Microsoft just turned all Office users into AI users. Lmao. It’s now called the "Microsoft 365 Copilot" app. Get ready for fee increases and having your data opted into training by default with confusing settings. Enshittification has peaked.
Just realized that the reason I have a hard time sharing personal difficulties with others isn't that I want to hide struggles, or I don’t want to talk about them. It's that as a high-masking neurodivergent person, I don't really have a script for initiating those conversations, so I kinda freeze
I am somewhere on the spectrum, highly functional but definitely somewhere on there and i don't generally talk about things i'm going through unless it's in response to things people share with me.
It's how i relate to others when they share things they are going through. I'm friendly but often a private person in many ways i suppose.
I've survived a lot in life and i usually just sort of focus on that, surviving it vs making sense of it with others.
@Sylocule @transicorn yeah, which makes sense since masking at least to some degree depends on having models to adopt that feel safe, and since we know there is a general vulnerability problem, there are few such models
I wish I could just start texting people. Be it just a hey how are you, what did you do yesterday etc, but I feel like that's not common anymore because it has been taken up by Instagram, SnapChat and what not other stuff. I don't want that. I don't want all this image based crap. Just give me back good old text messages. But why would people text stuff to one random person if they can share everything they want with one inaccessible image to all their friends?
Not for some higher reason, but the client I used it with mostly before is switching to Google Meet (yeah…) and so I am looking into alternatives.
I’ll probably do @OpenTalkMeeting as it is hosted in Germany and has fun functionality like the talking stick and coffee breaks. Also half the price for a year.
I would love to do that as well, but accessibility in OpenTalk is still a bit of an issue and there don't seem to be such convenient methods to dial into meetings via phone, like there is in Zoom. Or I haven't found the info about it. With the mostly blind people I use Zoom for, this is eessential.
@marcozehe Dial-in by phone is certainly listed as a feature. I’d rather have a dedicated app instead of a browser-based solution, but apparently I’m alone in that. What will be annoying is no Calendar integration (Fantastical).
The open source video conferencing solution OpenTalk combines scalability, productivity, digital sovereignty and data protection with a modern and secure IT system architecture.
You're definitely not alone in that, I much prefer a dedicated app as well, not least because of the superior ability to build in VoiceOver support for the iPhone. In many respects, the web is still lacking terribly when it comes to making more complex apps accessible on mobile. Custom actions being one item.
Seit Kurzem ist die erste Stufe der Online-Buchbarkeit bei der Deutschen Bahn für Menschen mit Schwerbehindertenausweis und Merkzeichen B freigeschaltet. Bei der Online-Ticketbuchung (z. B. über den DB Navigator oder auf bahn.
In der Praxis ist das ein ganz schöner Blödsinn. Denn bei ¾ der von mir gesuchten Strecken kriege ich keine Preise mehr angezeigt, sondern die Ansage, dass ich das Ticket doch bitte über die MSZ buchen möge. Sobald ich die Ermäßigung wieder raus nehme, kriege ich Preise. Also echt ziemlich unnütz.
Apparently still 115 Catima users on Google Play (roughly 0.1% of the Google Play userbase). No clue about IzzyOnDroid and F-Droid users (downside of not tracking users, very little insight in these things).
"President Donald Trump may have made a major miscalculation about Venezuela’s oil.
Trump has expressed excitement over the prospect of US oil companies getting their hands on Venezuela’s vast oil resources.
But industry sources tell CNN that American oil executives are unlikely to dive headfirst into Venezuela for multiple reasons: The situation on the ground remains very uncertain, Venezuela’s oil industry is in shambles and Caracas has a history of seizing US oil assets.
Perhaps the biggest problem is that oil prices are too low today to justify spending the gobs of money – possibly tens of billions of dollars – that would be required to revive Venezuela’s decaying oil industry.
“The appetite for jumping into Venezuela right now is pretty low. We have no idea what the government there will look like,” one well-placed industry source told CNN on Monday. “The president’s desire is different than the industry’s. And the White House would have known that if they had communicated with the industry prior to the operation on Saturday.”"
David Rosen, co-founder of SEGA, just died. He was 95 years old.
Wait. He wasn’t Japanese?
That’s right. SEGA started as an American company. The reason SEGA is capitalized is because the original name was Service Games. And the “Service” in that name refers to the American military—its first customer base.
SEGA remained largely American until the 1980s, when David Rosen—along with Japanese business partners—bought the company from its parent, Gulf+Western, which also owned Paramount Pictures.
This initiated one of the most innovative and creative periods in video game history. SEGA produced classics like Space Harrier, OutRun, Sonic the Hedgehog, Streets of Rage, and Virtua Fighter.
For nearly two decades, SEGA was the primary rival to Nintendo, separating itself through speed and attitude.
Along with Atari, it was one of the companies that defined my childhood.
R.I.P., David Rosen. May you enjoy that great arcade in the sky.
Three years ago I bought @juliette an electric kettle for her birthday (because romance is not dead).
Looking for a stainless tank, hidden heating element, and temperature settings, I found the Krups KE07. Bit expensive, but it'll last decades. Right? Button 1 broke after a year. Button 2 today..
Thread in three parts
1. How it broke
2. Why I think you should not buy a Krups / Tefal appliance
I have the same looking kettle, but branded as Tefal. What made me to buy it was, that they claimed 10 years of spare parts availability. Not having that is a scam on customers. 👎
@bert_hubert I think this can use some extra attention: The .be registry wants to leave AWS and has created an RFP with lots of details of what they need. I think this could be the first sheep over the dam. I hope you can bring extra attention to this and a precedent can be created. dnsbelgium.be/en/news/dns-belg…
this varies a lot by the size and nature of the startup, and by what is being purchased. Must often it's the ceo or cto in smaller sartups, but it realy depends
@dk Lets say google was to buy subscriptions for its designers on a contrast checking plugin for figma example getstark.co/. Who would approve budget for it
something small like would just be whoever manages the designer's team, sometimes the designer could just buy it and expense it. If a lot of users wanted it, then it would be whoever manages the figma account, total amount is the main question, the bigger, the higher up it would go.
Basically I was wondering around how many people does the startup economy of SV really depend on. For that I wanted to know who in a big org is mostly responsible for approval budget for recurring saas subscriptions
If its mostly director, principal level folks in big orgs and cto in mid size startups then really how many of them are there
many startups depend on a bottom-up motion, where signup is free, then the designer, developer, etc becomes the internal champion while the startup's gtm team tries to works with the champions to pitch the decision maker, who is often also different than the final signatory, but these are the three typical personas.
I do have to say, that playing a mud remotely from my desktop, using NVDA Remote Controller, in the car, with a Bluetooth keyboard, to and from work, with an hour long commute, is a very entertaining thing. I know, I'm a nerd.
Zájem amerického prezidenta Donalda Trumpa o převzetí Grónska je myšlen vážně. V pondělí večer na to podle agentury Reuters upozornila dánská premiérka Mette Frederiksenová. Připomněla, že Dánsko a…
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You know I wonder if they even think about what they say. If anyone who talks about me, or the stuff I do knows that it hurts? Since apparently it's not interesting, or useless, or no one understands, or I should just do something else. Yeah title him as nerd and let him do whatever, people don't like nerds blahh blah. You fucking, yes fucking know that it hurts, you don't have to understand it, but you can accept it, you don't have to understand the concept, or even the principle, but the fact that it's a hobby like every other, that you get joy from it, that you don't have to downtalk it and label it as something bad. Cuz it makes me feel bad fucker.
On that note, my granddad wants a smartphone now. I would love to help him set that up and make it actually useful and polished, but I know big sighted bro will be preferred for that despite having less in dept knowledge, or even my dad. I wonder whether I'll meet someone appreciating me for who I am one freaking day.
And great to have another proof that these people don't take me serious anymore. Not only because I apparently am mentally ill, according to them, maybe because they have no better explanations for the things I do, no also because they can't even understand my intentions, hobbies or anything of me anymore. Get me out pls.
hey man. This post really resonated with me and I'm sorry. I know what it's like to be or to feel passed over for stuff because people don't think you're capable. May I offer some advice?
Obviously I don't know the particulars of your circumstances and your family history, so this advice could be entirely inappropriate, but don't wait for permission. If you wanna help your Grandad, hit him up, like today. Send him an email or phone him or go visit. Hey Grandad heard you want a Smart Phone. What would you most like it for. there are these options. Not an overwhelm of information, just enough to show your knowledge and will to help.
The key part of my post, which got buried in the implementation, is don't wait for permission or approval. Don't wait to be allocated the task. Allocate it to yourself. Volunteer! Why am I saying this? Because I've discovered over the past couple of years that I have spent too much of my life waiting for my ideas to be signed off on rather than just going ahead and making them happen.
I've lived too much of my life, not for other people as such, not in their service, but to their schedules, fitting in with their expectations, what they approve of, what they permit me to do. By doing that, I automatically make myself subordinate to them rather than on an equal footing. Be on an equal footing. You have skills. You don't need other people's permission to use them.
It's your life. they're your skills. It's your desire to help. Stepping forward means that yes you are putting yourself out there for rejection, for people to prefer someone else's advice and yes that will be mega mega hard if you're anything like me, but don't wait for life to happen to you...happen to it! You don't need to be told it's okay to do something, that you are considered worthy. Go for it.
I love my family. My father is dissatisfied cuz I finally do something for the security of my mom and manage her Bitwarden. He says the normal apple passwords app is enough. I quote his conversation to my mom: "Why do you even let him do that nerd shit, there is the apple passwords application which stores all your pass keys." With my mom going on about how she didn't even know what passkeys are, and that she's glad someone is at least doing something and explaining stuff. And may I mention that she forgot her Apple ID password, and Apple does not offer the same recovery methods as Bitwarden, such as backups through the API I can easily manage, etc. But yeah right, the apple passwords app without backups will just be fine for someone who recently locked themselves out of their half life. Holy shit I can't stand naive idiots, but yeahr right I'm the shitty nerd bitch, for using a proper password manager, fuck off man.
I made cron jobs for submitting HackerOne reports on CRLF injections, HTTP headers added by the user and the use of file:// urls to access local data accessible to the user already but with curl instead of notepad.
We could bundle these with the curl release tar ball for further reach. People seem to want those.💁🏻♂️
Would it be an option to add a small submission fee? That is of course unfair to researchers from developing countries. But $5 should dissuade the AI slop at least a little, I'd imagine.
Not sure if there was already a discussion in another thread about what could be done. Apologies if I have missed that.
Either way this current asymmetry of effort to report vs. effort to check is not sustainable. Thanks for putting up with it so far.
yay! I plan to hang out in the cafeterias too to get my daily dose of 5 espressos. I will seize the opportunity to thank you for your incredible work... and to get a sticker or two :)
BTW, I was once invited to moderate a DNS panel at #FOSDEM composed of the greats of the Internet: @bagder , @bortzmeyer , and @bert_hubert
Main reasons for my agreeing to moderate was a) so that I could actually enter the otherwise FULL DNS dev room, and b) to ask Daniel for a curl sticker.
Anyway, I had a fun time, and guess what I returned home without?! #trueStory
Here's the recording of the event: I'm the fat chap holding the mic.
by Daniel Stenberg, Stéphane Bortzmeyer, Bert Hubert and Jan-Piet MensAt: FOSDEM 2019https://video.fosdem.org/2019/K.4.601/dns_privacy_panel.webmDaniel Stenb...
instead of money you could promise stickers on Hacker One, maybe that will send the AI slop away and rally the hackers with free-space on their laptop 😁
I've just seen the following comment posted on Lemmy, and I'm reeling at the spiciness of their take. It feels like genuine bravery to straight up admit this in public:
"Dredd (2012) was a technically proficient, but ultimately mediocre piece of uncritical copaganda action schlock, and a vastly inferior film to Judge Dredd (1995). i will die on this hill."
@FreakyFwoof however, I do agree with your take on the comment, it's utterly bonkers. Dredd 95 was for the most part, pure comedy. 2012 is nasty, gritty, unforgiving and exactly what Dredd should be. You go and rapid fire on that hill. Or High ex! I don't mind :)
Hi @ebassi, if the plan to disable middle click paste by default was the reason for your post, then I don't agree with your post. It is a very useful feature, not a bug.
If it's true that newcomers are confused by it, consider a pop-up window on first-time triggering a paste-upon-middle-click: "This paste was triggered by a middle click. If unintended you may disable this feature here."
@GerryT you’re barking against the wrong tree, here: I fucking hate the primary selection, it has always been a mistake, and I’d nuke it from orbit if I could. The “disable by default” approach is the middle of the road solution between people like me, who grew out of it 25 years ago, and the people with generational trauma that still think the world is an xterm window.
I am not barking. This feature is a very practical current feature and has nothing to do with IT history. Disabling it by default is the wrong solution. Informing the user is the better solution.
Anecdotal evidence: I am user (not having any programmer background) and use it everyday. I also know that my father who is 80+ (without any IT background) uses it everyday, as he has difficulties to identify an item in text lists (he does not easily find the term copy in the list of options).
I understand that you are grieving, but it really isn’t my problem. You are not going to convince me by talking about your father. What you want is leaving the status quo unaffected.
Indeed, the status quo is to have a very practical and useful feature, and some newcomers may be confused by it. Therefore, the status quo is very much okay, but we have to think about the people who may be confused.
BTW, I brought up the example of double-clicking shift that capitalizes everything. It really confused me at the beginning and I was not able to deactivate it. Then I learned that it is a useful feature and how to deactivate it.
@GerryT It was understandable back when apps implemented the other half of the protocol. Namely unselecting text once they lose ownership of PRIMARY.
Once apps started to keep showing selected text without owning PRIMARY, the model broke down. And I'm not sure the people asking for middle click paste would even want this part to change.
@GerryT Just because you dislike a feature doesn’t mean that it’s complete trash. Countless folk rely on this essential feature. I use this *hundreds* of times a day. It’s incredibly useful for folks who don’t (or can’t) use a keyboard for everything.
The more serious issue however, is the attitude taken. Insulting and degrading people who rely on a feature you dislike is an absolutely unacceptable way to treat fellow humans.
Comparable case: When the user double-clicks shift it capitalizes characters permanently. For this reason, MS Windows introduced a pop-up asking newcomers if they actually wanted this to happen. Otherwise, it tells that it is possible to deactivate this feature.
This would be also appropriate in the case of paste-upon-middle-click. It is a very useful feature for *many* people, but some people are confused by it and may want to disable it.
@GerryT “let’s pop up something in the middle of some other behaviour that involves the mouse to placate the computer touchers with a weird fetish” is the kind of “I’m at the bargaining stage of grief” signal of mourning for a feature that is just getting disabled by default, and that I’m sure a bunch of distros will try and re-enable anyway
Let's pop up something *once* (or more often if the user does not click "don't show anymore") could be a solution. This is helpful and does not disturb anyone.
Let's assume that this feature is useful for 50% and not useful for the other 50%. How can we satisfy both needs? Something like a gsetting is no solution. I have not idea how to do something like this.
@GerryT you have no idea because you don't know if this feature is actually used by people, and investing time to negotiate for it to continue to be enabled by default is how you cope with it.
As I said at the start: telemetry would be a great way to determine if this is just an easter egg that people are unreasonably attached to, or if it's really used. In the meantime, the folks doing the work see the downsides more accurately than the upsides, and get to decide.
I highly repect the people working on Gnome, that's why I use it. However, in this case, not one provide any form of evidence that this feature is not useful or not used, and no evidence that an unexpected number of people are confused by this feature. Yes, I agree Telemetry helps with this, but apparently it doesn't exist and it seems to be an educated guess by those who want to deactivate it. That's why I am telling that this guess might be incorrect this time.
Then just make it configurable. The "telemetry" way of thinking is ok for corporate people, but the idea that I cant use my PDP-11 anymore because nobody is doing the same in my building, to me is quite disturbing.
I think it is not configurable for the end user at the moment. To add it in Gnome Setting panel would be something helpful, if you go further with the plan to deactivate it.
The setting exists already, and it can be toggled in the CLI and using apps like Tweaks and Refine. The discussion in the merge request is: 1. disable by default and 2. add the toggle somewhere that's easy to find
Discussion is not tirade. There is no reasonable reason to deactivate it by default. No one has given a compelling reason, why to do so. People are actively using this feature, as you can see in the comments of all news sites that reported on this. There are good reasons to keep this practical and useful feature as default. Please reconsider your opinion on that.
closely related to “You can’t change the defaults, they’ve been this way forever. Time means things are perfect. Also, I, of course, don’t use the defaults. I’m a power user who changes everything because the defaults aren’t usable.”
I want to speak about how we speak to each other. Mostly because I am as guilty as anyone else of generalising, and I suspect that even as my very intelligent American friends know that when I shit talk about “Americans”, I don’t necessarily mean them. It still stings on a visceral level - especially if they are fighting like hell personally to try and get their mad king out of power. 1/
Meanwhile, what a lot of Americans - even very well intentioned ones - probably cannot conceive of is that the rest of the world experiences the effects of American power as monolithic. We never get the opportunity to vote in your elections, but we pay in insecurity and financially when a terrible American president is elected.
When your president threatens other nations, we don’t (and can’t) stop to specify ‘not all Americans’. That is absurd - because we don’t experience you individually 2/
Is there a term for feeling productive through working on tools that will (might) make you more productive?
It's not procrastination, per se, because I am achieving something. But it's not ticking anything off of the to do list.
Basically, I'm describing Arnold Rimmer spending so much time devising a revision planner for taking his engineer's exam, that he doesn't actually do any revision. But it still *feels* productive.
Falls nicht und das euer Marketing ist, na dann ist es eher grottig schlecht und entspricht nicht eurem technischen Können. Treibt mich als Long-Time Tuta-User eher weg von euch.
omg yeah. Just yesterday I was researching where headless cms were at and every single one now has "ai powered" at the top of their homepage.
The worst offender imo is Builder.io, who made their product of 10 years the "legacy" experience and push all new projects to an ai-only flow. The only way to edit content is to ask an AI to make a code update. You wait 5 minutes upon opening the web app because the CMS is cloud-only and must run its own dev server.
OK ,seriously, care to tell your audience what's the point of this shitposty trash? Like, you've got a pretty good product so I (and I'm sure many of your customers do so as well) highly doubt you need to stoop down to the corpo-fash "wannabe cool and hip brand account" bullshit. Ffs, you've got a pretty decent track record when it comes to relevant activism too. A little wobbly but you're at least trying to keep up a good fight. But this crap is kicking your reputation in the teeth. So kindly remind whoever is handling your socmed that the brand account is not their personal shitpost-copium playground
Adding to that, chances are that people following you are already your customers @Tutanota, exactly because they wanted to get away from all this stuff. I don't want to hear about Microsoft or Google or Facebook any more than I already have to, and I certainly don't need more of it pushed into my news feed here. Tuta is doing cool stuff, and I'd love to hear more about that.
Sounds like a good moment to donate again to #Libreoffice 🤟️ and a whole lot of other FOSS projects, thanks to whom I haven't seen MS Office ( nor Windows by the way) ( nor any Microsoft ekhm "product") for years
«Please, pretty please, don't call it slop. Do you have any idea how much money we sunk on this thing? Can you imagine what kind of about-face I'll have to make if this thing tanks for good? Our investors are going to cry so hard when they figure out…
BREAKING? This rename of the app (not Office itself) happened in February 2025, but hey, it's currently trending, so why not jump on that bandwagon, eh?
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Prima. Svou závislost na us big tech jsem za poslední 2 roky srazil rapidně. Oproti běžné populaci mi v tom hodně pomohla má technická znalost, všude jsem tak přešel ma selfhostované služby.
Už závisím jen na: Google Maps pro auto navigaci Google Android pro mobilní systém Meta WhatsApp pro komunikaci Meta Messenger pro komunikaci
Ja nejvic bojuju s Google mapama. Ani OSM ani nic jineho zatim neni tak dobre pouzitelne. Waze zejo... Komunikaci mam vyresenou Slackem - firemni, Threema - soukroma komunikace. Whatsapp ani FB messenger nepouzivam uz roky. U Apple toho zas tak moc udelat nejde, treba jejich imessage, vubec system (ano na Macbooku jde Linux, ale na tablet a mobil...)
Okay #MedMastodon folks - The instance is now back up and running I'm pleased to share. Things might take a moment to catch-up and I have sent out an announcement so hopefully anyone that had accounts that doesn't see this will get the e-mail ping letting them know everything is currently back online.
I will post a bit more about the plan in the near future but the long story short is nothing is planned to change that folks will see, the main goal for me is to get the site up and running, catch up on the activities that look to be outstanding and get a plan together for migrating everything onto new infrastructure.
Also a huge shoutout to @mastohost who have been excellent at keeping the server "Paused" effectively without deleting data even when there was no confirmed migration path and a real big thanks to Nick for being willing to transfer the server and keep the community running!
I am literally in tears right now. I weep for the country we could have been.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s board of directors voted to dissolve the organization, officials announced Monday, ending the 58-year-old agency that distributed federal funds to #NPR, #PBS and more than 1,500 local public radio and television stations.
This formalizes the shutdown after Republicans in Congress rescinded $1.1 billion in funding because of Trump’s tantrum demand.
Created by Congress through the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, #CPB served as a middleman between taxpayers and public media, distributing most of its appropriations directly to local stations. The funding was particularly crucial for small and rural stations, especially those in areas where internet isn’t. Most of them will be forced to close.
Washington, D.C. (January 5, 2026) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress to steward the federal government’s investment in public broadcasting, announced today that its Board of Direct…
@Milu Já jsem už 5 let věrný Weawow, asi je ale jen na google blej, což vás nenadchne. U něj lze zvolit z více poskytovatelů předpovědí. Dokonce mu rok co rok pošlu pár šušňů, abych ho podpořil.
I really tried, Microsoft, I honestly did. Me to copilot: please write all the comments in this document verbatim as well as quote the text the comment refers to, with its page number. Copilot: writes my comments and invents the text which doesn't exist in the document. What were we supposed to use this stuff for again?
I gave KDE Plasma 6 a really good try. It's great for people used to a "Windows" like interface but I really hate having to constantly resize, move, and arrange the windows.
So, back to i3wm.. which will stay out of my way and let me get on with the tasks I do.
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in reply to Dmytri • • •I am somewhere on the spectrum, highly functional but definitely somewhere on there and i don't generally talk about things i'm going through unless it's in response to things people share with me.
It's how i relate to others when they share things they are going through. I'm friendly but often a private person in many ways i suppose.
I've survived a lot in life and i usually just sort of focus on that, surviving it vs making sense of it with others.
I think this is probably common.
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