For something to be defamatory it has to:
a) Reduce the public’s perception of him (which is laughable, the public’s perception of him is “monster”)
b) Be untrue (doubt it)
I think he meant derogatory.
And even that’s of questionable accuracy, as it’s about being shown an inappropriate amount of respect.
They failed the golden rule, it was right there the whole time.
I dont really think this is a fair assessment.
Rowland Browne is a well established anti-gun nut, who other pro gun control individuals feel uncomfortable associating with.
This organisation that he’s Co-Chairman of?
https://www.guncontrolaustralia.org/ ?
You could fit their active members in a Kia Carnival.
What they do have is a website and a fax machine, and they REGULARLY spam all the media outlets with “press releases”, which those media outlets publish on a slow day.
According to Mr Browne, anyone who wants a gun for any reason is guilty of wrong-think.
“How dare thousands of wrong-thinkers band together to stop rightness!”
We’re past the point of diminishing returns on gun control in Australia, but Mr Browne won’t be happy until there isn’t a single gun, nor the means to make them, and children aren’t playing “cops and robbers” with bent sticks.
I’m a bit surprised we haven’t heard from Phillip Alpers yet.
Edit to Add: The irrationality of the individual who downvoted me for calling out Mr Browne warms my heart.
You almost get it: you’re one person, you get one vote.
But mate, so am I.
Pro-gun people aren’t all paid shills, out here to promote the sale of guns and ammo like a shady drug dealer on a corner.
There are 940,000+ people who currently own them safely in this country and would like to continue doing so.
What happened in Bondi wasn’t a gun control issue, it was terrorism committed with guns.
And the general public can see it.
All good, I feel like we’re in total agreement here.
They’ve done something stupid.
Now we all get to see how far they’ll take it.
The Australian government isn’t scared to piss off Big Tech when it suits them.
The ASSISTANCE AND ACCESS ACT 2018 lead to some people I know being given the option of quitting or relocating to somewhere that the Australian government couldn’t do THAT.
It’s certainly an extra factor when deciding to offshore development teams here.
As a “great” man once said:
“The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia,”
I understand that I’m making a slippery slope argument, a fallacy in itself.
I just don’t trust that the purpose of this legislation is what it says on the tin because it’ll never achieve it’s stated aim, it’ll just teach a whole generation how to break the law.
And having failed, will the government stop?
No, they’ll try to ban VPNs, or something else equally vacuous.
edit to add: This reminds me a bit of the tobacco excise.
On paper, it’s to discourage people from smoking as it becomes increasingly unaffordable to do so.
But what’s actually happened is that a whole black market has sprung up, making cigarettes even cheaper than before, funding criminal organisations, who have ZERO incentive to not sell to anyone who will buy them (including children).
Beyond the above, I feel there’s an inherent value to anonymous conversation that will be lost.
Sure, anonymous conversation allows echo chambers where cookers come up with nonsense - but every societal upheaval in the past would have started with unsanctioned conversations happening behind closed doors.
Woman’s suffrage?
Same sex marriage?
Person-hood/voting rights for indigenous Australians?
It’s easy to see them as obvious now, but once they were illegal.
Those changes occurred in public referendums that started with private conversations.
These are pretty calm messages to an Australian and Garry is British, so culture checks out.
// What the fuck
// Fuck dynamic compiling.
// what the fuck is this shit
// What the fuck, why isnt this a method
Should this by the by commentary be there?
Not really.
But as a programmer, I understand each and every time I see something like:
// Urgh this is so dirty, Invalidate() and Refresh() do nothing.
tButt.AutoSize = false;
tButt.Width = maxWidth;
tButt.Height = maxHeight;
tButt.AutoSize = true;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
“Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”
But I want to be wrong.
If you can log into the site, it’s done.
If you try to access the site and you get a “startup log” page, it’s still ongoing (and it will show you there what it’s doing).
https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-10.11.0/#startup-ui-and-log-viewer
I think the feel from the Devs is that there isn’t enough new functionality to justify the major version bump, this primarily being a reimplementation of existing features.
BUT, I agree with you, it should definitely be V11 under the semantic versioning scheme.
Whilst there is a migration path here, the database changes under the hood alone are likely to break backwards compatibility with all plugins (with in-house plugins being upgraded in sync).
Such breakage is kind of the defining characteristic of a MAJOR version.
This is not a remote code exploit that makes you vulnerable simply because 7zip is installed, which is the implication of the headline.
So this is a linkbait headline, divorced from the reality of the situation.
Which is the bit I take issue with.
The article itself describes not only the actual problem, but the broader problem of this being a known fixed problem which won’t be automatically addressed for most windows users.
Side note, winget is not bad as far as centralised package management goes for windows, and why I’m personally not at risk for this already long addressed 7zip issue.
“expose systems to remote attackers”.
This is some terrible link bait and Tom’s Hardware should be ashamed.
It’s commentary like this that leads to so much industrial equipment (printers, scales, barcode readers, PLCs etc) still having RS-232 on them.
And dammit, you’re right, that stone age shit just works.
Category C (semi auto .22LR + miss-categorised shotguns) is for farmers.
Category D (centre-fire semi auto + miss-categorised shotguns) is for specialist pest controllers.
Professional hunters tend to use Category B (manually cycled bolt/lever/pump centre-fire).
You’re not wrong, I just wanted to add more info.
There’d be like a thousand people that qualify in the entire country for a real Category D.
nationalsecurityjournal.org looks like a propaganda outlet.
How do you even check the bonafides of a random site like this?
It should go without saying that this was done by loving carers who had the best interests of the animal in question at heart, not coloured by anything crass such as financial considerations - yet here I am.
There are lions at Monarto, a short trip up the freeway and I’ve heard the question of why she wasn’t taken there?
Because the pride would probably have killed her.
She was old, she would have refused to eat, then she’d become weak, then she’d get sick and then she’d have suffered until she died.
The keepers made a call, and as much as people might call this callous, others would have called them out if Amani was allowed to suffer for the following 3 months.
If you “vibe code” your way through trial and error to an app, it may work.
But if you don’t understand what it’s doing, why it’s doing it and how it’s doing it?
Then you can’t (easily) maintain it.
If you can’t fix bugs or add features, you don’t have a saleable product - you have a proof of concept.
AI tools are useful, but letting the tool do all the driving is asking for the metaphorical car to crash.
Rabbits, Cane Toads and Artificial Meat in a three way knife fight, winner gets stomped by the Emus.
If $'s was my only consideration, I’d pirate the game.
If my valid options are paying $25 to Valve, installing the Epic malware or dealing with pirate sites, I’m sending money to Valve.