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LibreOffice's native file format is the Open Document Format. Learn about how it's being adopted in Taiwan, from the recent #LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024! blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource

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I just read The Dunwich Horror again I confess I still can't see the romance plot Amazon's AI was perceptive enough to notice.


How to make coffee in Australia: 1. Start your kettle and wait till it boils. 2. Add milk and coffee to your cup and mix. 3. Poor in water from the kettle. 4. Add sugar, mix, and enjoy... Rosie's not in America anymore, kids. I can't believe this actually tastes good.
in reply to Rosalin Kellyanna

Wait. Milk and coffee--you mean instant coffee? Otherwise this is definitely a recipe for sadness.
in reply to simon.old

Super popular way of making coffee here, or straight warm water from the tap here because it's clean and drinkable. :D


Trillion dollar company autocarrot.

I write "drunk coffee" and it replaces it "drunk code"

Apple intelligence

in reply to Hubert Figuière

accurate! the autocorrect code is confirming what you already suspected about it 😅



1. German crime reporter asks MS Copilot what it knows about him.
2. Copilot falsely accuses him of child abuse, fraud, theft.
3. Copilot asserts “it is unfortunate that someone with such a criminal past has a family” and provides his (correct!) address and phone number.
4. Reporter files a libel complaint, but prosecutors refuse to take on the case: it’s not a criminal offense because no person committed it.

Must be great to be a big tech company. swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuertt…

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I love all my #fujifilm cameras. The X-Pro series, the X-T's and the X-H's, but again and again I reach for the humble X-E4. Love the size, transforms with/without grip, great image quality, handles a 16 or 35mm lens beautifully.


Sarah’s organization will tie your shoelaces for a small fee.

It’s a new knot for profit.



The Electoral College is DEI for rural white folks

Change my mind



Is this my favourite Beaverton headline ever? I think maybe yes. “As covid rates skyrocket, health officials warn Canadians to wear plenty of sunscreen” omg 😂 thebeaverton.com/2024/08/as-co…


The arrest of #Telegram's founder Pavel #Durov sets a dangerous precedent for what kind of action can be taken against supporters of #privacy & #cryptography.

Don't settle for anything less than E2E #encryption! We've created a list of the top encrypted messaging apps to help!
👉 tuta.com/blog/best-whatsapp-al…

in reply to Tuta

Telegram is not E2EE. Telegram is terrible for privacy because it misleads people into thinking it is private.

Messages and group chats on Telegram are by default visible to Telegram's staff and whoever they choose to share the messages with:

mstdn.social/@rysiek/113027895…

rys.io/en/171.html

There is also some very disturbing behaviour by Telegram detailed in the article linked above.

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in reply to FediThing 🏳️‍🌈

Keep up! Durov's arrest was NOT POLITICALLY MOTIVATED, nor (as everybody else pointed out) does Telegram *claim* to do to e2ee by default unlike Signal and Threema.

If you're gonna fight fascism and general snoopiness, fight ALL OF IT, or people (including me!) will vote with our feet and our wallets. Durov had it coming, as do his ruble-paying bosses.

in reply to Stone Bear

@stonebear We are not defending the founder of Telegram, it is far too early to make an statements in that regard because we do not know the full extent of the charges.

Telegram is not considered a secure messaging app because it does not guarantee end-to-end encryption by default.

We apologize if this message was less than clear in the post.

in reply to Tuta

SimpleX is currently the most anonymous and secure chat, above Session, as Session keeps some metadata from what I read on the internet.
SimpleX relies on a network of relays (SMP servers): these ones can be joined directly or you can connect to their onion equivalent through Tor. This will give you an overlay to hide your IP. It uses Orbot on android for that.
And you can install your own SMP server(s) if you want if you don't trust the native ones, connected of course to Tor.


všetko cítim, úplne všetko, cítim je slabé slovo
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I have so many coding projects going on at the same time, all of them in some state of half-finishedness.
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

Same, and also music. I have so many melodies that haven't been laid down at all besides humming them into a microphone so I don't forget them, a bunch of projects that have 8 or 16 bars of the initial thing, and some downright abandoned ones. And like, two? that are even close to halfway done. Which have been this way since 2022.




Celkom pekne som si upratal, ešte vyvesím pračku a nič nemusím.


Celebrating 29 years of Windows 95 — How Microsoft's operating system evolved since the iconic Start menu was introduced windowscentral.com/software-ap…


I posted a Canary token link on Mastodon a long time ago, on an instance with a no scraping policy, and it's still occasionally getting hit by Google and sometimes other random crawlers.

It's time to finally admit that being anti-scraping and being federated are just two positions that can't be reconciled with eachother.








SOLD Pluto TV & Paramount+ Have Been Sold to Skydance As All Other Bidders Drop Out cordcuttersnews.com/sold-pluto…
in reply to David Goldfield

love your page, Check this new article of mine out id appreciate the feedback: medium.com/@PinkHatHacker/the-…


If us users don't contribute to #foss software - using it, reporting bugs, providing feedback, donating whatever amount, choosing it over a closed source & more - at the end, it will be big corps & monopolies running our digital lives.

Last week, I used @organicmaps and @openstreetmap for my navigation. Added over 7 new spots (hotels, parks, POI's & more), making these maps & the app, a little more useful for us all. Also, quite happy to see that most places I visited where already there!

in reply to Lukas Weidinger

@lukasweidinger @MapAmore @normplum as far as @everydoor goes, should I be concerned that it connects to Microsoft's Bing Maps VirtualEarth API? Don't mean to sound paranoid here over FOSS VS Big Corps. I just want to make sure my effort goes to the community and not - yet again - to another private company to which I will offer free labour.

@MapComplete @organicmaps @openstreetmap

in reply to What's a fun name?

@lukasweidinger @MapAmore @normplum Hi! I'm the @MapComplete dev, and yes, you are touching upon a very interesting topic. There has always been tensions between (big) corps and volunteers in #OpenStreetMap , which makes it a really interesting topic.

First of all, the data you contribute goes into the OSM-database, which _everyone_ is allowed to reuse, including for commercial use. And yes, Bing Maps partially uses OSM!

in reply to Pietervdvn

@lukasweidinger @MapAmore @normplum

However, our license (osm.org/copyright) clearly states that anyone using the data must:

1. Give attribution
2. Keep the data (including improvements) open.

Rule 2 shifts the incentives, and makes that, for many companies, it is easier to directly update OSM then to grab a copy and start updating this. And this often happens: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Or…

So, yes, by editing OSM, you are helping everyone, and not just big corpos. However...

in reply to Pietervdvn

Having those external satelite imagery, is a _privacy_ concern, as bing can see which tiles you downloaded and thus what areas are interesting to you. However, the data isn't _that_ interesting to do personal profiling.

And about your original concern about helping big corpos? Microsoft also has Bing Maps, which I tested and did think of as problematic, exactly for community reasons: see my blog post openstreetmap.org/user/Pieter%… for all details

in reply to Pietervdvn

@pietervdvn thank you for your valuable input. I've read both of your blog posts and both have provided useful information on the matter. Since you last updated the first post over 10 months ago, has anything changed for the better?
in reply to What's a fun name?

well, I spoke with the team on SOTM - they were a friendly bunch and were actually happy withbmy blog posts - they thought it was respectfully written and said it effectively moved things within management.

I should do anoyher followup though, but in any case, the Bing Map Editor doesn't have a lot of usage.

in reply to stavpup

@stavpup

At the moment, @MapComplete uses #Imgur, and associates this photo via image tags. You may already know that @osm database doesn't store photos directly.

@hellenicsun @lukasweidinger @normplum

in reply to stavpup

@stavpup @MapAmore A lot of people have been complaining about this (together with the unclear menu structure), a new menu system is underway. Should be live on the development version in half an hour: dev.mapcomplete.org


Najlepšie sa deň pred tréningom opiť... fakt génius.
in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Taková příjemná, simulačně - mikromanagementově -stavěcí - relaxační 🙂
store.steampowered.com/app/255…


if you ever want to trigger a scared and exhausted look in a protocol developer's eyes, ask how trailing dots in hostnames work in their stack

But don't stick around for the answer. It will not be pretty.

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

LOL.

used to love trying to explain this when teaching DNS basics. ;)

"well X will do suffix add if you don't fully qualify but Y will assume it but Z..."

"think of the root label to the right of the terminal dot as your invisible friend..."



They've been fit notes, not sick notes, for nearly 15 years.
yet I've never asked for a fit note when I am fit.


Oh, thanks #KLM, this is definitely much more secure. (The Continue button obviously does nothing)
#klm


this month, August 2024, has the most number of git commits in #curl than any other month in curl history
#curl
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daniel:// stenberg://
@shaknais it has certainly been intense, yes. Fortunately, we have good people involved to smoothen the ride.




Welcome Eric Norris as #curl commit author 1301: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1469…
#curl


#GoodNews: In Kopenhagen gibt es fünf mal so viele Fahrräder wie Autos. 👏💚
#Verkehrswende #BuildItAndTheyWillCome
📷 @dwnews
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I was just looking for a previous shipment from a few months ago in my Parcel app. Apparently, I called something “Not The Charger.” I guess it really wasn’t, because it says “no data available.”
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Want to see a Grace Hopper lecture? NSA just released a historic recording and it is 🔥

The lecture is “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People”

Hear from a legend in her own words.

nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Relea…



Es ist wirklich erschreckend, wie schnell große Teile der deutschen Politik zu vergessen bereit sind, dass Deutschland ein Rechtsstaat ist mit einem Grundgesetz und Grundrechten, die für alle (!) gelten.