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I'm not sure if this is petition is actually helpful. It is 4 years old and hasn't been updated to note the renewed focus on this legislation: https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/the-eu-could-be-scanning-your-chats-by-october-2025-heres-everything-we-know

Dr Turni has also co-authored anti-vaccination papers with two other University of Queensland researchers, Dr Peter Parry and Dr Nick Hudson. None of them are medical researchers. Dr Turni specialises in agricultural microbiology, Dr Parry in child psychiatry, and Dr Hudson in agricultural metabolic biochemistry.

I wonder where these were published. Any reputable journal should have rejected them outright since the authors are speaking outside their areas of expertise.

National Fire Ant Program general manager Marni Manning said Dr Turni's claims were not supported by credible science.... Ms Manning said the University of Queensland should consider what impact Dr Turni was having on its reputation as an academic institution.

Also, how is UQ not jumping up and down over this? Universities have staff training that addresses exactly these types of situations (ethics policies usually explicitly mention not publishing outside one's area of expertise) and they typically highlight how care must be taken to avoid connecting the university with personal views. At bare minimum I'd expect these academics to have had warnings from HR and the legal department as a result of this unprofessional behaviour.

Some of us do, but you can see their eyes glaze over the moment you mention Linux...

Not these days, at least.

I did go around telling people how much better 7 was over Vista at the time, though.

I fully expect tomorrow's update to include a sixth and possibly seventh cat.

You're forgetting that the cruelty is the point.

That's a rather unnecessary oversimplification. A lot of sleep apnoea sufferers are not overweight:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5181619/

I use Pi-hole, except that I originally retrofitted after setting up DNScrypt years ago to connect to Cisco OpenDNS. That's not the only DNS server you can use with it, though, and it's added more features since.

To use DNScrypt with Pi-hole on the same device, set DNScrypt to listen on 127.0.0.1:54 and point Pi-hole to that as the DNS server.

The only time I have ever had any trouble with this setup and DNS resolution is when the network is recovering from a power outage; there's a race condition somewhere between the Pi and my modem/router that I've never found the time to pin down (given outages are so infrequent I just haven't gotten around to it) and it's easily resolved by rebooting the Pi.

Evangelicalism encompasses many styles and streams—fundamentalist, holiness, Bible churches—but none are as dynamic and fecund as the Pentecostal sects. Each has a singular approach to MAGA, Trump, and Epstein, but none are more ardent than the Pentecostals. Disparaged as Holy Rollers and Tongues-Talkers for their highly emotional worship and ecstatic prayers, even by fellow born-again believers, numbering approximately 600 million worldwide, with ten percent of them in the US, making them the dominant strain of evangelicals. A subset of Pentecostals, called Charismatics, form the core of MAGA’s religious adherents. Within that group is another theological variant often called the “prosperity gospel,” referring to a teaching that purports health and wealth as marks of divine approval.

Being familiar with these types of Christians here in Australia, this checks out. This particular type always struck me as being emotionally driven (rather than using reason and logic to make decisions). It makes perfect sense that they're the majority of evangelicals that support Trump and MAGA.

Frustratingly I have just a few applications that are Windows-only and don't work under WINE. I've filed bug reports but haven't had the time to learn how to debug it myself, so am somewhat stuck dual-booting on one device for the near future (everything else is now Linux).

I know, but that year will be valuable for a certain family member who is stubborn and needs time to be eased into a new system. The problem is that now I have to set up a MS account for them just to get the extension!

Yes, I am likely to shift them to that as well.