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Community announces the Getting Started Guide 24.8 - The Document Foundation Blog

The book is released on time for the new LibreOffice 24.8 release. The community members of the LibreOffice documentation team are happy to announce the immediate availability of the Getting Started Guide 24.
Olivier Hallot (The Document Foundation)
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A useful enhancement to the GPG encryption would be an option to always encrypt to 1 or more recipients besides one self. This is useful for organizations with legal requirements for record keeping and as a backup in case a person encrypting the file is no longer available.
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LibreOffice
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@bzdev Hi! You can submit enhancement requests here: bugs.documentfoundation.org – But of course, we're a volunteer-driven project with very limited resources. To get a new feature more quickly, you can consider helping our volunteers, or funding a developer. Thank you ☺️👍

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Sasu (he/him)
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I wish large platforms would also abide by the rule to publish accompanying documentation. Imagine how much harder it would be to hide dark patterns, among a host of other boons.

some thoughts on what i'd expect from a "spoiler" element.

scottohara.me/blog/2024/08/22/…

Spoiler Alert: it needs to be accessible | scottohara.me

The topic of how to make an accessible spoiler component, or ‘should there be a spoiler element?’ has recently (re)-caught my attention. (I wrote most of thi...
www.scottohara.me
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Jamie Teh
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Hate to say it, but I'm still stuck on: why not use a details/summary element?
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Scott O'Hara
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@jcsteh if the details/summary element could be consistently styled / the HTML parser would be updated to allow a details within a paragraph, or to cross paragraph boundaries - then sure i guess.

seems people have commented further with more details concerning styling concerns / potentially unwanted behaviors. but it's really the styling and parser limitations that make reusing details unlikely for many people now. change that, then there's even less of a need for such a niche widget.

@Jamie Teh

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Gibt's heut' vielleicht etwas vom #BarCampKirche?
#digitaleKirche#FediKirche
#digitalekirche #fedikirche #barcampkirche @Ralf Peter Reimann

#dobréRáno
#dobrerano

This one may be of special interest to @datajake1999 among others. Here I talk at length about and briefly demonstrate the LapTalk portable speech synthesizer designed and sold by my parents' company, Computersmith Enterprises, in 1991-92. This is something I had no idea we still had, but I found it in a box of junk the other day.

@Jake Gross
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David Goldfield
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Wow. Amazing. First, I'm sorry to say that I don't remember Computersmith but I have fond memories of using ASAP with the DoubleTalk and I loved that particular combination. I remember an external Doubletalk which I thought was called the Doubeltalk LT. (No, Nuance Vocalizer, it was not called the Doubletalk Lieutenant.) So, did LT actually stand for Laptalk?
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Jayson Smith
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@DavidGoldfield There were actually three portable DoubleTalk speech synthesizers. LapTalk, as far as I know, was the first. Then MicroTalk came out with the LiteTalk. Around the same time, RC Systems, developers of the DoubleTalk, came out with the DoubleTalk Lite. Confusing huh?
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David Goldfield
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Thank you; I never knew there were three versions of the external Doubletalk. Now I don't know which model I used. I think it had a somewhat recessed knob, kind of like what I remember being similar to an old transistor radio? Mostly, I used the internal version. If I could get a Doubletalk with a USB connector and a screen reader that would support it I'd love to use it again. But it was like magic when using it with ASAP. ASAP was always my favorite DOS screen reader. As far as I know, I don't think Larry Skutchan ever charged for updates to that software. The cost, I think, was $325 and that was it.
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Jayson Smith
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@DavidGoldfield If your unit had a thumb wheel which turned it on and adjusted the volume, that was either LiteTalk or DoubleTalk Lite. If it ran on a nine volt battery, it was DoubleTalk Lite. If it had only a serial port, and the cable was built-in, that was DoubleTalk Lite. If it had a female serial port and a male parallel port, that was LiteTalk.
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Sean Randall
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@DavidGoldfield A USB doubletalk would be neat wouldn't it? If I had the spare cash I'd make something, but nobody in the UK I've ever come across has gotten me a working chipset.
@David Goldfield
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Andrew Hodgson
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@cachondo @DavidGoldfield There was a company that existed for a while that produced the Trippletalk USB but I don't think it ever made it to the UK. They also did a Dectalk USB as well. It seems like JFW still supports both.
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I also remember that the original voice of the Doubletalk was somewhat distorted or not quite as clear but a later update really improved it and I found it to be a calming voice to listen to but surprisingly very clear and easy to understand, not to mention super responsive with ASAP.
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If YouTube really wanted to make people less annoyed they could help creators set up their videos so people who are subscribed auto-skip their calls to subscribe.

That alone would make nearly everyone subscribe to anything they might want to watch on a regular basis.

There's an old, crude expression I'm fond of because I am an old, crude man, that you don't let the camel's nose into the tent if you do not want the camel's ass in the tent soon.

Anyway, here's an article about Amazon. Could be about printers, could be about lots of things. Really it's about business models delivered through hardware.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel%27…

metaphor for a situation where the permitting of a small, seemingly innocuous act will open the door for larger, clearly undesirable actions

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
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ACB Community Call: Getting to Know the #BTSpeak from Blazie Technologies: Sunday, August 25, 4:00 PM Eastern Time
Please note that this call is not being hosted or facilitated by Blazie Technologies. Because of this, we do not know if the call will be recorded or if it will be made available via ACB's podcast feed.
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ACB Community Call: Getting to Know the BT Speak from Blazie Technologies: Sunday, August 25, 4:00 PM Eastern Time

groups.io
#btspeak

bottled water…

#bottledwater #mouse #broom #animatedgif

#mouse #animatedgif #bottledwater #broom

In lawsuits settlement, Google agrees to delete the incognito browsing data they keep about you THE WHAT

🧵 Before you even think about insulting the workers during the rail lockout/ impending strike, take a look at this: #Canada #union

CN and CPKC's profit margin was 33% in 2021-23. In the 2010s, it was 18%. 1 /2

Profits of CN & CPKC, 2006-23 Canadian National Railway Co Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd $10 billions $2 $0 2011 2014 2017 2020 Calculations by author. Values are net income in 2023 CDN dollars. Source: Compustat. 2023
#canada #union
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#Canada #union #rail #Québec

Canadian rail workers are fighting for all of our safety, they are preventing another Lac-Mégantic rail disaster. And we should all support them.

#canada #union #rail #quebec

A battering RAM
A fortress made of Lego. Outside are two Lego men with a swinging battering ram in black, but with the wooden part replaced by a green RAM memory stick

A fairwell show from me coming up on this Tuesdays 27th of August weekly Va Radio Talking Tech show reflecting on last 30 years or so on main stream and assistive technology changes. We’ll see what happens next.
Nothing will be changing with my podcasts, sharing info, social media etc etc.
And who knows, I may have some very interesting news for folks in the near future, and yes, that was a teaser smile.
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David Goldfield
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David, I'd like to thank you for your service to Vision Australia over the past 3 plus decades. That is quite an accomplishment and I have no doubt that your work has touched countless lives. Hope you land somewhere soon, even if it's your own company. I don't know you personally, of course, but if you need a letter of reference from someone in the industry as well as from the blindness community please reach out to me and I'll be more than happy to provide one.
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DAVID WOODBRIDGE
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@DavidGoldfield @CreativeChris For my iSee feed it's davidwoodbr@podbean.com for the hosting site. I'll let folks know about my new happens in a few weeks. Also, thanks David for the kind words and offer.
@Chris Cooke @David Goldfield

The following will show how #lazy I’ve become in my, um, older age. I’m thinking I really would like an ice cream sandwich. The ones we have are really good, mint chocolate chip. Here’s the problem: They are in the freezer out in the garage, and my shoes are in the bedroom. So in order to get said ice cream sandwich I’d need to get out of the Lazy Boy, go to the bedroom, further away from the garage, put them on, and trek out to the garage. I’m evaluating if it’s worth the effort.
#lazy

Webinar Recording Available From Sight & Sound Technology Limited: Demystifying the web with JAWS groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/76…

Webinar Recording Available From Sight & Sound Technology Limited: Demystifying the web with JAWS

groups.io

K-9 Mail accessibleandroid.com/app/k-9-…

K-9 Mail - Accessible Android

K-9 Mail is an open-source email client that works with basically every email provider.
Accessible Android

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Matt Campbell
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Can you please provide a description (alt text) for that image? That's especially important when posting images with no text in the post body. Thanks.

Remember kids, when you get assigned the special kinda illegal project at work – it's not because you're on the inner circle – it's because you're the expendable fall guy weakling who will misinterpret inclusion to illicit conspiracy as the respect you crave.

Remote Viewing Experiment! (Outbounder Protocol) – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World jimmyakin.com/2024/08/remote-v…

Page not found - Sweet Captcha

Sweet Captcha

Spotlight: Perspective AI Vision – Early Beta iaccessibility.net/spotlight-p…

Spotlight: Perspective AI Vision – Early Beta – iAccessibility

iaccessibility.net

ElevenLab AI text-to-speech e-reading app launched globally goodereader.com/blog/digital-p…

ElevenLab AI text-to-speech e-reading app launched globally - Good e-Reader

ElevenLabs is a startup that launched an AI text-to-speech e-reading app globally. It supports 32 different languages from all over the world.
Michael Kozlowski (Good e-Reader)

🕐Z #NowPlaying At the top of the hour why not jazz up your day with a new edition of Smooth and Easy with Kelly Sapergia. an hour of Smooth #Jazz, #Chillout and #EasyListening music. theglobalvoice.info:8443/broad… #TGVRadio 🤎🎷🐝🎧🌬️🎵
#jazz #nowplaying #tgvradio #easylistening #chillout

Trying to do this all from first principles, so:

* A freedom-respecting computer should never prevent a user from running software they want to run

But also:

* A safety-respecting computer should never allow someone other than the user to run software that acts against the user

There's no inherent conflict here - the user should be allowed to run whatever they want, someone who isn't the user shouldn't. But how do we tell the difference?

Has anyone else found that since iOS 17, VoiceOver will read notifications on the lock screen even when the VoiceOver "Notifications When Locked" setting is set to "Speak Count"? #accessibility
#Accessibility
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Pratik Patel
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Do you have scheduled summary switched on?
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Pratik Patel
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Unless you'e running a very old iOS, you should be able to schedule your notifications to show up in a summary. You can configure when the summary shows up. For each app's notifications you have enabled, you can tell it to show up grouped in the daily summary. For example, I have all the YouTube and Amazon notifications coming in as a summary. You can config this by using actions/manage notifications while focused on a notification for the app in question.
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Jamie Teh
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@ppatel Ah. I do have grouped notifications, but not scheduled summaries. I also don't want them to be delayed. I just don't want VO blurting them out when I explicitly have it set not to do that.
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Pratik Patel
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For me, the ones I have coming in that aren't going to scheduled summary, aren't spoken at all. I have them set to silent. Then again, those are set to come to my watch. Things like Uber or wallet show up on the watch along with the phone, where they're silent.
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Jamie Teh
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@ppatel The problem occurs when I don't have my watch on. In that case, I want to hear notification sounds on my phone and it's reasonable for the phone to say the time and "2 notifications" or whatever. Instead, i get the time plus the entire notification read out, which is deeply irritating when my phone is on the other side of the room.
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Pratik Patel
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I understand that you dont' want them speaking. Can you configure your notifications to be silent and then switch them back to count to see if that makes a difference?
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Jamie Teh
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@ppatel It doesn't seem to. It's like that setting just gets ignored. I've taken to just turning off VoiceOver speech when I lock my phone, which works but is difficult to remember to do.
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Pratik Patel
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If you put your phone face down, they'll be completely silent. But that defeats the purpose of having the count read out loud. I'll do some ttesting with iOS 18 later today and file a bug.
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Jamie Teh
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@ppatel Ah, I knew about that, but I keep forgetting. That's actually helpful; easier than remembering to mute speech. Though it does mean Siri won't work. Hmm. All good, I can file a bug too; was just wondering if anyone else had seen this problem or whether it was just me.
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Pratik Patel
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I'll try to replicate the behavior. If they're going to implement a feature, it should be working properly, regardless of how many people use it.
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Andre Louis
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I think so but couldn't say for certain, as my phone is at my desk and always unlocked unless I'm out.

Movim 0.27 Lovas is finally there! 🎉

In this #Movim #release you'll find the first exciting video-conferencing features integrated with the help of the @nlnet funding. A big thanks to them for their precious support 😊 ❤️

The call flow is now completely integrated in the main window and an important refactoring was done both in the frontend part and the #XMPP Jingle stack.

You will also find several user interfaces fixes as well as a database reorganization.

⚠️ This version is also fixing a serious security issue that could cause remote-code execution under specific circumstances. We are inviting you to update as soon as possible.

mov.im/node/pubsub.movim.eu/Mo…

Communities • Movim 0.27 Lovas

What was planned to be a minor #release after last month one turned out to be a major release…
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#xmpp #release #movim @NLnet

Me this afternoon: hunkered down in my closet, ignoring another fire alarm, trying not to see the whole damned thing as a metaphor for life these days

And yes, that is quite literal. I've been present for at least 4 false fire alarms in my new apartment building, 2 at around 2 AM, and have started ignoring them all with caveats. My closet is the only spot without a speaker blaring some obnoxiously loud, unique-per-room, sound designed to induce maximum panic and basically obliterate the usefulness of my most critical sense. The metaphor just gets more depressingly spot on the wider out you zoom.

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ocdtrekkie
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I remember one of my previous places someone was known for pulling the alarm when having a fight with her boyfriend at odd hours as a "fast way to get the police". :|
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No kidding, hard to know what's up. Management is sending all this passive-aggressive stuff about not vaping or smoking weed in our units, and that they're having a tech out, so feels more like your classic mix of victim blaming/CYA. But anything's possible.

Status (get away with my wife in Eastern Shores of Virginia)
Sunset over water with sand foreground

The gritty deets are in the thread, but a follow-up to yesterday's post:

Some combo of "reset glasses, reset app, upgrade firmware, reset reset reset sorted things. I'm now back to having Meta AI describing things to me and it's already been useful.

One pro tip though: apparently the AI does not do PII at all. As in, you can't ask it who a package your apartment just tosses into the mailroom is to, even if it's clearly visible in the image, because it just won't answer questions like "Who is this package addressed to?" no matter how many ways you phrase it. This is at least anecdotally confirmed beyond me, so it isn't just that I used the wrong incantation.

Anyhow, was bummed to write that post. It's a useful tool when it works. Hell, the amount I can destress just by pulling print material out of cabinets and learning I can throw most of it away because it's just owners' manuals I can get online...that's huge, and worth the $300. But I still think there should be some way of tracking these limitations, because they both make sense and also might mean something isn't the accessibility tool you think it is when you buy it.

Nejde pod schody, ale pijem Desperado a keď ma bude ešte takto stalkovať tak tu vypijem aj to druhé. :kekw:
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Čo ak obaja vyzerajú tak isto? Určite viem tým som si istý že sú si dvaja dosť podobný, naraz som ich videl raz ale boli v kríkoch úplne som ich nevidel..
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Regina Nkenchor @reginankenchor has just published "Assessing the Effectiveness of GNOME's Diversity and Inclusion Strategies: Challenges, Opportunities, and Recommendations". We have a lot of work to do!

linkedin.com/pulse/assessing-e…

@gnome


Introduction The GNOME Project is a prominent open-source initiative dedicated to creating a user-friendly and accessible computing environment. Renowned for its intuitive and elegant desktop interface, GNOME strives to deliver a powerful and inclusive ex

Introduction The GNOME Project is a prominent open-source initiative dedicated to creating a user-friendly and accessible computing environment.
Regina Nkenchor (www.linkedin.com)
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I found this podcast on the ethics of AI, including its tendencies toward greater economic and social power accumulation, to be more insightful a discussion than most.
thedsrnetwork.com/how-ai-is-dr…
#AI #Ethics #politics

How AI is Driving Us Toward a Global Philosophical Reckoning

We’re in the midst of a new technological revolution. Much like the Industrial Revolution, the AI era will challenge all aspects of society. David Leslie, Director of Ethics and Responsible Innovation
Riley Fessler (The DSR Network)
#politics #AI #ethics

I run a website with cookies, and no pop-up asking for permission.

Best-Sounding Bluetooth Speakers for 2024 cnet.com/tech/home-entertainme…

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Kevan
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The ones I bought several years ago are, for the most part, working. No need for another Bluetooth speaker, but it would be nice if the current ones could adjust the EQ.

Version 2024.8.2 is now live in the App Store:

STREAMING IS BACK!

Also in this update:
- Smart Speed now displays its current speed
- Podcasts can now have different sort order for Unplayed and All modes
- Other minor fixes

Laptops from System76 and Framework are always advertising that they work well with Linux, but that's NOTHING compared to this.
A sticker on a laptop, advertising it runs GEOS 3.0 OPERATING SYSTEM, which is "Highly efficient for full computing functionality"
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So this was a computer designed for people who just needed something cheap to do word processing and the like. The details on the specs are rare, but apparently it has 5 megabyte of ROM, 4 megabyte of RAM, and 1 megabyte of flash storage.
Since this is the NB-80C, it's got a 10.4" 640x480 color LCD. (the NB-60 has a 9.4" 640x480 greyscale LCD)

Many spaces in #AmateurRadio such as #ARRL #Yaesu #WSJT-X either directly or indirectly tell #blind and #disabled #HamRadio ops every day that we just don't belong and we don't count through their ongoing and flagrant unwillingness to consider implementing even the most basic concepts of #inclusive or #universal #design principles in any of their products, programs or services. Let's all agree that it is long past time for that to change! #accessibility #disability #a11y
#a11y #Accessibility #blind #design #hamradio #Disabled #Disability #amateurradio #inclusive #yaesu #arrl #wsjt #universal

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29 Useful Free and Open-Source Git Tools linuxtoday.com/developer/29-us…

29 Useful Free and Open-Source Git Tools

Git is an open-source revision control system. It is frequently regarded by many developers as the finest version control tool.
LinuxToday

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#162 Late Friday Edition
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/…

#GNOME #TWIG

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#162 Late Friday Edition · This Week in GNOME

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#gnome #ThisWeekInGNOME #twig

This article doesn't have the word "commute" in it at all. Not very many of them do.

"As much as an 8 percent raise", but 8% of an 8 hour day is about 45 minutes. Which is... a 20 minute commute to and from work, which is time out of your life your employer is taking from you, unpaid, for which employer and employee both gain nothing.

And a 20 minute commute in Toronto is a _joke_, it's nothing. 40, 60, sometimes 90 are common.

I wish journalists could do math.

cnbc.com/2024/08/23/why-remote…


Why remote work has staying power: It's 'still kicking,' economist says

The pandemic-era trend of working remotely has endured largely because it benefits both workers and businesses, economists said.
Greg Iacurci (CNBC)
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Imagine a job offer that read:

"As a condition of your employment, you will spend an additional 60 to 90 minutes every day in a mildly unpleasant environment accomplishing nothing. You will not be compensated for this time, nor any costs incurred during this time. Nothing that happens during this time will be valued or recognized by your employer in any way. However, should you decline these conditions or fail to complete them you will be fired."

A reasonable person might ask "what the hell".

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“However, at our random discretion we may require you to engage in an important phone call during this unpaid time. You will not be able to communicate in any reasonable way because you either will be driving or in a crowded public transit, but your responses will be held against you at your next performance evaluation.”

Snáď iba preháňam, ale nemôžem si pomôcť. Vždy keď zavadím o noviny, vidím ako deň po dni prerážame nové dno (žumpy).
Dostanú ľudia už rozum? Alebo dostane vláda mrzkej lúzy 2.0 nejaký ďalší geniálny nápad... nejaký Lex "nechajte nás v tichosti kradnúť"?

Každopádne už nedokážem iba kľudne sedieť, na cenzúru sa treba pripraviť:

herrman.sk/home/ako-sa-priprav…

#cenzura #vladamrzkejluzy #dns #slovakia #slovensko #navody

AI generated image to depict the censorship

Ako sa pripraviť na cenzúru za čias vlády mrzkej lúzy 2.0 – lekcia 1 | Ľuboš Moščovič o bezpečnosti

Informačná bezpečnosť sa týka každého!
www.herrman.sk
#dns #návody #slovakia #slovensko #cenzura #vladamrzkejluzy
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Nehovorim ze nemas pravdu, sam mam uz dlhsiu dobu pripravene tri rozne vpnky, z toho dve na vlastnom serveri v zahranici. Len ma zamrazilo ked som to cital, lebo som si uvedomil ze tato vlada je toho fakt schopna.
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Ľuboš Moščovič
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@ticho

Aj k VPNkam sa dostanem. Ľudia sú ochotní sa brániť, len väčšina netuší ako. Informácie sú sila.

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