I still want to go to Mars, but not if Elon Musk punches the ticket:

"It's not just Musk. The same goes for all the self-declared rationalists and tech-bro billionaires who think they're head and shoulders above the common herd. Far too many of them prove to be con artists, like Sam Bankman-Fried, or swollen with lethal hubris, like Stockton Rush, or wannabe mad scientists who believe that rules are for little people, like Marc Andreessen.

None of them are trustworthy. None of them have wisdom to match their wealth or their lofty rhetoric. If we're going to go to Mars—and, for the record, I do hope we eventually go to Mars—it shouldn't be the private vanity project of a billionaire. It should be a shared commitment on behalf of all humanity, with only our best representatives selected for the mission."

onlys.ky/i-still-want-to-go-to…

#onlysky #future #space

I still want to go to Mars, but not if Elon Musk punches the ticket

It's bad enough what Musk does on Earth. I don't want him controlling my oxygen supply.

^{Adam Lee (OnlySky)}

Is LibreOffice ever going to behave and stop freezing whenever you do nvda+down arrow? Seriously. I installed it again on my new windows installation and quite rapidly remembered why it was I wanted ms word instead...

I can't even read a document without having to manually do it. Pathetic that it is still like this in 2024.

#accessibility #blind #epic #fail #LibreOffice

Build 76 of the Zoom scripts is available.
This build is temporary and is designed to get us over a period while the Zoom calendar is being redesigned.
You are likely to see more updates during November.

In recent builds of the Zoom client, a new calendar has been introduced. This is often reached on the Home Tab and the Meetings Tab.
In some builds, it is no longer possible to see all of your meetings which have been scheduled. They are only shown for the day or week selected within the calendar.
In terms of how they are displayed, this too can vary.
If a calendar is connected to Zoom, such as from Office 365 Business, the meetings are no longer shown in a list. You need to Tab through them.
If you do not have a calendar connected, the meetings are shown in a list relative to the calendar view you have selected.
Are you still with us?

In order to try to get over these issues, the scripts have had the following changes:
1. Pressing Insert+H for Hotkey Help now gives you the option, Check for Updates, right at the top of the Virtual Viewer screen. It used to be at the bottom.
2. If you press the tab key repeatedly, and you end up in the calendar area of a Tab, JAWS now says "Calendar Area".
3. If focused within the Calendar area, pressing Control+N will allow you to create a new meeting.
4. Having entered the form for creating a new meeting, some helpful prompts have been included so as to get around the way in which some of the controls work. For example in the Date field, JAWS now says, "Enter to select, then use all four arrow keys to move through dates, Enter when finished".
5. If within the calendar area, all controls should speak the appropriate label.
When focused upon days, press Up and Down arrow to move by week, Left and Right arrow to move by day.
6. When within the calendar area, you can now use the keystroke of ALT+Windows+F4 so as to close Zoom, just as you can in the main Zoom interface.

We're exhausted already, but we now get to the most important point.

7. From anywhere in Zoom, you can now press Control+Windows+S. This takes you into the web-based view of your meetings. From here you can schedule, review and start your meetings which is a much cleaner interface. This means you can disregard the calendar entirely. For now, this is the recommended option.

Best of luck!

After spending a week trying to find a durable water bottle as free of plastic as possible, I am happy to say that Soulbottles is the very best you can find in Europe, completely plastic free (including the cap).

According to their site, they donate 1 euro after each purchase for clean water, their packaging is plastic free and the padding is recycled material. Their product parts are produced in China, they pay attention to proper working hours and adequate breaks, their products are shipped via train to Germany where they are assembled, no airplanes.

Best of all, they also make glass bottles with a ceramic cap if durability is not as important. A small business absolutely worth checking out! #waterbottle #plasticFree #BuyForLife #affordable

soulbottles

soulbottles macht nachhaltiges Verhalten einfach! Mit Produkten, die doppelt gut sind: für den Planeten und alle, die auf ihm leben. 100% plastikfrei, klimaneutral und vegan.

^soulbottles

«La vivienda es la chispa del malestar social que existe. La complejidad del problema obliga a que las medidas sean audaces.

Hace falta cirugía radical. No hay que tener miedo al control del precio del alquiler ni a la intervención del mercado, porque el Estado no puede dejarle un derecho humano, como la vivienda, al mercado. Pero también hay que hablar de expropiación a los grandes tenedores si hace falta».

📌 Ya puedes leer la entrevista de hoy a Antonio Maíllo

lavanguardia.com/politica/2024…

Antonio Maíllo: “Quien no quiera unificar la izquierda, que se retrate”

Con cinco diputados en el grupo parlamentario, y una ministra sentada en el Consejo de Ministros, Izquierda Unida está capitaneando el impulso legislativo de Sumar firmando dos tercios de las leyes registradas por el espacio confederal en lo que va d…

^{Asier Martiarena (La Vanguardia)}

How are things going in the UK? National newspaper is promoting shoving crisp packets down the back of the radiator as a solution to not freezing to death 👍

Pensioners urged to use crisp packets after losing £300 Winter Fuel Payments
metro.co.uk/2024/10/13/pension…

Pensioners urged to use crisp packets after losing £300 Winter Fuel Payments

A heating expert has devised a novel solution to the Winter Fuel crisis.

^{Tom Sanders (Metro)}

• Sí (31%, 6 votes)
• No. (21%, 4 votes)
• Es posible. (47%, 9 votes)

My socially awkward and permanently anxious self just made a call and I neither lost my shit nor fumbled my words.

I will be taking cookies at this time, or gold stars, or squeezy hugs. Thanks for your consideration.

#ADHD #ActuallyAutistic #Anxiety

About 2.5 years ago, dozens profiles on some supposedly "free speech" #Mastodon fedi were blocked for a few posts like this one. I was one of them.
The fact that it's now a book is called vindication against some nazi friendly admins

Despite Chrystia #Freeland’s denials, her grandfather was complicit in the Nazi #genocide
A new book provides the most authoritative study of Mykhailo Chomiak and the history of #Ukrainian_Nazis in #Canada

breachmedia.ca/chrystia-freela…

Despite Chrystia Freeland’s denials, her grandfather was complicit in the Nazi genocide ⋆ The Breach

A new book provides the most authoritative study of Mykhailo Chomiak and the history of Ukrainian Nazis in Canada

^{Peter McFarlane (The Breach)}

Working on some exciting updates! 🎉

Soon we'll auto-detect and let you edit photo metadata like camera model, focal point, and exposure—totally optional and perfect for our pro users.

Plus, with HDR support rolling out soon to everyone, your pics will shine brighter than ever!

Stay tuned! ✨

#pixelfed #HDR #photography

Am 14. Oktober 1970 löste Helene-Charlotte von Bothmer einen Skandal aus, weil sie als erste Frau in einem Hosenanzug eine Rede im Bundestag hielt. Zuvor hatte der Vizepräsident des Bundestages Richard Jaeger (CSU) erklärt, er würde es keiner Frau erlauben, das Plenum in Hosen zu betreten, geschweige denn an das Rednerpult zu treten. Die lautstarke Empörung im Plenarsaal und außerhalb war gewaltig.

Ja, mit so einem Scheiß haben wir uns als junge Frauen rumschlagen müssen.

Der 6-jährige heute so: "Gell, Papa, ihr seid aus den späten 19-hunderter Jahren".

Irgendwie hat er mich damit an einer Stelle erwischt, von der mir nicht bewusst war, dass sie wehtun kann.

My social circles are all queer lefties in #Lebanon who have opposed Hezbollah for years and I *PROMISE YOU* not one of us has any doubt right now that Hezbollah is the only thing stopping Lebanon from complete extermination by the Israelis.

That bothers you? THEN STOP #ISRAEL

• Elektronisch (41%, 65 votes)
• Bar (14%, 23 votes)
• Gemischt Kleinbeträge (20%, 32 votes)
• Gemischt Bock 🐏 (23%, 37 votes)