Hackers On Planet Earth: Are you interested in going to HOPE_16 this summer? Through the month of April, our friends @2600 are donating 10% of HOPE ticket sales to EFF! store.2600.com/products/ticket…
Tickets to HOPE_16 are now available! Our last conference was so much fun, we've decided to start having them every year! HOPE_16 will take place once more on the campus of St. John's University in Queens, New York City.
#Qatar is an Islamic country. There are many mosques all over the country and many offer tours for non-Muslims outside prayer times. Have you ever taken a #mosque #tour ? backpackandsnorkel.com/Qatar/D…
Today we will explore attractions on the outskirts of Doha on our self-guided tour of Qatar. We provide detailed information and the best things to see and we show lots of photos so you know what you can expect.
NEW: CTV has cancelled an election fact-checking segment on their morning show in response to political pressure from the Conservative Party.
Sebastian Skamski, a senior campaign official for Mr #Poilievre denounced CTV News, saying their guest was lying directly to viewers & suggested that CTV News is working to help elect Liberals.
Despite Mr Skamski offering no evidence to support his claims, the network folded & cancelled the segment.
Quick reminder: Le Pen wasn't found guilty because the French courts hate democracy. She was found guilty because she broke the fucking law. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Seen outside a local hospital: an upside-down American flag. Traditionally, it's a distress sign, though per npr.org/2024/06/03/nx-s1-49875… it’s regularly been used as a political statement by both right and left. Right now, given the clown in charge of public health in the US, it seems entirely appropriate for a hospital to be displaying it.
"This is an American moral moment. ..where do we stand for health care? Where do we stand for Social Security? Where do we stand for VA benefits? Where do we stand for our American neighbor? When the call & commandment of every faith in our land is to love your neighbor. What's the quality of our love America? Now's the time to get angry, but let that anger fuel you. Now's your time to get scared for what's happening to your neighbors & let that fear bring about your courage. #CoryBooker
Dozens of teachers and parents interrupted a school board meeting last Tuesday to demand the Minneapolis Public Schools not cut special education department staff or funding. [Video]
Minneapolis, MN — Dozens of teachers and parents interrupted a school board meeting to demand the Minneapolis Public Schools not cut special education department staff or funding.
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) has taken the Senate floor and is speaking as long as he is physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed a...
“These laws are torturing women, there’s no other way to put it. It is absolutely horrible having to try to help patients get care when the state has barred us from using our best medical judgment.” texasobserver.org/republican-a…
Too late for many pregnant Texans, lawmakers might finally clarify exceptions to the state’s deadly bans—but advocates fear the current bills could also pose a new threat.
#Trump's bullying is apparently working against #India.
#Reuters: "India will scrap a tax of 6% on digital #advertisements online, easing costs for U.S. tech giants such as #Google, #Meta and #Amazon as a way of soothing U.S. trade concerns."
Trump foreign policy in a nutshell: Force our traditional allies to make common cause with our longtime adversaries. The common cause being: Exclude and diminish the United States.
The world doesn't need us, they're about to discover. Even Canada! Imagine turning Canada into the enemy. universeodon.com/@georgetakei/…
“The U.S. government has taken the view that they have the ability to search your devices without a warrant and without suspicion under what’s known as the border search exception to the Fourth Amendment,” EFF’s Saira Hussain told @NBCNews. nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-i…
@NBCNews crazy world we live in. High time for Europe to abolish the EU-US Privacy Shield and take matters into our own hands. #DefundBigTech who enable these despicable practices and have brought upon an age of #DigitalSerfdom.
This is how authority and hierarchy works, and how those "democratically acting officers" of one day can get the green light to become Gestapo the next.
"I am just doing my job, pushing people right into the gas chamber"
Today, Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced he would be placing a hold on the nomination of Edward Martin to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, citing Mr.
@SpaceLifeForm Being a soccer fan, I can't watch any other American sports because they are too damn slow because there is so many breaks between any kind of activity.
The 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, limits presidents to two terms. It was a direct response to FDR serving four terms and aimed to prevent a president from becoming too powerful or too much like a king.
No president is supposed to serve more than two full terms. That rule became part of the US Constitution in 1951, after President Franklin D. Roosevelt died.
Fellow Americans: clearly, the Trump regime is out to make millions of American sick and poor and thus more docile in the face of a Fascist federal government. We have to do all we can to thwart this vile strategy. If you can, please go to a Hands Off protest this coming Saturday, 4/5. Info and locations at handsoff2025.com/about.
A hacker apparently breached Samsung customer support in Germany by exploiting an internal password that hadn't been changed in four years: pcmag.com/news/samsung-custome…
A hacker breaches Samsung customer support by exploiting an internal password that hadn't been changed in four years, despite it appearing in a database of compromised credentials.
For those wondering what good #CoryBooker’s 19+ hour (and counting) #Senate speech will do….not only is it being broadcast live by major news and media outlets (AP, MSNBC, CBS, etc.), but even my conservative right-leaning crappy local tv station has taken note. This station rarely pushes back on trump, and usually sugarcoats everything he does. Most people in my area either eagerly accept RW lies or are largely uninformed. This article is on the main page, so it’s a big deal imo.
I wanted to quickly explain why school kids should learn markdown instead of MS Office, and ended up writing a major Epos on Markdown vs obsolete writing formats:
I really appreciate the critique of word, and the appeal to focused tools. I think a case can be made for a *very* minimal subset of markdown, but one of the challenges is that things can get out of hand very quickly when people start adding to the limited core functionality. You deal with this in the treatment of formats, but I think it's important to observe that markdown becomes a format whether we like it or not when it escapes a single system.
in my experience (in particular, implementing and improving a CMS whose primary editing interface was markdown [not my idea] for Condé Nast writers and editors), beyond the most basic concepts like bold and italic, non-technical people really struggle with markdown.
html is hard to learn. Markdown is slightly easier, but e.g., link syntax is decidedly not obvious. Once we start introducing more complicated syntaxes, it goes sideways into a realm of total non-comprehension very quickly.
I think this is all in-line with your argument, but I guess I would add that it's maybe worth adding a giant warning sign that while limited, situated markdown can be great, it shouldn't be put in load-bearing situations that it's unsuited for.
@blaine markdown doesn't even have a defined syntax for tables. It's way limited. A lot of comments here have recommended RST as a better alternative —personally I would go with AsciiDoc(tor). The same principles of simplicity and “structure first, layout after” apply, but you actually get a wide range of technically useful features at hand
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in reply to Lord Kusuriya • • •Marten Weasel would be a great name for a Rock Band.
Why are the power cables not buried?