ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au
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@rix It's played on a full-size cricket oval. (The clip I shared was from a recent match between Adelaide and Port Adelaide at the Adelaide Oval, which regularly hosts T20 and Test cricket.)
So roughly 170 metres x 140 metres.
With kicking, if the ball is kicked more than 15 metres and you catch it on the full, that's called a mark, and you get to take an unimpeded kick.
You're only allowed to kick the ball or handpass it by punching it with a clenched fist while holding it with an open hand. No throwing.
With tackling, there's no line of scrimmage or offside rule.
A legal tackle is one that's laid on the player with the ball, above the knees and below the shoulders.
If you're tackled, you have to immediately bandpass or kick the ball.
If you're tackled with the ball, you didn't have a prior opportunity to dispose of it, and you make a genuine attempt to kick or handpass it, it goes to a ball up.
If you've tackled with the ball, and you did have a prior opportunity to dispose of it, and you don't immediately kick or handpass it, then the other team gets possession and s free kick.
With the scoring, unlike the rugby codes, there's no try line. If you kick the ball through the two tall goal posts in the middle, it's a goal and you get 6 points. If you kick it between the tall goal posts and the smaller outer posts, it's a behind and you get 1 point.
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#Trump signed an #EO eliminating several of #Biden’s #cybersecurity initiatives: software security requirements, AI-related initiatives, adoption of post-quantum cryptography. https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/trump-cybersecurity-executive-order-eliminate-biden-programs/750119/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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AI coding tools are currently good at the first 80% of software development, which is putting bugs in. Not so great at the second 80%, which is taking them out again.
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Fuck.
Elsewhere in their profession, some scientists are starting to look away. “We know quite a number of entomologists who have experience dating back to the 70s, 80s or 90s,” Hallwachs says. “One of our very good friends – he now does not have the emotional courage to hang up a sheet to collect moths at night. It is too devastating to see how few there are.”
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news canceling headphones
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Crucial CVE flaw-tracking database narrowly avoids closure to DHS cuts
Board members have launched a nonprofit to take over the program from MITRE.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/crucial-cve-flaw-tracking-database-narrowly-avoids-closure-to-dhs-cuts/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Why do some neurons say “sleep” while others shout “stay awake!” — inside the same brain?
In fruit flies, researchers just mapped the molecular chaos behind this nightly tug-of-war. And it’s wilder than we thought.
https://elifesciences.org/articles/106686?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_insights
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"If you spend your whole time thinking about the universe, you tend to forget the less important bits of it. Like your pants."
-- Small Gods
#TerryPratchett
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A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by simple organisms. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39jj9vkr34o
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Probably the last CVE indexed before it goes dark should be CVE-2025-DOGE (critical, local privilege escalation vulnerability that leads to malicious code execution and data exfiltration).
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Mouse watches The Matrix, scientists map brain that looks like a ‘galaxy’
Thanks to a mouse watching clips from The Matrix, scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date, a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons.
#science #technology #brain #movie #Health #Mouse
https://globalnews.ca/news/11124950/mouse-watching-the-matrix-scientists-map-galaxy-brain/
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OpenSSH 10.0 (a regular bump from 9.9) is out, and it makes the post-quantum ML-KEM hybrid mlkem768x25519-sha256 the default. https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-10.0
The next release of x/crypto/ssh will support it, too, when used with Go 1.24, making SSH sessions quantum resistant! ⛓️ https://go.dev/cl/646075
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#curl's configure script has 75(!) different --disable options to disable specific things in the build.
That's 37778931862957161709568 build combinations only there. Tricky to test.
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@Janeishly I saw someone say something like "Facebook is where all the boomers and Gen Xers who need help with their computers live. The fedi is where all the boomers and Gen Xers who *designed and built* the damn computers live".
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When they say no-one is safe, here is the evidence 🙄
We are all vulnerable to phishing, even @troyhunt has been caught! If it can happen to Troy, it can happen to us all. Each and every one of us.
“…the penny has just dropped that a Mailchimp phish has grabbed my credentials, logged into my account and exported the mailing list for this blog. I'm deliberately keeping this post very succinct to ensure the message goes out to my impacted subscribers ASAP, then I'll update the post with more details.“
https://www.troyhunt.com/a-sneaky-phish-just-grabbed-my-mailchimp-mailing-list/
#CyberSecurity #DataBreach #InfoSec #Phishing
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I am so excited to see that UK Government Will Discuss Re-joining the EU on 24th of March 2025 After Petition reaches 125,000 signatures!
If you are British, no matter where you live please sign
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I've started to think about the, y'know, all of this on a spectrum ranging from "too big to handle," to "too small to matter." I'm also thinking about the size of an issue against one's ability to make a difference.
There's a sweet spot where the work is worthwhile.
Small problems outside your control matter little. The big ones outside your ability to impact can be paralyzing—most of us can't stop DOGE from entering buildings, for example, no matter how outraged we are. The small ones you can impact tend to be easy, but they can deceive you into an outsized impression of your impact. And then there are the big ones you can impact. That's the worthwhile zone to live in. The trick is, this zone is uncomfortable, and almost always requires you to work with others—even others you don't entirely agree with.
The adversary is hoping you never make it to that zone. If enough of us do, the tide turns.
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GIMP 3.0 is released, check it out!
https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who contributed in any way - from testing and submitting bug reports through to designing, coding, fixing, packaging, testing some more, translating, documenting, hosting, administration, so many people, so much work, so much to be thankful for!
Welcome to GIMP 3.0!
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