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@jakobrosin Write it up as a word doc and then export as pdf, or do the same on pages, which is where I export all my invoices. I write them up in word 2003 (yes that one) then export to PDF on Mac. It makes smaller PDF's than #Microsoft 'Print to PDF' which for some reason, doesn't like being sent through emails. always arrives at the other end as weird garbled gark spluge. Mac's PDF's do not.


These days I write a lot of #CSharp code. And the more I write, the more I like the language. Super expressive, super convenient and pleasant both to write and to read. Kudos to #Microsoft.
the only thing I really miss is a keyword for a function start, like "function" in PHP, "func" in Go, "fn" in Rust, "fun" in Kotlin or "def" in Python.


NV Access is very pleased to announce the release of our updated Microsoft Word with NVDA training module. Available now from https://www.nvaccess.org/product/microsoft-word-training-for-nvda-ebook/ Extensively rewritten, the module incorporates the latest NVDA and Office 365 features and keystrokes. At only $32 Australian (Roughly $20 USD / 19€ - converted at checkout), it's very affordable. #Training #NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #ScreenReader #Learning #Word #Microsoft #Office


* Facebook has AI.
* Google has AI.
* Microsoft has AI.
* Reddit has AI.
* Tumblr has AI.
* WordPress services on their DOT Com has AI.

In 2024, you must assume, any service you cannot download and install yourself, will have AI and will use whatever you write to train an AI.

#Facebook #Reddit #Google #Microsoft #Tumblr #WordPress #AI


#Microsoft #popup
Où est le bouton "Ta gueule" ?

(Désolé mais maintenant que ma machine de boulot est un Windows, vous allez m'entendre râler.)


I don't like that Microsoft made PowerShell commandlet called "curl", because it is not the curl. It's some fake script that fetches URI.

One big problem is troubleshooting. Ask somebody to use Curl with Windows and when they type curl to the command line... And minutes later, wait? What are you using exactly, yes, it's the impostor curl provided by Microsoft, you need the REAL curl.

#Curl #Microsoft


I’m not sure who’s to blame in the #EU for giving up to the lobbying efforts of #Apple and #Microsoft (I can’t think of anything short of either public official corruption or macroscopic incompetence behind the last minute partial reversal of the #DMA definition of “gatekeeper” for the two most valuable companies in the world), but these are some consequences of this decision:

  1. If Apple isn’t labelled as a gatekeeper when it comes to #iMessage (an app used by 1.3B people), then they won’t have to comply and open up their walled garden to 3rd-party clients - while, for example, Messenger and WhatsApp will have to comply, despite having similar numbers of users.
  2. If Microsoft isn’t labelled as a gatekeeper when it comes to #Edge (a piece of software installed as the default browser on an OS used by at least 1.5B people), then they’ll be free to keep rewriting https:// URLs as microsoft-edge:https:// just for the sake of intercepting everything and breaking compatibility, they’ll no longer have to provide browser selection pop-ups on fresh Windows installations, and they can keep opening all the web views and PWA on Windows devices in their own browser without providing alternatives - while, for example, Chrome and Safari will have to comply.

Shame on the EU for bending to them. They have just lost a huge chunk of credibility, and nobody should trust them the next time that they say that they want to uphold the same principles to everyone. Shame on these companies and on their lobbying efforts. Shame on everybody who still uses their products and gives them so much undeserved leverage.

The DMA and the “gatekeeper” definition was supposed to be the proof that these companies are now run by responsible adults. Being a “gatekeeper” is the acknowledgment that you are running platforms used by billions, and with great power comes great responsibility - towards society, towards regulators, towards the rules of the open market, towards your own competitors.

My employer might be included on the list soon as well, and I’m more than happy to comply. Large tech companies like ours have enjoyed lavish profits and outrageous market shares and ignored anti-competition laws for too long: now it’s time to prove that we’re all grown ups who want to play by the rules.

Instead, Apple and Microsoft have unleashed their overpaid legal counsels and lobbying crews, who have engaged in a pathetic dance to gaslight Brussels officials, and force them to say that one of the largest messaging platforms and one of the most used browsers in the world, run by the two companies with the highest evaluations in the world, for some reason are not expected to play by the rules written for everyone else.

Shame on them, and shame on the childish sociopaths who run them.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/14/apple_microsoft_dma_exemptions


Okay, #Outlook, #MicrosoftOutlook, #Hotmail, whatever... isn't working correctly on #Thunderbird, #KMail, or #Vivaldi email clients. I haven't changed the settings. I'm starting to think it's #Microsoft messing with non-Microsoft email clients. I really need to dump my old Hotmail addresses, this is a complete pain.


#DeMicrosofting, #DeleteMicrosoft & #Microsoft alternatives picks of the day:

➡️ @nextcloud - FOSS self-hosted personal & business clouds

➡️ @Jami - FOSS Skype-style peer-to-peer video/voice calling app

➡️ @forgejo - Free open source self-hostable software forge, forked from Gitea

➡️ @Codeberg - Non-profit hosting service for FOSS projects, developing Forgejo

➡️ @LibreOfficeEs - Spanish-language user group for LibreOffice

➡️ @LaMouetteODF - French-language user group for LibreOffice

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#DeMicrosofting, #DeleteMicrosoft & #Microsoft alternatives picks of the day:

➡️ @libreoffice - Free open source office suite

➡️ @cryptpad - Privacy-focused collaborative online office suite

➡️ @CollaboraOffice (software) & @collabora (developers) - Online fork of LibreOffice aimed at businesses, including long term support

➡️ @ONLYOFFICE - FOSS online office suite, paid hosting or free self-hosting

➡️ @thunderbird@mastodon.online (main) & @thunderbird@tilvids.com (videos) - FOSS email software & comms suite

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I can't contact #Microsoft's #Disability helpdesk on #BeMyEyes. so what's happening is, when i tap on contact microsoft, the new intigrated #BeMyAI tries to help. and then, there is a call Microsoft button there in case the AI is unable to help. when I tapped on that button, it is not connecting to Microsoft, it is connecting me to a regular sighted volunteer. #Blind #Blindness #Accessibility


Man, I'm absolutely in love with @libreoffice. Initially, I used OpenOffice because I needed a free alternative to #Microsoft Office but since then, I've become very conscious of my privacy and the myriad benefits of #FOSS.

It wasn't until 2022 that I made the switch from OpenOffice to LibreOffice and at this point, I genuinely see ZERO reason to use #Office365. Why on earth would I pay a subscription for proprietary software when I can use an outstanding FOSS office suite that respects my rights and allows me to support them through donations, rather than predatory subscription plans?

It's awesome to me that free/libre open source software is at that point, now, where the alternatives are equal to, if not better than their proprietary competitors. In general, the #libre movement in computing is making for a much more hopeful digital future as big tech and proprietary software developers get worse and worse. Long live free software!


Shifting left to get accessibility right at Microsoft https://www.microsoft.com/insidetrack/blog/shifting-left-to-get-accessibility-right-at-microsoft/ #a11y #accessibility #microsoft


Kurzer Kommentar von FrauTux zum Thema #O365 in einer Behörde:
»Die Bundesagentur für Arbeit liebt O365 und wir sind alle drin« 👇

https://www.kuketz-forum.de/t/kommentar-die-bundesagentur-fuer-arbeit-liebt-o365-und-wir-sind-alle-drin/6222

#microsoft #datenschutz #dsgvo #ttdsg #verantwortungslosigkeit


Resolved: Microsoft Outlook Blocking All Email from @tutanota.com Domain as Spam.

https://tuta.com/blog/outlook-falsely-marks-tutanota-emails-as-junk/

This is just another example of how much power Microsoft has. But sometimes I'm not sure they really know what they're doing.

Anyway, dealing with Windows email users (businesses and individuals) can be a nightmare.

If you plan on using your own email server, sooner or later you'll be playing this game too.

#microsoft #outlook #hotmail #email #spam @Tutanota


⚡ For three weeks #Microsoft was sending all tutanota.com emails to spam in #Outlook.

You helped #spread the word so suddenly #Microsoft was able to fix this within one day! 💪

Thank you! 🙏
https://tuta.com/blog/outlook-falsely-marks-tutanota-emails-as-junk


sadly that is nothing new.

#Microsoft literally weaponizes it's position as "#TooBigToFail" #eMail #provider and comstantly make up excuses like "no #SPF / #DKIM / #DMARC records" when they themselves don't comply with it.

Consider involving all #regulators you can ranging from #FCC to @EU_Commission to @BNetzA to forve Microsoft to stop this shite...


The new #Outlook is good... for 766 third parties that track you.

What do you do to stop trackers dead?

Plus, Outlook shares your emails, contacts and passwords with its US servers. So you better watch out! 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/outlook-shares-passwords-with-microsoft

#microsoft #privacy #outlook


Edit2: Solved! Thanks everyone!
#Blind #Microsoft #excel users and others who, for whatever reason, only use the keyboard, NOT THE MOUSE: How the hell do I tell Excell to continue a pattern in a column without selecting it and clicking on the bottom left side of the screen or whatever?
Let's say I have a column with 1 in A1, 2 in A2, 3 in A3, so forth, and want that to go on for 150 cells or so. How the hell do I do it? Because I know I used to know, but I cannot find it.
It's not control+d. That just fills the whole column with 1's. It's not copy-paste; that does adjust properly for formulas, but for this, it doesn't. There is surely an option somewhere in the menus, but I cannot find it.
Alternatively, I'd also be happy to learn of ways to do this in #OpenOffice #Calc, so long as they are keyboard-only and accessible. LibreOffice doesn't work all that well here, at least Writer doesn't, but I could double-check if that extends to other programs.
#AskFedi #AskMastodon #ScreemReader

Edit: a couple folks suggested using formulas for this, adding so the first cell would be 1, the second A1 +1, etc. That works quite well for most use cases! It would mean the order of the numbers would stay the same when reordering the table though, so if I was using this to autocomplete a list of years, then sold by the comumn Income ... bam, the income of each year's not right anymore.
Also suggested was Home>Fill>Series. I do not see a Series option in the Fill menu at all, Bewilderingly. I'll try to switch my language to English to see if that's the issue, but I pressed all the things, so pretty sure it's not there for me in Office 365. Could someone with that version check whether it works for them?
Edit2: I figured out how to get to the series option! Turns out it was there, I just didn't realise I had to select the right type of series. :ms_facepalm: For those curious, for the Slovenian version, that's Alt +N, FI, V, Enter.


@sascha @heluecht @one

Ganz genau... wenn jede Implementation beliebig von der Empfehlung (Recommendation) abweicht, kann man sich ein Standardprotokoll auch sparen... ;-)

Ernsthaft, beliebig neue Felder zu nutzen, mag vereinzelt 'ne nette Idee sein, bringt aber zwangsläufig Probleme in der Kommunikation mit sich...

Vergleiche mal die Art, wie #Microsoft & Co. z.B. den E-Mail-Standard unterlaufen... :-(


Do you trust #Microsoft? Because #Outlook has a real scare for you. 😱

Read more on this 🚩 breaking story! 👇

Emails, Contacts, and Passwords - Oh My! New Outlook Overshares with Microsoft:
https://tuta.com/blog/outlook-shares-passwords-with-microsoft


Wer nicht möchte, dass seine E-Mail-Zugangsdaten inklusive E-Mails an Microsoft abfließen, sollte ein alternatives E-Mail-Programm verwenden. Sofern "Neues Outlook" bereits im Einsatz ist, sollte das Konto gelöscht und anschließend die Zugangsdaten geändert werden. Eine mögliche Alternative: Thunderbird. 👇

https://www.thunderbird.net/de/

#microsoft #thunderbird #datenschutz #sicherheit #outlook


Shocking but not surprising: New #Microsoft #Outlook is phishing **your mail account credentials** without telling you, all it takes is try it out once. So, don't.
As always, better go with FOSS: @thunderbird

Usually phishing comes from shady people that need to jump through some hoops to try and get you. #Microsoft just thinks they can rob you in broad daylight.. crazy.

https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-krallt-sich-Zugangsdaten-Achtung-vorm-neuen-Outlook-9357691.html


Und täglich grüßt das Murmeltier: »Das neue kostenlose Outlook ersetzt Mail in Windows, später auch das klassische Outlook. Es schickt geheime Zugangsdaten an Microsoft.«

Macht die Outlook-Version für Android übrigens ebenso - schon seit Jahren.

https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-krallt-sich-Zugangsdaten-Achtung-vorm-neuen-Outlook-9357691.html

#microsoft #spionage #tracking #datenschutz


Petition der Mozilla Foundation an #Microsoft:

"Wir haben 4 Jurist*innen, 3 Datenschutzexpert*innen und 2 Aktivist*innen beauftragt, den neuen Servicevertrag von Microsoft unter die Lupe zu nehmen. Keinem der Profis gelang es, dem Dokument zu entnehmen, ob Microsoft plant, Ihre persönlichen Daten – darunter Audio- und Videodaten, Chatprotokolle und Dateianhänge aus 130 Produkten wie Office, Skype, Teams und Xbox – zum Training seiner KI-Modelle zu nutzen.

Wenn 9 Datenschutzexpert*innen nicht verstehen, wie Microsoft Ihre Daten nutzen wird – wie sollen Normalverbraucher*innen da durchblicken? Wahrscheinlich gar nicht. Deshalb fordern wir Microsoft auf, Klartext zu reden, ob das Unternehmen persönliche Daten zu KI-Trainingszwecken einsetzt."

https://foundation.mozilla.org/de/campaigns/microsoft-ai/


Here's a stark reminder that any #backdoor is a #vulnerability:

"China-based hackers used a stolen sign-in key" to hack into US government's #Microsoft email accounts.

That's why we at Tutanota fight for strong encryption - without any backdoor. 🔒

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/12/politics/china-based-hackers-us-government-email-intl-hnk/index.html


#Microsoft wants to move #Windows fully to the cloud.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/27/23775117/microsoft-windows-11-cloud-consumer-strategy

Don't let them force you to log on to their servers to monitor and control you every time you need your computer.

Take back your desktop! Use Plasma!

https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/


Quick FYI 🏁 🏎️

Prior to #GoDaddy killing my #POP #Email client access on June 2 as part of #Microsoft's mandate to force users onto its #Exchange protocol, I switched from #Outlook 2016 to #Thunderbird 114 Beta (which still connects w/ #POP3 + #OAuth2 - unsure if it's a glitch, but it works)

Thunderbird 114 Beta Portable (it's the version I'm using)
https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable/test

Since Thunderbird team is moving towards its new #Supernova #UI for Thunderbird 115, there's a mixture of old & new menus


So, if you're running #microsoft #edge and you've been wondering why all of a sudden web links you paste into slack are broken as all get out, this is why:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/improved-copy-and-paste-of-urls-in-microsoft-edge-d3bd3956-603a-0033-1fbc-9588a30645b4

Thank god you can turn it off in settings.


Is it groovy that #Microsoft has such an engaged #accessibility team? Yup. Is it a downer that they continue to post on a platform that fired its entire accessibility team and killed off the third-party accessibility tools, while ignoring this one? Hell yup. So if you missed it, here’s their #GAAD blog post. https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2023/05/18/global-accessibility-awareness-day-generative-ai/


It's a step forward.

Why does it seem like it's only Google's #Spyware that gets something resembling appropriate regulations? When are they going to start enforcing anti-spyware legislation on #Disney, #Apple, and #Microsoft ? #BanDRM


Wer es immer noch nicht glaubt: eine mit Passwort versehene ZIP Datei darf man nicht als "sicher verschlüsselt" betrachten! Schon gar nicht in der #Microsoft #Cloud

Malware detected: Microsoft-Cloud hebelt ZIP-Passwortschutz aus
https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/it-sicherheit/malware-detected-microsoft-cloud-hebelt-zip-passwortschutz-aus-274824.html


FREUNDLICHE ERINERRUNG

Microsoft365 ist nicht datenschutzkonform einsetzbar.

Denkt bitte daran, wenn Ihr noch MS365 an der Schule einsetzt oder den Einsatz sogar noch ausweiten wollt, dass Ihr dann trotz besseren Wissens die SuS einer Dauerüberwachung durch einen der größten Monopolisten aussetzt.

Hört auf, MS365 an Schulen zu benutzen.

Siehe Beschluss der Datenschutzkonferenz vom November 2022:
https://www.datenschutzkonferenz-online.de/media/dskb/2022_24_11_festlegung_MS365_zusammenfassung.pdf

#FediLZ #MS365 #Microsoft #Office #Office365 #DSK #Datenschutz


Microsoft is rewriting parts of GDI in Rust, as evidenced by a new file called "win32kbase_rs.sys" which contains a complete reimplementation of the REGION type in rust, and a vive ID called "Rust_GDI_REGION".

#rust #rustlang #microsoft #windows


Es ist ja nicht so, dass wir nicht schon länger vom Vendor-Lock-In gewarnt hätten. Nun hat Microsoft ihren Cloud-Kunden am 1. April ganz unironisch ein Preiserhöhung-Ei gelegt.

«EU-Cloud-Wettbewerber: Microsofts Preissteigerungen reichen an Erpressung»

🥚 https://www.heise.de/news/EU-Cloud-Wettbewerber-Microsofts-Preissteigerungen-reichen-an-Erpressung-8848157.html

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#microsoft #cloud #vendorlockin #eu #erpressung #IToldYouSo


Why would you buy bloated, overpriced, office software from #Microsoft when you can have the excellent #LibreOffice? It's easy to convert files if necessary.


No more custom domains in #Microsoft #Outlook! 😱

No worries, we've got you covered. 😉

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/microsoft-outlook-create-custom-domain-email-address