The Month of LibreOffice, November 2024 is nearly over – but you can still get a sticker pack by saying what you use #LibreOffice for (with hashtag) 😊 blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss opensource
Yes, we’re half-way through the Month of LibreOffice, November 2024. And already, 206 contributors have already won cool LibreOffice sticker packs! Details on how to claim them will be provided at the end of the month, but if you don’t see your name …
i use LibreOffice at my work for docs and spreadsheet work. Also use it to generate my Church backgrounds for our livestream and also to transform PDFs into fillable forms as well. It’s an essential tool in the box without the MS baggage of AI stuff and forcing cloud storage of docs. #libreoffice
🇫🇷🏛️ Ayer el macronismo impidió que se votara la propuesta de Francia Insumisa para derogar la reforma de las pensiones en un espectáculo lamentable. Obstruyendo el debate durante horas.
La situación institucional es de fin de ciclo, crisis de régimen, y quién sabe si de algo más profundo.
Les « insoumis », qui avaient décidé de consacrer leur journée d’initiative parlementaire, jeudi, à la réforme adoptée en 2023, ont échoué en séance face à l’obstruction des groupes de la coalition présidentielle et de la droite.
Donations help us to build the LibreOffice community, support our projects, and continue to make the software even better. Every amount helps 😊 libreoffice.org/donate/ #foss #OpenSource
Protesters clashed with police in Tbilisi tonight after the government of Georgia suspended for four years talks on its bid to join the EU. euronews.com/my-europe/2024/11…
Thousands of protesters flooded the streets surrounding the Georgian Parliament to voice their objection to the ruling party's decision to suspend EU-accession talks.
For the first time in five years, I'm on sale, both individually and as part of the Space/Time bundle with some amazing apps like DaisyDisk, KeyQue and TextSniper. This is strictly for a short time only, when the sale is over, it’s over and unlikely to be repeated for a long time. unclutterapp.com/bundle/?coupo…
Just a note to my fellow Canadians, that this is most of the cause of the Canada Post strike that you're all complaining about during Christmas. Harper gutted public funding for Canada Post and told them to run like a business. They are an essential public service, and should not be run for profit!
Lauterbach sieht in der Patientenakte einen Datenschatz für KI-Innovationen. Tech-Giganten zeigen Interesse, um die Gesundheitsversorgung zu verbessern.
@domasla Wenn ich mir die Entwicklung im Bereich ePA so anschaue gewinne ich fast den Eindruck, das Wohl des Patienten wird … äh … als Nebenwirkung in Kauf genommen… 🙊 💨
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Ah, I see that BlueSky has joined LinkedIn in supplanting Twitter as the primary source of accessibility misinformation.
(I didn’t make this clear, but this post came across my timeline here and on linkedin and it just shows how this kind of stuff spreads on algorithmic timelines and then bleeds over to other social networks. That’s how you poison a well.)
In French Harry Potter, Tom Marvolo Riddle became Tom Elvis Jedusor JR, to make the anagram work. Norwegion changed Fred and George to Fred and Frank and the family was called the Wiltersens. Learning lots of random HP translation facts today and these amused me.
Russia’s latest horrific aerial attack against Ukraine “is outrageous and serves as yet another reminder of the urgency and importance of supporting the Ukrainian people in their defense against Russian aggression.” - President Biden in a statement whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/s…
Overnight, Russia carried out a horrific aerial attack against Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities report that Russia launched nearly 200 missiles and drones
Over the past months, we’ve been improving the accessibility of both our desktop and mobile apps, in particular to better support visually impaired users.
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (September and October 2024): The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
* Joachim Bauch (fancycode)
* Alexander Kjäll (capitol)
* Jan Mojžíš (janmojzis)
* Xiao Sheng Wen (atzlinux)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Joachim Bauch (fancycode) Alexander Kjäll (capitol) Jan Mojžíš (janmojzis) Xiao Sheng Wen (atzlinux) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in…
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today only brings you 9 updated apps, but I still wanted to toot that because our RB stats made it to above 29%: 356 apps (29.2%) 🥳 Next milestone: 30% comes into reach!
And while I'm here: at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk today 5 modules have received updates (122 modules available altogether).
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
Přátelé, přinášíme vám jeden z nejsilnějších příběhů, které se nám v Brocastu podařilo zaznamenat... Naše pozvání k rozhovoru přijal cestovatel, dobrodruh a ...
@archos@arch-linux.cz Potom, co jsem viděl jejich rozhovor s vekslákem Richardem Chladem, kdy mu dělali křoví a obdivovali způsob, jakým vydělal miliardy, jsem si tyhle podcastové hlupáky zakázal. To není nic proti Vágnerovi, ale proti těm dvěma nenovinářům, kteří udělají rozhovor s každým, kdo jim přivede odběratele a jim to vydělá prachy. Kdyby žil Hitler, byl by u nich v podcastu jako vážený host. Pardon, nemám tyhle mladé fracky rád.
@PepikHipik Jasně to chápu, viděl jsem je poprvé. Já se na ně nekoukám, on ten podcast na mě vyskočil na X. Skoro celou dobu vypráví Vágner, tak mě to zaujalo.
@archos@arch-linux.cz Doba klasických médií, která se řídila pravidly novinařiny, s internetem a nástupem sociálních médií skončila.
Situaci snadného šíření informací i možnosti na tom vydělávat už dávno začala využívat dezinformační média, která přišla s „metodou míchání jablek s hruškama“, kdy se za pomoci rozhovoru se slavným či veřejností uznávaným člověkem snaží konzumenty internetu nalákat k návštěvě jejich odporného média.
Mediálně negramotný konzument, a těch je naprostá většina v populaci, si totiž nezjišťuje to, s kým má tu čest, komu médium patří a k čemu neznámé médium slouží, většinový konzument jde jen za nabídnutým lákavým tématem.
Jsou věci, které je nutné, aby se děcka učila už ve škole, aby se trénovala v kritickém myšlení, aby se naučila odmítat všechny podvodníky internetu, kteří si hrají na novináře, ale ve skutečnosti to jsou prachsprostí nýmandi a podvodníci porušující veškerá pravidla, například platná pro vedení rozhovoru.
Dnešní mladí tvůrci obsahu internetových médií poučení studiem marketingu a možnostmi vydělávat na sledovanosti nezastaví žádná morální záklopka, tyhle už zajímají jen peníze a lajky...
Konec klasické žurnalistiky je začátkem konce demokracie. Proto je nutná regulace takové činnosti:
Nová média jsou také média, a proto pro ně musí platit pravidla stejná jako pro média tištěná a vysílací. Chceš si hrát na žurnalistiku? Pak se musíš řídit pravidly pro žurnalistiku a musíš být za šíření propagandy, manipulací, lží a skryté reklamy a nekalý prodej postižitelný. Nejde o cenzuru, ale o stará dobrá pravidla, jaká platí pro tištěná a vysílací média.
To se ale mladým i starým tvůrcům pochybného mediálního obsahu vydělávajícím na internetu nelíbí a začali křičet, když se RRTV začala o jejich činnost zajímat, neb se ČR již před mnoha lety zavázala dodržovat pravidla Českou republikou odsouhlasená v Parlamentu EU, ČR, která jako vždy od tohoto odsouhlasení pravidel spala jak Šípková Růženka, aby se nyní těsně před uplynutím překlenovací doby probudila a začala zmatkovat.
Úředníci RRTV mají totiž máslo na hlavě, protože nechali v ČR bez jakéhokoli svého zájmu vyrůst generaci namachrovaných egoistických hvězd internetového obsahu s obrovským dosahem, kterým se teď snaží nešťastnou formou sdělit, že se musí ze zákona registrovat a že budou podléhat stejnému dohledu, jaký platí pro šiřitele médií na vyžádání (Media-on-demand).
A tak jsme nyní svědky toho, jak se tito tvůrci internetového audiovizuálního obsahu (často velmi pochybným a s obrovským dosahem a zajímavými finančními příjmy) snaží přesvědčit veřejnost i politiky, že nejsou tvůrci mediálního obsahu... Klasický český kašpárkov plný emocí, polopravd, manipulací a lží.
Šiřitelé dezinformací a konspirací v jednom šiku s tvůrci obsahu pro pražskou kavárnu v boji proti RRTV. Prostě bizár, který vypovídá nejen o mediální gramotnosti zdejší populace, ale též bizár, který ilustruje právní gramotnost tvůrců internetového mediálního obsahu. Emoce místo fakt. A též odpor lidí vydělávajících velké a snadné peníze na internetu platit daň z příjmu.
A new version of MapComplete is out. It contains many small UX-improvements and bugfixes, such as:
- When clicking the map, the closest nearby way (<20px away) is selected to easier select (e.g. on the maxspeed theme) - fixes to panoramax uploads. Some users were having problems during uploads, this should be improved - Fix to the move-functionalities
#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.
Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.
Když jsem bydlel v Česku, čas od času jsem vyrazil prozkoumat německé pohraničí s jednodenní síťovou jízdenkou. Teď dělám občas totéž, jen objevuji Německo z druhé strany.
ESET's discovery of the first UEFI bootkit designed for Linux sendss an important message: UEFI bootkits are no longer confined to Windows systems alone.
What a wild viewpoint, undocumented immigrants explaining why they are happy Trump won expressing jealousy of the support asylum seeking immigrants are getting. They encouraged their kids to support Trump and even fly MAGA flags and bumper stickers 🫠
But don't they understand undocumented means they are the illegals meanwhile asylum seekers get support because they are using a LEGAL path to immigration? Trump wants both types gone.
Across the U.S., Latino immigrants who’ve been in the country a long time felt that asylum-seekers got preferential treatment. “Those of us who have been here for years get nothing,” said one woman from Mexico who has lived in Wisconsin for decades.
There can be few among those of us who produce printed circuit boards, who have not at some point placed a component the wrong way round, or with the wrong footprint. Usually this can be rectified …
Ernest Hemingway once said: In our darkest moments, we don’t need solutions or advice. What we yearn for is simply human connection—a quiet presence, a gentle touch. These small gestures are the anchors that hold us steady when life feels like too much.
Please don’t try to fix me. Don’t take on my pain or push away my shadows. Just sit beside me as I work through my own inner storms. Be the steady hand I can reach for as I find my way.
My pain is mine to carry, my battles mine to face. But your presence reminds me I’m not alone in this vast, sometimes frightening world. It’s a quiet reminder that I am worthy of love, even when I feel broken.
So, in those dark hours when I lose my way, will you just be here? Not as a rescuer, but as a companion. Hold my hand until the dawn arrives, helping me remember my strength.
Your silent support is the most precious gift you can give. It’s a love that helps me remember who I am, even when I forget.
I see Rust 1.83 was released today. [1] The major focus seems to be on enabling more things in const context. It'll be interesting to see how this might allow more logic [2] to be shifted from program startup time to compile time.
I think mostly the advantage is just that it's super annoying to have weird limitations on what you can do in a const context, rather than it actually being a load-bearing performance thing, usually. Execution at compile time can have significant downsides too, mostly compile time, so I don't expect very much stuff to actually become more tractable to precompute in that way.
> And I'm pretty sure I just recommended writing your entire application in C++, which sounds insane, even to me.
I agree about C++. But writing a whole desktop application in Rust is looking more and more tractable. Maybe someday I'll actually ship a non-trivial application that's a stand-alone executable and starts instantly, like I've always dreamed of doing.
Would you please add alt text to your images? There are many blind people on Mastodon who use screen readers that will miss out on the imagery if they're not described.
@DavidGoldfield I wish there were an AI shortcut for this which I could read and adjust before posting. I find myself getting caught up in incredibly detailed descriptions when I do this and it's very time-consuming. I want to do it justice or not do it at all. I'm aware this is an unsatisfactory answer to your request and I apologize.
@mastoblind Asking the Mastoblind group about this as I thought I remember reading about a service that could assist with adding alt text. It might have been a hashtag that triggered it or that at least alerted users that the need was there?
As people may have noticed, we've had some issues with GitLab (repository, issues, merge requests, and documentation are all affected), and the admins have decided to move up the migration day to December 4, 2024:
![eravioli wrote on Oct 17
I just started grad school this fall after a few years away from school and man | did not realize how dire the A/LLM situation is in universities now. In the past few weeks:
* I chatted with a classmate about how it was going to be a tight timeline on a project for a programming class. He responded "Yeah, at least if we run short on time, we can just ask chatGPT to finish it for us”
* One of my professors pulled up chatGPT on the screen to show us how it can sometimes do our homework problems for us and showed how she thanks it after asking it questions "in case it takes over some day."
* l asked one of my TAs in @ math class to explain how a piece of code he had written worked in an assignment. He looked at it for about 15 seconds then went "I don't know, ask chatGPT"
* A student in my math group insisted he was right on an answer to a problem. When | asked where he got that info, he sent me a screenshot of Google gemini giving just blatantly wrong info. He stillinsisted he was right when | pointed this out and refused to click into any of the actual web pages.
* A different student in my math class told me he pays $20 per month for the “computational” version of chatGPT, which he uses for all of his classes and PhD research. The computational version is worth it, he says, because it is wrong "less often’. He uses chatGPT for all his homework and can't figure out why he's struggling on exams.
[...]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/613057 "eravioli wrote on Oct 17
I just started grad school this fall after a few years away from school and man | did not realize how dire the A/LLM situation is in universities now. In the past few weeks:
* I chatted with a classmate about how it was going to be a tight timeline on a project for a programming class. He responded \"Yeah, at least if we run short on time, we can just ask chatGPT to finish it for us”
* One of my professors pulled up chatGPT on the screen to show us how it can sometimes do our homework problems for us and showed how she thanks it after asking it questions \"in case it takes over some day.\"
* l asked one of my TAs in @ math class to explain how a piece of code he had written worked in an assignment. He looked at it for about 15 seconds then went \"I don't know, ask chatGPT\"
* A student in my math group insisted he was right on an answer to a problem. When | asked where he got that info, he sent me a screenshot of Google gemini giving just blatantly wrong info. He stillinsisted he was right when | pointed this out and refused to click into any of the actual web pages.
* A different student in my math class told me he pays $20 per month for the “computational” version of chatGPT, which he uses for all of his classes and PhD research. The computational version is worth it, he says, because it is wrong \"less often’. He uses chatGPT for all his homework and can't figure out why he's struggling on exams.
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