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>> Avoid Microsoft Surface Laptops, which require patches to run Linux,

> But that screen on the Surface Laptop!

I've been considering the Surface Laptop for the 3:2, high PPI screen. According to this [0] so long as you have a recent stock kernel, the only things that don't work are pen and touchscreen (touch screen requires kernel patches on Intel arch, AMD doesn't support at all). I can live without both.

[0] https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Supporte...

Another change i think would be helpful for beginners is ability to set the road category e.g. only guess tertiary and greater roads

FYI, I received this email from my .au domain registrar (not AWS) a week ago:

Hey, just a quick update on your .au domain(s). Our backend provider for .au is changing their backend provider, and they'll be sending two emails explaining the move (as required by the .au registry): one on December 20th and the followup on January 18th. To be clear, absolutely nothing will be changing to your account, and you don't have to do anything with the emails... they're purely informational. We're just preemptively letting you know so you won't be alarmed.

And yesterday received an email from Hexonet like the one quoted by OP.

A fascinating presentation by Geoff Huston, chief scientist at APNIC.

From the abstract: "...looking at the economic thinking that lead to anti-trust legislation in the United States over a century ago and its application into today’s world. Do these digital giants [FAANG] pose a distortional threat to markets for good and services in this digital space simply by virtue of their size?"

Thanks for the list!

> You can buy a used Pixel 3a for around $80 on Ebay

It's worth noting that GrapheneOS recommend Pixel 4a or newer for best support: https://grapheneos.org/faq#recommended-devices

slightly offtopic, but something that bugs me about OTA broadcast DTV is the program guide. (I'm in Australia which uses DVB-T, other standards may differ). The guide is so slow to load, regardless of the TV set. It also seems to require the TV to scan each channel to pickup that channel's guide data so you're left with gaps in the guide data until the TV has scanned each channel. It seems like a missed opportunity. If we're going digital, why can't guide data be instantly available for all channels?

It was only a matter of time https://twitter.com/addiiceland/status/1374634903321649154

I guess it was only a matter of time, the more popular it became. I have Youtube Premium and still use this utility every day for legitimate reasons (converting talk videos to audio file that I can listen to offline). Sad day for youtube-dl but I expect there will be many contenders to fill the void.

Mozilla senior leadership have also been caught up in the politically correct mantra that pervades much of silicon valley, which imho is a huge distraction from making great products. Case in point: https://mobile.twitter.com/newstephen/status/106048929137627...

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24170366

Recent update: "We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools."

https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/128359184646423347...

> it asks me everytime I open the app

According to this, the prompts should settle down to once every 14 days:

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059792-Si...

On a related note: Alice Springs Airport, in the centre of Australia, is being used by Singapore Airlines to store unused aircraft due to it's dry environment.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-28/during-coronavirus-pa...

I'm confused. Parent was asking about virtual background. I've checked with meet.jit.si using Chrome and there is no virtual background option in the menu.

I just did a quick test using latest Jitsi meet running in Chrome and it does remember my external webcam settings (saved to browser localStorage). Looping audio is something that happens on alternative platforms too, so I'm not sure that's a fair criticism of Jitsi.

> seeing we are a PHP shop it was the obvious choice

A Google search for 'php saml' has php-saml as the top result. I'm curious to know why you chose simplesamlphp over php-saml ?

Only the first sound file plays for me!? Using Firefox on desktop and mobile.

> In Australia, in Queensland, we've been trying to get this outdated state to start using daylight savings for years.

Speak for yourself. I live in the south east and don't want DST.

> 95% of the population is in the south east.

That's not accurate - where did you get that figure? Regardless, Western Australia has an even greater percentage of its population in the southern part of the state than Queensland, and it voted against DST four times over the last 40 years.

> it's so bloody hot here in summer.

Not to mention by the time you go to bed the temperature is cooler without DST.

The state of Queensland just introduced Australia's toughest penalties: AUD$1000 fine and four demerit points for touching your phone when behind the wheel (even when stopped at lights).

You should also enable ICMP (or at least some of it) - see http://shouldiblockicmp.com/ for explanation on why this is important for IPv6

  ip6tables -A FORWARD -p icmpv6 -j ACCEPT

> cloudflare is doing something similar on 1.1.1.1 with wireguard.

The primary maintainer of Wireguard had some misgivings about that: https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2019-March/00404...

It's curious that RHEL/CentOS 8 is using nftables instead of iptables by default and yet the next release of Fedora will continue to use iptables.

Yahoo.com DNS servers are currently timing out all requests from where I am (for the last 15mins at least).

Unless you live in Townsville, Queensland which currently has high unemployment and a new coal mine scheduled to be constructed nearby.

Not suprising given the article only mentions one city council doing this.

As the recent federal election clearly demonstrated, the proportion of Australians who 'hate the current leadership' is a lot smaller than previously imagined.

Australia exporting coal to India and China is far more likely to be having climate change impact than anything it might be doing domesticaly in terms of power generation.

Not to mention superior sound quality! I've been listening to classical music on Spotify and it sounds awful to my ears using headphones, even with so called HD audio enabled.

>> Everyone is self-interested

> Is there a citation I can refer to about this statement?

'The Book of Life', page 1

This article pertains to North America. In Australia there is less distinction between crows and ravens. Australian crows/ravens are infamous for their loud and obnoxious call precisely timed to interrupt your afternoon nap!