While you’re right that guns wouldn’t be needed at a protest, and I absolutely agree, similar to the government in the UK there has been a lot of crackdowns on pro-Palestine protests that have been labelled as antisemitism. My worry is that this incident will result in further crackdowns on legal protest rights that don’t have anything to do with guns. My concern is also validated by the article, which mentions the NSW government is working on laws to restrict protest rights. That might have been unrelated and prior to this incident, but this is only going to galvanise this effort.

I made a post on Bluesky the day it happened saying they’d almost certainly use this as an excuse to crack down on protest rights. Hate being right about this.

Wait, are you arguing that the US is the lesser of two evils in this situation? Like, right now, this United States of America, the one that has a fascist regime in power?

one indirectly owned by the CCP such as Lenovo?

You could say this about literally every Chinese owned company. Eliminate all Chinese and all American companies and there’s not a lot of goods left you could purchase. Even less when it comes to goods made for other companies in China by Chinese firms.

You’re already seeing multiple European governments moving to FOSS office suites.

I’d rather pay for search, than to be the product of a search engine. Self-hosting a decent index is much harder than it seems. Kagi aren’t ontologically evil in the same way as Google or Microsoft so I think it’s the best option.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Did we culturally forget that digital art and photoshopping exist for a minute?

Yeah, compose has been an open standard for a while now, that’s why docker started* pushing you to rename your files to compose.yaml rather than docker-compose.yaml.

That is not how you secure a system.

Yes, but projects like Wayland which are trying to do this get shouted down.

We definitely go hard.

TBF they’ve had KDE Neon for a lot longer.

Ah so it’s where you peg up a goon bag on a rotating clothes line and get a group all standing in a circle underneath. Spin the line and see who drinks.

Ah, that explains it. Don’t often see folks outside Australia know about it. Did he explain goon of fortune to you?

Aussie?

Thanks for the link, I really want to see if NDIS might fund something like this. Does it slide around a lot? Also does it play nice with your fitted sheet?

Surely it doesn’t do this when your internet drops out, right? RIGHT??

Eight Sleep also sells its Autopilot feature through an annual subscription that starts at $199.

I don’t really want my bed running stop signs and murdering innocent folks.

Huh, that’s really interesting.

I don’t think that’s ever been the case, but we do have a Schengen-style arrangement where you have right to abode in the other country still.