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[–] brisk@aussie.zone 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It's a little lower in the article

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[–] brisk@aussie.zone 3 points 3 days ago
[–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I worked on software at one point that had at it's core a number of "modes" that it switched between. It was, at the time, in the process of migrating from enums and switch/case trees to an inheritance based system.

In practice this meant there was a single instance of "Mode" for each mode which used pointer equality to switch/case on modes like an enum.

To add a new mode (that did nothing) I think I had to change about 6 different places.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

K9 and Thunderbird for Android are now the same app with different branding

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Not quite, they are and will continue to be the same app and code base with distinct branding.

The rebranding in F-droid recently was a mistake that has been fixed.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fuck me, the "rhetorical" question in the lede is answered in the article, buried in the fifteenth paragraph.

The policy proposal falls under the Greens' so-called 'Robin Hood reforms' and they have said they will pay for the plan by "taxing big corporations that are profiting off price gouging during a cost of living crisis".

This is borderline disinformation by sbs

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is even worse than when journalists normally ask this question. It's a debt not a payment.

They will pay for it by finding a $2 coin in the centre console of their government funded car to buy a biro to cross off the line item.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cheers. It took 5 full days for the comments to federate to my instance after this post, so this post was a ghost town on my end until today.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Blinx: The time sweeper

Thanks for bringing that up, I played the shit out of Blinx 2 back when and had all but forgotten it.

Incidentally my first thought reading your comment was "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time"

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Interesting to see how different that is from Australia. In your example only lane 3 is a passing lane, and "undertaking" isn't a thing, it's completely legal to overtake in any lane.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is such an obvious conclusion of this saga that I have to assume that Labor saw it coming. If so, it implies that they made a political calculation that it was better for their reaction to be struck down months later than to let the original high court ruling stand.

And they were willing to violate the constitution and fuck with peoples lives for political expedience.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago

Disappointed there doesn't appear to be a project page

 

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"

 

former Queensland secretary Michael Ravbar – who’s been dismissed together with almost all other officials – said he would launch a challenge against the legislation passed last week to put the union into administration.

 

The decision by the National Anti-Corruption Commission not to investigate the six public servants over the Robodebt scandal appears to have been “infected by the bias of Commissioner Justice Paul Brereton and, if so, should now be disregarded”, says Stephen Charles AO KC, a former judge at the Victorian Court of Appeal and a former board member of the Centre of Public Integrity.

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