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robodebt, FOI 

Do you want to see the #robodebt weekly status reports I asked for via #FOI that the department didn't want to release? But the Information Commissioner told them they had to in this decision? austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc

Here you go. It's a PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1VYiwk

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What's Ruby?

An interpreted, multi-paradigm, high-level, general-purpose programming language. You need Rust to build it.

What's Rust?

A compiled, multi-paradigm, high-level, general-purpose programming language. You need Python to build it.

What's Python?

An interpreted, multi-paradigm, high-level, general-purpose programming language.

Do I need, uhm, Perl to build it?

No, but you need Perl to build Rust.

I knew it. What's Perl?

An interpreted, multi-paradigm, high-level, general-

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Not what we want to hear...
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"Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a melting point of no return, says new study"

The Greenland Ice Sheet covers 1.7 million square kilometers in the Arctic. If it melts entirely, global sea level would rise about 7 meters (23 feet), but scientists aren't sure how quickly the ice sheet could melt.

Based in part on carbon emissions, a new study using simulations identified two tipping points for the Greenland Ice Sheet: releasing 1000 gigatons of carbon into the atmosphere will cause the southern portion of the ice sheet to melt; about 2500 gigatons of carbon means permanent loss of nearly the entire ice sheet.

Having emitted about 500 gigatons of carbon, we're about halfway to the first tipping point.

"The first tipping point is not far from today's climate conditions, so we're in danger of crossing it," said Dennis Höning, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research who led the study. "Once we start sliding, we will fall off this cliff and cannot climb back up."

The study was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
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FULL ARTICLE -- phys.org/news/2023-03-greenlan

#Emissions #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency

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-1.5746443132308863 + -0.0002451173021562548i at zoom 2.5594554859e+06.

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Documentary film crew in a computer room in the 1970s caused system crashed because their camera flashes were setting off the reflective End Of Tape sensors on all of the reel-to-reel drives

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Imagining an attack operation where they steal dev credentials, push malicious code, then discover the build fails.

The attacker spends days troubleshooting the build pipeline and finally finds a fix. It now works beautifully; this immediately tips off the company’s engineers.

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It remains absolutely wild to me that Jalopnik, of all things, has one of the most enlightened editorial views on car culture and windshield-perspective.

This is a blistering editorial that would get you fired from just about any mainstream newspaper for writing.

jalopnik.com/its-not-the-bike-

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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fundamental security flaw in the design of the IEEE 802.11 WiFi protocol standard, allowing attackers to trick access points into leaking network frames in plaintext form.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

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How nice is it to have pills you can vote in without paying Elon Musk?

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Feedback is being sought on the Government response to the Privacy Act Review Report. The deadline for feedback is 31 March 2023
consultations.ag.gov.au/integr

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'Encouraging creative theft'.
Would this work in USAnian cities? Certainly in some neighborhoods.
Photo text excerpt from #BillMollison's autobiography, Travels In Dreams.
#UrbanPermaculture #fruit #UrbanFarming #Rewilding #GuerillaHorticulture

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mas.to/@carnage4life/110091391

This is making me resent the tech industry (which I’m a part of) more and more. What a gross monster we’ve created, that hates creativity, privacy, and labor.

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Twitter loses half its commercial value 

Leaked memo suggests Twitter is now worth just half of what Elon Musk paid for it, having lost over $20 billion in value in 6 months... theguardian.com/technology/202

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