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brisk@aussie.zoneto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Do you love Open Source software? Want to turn your passion into a paid job 💵 ? LibreOffice is hiring a remote Paid Developer focusing on UI with initial emphasis on macOS, preferably full-time 📢4·3 days agodeveloper (m/f/d) to start work (from home) as soon as possible.
What are those letters?
brisk@aussie.zoneto News@lemmy.world•GOP's Texas map has Austin residents sharing district with rural Texans 300 miles away1·3 days agoAustralia has a rule that redistribution must bring the ratio of seats closer to the total ratio of votes when modelled on the previous election.
It’s a strong objective way to prevent the worst abuses of subjective redistribution.
There are also equal(ish) population rules but I think the US probably has that too?
Source on that mutation? 50 000 years ago humans were already spread across Africa, Asia and Australia. That makes the idea of a critical mutation after that sound implausible
brisk@aussie.zoneto 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•[Spoilers] Realistic "2001: A Space Odyssey" ruleEnglish19·4 days agoThis is a perfect demonstration of how trying to use ollama with Home Assistant went for me.
In Australia: yes and it’s commonplace. But like 70% of our media is American so unsurprising.
This really bothered me in the (3rd season of?) Umbrella academy. You two have kids. You are the only parents of your kids, why did you both come on this pointless adventure?!
This post is not about keeping shoes on
That would be a deeply ahistorical argument.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
AI is a very old field, and has always suffered from things being excluded from popsci as soon as they are achievable and commonplace. Path finding, OCR, chess engines and decision trees are all AI applications, as are machine learning and LLMs.
That Wikipedia article has a great line in it too
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists organization views the AI effect as a worldwide strategic military threat.[4] They point out that it obscures the fact that applications of AI had already found their way into both US and Soviet militaries during the Cold War.[4]
The discipline of Artificial Intelligence was founded in the 50s. Some of the current vibe is probably due to the “Second AI winter” of the 90s, the last time calling things AI was dangerous to your funding
brisk@aussie.zoneto Technology@beehaw.org•Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube2·6 days agoWhat are you talking about, all of those are banned.
brisk@aussie.zoneto homeassistant@lemmy.world•Home Assistant 2025.8: The summer of AI ☀️English14·6 days agoThe fall of AI?
brisk@aussie.zoneto Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related@lemmy.world•Home cooking and minimally processed foods best for weight loss, study findsEnglish1·7 days agoHealthy things can also mess up your poop schedule, like finally getting enough fibre.
brisk@aussie.zoneto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About8·10 days agoThis is not open source software, it’s licenced under the Anti Capitalist Software Licence.
I still appreciate it in this list, but the caveat is important
brisk@aussie.zoneto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About58·11 days agoZotero: a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials, such as PDF and ePUB files.
Two days ago Windows Update deleted my Linux EFI boot entry on another disk.
About a year ago an update broke Bluetooth so that I could never add or remove any devices. That had not been fixed last time I tried, several updates later.
About 5 years ago I was flat out unable to update Windows for 6 months, due to what turned out to be a bug when an unknown hard drive was attached.
brisk@aussie.zoneto Technology@lemmy.world•Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.English6·13 days agoYou may appreciate the Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License, though more alternatives are usually recommended.
brisk@aussie.zoneto Australia@aussie.zone•Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messagesEnglish7·14 days agoThere are already a bunch of them, including XMPP and Matrix which both implement Signal’s double ratchet encryption (via OMEMO, in XMPPs case)
brisk@aussie.zoneto Programming@programming.dev•Can't decide if end user index access should be 0 or 1 based and if END index should be inclusive1·15 days agoCame here to post this. You need a very good reason to break with Dijkstra
I have this set up and recently transitioned to using the numpad to jump to desktops so it’s always one move