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When I think about reading, the activity, I think of it as something distinct from listening to an audiobook. I enjoy the physical and mental act of reading. It is recreational for me in a way that listening to an audiobook isn’t.

But I do love and listen to audiobooks, and listening to audiobooks “counts” as reading, whatever that means. If you ask me what books I’ve read, I’m going to list those I’ve read and those I’ve listened to (and in some cases I’m probably not going to remember which is which). urusai.social/@nazokiyoubinbou…

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72 Stunden – insbesondere über ein Wochenende – sind kaum ausreichend sind, um auf ein hochkomplexes Gesetzesvorhaben in angemessener Weise zu reagieren.

Die betroffenen Verbände und Organisationen, darunter auch der Verein Tacheles e.V., hatten gerade einmal drei Tage Zeit, um eine Stellungnahme zu einem Gesetz zu verfassen, das weitreichende Veränderungen im Bereich der Bürgergeldgesetze und Arbeitsförderung vorsieht.

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@Bundesregierung Ich möchte das bei der FDP sämtliche Leistungen zusammen gekürzt werden,das die Abgeordneten der FDP nur noch ein Taschengeld bekommen und mit Wasser und Brot abgespeist werden.Und das alles nur um ihnen den Anreiz zu nehmen soviel Scheisse auf meine Kosten (Steuerzahler) zu fordern.Ich will diese Menschenverachtende,Klassistische,Rassistische Scheisse einfach nicht mehr hören müssen.Beendet endlich diese fucking Ampel Geschichte. #Migrationspolitik
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#Migrationspolitik @Bundesregierung
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Andii אַנדִֽי

This deserves a highlight:
"Two years ago, one of us (A.C.) made a prediction in Fortune Magazine that a few years of ‘learning to live with’ COVID (i.e., pretending it doesn’t exist) would lead to a billion cases of Long COVID. A recent estimate pegs the total incidence so far at 400 million cases of Long COVID. Long COVID is well on its way to becoming the world’s most common disease."
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Seirdy

re: FediMeta, a bit glib

@Ezzy @hazelnoot well it’s hosted on hetzner servers. the top post listed pieces of software, not hosting providers.

honestly pleroma is below my threshold for “automatically be very suspicious of this instance” given how it’s still popular for single-user instances. in replies, i singled out the top three but not the top four for a reason.

@Hazelnoot @Ezzy

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I'm just going to say it. Whoever designed the new notifications layout and design for Mastodon needs to go back to the drawing board (and UI design school). In some cases, esp if you start off with a tag, it looks and works horribly. (desktop view). Way worse than the old way just a month or two ago.

#mastodon #fediverse #design #uidesign

#fediverse #Mastodon #design #uidesign
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Many calendars use email to send reminders. Unfortunately, this can overshare data with mail servers & 3rd-party notification services.

At Tuta, we're doing something different.
👉 tuta.com/calendar

Our zero-knowledge calendar keeps you up to speed without sharing information with Google.

#degoogle #privacy #calendar #encryption #zeroknowledge

#privacy #encryption #degoogle #calendar #zeroknowledge

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I'm launching a hosting provider which gives heavily discounted resources to open-source and non-profit projects!

80% cheaper than digitalocean
40% cheaper than hetzner

while i'm still testing my infrastructure i'm offering your first instance with 2 cores & 2 ram gig for free(!) so i can test how my hardware performs on production.

if you're interested you can check out the site or just reply/dm me!
wedotyou.net/

(edit: go follow the mastodon as well! @wedotyou )

(edit 2: if you’re curious about our specifications, policies, and detailed pricing, it’s all on our help center: help.wedotyou.net/ )

@wedotyou - ethical hosting
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I found a great, brief resource on creating accessible web pages and documents. It only highlights most common accessibility issues, so it's much less overwhelming than the WCAG. I think it's a great resource for people who don't know where to start! Also it has before and after examples, so it's great to demo with a screen reader as well! #accessibility washington.edu/accesscomputing…
#Accessibility

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Greta Thunberg joined our United for Climate Justice coalition today and our blockade of a busy Brussels' street.
This disruption of traffic and of business as usual is nothing in comparison to what the climate catastrophe will wreak.
We need urgent action now, but we're still rushing headlong into a terrifying future, all for the sake of greed and growth.

politico.eu/article/brussels-g…

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #XR #ExtinctionRebellion #Brussels #Belgium #Activism #CivilDisobedience

#Climatecrisis #climatechange #activism #extinctionrebellion #belgium #brussels #xr #civildisobedience

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Together with other organisations we are currently blocking the Rogier metro station in Brussels as part of the ongoing #StopFossilSubsidies action.

€400 billion in subsidies was given to the fossil industry in the EU last year, which is about €1000 per EU citizen. (1/3)

#ClimateJustice #UnitedForClimateJustice

A group of protesters blocks a street in Brussels. A couple of them, wearing white lab coats, are holding a banner saying 'Scientist Rebellion. The privilege to know, the duty to act'. The entrance to metro station 'Rogier' is visible in the background.
#ClimateJustice #stopfossilsubsidies #unitedforclimatejustice
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If you are like me, you often need to type or copy and paste things over and over again. For example, I have a couple Zoom meetings I host. Even though I email the Zoom info to people, there is always somebody who calls me or emails me and asks for the Zoom info again. This used to be annoying, until I found out about the text substitution feature of Microsoft Word and Outlook. Note, I do not know if this feature works in the new version of Outlook. I have only tried this in Outlook Classic. The way this works is that whatever text you need to put in a Outlook email or Word document often, you create what Word or Outlook calls a building block with the text. As an example, I created a building block with my personal zoom room and called it pz. To do this, I did the following:

  1. I started a new email in Outlook.
  2. I copied the Zoom info from Zoom into the email.
  3. I selected all of the text containing the Zoom info.
  4. I pressed Alt F3.
  5. A box came up asking me for the name of the building block. I typed pz. You can type whatever word or phrase you want.
  6. I pressed Enter.

Now, whenever I need to put this info into an email, I type pz followed by F3. Just like that, my Zoom info is in the body of the email.

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#microsoft #office

#microsoft #office
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Matt Blaze

Also, I'd be remiss if I didn't note that all the reasons that "lawful access" features in telecom infrastructure are risky apply at least equally to the periodically revived proposals for "key escrow" backdoors in cryptographic systems. Fortunately, we've mostly held back the tide on those, but they come up every few years. It would be a security disaster if they're ever mandated.
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Matt Blaze

Mandated wiretap interfaces and cryptographic backdoors are *expensive*, both in terms of money and, more importantly, exposure to risk. Worse, those burdens are borne inequitably.

Overall, almost no one is the subject of a lawful wiretap, even in places where wiretapping is an important investigative tool. Most people aren't suspects. But these mandates degrade security (and impose other costs) for *everyone*, the vast majority of whom will never be wiretapped.

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