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[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Life preservers are already associated with the "help" action

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

LibreOffice has used an arrow pointing to a hard drive for a while, but that's also outdated.

The trend has been to move away from saving as a distinct action in favour of constant auto saving, so I don't know if canonicalising a wholly new icon is in the future.

The download icon might not be an awful choice in some contexts.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

I will explain what this means in a moment, but first: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yes, although admittedly I only know it from Umberto Eco's Ur-Fascism

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

Worth clarifying that it requires individuals to insert backdoors if told to, it's not a blanket backdoor and frankly I'd be shocked if it held up in the high court.

Nothing ever makes it there though, and it's full of baked in secrecy. I don't use local or US services for anything where privacy is important for that reason.

Good thing Australia doesn't have electronic voting, hey?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The concept of a "social contract" is regularly used to deny rights to prisoners.

It's not necessary, even to address the "paradox of tolerance", it's actively harmful, and it's erroneous anyway (contracts are necessarily consensual[^1], but exceptionally few people get to make a choice about the society they live in)

[^1]: Yes, this criteria invalidates a lot of modern contracts in the US especially around tech, but this is largely a failure of the judicial system. Legislation still makes it clear that contracts must be consensual in the US and other western countries, and it often goes further in that they must be reciprocal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I had to have a look at the current situation, Gulf of Mexico currently has no fewer than 39 names listed

There is also an ongoing discussion about the executive order. From what I saw it seems to be leaning in favour of adding an official_name:en-US tag if the order gets recognised by a relevant body e.g the US Board of Geographic names. Notably this is not the primary name tag.

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

That would be illegal in Australia and I have to imagine most functional democracies since it has the potential to link voters to votes and undermine the electoral process.

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

OSM treats official names as tertiary to signage and local usage. It's also not chiefly American so doesn't have much reason to favour their usage over other countries'.

Mind that you can also have many names for one thing in OSM so it will probably be noted in there somewhere.

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

Where are you that there are cameras in the booth?

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

Did you try sfc.exe /scannow?

Please select my comment as the solution and rate it five stars.

this answer was provided by a Microsoft community member

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

My Windows (10) broke Bluetooth in an update over two years ago and the situation has not changed. Never had a problem with Linux on the same machine (dual boot).

If "it just works" was ever true on Windows, those days are behind us.

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Despite him blowing the whistle on the egregious use of power by the Tax Office with an understanding that he was protected, he wasn’t. He’s been caught out by inadequate laws that purported to shield him, but instead lured him into a situation where he and his family has suffered for seven years.

 

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.

 

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"

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