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Activisten Code Rood maken zich klaar voor nieuwe actie van burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid uitgezonderd.org/activisten-co…


Symbolische steun voor ontruimde Wondelmeersen vanuit het Lappersfortbos
#Ecologie #Gent #Brugge #Bos #Activisme

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Beware of any so-called "Christian" movement that proclaims the world is full of enemies to be destroyed, rather than full of neighbors to be loved.

Beware of any so-called "Christian" movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath but never a source of God's mercy, generosity, or compassion.

Beware of any so-called "Christian" movement that requires crowds in vast numbers to glorify its leaders instead of humbling themselves before others.

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Tapping the sign again:

Being autistic does not make anyone sexist, racist, eugenicist, an advocate for gendered violence, an apologist for child abuse, or any of the things that white dudes in open source technology are starting to be held accountable for.

Being an *asshole* makes someone an advocate for abuse.

Stop infantilizing grown-ass adults.

Criticism of a sexual harasser is not ableist. You know what's ableist? Your colleagues who refuse to prioritize accessibility in FLOSS.

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Best Linux Distro: How to Choose Guide for Every User lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Amazon signs three deals to help develop small modular nuclear reactors in the US, with Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund leading a $500M Series C-1 for X-energy (Diana Olick/CNBC)

cnbc.com/2024/10/16/amazon-goe…
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So learned something last week about Jaws… If you have a link that if you hover your mouse over to invoke a menu, you can tap right arrow into the link, press applications key (or shift+f10), then escape… This seems to consistently activate the menu. @freedomscientific


Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus review: thin design, spacious 15.6" screen, great performance, Quick Insert key, and solid battery life, but average speakers (Daniel Thorp-Lancaster/Wired)

wired.com/review/samsung-galax…
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36 Useful Apache ‘.htaccess’ Tricks for Security and Performance linuxtoday.com/blog/36-useful-…


YouTube Unveils 11 New Features Updates Including a New Sleep Timer cordcuttersnews.com/youtube-un…


FCC Launches Inquiry into Internet Data Caps Used By Comcast & Others cordcuttersnews.com/fcc-launch…

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Hands-On With Amazon's New 2024 Kindles, Including a New Color Kindle cnet.com/tech/computing/hands-…



neviem v ktorom náboženstve sa prináša na privítanie prázdna miska
in reply to SuspiciousDuck

keď už toto ti nenapovie tak.. let's see
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in reply to SuspiciousDuck

nezapôsobil a dúfam že ho tu už neuvidím, keď sa nad tým zamyslím konám v mene majiteľky a ona mi to schvaluje




There was a lot of news the other day about passkeys and portability - fidoalliance.org/fido-alliance… - that says in part:

"Until now, there has been no standard for the secure movement of credentials, and often the movement of passwords or other credentials has been done in the clear."

This is true, but... there is also still no standard for any of that. The specs are mostly empty placeholders.

fidoalliance.org/specs/cx/cxp-…

fidoalliance.org/specs/cx/cxf-…

Solid Mitch Hedberg energy here.

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in reply to mhoye but spooky

And, Christ On A Bike, going to press to announce the important developments in your shiny new security protocol, with "Security Considerations: TODO Security" _right there in the text of the spec_ does not fill me with confidence that you are taking this seriously.
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in reply to mhoye but spooky

This is the most important thing you need to know about passkeys: that "Authorizing Party" box in the spec?

That's not you. They're not actually "your" passkeys.



As always, we greatly appreciate the support of PureOS subscribers. Advancing PureOS benefits all Librem devices as well as the larger FLOSS ecosystem. Your support is crucial to that mission.
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#Purism #PureOS


Celebrating 20 Years of Google Summer of Code opensource.googleblog.com/2024…


How to ruin your day:

  1. Try to turn on your Macbook and find it dead.
  2. Send it for replacement.
  3. Boot up the good old Macbook from the bottom of the wardrobe.
  4. Start the migration assistant
  5. Be happy that it found your time machine backup on NAS.
  6. Enter the encryption key for the backup
  7. Be happy you've done that on a first try as why would they support the password managers or at least the copy/paste...
  8. Begin the NW transfer and wait.... WAIT
  9. Find out it's deadly slow, do some googling and check whether you still support SMB1 on NAS
  10. Shit - you do - so stop the process, disable SMB1 and start over 4-6, because on 7 you get "Mount failed".
  11. Try the encryption key again, again and AGAIN, still "mount failed"

12-1024. Restarts, googling, backing out to SMB1, first friend on a phone, second, third... still F...ing "mount failed".

I'm out of reasons, the sparsbundle works, you can mount it, decrypt it, even get some data via time-machine itself, but that bloody migration assistant doesn't ever works correctly again.

#appleshit

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But wait, what about my money? 😭
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I have a genuine question; I promise that even though I have a view, this is being posted with an open mind.
With all the guide dog discrimination on Lyft and Uber, why haven't I seen much in the way of people advocating for, or companies moving towards, the implementation of a feature which would allow riders to disclose the service animal on their profile? I got into a debate with someone on Twitter a few years ago about this, and the best they could come up with is that they "don't want to have to wait longer than other people."
Animal alergies are real. Think whiping Mcdonald's crumbs out of your car is difficult? What about dog hair?
Animal phobias are also real. I work with someone whose sister is so afraid of cats that she won't work in someone's house that contains a cat. Seriously it's almost primal!
Dislike of dogs and things about them is real. I don't have a dog alergy, I don't have a fear of dogs, but I made it clear to my sister that I really preferred it if her dog didn't hop on my bed.
I saw in an article today that Lyft might be adding a way to disclose service animals. This, is fair. This, is what needs to happen. This, protects drivers and riders alike. At least from my point of view.
If you don't believe this, why? I genuinely want to know the prospectives of people who don't, because I'm trying to understand that and I've only heard from one guy.

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in reply to Juanjo

@modulux And with respect to the hair, it is true that they leave hair, but it is also true that there are people who vomit in the car, or who wear mink coats... and nothing happens. We already have enough discrimination without adding more labels to our profile.
in reply to Juanjo

I'm not sure that's comparable. Passengers will very rarely vomit in a car, and you can't tell in advance if they will. A dog will definitely leave hair behind. That said I'm not convinced the hair argument is good enough to put against someone's right to transport. For me, the allergies are a clear case; the fear is too; but I admit that lots of people could easily claim that to avoid doing it, and I don't know how to solve that.


We’re celebrating 20 years of Thunderbird this year! It’s been an incredible journey for our users, the dedicated team of contributors who have worked on it and of course our amazing open-source community who has been there every step of the way. 🎉 To mark this occasion, check out this beautiful video by @freehive and see how Thunderbird is ready for the next 20 years.

#Thunderbird #OpenSource

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in reply to David R

@houdave It must be some kind of codec issue. 🤔 It is published on YouTube if you want to watch it there: youtube.com/watch?v=S7_8BymJr-…


in reply to SuspiciousDuck

playlisty z YT proste vyzerajú tak ako vyzerajú, neviem čo stým mám urobiť..


Popular opinion: Every Adobe executive should be dissolved in acid


The worst AI scraper that doesn't even identify itself as such is still this user agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0

It's not even listed on darkvisitors(.)com

I see 5120 requests in the last 24 hrs alone, all for JPEG & WEBP files. I don't want to know how much bandwidth & energy it consumes, globally.

Easy to block via Cloudflare or .htaccess: Firefox/72 is ages old and no human visitor would use it.

Spread the word.

#AI #Webmaster



if this really happened, the employee who used generative AI to “expand” the photo should be immediately fired.

We can’t eliminate genAI anymore than we can eliminate plagiarism, but we can limit its normalization by making discovery so costly that people are too terrified to take the risk.

in reply to Adrian Randall

I strongly disagree about firing the employee. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, we should assume that she innocently believed, based on the hype, that generative AI is a legitimate tool, and that she was just under stress and trying to get this problem solved the quickest way she knew how so she could move onto the next thing, as we all do sometimes. She's not the one to punish for this.


Who called them subby environmentalists and not collared greens


NPR: Over 11 million pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry were recalled over listeria concerns, affecting salads, wraps, frozen meals and more from popular chains like Target, Trader Joe's and Walmart.#news #NPR npr.org/2024/10/16/nx-s1-51548…
#News #NPR



Me: 'Siri, Enable noise canceling.'
Siri enables it then, in a snarky tone:
'Noise canceling is already on.'
Well duh!
Anything I ask it to do with airpods like that, it now responds as if the setting were already active first. This, since iOS 18.
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg @jakobrosin @BorrisInABox Google Gemini on my Samsung cannot play music to google speakers, so that's functionality I've lost because the assistant was upgraded... Sigh.
in reply to Andre Louis

@jakobrosin @BorrisInABox it's been interesting to see that play out, because Google's willing to be the bigger risk-taker as always and not offer any rollbacks, while Apple still has the old Voice Control code last time I checked in 17.X if you don't enable Siri at all and set it to use that instead, so on that compatibility factor Apple's got more in common with Microsoft oddly.


Apple’s App Stores can’t install new apps theverge.com/2024/10/16/242718…


What can I say. It's a super positive workday with people pulling their weight in getting things done, I know what I should prioritize and when, feeling motivated. Only downside is the sneezing 3 times in a row every half hour from fall allergies and this wind we had last night, but life's been worse. Enjoying the calm before the country erupts into election frenzy in 3 weeks, I plan to go early vote this weekend here and get that out of the way.
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CBC: Man adrift in frigid Russian seas for 67 days survived by drinking rainwater cbc.ca/news/world/russian-resc… #adriftatsea



My very basic, personal Web site has reached the point at which I could write a blog post. I have now written a brief post documenting the decisions made in the site's development so far. I hope someone finds this information useful.
jasonjgw.net/blog/technology/w…
#WebDevelopment #accessibility
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt The best way for me to detect such an issue as a screen reader user would presumably be to query font attributes (as long as I know what the defaults would be in the absence of the correct CSS). The slightly more interesting approach would be to submit a screenshot to an image-processing large language model and ask for a description of the styling.


We mock it, but it's a serious thing that the leader of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition has not obtained a national security clearance.

10 perfectly innocent explanations for why Pierre Poilievre won’t get national security clearance:

thebeaverton.com/2024/06/10-pe…

#cdnpoli #polcan