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Australis13

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  • Judge deems Trump's cuts to National Institutes of Health illegal

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  • I am glad to see this happening. Unfortunately a lot of the damage is already done, though - staff have been lost and may not be easily replaced, studies have been interrupted at critical points and cannot simply be resumed from where they left off, etc. At least this pushback from the courts may reduce the likelihood of further such cuts.

  • Microsoft’s Recall feature is still threat to privacy despite recent tweaks

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  • Interesting, I hadn't seen news about that Apple feature before... There seems to be a lot more press around Recall, which in turn amps up the amount of consumer attention and backlash.

    That said (and I wouldn't want Apple's "semantic search" even if I had an Apple device), I'd still trust Apple more to manage the dataset securely compared to Microsoft. The Apple ecosystem is far more strictly controlled, whereas in Windows it's more of a free-for-all (most people just used XP as an administrator, the UAC could be easily disabled on Windows Vista and 7, etc.). Especially with Microsoft's move to put advertising in Windows 11 and complete lack of security measures in the initial version of Recall, it is very hard to trust Microsoft in this regard.

  • Trump Appoints 22-Year-Old Ex-Gardener and Grocery Store Assistant to Lead U.S. Terror Prevention

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  • Gardening is one of my hobbies but I don't have much retail experience... Guess that's me ruled out then.

  • Pah!

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  • I think Christopher Heyerdahl is Canada's answer to Jeffrey Combs. Not only does he show up in Star Trek: Discovery (Season 3's "People of Earth"), but he plays three roles in the Stargate franchise (two recurring ones in Stargate: Atlantis) and another two recurring roles in Sanctuary (where a lot of other Stargate actors show up too).

  • Looking for a software suggestion

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  • Currently testing out Shiori. I have tried both it and Readeck on my Raspberry Pi 3B running 32-bit Raspbian 'Bullseye'. From an installation and performance perspective, Shiori is easier: 32-bit binaries are available and its web interface is a bit more responsive. If you are not running a 64-bit version of the Raspberry Pi OS, you have to build Readeck yourself (which I successfully did).

    The main attraction of Shiori over Readeck is that it has both a readable and archive view. The main downside for me is it lacks the read/unread feature of Readeck and Pocket (although that's apparently something planned for future and in the meantime, it's possible to workaround using tags).

    Both have a browser extension to enable capturing pages that contain Javascript and do not gracefully degrade. Both also have an export-to-ebook function that may suit your e-reader.

    Bottom line: if you have an RPi4 or later, then Readeck is probably want you want. If you're running an older Pi, though, Shiori may be a better option.

  • Are IDEs really like this ?

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  • Definitely #1. I've encountered #2 with a very specific IDE and #4 and #5 on occasion.

  • Trump Makes Wild Claim Canada Is ‘Considering’ Becoming U.S. State

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  • He's trying to normalise the idea of the US taking control of Canada. It's utterly insane, but if he repeats it enough plenty of people will just switch off or subconscious accept that Canada "should" be part of the US.

  • The world may never know

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  • My understanding was that DS9 (and I thought most, if not all, of Voyager) was made on film like TNG, then edited on videotape with effects added. Creating a HD version for them would be the same process as remastering TNG. As far as I know, the reason this hasn't happened is the cost involved.

    Edited to add: https://treknews.net/2017/02/02/why-ds9-voyager-not-on-blu-ray-hd/

  • Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.

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  • Based on https://fedia.io/m/selfhosted@lemmy.world/t/2206365/Alternatives-to-MZLA-Pocket I'm going to try Wallabag and/or Readeck. Probably the critical issue is whether you can self-host or not:

    • Wallabag has a paid public instance, but Readeck you'd have to host yourself until their public service launches later this year (see https://readeck.org/en/start)
    • Wallabag uses the Pocket API to transfer data (so I think you'd need to migrate before Pocket shuts down), whilst Readeck can import the file produced by a Pocket export.
    • Wallabag has phone apps, whilst Readeck is browser-only (does your e-reader support a browser?)
    • Readeck can export to ebook formats (so might be more useful for e-readers in this regard); not sure about Wallabag

  • Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.

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  • Really disappointed to lose Pocket. I am a big user of it and found it very convenient to save articles of interest as well as collecting anything that looked interesting that I might want to read. Have both the Android app and use it on the desktop.

    Now I'm going to have to find a substitute.

  • DHS considers reality show pitting immigrants against one another for citizenship

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  • Vile and dystopian.

  • US to ban Canadians from entering border friendship library

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  • Of the thousands of books tucked into the library’s stacks, one author has emerged as a patron favourite: Louise Penny, the bestselling Canadian novelist and creator of the detective Armand Gamache. ... Penny made headlines in recent weeks after donating C$50,000 (US$36,000) to help fund a new entrance to the library, an “elegant” solution to the diplomatic snafu created in wake of new restrictions. “I have the resources to help because of the support of American and Canadian readers. The least I could do is give back,” Penny said. “Plus, it’s like giving the finger to the current administration: you close one door, we will open another one.”

    This is exactly what I would do - make sure there is an accessible entrance on the Canadian side. Make it so that if the US really wants to be difficult, they have to put up a wall down the middle of the library.

  • Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online?

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  • That's not my office chair, it is ours. Good thing I like to stand a lot during wfh so that Miez can have it

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  • At least you could get away with using a chair cover and share the chair.

    I ended up getting not only a second chair, but an elevated cat bed too so that both my cats had somewhere comfy to sit whilst I was at my desk!

  • Army plans for a potential parade on Trump’s birthday call for 6,600 soldiers

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  • Unfortunately over the past 8+ years reality itself has demonstrated that it's far too unbelievable to be a movie script.

  • "Hello? Is this thing on?"

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  • One of mine very quickly learnt to jump onto my desk and get in my face when he wanted attention. The other (the lap cat) recently realised how effective that was and has started doing it too.

  • US: ICE deports 3 American children, say lawyers – DW – 04/27/2025

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  • The article itself notes that the mothers were not given adequate time and given the complexity of having children who are legally US citizens, it can be readily argued that due process was denied in these cases:

    One of the US children removed from the country has "a rare form of metastatic cancer" and was deported without medication or medical consultations, the ACLU said.

    Gracie Willis of the National Immigration Project said the mothers weren't given a fair opportunity to decide whether they wanted the children to remain in the United States. Willis said the 4-year-old and the 7-year-old were deported to Honduras within a day of being arrested with their mother.

  • US: ICE deports 3 American children, say lawyers – DW – 04/27/2025

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  • The cruelty is the point.

    If this gets to the courts and they determine that this was done illegally (which as far as I can tell it was), then I expect the Trump administration to refuse to do anything about it, just like they're doing with Garcia.

  • RESTORING EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND MERITOCRACY

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  • They've really doubled down on "evil is good and good is evil" (to paraphrase Isaiah 5:20).

    The efforts to correct for historical systemic prejudice and provide actual equal opportunity (which is a step towards the meritocracy they claim to want) is painted as being evil, whilst a return to the "equal outcome" (for the rich and white, regardless of skill or effort) is represented as good. They have deliberately gotten the two scenarios backwards in that EO.