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Come on!
It's a $5 server. Please don't overload it.
A single sentence is enough for now.


Tak mě čeká na podzim, předělat doma kuchyň.No úplně už to vidím :-)
youtube.com/watch?v=ntyBF8HQHt…


Je to celkom zvláštne že robím presne to isté na Slovensku/v Bratislave ako predtým keď som odtiaľto odišiel. Úplne. Zbieram body v Yakuza sushi... :kekw:
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Si tu jen odložím… Jestli může mít platební terminál i blbej dětskej vláček v nákupáku (kde jízda stojí 20 Kč), tak už fakt neexistuje výmluva pro neakceptování karet. 😄
in reply to brabitom

@brabitom To jo. Ale ať se nevymlouvaj na poplatky, na to jsem tímhle příspěvkem narážel. Zvlášť když existujou řešení typu Cvak nebo Trisbee. Ať prostě na férovku řeknou, že se jim to nechce řešit (tudíž jim ani nezáleží na potenciálních zákaznících bez hotovosti) nebo že chtěj šmelit.
in reply to Radomír Žemlička

Důvodů může být X, ale to si musí rozhodnout každý sám.
Mimochodem, ten vláček není úplně ideální příklad, protože tam je to v případě hotovosti o dost složitější a nákladnější, než platba kartou. Automat na mince, do kterého lidé strkají kde co, s nutností pravidelného vybírání, servisu, atd. Tam se terminál skutečně vyplatí. 😉



Google is headed to trial after allegedly misleading Chrome users on data collection. 🧑‍⚖️

This is the most recent in a growing list of court proceedings.
📣 tuta.com/blog/google-incognito…
📣 tuta.com/blog/google-search-mo…

What was your most startling discovery about Google's data collection? Let us know below!

#google #encryption #privacy #data

in reply to Tuta

I was *stunned* to learn that Google has been crawling all over the entire WorldWideWeb looking at every webpage they can find.

Worse, they've created some sort of "searchable index" of those webpages!

Now, *IF* one has access to the Google search engine, one can search for almost any webpage out there in public. (But one must know the secret URL to access that "search engine.")

It almost like they're *trying* to collect all the data they can.

Google puts the Stasi in the shade.

in reply to Tuta

Apparently gmail reading the content of your mails and if you receive e.g. a bill, g would build a profile of your finances.


Warning: Typing these 4 characters in the wrong place crashes your iPhone

cultofmac.com/news/4-character…



I changed these 8 Apple Watch settings to significantly improve battery life

zdnet.com/article/i-changed-th…



Trying to get a book from Amazon.

The first order got cancelled because of "technical/logistical issues". The second is scheduled to be sent in March 2025.

The product page still claims there are 9 items left in the inventory. I intend to continue creating new orders until the corporate overloads give up and just send it out in a reasonable time. Probably not going to happen, but alas.

in reply to Bart Piotrowski

reminds me when I tried to order a $800 monitor. It just prove what I was saying all along: marketplace is a scam.


I wanted to alert people that I recently received two separate voicemails with a recording advising me to call a phone number back which began with a 248 area code
at my earliest convenience. The message contained no explanation as to the reason for why I should do this and with no information about the company that was making the call. Of course, I instantly recognized it as a scam but decided to investigate further to gather additional information.
This is a classic phone scam, with agents with an Indian accent claiming to either represent Amazon or eBay. They will claim that an order for Apple products was placed using your account. They will want to verify your name. Warning, if you do decide to call back, which I advise against doing, don't call them back with Caller ID enabled as they will have your name and will even ask you to verify your address which they will read to you, which may be the correct address.
I am very familiar with how these scams work and I was not at all fooled by any of this. Those who are unaware of these scam operations who go along with the scam will eventually find themselves being defrauded of money and could also become a victim of identity theft, not to mention the possibility of having their computer’s security becoming compromised. I have since reported this to Amazon via their form at
amazon.com/gp/help/customer/di…

To be clear, this is a scam and these agents do not represent Amazon or eBay.

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in reply to David Goldfield

I’ve been getting these for weeks from 802 area code which is Vermont where I’m from and what my cell number uses.
in reply to David Goldfield

I have Silence unknown callers turned on for that among other reasons. Any number that comes in that is not in my contacts is sent to voicemail.


Random language thought: it's common for software to use a strange form of verb, where no pronoun is given. For instance: "fixed a bug" or "added a feature." We can do this in English because verb conjugations tend to be the same no matter the associated object. "I fixed" and "we fixed" conjugate the same. Do Spanish or French software notes do something similar? If not, which conjugation do they use?
in reply to Alex Hall

@x0 Polish uses the passive voice. No person is indicated but the fact of a process having been executed.
@x0
in reply to Paweł Masarczyk

@Piciok @x0 I wonder if that's the English I was trying to describe. I don't know if Spanish or other similar languages have a construction for it. They must.
in reply to Alex Hall

@Piciok I think given verb conjugation in Spanish at least you can actually omit the pronoun normally because it is conjugated with the verb in a specific way from what I remember. You don't have to say yo tengo for I have, you can just say tengo. Because that's the conjugation of that verb with I.
in reply to x0

@x0 @Piciok That's true, but which conjugation would be used? That's my point. English's conjugations are the same, so we can omit the pronoun and not specify first, second, or third person. Spanish requires you to choose one, pronoun or no.
in reply to Alex Hall

In this case there are non-personal forms, for example the participle. "Fixed a bug." "Un error corregido." It doesn't say by whom, it only agrees in gender with the noun. It's not grammatically very elegant, and there's a reflex passive construction that would be technically more correct, but longer. "Se ha corregido un error." "A bug has been fixed."
in reply to Alex Hall

Polish has a special form for passive voice, and that's what you'd normally use for this.

Most people just use English though.








New app added to the Accessible Android apps directory: K-9 Mail accessible accessibleandroid.com/app/k-9-… #Android #App #OpenSource


Welcome Chris Swan as #curl commit author 1299: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1463…
#curl


curl issue #14620 in which we find out that a tiny CDN naming itself "Google Frontend" has a faulty HTTP/2 implementation in regard to 4xx responses.

github.com/curl/curl/issues/14…



Low vision assistive technology for discussion board posts perkins.org/low-vision-assisti…


Mr @icing found a HTTP/2 bug in the #Google frontend webserver.

github.com/curl/curl/issues/14…

Unknown parent

daniel:// stenberg://
@jpmens send-invoice-for-having-debugged-someone-elses-problem ? =)


Low vision assistive technology for discussion board posts perkins.org/low-vision-assisti…



An iPhone bug lets you crash the interface with just four characters macworld.com/article/2434477/a…

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Why you need to know about ransomware malwarebytes.com/blog/ransomwa…


We are pleased to announce Quicksy for iOS based on Monal!

apps.apple.com/us/app/quicksy/…

Jabber/XMPP with Easy Entry and Easy Discovery

Monal for you. Quicksy for your less tech-savvy friends

Remember you don’t have to be on Quicksy yourself to give your friends an easy way to find your #XMPP address. Instead you can enter your XMPP address-phone number tuple into the Quicksy Directory
quicksy.im/#get-listed

You can also initiate the conversation by adding +123455…@quicksy.im

#xmpp

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Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon neowin.net/news/microsoft-fina…
in reply to Darrell Bowles

@vol4life8657 While the Settings app is certainly different from the old-school dialogs found in the Control Panel, I do find the Settings app to be accessible. Not only that but using the Settings app's search box makes it easy to find a specific setting that you want to change, without the need to wander around and drill down into one set of options after another. Pressing Ctrl+E moves focus to the search box once you're in the Settings app.
in reply to David Goldfield

Go to your sound settings and look at the different input and output buttons. Mine just says speakers or microphone not what the device name is.


Thanks to the @libreoffice Team. I was on #froscon19 last weekend and the representatives there pointed me to the right direction solving my problem concerning keyboard shortcuts! 👍

For everyone else: you can assign a keyboard shortcut for styles, but it you have to go to the specific section down the list. I wasn't aware of that, I just notices the shortcuts stopped working.

#libreoffice



PipeWire 1.2.3 is out! Some bugs were fixed. More details here:

gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewir…

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The Linux kernel is 38 million LOC. #curl is 170K. The kernel is 223 times bigger.

The Linux kernel ships 60 CVEs per week, 3100 per year.

curl ships on average 13 CVEs per year, 3100/223 = 14

== Roughly the same CVE/line of code ratio.

#curl
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I'd really like to read a well researched article that sums up how Linux distros reacted to the massive influx of #Linux #kernel CVE that started ~half a year – both for their #LinuxKernel packages and their live-patching offerings.

But I guess that is an enormous amount of work that no media outlet in this world is willing to pay anyone for writing. 😕

Slide taken from @gregkh's "Why are there so many kernel CVEs?" talk he gave at OSS China yesterday (social.kernel.org/objects/c997… ) #LinuxKernel



New major release! #LibreOffice 24.8 is the private, free office suite which includes:

✅ Handy "Quick find" deck in the Sidebar
✅ New spreadsheet functions, including XLOOKUP
✅ Better presentation templates

...plus many other new features, fixes and compatibility improvements. Find out more and download it: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #news

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in reply to LibreOffice

But it prevents again the home window to be maximized on PCs with a (W)XGA screen (768p), unless I open a file first and go back to the home afterwards.

It was fixed in 24.2, what can I do (other than waiting for 25.2, or set my XFCE panels to auto-hide) to avoid that? Can I hide this big “LibreOffice Community” logo (in the advanced settings editor, perhaps?)?



After long years of maintaining the changelog, commit messages and release notes by hand, we have finally implemented a system where we use the merge request commit title and description as input to customized gitchangelog[1] and there’s only a single source of truth and that’s git. The current round of BIND 9 releases is the first one to use this new process.

1. pypi.org/project/gitchangelog/

in reply to Ondřej Surý

congrats. Making the every day life of a maintainer a little easier is a great achievement!


Google can’t defend shady Chrome data hoarding as “browser agnostic,” court says

Court reverses Google win in case from Chrome users who chose not to sync data.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…



Potentially way too late (as usual), but I've just released #TouchBarSpeak: an app that speaks the name of escape and F1–F12 keys when they're pressed once, and actually activates them when they're pressed twice quickly.
Originally called NSFKeys, and originally made as an experiment during the Intel Macbook/Touch Bar/Boot Camp era, rewritten this month, the app is meant to make using a touch bar on Windows more accessible.
Maybe it could still be useful?
I have also updated Capbeeper, fixing the double tray menu open bug, featuring slight sound volume adjustments, and (thanks to TouchBarSpeak), the “Run as admin” feature/option, accessible from the systray menu.
I hope any of this is useful, if it sounds like so, feel free to check things out.
nsstudiosweb.com/programs.php
#touchBar #touchBarLove #a11y #freeApps #development
#EnneNews
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