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PCjs uses JavaScript to emulate a small collection of hardware and software that I grew up with in the 1970s and 1980s, allowing you to experience their slow CPUs, low-resolution displays, and primitive sound effects, all in the comfort and safety of your desktop or mobile web browser.
Over time, PCjs emulations have expanded to include selected IBM PC Compatibles and more classic machines, such as Minicomputers, Programmable Calculators, Terminals, and Arcade Games. To learn more or contribute to these very modest preservation efforts, visit the PCjs open-source project on GitHub.

If you consider your left half to be a Scylla and your right half to be a Charybdis then you get a narrow, dangerous straight to sail between your keyboard halves.

I've hung out with swans heaps in Australia and they've been almost entirely chill bros who will take food if offered but won't harass you for it. I wonder if different species have different demeanours, like how Canada geese are known for being especially aggressive.

The Software Engineering Stackexchange has a broader remit than Stackovrrflow, but still has the requirement that questions are not purely opinion based

Catbox is blocked by some Aussie ISPs at the DNS level,

What!? Why? Are our ISPs making their own choices of blocklists now?

I'd be surprised if they did, but curious what good you see in it?

Albanese labelled Tame "difficult" during a rapid-fire game, where he was asked to give one-word responses to a list of well-known figures at the Future Victoria conference in Melbourne on Wednesday.

I'm not sure I believe his retraction, but a politician agreeing to participate in such a game is, frankly, incredibly foolish.

I've always thought this fence was the most symbolic "fuck you" from the government to the people of Australia. I can't believe it's been ten years, I've barely heard anyone mention it since it went up.

You got me hopeful that there was new political conversation about it.

Utopia sure did, because of this (Wikipedia):

High-speed rail in Australia has been under investigation since the early 1980s.[1][2] Every federal government since this time has investigated the feasibility of constructing high-speed rail with speeds above 200 km/h, but to date nothing has ever gone beyond the detailed planning stage.

I'll believe it when I see it

Agreed, absolute numbers are not a useful comparison

The requirement to prove you can safely drive a car in order to use a much safer vehicle is bizarre. Given that it's not listed under the AMAQ recommendations, I assume that one came from the Royal Automobile Club. It seems a bit strange that the automobile club was included at all given that the originating incident had no cars involved.

This bit at the end seems important

According to the Department of Transport and Main Roads’ annual crash report, 307 lives were lost in 284 crashes in Queensland in 2025, the highest road toll in the state in 16 years.
This included 129 car driver fatalities and 44 passenger deaths, while “personal mobility devices” – which covers e-scooters – saw the fewest fatalities, with eight deaths. There were 38 pedestrians, 50 truck driver, 75 motorcycle/moped rider and pillion and 13 bicycle or ebike rider and pillion fatalities.
In the six months to 30 June last year, 1,455 drivers were hospitalised after a crash while 105 personal mobility device users were hospitalised with injuries.

(Disregard if you already know but)

Pidgin is (primarily) an XMPP client. There are a handful of excellent ones now and they're all intercompatible. There's been a tonne of recent experimentation and expansion of the protocol for modern use.

Tag yourself. I'm "large, rolling rock"

Can you recommend any panniers or features to look for?

Very happy to hear! I've looked into Movim before and am quite excited by what they're doing. I am hoping to see an F-Droid mobile app at some point, I haven't had much luck with PWAs in the past.

Message moderation

Experimental

https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0425.html

Space/"server"-specific permissions and permission hierarchies (users creating spaces and being able to assign moderators within them)

MUC associated voice/video chats that can be joined at will

"Servers", Matrix spaces. User created groups of conversations

Experimental

https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0503.html

So the claim is they were provocatively close to Australian waters, not in Australian waters, and the waters that they were close to are the EEZ which it's generally regarded that they are allowed to be in anyway?

All States may conduct military activities in the EEZ for peaceful purposes, including a foreign State, provided that the operating State has due regard to the rights and duties of other States.

If this is something other then fear mongering then I must be missing something.