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Feeling bummed? You’re not alone, as the U.S. drops to a record low in happiness index
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Feeling bummed? You’re not alone, as the U.S. drops to a record low in the World Happiness Index

Despite sharing a border with Russia and receiving limited winter sunlight, Finland is the world’s happiest country. But Americans are unhappier than ever.
Peter Guo (NBC News)

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Our inaugural State of the Thunder is live on TILvids! Director of desktop and mobile apps @alecaddd leads a discussion on our upcoming desktop roadmap, our values, and how we can work more in the open.

(We'd like to further open these discussions, so stay tuned for how you can join future SotTs!)

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Community

tilvids.com/w/o3SjjuRFxovcabDa…

#opensource #thunderbird #community @Aleca
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Attaque fasciste contre le projet GNOME (transphobie, mention d'images choquantes)

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#gnome @GNOME
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"We have ceded so many of the core operations of our lives and institutions to tech, we must recognise that strong encryption isn’t the enemy of security — it *is* security." - Signal President
@Mer__edith for the Financial Times on the war on encryption

ft.com/content/a934150f-e0f5-4…


The war on encryption is dangerous

Government demands to access encrypted data via back doors will leave it vulnerable to hacks, breaches and theft
Meredith Whittaker (Financial Times)
@Meredith Whittaker
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LibreOffice

It's also available on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=aVAe7bTGeY…

LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #2 – Design and UX in Free and Open Source Software

Heiko Tietze and Mike Saunders from The Document Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind LibreOffice, discuss design and UX in free and open source so...
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devSJR

Many users to not see features indeed. The space bar example seems crazy to some, but I have seen it too. In the long run an intelligent agent might do the trick. Or a grammar and style check. #LanguageTool does this for space between paragraphs (it suggests to use styles).

BTW, I Iike that you mention YouTube for those in the Fediverse who cannot access peertube. 🙃 This is brilliant.

#languagetool
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devSJR

Many users to not see functions indeed. The space bar example seems crazy to some, but I have seen it too. In the long run an intelligent agent might do the trick. Or a grammar and style check. #LanguageTool does this for space between paragraphs (it suggests to use styles).

BTW, I Iike that you mention YouTube for those in the Fediverse who cannot access peertube. 🙃 This is brilliant.

#languagetool

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Wir sind auf dem Forschungsfest! Komm vorbei dieses Wochenende im Wiener Rathaus 🎉
Mehr Infos: wirtschaftsagentur.at/termine-…
Eine Werbegrafik für das Forachungsfest in Wien. Es sind zwei erstaunt schauende Emojis, eines pink, eines gelb. Das Plakat ist sonst blau und hat einen gelben Streifen. Oben steht "Das Wiener Forachungsfest Let's talk future. Es findet am 21. bis 23. März 2025 im Wiener Rathaus statt. Auf dem pinken Emoji ist das Logo der Wirtschaftsagentur Wien.

Wiener Forschungsfest 2025

Von 21. bis 23. März 2025 zieht das Wiener Forschungsfest ins Rathaus ein!  Mitten in der Wiener City zeigt die Wirtschaftsagentur Wien gemeinsam mit Unternehmen, Unis und Fachhochschulen Forschung aus Wien zum Angreifen.
Wirtschaftsagentur Wien
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📣 Sei #A11y und unterstütze den Zugang zum !@metalab für Menschen mit Sehbehinderung oder Blindheit! Komm zum Do-It-Blind (DIB) Treffen 🛠️ am Montag, 24. März, Treffpunkt Ring-Passage, U3-Station Volkstheater um 16:00; Ende 20:00 metalab.at/calendar/event/7914… #make #blind #inklusion
Verbesserung: März statt Februar
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten. Das Gehäuse ist türkis 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.
#a11y #blind #inklusion #make @metalab
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Useful piece. Solar panels are largely cloud managed, and now in The Netherlands alone create the same power as 50 of our nuclear power plants. If you switch this 25GW on/off remotely, the consequences could be huge. And we do not regulate these cloud platforms at all: dw.com/en/how-hackers-capture-…

How hackers capture your solar panels and cause grid havoc

The global push towards smart-energy production adds new vulnerabilities to national power grids. DW spoke to hackers who've exposed security gaps in rooftop installations and solar power plants around the world.
Mathis Richtmann (Deutsche Welle)
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L' @arcep publie l'édition 2025 du Baromètre du numérique

** Équipements et usages du numérique | Arcep **
> l’édition 2025 montre qu’une personne passe en moyenne un quart de son temps éveillé sur les écrans pour un usage personnel

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Équipements et usages du numérique

Baromètre du numérique : l’édition 2025 montre qu’une personne passe en moyenne un quart de son temps éveillé sur les écrans pour un usage personnel
Arcep
@Arcep

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Another aspect of the housing crisis:

For newly qualified teachers & nurses living in a flat share is often the only viable option; across England in around half of Council areas, a one-bedroom flat is unaffordable on their pay.

If you want to retain newly qualified staff, they need to be able to move from a model of student accommodation (a shared house) to something reflecting their privacy & welfare needs... we need better (affordable) housing for key workers.

#housing #workers

Chart: Rents are unaffordable for many newly qualified nurses and teachers % of English local authorities where the average one-bed rental is affordable and unaffordable based on threshold of 30% of gross income Shows for Healthcare assistants, in 69% of local authorities a one-bed rental is unaffordable; for a newly qualified nurse its 45% and for a newly qualified teacher is 43%
#housing #workers

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📢 Novinky v Tusky! 🦣🚀
Boostování dostalo vylepšení – teď můžeš kontrolovat, kdo uvidí tvoje boosty!

🔹 Public Boost – viditelný pro všechny, objeví se na veřejné časové ose.
🔹 Unlisted Boost – nezobrazí se na veřejné časové ose, ale lidé ho uvidí na tvém profilu.
🔹 Follower Only Boost – sdílíš jen se svými sledujícími, nikdo jiný ho neuvidí.
#tusky #Mastodon #Boosty #Fediverse

#Tusky #fediverse #Mastodon #boosty

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🗓️ Dnes je Mezinárodní den štěstí.
Buďte šťastní vy i vaši blízcí nejen dnes. 🤞🍀♥️

denstesti.cz/

Home - Den štěstí

Minulý rok se ke Dni štěstí přidaly například: Ferring-Léčiva | Gymnazium a SOŠZE Vyškov | Kili | Z-TEC SERVICES | Tesena | Thein OperationsUp Česká Republika | Digiteq Automotive | Základní škola Peruc | KROS | Rosteš | Rezidente | MŠ Horní ůjezdUče…
Mezinárodní Den Štěstí

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‘The Empire Strikes Back’ 45th Anniversary Screening With George Lucas Announced for TCM Film Festival starwarsnewsnet.com/2025/03/th…

‘The Empire Strikes Back’ 45th Anniversary Screening With George Lucas Announced for TCM Film Festival

George Lucas will be in attendance during a special screen of The Empire Strikes Back at the TCM Film Festival.
Matt Carrasquillo (Star Wars News Net)
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André Polykanine

@CreativeChris @lerven Same here. Also, I'm in Europe, so I had to arrange everything with Shubh, it was a breeze actually. But my first red alert was when we the community had this question like, when can we expect any updates? And they are like: what kind of updates, what do you need? I mean, what do we need? Video calls maybe, WhatsApp, normal voice in the earpiece and not through the phone speaker?
@Chris Cooke @Liam Erven

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About time roflmeow

• AI comes to Narrator. Rich image descriptions powered by AI will be coming to Narrator in Windows Insider Preview this spring

blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/…

#accessibility #microsoft #ai


Microsoft Ability Summit 2025: Accessibility in the AI era - The Official Microsoft Blog

Today, we hosted the 15th annual Microsoft Ability Summit, with over 20,000 attendees from 164 countries coming together virtually to discuss the future of AI and accessibility.
Jenny Lay-Flurrie (The Official Microsoft Blog)
#Accessibility #microsoft #AI

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I really appreciate the PSF publishing this, but perhaps we should be in more of a … shall we say "proactively defensive stance" with respect to our international #PyConUS attendees, and organizing a volunteer group that is tracking every international visitor and physically confirming their safe arrival and exit from the threat of CBP airport detention

pycon.blogspot.com/2025/03/ref…

Refund Policy for International Attendees

International travel to the United States has become more complex for many in our community. PyCon US welcomes all community members to P...
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#pyconus
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