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“For me to post a hurricane forecast and for people to accuse me of creating the hurricane by working for some secret Illuminati entity is disappointing and distressing, and it’s resulting in a decrease in public trust,” says Cappucci. He says he hasn’t slept in multiple days and is exhausted. This last week he received hundreds of messages from people accusing him of modifying the weather and creating hurricanes from space lasers. "

...I'm sorry... wut? Is this for real...?

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Der App-Zwang nimmt Nutzern die Wahlfreiheit, zwingt zur Nutzung von Apple- und Google-Diensten und macht Datenschutz ohne technisches Know-how fast unmöglich. 👇

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#android #ios #datenschutz #digitalpolitik #politik #app #appzwang #dsgvo #tdddg #verbraucherschutz #FreiheitImNetz #DigitaleSelbstbestimmung

#android #app #ios #datenschutz #DSGVO #digitalpolitik #appzwang #politik #tdddg #verbraucherschutz #freiheitimnetz #digitaleselbstbestimmung

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🇩🇪Niederländisches Parlament verabschiedet mit breiter Mehrheit vorbildliche Entschließung zur #Chatkontrolle +++ "unüberwindbare Bedenken gegen die Verhältnismäßigkeit" +++ "die private Kommunikation aller Bürgerinnen und Bürger zu überwachen" sei abzulehnen +++ Regierung soll bis Dezember mit Experten "einen alternativen europäischen Vorschlag zur Bekämpfung der Verbreitung von Bildern von Kindesmissbrauch im Internet erarbeiten"
berthub.eu/tkconv/document.htm…
#Chatkontrolle
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Patrick Breyer

🇬🇧Dutch Parliament just passed an exemplary resolution on #ChatControl with broad majority +++ "irreconcilable concerns about the proportionality of the European CSAM Regulation" +++ "detection order to be issued on the private communications of all citizens" is unacceptable +++ Government and experts to draft "an alternative European proposal to combat the dissemination of images of online child abuse"
berthub.eu/tkconv/document.htm…
#chatcontrol
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I've noticed that, for me and my wife at least, #Signal isn't always reliable for time sensitive messages. Even after exempting it from the Android power saving and everything it's almost like it goes to sleep sometimes and notifications don't pop until we open it up. The #XMPP app Conversations.im however is very reliable. Running a packet capture on my phone shows that when switching networks #Conversations immediately reconnects, but Signal doesn't, sometimes for several minutes.
A screenshot of a packet capture on my phone, showing the apps that were first to reconnect after starting the capture. The app behaves like a VPN so starting a capture makes apps reconnect, thinking you've switched networks.
#xmpp #conversations #signal

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La Fundación ONCE convoca una ayuda para opositores a los subgrupos A1 y A2 de cualquier Administración pública española. La ayuda se extiende a academia o preparador, transporte, alojamiento, materiales y herramientas, y es de hasta 5000 EUR.
Requisitos: nacionalidad española, discapacidad del 33% o más, titulación universitaria (necesaria para el grupo A), y no estar trabajando ni tener prestaciones superiores a 15000 EUR.
Fecha límite: 24 de octubre.
Que bien me habría venido esto en su día.
Más información: becas.fundaciononce.es/Paginas…
#becas #oposiciones #discapacidad
#oposiciones #discapacidad #becas

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This is my favourite episode so far. Kirsten found a collection of bizarre husband and wife facts from the 1890's and 1950's to read to us, and I react to them.
Are any of them applicable these days, or are they all simply of their time?
Which ones will make you stop in stunned horror or silence and exclaim 'What the actual?'
Let us know.

#StroongeCast E05: Fascinated By Cheese youtube.com/watch?v=a7mf_r0Gze…

On the web: onj.me/media/stroongecast
@MoonCat

#stroongecast @Kirsten Louis

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I appreciate the smaller indie developers, particularly in the Apple world, who specialise in a certain field and do it well, and take pride in being accessible. Rogue Amoeba is one. Their audio products are one of the best advertisements for Mac. Agile Tortoise is another, with the fabulous Drafts app. And another is Flexibits, who make the Fantastical Calendar app. This is a sound investment for management of the several calendars I keep. And they care a lot about #accessibility.
I use their Openings and proposals feature regularly in my professional life. Now they have added RSVP. Here’s the explanation from their blog. If you’ve not checked out Fantastical yet, I did a demo on Living Blindfully and they have plenty of videos and help guides. I highly recommend it.

flexibits.com/blog/2024/10/rsv…

#Accessibility

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#huge office 365 news. I Have some huge news here for those who are tired of paying for office 365 subscription every year. Microsoft just bought out office 2024 you pay once and it’s yours to keep or until Microsoft ends Support for the product. Office 2024 is 150 United States dollars and is available now. Here is a link that describes this new version of office and I feel that many here will be very excited not having to pay every year for office 365. pcworld.com/article/2475992/mi…
#huge
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Scott Rutkowski

@DavidGoldfield Thank you so much for this valuable info. It is really a shame that copilot pro does not come with Office 365 personal. I really enjoyed copilot pro however, to me it is very expensive for 20 United States dollars per month. It is a shame there are no other solutions that will integrate with word that work in a similar way to copilot pro that are accessible.
@David Goldfield
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