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“Hey, could I get admin rights added to my account please?”

“No, absolutely not.”

“Ok. Hey, could I get a service account with admin rights, please? It’s for the, erm, big integration.”

“Sure, here are seven of them just in case.”



Unable to Decrypt. We haven’t received the key for this message. You don’t have access to this message.

It has become a meme. But what are we doing to improve the situation? Let's find out with Andy from the crypto team.

youtu.be/VZTvpGuo9aA


in reply to Christian Selig

My former employer invited him to talk at a company event back in 2009 or so, and while I listened to him talk, I had an unsteady feeling about him and his attitudes. I had a feeling this guy could be a toxic personality easily. I hate to be proven correct. And I am glad I didn't accept a job offer at that place a few years back. A friend had encouraged me to apply, but I felt this wasn't right for me. Well, I got burnt out anyway, and am now retired and no longer need to worry about anything job-related any more, but I am certainly glad I avoided that particular pitfall.


Mozilla latest move make it hard to say "use Firefox as it is not developed by an ad company"

The argument that Google money doesn't influence Firefox development, but the means, is no longer relevant.

Congratulation to Mozilla for choosing a strategy that alienate the last bit of demographic that support them.



If you're sick of the "Log in with Google" pop-up (I am) and use UBlock Origin on Firefox, you can nuke it by adding this to your filters:

accounts.google.com/gsi/*

At least, it's worked so far.

Some days I think every "advance" in web technologies after 1998 was a mistake...

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(this post is bilingual and contain realistic coarse language. If you can't handle it, too bad)

Fuck the language police. ACAB.

(yes includes the OQLF, they can go fuck themselves).

En Francais:

J'emmerde la police de la langue. TFSB (Tous les Flics Sont des Batards)

(oui ça inclus OQLF, ils peuvent aller se faire enculer)

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big loss for the airlines -- the SCC just rejected their argument that Canada's Air Passenger Protection Regulations conflict with the Montreal Convention

decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/s…



#HandAufsHerz

Wie macht ihr deutlich, wenn ihr Sprachmodelle für Aufgaben nutzt, wie z.B. Antworten per E-Mail, SocialMedia, Programmierung oder ähnliches?

#LLM #sogenannteKI #Assistenten #Transparenz



a more nuanced problem with google killing off its cached search results: if the page has changed since it was crawled and no longer contains your search terms, you now have no way of seeing what it said back when it did 😒


#Quebec language watchdog orders a #Hull café owner to make her Instagram posts in French after nine years of doing them in English

#montreal #ottawa

cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/queb…

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in reply to AnnaAnthro

I kind of want to go there now just for the "What in the Quebec fascism is going on" comment
in reply to Dave Mac Farlane

@driusan Yup. It's Franco Fascism. Legault is a Fascist. And not even just about language. That permeates in everything.

As a person whose mother tongue is French (from France) I feel deeply offended with what's happening.



Oil companies just don't advertise like they used to.


I wonder why the Android 15 beta for Samsung phones is coming so late this year? If I remember right, when I got my Samsung phone, there was already an Android 14 beta for it, and that was in early September.
in reply to Mason

I was wondering the same thing. Google’s release is late too, so maybe there are some under the hood changes that make just dropping in previous modifications and adding new ones less simple than they were last year. Reminds me of the Android 7/8 days.


So far I like Earth 6160 Captain America far more than Earth 1610 Cap.


Podpísal som jej dochádzku... cítim sa ako profesor odborného výcviku. :kekw:


#AIagent promotes itself to #sysadmin , trashes #boot sequence

Fun experiment, but yeah, don't pipe an #LLM raw into /bin/bash

Buck #Shlegeris, CEO at #RedwoodResearch, a nonprofit that explores the risks posed by #AI , recently learned an amusing but hard lesson in automation when he asked his LLM-powered agent to open a secure connection from his laptop to his desktop machine.
#security #unintendedconsequences

theregister.com/2024/10/02/ai_…



🎉 Exciting news! Hans de Goede just dropped a detailed blog post on his finished work on IPU6 camera support in Fedora 41: hansdegoede.dreamwidth.org/288…. Together, Hans and I have also ironed out all the issues with @pipewire camera support in @mozilla Firefox so it's ready for prime time! 🚀
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Given the recent Telegram scandal, we've updated our review of WhatsApp alternatives. 👉 tuta.com/de/blog/best-whatsapp…

What's your take? Should we drop Telegram completely? 🤔

Which is your favorite replacement for WhatsApp?

in reply to Tuta

certainly no telegram, if possible. but it became more than just messenger, unfortunately.

if it should be a channel, i guess matrix kinda works. maybe with Chinny client?

if (open) group chats, matrix as well. also signal, but the problem with signal is that it requires phone number (even if you can hide it).

if private messages, signal and matrix; simpleX seems nice, even though i didn't try it. threema is not free, so not everyone will be able to use it.

signal and matrix have their problems, but they're WAY better than telegram kremlingram.

don't know about wire and session much, can't really say anything about them.



#curl sets the "hacktoberfest-accepted" label on merged PRs during October - in case you want to play that game
#curl


DHL need to get over themselves. Nobody knows or cares about the difference between DHL and DHL Express, or their separate websites, or their separate apps - apart from when you go to the wrong one, because it's so confusing. Absolute whammers

in reply to Hubert Figuière

The WSP team is hopeful they'll be the winners.

AtkinsRéalis has a strong team, sure, but WSP beat them on the Turcot Project.

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I’m telling everyone about the benefits of of dried grapes.

It’s all about raisin awareness.

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I asked ChatGPT how to wire a standard UK plug using the new canvas feature...



Apparently the crooks that are airlines have argued at the supreme court of Canada that the passenger bills of right that Canadian believe is toothless is too much for them....

Wonder why flying is so terrible? Look no further.

in reply to Hubert Figuière

Good news everyone, the Supreme Court of Canada spanked them.

Now maybe we should add teeth to the whole thing to make it worth it.




This is a poll about reading habits:

Have you read to the end at least 1 book in the past year?

Boost for more coverage, please!

  • Yes (87%, 2909 votes)
  • No (12%, 414 votes)
3323 voters. Poll end: 1 month ago

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[maybe paywalled]

Canada is finally ready to build a high speed rail line

thestar.com/politics/federal/t…

Brace for impact, a new Glossy Report is incoming.

#cdnpoli

in reply to Hubert Figuière

Even our glossy report doesn't have any ambition. Toronto<->Montreal is a little over 500 km. That should be 2 hours by high speed train.
in reply to Dave Mac Farlane

@driusan yup 2hrs. I used to commute 230km.... was a 1 hour platform to platform.

also was 20 years ago.

Not in Canada.

That would make Ottawa 50min and Quebec 1h from Gare Centrale. And Toronto 2 in a direct connection. Ottawa Toronto could be 1.5 hr (it's 404 km by road, done it many time)



It amazes me that there are actually people out there who believe that the only motive behind things like ttCom is to spy. Sorry not sorry folks, take a seat and dial down your paranoia. It'll eat you alive if you let it. Music bbots also have the ability to see exactly who has logged in and out of servers, Softdev's logs feature being a prime example. Its not spying. It is convenience, not having to spam f2 and enter a billion times just to see who is connected to a server when I can just type "sh" into a console window and get all that info at once. I really don't get why people are so odd about it. Tell me what ttCom does that I can't do right now with my teamtalk client. Don't say ttCom messages because that's just a fancy pm. And don't say audio interceptionn because it doesn't have the ability to do anything tt audio related. Don't say hover because I can log into a server with a normal tt client and do the same thing. Don't say intercept because it doesn't do that by default, and tt now tells you when you're being intercepted anyway. Don't say multiple server connections at once because I can easily press control n in my main tt window and, you guessed it, do the same thing with profiles. So what's it gonna be? I am genuinely curious what makes it so bad, as some people can't help but believe.

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in reply to aaron

@fireborn Well media bots are always on too and somehow nobody ever complains about those.
in reply to BlueLegend

Not saying they are correct, just the thought process.




Habt ihr eigentlich schon die 2024 Version von "Was zum Fick" von Lumpenpack gehört? Nein? Dann macht dit mal!



‼️ Tusky will stop supporting #Android 7 in 2025. We still don't know the fix date, but will tell you in advanced.

❓ What does it mean for Android 7 users?

➡️ It means that users with Android 7 installed will still be able to use the #Tusky version they have installed when this happens, but they are not going to ble able to update it to newer versions if they don't update the operating system or change smartphone/tablet.

in reply to Tusky

My tablet will turn 10 years old next year, and now has a chance to become my first device rendered obsolete not by hardware failure, but by lack of software support (LineageOS abandoned it already in 2019).
in reply to Tusky

#Android7 #2016 #y2016

They are not going to be able to update it on Play and Fdroid?

"Android Nougat (codenamed Android N during development) is the seventh major version and 14th original version of the Android operating system. First released as an alpha test version on March 9, 2016, it was officially released on August 22, 2016, with Nexus devices being the first to receive the update."

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@Tusky About that "bug" when #tusky hangs up while writing a shared post: now I gut that very same issue with a post shared from #bluesky towards #pachli.

So I guess it's an #android issue with #hyperos on my #xiaomi phone.

My apologies. It's quite confusing though ...



Manda huevos.

Lo dejo por aquí por si a otro le pudiese valer.

El otro día preguntaba donde comprar un repelente de agua para una chaqueta de ante o nobuck y no tenía ni idea.
Pues en el ultimo sitio que hubiera buscado.

En Decathlon venden. Si en una cadena de deportes, flipe 😊.

in reply to modulux

@modulux Si, pero en zapaterías de esas de barrio de toda la vida.

Esas ya casi no quedan.

Yo de echo aquí en Palma no conozco ninguna por donde me muevo.

Son todo cadenas grandes de zapatería y por ejemplo si quieres unas plantillas o cordones o limpiador de zapatos te buscas la vida en otro sitio por que solo y exclusivamente venden los zapatos.

Antiguamente en una zapatería se compraban los zapatos y todo lo que conllevan.

Es lo que se esta perdiendo en comercio de cercanía.



Tengo una pregunta ahora que leo sobre esto. ¿La iniciativa "Tax the rich" no podría dar como resultado un segundo movimiento llamado "rich leaving the country"?


1960: the people of 2024 will have flying cars, 2 day work weeks, and be colonizing space

2024: "why is everybody mad at me today" i wonder as i stare at the notifications on my pocket depression rectangle

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1990: the people of 2024 will be more productive than ever because computers will make everything easier

2024: me staring at my screen clicking for hours "what counts as a motorcycle? does the person riding the bicycle count as part of the bicycle? does the walk signal count as a traffic light? is this small white edge part of the crosswalk!? why won't you LET ME JUST BUY THE GODDAMN MADOKA PLUSHY YOU ARE THE ONLY STORE THAT ISN'T GEOLOCKED FROM SENDING TO MY COUNTRY"

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My plea to all iOS apps developers for 2024: for the love of everything that is humane, use Apple's native photo picker. Was trying to get started with a couple of apps that require a photo upload and all VoiceOver kept saying was "Thumbnail, button" "Image, button" "Photo, button". Only yesterday I figured it is possible to get the native experience when uploading a screenshot for a technical support representative to see. I have a lot of photos where I know what's on them and that they're the ones I want to upload but I need at least the date they were taken. Thanks! #Accessibility #Blind #Apple #iOSDev #VoiceOver

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