[-] brisk@aussie.zone 41 points 1 month ago
[-] brisk@aussie.zone 35 points 1 month ago

For those who don't want to open threads, it's a link to a paper on energy efficiency of programming languages.

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 37 points 2 months ago

How many children died because Bill Gates lobbied for the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine to be patented?

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Guardian Economist Greg Jericho shows - with interactive graphs - how the RBA's interest rate policies have missed the mark and depressed Australian living standards in an unprecedented way.

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 49 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No. "New moon" is just the night side of the moon facing us. A lunar eclipse is when the Earth blocks sunlight from the moon, which can only occur on a full moon approximately every six months.

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 39 points 9 months ago

This is a standard way to draw geometric proofs, it's not at all unreasonable to assume straight lines alongside unrepresentative angles. It's certainly still an assumption, but a conventional one.

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 52 points 11 months ago

IMO there are exceptionally few cases where it is acceptable for a QR code to not be immediately adjacent to a textual representation of the same content.

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Highlights:

Krishnan told Ars that "Meta is trying to have it both ways, but its assertion that Unfollow Everything 2.0 would violate its terms effectively concedes that Zuckerman faces what the company says he does not—a real threat of legal action."

For users wanting to take a break from endless scrolling, it could potentially meaningfully impact mental health—eliminating temptation to scroll content they did not choose to see, while allowing them to remain connected to their networks and still able to visit individual pages to access content they want to see.

According to Meta, its terms of use prohibit automated access to users' personal information not just by third parties but by individual users, as a means of protecting user privacy. Meta urged the court to reject Zuckerman's claim that Meta's terms violate California privacy laws by making it hard for users to control their data. Instead, Meta said the court should agree with a prior court that "rejected the argument that California law 'espous[es] a principle of user control of data sufficient to invalidate' Facebook’s prohibition on automated access."

Much more in article

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[-] brisk@aussie.zone 37 points 1 year ago

There is an actually moral alternative to opt-out that doesn't have the poor-sampling problem of opt-in: ask for consent explicitly.

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[-] brisk@aussie.zone 41 points 1 year ago

I didn't realise dark owls were such a problem for early humanity

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Verge editor laments the perverse incentives of SEO rankings.

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[-] brisk@aussie.zone 37 points 1 year ago

Amazing how different it feels to hear "racially aggravated harassment" vs "called police officer 'stupid white bastard'".

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[-] brisk@aussie.zone 37 points 2 years ago

The Jobseeker program has always been about punishing the poor. The sudden raise in payments and dropping mutual obligations when "normal" people were ending up on Jobseeker during covid was a blatant demonstration of that.

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