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[–] brisk@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Australia's system is IRV (for the federal government / lower house). Schulze is significantly better.

IRV has the tendency to eliminate moderate candidates in the first round (only first preferences count in the first round) which is often where Condorcet candidates lie.

IRV doesn't enforce two parties like FPTP but it still promotes polarisation.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 18 points 1 week ago
[–] brisk@aussie.zone 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Debian votes using the Schulze Method, which is a Condorcet method..

Condorcet methods attempt to answer the question "who would win if we asked everyone to vote on every pair of candidates". Most of the variations between methods deal vary only where there are cyclic preferences e.g. people vote B over A, A over C and C over B.

They're broadly considered the fairest voting systems available and they permit a candidate that everyone thinks is okay to win over polarising candidates (unlike first past the post and IRV, but like approval voting).

Back to the numbers, the big table is the reconstruction of the pairwise votes (people actually vote by ranking candidates but the ordering is taken to show your pairwise preferences)

Below that is the Schulze process steps being carried out. At the bottom the "Schwartz set" is the set of top, cyclic candidates. There is no cycle so there is only one candidate remaining and therefore a Condorcet candidate wins (the one people in general vote over everyone else).

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not something people reasoned their way towards, it's constructed propaganda from the Fox News or Prager U crowd (I forget which). They discovered a long time ago that if they want their audiences to hate something that they can just straight up lie about what it is.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's a start stand up button?? I've never seen that - what does it even do?

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The important bit is further down

Our Phillips tips follow the ISO 8764-1 standard, which is compatible with the JIS standard B 4633. In fact, of the three main standards, ASME, ISO, and JIS, the least strict standard is JIS. As shown below, the JIS dimensions almost all fall within the ASME or ISO acceptable dimensions. Therefore, any Phillips screwdriver, such as our new Tekton Phillips screwdrivers, can be made to meet JIS standards. In fact, you should expect that all well-made drivers that meet the ASME or ISO standards will also meet the JIS standard.

But yes, this doesn't make clear if this has changed over time.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

And yes, I used a Phillips screwdriver in JIS and vice versa multiple times.

That's totally fine actually

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 9 points 3 weeks ago

Interesting topic, awful article. Three photos, none of which are of the subject of the article, and all of which are captioned with the article title instead of real captions?

Here's the actual car:

I got it from this much better article from TechCrunch

And here's the the associated project, noRecognition. It's a run of ai adversarial clothes.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If it helps there's a standalone version of the logic.

At a rough scan, it looks like it tries to find a best guess "main content" node by stripping unlikely nodes and then scoring each node. Element type and content contribute to the score

/**
       * Loop through all paragraphs, and assign a score to them based on how content-y they look.
       * Then add their score to their parent node.
       *
       * A score is determined by things like number of commas, class names, etc. Maybe eventually link density.
       **/
[–] brisk@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Add a photo if you can.

From this disassembly video it looks like a typical single cell LiPo battery. This wiki page describes it as a LiPo 3.7V 800mAh. Any LiPo that matches the voltage (which should be any 1 cell LiPo) that physically fits should be fine.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I haven't had the chance to watch, but according to the comments it's Barnes Hut.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The origin of the hobby 3D printer is the RepRap project, a community open hardware project. Josef Prusa was actively involved. The first printer the company actively sold - the Prusa i3 - is still on the RepRap website.

They got a bit more restrictive with their licencing terms in the recent past which is both understandable and a bit of a slap in the face to where they came from, but they're still the most open 3D printer manufacturer.

(Not the most open 3d printer though, that award has to go to DIY only models like the Voron)

 

If you’ve been around, you might’ve noticed that our relationships with programs have changed.

Older programs were all about what you need: you can do this, that, whatever you want, just let me know. You were in control, you were giving orders, and programs obeyed.

But recently (a decade, more or less), this relationship has subtly changed. Newer programs (which are called apps now, yes, I know) started to want things from you.

 

There is an ongoing trend in the industry to move people away from username and password towards passkeys. The intentions here are good, and I would assume that this has a significant net benefit for the average consumer. At the same time, the underlying standard has some peculiarities. These enable behaviors by large corporations, employers, and governments that are worth thinking about.

 
 

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices. Not only is the company reintroducing new versions of old features which would allow police to request footage directly from Ring users, it is also introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices.

 

The GSM Association announced that the latest RCS standard includes E2EE based on the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol, enabling interoperable encryption between different platform providers for the first time.

 

Highlights:

Krishnan told Ars that "Meta is trying to have it both ways, but its assertion that Unfollow Everything 2.0 would violate its terms effectively concedes that Zuckerman faces what the company says he does not—a real threat of legal action."

For users wanting to take a break from endless scrolling, it could potentially meaningfully impact mental health—eliminating temptation to scroll content they did not choose to see, while allowing them to remain connected to their networks and still able to visit individual pages to access content they want to see.

According to Meta, its terms of use prohibit automated access to users' personal information not just by third parties but by individual users, as a means of protecting user privacy. Meta urged the court to reject Zuckerman's claim that Meta's terms violate California privacy laws by making it hard for users to control their data. Instead, Meta said the court should agree with a prior court that "rejected the argument that California law 'espous[es] a principle of user control of data sufficient to invalidate' Facebook’s prohibition on automated access."

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