@davewiner The cynical side of me says that Murdoch has got the PM’s ear.
@davewiner It’s an attempt by the federal government to prop up media organisations that don’t realise that their inability to monetise is not the fault of Facebook or Google.
I’m no fan of either company, but I find this propose law disturbing.
On Ordered Lists in Markdown: lmika.org/2020/09/01/on-…
@starbuxman Yeah, I had a pen-pal growing up as well. Unfortunately, I treated it like all other social interactions where I wrote to them twice, then never again afterwards.
If Google does this to the Pixel 4, just what do they expect for the Pixel 5?: lmika.org/2020/08/07/if-…
@karaswisher @jack Sceptical of Twitters motivation here. Everyone wants to promote openness when they’re on the back foot. Once they’re in a position of strength, suddenly it’s not a priority anymore. Feels to me like the open internet is just used as a pawn here.
From ABC’s Coronacast: Melbourne’s Stage 3 restrictions in July prevented 20,000 infections and 3-4x no. of deaths and hospitalisation. Without them we would have had 3,000-4,000 new cases on the day we had just over 700. abc.net.au/radio/programs…
@Laurie_Garrett If this really happens, this pandemic would have been worth it.
@coder_bec Yep, I agree completely.
@djrothkopf Can’t say I’m surprised. A few states/territories have managed to suppress the virus reasonably well (Tas, NT) and I doubt the state/federal gov would want throw that effort away. I’m certainly not expecting the border to open for overseas travel this year (maybe to NZ).
@DivZero_ My favourite time of day is actually 13:37. I also find myself looking at the clock at that exact time more often than I would usually expect.
@DustinScherer @marcoarment (Groans) This is why web developers can’t have nice things.
@djrothkopf I think you’re exactly right, @djrothkopf. From my vantage point abroad, I can’t help think that a small part of the behaviour of US police forces is due to the fact that anyone can be armed. Get rid of the guns, and there’s no need, or excuse, for their violent behaviour.
Open letters are nice and all, but if these employees are serious in their concern of Facebooks direction, they would also be updating the resumes. twitter.com/MikeIsaac/stat…
Should probably say that this is for phones with unskinned Android system UIs, like Pixel. I don’t know what needs to be done for skinned devices.
For those of you with Android phones who want to hide the CovidSafe notification while leaving it running, go to “Settings -> Apps -> Show all apps -> CovidSafe -> Notification -> Foreground service”, then turn on “Minimise”. t.co/TykrXFtXw… 
@DivZero_ Congratulations, @DivZero_ . I’m sure you’ll do well there.
@DivZero_ @coder_bec The whole motivation for this was that any syntax error stopped the webpack watcher. Because it’s covered by the IDE, I don’t see the error and I get confused when I don’t see my code changes in the browser.
@DivZero_ @coder_bec I put together an Arduino shield with two sets of red, yellow and green LEDs. It comes in handy when messing around with JS. The webpack watcher runs in the shell behind the ide. It turns on the yellow led when “compiling” and turns on either green or red based on syntax errors.
TIL that minute (60 sec) and minute (small) are spelt the same way. Now when I see headlines beginning with “Trump owns a minute stake…” I now know it’s not referring to a serve of meat of questionable quality.
A few thoughts about the pandemic and how I personally hope to face it mentally: lmika.org/posts/2020-03-…
Interesting times when instead of going to the gym today, I worked on a gym log app, and didn’t feel bad about it #SocialDistancing .
@robot_or_not @jsnell @siracusa Suggestion: if it’s Wednesday, when is “next Saturday”? 3 days from now or next week? Likewise for “last Saturday”?
@DivZero_ At least they came back with quotes. Still waiting for mine.