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In case you’re unaware back in the 19th century Bicycle Face was diagnosed as a dangerous health condition by doctors. Of course we now know that’s bogus. However what doctors back then…
@jima in Germany, you pay "mit Karte," similarly to paying "by card" everywhere. Only Dutch people call their card payment as "by PIN." Chip+PIN was the most common payment method before contactless payment took over. Now with emulated cards and biometry, many people barely ever use PIN anymore.
Lídryně francouzské krajní pravicové strany Národní sdružení Marine Le Penová odsoudila rozhodnutí amerického prezidenta zastavit vojenskou pomoc Ukrajině.
„Brutalita tohoto rozhodnutí je podle mě zavrženíhodná,“ řekla pro list Le Figaro.
Last week we had our first! Thunderbird + Rust office hours with our back-end developer @brendan and Sr. DevRel Engineer @linuxflower giving us a great introduction to the past, present, and future of oxidization in Thunderbird. Watch the recording on our @tilvids channel and find out how to get involved!
Vývojová deska založená na populárním Wi-Fi modulu ESP32-C3-MINI (od verze 3.5) s čipem ESP32-C3, který je široce podporován jak výrobcem, tak i komunitou bastlířů a speciálně navržena pro použití jako WiFi meteorologická stanice.
@jan @archos jj taky bych nechal malinu na jiné experimenty :) Tahle ^ deska (používám stejnou) se ti vejde s krabičkou a základníma čidlama do toho radiačního štítu (mají ho tam taky v shopu) a je to pak hezky kompaktní.
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In the last few months, many people have called on the EU to start supporting open alternatives to US-owned social media sites. The thing is: The EU has been doing that for some time already. It has financed, among others, ActivityPub, Mastodon and PeerTube. For @netzpolitik_feed, we spoke to Michiel Leenaars, who professionally gives out buckets of EU cash to open source projects.
The EU is paying a fortune for broken commercial software, criticizes Michiel Leenaars of the Dutch NLnet Foundation in an interview with netzpolitik.org. Together with his team, he supports open-source, free solutions — funded by the EU.
woo... @postmarketOS is looking for a new name. if you have a branding mindset, and especially if you've built a loved brand before, considering submitting a suggestion:
branding an environment is hard. their big-hitter competition ("Android" and "iOS") both have awful names and mostly-awful branding — it would be nice if pmos could leapfrog
An amendment to the “Narcotrafic” law is moving to the French National Assembly. Remind your legislators that a backdoor for the good guys only is not possible.
I live in Denmark which consistently ranks in the top-3 when it comes to countries with the least corruption and the highest trust i authorities. The general trust between citizens is also very high.
I have been working as a police officer for almost 25 years.
Most people don't find it disturbing that the police - with a court order ofcourse - can listen in on the phone lines.
But when it comes to the internet some people want 100% encryption and privacy. I can see why ofcourse.
I also oppose to "big tech", "surveillance economy", "attention economy" etc.
But I personally wouldn't mind if the police - again with a valid court order - could ask Tuta, Proton etc. to decrypt a specific number of emails for the police to use in an investigation.
The consequences of the police being completely unable to "listen in" on criminal activity worries me. I know of investigations that use data from "Sky ECC" and "EncroChat"-phones that had the encryption broken by the French police. The contents of some of the messages are absolutely terrifying.
But then again, maybe my view is different from people who live in countries that eg. is run by a dictator?
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Adds support for specifying upload flags, to allow e.g. uploading mail via IMAP without the Seen flag. e.g. curl imap://example.com:993/MAILBOX -u 'user@example.com' --upload-file /some/fil...
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@JessDail It's not bad but not perfect. I recommend reading reviews of it from trusted sources, like CNet, PCMag, PCWorld, etc. That will give you a good idea of where it stands.
It’s really really embarrassing that @TheASF still distributes OpenOffice, leaving people like this schoolteacher (name omitted to spare them spam) to think it’s a maintained or viable alternative.
My casual count suggests LibreOffice has done 40+ releases since OOo last did a release.
It seems clear to me that the embarrassment lands squarely on the tech media, who should be far better at communicating "#OpenOffice is not what you're looking for, use #LibreOffice @libreoffice instead". That's firmly within the tech media's job.
The job of @TheASF lies primarily in maintaining software. Let them maintain whatever software, for as long as people want it maintained.
@bignose @libreoffice Eg, the OpenOffice website could say “please don’t download this, we just do it for fun and as a result this often has security vulnerabilities. If you want an free office suite that is maintained to a high level of professionalism and security, please go to libreoffice.org”. But instead it not only encourages downloads, it misleads a banner stating “380M downloads”, giving the impression that it is an active (and presumably secure) project.
@bignose @libreoffice something needs to be done about this. It's unethical to distribute insecure software. If there's corporate association here they could find themselves in a law suit, too, though most likely victims wouldn't have the wherewithal to initiate one. Where is sense of responsibility to one's community?
@bluetea Please contact press@apache.org and ask them why they're still distributing OpenOffice despite multiple unfixed security issues over a year old. The more people that do this, the more chance there is of finally putting it in the Attic...
@bignose @libreoffice tbh I didn't know that OO is not well-maintained until your post... I was thinking that way because of Manjaro calamares installer (which I used like 5 years ago) that had two options of office suite.
@somereatardedwood @bignose @libreoffice it’s unfortunate but this is the case. Elsewhere in this thread I’ve posted at least three situations where a security researcher did proper bug filing against OOo, and then no release was done until after the security researcher had done the correct thing (waited, waited, and only then with reluctance published the vulnerability). And given that Libreoffice is doing regular security releases from a similar codebase, there’s almost certainly more.
Please contact them (apache@apache.org) and ask why they're still distributing OpenOffice despite multiple unfixed security issues over a year old, and no updates. Let us know what they say. Thanks!
@bignose @libreoffice Not at all. The media can report on it (and they have, there are articles linked in this thread), but ASF is responsible for its own failure when they’re supposed to act as a FOSS project incubator. Nothing much is incubating here, and there’s no reason they should be misleading users when there’s an actively maintained fork.
@kirb You can email press@apache.org and ask them if it's responsible to keep distributing OpenOffice despite the multiple, year-old security issues. See what they respond...
Glad I'm not the only one who carried politeness over into such endeavors. I've been laughed and even scorned for it. It's a waste to do such to a non-living thing. I always counter with it keeps me in good form so therefore, it's not wasted.
@robini71 I respect that. I've occasionally thanked CoPilot when it did a good job but I admit I try very hard to avoid doing it. I don't want my software to interact with me as though it is a human being with human emotions and I therefore don't want to interact with it for the same reason. Still, I do respect your choice.
@js to je v poho ja často vyzerám ako bezdomovec. Do práce mi prišli nové tenisky tak som si šiel po ne, zároveň mi dali vtedy aj podpísať výpoveď (chvíľu som nepřemýšlel a som ju podpísal). Pršalo. Býval som na Vinohradoch rovno nad nemocnicou.
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Yup. JAWS was the reason I was employed back in 95. Mind you, I almost killed the job because I installed the newest Internet Explorer which included Active Desktop and JAWS got all quiet on me.
Another Insurance CEO was almost killed at his home.
Is it a policy to not post news about copycats? (Which is a common policy) Or is it that they don't want overwhelming public support for it again?
"The home of State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation (SAIF) CEO Chip Terhune in Lake Oswego, near Portland, was shot up in the early hours of Feb. 21, the Lake Oswego Police Department said Wednesday."
In my opinion, it's not that they fear another CEO's death. CEOs are replaceable. It's that they don't want another anti-hero in the news.
EDIT: Replies are arguing based on the term "anti-hero" without acknowledging the definition of the word, confusing it with the term hero. Here's the definition of anti-hero: An "antihero" is a main character in a story who lacks the typical heroic qualities like strong morals, selflessness, and idealism, often making questionable decisions while still being the protagonist.
Would the news sharing this information make the suspect in the story a main character? Yes. Would this person possibly be applauded because it mirrors other recent events? Yes. Does that term mean we think the person is a hero? No. That's literally not the definition.
Before telling someone to "do their research" or the like, try Googling (or using your preferred search engine) first.
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Last week, a shocking incident at a Morrisons store in Wincheap, Kent, highlighted the urgent need for better disability awareness in the retail sector.
I hope that there will be someone participating who has knowledge about accessibility APIs and can maybe address some of the long-standing screen-reader-compatibility issues from the bug database. fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/114…
Hey text-to-speech nerds: Can anyone tell which text-to-speech engine this is? It's a Bose portable speaker. It's not a WiFi "smart" speaker; it just has analog, USB, and Bluetooth inputs, and it boots instantly. So I'm guessing it's only using a microcontroller, not a full Linux-capable processor. But the speech is decent.
Update: A couple of people have guessed Svox Pico. But that would sound like this, unless Svox has some other variant than the one they let Google release as open source in Android.
FWIW: If I were asked to develope something like this, I wouldn't neccessarily go for a full "text to speech" engine, but seriously consider putting a handful of prerecordings into ROM.
@Tamasg I don't know the answer, but it is the same voice my Bose headphones use. Not sure this helps you in any way though. It is tts, as the voice can also speak out the name of connected devices, so it isn't prerecorded.
@jessewienholts oooh yeah, ding to that one, I didn't even think of it but for sure it's the Bose TTS lady. I just checked against the QC Ultra and it's even the same to the pitch, so perhaps maybe there's some obscure datasheet mentioning that TTS engine. Would be funny to use that as an actual computer voice, but it's the same voice that has existed even in the QC Link around-ear in 2012, so compact voices back then had fewer prediction models to create the voice with.
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