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Is there anything more awkward than German and Americans emailing each other?:

Subject: 19 Sep 24 Round Table

Dear Robert (if I may),
graciously would you allow me to attend your meeting?
Yours in most sincerity,
Dr. Prof. Hans-Joseph Fritzberger

Re: Meeting

Hey Hans!
Great!
- Bob

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Spectre 360? Not a bad device overall so far, now that I've rid myself of all the HP bloat and crap. The only utility I will probably keep is "My HP" if only because of the audio and system fan customizations it provides, I don't see a way to change the EQ settings outside of this app which is a bit annoying (Despite the new Spectre 360 switching to a new audio system and listing Realtek.) Do I regret not waiting for the new Arrow Lake chips? Yes and no. For some local AI what I have will work.


I found out about an iOS app called Categories. It basically lets you count things, then review how often those things happened and find trends. Count anything: had a bad day, slept well, drank water, practiced your instrument, and more. Anything you want to track the frequency of over time. The app was updated with iOS 18 support, so you can log a new count from the lock screen or notification center. I have no idea when I'd use this, but the idea is oddly appealing. The app is accessible.
in reply to Alex Hall

sounds like the sort of thing you'd want to log with a smart speaker.

in reply to Neil Brown

an employee that was let go from various phone manufacturers.... ;-)
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in reply to Stéphanie Pageau

de l'épais qui se plaint que le fédéral se mêle des affaires de Québec...

(rage)

#polqc



Bylo 16 hodin. Byl vyhlášen víkend pro @archos a další mamuty s prodlouženým víkendem!
in reply to Archos

užívej! My pracující v pátku budeme tiše sedět u kompu zítra ráno, abychom Tě nevzbudili 😄


Убрать теорию Дарвина из школьных учебников предложил помощник председателя правительства РФ Муслим Хучиев. Он утверждает, что она противоречит религиозному воспитанию и способствует духовному разложению детей. Хучиев адресовал это предложение министру просвещения, заявив, что все религии отвергли теорию эволюции и что её не следует преподавать детям.

Скажите как? Как эти идиоты попадают во власть? Почему не видно высказываний ни одного умного человека из думы?

in reply to dimkainc

А они там есть, умные-то? или не осталось уже?..
in reply to André Polykanine

@menelion Ну в стране умные люди есть. Достаточно много, значительно больше, чем всех депутатов вместе взятых.
Мне только непонятно, по какому критерию выбирают в депутаты? Неужели по критерию - "чем тупее будет моя предвыборная кампания, тем гарантированнее я попаду в правительство"?
И кто же их выбирает? Я точно за них не голосовал.


Today, our job is simple - to inspire to to try a Thunderbird Add-on to boost your productivity! If you don't know where to get started, our community (including here on Mastodon!) gave us some great ideas. 💡

#Thunderbird #Community #OpenSource

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/09/m…

in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

Alright, here's an idea: push gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland… forward, and integrate github.com/Ximi1970/systray-x into your codebase so that wae can have a proper TB tray implementation on Linux for both Wayland and X11.

That'd be a nice productivity win for me!

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Does the young, cheerful health care worker's pleasant nature make up for the fact that he had to try in both arms to get blood out of me?
I'm plastered now, and not in the way i want to be.
in reply to Sean Randall

A regular occurrence for me. Only one of my arms "works" for blood samples, and I can never remember which it is.
in reply to Andy Hort

@Devonkiwi I don't think I've had blood taken since before my daughter was born. She's 13


Is your company using a quantum-safe email provider in 2024?

Not yet? Upgrade now! 🔐

Here’s how Tuta Mail can help your business 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-companies-be…

#encryption #privacy #gdpr

in reply to Tuta

As a reminder, a malicious Tuta server can read the end-to-end encrypted e-mails and shared calendars exchanged on the platform as there is no way to verify the recipient's public key. This issue has been brought up to the Tuta team 6 years ago...

github.com/tutao/tutanota/issu…

So, maybe less "we're the most secure e-mail provider in the world" and more concrete security 🙃

in reply to Tuta

Is the storage space indicated in the subscription plan only for email or also for general storage (cloud)?


It's talk like a pirate day! Here I go:

"I just want to access the media I already own in a portable format that I can watch or listen to in high quality on all my devices without DRM or adverts."

Did I do it right?

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in reply to Just Martin

@cachondo I think it's something like $200,000 for a custom TLD. No biggie for them.
in reply to Patrick Perdue

@BorrisInABox I had no idea that had been commercialised to that extent.
Not that your average Joe has 200k floating about, but still.


Pitter patter, let’s get at ‘er.

#matrix #matrixconf

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Ich hab da mal ne Frage, z.B. an #Dresden #Follower oder solche an Flüssen wie #Elbe, #Rhein oder #Donau.

Wie werden Schiffe, wie z.B. die #Elbdampfer bei #Hochwasser gesichert?

Ist das nicht ne große Kraft, die auf die Landungsbrücken wirkt? Oder sind die so gebaut, dass sich Hochwasser nicht wesentlich auswirkt?

Ist in der Zeit eine Mannschaft an Bord um die Situation zu beobachten und notfalls ablegen zu können?



Boost your coding skills! Join the Development Workshop at the upcoming LibreOffice Conference 2024: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

LibreOffice reshared this.



"We require that you credit claudeai.wiki for this image. Please add a direct and clickable hyperlink to claudeai.wiki/ either beneath the image or in the footer of the page. This must be completed within the next five business days."

Getting chased by a stupid AI company for a (claimed) royalty free image on my blog that I obtained from pixabay.

I replaced it immediately. It was not important, Now using another royalty free image...

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

So yeah, just an attempt to scare people like me into putting up links to those villains. I won't do it.
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

I'm thinking the real Claude AI (Anthropic) might be interested in knowing about that .wiki page so that they can take it down.
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

I get crap like this all the time because of all the images on the #osspodcast site

I know a lot about copyright (or at least I think I do), so it was easy to just ignore the mails

I imagine a lot of normal people freak out and comply

Sadly there's no realistic recourse here. Even if they domain gets shut down, they'll just start again with a new one



Puvodni nekolikadenni zastavka se smrskla na dve hodiny na protazeni, ale i to nam stacilo na objev Polskeho Hubacka. Nase srdicko zaplesalo a jestli to ma i terasu na strese, tak je to uplna pecka.

A pytle s piskem nebyly potreba!

Povodnova turistika zdarne ukoncena, hipsterske bistro navstiveno a pokracujeme smer Lodz.

#polsko #architektura



If tech companies enable some feature, _except_ in the EU, then that's an excellent indication that the feature is bad and should not have been built.
in reply to Hein 🍋 Ragas

Like the ability to see your iPhone notifications on your mac or control your phone from your computer? Makes no sense.
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki For that, they should have made the mechanism open a long time ago. If they had done that for all the relatively easy things, they may have gotten away with some things that are harder to separate from their hard integration.

Now they seem like they are monopoly seekers in all respects, instead of the truth, which is that the reasons are all of:
1. Laziness
2. Actual hard problems
3. Greed



“The Vance campaign provided the Wall Street Journal with a police report to prove their claims about cat-eating Haitians in Springfield. The WSJ spoke to the woman who filed it, who said she later found her cat alive and well in her basement. She also apologized to her Haitian neighbors.”

Truly incredible.

nj.com/politics/2024/09/jd-van…



@brian_hartgen I wanted to wish you a very happy birthday. Thank you for your years of service to the community.


"Кобыла и Трупоглазые Жабы Искали Цезию, Нашли Поздно Утром Свистящего Хна"

Вот такой музыкальный коллектив я внезапно обнаружил...

in reply to Pasha Gusev

@gusev Начните с песни под названием «Шередарь», например. Поймёте всю… концептуальность их творчества :))


🇩🇪Geleaktes Protokoll zur #Chatkontrolle netzpolitik.org/2024/interne-d… +++ Kritik nur von 6 Ländern – keine Sperrminorität! +++ Unentschieden waren noch BEL, CZE, FIN, ITA, NLD, PRT, SWE +++ EU-Juristen bestätigen Grundrechtsverletzung +++ Nur noch 5 Tage bis zur nächsten Beratung... +++

Hilf mit das digitale #Briefgeheimnis und sichere #Verschlüsselung zu verteidigen: patrick-breyer.de/hilf-jetzt-m…

Grafik: @frebelt - danke!

in reply to Patrick Breyer

🇬🇧Leak on latest #ChatControl attempt (in German): netzpolitik.org/2024/interne-d… +++ Only AUT, DEU, EST, LUX, POL, SVN were critical – no blocking minority! +++ BEL, CZE, FIN, ITA, NLD, PRT, SWE undecided +++ EU legal experts confirm violation of our fundamental rights +++ Only 5 days to next discussion +++

Help pressure our governments into defending our #privacy of correspondence and secure #encryption now: patrick-breyer.de/en/take-acti…

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Would you believe it that I bought this mooncake cos it looks pretty? Yes I am sure you would believe it.

Ps: it's actually quite nice. White lotus filling and something else...lychee?



One of the key features of @matrix is interoperability.

It’s no wonder you can spot a @mhoye working from his #MNTReform from the #matrixconf!

All the cool kids are here 😎



Back when Windows 10 was first released and for several years after, Microsoft provided a tool allowing you to show and hide updates if there were updates that were causing problems, called wushowhide. This tool is hard to find and the platform it is built on is now deprecated, so I wrote this simple Windows program to hide any unwanted Windows updates. Simply run it, wait for it to list all your available updates, and type the numbers of the updates to hide, seperated by spaces.
Note: Due to how the Windows update API works, this program requires administrative privileges to run.
Download: quinbox.xyz/files/uphide.exe
in reply to Quin

thanks a lot for this. There's a broken driver from HP here unable to update since months.


I just got an email from GitHub about a new issue for my password generator.

"Hey there!

We have detected a security vulnerability in your repository. Please contact us at https://github-scanner[.]com to get more information on how to fix this issue.

Best regards,
Github Security Team"

Uh huh. A security vulnerability for a password generator. Maybe, but I'm skeptical.

However, the issue no longer exists. Looks like GitHub took it down as spam.

I'm curious about that URL though.

1/n



#BBCNews live page on the aftermath of the #pager and walkie talkie attacks in #Lebanon bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwyl9048gx…
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in reply to Kriszta Satori

V #BBC Shaimaa Khalil:
The Japanese firm which apparently makes the walkie-talkies says production on that model stopped 10 years ago.

Icom describes the IC-V82 as a handheld radio which was exported to the Middle East from 2004 to 2014 and has not been shipped since then. The manufacturing of the batteries has also stopped, it says.

The company says it isn't possible to confirm whether the IC-V82s that exploded in yesterday's attacks were shipped directly from Icom, or via a distributor.

#bbc
in reply to Kriszta Satori

V #BBCNews Tom Bateman:
Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that the US was "still gathering the information" about the exploding pagers.

But behind the scenes, there will be another scramble in Washington to help protect Israel, this time from a potential response from Hezbollah.

Nevertheless, there is again a barely concealed sense of exasperation at the chance the attacks could amount to a significant miscalculation.



Annnnd the air quality monitoring array has been deployed at #MatrixConf! Can you guess which room the BarCamp is starting in? 😂

Tomorrow will be the real test of the venue's ventilation, as we're expecting about 4x the attendees that we have today.

We take the #HealthAndSafety of our community seriously and are requiring masks indoors this year. The data we collect will help us calibrate our approach with this venue when we return!

#PHPledge #PublicHealthPledge #AQI #COVID #OpenSource #FOSS




If you meet the prick owning 2-FMZ-865, tell them not to park on bus stops, especially not (1) when leaving your car there unattended and (2) when it's a terminus stop, where buses have to park for extended periods of time.


People are organising spontaneously around their topics of interest in typical Barcamp fashion.

And of course, the schedule is built using a Matrix widget @HarHarLinks has developed!



‘Trials of the Jedi’: The High Republic’s Final Novel Sets June 17, 2025 Release Date starwarsnewsnet.com/2024/09/tr…





These results are not surprising considering how much pro-death penalty, pro-policing, war on drugs propaganda is pumped out for Singaporean consumption—over years, over decades.

cna.asia/4goAujz



Today is a special day. It's the birthday of @brian_hartgen, my husband, my dearest love and my best friend. Happy birthday, darling. always know how very much loved and appreciated you are. x