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VB6 fans looking for a modern approach should try twinBasic which after many years is about to release v1.0 https://twinbasic.com/


Never seen this before - thanks. Looks interesting.


or possibly FortuneSheet which is an actively maintained fork of the original LuckySheet

https://github.com/ruilisi/fortune-sheet


At the Laracon it was estimated the new version 2 of inertia will be released in October with new features like multiple async requests, polling, infinite page scroll with smart background loader, etc



Robotic Process Automation (adaptable software automation of a previously human-controlled process)


Trillions lost if you compare Australia with Norway or Qatar resource tax levels.

$4.125 billion per year is one loss estimate between 2012 and 2020.

i.e. $33 billion over 8 years according to this parliamentary document (in the pdf there)

https://www.pbo.gov.au/publications-and-data/publications/co....

In this case the 2012 the Liberal party repealed a freshly enacted resources tax, after being voted back into power with scare campaigns "ax the tax" being one of them, except ironically it was actually income for the country, and a tax on the profits of resource extractors.

$4.125 Billion dollars PER YEAR gifted to extractors by the Liberals.

No wonder they all get given nice "jobs for our mates" at the resouce extractors after they get voted out.


Australia is burdened with ex-PM John Howard's fixed-price gas export deals until 2031.

500% domestic price rises.

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2024/06/japan-and-albo-rort...

"Cheaper" for the state of Victoria to re-import the gas already exported e.g. by Queensland to Japan at a loss (when subsidies and cleanup costs added - no security deposits to cover the cleanup of abandoned sites and offshore drilling rig abandoned offshore).

Liberal petro-lobbyists using their failed policies as a reason to start fracking farmland.

Gross failures in governance, because the entrenched system of post-politics "jobs for our mates" are awarded to the political stooges.

IIRC pretty much every single Australian mining or resources minister post-politics works for the same companies they gifted billions to as a legislator.


Victoria == East coast. (For anyone who doesn't know)



Ha :) I was looking at the gifs and thinking: they made i3 in the browser! Nice though.


Annoying how previous abilities are also being removed e.g. docking the windows start bar vertically on the side of the screen is no longer allowed in Windows 11, but is possible on Windows Server and Windows 10


Can confirm, running DNS66 on Android and I don't see any obtrusive advertising on that site at all.


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