I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college. It wasn't "woke professors" that change him to a liberal, it was being in an actual city instead of the small town he grew up in.
Meeting more diverse people made him realize he was fed lies about others while growing up.
So yeah, if you ever wondered why the right wants to shut down education and universities, that's one reason.
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I don’t know why anyone is surprised to find that all of the ICE agents are incompetent bullies on unwarranted power trips.
Where else were all of those security guards supposed to go when the malls shut down?
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Siemens has signed a partnership with NEWAG in Poland
railwaygazette.com/business/si…
And we still have not got to the bottom of NEWAG's GPS location sabotage jonworth.eu/newags-digital-sab…
POLAND: Siemens Mobility and Newag have signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen their co-operation in the Polish rail market and expand their previous joint work on metro trains into the high speed rail segment.Railway Gazette International
LLM boys pivoting to ads. EVERYTHING IS ADVERTISING!
youtube.com/watch?v=tOtcHKKPoY…
I played all the instruments, composed, mixed, mastered the song, and filmed and edited the video in 4 days.happy new year 🥳YouTube
We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International:
"Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)."
"If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They’re also proposing the collection of DNA."
PI linked to and summarized a Federal Register entry describing the proposed requirements:
-All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’
-ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) applications will include ‘high value data fields’, ‘when feasible’
‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’
-‘email addresses used in the last ten years’
-‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’
-biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
-business telephone numbers used in the last five years
-business email addresses used in the last ten years.
privacyinternational.org/news-…
The Federal Register entry says comments are encouraged and
must be submitted (no later than February 9, 2026) to be assured of consideration.
Federal Register entry: govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-202…
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I feel for anyone in the travel, tourism and hospitality industries, which make up ~ 10M jobs and ~ 3 percent of the nation's GDP. From the U.S. International Trade Administration (trade.gov)
"Inbound international travel to the United States plays a vital role in the Nation’s economy and promotes cultural exchange and understanding. Travel and tourism is the largest single services export for the United States, accounting for 22 percent of the country’s services exports and 7 percent of all exports in 2023. The travel and tourism industry contributed $2.3 trillion to the U.S. economy in 2022 (2.97 percent of the country’s GDP), supporting 9.5 million jobs."
Heading to @chaoss ConEU before FOSDEM? Be sure to catch our Lunch and Learn this Thursday Jan 29 at 13:00 with @linuxflower and Wayne Mery talking about what we're doing with Thunderbird community metrics and how can we do it better! 📈
The Rise of the Slopreneur.
As soon as I typed that sentence, I just knew that someone else had already typed it. So I checked, the old way. Sure enough, James Rendel had already opened a LinkedIn post with exactly that line. It is on his Substack.
1/11
If you are looking for a messenger that doesn't depend on US infrastructure (or any other country actually) take a look at #DeltaChat, an #European alternative messenger, it is #anonymous, #decentralized, end-to-end #encrypted, #openSource and free!
it is multi-platform, get it for your system at get.delta.chat
#sovereignty #Europe #sovereign #diday
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the infrastructures are somewhere, maybe in the USA or in Europe.
I feel that a bit misleading to say it's sovereign.
there is nothing misleading, meaning of sovereign:
"Self-governing; independent."
with Delta Chat you can self-host so you are independent, and rule over your server, you can even self-host in a local network/mesh without even needing internet
as from the point of view of a country this also mean they can have their owm servers in their land and be sovereign as a country
Ok, I see your point.
For me the word 'sovereign' is close to the concept of kings, lords and states and do not have a 'self-as-individual-governing' meaning.
And I didn't know that the user can chose with relay I want to use.
When I used Delta Chat for the first time it was only with regular email accounts. :)
RE: mstdn.ca/@hamishb/115962335735…
Austerity from our Neo-con Governement.
Remember the first thing they did was to axe fiscal measure that would have increased revenue (but it was taxing the rich). Instead they make regular people pay through service cuts.
Today is a good fucking day to get your data out of the USA.
I'm migrating nearly 20 years of data off of my gmail and google drives.
I'm not giving Google a cent if I can possibly help it.
Getting off Apple and my various web projects off Digital Ocean is going to be tougher, but I'm going to figure it out.
“An insane encapsulation:🚨”The same day Trump’s agents kill a VA ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple & Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser *was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files.”
-P Thakker
“If you’re a CEO🚨willing to sit in the co of this regime, your “shareholder value” excuse feels pretty🩸blood-soaked tonight.”
-R Wilson
#NoMoralCompass #Murder #AlexPretti #TimCook #Jassy #USPol
thedailybeast.com/billionaire-…
Apple CEO Tim Cook traveled to the White House on the same day a Border Patrol agent shot a Veterans Affairs nurse dead in Minneapolis.Josh Fiallo (The Daily Beast)
TIL there was a VCF "Montreal" held yesterday.
TIL Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu is Montreal.
(it's not. Can't even get there without a car)
A little understood change in recent editions of iOS can spell disaster when you travelLiving Out Loud
🔎 Wie schreibt man eigentlich eine gute, barrierefreie Bildbeschreibung?
Barrierefreie Bildbeschreibungen helfen Menschen mit Sehbehinderungen, Inhalte gleichberechtigt wahrzunehmen.
Stelle dir Fragen wie: Wer/was ist zu sehen, was passiert, wo passiert es und welche Details sind für den Inhalt des Posts wirklich relevant. Wertungen („schön“, „hässlich“) sind weniger wichtig als neutrale Infos.
#THWS #fachuebersetzen #translation #barrierefreiheit
(Foto von Pauline Schubert)
Das ist ein Post über gute Alternativtexte mit einem schlechten Alternativtext. Wenn ich so was sehe, frage ich mich, ob solche Posts geschrieben werden, um gut auszusehen? Der Satz im Alttext ist ja nicht mal grammatisch richtig. Wird nicht damit gerechnet, dass den jemand liest?
Ich bin blind, Übersetzerin und Master BK. Und wunder mich.
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Went to fill out a W-9 this morning and realized Firefox's PDF form filling was...somewhat less than accessible. An hour or so later and I now have a Claude skill to do this for me. It finds and downloads forms, fills out details from natural language plus clarifying questions, applies image signatures using handwriting fonts, and does a visual verification pass on each page to make sure everything looks OK. I'm of course not confident enough yet to let this fill forms without human verification, and it doesn't yet handle non-fillable forms, but just being able to say "Help me fill out this form and sign/date it for me, then give me a basic sanity check" is a gamechanger even if I still have a sighted human in the loop. Reduces the process from lots of hand-holding and inaccessible editing, to a final and much quicker visual pass.
I've wanted an app to do this for over a decade, but wasn't super thrilled about writing something whose only value add was that it was the accessible version of something sighted folks take for granted. Now I have it, and it's less than 200 lines of markdown.
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If this is US only, what they should do instead is to let you sign via the keyboard.
If EU users are involved... may God be with them.
danke, genau das. Die 70 % halte ich auch für einfach erfunden, weil es gut klingt für diesen post.
Hab gestern hier irgendwo gelesen, dass die Rate an Alttext im Fediverse auf 28% (oder so ungefähr?) gesunken ist, weiß aber die Quelle nicht mehr und ob das eine gute Quelle war.
Außerdem ist das eine schlechte Nachricht!!
Die Heuchelei von wegen "Ich bin für inklusiveres Agieren, aber ich mach's selber nicht" find ich echt nicht ok.
Und wer selber sieht und ein gutes Internet hat, kann beurteilen, ob ein Bild "nur ein Blickfang" ist oder nicht. Wer blind/sehbehindert ist, kann aber nicht wissen, welche wichtigen oder unwichtigen Infos das Bild enthält und welche Infos damit diesen Personen vorenthalten werden!! Darauf wurde Herr Polenz auch schon hingewiesen, aber das Argument ignoriert er natürlich.
Die Betroffenen dermaßen auszuschließen und Bildbeschreibungen mit "wie früher in der Schule" zu verunglimpfen, ist echt niveaulos. Aber dann immer schön "Ich bin für Inklusion" behaupten...
NORAD pact would change if Canada pulls back from F-35 order, warns U.S. ambassador
cbc.ca/news/politics/norad-can…
Remember all this shit american software that nag you with question and never have a "No" answer? It seems that Americans can't take no for an answer, and like a bully threaten when shown resistance.
And I expect David "Chamberlain" Carney to bend backwards to spend more of this austerity budget to buy these flying bricks.
The US is threatening #Canada (again) if we don't buy their F-35s. Here's what Denmark said about the ones they bought, and regret buying:
"They're in for repairs about half the time or even more," he said, "so the Americans have all the power of actually destroying our air force just by shutting down [parts] supplies."
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... I have to translate "AI slob" for the first time 🤭
(shows that I'm working on the abstract of an *actual scientist*)
Here are three lines from my AGENTS.md that make agents a lot better with Go.
Go has great CLI tools, but many people don't know about them, and so agents are not trained to reach for them.
Maybe the Go project should maintain a Go development skill?
This is a general problem with agents, not just in GO. They really like editing project files by hand, which often means that they install old versions of some dependencies.
I always have to explicitly ask them to use dependency management tools instead of manual file editing.
Sometimes marketing is the hardest challenge. I'm working on the App Store app preview screens for the Loops app, what do you think?
History, war museums to slash dozens of positions
cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/war-…
This is what austerity looks like, from Government that did cut *income* (was about taxing the rich more). The Neocon Party of Canada (NPC). Like PP, with better speech.
The horrors we all failed to stop were never going to stay limited to Palestine.
No one is free until EVERYONE is free.
RE: cosocial.ca/@hub/1159514357322…
if he doesn't reply to your post, I'm blocking his PR account
So are you gonna delete your X account? Or is this faking it until you make it.I'll treat this as a bot account for now.
On the run up of #DataPrivacyDay we've asked the Tuta Community about your preferred Google alternatives.
Here's what you said about your favorite browsers! 🎉
A security-focused, Chromium-based browser for desktop Linux inspired by Vanadium. - secureblue/TrivalentGitHub
Hubert Figuière
in reply to Jakub Steiner ⭐ • • •It is The Law™
> Every piece of software will evolve beyond its intended purpose to sell you something.
mapledice.ca/posts/2024/04/14/…
The Law
Maple Dice