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For the hard of thinking at the back, let's be completely clear on this, "Carbon Credits" are just another form of Greenwash. Once we accept that and stop trying to continue using fossil carbon, we can finally start thinking about real solutions to the Climate Crisis.

No amount of magical thinking is going to get us out of the Climate Crisis, until we fully accept that extraction and use of fossil carbon is the problem, and we have to stop using it now. Not is 20 or 30 years time but NOW!



Petra Pau hat die Bundesregierung nach rechtsextremen Straftaten im ersten Halbjahr 2024 gefragt. Die Antwort:

Statistisch werden jeden Tag 54 rechtsextreme Straftaten registriert, darunter täglich 2 Gewalttaten. Das Dunkelfeld dürfte noch höher liegen.




Just a reminder to folks using Picture Smart remember we're dealing with AI here. I got sent a screenshot of a log output and asked Picture Smart to read the log, wherein it read out a whole bunch of inaccurate information about Google Cloud, the information getting more sketchier by the end. I wasn't even working with Google Cloud so not sure why it decided to do that.


There will be some that say how can 9,300 union railway workers cause the national railway system to stop. That is the wrong number. It should be said how can TWO companies (companies are legal persons) lockout and stop 9,300 people from working hence shutting down our rail system? For profit.


What are the most common languages spoken by fediverse users? My (biased) view is that they are:

English
German
Spanish
Dutch
French

In that order. But, how could such a survey be done? A random sample? Do you see a very different set of languages on a regular basis?

in reply to myrmepropagandist

I get a fair amount of Finnish and Malay but that's probably a function of the people I follow. Very hard to know given the fedi is a network without a centre.


🎉 We're excited to welcome ClouDNS as a GNOME sponsor! Their DDoS-protected anycast DNS and monitoring service have replaced our self-hosted solutions, reducing maintenance overhead. Thanks, ClouDNS, for supporting open source!
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Just udpated my WriteFreely instance to 0.15. Looking forward to GTS compatibility though.


The Librem 11: Your digital freedom, in tablet form. Secure, private, and powered by PureOS. #Librem11 #DigitalFreedom #PureOS
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Periphery Synthetic is a chill, accessible audio dream theverge.com/24225210/peripher…


Periphery Synthetic is a chill, accessible audio dream theverge.com/24225210/peripher…



Come on!
It's a $5 server. Please don't overload it.
A single sentence is enough for now.


Tak mě čeká na podzim, předělat doma kuchyň.No úplně už to vidím :-)
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Je to celkom zvláštne že robím presne to isté na Slovensku/v Bratislave ako predtým keď som odtiaľto odišiel. Úplne. Zbieram body v Yakuza sushi... :kekw:
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Si tu jen odložím… Jestli může mít platební terminál i blbej dětskej vláček v nákupáku (kde jízda stojí 20 Kč), tak už fakt neexistuje výmluva pro neakceptování karet. 😄
in reply to brabitom

@brabitom To jo. Ale ať se nevymlouvaj na poplatky, na to jsem tímhle příspěvkem narážel. Zvlášť když existujou řešení typu Cvak nebo Trisbee. Ať prostě na férovku řeknou, že se jim to nechce řešit (tudíž jim ani nezáleží na potenciálních zákaznících bez hotovosti) nebo že chtěj šmelit.
in reply to Radomír Žemlička

Důvodů může být X, ale to si musí rozhodnout každý sám.
Mimochodem, ten vláček není úplně ideální příklad, protože tam je to v případě hotovosti o dost složitější a nákladnější, než platba kartou. Automat na mince, do kterého lidé strkají kde co, s nutností pravidelného vybírání, servisu, atd. Tam se terminál skutečně vyplatí. 😉



Google is headed to trial after allegedly misleading Chrome users on data collection. 🧑‍⚖️

This is the most recent in a growing list of court proceedings.
📣 tuta.com/blog/google-incognito…
📣 tuta.com/blog/google-search-mo…

What was your most startling discovery about Google's data collection? Let us know below!

#google #encryption #privacy #data

in reply to Tuta

I was *stunned* to learn that Google has been crawling all over the entire WorldWideWeb looking at every webpage they can find.

Worse, they've created some sort of "searchable index" of those webpages!

Now, *IF* one has access to the Google search engine, one can search for almost any webpage out there in public. (But one must know the secret URL to access that "search engine.")

It almost like they're *trying* to collect all the data they can.

Google puts the Stasi in the shade.

in reply to Tuta

Apparently gmail reading the content of your mails and if you receive e.g. a bill, g would build a profile of your finances.


Warning: Typing these 4 characters in the wrong place crashes your iPhone

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I changed these 8 Apple Watch settings to significantly improve battery life

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Trying to get a book from Amazon.

The first order got cancelled because of "technical/logistical issues". The second is scheduled to be sent in March 2025.

The product page still claims there are 9 items left in the inventory. I intend to continue creating new orders until the corporate overloads give up and just send it out in a reasonable time. Probably not going to happen, but alas.

in reply to Bart Piotrowski

reminds me when I tried to order a $800 monitor. It just prove what I was saying all along: marketplace is a scam.


I wanted to alert people that I recently received two separate voicemails with a recording advising me to call a phone number back which began with a 248 area code
at my earliest convenience. The message contained no explanation as to the reason for why I should do this and with no information about the company that was making the call. Of course, I instantly recognized it as a scam but decided to investigate further to gather additional information.
This is a classic phone scam, with agents with an Indian accent claiming to either represent Amazon or eBay. They will claim that an order for Apple products was placed using your account. They will want to verify your name. Warning, if you do decide to call back, which I advise against doing, don't call them back with Caller ID enabled as they will have your name and will even ask you to verify your address which they will read to you, which may be the correct address.
I am very familiar with how these scams work and I was not at all fooled by any of this. Those who are unaware of these scam operations who go along with the scam will eventually find themselves being defrauded of money and could also become a victim of identity theft, not to mention the possibility of having their computer’s security becoming compromised. I have since reported this to Amazon via their form at
amazon.com/gp/help/customer/di…

To be clear, this is a scam and these agents do not represent Amazon or eBay.

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in reply to David Goldfield

I’ve been getting these for weeks from 802 area code which is Vermont where I’m from and what my cell number uses.
in reply to David Goldfield

I have Silence unknown callers turned on for that among other reasons. Any number that comes in that is not in my contacts is sent to voicemail.


Random language thought: it's common for software to use a strange form of verb, where no pronoun is given. For instance: "fixed a bug" or "added a feature." We can do this in English because verb conjugations tend to be the same no matter the associated object. "I fixed" and "we fixed" conjugate the same. Do Spanish or French software notes do something similar? If not, which conjugation do they use?
in reply to Alex Hall

@x0 Polish uses the passive voice. No person is indicated but the fact of a process having been executed.
@x0
in reply to Paweł Masarczyk

@Piciok @x0 I wonder if that's the English I was trying to describe. I don't know if Spanish or other similar languages have a construction for it. They must.
in reply to Alex Hall

@Piciok I think given verb conjugation in Spanish at least you can actually omit the pronoun normally because it is conjugated with the verb in a specific way from what I remember. You don't have to say yo tengo for I have, you can just say tengo. Because that's the conjugation of that verb with I.
in reply to x0

@x0 @Piciok That's true, but which conjugation would be used? That's my point. English's conjugations are the same, so we can omit the pronoun and not specify first, second, or third person. Spanish requires you to choose one, pronoun or no.
in reply to Alex Hall

In this case there are non-personal forms, for example the participle. "Fixed a bug." "Un error corregido." It doesn't say by whom, it only agrees in gender with the noun. It's not grammatically very elegant, and there's a reflex passive construction that would be technically more correct, but longer. "Se ha corregido un error." "A bug has been fixed."
in reply to Alex Hall

Polish has a special form for passive voice, and that's what you'd normally use for this.

Most people just use English though.








New app added to the Accessible Android apps directory: K-9 Mail accessible accessibleandroid.com/app/k-9-… #Android #App #OpenSource


Welcome Chris Swan as #curl commit author 1299: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1463…
#curl


curl issue #14620 in which we find out that a tiny CDN naming itself "Google Frontend" has a faulty HTTP/2 implementation in regard to 4xx responses.

github.com/curl/curl/issues/14…



Low vision assistive technology for discussion board posts perkins.org/low-vision-assisti…


Mr @icing found a HTTP/2 bug in the #Google frontend webserver.

github.com/curl/curl/issues/14…

Unknown parent

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@jpmens send-invoice-for-having-debugged-someone-elses-problem ? =)


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An iPhone bug lets you crash the interface with just four characters macworld.com/article/2434477/a…

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Why you need to know about ransomware malwarebytes.com/blog/ransomwa…


We are pleased to announce Quicksy for iOS based on Monal!

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Jabber/XMPP with Easy Entry and Easy Discovery

Monal for you. Quicksy for your less tech-savvy friends

Remember you don’t have to be on Quicksy yourself to give your friends an easy way to find your #XMPP address. Instead you can enter your XMPP address-phone number tuple into the Quicksy Directory
quicksy.im/#get-listed

You can also initiate the conversation by adding +123455…@quicksy.im

#xmpp

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Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon neowin.net/news/microsoft-fina…
in reply to Darrell Bowles

@vol4life8657 While the Settings app is certainly different from the old-school dialogs found in the Control Panel, I do find the Settings app to be accessible. Not only that but using the Settings app's search box makes it easy to find a specific setting that you want to change, without the need to wander around and drill down into one set of options after another. Pressing Ctrl+E moves focus to the search box once you're in the Settings app.
in reply to David Goldfield

Go to your sound settings and look at the different input and output buttons. Mine just says speakers or microphone not what the device name is.