Denk gerade viel über Digitales Vergesellschaften nach, also die Frage wie wir digitale Infrastruktur von Kabeln und Rechenzentren bis hin zu Betriebssystemen, Software und Social Media zu öffentlichem Eigentum bekommen.
Also wenn ihr dazu Literatur oder Ideen habt oder Menschen kennt, mit denen man mal sprechen sollte, dann schreibt mir gerne.
Wir können uns die Betreuung von behinderten Menschen nicht mehr leisten. Das meint Ex-Familienministerin Kristina Schröder (CDU). Die aktuelle Krisenerzählung der Konservativen wird durch solches Gerede immer absurder.nd-aktuell.de
Spent a few minutes showing the kids Windows 3.1 running in a browser PC emulator (what a time to be alive).
They didn't like the windows-inside-windows thing.
Then we dropped down to DOS and their first comment was, "delete everything!"
Took me a moment to remember the DOS delete command, but we did it. We deleted everything. DOS just lets you do it.
This is what they took from us.
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WARNING: Long story with no real point. Just remembering something and wanted to write it down to document it.
Years ago, I worked at an Apple Store teaching computer lessons for all learning levels and on a variety of topics.
One of my regulars was a nice older lady who was a piano teacher and we got to talking and she mentioned that her husband is a lawyer and he's the one who wanted to learn to use the computer, but he didn't want to go into the store to learn, so she was taking lessons for him and then she would go home and try to teach him, but it wasn't working out because they were getting "frustrated" with one another, so she asked if I ever taught private lessons at people's homes.
This was definitely a conflict of interest and I really liked my job and wasn't willing to risk losing it, but she mentioned that it may be okay if we were just trading services where I would teach her husband to use the computer and she would teach me piano lessons as a thank you.
I ran it by my manager and she said she was totally fine with an arrangement like that and she gave me the green light.
Once a week after work, I'd take the bus to their house in a suburb of Chicago and we'd start with my piano lesson and then I'd go and give the husband his computer lesson.
Her husband wanted to learn the computer because "so many law things require computers nowadays" so he wanted to "keep up with the kids" and I really admired that about him.
Over time, I gave up on the piano, but he still wanted to learn more on the computer, so I just continued teaching the lessons for free.
Once he had "mastered" email and web searches, he mentioned that he wanted to create a website for his law practice, so I helped him make a basic website (e.g., bio, services, contact info, etc.).
The template he selected had a large space at the top for a header photo and he said he wanted a photo of the Chicago skyline, so we hopped on Google and selected one and added it and clicked publish and he was really happy with his website and we sent an email to pretty much everyone he knew (BCCed) to link them to his new website.
At that point, he had accomplished his ultimate goal and I just happened to be moving, so we said our goodbyes and that was the last time I saw him.
Years later, I took a Photoshop class and part of the class was on copyright laws and attribution and I had this OH NO flashback moment to creating that website because we definitely just did a random google search for Chicago skyline and didn't have formal permission to use that photo and I had NO idea what the photographer's permissions were, so I was terrified that I was going to get this poor lawyer in trouble for copyright infringement due to a dumb photo that we hastily dropped on his website years before.
By this point, I lived in a different state and all of the website files lived on his computer and there was no way I was going to be able to instruct him on how to change the photo via email or over the phone, so I wasn't going to open a can of worms by even mentioning it to him and I just pushed down the bad feelings and guilt, but every so often I'd remember it and they'd come flooding back.
Whenever this would happen, I'd pull up his website to see if anything changed, but it was always there with that big photo of the Chicago skyline staring right back at me.
I recently remembered him again and went to pull up his website to see if the photo was still there, but this time the entire website was gone.
I was relieved until I googled him and found his obituary instead and my relief turned to grief. It turns out he had died a couple of years ago and left behind his loving wife, a piano teacher.
RIP, Don. You were one of the good ones and i'm grateful to have known you and I'm glad you lived a long life free of copyright lawsuits.
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Today, I’m pausing for a moment.
I woke up to devastating news about the mass killing of Jewish people at a Hanukkah gathering in Australia, and my heart is shattered. I feel deep grief, anger, and an ache that words barely hold.
This violence strikes at who we are—our joy, our holidays, our right to gather in light. And yet, even in this darkness, we are still here. We mourn. We rage. We stand together. We endure.
I need a little time to gather myself before saying more. I will be sharing a video shortly with my thoughts and reflections.
For now, I came here—to this community—to sit together, to draw strength from one another, and to remind ourselves that our light is not so easily extinguished.
Holding each of you who are mourning close.
We appreciate you. It was a righteous among the nations, Ahmed Al Ahmed, that saved an unknowable number of lives today in NSW. ❤️
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There's an account on here already pushing the suggestion that it's a false flag to foster support for Israel.
What is wrong with these ghouls?
You can refuse to provide official ID or biometric data for social media accounts requiring age verification.
Actually, I bet if everyone did refuse, and let their account dormant for a couple of weeks, you would suddenly see American Big Tech transforming into the fiercest defender of your privacy rights, using their powerful network of lobbyists to fight these invasive government regulations.
They need you more than you need them.
Force them to work for your rights.
Do not comply.
behold the gorgeous "aerial embroidery" of Victoria Rose Richards
it's the landscape as seen from a plane, except as stitchwork
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The cool thing about cats is you don't have to get them a Christmas present, because empty boxes, balls of crinkly paper, shiny bows, and unattended plates of food are the greatest gifts of all. Oh and let's not forget the full tree filled with sparkly toys, you clearly put up for their enrichment.
Wait...did cats invent Christmas?
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Getting a new synth for Xmas? Ready to start learning how to use it? My How to Synth course will get you going!
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When I digitized videos from my father's VHS tapes, I found footage of the 1997 floods taken in Luhačovice and the surrounding area. The floods were massive and claimed over 100 lives. In Luhačovice, it wasn't as dramatic thanks to the protection of the dam, but even so, it was the most water since its construction in 1930.
I think I'm confused. I've had Python 3.12 on this Windows 11 x64 computer for a couple years. I just installed Python 3.14, hoping it might fix the error I get when installing the wave package. I still have c:\python312, but no c:\python314. If I type python into run, I get 3.12. There are no variables referring to Python. defined, and c:\python312 is not on my system path.
1. Where did 3.14 install to?
2. How do I change my default python to 3.14?
3. How is 3.12 being found at all?
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Good morning.
Every single billionaire has committed at least one crime that would put a poor person in prison for life.
when you don't write alt text, I just think you're an ignorant loser
when you write hostile alt text, I think you're a complete asshole who deserves a swift kick in the teeth.
what's hostile alt text you ask?
it's when you don't actually describe what's in the image. it includes; just a joke, endless hashtags and/or emojis, extensive URLs, just a period, the file name of the image,....
I hope this helps clear things up
alt text on your picture of your cat could literally just be "my cat" and that's good enough. it's not great but you achieved the bare minimum—describing what's in the photo.
what it should not be is: "lol look at this silly guy" or "wow what a pose" or "fuzzball" or "this one time I took this picture and I thought it was so good so I wanted to share it with you"
Setting up my new pixel and apparently the clock widget I used to use doesn't exist anymore - anyone have any widgets they really like for the home screen on their phone?
Already so many great posts on this year's #HTMHell advent calendar... Discover Dialog by @sarajw
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Words from the Accessibility Freedom Beaver @SteveFaulkner
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Hell is Other People's Markup by @lloydi
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The Wonderful World of Web Feeds by @maureenholland:
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A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.a11y freedom beaver - HTMHell
I watched Prime Video for the first time in a while (to watch Gen V, season 2) and... Fucking Prime now has commercials, not before before the show, as I was expecting, but in the middle of the shows!
Those streaming platforms are forgetting that we signed up for them because they're only slightly more convenient than pirating platforms... Well, if they play ads, that convenience is gone and so is my subscription.
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