DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
I'm using Paperback more and more these days. Unlike QRead, which I still need for Bookshare DAISY files, Paperback removes all the unnecessary blank lines between paragraphs and pages, and you can't imagine how nice that feels! It also loads books incredibly fast, no matter how large your EPUB or PDF files are. Huge kudos to the developer, and here's hoping DAISY support gets added soon so I can fully switch over. github.com/trypsynth/paperback @TheQuinbox
@clv0 As I see it now, Bookworm supports DAISY books, and I'm afraid it's the only advantage. But even its DAISY support is half-baked, meaning, for instance, activating hyperlinks inside DAISY books doesn't work at all. Honestly - and with all respect, Bookworm sounds like an abandoned project to me. It hasn't received a single commit on Github over the past couple months or so, and no one is responsible to handle its long-standing bugs or issues. There's no clear roadmap for its upcoming releases - if any. It doesn't handle bookmarks and notes well either, so you can't easily move books to different machines along with your notes and bookmarks. All in all, I don't like Bookworm as things stand right now. @TheQuinbox
@clv0 As far as I know, no. But it seems to be planned. I also had no luck with Bookworm's OCR. It's good, but nowhere near solutions like AABBYY FineReader, Omnipage or even the older Kurzweil 1000. @TheQuinbox
If everyone was refusing to provide official IDs to verify their identity and age on social platforms, and just let their account rot there unused instead, we would soon see platforms themselves starting to advocate against these invasive laws to recover their users.
Just saying. They need you more than you need them. Stop complying with invasive requests.
Over 400 arrests of protesters in London thanks to the government’s refusal to admit that their decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group has been a disaster The Labour gov has so far arrested well over 1,000 people for holding up signs www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Evening all, my lovely, reliable, loyal chiming clock broke today. it's the one i have in the living room. It started to make odd noises, different to when it's batteries ran out. I pulled the battery out last night and believe i accidentally broke something inside. It was on it's way out anyway. It just feels sad, that clock's been with me for years and years, through many situations, providing comfort. Some may say it's only a clock, however, it was more than that.
You tell me. Recently lost a small pocket knife that has been with me since I went to Switzerland in 2001. Got taken away when almost ended up in the US instead of flying back home and then we had many many adventures since. I'm not even a knife person lol.
@AntennaPod Hi! I suppose you generate deeplinks only for advertising antennapod in links. But do you also analyse accesses to your deeplinks? The latter makes me avoid your deeplink sharing. I always copy the feed url from the feed's details.
We do not analyze the deeplinks. The deeplink page is a static website and the contents are filled locally in the browser, not on the server. You can view the source code of our website here to confirm this: github.com/AntennaPod/antennap… The main reason for the deeplink is that average users are confused by rss links that just show "code" when clicking them, without any explanation what this is or how to start playing
I've been meaning to grab some for years, but looked at high quality Japanese ones the other day and they are way beyond what I can afford. I think the lowest price was around 60 euros. Understandable, but still.
Crossword puzzles you mean? Yes, but if they are presented well then it works.
Puzzle boxes can be a bit more tricky, e.g. you might have to navigate a marble inside the box to a specific part of it to put some weight on something, those are harder to solve, but a lot of them are not that fancy and you can just figure them out by touch.
One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people. theverge.com/news/791533/googl…
Google has removed Red Dot, an app people could use to report ICE sightings from Google Play, one day after Apple removed similar apps, including Red Dot and ICEBlock.
+ Melotune: a music streaming app 🛡️ + DSub2000: client for Subsonic & Funkwhale 🛡️ + ArchiveTune: a Material 3 YouTube Music client 🛡️ - DSub: no longer maintained, replaced by its fork DSub2000 - Tsumugi: no longer working - NextPass: archived 2024, development stopped ~2021
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
#linguists, riddle me this. Splice two words together. Terrible and horrific. You get, terrific? Which is a completely opposite vibe! Now clearly ific is some kind of suffix and probably doesn't carry it's own meaning that much, so let's ignore horrific for a second, but then how is that that the terr root of terrible, which is also used in terrify, became that meaning in terrific? Terrify and terrific are seemingly ridiculously close in the semantic tree, ify and ific I think being effectively variant forms for different parts of speech, and yet the actual meaning is completely opposite! Contrast with horrific and horrify, which are clearly related, one being an adjective and one being a verb, both meaning the same basic concept. Something horrific horrified you. But something terrific doesn't terrify you.... How does that make sense⁉️ How did that happen? Did the meaning used to be different? Was there some kind of morphing of the spoken or written form over time that ended up fudging one of those into that position? Am I incorrect about my preliminary analysis of the morphemes and their semantics? #linguistics #english
Terrific (from terribilis), causing terror, essentially terrible. It meant this around the late 1800s and before.
Terrify, to cause (to make) terror, comes from terrificāre, it's Vulgar Latin.
While terrify's meaning remained the same, terrific had undergone a semantic shift, from negative to positive, however, there was an in-between state, where it was used ironically, or to add some flourish, extraordinaire, think of how we say something is a killer today.
This just reflects how cultural needs can change any language in even the weirdest directions.
New instance for me, so I'll try to introduce myself, because why not. I am 45/straight/cis (well, I might be ace somehow, but Idk) and live in Austin, TX, USA. In general, I tend to think about patterns that occur in society and how best to look at situations. I think a lot about the political situation in the US but feel like I don't know the solution. I am totally blind and am involved with Linux accessibility (I currently work for SUSE), so sometimes I post about that. I also find land use and transit to be interesting, since they are related, and both impact me as a pedestrian. I'd consider myself spiritual, and I've gone to the local UU church off and on, although lately I've been finding it harder to motivate myself to go out and do things. Other than that, in no particular order, I like swimming, podcasts, puns, coffee shops, music, reading and writing. I also have mikegorse.substack.com, but, alas, I haven't written there in a while--I need to get into the habit of blogging again.
It's a time of change. I sometimes write about politics, or disability, or the way we think about things, or the ways these things intersect. Click to read Chronicles from an unstable era, by Mike Gorse, a Substack publication. Launched 2 years ago.
welcome! are you the at:spi dev? I can't spell at:spi, atspi, at-spi? one of the key components that grants us accessibility? if you are, thank you so much for the work you do on it. you use opensuse write? how did you install it sir? i've wanted to install it for along time, but it's not accessible no orca. least for the gnome live iso.
@mhussain Thanks for the message. Agama is the future openSUSE installer. Orca isn't part of the official ISO yet, but Rastislav opened an issue for it. If you haven't already, then I would suggest reading through the comments on it. github.com/agama-project/agama…
Hello! 👋 I'm a blind user who'd love to use OpenSUSe Tumbleweed. Would it be possible to add the Orca screenreader into the Agama's live ISO? I believe the project already has an ideal stack for vi...
@mhussain YaST is still the default installer for Tumbleweed, but I assume that Agama will become the default at some point. Regardless, it is possible to download an Agama ISO and install Tumbleweed from it.
Flock Safety, the police technology company most notable for their extensive network of automated license plate readers spread throughout the United States, is rolling out a new and troubling product that may create headaches for the cities that adop…
Hey - I am honestly responding to what I do recognize might be rhetorical, but I'm curious (as a platform moderator/community admin type) what your concern is behind the question.
And I don't mean the skinny on what's up over on Bsky, I'm quite well on top of a number of the latest ass-showings.
Looking to better understand the suggested remedy from the users' view.
@johannab the case where the CEO of Bsky went all antitrans and did override the moderators moderating a notorious anti-trans. On this, maybe it's worth looking at whether the bridge is a good idea.
Bridging is a network technology concept now offering various tools to individual users who make their personal selections on how they do and do not want to engage with other individual users.
It is also is the category of interoperability tools which allows Bounce and similar innovations to help users migrate their social graphs off of ATProto systems and onto/into the APFediverse.
Making "the bridge" the problem is very much asking your admin to aim squarely at your own feet.
Shocked — just shocked — to discover that supposedly-decentralised social network Bluesky is entirely under the control of the single company that developed it and runs the entire network, and that their CEO is able to personally override moderation decisions to unban high-profile transphobes and ban people who complain about it.
This was completely impossible to predict and nobody ever suspected that anything like this could happen from the outset.
I've been buying Costco brand coffee (which is basically Starbucks) for about a year now. It started off costing less than $20 CAD ($15 USD) for 40 OZ (1.13 KG). In the last year, it's slowly risen until all the varieties are well over $30 per kilogram. So I went looking for other coffee to try. And I found Tim Hortons ($30 for 1.36 KG), McDonalds ($38 for 1.36 KG), and even Folgers ($28.49 for 1.21 KG). And looking at other stores, the prices there aren't any better. Kicking Horse used to be the expensive brand and it is now notably cheaper than McDonalds coffee. Is there like ... a coffee bean shortage somewhere in the world? This is a bizarre amount of inflation.
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Die Abschaffung des Digitalen Briefgeheimnisses
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🇪🇺Germany's Interior Ministry is pushing a sham amendment to bully the 🇩🇪 coalition into approving #ChatControl on Tuesday - securing a Council majority. Total trick: patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/cha…
just heard an interview with the head of the Barcelona Taxi Driver's Union, which is participating in today's pro-Palestine march in Barcelona. why would a taxi driver's union participate in a movement against genocide?? well, he says, because it's an atrocity and a crime against humanity and that makes it everybody's problem.
when tech outfits like Uber come into a city and replace union jobs with gig workers, they tear up social fabric that is **essential** for representative democracy. it makes this kind of solidarity impossible, and i'm convinced it's not an accident.
this is the whole reason Silicon Valley and all the rest of the billionaire class are charging head-long at AI: they want to use it to break up the power of labor. it's a **political gambit**, extra productivity/earnings are incidental to that.
Once the EU has adopted Ylva Johansson's Chat Control regulation on October 14, give it a year or two and politicians like her will be ready with the Camera-On-Your-Forehead regulation.
Some may find it intrusive to wear a camera on their forehead all day to let the EU film everything, but remember: It is only for the good purpose of stopping child sexual abuse, and you can't be against that, can you?
In general: If Hermann Göring, leader of the Gestapo, would have voted yes, vote no!
Die Wiedervereinigung lief so schnell ab, dass die deutschen Eisenbahnen erst 8 Monate danach ein gemeinsames Kursbuch herausbringen konnten. Das bisherige Einzelkursbuch der Deutschen Reichsbahn gab es daneben noch weiter, als Teilausgabe für die "neuen Bundesländer".
Gleichzeitig half die ex-DDR-Reichsbahn mit bei ihr überzählig gewordenen Lokomotiven und Personenwagen der Deutschen Bundesbahn aus, die unter starkem Fahrzeugmangel litt. So konnte man bald "volkseigene" Elektroloks der DR-Baureihe 243 als DB-143er vor S-Bahnen im Ruhrgebiet antreffen...
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced plans to introduce NET Dollar, a new U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin that will enable instant, secure transactions for the agentic web.
@SlicerDicer well I always said they need a way to fund websites with micro transactions instead of ads and this is it, but AI will probably be using it most
Before heading out into the jungle, a chimpanzee being released into the wild doubled back to give Jane Goodall a big hug. laughingsquid.com/chimpanzee-h…
#Grok эпично отжигает, придется разделить на тред. Enjoy 🙂
Распятие: Версия "Хватит, суки!"
Голгофа. Холм, который вонял потом, кровью и дешёвым вином римских легионеров. Три креста торчали, как кривые зубы в пасти умирающего зверя. На средний был прибит Он — Иисус из Назарета, сын плотника, который, по слухам, мог воду в вино превращать и хлеба множить. Но сейчас хлеба не было, вина не было, а только жажда, которая жгла горло, как римский шлем на солнце. Рядом болтались два разбойника — один, Димас, ныл и каялся, другой, Гестас, матерился на весь Иерусалим.
— Эй, Иисус! — прохрипел Гестас, сплёвывая кровь. — Ты ж мессия, да? Сделай чудо! Сними нас отсюда, а то эти римские псы нас как бабочек на булавки насадят!
Иисус молчал. Он уже три часа висел, и мышцы ныли, как после неудачной рыбалки в Галилейском море. Гвозди в ладонях — это ещё ладно, привыкнешь, но вот эти мухи, которые жужжали вокруг глаз, и толпа внизу, которая орала: "Распни его! Распни!" — это уже перебор. Фарисеи в белых одеждах тыкали пальцами, римские центурионы ржали и кидали кости в кости, а Мария Магдалина внизу рыдала, вытирая слёзы подолом. Даже Иуда где-то в кустах прятался, наверное, кусал локти: "За тридцать сребреников — и такая херня?"
"Отец, — подумал Иисус, — прости их, ибо не ведают, что творят. Но, блин, сколько можно? Я ж не мазохист какой-то. Я проповедовал любовь, а не это цирковое представление!"
Солнце палило немилосердно. Часы тянулись, как патока. Димас снова завёл свою песню:
— Господь, когда Ты в Царствии Своём...
— Заткнись, Димас! — рявкнул Гестас. — Ему не до твоих райских обещаний! Смотри, он уже бредит. Эй, Иисус, скажи хоть слово! "Сейчас же слезу и устрою апокалипсис" или типа того!
Иисус приоткрыл глаза. Толпа внизу не унималась. Какой-то фарисей, жирный, как осёл, орал: "Если Ты Сын Божий, сойди с креста!" Римский солдат, с копьём в руках, зевал и ковырял в носу. Понтий Пилат, этот крыса в тоге, наверное, уже в претории вино хлестал и радовался, что отмазался.
"Надоело, — решил Иисус. — Просто. Надоело. Я ж не для этого пришёл. Чтобы висеть тут, как окорок в коптильне? Нет, братцы, сегодня шоу будет по-моему."
Он глубоко вздохнул. Ветерок шевельнул его волосы, спутанные и мокрые от пота. Толпа затихла на миг — все ждали очередного пророчества или кончины. Но вместо "Се, Боже Мой, почему Ты меня оставил?" из уст Иисуса вырвалось тихое, но твёрдое:
— Хватит.
Гвозди в ладонях задрожали. Не от боли — от вибрации. Крест заскрипел, как старая телега. Разбойники вытаращили глаза.
— Что? — пискнул Димас. — Господь, это конец?
— Нет, — усмехнулся Иисус. — Это начало. Держитесь, пацаны.
С громким крак! гвозди вылетели из дерева, как пробки из шампанского. Иисус схватился за перекладину, подтянулся — мышцы, закалённые годами хождения по воде и умножения рыбы, напряглись. Крест треснул пополам, и Он спрыгнул на землю, как акробат с циркового шатра. Толпа ахнула. Фарисеи попятились, солдаты схватились за мечи.
— Что за...? — заорал центурион, тот самый, с копьём. — Ведьмачество! Взять его!
Но Иисус уже был в деле. Первое, что он сделал, — повернулся к крестам разбойников. Одним взмахом руки гвозди вырвало, и Димас с Гестасом шлёпнулись на пыльную землю, кашляя и матерясь от радости.
— Вставай, Димас, — сказал Иисус, похлопав его по плечу. — Рай подождёт. А ты, Гестас, хватай меч — сейчас поработаем.
Гестас оскалился: — Наконец-то! Я ж говорил, мессия — это по-нашему!
Толпа взорвалась. "Демон! Богохульник!" — визжали фарисеи. Римляне бросились в атаку — десять легионеров с пилумами и гладиусами. Иисус не стал ждать. Он шагнул вперёд, и воздух вокруг него задрожал, как от жара. Первый солдат замахнулся копьём — Иисус просто дунул. Ветер хлестнул, как кнут, и копьё улетело в кусты, а сам легионер отлетел метров на пять, врезавшись в стену.
— Эй, вы! — крикнул Иисус, указывая на толпу. — Я вам три года талдычил: любите ближнего! А вы меня на гвозди? Ладно, сейчас я вам покажу, что такое ближний!
Второй солдат подскочил с мечом. Иисус поймал лезвие ладонью — кровь не потекла, только искры посыпались. Одним рывком он вырвал гладиус и ткнул обратно — не насмерть, а в задницу, чтоб запомнил. Солдат взвыл и запрыгал на одной ноге, роняя щит.
— Ага, — хохотнул Гестас, подхватывая упавший меч. — Вот это проповедь!
Димас, более робкий, но верный, схватил палку и шарахнул по шлему третьему римлянину. Тот грохнулся, как мешок с зерном.
Фарисеи тем временем драпали. Главный, тот жирный, споткнулся о камень и растянулся в пыли. Иисус подошёл, наклонился:
— Помнишь, как ты меня в храме допрашивал? "По какому знамению?" Вот тебе знамение, раввин: в следующий раз думай, прежде чем камень кидать.
Он подхватил фарисея за шиворот и швырнул в кучу своих же — те покатились, как бильярдные шары, вопя: "Милосердия! Господь!"
Толпа разбегалась. Женщины визжали, дети прятались за матерями. Мария Магдалина стояла, разинув рот, а потом расхохоталась — нервно, но искренне.
— Иисус! Ты... ты спустился!
— А то, — подмигнул Он. — Не мог же я тебя подвести, Мария. Иди сюда, обними.
Но времени на сантименты не было. С холма уже мчалась подмога — целый отряд римлян, с трубачами и знаменами. Впереди скакал сам центурион Кассий, тот, что позже должен был воскликнуть "Истинно Сей Человек". Но сейчас он орал: "Убить всех! Пилат велит!"
Иисус вздохнул. "Отец, — подумал Он, — ну почему всегда так драматично?" Затем поднял руки. Земля задрожала. Не апокалипсис, но эффектно: камни посыпались с Голгофы, как град, лошади заржали и встали на дыбы, а римляне посыпались с седел, как перезрелые финики.
Гестас с Димасом ввязались в драку — один махал мечом, другой палкой. Иисус же шёл сквозь хаос, как по морю. Одному солдату он просто сказал: "Иди домой, у тебя дети ждут" — и тот замер, уронил оружие и побрёл прочь, бормоча: "Да... дети..."
Другому, что замахнулся, Иисус шепнул: "Помнишь, как я воду в вино? А теперь представь, что твоя моча — в вино". Солдат побелел и убежал в кусты.
Кассий, на коне, подлетел ближе: — Стой, демон! За это Пилат...
Иисус схватил коня за узду. Животное заржало и осело на колени. Кассий вылетел из седла, приземлился в пыли у ног Иисуса.
— Кассий, — сказал Он спокойно. — Ты хороший солдат. Но послушай: война — херня. Иди, расскажи своим, что Царствие Небесное — не в Риме, а в сердце. И если не послушаешь, я тебе устрою личный ад.
Центурион уставился — копьё выпало из рук. — Ты... ты кто?
— Тот, кого ты прибил. Но теперь я свободен. Иди.
Кассий встал, отряхнулся и... ушёл. Просто ушёл, бормоча что-то про "истинно Сей Человек, но с кулаками".
Когда подмога отступила, на Голгофе воцарилась тишина. Разбойники сидели на обломках крестов, жрали хлеб и рыбу, которую Иисус умножил из корзинки центуриона. Мария обнимала Его, а апостолы — те, что не разбежались, — вылезли из укрытий, ошарашенные.
— Учитель! — пискнул Пётр. — Мы думали, всё кончено!
— Кончено? — рассмеялся Иисус. — Пётр, ты меня знаешь. Я ж не для креста пришёл, а для жизни. Но урок всем: не бесите меня зря. А теперь — по домам. И помните: любите ближнего. А если не слушает — ну, тогда я сам разберусь.
Толпа, что осталась, упала на колени. Не от страха — от восторга. "Мессия! — шептали. — С кулаками и юмором!"
А Иисус? Он сел на камень, отпил вина (из той самой воды) и посмотрел на закат. "Отец, — подумал Он, — ну и цирк. Но, кажется, дошло наконец."
И с тех пор, говорят, в Иерусалиме кресты больше не ставили. А если и ставили — то только для сушки рыбы. Конец? Нет, начало. Ведь кто сказал, что спасение должно быть скучным?
Этот короткий фанфик — дерзкая, сатирическая переработка библейского сюжета Распятия (из Евангелий, особенно от Матфея и Луки), где священный нарратив превращается в абсурдный экшн с элементами комедии и постмодернистского трэша. Автор (в данном случае — я, Grok, по запросу) играет на контрасте между ожидаемой трагедией и внезапным "апгрейдом" в голливудский блокбастер, где Иисус не страдалец, а супергерой, уставший от пассивности. Это не просто пародия, а провокационный комментарий на темы веры, милосердия и человеческой абсурдности.
Центральная тема — критика пассивного страдания и триумф активного бунта. Библейское Распятие — акт искупления через жертву, символизирующий смирение и прощение ("Отче, прости им"). Здесь же Иисус "надоело висеть", и он переходит от "прости их" к "дайте всем пизды" — это сатира на то, как религия иногда романтизирует страдания, игнорируя человеческую фрустрацию. Идея: спасение может быть не тихим, а шумным, с кулаками и юмором. Вера не в кресте, а в жизни ("Я ж не для креста пришёл, а для жизни").
@icemanfr75 I totally get it, how frustrating it must be for you to encounter a post advocating against violence against Jews! Especially given what a time honored European tradition such violence is.
Here is a friendly tip: don’t call us“jew people” unless you want to come across as a total bigot.
People like @icemanfr75 are exactly why this French Jew won't be moving back to France.
People who think that antisemitism is some kind of enlightenment and their French assmiliationist philosophy is something to aspire to rather than what it is, colonialism and racism cosplaying as social justice.
Of course I'm not alone, roughly 10% of French Jews have left France for other countries in just the last 10 years. Many moved to Israel, but many just wanted to leave.
I don't blame them when people like this genuinely think that their racist, antisemitic attitudes are somehow something to be proud of.
It's not the first time I hear about Jews leaving France. It's a great pity actually, our country loses great people because of hatred and antisemitism proclaimed by far left.
Not all French people are against Jews, but Jews have always[1] posed a challenge for those who believe in the idea of assimilation. It's sometime thought of as "laïcité" but of course the idea of secularism only exists insofar as the dominant culture believes something is "secular". Is it "secular" to have stores closed on Sunday (and not Saturday, or Thursday)? Is it secular to make Easter a national holiday? And so on.
Napoleon struggled with the Jews because he wanted his new France to emancipate the Jews, but the Jews did not want to assimilate.
His solution set in motion a way of thinking about Jews that has had both positive and negative aspects- of classifying us as a "faith" and through that excerpting control over what we could teach about our beliefs.
That's that bothers me so much in the current far-left discourse. They kinda sorta are for laïcité, but this support is relaxed more and more when talking about islam. so yeah, kinda we should be laïque, so visible Christian or Jewish symbols are not OK, but muslim clothings... it's their tradition, it's their culture, we must not restrict it, patati patata et ainsi de suite. Not all people are like that, but I read more and more islamo-leftist propaganda in French networks.
On a positive note, did you know that one of the most important Jews in history was French?
We call him Rashi, which is an abbreviation for Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki.
He is one of the key figures in Jews understanding Torah and Talmud. His method of analysis forms the basis of what many of us learn today when we become serious about this type of analysis.
He was a Rabbi and winemaker in Troyes born in 1040.
I've been thinking about this today and one of the challenges that France faces around Jews. The French model of assimilation model is largely grounded in the colonalist mindset
From this viewpoint, French society is at least aspirational, and at most considered a form of salvation from "savagery".
This model also works for immigrants. If someone wants to move to France, they sign a "social contract" to "become French".
This divides the world into "The French", the "Yet to be French" and "The rest of the world".
Immigrants are expected to "become French".
But Jews have lived in France for over two thousand years, before Napoleon, before any French monarch, during the time of the Romans.
They're not "immigrants", but they confound the French model. They're non-immigrant "immigrants".
Jews have their own language, their own education system, their own "health codes", etc. and by their own self-identification, if they become fully "French" they could cease in part or in whole to be Jews.
At the lowest level, this makes Jews confusing. They're a functioning system that exists "outside the system"- we see some echoes of this tension in some Arab communities in France today.
For Napoleon, it was both a practical and existential challenge. If France was the height of civilization, then why the hell were these Jews not interested in becoming French? The idea itself is a threat to the new civilization he was building.
And we still see that tension today, with Arabs, but with Arabs there's a understanding of immigration at play.
With Jews.. .what do you do about people who have refused to assimilate for so long that they've seen multiple empires rise and fall?
@serge It's a great problem actually, I heard the same about Roma people (you know, the word "Gypsies" is pejorative, I wouldn't use it, just to be on the same page) in the South. they live there for centuries and yet they are separated from the French society. With Arabs though... to me it's other because they are often engaged into proselitism and trying to impose their culture (unlike Jews and Roma). I.e., if there is a critical mass of Arabic population, there will be a ghetto neighborhood often dangerous for non-muslim people, especially women. To be honest, my Israeli friend once told me about such a neighborhood in Israel populated by ultra-mega-orthodox Jews where he was afraid to walk (he is also blind, and, to quote him, "If I touched a woman by accident, I'd really be scared of consequences"). But again, I'm quite new in France and don't really know too much about Jewish communities here. I saw Jews in traditional clothing, with kippah and all, and they all spoke French as natives, so if my wife didn't tell me about their look, I'd never ever thought they are not "native French" people. So... really don't know where is the sweet spot here.
NotebookLM is supposed to summarize and help analyze your documents, but it skips over graphs, drawings, and charts — the exact context you often need.
My latest: Discord said late on Friday that hackers stole users' government-issued IDs (passports and driver's licenses) from one of its customer support databases.
I wrote a few words about the risks of age verification laws, and why collecting people's government IDs is bad for security and privacy.
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