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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Blinx: The time sweeper

Thanks for bringing that up, I played the shit out of Blinx 2 back when and had all but forgotten it.

Incidentally my first thought reading your comment was "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Interesting to see how different that is from Australia. In your example only lane 3 is a passing lane, and "undertaking" isn't a thing, it's completely legal to overtake in any lane.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

This is such an obvious conclusion of this saga that I have to assume that Labor saw it coming. If so, it implies that they made a political calculation that it was better for their reaction to be struck down months later than to let the original high court ruling stand.

And they were willing to violate the constitution and fuck with peoples lives for political expedience.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Disappointed there doesn't appear to be a project page

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Now do the crappy mobile games

The removals also follow former Netflix gaming boss Mike Verdu — who just announced that he’s a VP of “GenAI for Games” at Netflix — telling Game File’s Stephen Totilo that the company wasn’t building interactive titles anymore.

VP of “GenAI for Games”

Oh. Oh no.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This gonna need a citation

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

successfully clipped a gravel as big as 5 millimeters

Okay

(2 inches)

...what?

the size of a tiny granola bit

...what??

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There is a workaround for this, which is to use a service like JMP.chat to redirect SMS to XMPP, at which point you only need to ensure internet which is a bit of a lower requirement than specific networks (but of course may still become more limiting over time)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

It's too early to be certain, but I've got high hopes for the future of the SHIFT 6mq.

I believe it has mainline linux support, or it is being worked on, which will be important for ongoing OS upgrades. Otherwise they have a similar philosophy to Fairphone with an important difference; SHIFT wants you to be able to upgrade their phones, not just repair them. I don't think this has been realistically tested yet, but the successor SHIFTPHONE 8 is coming out imminently, and I think we should start to see pretty soon if any of the new modules can be installed on the older model.

I've actually got the SHIFTPHONE 8 coming myself, because I got spooked by places turning off 3G already and wanted to "future proof" with 5G, but otherwise would have preferred the 6mq.

The one caveat is that SHIFT is a very small company, which could mean risk for long term support.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

He's not naked, he's wearing glasses

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

No parliamentarians have been referred so we already know the architects are off scott-free

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I reckon that requires a legislative solution, not just a technological one.

 

Furness recommended the Nacc revisit the controversial decision, which had already been the subject of 900 complaints when she promised in June to inquire into the matter.

Following the inspector’s recommendation, the Nacc will now appoint an “independent eminent person” to deliberate afresh on a possible corruption investigation into robodebt.

 

They found a 110 year old thylacine head in a bucket of ethanol in the back of a cupboard in a museum with RNA intact.

 

The National Anti-Corruption Commission Inspector has announced she has launched a formal investigation into the regulator’s refusal to investigate six public officials referred by the Royal Commission into Robodebt.

For anyone missing the significance, the Inspector announced "looking into" complaints about the NACC decision months ago, but this is the first time the word "investigation" has been used.

The distinction is important because once a formal “investigation” is commenced the NACC Inspector has additional powers, including the power to obtain documents.

 

Title edited down from first paragraph

Original title: "GUESS WHO? The $600,000 question at the heart of Robodebt"

 

former Queensland secretary Michael Ravbar – who’s been dismissed together with almost all other officials – said he would launch a challenge against the legislation passed last week to put the union into administration.

 

The decision by the National Anti-Corruption Commission not to investigate the six public servants over the Robodebt scandal appears to have been “infected by the bias of Commissioner Justice Paul Brereton and, if so, should now be disregarded”, says Stephen Charles AO KC, a former judge at the Victorian Court of Appeal and a former board member of the Centre of Public Integrity.

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