TL;DR: “By 9:23 a.m. on Jan. 2, 2025, Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs had already earned what the average Canadian worker made in an entire year, according to a new report.”
You've been told before by your customers that having a pop at fellow privacy companies is a very ugly look. There's plenty of big tech to take pot shots at.
Your media/ marketing manager needs to reassess their approach as it's off putting.
how about pointing out the fact that neither you or Proton actually open source the backend of your services so there is still a huge amount of trust that users must hold in your projects cause they have no way to verify the code you are running on your servers...
i would love to see more privacy focused projects cooperate. How about joining forces with proton and others to make encrypted email easily available for everyone? We dont need more walled gardens...
To be honest with you, after this post, I am even more convinced to stay with Proton and use their products. Your marketing approach is very childish, and it makes me question your mental stability. This method of competition is appalling, especially since the duty is to cooperate and collaborate with each other.
Proton charges for everything, want a desktop app you have to pay for that want your deleted emails to disappear after 30 days you have to pay, both these things are included in the Tuta free account.
Whoever you are, the person running the socials, you haven't been doing a good job lately. You aren't creating a good image for your brand, and I know you won't bother giving this a thought.
@staff Hi, I haven't received a specific post created last Thursday by a bot I follow. Can you investigate why, please? the account that posted it is: @www.youtube.com.channel.ucha3dwydrqgbihbkldj3cpw and the post I haven't received starts with the following phrase, in Portuguese: Lançamentos internacionais no Brasil em Dezembro de 1980 when I go to my mastodon.social home timeline, the post isn't there as well.
So Nicolás Maduro Moros is accused by Trump of what Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, has just been pardoned from by Trump, if I understand things correctly? OK …
I've released at-spi2-core 2.59.0, now with documentation for the protocol. The documentation still needs some work, and I won't be surprised if I overlooked some formatting issues in the rendered version, but then alpha releases are alpha, or something.
Truly entering tin-pot dictator levels of absurdity when the feds will bomb a foreign country and abduct their president to answer to US criminal charges, but it's not permissible to bring our own president into court to answer US criminal charges.
Interesting Wired article especially if the mentioned app turns out to be accessible on Windows or Mac. Stop Using Your Keyboard and Start Using Handy, a Free Speech-to-Text App: It’s called Handy, and it uses AI models to accurately convert your speaking voice into text—all for free. wired.com/story/handy-free-spe…
It is accessible. I wrote a detailed overview how it works for a Polish site if you don't mind using a translator to read it tyfloswiat.pl/handy-darmowe-i-…
for over 500 years, imperial forces have humiliated, kidnapped, and murdered our local leaders to crush resistance and enable the systematic looting of our lands. gold, silver, pearls, coffee, bananas; today, oil: the main fuel of the insatiable monster they created, capitalism
despite massacres, betrayals, and setbacks, we have resisted and we will continue to resist for another 500 years if necessary. for the forest, for biodiversity, for collective life, and for our right to joy
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Rolling the dice for another Hail Mary. Please help!
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"Billionaires raised fortunes against him. The president threatened to strip his citizenship. Mainstream synagogues slandered him as the spawn of Osama bin Laden and Chairman Mao. But today, Zohran Mamdani became the first socialist mayor of New York City.
For all the hysteria, when I look at Mamdani, I didn’t see some radical departure from the past. I see him as the heir to an old and venerable Jewish tradition – that of Yiddish socialism – which helped build New York.
In some cases, the link is direct. Bruce Vladeck, a member of one of Mamdani’s transition committees, is a well-respected expert on Medicare, but for the sake of this article, his credentials matter less than his surname.
Vladeck is the grandson of Baruch Charney Vladeck, a Marxist troublemaker from the Pale of Settlement, a tract of land in the Russian empire where Jews were permitted to live at a time of rampant antisemitic oppression. Baruch showed up in New York after the failed Russian revolution of 1905 with a Cossack’s saber scars all over his face. He later became a socialist alderman and member of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia’s housing administration. Vladeck was not actually his birth name. It was rather a nom de guerre, adopted when he joined the Jewish Labor Bund, the socialist, secular and defiantly anti-Zionist movement whose slogan, “here where we live is our country,” would make an apt tagline for Mamdani’s New York."
Canada's response could have been written by the Beaverton (it's Canada's The Onion). And then the "leader" of the opposition is welcoming it, like he would welcome US tanks at the border.
When you think that things like turning off #Bluetooth as a precaution are overkill, security researchers drop a bomb like this. (long, but interesting read)
the irony is that last year Aroha declined a free #fwupd plugin (to be paid for by Google ChromeOS) because their Bluetooth devices "do not typically need firmware updates". I'm laughing now, but I'm sure lots of OEMs are pretty angry.
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Honestly anything over a year should be printed as "forever". But if you had to pick something then "292by" is easy enough to decode to 292 billion years.
you could use metric prefixes (kiloyears, more commonly known as "millennia"), but ">99999y" is probably good enough since it's unlikely the transfer will actually still be running in 100000 years
Right, the correct SI/metric unit would be Ms (megaseconds). 1000 years = 876Ms. Years are also problematic because they don't all have the same duration.
adding to the „other possible solutions“ list: use scientific notation … in all honesty, if someone is interested in the duration, longer than 1y you can work with „0.57E45“
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Ich bin auch immer noch total hyped für Gnu Taler. Bargeld ist einfach total unpraktisch, aber die US Zahlungsdienstleister Visa, Mastercard bzw Google und Apple Pay sind aus offensichtlichen Gründen sehr kritisch zu betrachten.
Gnu Taler ist einfach die perfekte Alternative zu beidem. Können wir das bitte in Zukunft auf jedem Chaos Event haben?
I used DeepL translate, and I agree with the message:
> I'm still totally hyped about Gnu Taler. Cash is just so impractical, but the US payment service providers Visa, Mastercard, Google, and Apple Pay are very controversial for obvious reasons.
> Gnu Taler is simply the perfect alternative to both. Can we please have it at every Chaos event in the future?
@radasbona GNU Taler ist keine Währung sondern ein Bezahlsystem. Open Source PayPal zum selber hosten vereinfacht gesagt. Der Eventveranstalter wäre hier also "Bank" und payment provider. Sprich du gehst am Anfang des jeweiligen Events einmal an einen zentralen Punkt und tauschst 10 Euro gegen 10 "event coins" ein. Vergleichbar mit Bons auf dem Dorf- oder Pfarrfest.
Alternative - und mir persönlich lieber - per Echtzeitüberweisung an die IBAN des Veranstalters (mit Wallet ID im Betreff)
@radasbona Also das wäre das realtische deployment wie wir es *jetzt* selber umsetzen können und wie es zB auf den @datenspuren auch schon gemacht wurde.
Unabhängig davon gibt es wohl Pläne der GLS Bank sowas auch Deutschlandweit quasi als PayPal Alternative zu deployen. Sprich du würdest dann bei der GLS Bank diese 'Bons' kaufen und könntest damit dann in online Shops die das Unterstützen damit bezahlen.
Aber im Context von einem Event ist es natürlich umsetzbarer und tatsächlich nützlich.
@datenspuren Also den Sinn von Dorffest Bons hat sich mir nie so ganz erschlossen. Warum nicht gleich Bargeld? Eine Foss App die Echtzeitüberweisungen alltagstauglich umsetzt - da bin ich voll bei dir. Die fehlt schmerzhaft in der Welt der freien Software. Danke für die Infos
So the main question is: why we still doesn't have any alternative to google, apple, samsung or huawei's payment systems? Something that will be european based, user and privacy friendly, open-source, foss, not owned by a greedy corpo etc. Especially when is actually such big "hype" on ditching all the US based services. EU commission is talking about the sovereignty, but they does totally nothing in the topic of such basic things like payments. To be honest we don't need any fancy bons.
V0.2.9 of the Natural Voice SAPI Adapter is available with the following fixes: Voice events are not triggered correctly. An x86 TtsApplication.exe is incorrectly placed in the ARM64 folder. github.com/gexgd0419/NaturalVo…
This version fixes the following issues:
Voice events are not triggered correctly (#82)
An x86 TtsApplication.exe is incorrectly placed in the ARM64 folder
此版本修复了以下问题：
语音事件不会正确触发 (#82)
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🧵 My sense of justice was triggered by #Palantir corporate gaslighting two Swiss investigative journalists on LinkedIn.
This is something most people won’t even see, but I was angry, so I looked while my kid was still asleep.
Here’s what it looks like when tech bros attack journalists while you and I have too much food over Christmas.
Two Swiss journalists spent a year filing 59 #FOIA requests to document Palantir’s 7-year campaign to sell surveillance software to Swiss authorities (army and health services in particular).
Palantir built a straw man saying they never officially participated in any RFP or formal government procurement process. And that either way, it’s not a big deal that they sometimes demo the software. So what?
What the journalists actually wrote: that Palantir engaged in 7 (seven!) years of informal contact attempts, sales conversations, and exchange meetings with Swiss officials.
Journalist Adrienne Fichter called them out in the comments: “I am still waiting for the list of wrong claims and facts in our 2 articles. We never wrote any of [what you claim].” (My edit for brevity)
The Palantir rep’s LinkedIn comment got 20 likes from his tech bro allies.
One even called the journalists part of the “bipolar ludditic left.” Casually weaponizing mental health stigma while completely misunderstanding what Luddites actually fought against (*cough* exploitation).
Meanwhile, these journalists who spent a year doing actual investigative work, who filed dozens of FOIA requests, who read through military reports and health service evaluations barely had anyone come to their defense in that same space.
They are now fending for themselves as they should, but the asymmetry is jarring.
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UK MPs have raised concerns about the government’s contracts with Palantir after an investigation published in Switzerland highlighted allegations about the suitability and security of its products.
That’s their game when they don’t have arguments that would hold in court:
Generate so much defensive legalese that refuting it becomes exhausting.
Make strawman arguments about claims that were never made.
Create the appearance of legitimacy through social proof (those 20 likes).
And do it all in spaces where the general public will never see it.
Palantir wants people to believe that seven years of talks were just demos or something.
Seven years is longer than some marriages!
The Swiss army doesn’t casually commission a 20-page internal risk assessment because someone had a coffee chat with a Palantir sales rep who opened a laptop for a demo.
Swiss health authorities don’t just write detailed evaluations with redacted conclusions because of “casual chats.”
When their systematic attempts to insert themselves into Swiss infrastructure didn’t work (the Swiss, smart people, said no 9 —nine! —times) Palantir just kept going unabated.
These researchers aren’t wealthy. They stake their professional reputations on this work. If they get it wrong, their careers suffer real consequences.
The Palantir rep has dozen other tech companies that would hire him tomorrow. If this job doesn’t work out, there’s always the next one. The stakes are fundamentally different.
Adrienne Fichter and Marguerite Meyer did rigorous investigative journalism. They documented their sources. They filed FOIA requests. They read government reports. They interviewed officials. That’s what it looks like to speak truth to power.
When Palantir published their “correction,” they didn’t back down. They pointed out *exactly* what was false about Palantir’s response.
That, right there, is the difference between journalism and PR, if anyone still needed proof.
#PostOfTheWeek (season 3): UK MPs have raised concerns about the government’s contracts with Palantir after an investigation published in Switzerland highlighted allegations about the suitability and security of its products.
The investigation by the Zurich-based research collective WAV and the Swiss online magazine Republik details Palantir’s efforts, over the course of seven years, to sell its products to Swiss federal agencies.
Palantir is a US company that provides software to integrate and analyse data scattered across different systems, such as in the health service. It also provides artificial intelligence-enabled military targeting systems.
The investigation cites an expert report, internal to the Swiss army, that assessed Palantir’s status as a US company meant there was a possibility sensitive data shared with it could be accessed by the US government and intelligence services.
Калькирование синтаксиса иврита творит чудеса. В библейском иврите огромное количество предложений начинается с союза «и» (буква Вав), который связывает повествование в единый непрерывный поток. И если это делать намеренно, сразу появляется эпичность.
I might be working up a rant about the elegant symmetry of De Morgan's laws, and how unfortunately it's wrong.
There are four laws:
1. ¬A ∧ ¬B → ¬(A ∨ B) 2. ¬(A ∨ B) → ¬A ∧ ¬B
3. ¬A ∨ ¬B → ¬(A ∧ B) 4. ¬(A ∧ B) → ¬A ∨ ¬B
Intuitionistic logic accepts 1–3, but not 4. #4 claims that if there's no proof of A and B simultaneously, it must be for one of two reasons: there are no proofs of A at all, or there are no proofs of B at all.
But that's obviously not true except in extremely limited situations. It's like saying that if a restaurant never serves meat and fish on the same day, it's because it never serves meat or because it never serves fish.
(In contrast, the converse is obviously true: a meatless restaurant certainly never serves meat on the same day as fish. And the inverse: if the restaurant never serves meat, _and_ it never serves fish, then certainly it never serves either meat or fish, and vice versa.)
The symmetry is elegant, but wrong in general.
IL has a similar asymmetry in the duality between ∃ and ∀, of which ∨ and ∧ are special cases.
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