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by sjy 8mo ago
No counterparts worldwide? Here in Australia, all significant case law has been published on AustLII, which is freely accessible and searchable, since about 2000. I think CanLII and NZLII are equally comprehensive. Government law publishers
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by sjy 11mo ago
“Chat Control” is a pejorative name used by the law’s opponents. Its official name is the Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse.
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by sjy 1y ago
I'd complain to Google about this, maybe through a lawyer if needed to get them to take it seriously. They won't accept full responsibility, and in general people need to be aware of the risk of spoofed email, but Google should be
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by sjy 1y ago
The article says an email including Goldberg’s signature block was copied and pasted into a text message from Hughes.
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by sjy 2y ago
That's partly because the dominant platform for electronic conveyancing, PEXA, has a monopoly. Only licensed professionals who pay subscription fees can access PEXA. This removes competitive pressure on conveyancing fees because self-r
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by sjy 2y ago
I’d say a small law firm. They don’t have a security team, they’re routinely targeted by phishers, and their data is easier to convert into money than the huge mass of (mostly completely uninteresting) data fed into ChatGPT.
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by sjy 2y ago
That's fine if you control the endpoint and want to expose ssh on it, but WireGuard endpoints are also commonly available from VPN providers who don't provide shell access.
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by sjy 3y ago
That generally doesn’t happen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_criminality
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by sjy 3y ago
> that is insane that the average american lives in a home that they own by the time they're 35. That is so far and wide not the case here in Australia. The stats seem pretty similar here – 50% of 30-34 year olds owned their own hom
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by sjy 3y ago
This is addressed in the linked source, although that wouldn’t be obvious if you’re not familiar with Australian work health and safety law: > the re-emergence of silicosis in engineered stone workers is also due to a failure of complian
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by sjy 3y ago
> So, does the defense get to subpoena the logs, and depose a programmer to explain why some random request returned a 502? In theory yes, but you can get some idea of how it worked in practice from the transcript of the trial of Seema M
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by sjy 3y ago
The US Code is divided into numbered titles, sections, paragraphs and subparagraphs which can link to and incorporate each other by reference. This tree structure is reflected in typographic conventions which visually distinguish operative
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by sjy 3y ago
Goodwill refers to the part of the price that is based on "looking at the current annual income and projecting growth over a few years." It's the value over and above what you would get if you emptied the company bank account
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by sjy 3y ago
The UK telecommunications regulator, Ofcom, publishes some useful annual research on this topic [1]. According to the media use and attitudes report 2023 [2]: > Smartphone ownership shifts markedly in [the children aged 8-11] group, whic
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by sjy 3y ago
What about a ransomware, phishing or data breach victim? Cybercrimes are often committed by organised criminals and investigating them seems like the most obvious reason for the DOJ to issue a subpoena to PyPI.
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by sjy 3y ago
An excellent source of information on the motives of UK legislators for passing this legislation, other than the incompetence and malice hypothesised in the other comments, is this parliamentary research briefing from 2022 [1], which summar
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by sjy 3y ago
If the terrorists and child sexual abusers move to Telegram or some other more underground app, the Online Safety Bill will have partly achieved its purpose: to make social media safer for normal people using mainstream social networks. Cur
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by sjy 3y ago
Fine-tuning requires you to train the model with a set of prompts and desired completions. Building a suitable dataset is not trivial and it's not clear what it would mean to use a book for fine-tuning anyway – masking sentences and pa
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by sjy 3y ago
These restrictions go away once you get 200 reputation on any Stack Exchange site. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/141648/what-is-the-...
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by sjy 3y ago
Run text-generation-webui with llama.cpp: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
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by sjy 3y ago
It’s common – you accept a reduced salary in exchange for the fringe benefit. It works particularly well for FBT-exempt employers like charities and state health departments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salary_packagi
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by sjy 3y ago
In 2021-22, fuel tax raised $18.2 billion, of which $6.89 billion (38%) was returned as fuel tax credits. https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_depart...
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by sjy 3y ago
Rather than assuming bad faith, I think it makes more sense to treat these documents like the codebase for a large open source software project. Perhaps there are reasons, not apparent to someone who hasn’t spent months working on the code
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by sjy 4y ago
> If the insured sues the insurance company, the company can bring their engineers as witnesses to explain how the denial logic has been coded. Sometimes I wonder how useful this option is in practice. The British Post Office scandal [1]
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by sjy 4y ago
It was not really a tactic, they didn’t believe the federal government had the legislative power to effect prohibition without it: https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/1201/what-were-t...
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by sjy 4y ago
> The legislation contains what critics have called “a spy clause.” It requires companies to remove child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) material or terrorist content from online platforms “whether communicated publicly or privatel
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by sjy 4y ago
> a constitution or charter that is extraordinarily difficult to modify, and a court system whose decisions can’t be overturned by the elected government Remember Brexit? It took them almost four years to achieve after the referendum, in
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by sjy 4y ago
Source shows the opposite: although Australia is declining in the rankings, it remains in the top 10% of least corrupt countries.
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by sjy 4y ago
The trustee has to prove that the transferee lacked good faith, which includes “when the information the transferee learned would have caused a reasonable person in the transferee’s position to investigate the matter further.” The companies
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by sjy 4y ago
Interesting question. https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHR/comments/h9vavc/doesnt_griggs...

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