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The year is 2023 and 2/3 if pregnant women experience nausea and vomiting during the first trimester and scientists have just now identified the cause (the amount of a hormone, called GDF15.)
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Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Severe Morning Sickness

The discovery could lead to better treatments for severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy.
Azeen Ghorayshi (The New York Times)
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Agaric Tech Collective

We are using drupal.org/project/activitypub

in particular this issue fork so that posts are properly HTML formatted: drupal.org/project/activitypub…

… which is closed as won't fix, probably cannot be worked around without at least an alter hook which no one should need. We have a short list of improvements to make and will revisit opening a different merge request with the module to address this and other needs.

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I like this post from @danilo which addresses some lazy criticisms of generative AI while also discussing several legitimate criticisms: redeem-tomorrow.com/the-averag…

The average AI criticism has gotten lazy, and that's dangerous

Most of the AI criticism you'll hear on any given digital street corner is lazy as hell. We have to up our game if we want a future worth living in.
redeem-tomorrow.com
@bsky: @daniloc.xyz
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Peter Vágner

@pietervdvn Huge thanks for spending your time on accessibility. I have opened an URL dev.mapcomplete.org/transit.ht… Then I used tab and shift+tab to navigate. I have identified all the buttons are clearly labelled such as Menu, Add a new feature, Filter data, Change background, Zoom in / Zoom out and Go to your current location. I have pressed the button Go to your current location. That has found my location and redirected me to this url dev.mapcomplete.org/transit.ht… . I have then switched orca to so called browse mode, if you would like to do a similar thing without orca running you might like to try enabling caret navigation by pressing F7 key. At the top of page I have noticed names of near by bus stops with some familiar names, so now I at least know I am doing it right.
And from this point onwards I'd need some hints helping me to figure out what I can do.
Is there a way to see all the details about a particular point from these?
How do I scroll the map so I will find different area except of using the search? Should I change the zoom level, click and change the zoom level again or what are the appropriate actions?
It's verry difficult for me to ask for more features, as I even don't know what to ask for.
In order to possibly give you some inspiration, I can try to describe how I am using Walkers Guide or modified osmand apps for the navigation on android.
Osmand access has a reverse geocoding builtin. It can be configured to announce the nearest point or nearest address when shaking the device. So for example when riding a bus I am using this feature to find out where I am heading to and if it's okay to go out on the next stop. Along with the address it prints relative direction and distance to that point so I have an idea of where the points are situated. For example by repeatedly using this functionality I am able to find out which side are odd address numbers and the other way round.
Walkers guide does not have such a feature but it's showing a list of near by points. It's advantage is that it gives details of entrance and exit information and calculates intersections. So when using walkers guide I am refreshing the list and looking what's around from the top of the list.
Osmand access also has so called Look around feature.
When walking I am often using this kind of looking around, finding points I need to pass by approximatelly each 100 meters making sure I can find my destination.

Now back to the map complete. This is now starting to look verry promising. I don't know how much accessibility you are planing spending your time on. But take this as my aloud thinking. It would be nice to make the points on the map interactive and allow kind of a virtual navigation from point to point presenting the direction and distance. When thinking about implementation details perhaps it should be presented as a never ending aria grid using arrow keys for navigating from point to point. For example the map that I am linking to in this post shows bus stops but it covers less than 2 kilometres. I know this because I do physically know this part of the city but by using the map alone I have issues figuring this out.
Shal I try posting more of my ideas or is it not something that would be usefull to you?

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Paweł Masarczyk

@pvagner Hello. I have just begun my testing. My stack is Firefox and NVDA on Windows. I see that the announcements of moving in a certain direction and what is visible are passed through an aria-alert role. This has the consequence of Firefox supressing each spoken utterance by saying the word "alert". I think a fixed aria-live region populated with these announcement would be a far more effective solution. It may be that my diagnosis is wrong also as I'm quite new to calling the things by their names. Anyway, thank you for taking this endeavour upon yourself. This is much appreciatewd.
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Pietervdvn

@pvagner Thanks for all the pointers!

The idea is that you can indeed select a nearby bus stop by pressing space or the keys 1,2 or three. When one of the closest features is selected, a popup with information opens up. It _should_ read this aloud, but I'm still figuring out how to let ORCA do this...

Additionally, one can also answer some questions about the selected location to help others.

The shaking is a good idea as well! It'll take me a few more days to implement this though.

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Pietervdvn

@pvagner I had a look to the walker app and got terribly confused about it at first. I did get navigation running at my second try though. However routeplanning and navigation are not features that are currently planned in the near future (also not for sighted users).

I couldn't get the OsmAnd-a11y version running on my phone, but what you describe is already interesting...

And yes, it is quite challenging but also interesting to get this all up and running, but part of my NlNet grant!

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Peter Vágner

@pietervdvn Ah I haven't yet replied about the walkers guide app part. Yes I understand map complete does not have route planning and guided navigation. There is a tab named Points in that app and it's a list of 100 closest points that can always be refreshed. This part is most usefull to me when using that app.
I'm trying to learn and possibly let you to think about it how we might be able to reach more features with the map complete too.
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Peter Vágner

@pietervdvn Thanks for the hints. I can now understand how to select closest feature. When pressing the space bar the dialog box comes up with first feature being preselected and there is a way to dismiss it by pressing the esc key, changing the feature can be done either by pressing 1, 2 or 3 on the keyboard or activating corresponding buttons. Answering the questions is working fine, I can recognize and activate the buttons and radio buttons there. This is really amazing.
Still I am not sure how to really move the map. I was trying to press arrow keys randomly no matter which direction and how much I was trying I can still only get the initial three features in the dialog when pressing the space bar key.
For me when showing the dialog for the first time its content is read automatically by orca. When inwoking it multiple times it's not read. This might also be either orca or the browser issue so I will have to test this on different platform / screen reader combination as well for example with NVDA on windows. So far I am using Firefox 22 nightly on linux with orca.
I am sure orca is not consuming my keypresses as I have switched it to sticky focus mode by quickly pressing orca+a two times. Orca key is either insert key or capslock key depending on the config. The default is insert.
If making the map navigation into an interactive control such as grid is too much work or it's clashing with other features or it's simply not viable because of something entirely different I can't really understand, perhaps you should be able to generate off screen alerts so only the screen reader users will get some feetback while moving the map. Please note these are two links.
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Peter Vágner

@pietervdvn I'm playing more with the dev.mapcomplete.org site. I think I am closer in understanding the accessibility issues. For displaying the map you are using maplibre. It renders the tiles and also adds labels. Non screen reader users can simply use their mouse to scroll the map widget and click on the labels and open the feature details this way.
I think the proper way on how to solve this for majority of the apps would be introducing some accessibility related functionality into the maplibre rather than your app.
I assume using the arrow keys to scroll the map widget is working but most likelly it's not synchronized with the three buttons you have introduced into the map complete app.
When reading the content as a document from top to bottom I can read the labels on the maplibre widget. Making these labels navigable as a grid and actionable at the same time would most likelly be an awesome achievement but I can imagine this is not under your control at all and is neither coverred by your grant.
Am I getting closer in understanding this?
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Peter Vágner

@pietervdvn Oh not. Excuse me. I have found more. You do already have almost everything I'm looking for in place. My missunderstanding comes from the fact the maplibre component has a canvas for rendering the map data. That canvas has tabIndex=0 and is also the first focusable element on the page. It has an aria-label="Use arrow keys to move the map, press space to select the closest feature". I have assumed I have to focus this control and use the arrow keys to move. I think this should not be focusable.
Exploring the app more when navigating with the tab key, it takes two tab key presses to navigate from the canvas to the search field. There is a focusable control which has no role and no label at least orca is silent when navigating to it. Pressing shift+F10 is not working either when this part of the app is focused so I could better describe it to you by listing its CSS classes or something however pressing arrow keys while this part of the app has focus indeed moves the map and orca is announcing alerts such as "Moving north. Closest features are:" However the closest features are buttons, these are not being read automatically. So perhaps duplicating their names as an off screen text inside the alert would be a good idea in order to make this part even more accessible.
Also would it be possible to also report a distance to the closest feature from the navigation point?
Changing the zoom level and navigating in all directions we could get understanding on how far particular features are from each other. I know these would be a relative distances that are different as we are not navigating streets and sidewalks this way but it would still be helpfull understanding the surrounding this way.
This way we would really get perfectly accessible map right in the browser. Huh... How much excited I am.
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@pietervdvn Awesome! You are working hard and now the distance and direction is reported for all three closest features.
Instead of direction angle in degrees would it be possible to change it to clock facing or 8 direction values such as front left, straight, front right and similar?
Now the closest features are no longer buttons but clickable text and it's now being reported fine in firefox. We have lost navigating to them and activating them with keyboard. I know this is difficult decision and I don't have my final suggestion for this.

Also I have tested this in chromium as an addition to firefox and the issue with ghost focusable node is not there with chromium so from the map to the search field it takes exactly single tab key press. That issue is therefore either specific to firefox or specific to my setup.
With chromium and orca on linux the alert displaying closest features is more verbose as compared to the testing with firefox.

I haven't managed to test other platforms yet e.g. android or windows.

Thank you for all of this again.

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@pvagner

Thanks for all the feedback! I copied most of your replies to my issue tracker here: github.com/pietervdvn/MapCompl…, partly to structure the data, partly for easy, future reference.

Some of your ideas have been implemented by now (shaking the phone for reverse geocoding for example).

But there are also some issues where I need your input and some stuff still needs clarification.


Framework and WCAG audit · Issue #1181 · pietervdvn/MapComplete

One of the NL-Net tasks is to pick a framework and do a WCAG-audit This is split in the following subtasks: Choose a framework, refactor (most of) the UI to the new framework. Do a WCAG-audit, addr...
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Pietervdvn

@pvagner Second, you also want to use arrow keys to pan the map when the canvas element is unselected.

On my setup (which is Orca with Librewolf, a fork of Firefox), this does not work. IF the screen reader is _off_, the map will move if any element is selected. If the screenreader is on, then the map won't move, but orca will instead read out the next/previous item. As such, the canvas needs to be a selectable element.

There is also the 'ghost element' you mention, I hope it is gone now

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Pietervdvn

At last, you also mention that you want the nearby features to have a 'clock'-interface. I'm not sure what you mean with this, but I can take a guess.

The Walkers-app will indicate that a POI is 'to your left', 'sharp right',...

I cannot use this approach in all circumstances:

1. The device showing mapcomplete might not have a compass builtin, e.g. desktop computers or laptops
2. If you are browsing a location a few KM away, all shops will have a similar bearing

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Peter Vágner

@pietervdvn Oh you are so awesome. You are accounting for all the use cases. Originally I have only assumed using the app in the desktop browser with static bearing to the north with an effect that the navigation point is not moving at all and the map is scrolling on the background. I know making it in a way you are describing sounds more natural and most likelly requires additional work. If you believe it's viable, then I am fine with that of course.

Are the things you are describing i.e. fixed the so called ghost focusable node, closes features as links deployed already I can't recognize these on my end. If it's already there perhaps I should clear my browser cache or something similar.

As for the WCAG 2.1 audit I don't have real experiences with that.
Perhaps it's worth asking more people including @Web Axe @Marco Zehe or others for an avice as well.

@Web Axe @Marco Zehe @Pietervdvn

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 9 updated and 2 added apps:

* SmartMouse: use your smartphone as a normal computer mouse
* PhantomProcessesSavior: xposed module to keep Android 12 from killing subprocesses

My Magisk Repo (apt.izzysoft.de/magisk) had 2 modules updated.

At F-Droid, 49 apps where updated and 1 added:

* Untracker: remove tracking information before sharing links

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
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#android #free #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo

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Fresh @danilo lore dropped:

In my most personal essay to date, I talk about why I can't let go of technology's humanist promise, how it saved me from a childhood that wanted to eat me alive, and why I want to redeem the traditions the last cycle so completely contaminated

redeem-tomorrow.com/solace-fro…


Solace from the machine

Mine was not a happy, peaceful or emotionally supportive childhood. But technology placed a floor on the worst of it.
redeem-tomorrow.com
@bsky: @daniloc.xyz

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📩 Acabo de donar a @thunderbird para #FreeTheInbox. Hagamos equipo para apoyar la privacidad en las comunicaciones.

thunderbird.net/donate
thunderbird.net/es-ES/?form=su…

#thunderbird


Thunderbird — Libera tu bandeja de entrada.

Thunderbird es una aplicación de correo gratuita fácil de configurar y personalizar, ¡y con muchas características geniales!
Thunderbird
#thunderbird #freetheinbox @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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The s390x open source team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ and #LinuxONE. In November 2023 validation was maintained for over 30 projects, including: #HAProxy #PostgreSQL & #Puppet

Full report: community.ibm.com/community/us… 🐧


Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Open Source Software Report: November 2023

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#linux #postgresql #puppet #ibmz #linuxone #haproxy
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Federico Mena Quintero

@blandford hey, thanks, this is very kind of you! The bug is gitlab.gnome.org/jrb/crossword…, and it has some analysis of the failed test.

I'm happy to help someone get their build and test suite going. There are instructions at jrb.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/cro… but we don't provide a container image for s390x. I can help someone figure it out from the .gitlab-ci.yml.


word-list-tests test failure on s390x (#118) · Issues · Jonathan Blandford / Crosswords · GitLab

This test fails on the s390x architecture (which is big endian, in case that matters):
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Over the past few months, we've been working hard to introduce support for @rust into @thunderbird.

Come join me in the Rust devroom at @fosdem 2024, to learn how we got there, how we're using Rust to improve our contribution experience, and what this means for the future of Thunderbird!

fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event…


FOSDEM 2024 - Thunderbird: How to Exchange Rot For Rust

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@FOSDEM @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox @Rust Language

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'Whisper' benchmark using Apple's new MLX machine learning framework supposedly boosts the M2 Ultra to double the speed of an RTX 4090; I'd like a bit more science and more comparison points, but this is an interesting start

owehrens.com/whisper-nvidia-rt…

/via @iKyle

Whisper: Nvidia RTX 4090 vs M1Pro with MLX (updated with M2/M3)

How fast is my Whisper Benchmark with the MLX Framework from Apple? Nvidia 4090 / M1 Pro / M2 Ultra / M3
Oliver Wehrens (owehrens.com)
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RScan now on Google play! Identify products, swiftly

RScan lets you scan a barcode of any product, and automatically looks it up on DuckDuckGo and tries to select the most fitting and useful description. The scanning is really fast and convenient, meaning it's easy to work with even if you're blind and don't know the location of the barcode, but it's also great for sorting through large number of items, if you need to say search for a particular chocolate in a pile, or you order a large number of cans that you need to tell apart in order to sort them to groups. RScan can deal even with scanning multiple items of the same barcode, making this process easy and efficient.

I've been gradually developing this app over the last years, always reflecting my actual needs and actively using it in my home. I've been sharing it with my friends from Czechoslovakia, receiving great feedback. In our region, the automatic product identification works really well and RScan can truly identify 90% of items just by seeing their barcode.

Few days ago, I finally got to release it in google play, and given this opportunity, would like to expand it to more regions. My theory is that my algorithm should work comparably well in regions where products use metric system for describing themselves (300 g chocolate, 400 ml can etc.).
It's not yet prepared for UK, where the commonly used units are different, and completely unknown for me is USA, where a similar but different barcode standard is used than in Europe, plus they have different units too.

I would love to support as many countries and regions as I can. If you would like to help me with this, sending me barcode numbers of things you commonly use in your region (cans, chocolates, common drugs, drinks), along with the name of your country would be very useful, so I could check out how does your Internet describe things and make RScan adapt for it.
If you're technically skilled, you can read the project's readme:
github.com/RastislavKish/RScan
and directly look for the unit information required by RScan, this would save me the struggle with localization and location simulation.

Also, if RScan works well in your country, I would love to hear that too! My theory of compatible countries is still just a theory, it needs to get verified.

You can find RScan on Google play:
play.google.com/store/apps/det…

And, along with all the code and scanning tips in the documentation, on my GitHub:
github.com/RastislavKish/RScan

Happy scanning!


GitHub - RastislavKish/RScan: A practical barcode scanner for product identification

A practical barcode scanner for product identification - GitHub - RastislavKish/RScan: A practical barcode scanner for product identification
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Tuta.com, unlimited email addresses for custom domains, calendar improvements: 2023 was great - now let's look ahead to 2024! 😍

➡️ tuta.com/blog/tuta-2023-featur…

Here are upcoming improvements for Tuta:

⚡️ Quantum-secure encryption
⚡️ Email import
⚡️ Disappearing messages
⚡️ Calendar search & tasks
⚡️ Calendar widget on mobile

What are you looking forward to the most?

Tuta team

Tuta.com, unlimited email addresses for custom domains, calendar improvements: 2023 was a great year for Tuta.

With a growing team and regular releases of new features and improvements, what's not to love?!
Tutanota

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Today we are announcing the first release of a document that describes – in language accessible to everyone, including non-security specialists – the work done by developers and QA specialists in the area of LibreOffice security: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

LibreOffice Security Backgrounder - The Document Foundation Blog

Today we are announcing the first release of a very important document that describes – in language accessible to everyone, including non-security specialists – the impressive work done by developers and quality assurance specialists in the area of L…
Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)

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Study on the Twitter Migration

Last year’s Twitter migration, where a large number of people decided to move to Mastodon, is an example of a giant collective behavioural change that people engaged in voluntarily. A new paper takes a look at how the collective coordination happened, and what can be learned as the drivers of such a collective action.

The authors (Lucia La Cava, Luca Maria Aiello, Andrea Tagarelli) show that Twitter communities migrated more quickly where:

  • The social connections in the community are relatively sparse. There is a cost to severing a social connection, and in a tight-knit community the social cost of leaving is higher.
  • Community members repeatedly post about their migration plans. The more people post with the #twittermigration hashtag, the more likely people are to follow up on the call.
  • Language use that emphasises a shared identity and the exchanges factual knowledge. Cooperation in a community can be facilitated when discussions and conversations create a sense of belonging to the group.

The blog post explaining the research can be found here, the paper here.

#Twittermigration

fediversereport.com/study-on-t…


Get Out of the Nest! Drivers of social influence in the Twitter migration to Mastodon

Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter on October 2022 triggered a mass exodus to Mastodon, the largest decentralized online social network.
Luca Maria Aiello (Springer Nature)
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Why are TVs so inexpensive these days? Because the TV companies make billions by recording what you watch and sell that data to advertisers. “These TVs can capture and identify 7,200 images per hour”. This article tells you how to turn it off:

themarkup.org/privacy/2023/12/…


Your Smart TV Knows What You’re Watching – The Markup

Here’s how to turn off “automated content recognition,” the Shazam-like software on smart TVs that tracks what you’re watching
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Mi sobrina está haciendo una encuesta sobre relaciones poliamorosas para un trabajo universitario y necesita participantes que quieran compartir su opinión: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… (es un cuestionario anónimo y lleva menos de 5 minutos)

#GraciasPorParticipar
#GraciasPorCompartir


Cuestionario Relaciones Poliamorosas

¡Hola! Somos alumnas de la Universidad de Coruña y estamos realizando un trabajo para la asignatura de Psicología Social.
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30 pod 30, juch! Nebo vlastně... 30 stříbrných? Ne, to taky ne... Jedno je jisté: ve výběru iLiteratury jsou vedle sebe dvě Silvie. Jiné mysli v pasti pohlaví pro Krakonošovy kamarády? Hold my americano.
(Já vím. Žebříček nejlepších knih je jako díra do zadku, tu má taky každej. Ale iLiteratura zas není každej! Raduju se.)

iliteratura.cz/clanek/46694-ne…


Nejlepší knihy roku 2023 – iLiteratura.cz

Chtěli byste vědět, která byla letos ta NEJ? To tak úplně říct nemůžeme, a ani nechceme. Dobrých knih totiž vyšla spousta.
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ja to ani nebudem komentovať, p. Kolíková zhrnula dôsledky Ficových zmien @OttovonWenkoff youtube.com/watch?v=ukqs_v7J6Z…

👥 NA ROVINU s Máriou Kolíkovou: Bohatí sa vykúpia a chudobní pôjdu sedieť | Aktuality

📣 Proti tomu musí byť aj volič Smeru.Exministerka spravodlivosti za SaS Mária Kolíková hovorí, že ak sa bude vláda takto správať celé štyri roky, ľudia budú...
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SuspiciousDuck

a keď budeš mať čas.. to znie ako pomsta za "Fica na chate" a Taraba chce asi "zarobiť" na pytliactve a ešte pred odchodom si chcú skrášliť chaty, hnus (Taraba je nebezpečný)
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Ak zastrelíte 17 výrov skalných, nebude to trestný čin, navrhuje koalícia

Súčasťou navrhovaných zmien trestných zákonov sú aj nižšie postihy za poškodzovanie prírody. Hranica, od ktorej by sa už prečiny považovali za trestný čin, sa má výrazne posunúť.
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