That’s pretty clearly just a badly thought out label for the program though, there’s other similar things under their own separate and similarly poorly named headings. I’m also not sure it’s fair to draw that conclusion about the attitude of the government from that example - there’s a whole bunch of gender-neutral support groups on that same page, including the very first entry:

Safe Steps provides specialised support for individuals facing family and domestic violence, regardless of age, gender, ability, or cultural background. We’re here to listen, understand your situation, and guide you to safety.

That a program exists specifically to help male abusers via therapy isn’t an endorsement of the idea thst female abusers don’t exist, it’s a sign that Australia follows the abuse trends of every other country, where men are orders of magnitude more likely to be violent abusers.

Male access to therapy is fucking terrible across the entire world, so a specific program set up to help remedy that, even in a way with a narrow focus, is not what I would call a problem.

In any belgain-style (big squares) waffle maker, yeah. Don’t work very well in the smaller size waffle makers. Highly recommend trying it! They freeze and reheat in a toaster super well, too.

Liege waffles are made from Brioche (yeasted & risen), so the dough is very dense and they have pearl sugar mixed in which gives them a delightful crunch while you eat them! Apparently you don’t normally add toppings, but maple syrup is too delicious for me to worry about the mild anachronism.

Good grief you’re still here downvoting? You really just can’t let this go?

Hell, you’re downvoting comments where I list the ‘web searches’ I did, and my sources, and my reasoning… This kinda feels like maybe you’re just not willing to accept that this is a complex situation?

(edit: lmfao, called it)

If you are pregnant it can wildly affect your lab results, too.

Real answer: in most other countries you can be punitively sued, ex: if a person wants to recoup the emotional damages from being crippled. You can also, depending on the country, be made to cover the cost of services provided by the medical system if you were found to be at fault (I don’t know how often that happens for an individual vs. a large company, but that’s how the rates were explained to me by a UK colleague)

And aside from the concern about a fetus, it can mess (very dramatically) with your lab results.

She did get support though, just the wrong group. Gendered services aren’t really the issue here, that aspect seems like it worked fine except that she was referred incorrectly.

An aside, but gender division of services is not inherently problematic. Most DV support is done through the same organizations, but male and female DV care has very different needs. The number of men who seek DV support because they are actively at risk of grievous physical harm is vanishingly small, for example; men are generally at risk of losing housing, medical care, are being prevented from accessing their residence or their children are at risk and so male DV support is set up to provide those because that is usually what men most urgently need addressing. This is very counter to womens DV support, which is almost always about removing them from imminent harm ASAP and everything else is secondary. Connecting people to systems designed to provide what they likely most urgently need is critical to providing DV care, and errors can be then corrected once the urgent issues are addressed.

There’s no perfect solution, and unfortunately going with what statistically will improve responses is the best you can hope for. Incredibly rare cases like this, which could have been resolved by simply speaking to the social workers involved, should not be the reason the whole system is slowed down - the solution here is just to make sure people are recorded as their correct genders.

Ms Wylder is now questioning why Victoria Police prioritised defending the case for more than two years.

Presumably because the court system is broken? Two years for lawsuits against a public service is almost fast for the canadian court system. IDK this seems… Like, yeah, the system was clearly broken - but it wasn’t like they even misgendered her solely on the basis of anti-trans bias, they even recorded her as potentially being pregnant. It seems like the system just made a mistake, or referenced another system that hadn’t updated her gender.

From working with these systems, social service referrals are not handled by the police - that is given over to another agency, who match against their own records to confirm identity instead of taking the information from the police reports. This is done because the cops are idiots who write things down wrong all the time - it just seems like in this one instance the cops recorded things right and the referenced systems did not have the correct gender information for her yet (possibly because it had not been officially changed?)

Honestly this really seems like the cops didn’t screw up, it was the social service group that did the referral who borked things - which may be why the cops fought this, it’s not like there’s tons of examples of them handling transgender-involved anything correctly…

All I’m seeing is this:

The administration can articulate and enforce its requirements and needs vis-à-vis technology providers. This applies to product features (functions, operating options, availability, information security & data protection, etc.) as well as contract design and license models.

Maybe it’s a translation error, I’m sorry I just can’t find where they talk about that. I know this is a bit tedious but I would really like to be wrong about this - I know some of the devs involved, and mostly they are poor poor. I would very much like to know that their effort isn’t being exploited, as it so often is. So far, digging into this far more than I should (this is a cry for help) I still cannot find any actual statement that they do contribute to the source beyond maybe planning to submit pull requests? If you have a concrete example of what they’re doing I would be overjoyed to see it, but so far they’re doing the depressingly common thing of barely even paying lip service to the idea of supporting the core FOSS project devs.

Depends on your definition of “damn near everywhere” I guess.

Well I suppose that’s fair. It would be nice to have an understanding of that ambiguity extended towards my own comments, but sure. For example here:

I think it’s pretty silly to hear someone say something is everywhere and assume that someone meant that the entire US is covered by only this exact type of road.

Which isn’t even what I’m doing.

I think there are some real issues with the assumptions here - you’re trying to claim that these kinds of development are common, something I’ve already said I agree with. But population density has never come into this until you brought it up, and that urban areas contain the majority of the population hasn’t been contested either. Your own initial claim was narrow in scope (though I would still very much argue they’re misinformed), but they were made in support of an absurd claim and that’s primarily what’s being discussed.

Incidentally while the prior claim was never “most people live within ten miles of a development or developed road like this” this is a claim you could absolutely support by just going to the collected data and doing the analysis yourself (ideally before the trump admin takes it all down…) using (I recommend) QGIS (another GIS modeling tool will work too, just never ever arc. Fuck arc, and especially fuck that sexist POS Jack Dangermond). This isn’t hard, it’s on the level of a freshman GIS assignment, and I wholeheartedly encourage you to learn about it because GIS is extremely cool and important! (Helpfully there are plenty of people that have already done analysis on questions extremely similar to or identical to this which you can use as examples).

I will also very happily help you with this if you would like to DM me, I have a GIS course coming up and this will make an excellent introductory assignment so it would be very useful to run through it before developing it into actual coursework.

(Side note: If 80% of the population lives within an urban area, why does only 25% of the population live within 1/2km of a high-density road? It’s not a gotcha I promise, it’s just that the difference in definitional scope between the wikipedia page and your first claim about 25% of the population is really stark and it’s a great example of why you can’t simply conflate two datasets and draw conclusions from the results - there does need to be some effort expended on ensuring that the data does indeed say what you mean it to say)

Mate the argument isn’t that the entire US looks like this.

But it’s damn near everywhere in the US and it’s ugly as sin.

That is exactly the argument that was made. Population density has never come into this. Also the basis that nearly everyone lives within 5-10 miles of a scene like that is a (simplistically, because we’re talking about structures on a line) 10-20 mile stretch without that kind of development (so definitionally not the whole US) and a claim you have nothing on which to base it except that 1/4 of people in the country live in the big cities - which is not news.

If that can be done without (the only phrase I know for it is “Digital colonialism”: where a group takes effective control of another project because they have paid devs to throw at it. Descriptive but a bit dramatic.) that would be a huge help. To a degree that’s what they’re doing, releasing their in-house developments based on the LibreOffice source on their OpenCode platform, but I have yet to see anywhere that shows/says they’re supporting said original developers they’re relying on themselves (though in this process I have had my lacking german skills pushed to their limits).

I laud the effort to oust microsoft, but I have yet to see any of these efforts come to fruition in a “my friends can afford to eat now that their code is running huge parts of the government of the 3rd largest economy in the world” way.

Are they? My business german is a bit awful so I very well may have missed it, but I can’t find any mention of their contributions to the source projects on that site, or in their most recent strategy documents. Do you mean they’re actually doing that, or that they should be the ones doing it?

From their “Our Mission” page it seems clear that they develop on top of existing projects to suit the needs of their customers, which is fine:

ZenDiS builds its offerings on existing solutions, some of which have been proven millions of times over, and develops them further in collaboration with professional partners so that they permanently meet the requirements of public administration in terms of operation, performance, security, sovereignty, and user-friendliness.

But while their OpenCode platform lists their developments, I can find no evidence that they have contributed to the sources either collaboratively or monetarily. I could very well have missed it, again mein deutsch ist nicht gut, but I did look pretty hard into this and I can’t find where they’ve stated that’s what they’re doing. Is it referenced elsewhere and I simply did not find it while searching for it?

… I think I understand what you mean and that’s probably a good approach, but good grief the initial read of "governmental groups committing changes to main that enable AI for greater bureaucratic compatibility " is one of the most stressful things I can think of.

Wow, overly insulting much? I’ll just stick with Libreoffice as the example here since I don’t want to get into “cops using ubuntu”:

Tech support for FOSS solutions exists and is completely separate of the grants I mentioned.

The Document Foundation does not provide professional support services for LibreOffice. It does, however, develop and maintain a certification system for professionals of various kinds who deliver and sell services around LibreOffice.

So no, their hypothetical outlay for tech support can’t go to supporting The Document Foundation, that isn’t something offered. Instead it will go to commercial services built around that core piece of FOSS.

Why wouldn’t that be enough?

Because modern software suites aren’t static products. Security updates alone are a huge outlay of effort, and that is currently being done entirely by free volunteer labor. I know that most modern countries were developed through the exploitation of free labor, but I’m pretty sure we’ve agreed that’s a bad thing to do and in an article about how they’re saving a ridiculous amount of money, there is no mention that any of that money saved will go to supporting the people enabling their espoused ideals of sovereignty and digital independence.

If the goal truly is independence and not just cost saving, why not redirect that budget to allow some of the actual workers to survive off their labor? And why do you think it’s okay for them to take that budget and give it to commercial, non-contributing interests instead?

Anyone else getting tired of everything being turned into a discussion of the US vs China? You’re not wrong, but OP came out and clarified this was a comment more spawned from Japanese and British imperialism and you went right back to talking about America vs China. The world is bigger than that one topic, why do we have to bring it up everywhere?

Hmm. Maybe I’m just cynical, but I have yet to see one of these “digital sovereignty” moves to FOSS software that appears to be anything more than a cost saving measure. It’s good to save money, sure, but shifting your government to rely on an already overbudened volunteer-run system is a recipe for disaster, and without reliable ongoing support (which one-time grants are not) this is not going to end well. By all means kick Microsoft, but where is that €15 million/year going now, and why is some portion of it not going to The Document Foundation?

I’m curious if the switch to FOSS software means they’re going to start supporting those projects, at least to some degree? I know quite a few FOSS devs for some very mainstream projects, and none of them make enough money to dedicate all their time to the projects. That lack of support really isn’t what you want in a government system. A lot of the costs from using M$ software is in the service contracts, not the site licenses, especially since it doesn’t sound like they’re moving the data infrastructure (excel integration and SQL server are m$'s other biggest money-makers besides office enterprise and azure). Even shifting a fraction of the savings over to the devs now doing the support work for your digital sovereignty would be awesome.

Yeah, and that’s fine - I wasn’t trying to represent this as anything, really, but especially not that it was somehow representative of broader trends off of lemmy.

(Huh, odd. It’s replacing it for me on lemmy mobile, boost and on PC. wonder why it’s not for you)