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brisk

@ brisk @aussie.zone

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  • Durable water bottle

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  • My CamelBak is. From looking at them on this page, KleanKanteen advertises it too.

  • Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

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  • I can hear this picture

  • A leading use for quantum computers might not need them after all

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  • 'Charlie Hebdo' cartoon on Swiss fire tragedy sparks outrage

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  • Any chance of a non Instagram link to the offending cartoon?

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    My petty gripe: a large flat white is an oxymoron – a bastardisation of the drink Australia gave the world

    www.theguardian.com /lifeandstyle/2026/jan/14/petty-gripe-large-flat-white-oxymoron
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    Festival of cowardice: The cancellation of Randa Abdel-Fattah

    independentaustralia.net /politics/politics-display/festival-of-cowardice-the-cancellation-of-randa-abdel-fattah,20568
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    Festival of cowardice: The cancellation of Randa Abdel-Fattah

    independentaustralia.net /politics/politics-display/festival-of-cowardice-the-cancellation-of-randa-abdel-fattah,20568

  • Australian chapter of Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir has no plans to disband before Labor’s hate speech laws

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  • Where can I read it?

  • Australia should reconsider alliance with ‘fiercely unpredictable’ US, former foreign ministers say

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  • Or a Sky News anchor trying to spark conflict

  • To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave

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  • At the risk of being trite:

  • Saw these on a neighbor's car

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  • What's the second crank for?

  • Trump Named Delcy Rodríguez Venezuela’s Interim President and a US Partner in Governing the Country Two Hours Later, She Publicly Rejected Washington, Called It an Aggressor, and Reaffirmed Loyalty to

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  • The article title (now?) has a second line which IMO is important to include in the headline. The whole title is currently:

    Trump Named Delcy Rodríguez Venezuela’s Interim President and a US Partner in Governing the Country

    Two Hours Later, She Publicly Rejected Washington, Called It an Aggressor, and Reaffirmed Loyalty to Nicolás Maduro

    From the article:

    US president Donald Trump said that Delcy Rodriguez had been sworn in as Venezuela’s interim president and had agreed to act in partnership with Washington—effectively allowing the United States to run the country.

    “In essence, she is prepared to do what we believe is necessary to make Venezuela great again,” Trump said.

    Less than two hours later, Rodriguez, who had previously served as vice-president under Nicolas Maduro, delivered a televised address to Venezuelans in which she made clear that she regarded the United States as an illegal occupier whose actions must be rejected.

    “We are determined to be free,” she said. “What is being done to Venezuela is barbarism.”

  • Lemon8 and Yope put on notice as social media age ban targets

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  • scr(ul)ew [new even worse version]

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  • scr(ul)ew [new even worse version]

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  • This article I came across convincingly disputes the idea that JIS is meaningfully different from other cross head standards. I do not have access to the standards myself to corroborate.

  • scr(ul)ew [new even worse version]

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  • Wikipedia disputes the claim of cam out being deliberate

    The design is often criticized for its tendency to cam out at lower torque levels than other "cross head" designs. There has long been a popular belief that this was a deliberate feature of the design, to assemble aluminium aircraft without overtightening the fasteners.[15]: 85 [16] There is no good evidence for this suggestion, and the property is not mentioned in the original patents.[17]

  • Antisemitic incidents across Australia since 2023 – timeline

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  • Weird list, appears to include both antisemitic and anti Zionist events, and even includes the fake caravan bomb?

  • The stats don’t lie. Australia’s tax system is designed to benefit the wealthiest and the rest of us pay for it

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  • In case you're unaware, he runs an excellent Australian economics podcast called Dollars and Sense.

  • Gotcha! 🤣

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  • GUI library for C?

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  • I've recently started a handful of projects exploring the rust gui ecosystem and the experience has been... disappointing.

    • The most mature native library I've seen is Druid, which is deprecated in favour of Xilem. Xilem is highly experimental.
    • Slint is somehow used by several industry partners, yet is incapable of rendering flowing text documents, and only just brought in text formatting (via Xilem's text library oddly enough).
    • Egui seems a bit more capable, but it has the usual downsides of immediate mode gui without any of the typical upsides (you can't intermingle gui elements with logic, the gui has to all go in one place).
    • Dioxus is reasonably capable but is absolutely webtech focused, which seems likely anathema to Op.
    • Iced I haven't used beyond hello world, and I didn't enjoy that experience.

    AFAICT the most mature rust gui libraries are the rust bindings for C's GTK and C++'s Qt.

    I also - somewhat controversially - disagree with "very well documented". Rust projects consistently have published API references - which is great! The actual quality of the API references is mixed. Actual documentation - such as intended usage, common patterns, design intent - are much more sparse. Of the GUI libraries I listed, only Dioxus and Slint come close.

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    4G Phone Blocking Update: The Missing Samsung 000 Settings for Vodafone - How to check your device

    www.change.org /p/stop-telco-4g-5g-device-blocking-volte-restrictions-australia-s-3g-shutdown/u/34140613

  • GUI library for C?

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  • I've used GTK and WxWidgets for C programs. GTK is more powerful but takes longer to get used to its idioms as I recall

  • HDMI Forum is unwilling to disclose the 2.1 specification for open-source (Linux): according to AMD, they had submitted a functional, HDMI 2.1-compatible driver [for linux?], which the Forum rejected.

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  • Hilariously this is the easiest way to get HDMI-CEC support on a (Linux) PC

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    Analysis

    "Enough is enough". Why Brereton has to resign from the NACC - Michael West

    michaelwest.com.au /enough-is-enough-brereton-has-to-resign-from-the-nacc/
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    Scathing ‘jobs for mates’ review finds appointments to government boards routinely abused

    www.theguardian.com /australia-news/2025/dec/02/scathing-jobs-for-mates-review-finds-appointments-to-government-boards-routinely-abused
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    Needy Programs

    tonsky.me /blog/needy-programs/
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    The opposition has been allowed to set the agenda. It’s an absurd situation that is debasing national politics | Julianne Schultz

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2025/nov/22/the-opposition-has-been-allowed-to-set-the-agenda-its-an-absurd-situation-that-is-debasing-national-politics
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    Anti-zionism v antisemitism. Bondi Beach "F*** Israel" t-shirt man in court battle for freedom of speech - Michael West

    michaelwest.com.au /anti-zionism-v-antisemitism-bondi-beach-f-israel-t-shirt-man-in-court-battle-for-freedom-of-speech/
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    Opinion

    Australian politics 101: Getting the lessons wrong every time

    www.thenewdaily.com.au /opinion/2025/11/08/labor-liberals-lessons-remeikis
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    Welfare in Australia is a cruel shambles. How about we actually try to help people not squish them | First Dog on the Moon

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/picture/2025/oct/27/welfare-in-australia-is-a-cruel-shambles-how-about-we-actually-try-to-help-people-not-squish-them
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    Science Must Decentralize

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2025/10/science-must-decentralize
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    Were you on Facebook 10 years ago? You may be able to claim part of this $50 million payout

    theconversation.com /were-you-on-facebook-10-years-ago-you-may-be-able-to-claim-part-of-this-50-million-payout-267327
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    'Nothing' done to address gaps created by teen social media ban, says children's commissioner

    www.crikey.com.au /2025/10/24/teen-social-media-ban-childrens-commissioner-anne-hollonds/
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    An Amazon outage has rattled the internet. A computer scientist explains why the ‘cloud’ needs to change

    theconversation.com /an-amazon-outage-has-rattled-the-internet-a-computer-scientist-explains-why-the-cloud-needs-to-change-267954
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    Don’t mistake truth for hate, prime minister

    johnmenadue.com /post/2025/09/dont-mistake-truth-for-hate-prime-minister/
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    Pay to deport. Australia's shameful return of penal colonies - Michael West

    michaelwest.com.au /pay-to-deport-australias-shameful-return-of-penal-colonies/
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    Passkeys and Modern Authentication

    lucumr.pocoo.org /2025/9/2/passkeys/
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    Robodebt docudrama to hit SBS streaming services in September

    www.themandarin.com.au /298157-robodebt-docudrama-to-hit-sbs-streaming-services-in-september/