the kids at day care, but by far most of the kms have just been cruising around. It's a great way to get some exercise, and get the three of us out of the house so mum has a break.

    Our twins are toddlers, about 20 months old. It's not easy to keep them entertained but they're happy enough to sit in the trailer for a couple of hours provided we take a break. They do love zooming around in this thing and are always excited when they see me starting to get ready.

     

    I'm looking for some kind of File Drop / File Upload service.

    I'd like to be able to create a folder, and create a share / upload link for that folder that I can give to a customer to use to upload their documents.

    I've been using nextcloud but I don't use nextcloud for any other purpose and it's a behemoth so I'd like to transition to something else.

    Some of these requirements are essential (!):

    • no login for customers uploading (!)
    • optional password protection for uploads
    • can't see / download files already present in the shared folder
     

    I can't decide the best way to secure our front loading washing machine.

    We have twins. They're fascinated by the washing machine. Lights, beeps, action... everything. One twin getting inside and their erstwhile companion starting the cycle is absolutely possible.

    Obviously we keep the laundry door closed but in a way you just build up the appeal. One of them has figured out how to open doors by standing on his trike.

    I could put some kind of stick-on toddler lock on the door but I worry it would be tough to establish the habit of closing the door and putting that lock on. Besides which surely it's nice to leave the door open to dry out between loads anyway?

    The washing machine does have a toddler lock but that's only to prevent someone changing the settings during a cycle, it doesn't prevent starting a cycle.

    My best idea thus far is a timer on the power outlet. So you turn on the power and set the timer to turn it off after however long the load takes.

    The problem with this is that I haven't been able to find a count-down style timer that allows you to set periods longer than 2 hours. Most power outlet timer thingies do schedules, not count-down.

    I know this maybe sounds like an easily solvable problem - just turn the power off when it's done - but that's just not how things roll in our house.

     

    Since the recent election there's a lot of commentary saying the Liberal party needs to reconsider its policies and re-align with its core values which, when enumerated sound very centrist.

    I just watched ABC's q&a, there was a few interesting points. There was a strong consensus that Trump style culture wars are toxic in Australian politics, and that it's unlikely future candidates would take that route.

    I don't want to gloat infront of the seppos, but I think what's happening during this aftermath is very salient for all of those "both sides are bad" Americans.

    In October last year there seemed to be a lot of users saying that they didn't want to reward the dems with their vote, and that the only way to communicate with the party was to withhold their vote.

    I think what's happening right now in Australia demonstrates the importance of voting.

    Labor might not be left enough for you personally, but each time the libs are defeated they need to move to the left to be viable, and Labor will have to move further left to differentiate themselves. That is to say, the spectrum of acceptable opinions is moving to the left in an observable manner, right now.

    Mintox (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
     

    As an 80s kid, I remember saying this word... a lot.

    While other colloquialisms seem to have hung around this one seems to have vanished from common vernacular.

    I have some questions ...

    Did everyone say this, or only my siblings and I? Is it Western Australian? Australian? or Global?

    Where did it come from? Does it mean or refer to anything or is it just random syllables?

    Where did it go? Why did this word fall out of favor while others are still in popular use?

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