I sent an email out internally, so I can stop being quiet on here.

I quit Microsoft! Last day tomorrow! New adventure next week! Computers! Eek!

There were 4 men, a Russian, a German, an American and a French, who found this small genie bottle.

When they rubbed the bottle, a genie appears.

Thankful that the 4 guys had released him out of the bottle, he said, 'Next to you all are 4 swimming pools, I will give each of you a wish. When you run
towards the pool and jumped, you must shout what you want the pool of water to become, and your wish will come true.'

The French wanted to start. He run towards the pool, jumped and shouted 'WINE'. The pool immediately changed into a pool of wine.

The Frenchman was so happy swimming and drinking from the pool. Next is the Russian's turn, he did the same and shouted, 'VODKA' and immersed himself into a pool of vodka.

The German was next and he jumped and shouted, 'BEER'. He was so contented with his beer pool.

The last is the American. He was running towards the pool when suddenly he steps on a banana peel.

He slipped towards the pool and cursed, 'SHIT!'

“For me to post a hurricane forecast and for people to accuse me of creating the hurricane by working for some secret Illuminati entity is disappointing and distressing, and it’s resulting in a decrease in public trust,” says Cappucci. He says he hasn’t slept in multiple days and is exhausted. This last week he received hundreds of messages from people accusing him of modifying the weather and creating hurricanes from space lasers. "

...I'm sorry... wut? Is this for real...?

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Was an honour to present the @fsfe 's work for #softwarefreedom at #libreoffice Conference 24. (slides uploaded to events.documentfoundation.org/… )

Thanks to all the @libreoffice contributors out there 👏

Is it ironic (or just plain hypocritical) how the full legal text of the EAA directive is entirely structured with `<table>` markup (for content that isn't tabular, and it isn't declared as presentational).

#accessibility #a11y #eaa

Artists!

You will get more Mastodon boosts if you have suitable Alt Text on your image posts.

Trust me on this 👍🏾

[Prompted by the uptick in image posts /re-toots these past few months that have no Alt Text and which I would otherwise boost, but generally no Alt, no repost]

#AltText

The adjective for metal is metallic.

Not so for iron, which is ironic.

Something looks suspicious about the IA attack, and I suspect the goal is to change sentiment about *something*, probably the Internet Archive, but it's not clear what, and it may be more than one thing. It seems like someone probably paid a hacking agency to do this, very possibly a publishing house upset about copyright claims, and I say that especially because:

- "See you on Have I Been Pwned", but really, this is one of the least dramatic things to end up on HIBP of all time: it's names and email addresses sure, but all the passwords are properly hashed and there isn't much else. So why gloat about it?
- There seems to be an attempt to lower public impression of IA in terms of talking about its tech "held up with sticks". It is old tech, so maybe, but why the focus on that?
- If you analyze the HN thread about it for comments in terms of when posted, there were a bunch of sockpuppet accounts created almost immediately after the post was made, seemingly to add comments: news.ycombinator.com/user?id=N… news.ycombinator.com/user?id=h… news.ycombinator.com/user?id=1… news.ycombinator.com/user?id=M…
- An allegedly pro-palestinean militant hacking group is claiming responsibility, but their rationale doesn't make sense: they say it's because the IA is an American company, and the US is helping Israel. But why the IA *specifically*? This seems like a false flag operation either to draw attention away from the real perpetrators, or possibly to try to turn technically inclined people against pro-palestinean activists x.com/sn_darkmeta/status/18441…

The IA *is* engaged with several fights with publishers and people who have beef on copyright grounds. It's entirely possible one of them hired a nation-state affiliated hacking group (of which there are quite a few) that had a side beef, or that group is trying to throw the public off its tracks, but regardless, sock puppets like this typically appear after a hacking attack when there's a paid organization.

Regardless, nobody else is keeping the internet's history alive, and yes, the IA has made some mistakes sometimes, but I stand behind them and wish their staff strength in dealing with this time.

Autocrat and authoritarian now means independent from the US and refusing to be vassalized.

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Der App-Zwang nimmt Nutzern die Wahlfreiheit, zwingt zur Nutzung von Apple- und Google-Diensten und macht Datenschutz ohne technisches Know-how fast unmöglich. 👇

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#android #ios #datenschutz #digitalpolitik #politik #app #appzwang #dsgvo #tdddg #verbraucherschutz #FreiheitImNetz #DigitaleSelbstbestimmung