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This story is really wild. Notably, the cryptocurrency Tether is worth less in Mexico because of its widespread use in money laundering and drug trafficking

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Tether Has Become a Massive Money Laundering Tool for Mexican Drug Traffickers, Feds Say

Tether is being used on a massive scale by large scale drug traffickers, to the point where Tether is sold cheaper in Mexico due to its links to drugs, according to court records reviewed by 404 Media.
Joseph Cox (404 Media)
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Winter blue tardis

Yes, there are a lot of special things about the human voice for example, that people with vision do not understand. Like the notes in someone's voice, how different someone's voice is from other voices, what they sound like, what their emotions, etc. Also, if they can sing. That last one is just, my observation. Some voices are also very good to just, listen to. Voices can mean a lot, especially if they are the only thing you can identify someone by, not talking about other awareness. Nice topic. :)
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Matt Campbell

Thanks for tagging me on this thread. Yeah, he's extracting that part of the work I did for STF earlier this year, and reimplementing the AT side of it in libatspi. As for the bit about X.org, it seems to me that Mutter shouldn't expose this new protocol at all when running in X window manager mode, since libatspi can already get keystrokes directly from the X server.

@tyrylu

@Lukáš Tyrychtr
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Lukáš Tyrychtr

It definitely does not have to, but I'd rather make things consistent for ATs, ideally, I'd want to move the logic where a double press of a grabbed modifier (mainly caps lock and insert) to the protocol and mandate it in the spec, so Orca can ideally no longer need the capability to inject keyboard events at all (that's a long time in the future, because backward compatibility, I know).

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Gmail is popular & free. But the cost for Gmail is high.

⚠️ Ads in the web client
⚠️ Ads in the app
⚠️ Ads in the Social & Promotions tab

Do you block #Gmail #ads? Let us know how in the comments!

Find out more: 👉 tuta.com/blog/block-gmail-ads

Ad on the Gmail mobile app

Gmail ads are getting so invasive. Can they be blocked? | Tuta

New Gmail advertisement is more intrusive than ever, in your mailbox, in your Gmail app, everywhere. Can the ads be blocked?
Tuta
#GMail #ads
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Peter Vágner

@Martin from Toronto I'm also using thunderbird. I do have local mail archive since 2007, and I'm self hosting my mail since 2018. In Thunderbird 115 performance for screen reader users has been improved dramatically, now my thunderbird install can handle very very largemailboxes. I was crazy enough to try out some 70000 messages inside single email folder.
@Martin from Toronto

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📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 25. November, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag um 19:00 besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten. Das Gehäuse ist rot und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte.

Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung

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#blind #inklusion #make

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Existe alguna razón de peso par aseguir usando productos de Microsoft, como Microsoft Office, pese a *todo* lo que esto significa? tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/1…

Instala libreoffice ( libreoffice.org ) en tu computador ahora y da un paso a la libertad, soberanía y justicia social. Ayuda a tus amigos y cuéntales.

Home | LibreOffice - Free and private office suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft

Free office suite – the evolution of OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx. Updated regularly, community powered.
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

2024-11-23 14:07:16

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"Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.

I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:

On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”: File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”"

medium.com/illumination/ms-wor…

#Microsoft #AI #GenerativeAI #AITraining #MSWord #Privacy #Word



MS Word is Using You to Train AI - ILLUMINATION - Medium

Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on…
Dr. Casey Lawrence (ILLUMINATION)

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"Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.

I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:

On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”: File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”"

medium.com/illumination/ms-wor…

#Microsoft #AI #GenerativeAI #AITraining #MSWord #Privacy #Word


MS Word is Using You to Train AI - ILLUMINATION - Medium

Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on…
Dr. Casey Lawrence (ILLUMINATION)
#privacy #microsoft #AI #word #generativeAI #msword #AITraining

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Mali is not the only African country going hard after global giants. In other lawsuits, Malawi is seeking more than $314-billion from Columbia Gem House, TotalEnergies and Star Agritech. continent.substack.com/p/the-r…

The rich better have Malawi's money

Debt-saddled states are going after firms that have failed to pay what they owe on extractive and even fraudulent deals.
The Continent

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Ando buscando mutuals asì que aquí va mi #presentacion #introduccion

Soy matemática e ingeniera informática, y trabajo de profe de un instituto a la vez que estudio las oposiciones.

Me gusta leer, el material de papelería, arte, rol y jugar y desarrollar videojuegos.

También tengo un gatito, del que dejo una foto por aquí :patcat:

P.D. Mi cuenta es un espacio seguro para personas lgtb+ y para mujeres

Foto de un gatito blanco y gris con rayitas tumbado en una manta
#introduccion #presentacion

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The Swiss voted to reject expanding highway capacity, understanding that it will only lead to more supply induced demand.
Using those 5 billions to expand the rail and public transport offerings is a better use of taxpayer money towards achieving our climate goals and reducing microplastic tyre pollution

swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politic…


Swiss reject plans for bigger motorways and extra rights for landlords

Swiss voters had their say on Sunday on a set of ballots which went right down to the wire.
www.swissinfo.ch
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chcel som povedať že síce nie som študent úplne tomu rozumiem ale potom som si uvedomil že študujem 🤦‍♂️ a aj bývam a síce nie sám ale

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Dobré ráno: Prespávajú v kancelárii, aj v ubytovni. Takto vyzerá študentská bytová kríza (25.11.)

00:00 Úvod01:38 Správy04:57 Hlavná téma 25:52 Odporúčanie *Podporte podcast Dobré ráno v aplikácii Toldo na ⁠⁠http://sme.sk/extradobreranoInternát v katastro...
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🐈 Artist: #TABBY / #TabbyThis 💕 in Loc: #Wien /Spiegelgasse/ Austria 🇦🇹11/2024 - Title: "TABBY Cat vs BANKSY Roller Rat" - #Art #Artist #Streetart #StencilArt #Cat #Rat #SprayArt #Exhibition (29.11.-01.12).
Websites: tabbythis.com and hotelkunst.com/tabby-guestlist…
Streetartwall. A stencil mural with a cat, a rat and red hearts was sprayed into a white wall niche. The black cat by artist "Tabby" sits in the niche and has a rat in the style of "Banksy" in its mouth. The Banksy rat is holding a stick with a paint roller. From the cat, curved and interconnected hearts extend beyond the two walls into another room of an exhibition. Info: The TABBY Vienna exhibition at Hotel Kunst BTQ will take place from November 29 to December 1. 2024. Tabby has freely designed the walls of the exhibition rooms. Admission is free but only open via guest list in the Website.

Tabby´s Guestlist

TABBY - der Banksy von Wien Wenn wir über leerstehende Gebäude und ungenutzte Räume nachdenken, sind es oft die Streetart-Künstler, die als Erste neues Leben ei
Andrew Stix (HOTEL KUNST)
#cat #art #artist #streetart #wien #rat #stencilart #exhibition #tabby #tabbythis #sprayart
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Today I uploaded all fire hydrants of #Urdorf to @openstreetmap with the data coming from the local water supply org. It has lots of details for each hydrant. Looking forward to see them in @organicmaps Luckily they're already in osmhydrant.org/

Changeset: openstreetmap.org/changeset/15…


Changeset: 159549130

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
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#urdorf @OpenStreetMap @Organic Maps

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Another random thing that made me happy tonight: I discovered that at some point #wordweb added a feature to disable linking of words in addon dictionaries. That makes reading definitions with a #screenreader much faster. It's a bit expensive, but if you frequently find yourself resorting to Google, or even worse #AI, to define words for you, it's worth the money and is largely #accessible as well: wordweb.info/#a11y

WordWeb: English dictionary, thesaurus, and word finder software.

wordweb.info
#a11y #accessible #screenreader #AI #wordweb

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The original Sandia Long Term Warning report is worth a read beyond just the memetic potential of Appendix F section 4.1. I tracked down a scan and uploaded it to the Internet Archive (which is a place of honor etc):
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Figure 4.3-3 "Spike Field, view 1" showing enormous tall spikes in a field to warn future people away from the nuclear waste storage site

Sandia Report: Expert Judgement on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant : Sandia National Labs : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Sandia National Labs report SAND92-1382, the Long Term Nuclear Waste Warning Message, by Kathleen M. Trauth, Stephen C. Hora, Robert V. Guzowski.This place is...
Internet Archive

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The word 'lana' (wool) in languages such as Spanish is etymologically related to English 'wool'.

For words to be related, they don't have to look like each other.

Instead, you have to be able to trace them back to the same ancestor through regular sound changes - and that's what linguists managed to do with wool and lana.

The infographic shows the Germanic and Romance family trees of these words.

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Is it just me reading the news from Lebanon in a way that suggests that IDF is targetting military installations there more than they do in the case of Gaza? The number of such military targets is carefully listed, for example. journa.host/@w7voa/11353984669…

Steve Herman (@w7voa@journa.host)

“Twelve command centers were struck by the IAF in Dahieh, Beirut, including sites used by Hezbollah's Intelligence Unit, coast-to-sea missile unit, and Unit 4400—responsible for smuggling weapons from Iran through Syria into Lebanon.” - IDF statement
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