Just got back from a week of cross-country skiing in Seefeld, Austria. The weather was perfect!
The tourism board proudly advertises that Seefeld is reachable by train (which is true, though there’s definitely room for improvement). Still, every time I mentioned to someone—be it the hotel staff or my ski instructor—that I arrived by train, they were completely baffled.
7-Zip flaw lets hackers infect your PC with malware. Update ASAP!
Make sure you're running version 24.09 or later of 7-Zip as soon as you can, else you're still vulnerable to this dangerous security flaw.Mikael Markander (PCWorld)
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Samsung's fast, compact USB-C flash drive is just $18 right now
Get 128GB of storage space for 22% off on Amazon. The 256GB model is also on sale.Gabriela Vatu (PCWorld)
The 3 Best Ways to Use Spotify on Your Raspberry Pi
If you like to listen to music at home, you can use your Raspberry Pi as your personal stereo. In this post, I'll show you the different ways you can play Spotify on your RaspberryRaspberryTips
Breaking Barriers: How RightHear Makes Parks Inclusive for Everyone - RightHear
RightHear makes parks accessible for all, offering audio guidance and multi-language support to enhance inclusion and independence.Lauren Kubek (RightHear)
Learn how to protect your company’s online information in the age of AI
New laws around online information are taking effect at the local, national and international levels, just in time for Data Privacy Day.Anurag Varshney (Technically Media)
The Unusual Way Kellogg's First Sold Cereal Before Hitting Up Stores
Today you can pick up a box of Kellogg's cereal at any grocery store, but when the cereal was first created there was a very different way to get it.Bobby Lewis (The Daily Meal)
Alton Brown's Top Tip For Spreading Peanut Butter Couldn't Be Simpler
Always providing sagely advice, Alton Brown has a trick for spreading peanut butter that's a good one for all those who refuse to destroy their bread.Karen Hart (The Daily Meal)
Announcing the LibreOffice Calc Guide 24.8 - The Document Foundation Blog
Dione Maddern and The Documentation Team are proud to announce the immediate availability of the LibreOffice Calc Guide 24.8, an update of the existing Calc Guide 24.2 with enhancements taken from the current LibreOffice 24.8 Calc module.Olivier Hallot (The Document Foundation)
localwriter: An optional LibreOffice Writer extension for local generative AI - The Document Foundation Blog
LibreOffice is a privacy-oriented office suite that runs on your own computer and doesn’t include AI features out-of-the-box.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
LibreOffice 25.2 RC2 is available for testing - LibreOffice QA Blog
LibreOffice 25.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.2 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) the forth and last pre-release since the development of version 25.2 started in mid Juny, 2024.x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
Phonak Adds New Custom Hearing Aids to Infinio Portfolio
Phonak has introduced two new in-the-ear hearing aids, the Virto Titanium Infinio and Virto 10 NW O Infinio.Andy Lundin (The Hearing Review)
Research Initiative to Support Sign Language Translation with AI | The Hearing Review
SignGPT is a project aimed at using generative AI to bridge communication gaps between sign language and spoken languages.Andy Lundin (The Hearing Review)
Konec spekulací o hajlování
DER SPIEGEL uvádí, že aktivisté, kteří promítli nacistický pozdrav Elona Muska na průčelí jeho továrny Tesla v Grünheide, začali být vyšetřování Úřadem na ochranu ústavy, protože používání nacistických symbolů je v Německu zakázáno, a to i v uměleckém kontextu.
Z toho plyne, že Úřad na ochranu ústavy považuje gesto Elona Muska za nacistický symbol či gesto. Tady to tedy máte od nejlepší autority: šlo o Hitlergruß.
»Heil Tesla« – Staatsschutz ermittelt nach Projektion auf Tesla-Fabrik
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Haben Aktivisten tatsächlich Elon Musks umstrittene Geste an die Tesla-Fabrik in Grünheide projiziert? Die Polizei sprach zunächst von einem »Fake«. Nun ermittelt der Staatsschutz wegen des Verbreitens verfassungswidriger Symbole.
Tudíž, pokud to chápu správně, tak jde o to, že gesto samotné vytrhli z kontexu (mohlo znamenat cokoli) a následně ho vlastně 'zneužili' k propagaci, ze které jsou viněni - což podtrhuje i zmíněné slovo 'heil'.
@GuloGulo
Alt Text for Beginners - WebABLE™
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Why Alt Text Matters: Boost Accessibility and SEO
The latest news on WordPress.com and the WordPress community.Katie Koteen (WordPress.com News)
How to Create a Personal Website: A Detailed, Step-by-Step Guide
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How to Start a Successful Blog: A 12-Step Guide for Beginners
The latest news on WordPress.com and the WordPress community.Nick Schäferhoff (WordPress.com News)
WordPress.com's Core Interface Style
The latest news on WordPress.com and the WordPress community.Jacopo "Copons" Tomasone (WordPress.com News)
@sesivany no já to nedavno řešil: Nejdřív jsem koukal na poštu, pak na první certifikační a paxem se na to vykvajznul s tím, že nemám zájem zvyšovat beztak již vysokou úroveň entropie okolního vesmíru.
Čtečku na eObčanku mám. Jednou se mi s ní povedlo přihlásit do portálu občana.
Podruhé jsem nějak pomotal hesla a tak byla eObčanka zablokována.
Tím pro mě celá záležitost skončila, jelikož je to stejně efektivní jako dát kartičku do mikrovlnky, jen to není trestné 😈
(do datovky se přihlašuji přes bankovní identu. Inu trh rozhodnul ...)
Ale jako jinak je to holt byznys Český pošty a tvoje rozhořčení plně sdílím: cztwitter.cz/@Razemix/11259858…
Podepisujte elektronicky zdarma a bez registrace | BankiD.cz
Elektronický podpis na pár kliknutí, na počítači i v mobilu. Nahrajte dokument a přihlaste se bankovní identitou. Nemusíte nic instalovat.Bank iD
Nejvíc mě rozesmála ta jejich argumentace, že podpisy sice nejdou ověřit, ale to ještě neznamená, že nejsou pravé. 😂
Tohle má smysl, pokud člověk podepisuje dokument u nějakého subjektu, který má nějaký smluvní vztah s BankID, třeba pojišťovna, v rámci toho je nějaká důvěra zajištěná, ale jako prostředek pro podepisování dvěma nezávislými subjekty je to omyl.
Když jsem dostal před 5 lety novou občanku, chtěl jsem to vyzkoušet, ale pak přišla Identita občana, která umožňuje přihlašování přes různé providery včetně MojeID, a elektronický podpis mám už roky jako certifikát na disku, takže jsem to neměl dál potřebu řešit a už to nikdy znovu nezkoušel.
eObčanka
Nechcete nekdo udrzovat aktualni verze v nejakym gitu, nebo alespon jako snippet? Ponevazd se bojim, ze to nekdy muze byt opet problem. 🙂Mojefedora.cz
Největší problém je komplikovanost. Když jsem to studoval, nepochopil jsem, k čemu tolik různých PINů. Zřejmě aby odradili občany od toho to používat.
Flock se po 11 letech vrací do Prahy!
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Flock to Fedora 2025: Prague, June 5th - 8th! - Fedora Magazine
Flock to Fedora is coming to Prague, CZ, June 5-8, 2025! Join us for the premier Fedora conference. Submit a proposal or register to attend.Justin W. Flory (Fedora Project)
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Trump’s blizzard of orders gets pushback, questions from GOP lawmakers — The Hill
President Trump’s blizzard of executive orders during the first few days of his presidency has sent Republican lawmakers scrambling to make sense of what impact they’ll have on the country, and some GOP senators are already raising questions and conc…apple.news
More than 98% of Costco shareholders voted down an anti-DEI proposal at their annual meeting. The proposal had been filed by the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank. In its Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders, Costco's board of directors had urged shareholders to reject the motion, saying: "Our efforts at diversity, equity and inclusion remind and reinforce with everyone at our Company the importance of creating opportunities for all." Here's more from @AxiosNews.
In 2022, someone who seems to have given up on the Fediverse posted a cool thing. It's a sequence inside a 3.14 kb executable, which, when run, takes a little bit of time to render, but produces this stupidly effective earworm.
I still have the executable file, which is clean, but I feel weird linking directly to it in a post.
Anyway, if you want to hear what can be squished into a tiny executable, here's the rendered audio from it.
The name of the executable is RedHeat_-_Meow x 3.14.exe
EDIT:
I found the original creator of this, and sadly, he passed away last year.
Red R. R. Tuby, amateur radio call PE1RRR.
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I really enjoyed this #podcast. It is a critique of how the internet has affected democracy. Chris Hayes and Ezra Klein provide some interesting insights. They talk too about podcasts and how the format itself hasn't (yet) been captured by the attention economy. I was reminded about Aaron Swartz’s work to create the open standard build on RSS which is still the way people download podcasts. #democracy #EzraKlein
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Also available as a podcast:
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Opinion | Democrats Are Losing the War for Attention. Badly.
The MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes on why attention has become more valuable than money in politics.Ezra Klein (The New York Times)
I really enjoyed this #podcast. It is a critique of how the internet has affected democracy. Chris Hayes and Ezra Klein provide some interesting insights. They talk too about podcasts and how the format itself hasn't (yet) been captured by the attention economy. I was reminded about Aaron Swartz’s work to create the open standard build on RSS which is still the way people download podcasts. #democracy #EzraKlein
nytimes.com/2025/01/17/opinion…
Also available as a podcast:
podcasts.apple.com/na/podcast/…
Opinion | Democrats Are Losing the War for Attention. Badly.
The MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes on why attention has become more valuable than money in politics.Ezra Klein (The New York Times)
IMHO it's more a "war" on shifting attention *away from* important stuff and over to whatever narratives du jour suit the powers that be, including the New York TImes I might add, who spend a lot of time crafting them.
As long as podcasts are "available wherever you get your podcasts" and not only in walled gardens like Spotify and Audible, they will hopefully be ok.
You could not pay me to sign up to Spotify to get a podcast from them--it will never, ever happen.
Γεια σε όλους! Είχαμε ένα αίτημα από έναν χρήστη που ρωτούσε αν γνωρίζουμε κάποια κοινότητα NVDA ή ομάδα email στην ελληνική γλώσσα, κ.λπ. Γνωρίζει κανείς κάτι που μπορούμε να τον παρακαλέσουμε;
Hi everyone! We had a request from a user asking if we know of a Greek-language NVDA community or email group, etc. Is anyone aware of anything we can direct them to please?
Earlier today, Google rejected a feature request asking for the option to use DNS-over-HTTPS servers other than Google’s and Cloudflare’s in Android: issuetracker.google.com/issues…
According to Google’s own testing, DoH is more private, secure, and performant than DoT on Android. There is no reason whatsoever to limit it to a handful of Google-approved servers.
Just like with Manifest V3 in Chrome, this arbitrary restriction on what DNS servers can use the most modern technologies in Android is a clear example of Google abusing their position to campaign against blocking invasive trackers. One of the clearest uses for custom DNS servers is the ability to block privacy-invasive services like Google’s at the DNS level.
Further details & discussion on our forum: discuss.privacyguides.net/t/go…
#android #google #privacy #dns
Google rejects feature request for arbitrary DNS-over-HTTPS server support
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/331250145?pli=1#comment7 Some background, since 2022 Android has used DNS-over-HTTP/3 instead of DNS-over-TLS for its Private DNS setting, but only for two predefined servers (Google and Cloudflare).Privacy Guides Community
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RTX 5080 is 22% faster than the RTX 4080 per leaked benchmarks — falls short of the RTX 4090
At least it costs the same as its predecessor.Hassam Nasir (Tom's Hardware)
Sunfish that got sick after aquarium closed has recovered — thanks to human cutouts
A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fish tank and appeared unwell days after the facility closed last month for renovations.MARI YAMAGUCHI (AP News)
Orla Gartland - You're Not Special, Babe
New music video from Orla Gartland for current single You're Not Special, Babe taken from the forthcoming album Women on the Internet due August 20th.YouTube
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in reply to Daniel Gultsch • • •Maybe they were baffled mostly because "I arrived here by train!" wasn't the expected response to "Sir, would you like tea or coffee with breakfast?" 😉
That's a stunning picture though. Seems like you had a great trip! See you in Brussels! I'm hoping for less snow there!
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