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Also this made me miss Kieran Hodgson's bad #DoctorWho impressions - which were actually completely on point.

youtube.com/watch?v=OedNVdX2U2…

Falls der (Fach-)Arzttermin nur über #Doctolib vereinbart werden kann, geht anschließend wie folgt vor: Fordert zunächst eine Datenauskunft gemäß Art. 15 DSGVO an und veranlasst danach die Löschung eurer Daten gemäß Art. 17 DSGVO. Jedes Mal. Wirklich jedes Mal. Geht ganz einfach über Datenanfragen! 👇

datenanfragen.de/

For many years I've believed that Facebook and Instagram were secretly downloading phone photos in the background. Because when you go to post a photo, it gets sent far too quickly to have done a download at the same time.

Yesterday I found this video from an Instagram founder, and damned if I wasn't right.

It doesn't appear to be all photos, just the most recent one (ones?). It's not clear from the video if it happens when you launch the app, or when you hit compose. They're doing it on the assumption you're about to post some recent photos. They claim it's okay because if you don't post it, they delete it.

That's classic Meta self-serving bullshit. The "Yeah, it's wrong, but it's okay because we're Meta and we're smart" excuse they always use.

It is not okay to upload my photos without my explicit consent. It's not okay to chew up my bandwidth when I may be deliberately trying to keep it low. IANL, but that first, frankly, sounds like class action material.

It doesn't matter that they claim to delete it. They just introduced a privacy risk. That could have been a nude of my spouse. That could have been a photo of my kid I was sending to my doctor. That could have been a photo of a contract I'm not allowed to share. All to save a few seconds they can brag about.

When Apple allowed you to selectively make photos available to app, I turned the feature on for Meta apps. This makes posting photos a pain, because Meta doesn't uses Apple's UI for choosing which photos they can see and selecting them at the same time. It's a multistep process and it isn't obvious how to do it. Ironically, it means that I rarely post to Instagram anymore. A fact that just reinforces my belief that Meta really wants full photo access and deliberately isn't fixing the issue.

Auch das ist #DisabledAlltag : In Werkstätten für einen mickrigen Stundenlohn schufften, ohne Arbeitnehmer*innen-Rechte, während andere sich eine goldene Nase verdienen. Inklusion? Fehlanzeige!

Das Team von andererseits hat gemeinsam mit der Süddeutschen Zeitung zu Behindertenwerkstätten recherchiert.

Unbedingt lesen!

andererseits.org/werkstaetten/

#WfMmB #WfbM #Inklusion #UNBRK #IhrBeutetUnsAus

Ugh, the #chrome #extension ecosystem is exactly as bad as I'd expect.

And the fact extension is still up claiming not to collect any data even if it has been called out in one of the biggest security newsletters shows how much Google care about this (not much). The only thing they care about is pretending to ship AI features to detect malicious extensions. Because that's how you get promoted.

I mean is it even possible to report a suspicious or bad extension? I don't see anywhere

Great research by @WPalant and @c0m4r

And @campuscodi for putting the spotlight on it.

Oh, neat! A new open source app for Fuji cameras.

github.com/petabyt/fudge

Currently Android and WiFi only, just supporting transfers so far. Bluetooth is planned, as is location support. Desktop and iOS versions are listed on the roadmap.

#Fuji #camera #OpenSource #FOSS #Android

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I dream of someday giving a conference talk titled "A Majestic Minilith", drawing its title from DHH's "majestic monolith" (signalvnoise.com/svn3/the-maje…) plus the Minilith from Arthur C. Clarke's _2061_. In this talk, I would show a full-stack web app written in Rust (or maybe some other AOT-compiled language), where the whole thing is a single binary, and show via live demo with audience participation that it can handle a decent number of concurrent users on a low-power home router.

Hier gibt es meinen ausführlichen Bericht zur Antwort der🚦auf meine schriftliche Frage zum Ausmaß der Förderung von #Blockchain ⛓️ durch den Bund u ob die Reg. überhaupt mal guckt, was aus den letzten 215 mio € #Fördergeld für Gedöns seit 2017 geworden ist: mdb.anke.domscheit-berg.de/202…

PICs: Screenshots aus dem verlinkten Text, u.a. ein #tl;dr u eine Gegenüberstellung von #hypetech Förderung u #Opensource Förderung

#kraftwerk’s mighty Autobahn is 50 years old today!

Imagine listening to it back then, this amazing 22 minute electronic track that captures the joy (and boredom) of a long drive on the autobahn.

It remains stunning and fresh now, let alone how mindblowing it must’ve been in ‘74

youtu.be/vkOZNJYAZ7c?si=FomUnY…

#Music

Claro, por ahí fuera flipan con que los responsables siguieran con sus agendas y haciéndose fotos mientras ya caían las lluvias torrenciales.

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

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now added to the collection at daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/10/03… thanks!
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it's so crazy to explore tools like curl and find out how cool and useful it is and noticing that a lot of tools and products are using it in the background. Such a great accomplice but sadly not as monetarily rewarding as a good song or film, even so it is more useful (no shame on music and films but I prefer technical stuff for my entertainment ;..; )
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It's a tragedy, and the handling is absolutely awful so far. A few more details:

Right after winning the election, the regional government abolished the regional emergency unit as a cost-cutting measure.
Urban planning failed in allowing to build in what are essentially dry riverbeds and became wet once again.
The state agency for meteorology had been giving warnings for days. Civil protection didn't issue warnings to citizens through their phones until flooding had already begun.
A far right pseudo-trade union has sued the director of the agency for reckless homicide.
The president of the region incorrectly stated that the phenomenon was remiting and heading elsewhere.
The region didn't ask the state to raise the emergency level to 3, in which case the state would take over the single command and deploy its own means to support. But now the region accuses the state of innaction. The region also didn't declare "situation of catastrophic emergency" which would have vested single command on the regional president, probably to elude legal responsibility.
Volunteers were rejected at first, then belatedly organised, and the region instead of sending them to help people in villages with cleaning, food and water delivery and so on, have at times sent them to clean shopping centres.

With that amount of rain it was always going to be bad. But the civil protection plan failed and the political conflict in the country is keeping administrations pointing the finger at each other. Very upsetting.

Buenos días, esto es muy fuerte. Hoy la Generalitat empezaba a "organizar" a los voluntarios para distribuirlos mejor. Hasta aquí ok, más vale tarde que nunca.
Pero resulta que este señor, periodista para La Vanguardia y A Punt, dice que hay lío en "varios" buses porque les han llevado A LIMPIAR UN CENTRO COMERCIAL.
Al parecer la gente se niega a bajar de los buses porque quieren ayudar a la gente en sus casas u calles.
Cuando crees que no pueden dar más vergüenza y asco, lo consiguen.

How a misinterpretation of a BMJ publication from 1996 caused (and yes, I do mean caused) the explosion in rates of peanut allergy.

In a nutshell: for decades the guidance issued in the USA and UK was the opposite of what it should have been and left a generation with preventable, life-threatening allergies.

news.harvard.edu/gazette/story…

We're looking for a new team member who cares deeply about testing and code quality to join us in our work supporting some of the most high profile #Apple frameworks, such as #SwiftUI and #UIKit. jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/2…

Microsoft AI CEO says Copilot will evolve into a companion and 'real friend' despite backlash from concerned users: "It tries to be my friend when I need it to be a tool" windowscentral.com/microsoft/m…

20 Minute Tech Tips: FS Companion

freedomscientifictraining.libsyn.com/20-minute-tech-tips-fs-companion

In this episode, we introduce you to FS Companion—a game-changing AI assistant designed to help JAWS users ask questions about JAWS-related tasks with ease and efficiency. Join hosts Liz and Rachel as they guide you through FS Companion’s practical…