Long answer, it’s true.

Huh, that’s close to one of Melbourne’s older tram stop designs (slowly being phased out and replaced with accessible platform stops).

– wongm

Letters, punctuation, and spaces are just about the only ASCII in that art.

Ugh, so much AI generated slop starting to fill up Bandcamp. Enshittification launch countdown is almost complete, I fear…

There’s excellent music on there and if you buy stuff from a trusted artist it’s a good deal for them, but as a discovery platform it’s becoming a dead-internet failure.

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.

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

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.

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?

LoL. Building in the tidal zone, eh?

Flows nicely, but it’s an inaccurate collage of plot elements.

• Isildur lost the ring in a river.
• Déagol found the ring in a river.
• Sméagol killed Déagol for the ring.
• Sméagol (now Gollum) lost the ring in a cave.
• Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, Frodo, Gollum, 🌋?

sudo userdel -r project_tmp

''Boof" as in “Shelve”?

There were a couple of car attacks in Melbourne in 2017:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2017_Melbourne_car_attack
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2017_Melbourne_car_attack

In both cases the perpetrator had severe drug and mental health issues as a background to their actions. Neither case had links to terrorist organisations.

One protest outside a synagogue which inspired this latest “ban protests” idea was one organised in response to a Technion University 100 year event[1][2] which was using The Great Synagogue Sydney as the venue:

Highlights:

• Speakers:
  • Prof. Wayne Kaplan – Technion’s Vice President for External Relations and Resource Development
  • Mr. David Weinberg – The Jerusalem Post- Israel’s resilience and determination to win.
  • A special guest – a Technion graduate, sharing experiences from their recent reserve duty
• In attendance of:
  • Nova Peris OAM.
  • Distinguished Prof. Moti Segev – A world leading physicist and Israel Prize winner from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
• Art Show: Featuring works by Avraham Vofsi, an Israeli artist, whose unique pieces reflect post October 7 feelings. Avi was born in Melbourne and was an Archibald Prize finalist in 2022.

The Great Synagogue itself published on their own news page their comments on the protest, mentioning that it was not a Great Synagogue event nor was it religious:

Protest Outside The Great Synagogue
On Wednesday night 4 December we hosted an event on behalf of Technion University in Israel to enable them to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the operation of that University. This was not a religious service nor was it a Great Synagogue event. […]

(Their weekly news page has since been replaced with new content but search engine result snippets still had traces.)

So it sounds like an ID will not be a requirement.

Sure, but gov ID is permitted as an option if another non-ID option is also available.

Simply choose between submitting your government ID or, say, switch on your front facing camera so we can perform some digital phrenology to determine your eligibility.

A possible ban on social media for under-16s in the UK is “on the table”, the technology secretary Peter Kyle has told the BBC.

The ban and age verification requirements apply to pretty much all services which allow communication of information between people, unless an exemption is granted by the minister.

There is no legislated exemption for instant messaging, SMS, email, email lists, chat rooms, forums, blogs, voice calls, etc.

It’s a wildly broadly applicable piece of legislation that seems ripe to be abused in the future, just like we’ve seen with anti-terror and anti-hate-symbol legislation.

From 63C (1) of the legislation:

For the purposes of this Act, age-restricted social media platform means:

• a) an electronic service that satisfies the following conditions:
  • i) the sole purpose, or a significant purpose, of the service is to enable online social interaction between 2 or more end-users;
  • ii) the service allows end-users to link to, or interact with, some or all of the other end-users;
  • iii) the service allows end-users to post material on the service;
  • iv) such other conditions (if any) as are set out in the legislative rules; or
• b) an electronic service specified in the legislative rules; but does not include a service mentioned in subsection (6).

Here’s all the detail of what the bill is and the concerns raised in parliament.

The likes of lemmy instances may be either small enough to fly under the radar, or handwaved away by legislators with “don’t worry it’s not the target of this legislation”, or even be given easy access to ministerial exemption …for now (maybe).

The kicker comes in 10-15 years’ time when, say, a government’s donor inconvenienced by protests organised using a self-hosted forum then asks the government to crack down on the age verification requirements of that forum, effectively silencing it due to the requirements being too onerous for a small forum, or the userbase being unwilling to submit their IDs/faceprints/whatever.

Faaark, I’m agreeing with Malcolm Roberts!