Daniel Šmon @DanielSmon

“Congratulations, Australia! You have just trumped Canada (aka Tranada to some of us) on gender madness – and laughable though it may seem, it really isn’t funny. This madness must end” - @bindelj

** An open letter to @AlboMP ** Dear Prime Minister Albanese, Let’s get one thing clear: women are adult human females. You know it, I know it, you even said it in the lead up to the last election when asked “what is a woman” by Piers Morgan. But we have a big problem. I’m sure you have heard, last week, the Federal Court delivered its judgment in Giggle v Tickle, the “what is a woman” legal case that has been fighting in federal court for the past four years. To put it very simply, there are two sides to this case: women, adult human females, who want to ensure that woman is a single-sex category in law and women & girls have access to single sex spaces. The other side, which includes your human rights commission, insists that men who claim to be women are women in the eyes of the law. The full Federal Court sided with the man who claims to be a woman. Yes. A male won the “what is a woman” court case. Giggle v Tickle has turned Australia into an international laughing stock. This decision is seismic. It means women cannot run women-only businesses for women. It confirms that the ordinary meaning of sex has been twisted beyond recognition. It means men can be women in law. The Australian Human Rights Commission, captured by ideology, has weaponised the sex discrimination act against women, the very demographic it was enacted to protect. They’ve even argued in court that men who claim to be women need pregnancy protections. They’ve pushed the view that sex is a spectrum, changeable, and that anyone objecting is the bigot. Is this something you agree with? Do you, Mr Prime Minister, think men need pregnancy protections in the law? And there are real-world stakes here: Girls at school are holding their bladders all day, refusing to drink water, because boys who claim to be girls are in their bathrooms and they don’t want them there. Women prisoners are locked in cells with male sex offenders who simply “identify” as women. Female athletes are losing podiums, matches and safety. This isn’t inclusion - it’s the demise of women’s rights. Prime Minister, some of your ministers say, “we need to protect trans rights”. With all due respect, sir, your government can protect so called trans rights without stripping rights from women and girls. Every other citizen manages to exist without demanding access to the opposite sex’s protected spaces. Why not try to get “trans rights” without destroying the rights of women and girls? Have you ever even tried?  The fact that Labor hasn’t even mentioned Giggle v Tickle and women’s rights - while Liberals, Nationals, and One Nation politicians speak out - tells us everything. This week has been silence from the Labor Party. No trans visibility day parades on this one. No pride posts. Why? What don’t you want Australians to know? You boast about your 50 per cent women in cabinet. Good for you - you can accurately recognise what a woman is when it suits you. But the rest of us aren’t allowed to without fear of punishment. And can I ask, if you filled that cabinet with 50 per cent trans women, would you still call it equality between men and women? Think about that. While the UK, the United States and even New Zealand are waking up, rolling back the nonsense and restoring sanity and realizing that gender ideology is a failed experiment, your government is turning Australia into the laughing stock of the world. “Giggle v Tickle” isn’t just a punchline overseas - it’s proof Australia is upside down. I want to tell you something really important: If you will lie about something as obvious as men being women, we can assume you will look us in the eye and lie about everything.  Tell the truth. Fix the Sex Discrimination Act. Reinstate clear biological, accurate definitions of man and woman. Protect women, girls and single-sex spaces. Actually do something. Because, at the moment, Mister Prime Minister, I’m doing your job for you.

“‘Sometimes you just stop and go, I'm being taken to the highest courts in Australia over what a woman is - and losing - to a man,’ Ms Grover said.” Full article 👇

@m_schuetz @cptwunderlich I think compile times are similar to C++, but you're right about strictness. On the flip side, the compiler messages are extremely helpful and if it compiles - it pretty much works. Would love your review if you take a look!

@m_schuetz @cptwunderlich Your thoughts on rust-lang.org ?

@Joebfitz 100%, that's _my_ truth!

Emergency Spine surgery for Špela Urbanc gofundme.com/f/spine-surger…

@m_schuetz Congrats Markus!

@m_schuetz 👍👏is this work in a public repo/branch? Couldn't see it in github.com/potree/PotreeC…?

@m_schuetz @Convert3D Hey @m_schuetz, love seeing your experiments :). Curious, what are the LAS limits? For us and our customers having the data in LAS (actually LAZ) is really desirable because it allows them to more easily use the files in other tools/workflows.

Multiple MS Teams Accounts on the Desktop danielsmon.com/2020/04/02/mul…

Verifying myself: I am danielsmon on Keybase.io. -zbB-iwAStgXaQii8D6HPUVmPylmcm2ot38X / keybase.io/danielsmon/sig…

Microsoft just shipped WSL 2 and its built-in Linux kernel as part of today's Windows 10 Insider build. Support for Docker and "dramatic file system performance increases" are now available for testing. howtogeek.com/424886/windows… #tip @techmeme

Cyber Security References danielsmon.com/2019/06/13/cyb…

@m_schuetz I switch between Firefox and the new Dev EDGE based on chromium. So far so good - worth a look! :) developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsof…

Dear @Spotify, I've never heard of "The Clash". I don't care about "The Clash". Is there a way to stop hearing about them? I don't mind ads, but some ability to provide feedback on irrelevant/repeating/annoying ads would be appreciated.

The IEEE VR talk about continuous level of detail point cloud rendering in VR: youtube.com/watch?v=-QHksB… paper: researchgate.net/publication/33… source (essentials): github.com/m-schuetz/ieee… source (full): github.com/m-schuetz/Fenek

Someone raises a detail. You respond to detail. That person says “let’s not complicate things and go in to too much detail” Arghh!!! FFS

Creating Logins and Users in Azure SQL danielsmon.com/2019/04/19/cre…

Authentication to SQL Server on a VM in the Cloud danielsmon.com/2019/01/03/aut…