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Uber loses New Zealand appeal, court rules drivers are employees not contractors(nzherald.co.nz)
117 points by ajdlinux 2y ago|72 comments
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by ajdlinux 2y ago
> I’ve registered and managed domains for my businesses for 20+ years now and I have never once been in contact with a registrar’s customer service. Interacting with a registrar's domain management web interface is being in contac
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by ajdlinux 2y ago
Starting to get media coverage: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-19/technology-shutdown-a...
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by ajdlinux 2y ago
You mean John Roberts instead of Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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by ajdlinux 2y ago
At a certain scale, "economic" systems become critical to life. Someone who has sufficiently compromised a systemically-important bank can do things that would result in riots breaking out on the street all over a country.
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Going Out on a Limb: Efficient Elliptic Curve Arithmetic in OpenSSL(sthbrx.github.io)
3 points by ajdlinux 3y ago|0 comments
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Beginner's first kernel CTF with CVE-2017-5123(sthbrx.github.io)
2 points by ajdlinux 3y ago|0 comments
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Quirks of Parsing SSH Configs(sthbrx.github.io)
1 points by ajdlinux 3y ago|0 comments
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by ajdlinux 3y ago
- they're able to investigate whether the regulators did their job properly in regulating, while being organisationally at least somewhat distant from the regulator they're looking at (obviously they tend to maintain close relatio
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by ajdlinux 3y ago
In places that aren't America, it's often a legal requirement (whether by statute or by customary contractual clauses) to give a minimum notice period, and employees who resign without notice can be penalised an amount of money th
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Detecting Rootless Docker(sthbrx.github.io)
3 points by ajdlinux 3y ago|0 comments
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by ajdlinux 3y ago
I think, from my quick reading of the code, that it's triggerable by having VGA arbitration enabled (which requires having PCI enabled) and having IBM VIO support compiled in, without having a VGA device. In any case, QEMU will give yo
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by ajdlinux 3y ago
QEMU (with its pseries machine type) doesn't actually run the PowerVM hypervisor, but rather it directly implements a very similar hypervisor-guest interface (based on the Power Architecture Platform Reference and Open Firmware) such t
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Dumb bugs: the PCI device that wasn't(sthbrx.github.io)
61 points by ajdlinux 3y ago|12 comments
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by ajdlinux 3y ago
> Maybe a few hundred people buy this Thinkpad model/variant to run Linux My employer alone would be responsible for several hundred X1 Gen 10s running Linux across various parts of our company, I suspect.
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Dumb bugs: When a date breaks booting the kernel(sthbrx.github.io)
3 points by ajdlinux 3y ago|0 comments
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by ajdlinux 4y ago
You know what I really want for collaborating on projects and such right now? Google Wave (but obviously executed better than it was back in 2009). I want the integration of synchronous and asynchronous in one application - because I do act
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Computer Design Innovator, Dies at 91(nytimes.com)
1 points by ajdlinux 4y ago|0 comments
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by ajdlinux 4y ago
I'm involved in a community advocacy organisation that uses Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for public engagement. Facebook is a great platform for actually getting normal people to see our content and invite them along to our meetings
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by ajdlinux 4y ago
In Australia, our New Payments Platform (which has been rolled out to almost all banks at this point) allows you to set up an email address or mobile phone number as your "PayID", which negates the major advantage you mention for
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by ajdlinux 4y ago
It is operated by a private company, but as a former Federal Airports Corporation airport, the land on which the airport is built is owned by the Commonwealth and leased to the private operator on a 99-year lease.
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by ajdlinux 4y ago
Australia has federal legislation that applies state law to federal land, in general (the Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970). (Also, it's only major airports - state capital city airports, plus a handful of regional ai
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
A lot of people who have lived entirely in the x86 world are completely unaware that a single CPU architecture can have many, many, many different incompatible types of system architecture - x86 means a few sub-types of BIOS + UEFI-based PC
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
There's also the issue of performance-optimised assembly routines, which impacts many native libraries doing things such as crypto, image processing, etc.
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
The ACT Legislative Assembly's Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety has repeatedly raised the issue of access to standards, as have other state parliaments like WA. Little has been done about it, even though they're
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
Standards Australia continues to exist as a non-profit industry association - you're thinking of SAI Global, which was SA's for-profit services wing that got sold off.
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
Or you could just have the government itself develop the software in tandem with the tax regulations. Obviously, even that would still be easier and cheaper with a less complex tax code, but in this thread we're talking about "ope
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RFC 7282: On Consensus and Humming in the IETF (2014)(datatracker.ietf.org)
2 points by ajdlinux 5y ago|0 comments
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
From what I can tell from https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GccEmacs - enabling a JIT for Emacs Lisp
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
It's impossible to get a handgun licence for self-defence unless you work for a security company like Armaguard, who are only allowed to use guns for defence of property rather than bodyguard-style services.

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