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@Trivial Einstein I have MS Office 365 strictly because it gives me and 5 of my family members 1 TB of backup space. I have tried to force myself to use MS Office (via WUI). It is just to obscure. I prefer LibreOffice and my Open Source Tools.
I have used Gnu/Linux as my Daily Driver for over 30 years so I am used to not relying on MS products. Today I use Fedora 41 on my laptop, Arch on my Workstation and use Rocky 9 on my VPS. I have worked with Windows systems at work, and for friends though Windows is just not reliable enough for day to day use in my opinion.
@queerthoughts not that I've been able to spot.
Although on Windows (work pc) it's got this weird thing going on where if you're in dark mode on your pc, it won't correctly render some in-doc elements and some stuff will literally just be invisible. Switching to a light theme manually doesn't fix all of it either and despite following online guides I can't get some of it to go into light mode at all.
No such issues on Linux, where I'm also using a system-wide dark theme.
@Luna @Trivial Einstein No, it will not force any AI on you and LibreOffice has no intention at this time to add AI support to LibreOffice.
There are community projects that would allow you to use AI if you wanted to. Most importantly locally hosted AI such as Ollama or Llama.cpp so your information is not being shared with a corporation.
Be careful out there.
wildhunt.org/2025/02/concerns-…
Concerns Over Targeting of Pagan Community in Pickens, SC
Reports indicate that a Christian church allegedly harassed a Wiccan vendor, sparking community backlash in support of both the vendor and the market. The church now frames this response as an act of Christian persecution.Manny Moreno (The Wild Hunt)
@nini
It's not even that it is AI #slop, but that it takes an idea I think most folks here already agree with, and tries to present it with fake bona fides.
The implication is that someone cared enough to pay to put up a billboard on a public place. Social proof.
The message itself could have just been text, posted, even as a big image.
But whoever the original creator was chose to present it this way for more impact.
I'll agree with the point, but not the delivery
/usr/bin/python), and then as you go installing some packages (i.e. on the #AUR if you're on #ArchLinux) which will then install some Python libraries using it, and then you start using something like #Conda or #Miniconda whereby subsequent package installations or updates may be installing these libraries on the Conda environment (i.e. ~/miniconda3/python) and not the system, so there's some overlap there or so? I'm wondering what's the best way of moving forward from this point - esp since sometime ago, it's no longer possible to raw pip install <package> anymore for wtv reason.
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Algorithms are breaking how we think
This surely won't make me seem like a crank.Further watching:@HGModernism on addiction to scrolling and the Skinner box mechanism:https://www.youtube.com/wat...YouTube
@TechConnectify@mas.to kWh: (1000 (J/s))/(3600*s)
kWh is almost as ugly as BTU. Please measure energy in Joules, like most of the world does.
"But I've been indulging in some of the alternatives, like Mastodon and, lately, BlueSky... "
Glad I found ya!
I was intrigued that, instead of Technology Connections, the handle here was / is "techconnectify"
I'm tired of the cold making my joints hurt. But most of all I'm sick of Hitler II destroying our country. I'm pulling out with the magical party bus and partying like it's 1999. Picking up @Pawpower, then moving onto get @Skepticat and @PraiseCheese then we're headed East to get @CoachMark.
Hop on since it's a magical bus all is welcome.
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Amazon has started its warehouse shutdown as it exits Québec 
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Amazon a entamé la fermeture de ses entrepôts afin de quitter le Québec
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Amazon starts closing Quebec warehouses as union president calls for boycott
The union that represents workers at what was Canada’s only unionized Amazon warehouse says the online retail giant has begun shutting down its seven facilities in Quebec this week, putting thousands of employees out of work.Cole Fortner (CityNews Montreal)
The Amazon workers’ union is trying to overturn the decision to close their warehouses in the Administrative Labour Tribunal (TAT) and get one year salary as compensation.
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Le syndicat des travailleurs d’Amaxon essaie de faire annuler la décision de fermer leurs entrepôts devant le Tribunal administratif du Travail (TAT) et d’obtenir un an de salaire en guise de compensation.
lapresse.ca/affaires/entrepris…
Quebec labour group seeks to overturn Amazon decision to close Quebec warehouses
Amazon announced in January that it was closing the warehouses in Quebec, laying off almost 2,000 permanent workers.News Staff (CityNews Toronto)
The first day of hearings in the Amazon warehouse closure case in front of Québec’s Administrative Labour Tribunal (TAT) was today.
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La première journée des audiences dans l’affaire de la fermeture des entrepôts d’Amazon a eu lieu aujourd’hui devant le Tribunal administratif du Travail (TAT) du Québec
lapresse.ca/affaires/entrepris…
Amazon, worker union before Quebec labour tribunal over warehouse closures
MONTREAL - A Quebec labour tribunal has begun hearing a case against Amazon over the e-commerce giant's closure in January of seven warehouses in the province.thecanadianpressnews.ca
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JavaScript is awesome. You can do so much with it, from adding interactivity and animations to a website, to writing programs and scripts with Node. It's pretty easy to learn (in the scheme of programming languages) and very powerful.
People love to hate on JS. It can be used to track people around the web. It has some technical idiosyncracies (that's gotten a lot better in the last 20 years though). It can make websites slower in some circumstances. For the most part, these are problems caused by bad development practices, which you do not necessarily have to follow.
By no means do you need JS to make great websites, but it absolutely can take them to the next level. Add this powerful tool to your toolbox and learn JavaScript!
@Senna 🌷 When JavaScript started out it was a little more than a few event handlers to add some bells and whistles to your site, and perhaps avoid some round trips to the server by validating forms. It has grown up into a full fledged programming language. I have always enjoyed JavaScript. The few things I wish we had held onto is. No Cross Domain Scripting. This may seem like a huge limitation though it really is not. Cross Domain Scripting is at the heart of what most people hate about the web. Personally, I will not even use a CDN. I simply have no reason to.
Node does make it great, that you can use the same language frontend and backend. Helps in the learning curve for lots of developers. There is a reason why JavaScript is the most popular language in world today. Unfortunately it seems some developers have taken to just gluing together some frameworks and libraries and not bother to learn how to program at all. They have no idea what they are missing.
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I want to learn! Do you have any good resources to learn from where I can set up a good foundation for a variety of projects?
I have experience in intermediate C# programming, and have dipped my toes into JS on at least 10 separate occasions. It seems like every javascript library has some sort of idomatic way of doing things and enough syntactic sugar to make it almost a derivative of the lanugage. Typescript is its own can of worms but many of the open source projects I'd like to contribue to use it. I've been told "vanilla javascript" can make it all seem more approachable but practically every project that I want to work on seems to use a library of some kind.
It all seems very mystifying 😩
@Felix 🐊 @Senna 🌷 Definitely everything that @Senna 🌷 mentioned and I would also recommend JavaScript The Good Part by Douglas Crockford. It is an older book though still relevant and not at all that expensive.
JavaScript The Good Parts @ Thrift Books
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Inaccurate tweets about Ukraine got community noted. Musk is now changing the system.
State media does its thing. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-says-hel…
Elon Musk Says He'll 'Fix' Community Notes on X After It Disagreed With Him
The billionaire has a history of manipulating X to fit his far-right worldview.Matt Novak (Gizmodo)
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1933 Enabling Act vs 2025 Executive Order:
Key Parallels
Language and Justification
1933 Enabling Act
"Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich"b
"Streamlining government for efficiency"
"Constitutional reform for the people"
"Unified leadership"
2025 Executive Order
"Restoring Democracy and
Accountability"
"Ensuring a Government that Answers to the People"
"Restoring Constitutional governance"
"Single President vested with executive
power!
Actual Effects
1933 Changes
Centralized power in Chancellor's office
Eliminated independent state powers
Presented as temporary measure
Used existing legal framework
Claimed democratic legitimacy
2025 Changes
Centralizes power in President's office
Eliminates independent agency powers
Presented as constitutional restoration
Uses existing legal framework
Claims democratic accountability](https://friendica.rogueproject.org/photo/preview/640/63632 "[table that cannot be rendered as clearly in text only]
1933 Enabling Act vs 2025 Executive Order:
Key Parallels
Language and Justification
1933 Enabling Act
\"Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich\"b
\"Streamlining government for efficiency\"
\"Constitutional reform for the people\"
\"Unified leadership\"
2025 Executive Order
\"Restoring Democracy and
Accountability\"
\"Ensuring a Government that Answers to the People\"
\"Restoring Constitutional governance\"
\"Single President vested with executive
power!
Actual Effects
1933 Changes
Centralized power in Chancellor's office
Eliminated independent state powers
Presented as temporary measure
Used existing legal framework
Claimed democratic legitimacy
2025 Changes
Centralizes power in President's office
Eliminates independent agency powers
Presented as constitutional restoration
Uses existing legal framework
Claims democratic accountability")
"Joe Rogan has lost his crown of having the #1 podcast—and his fans are not happy about it.
The Joe Rogan Experience was knocked from its top spot by anti-Trump show The MeidasTouch Podcast, outpacing Rogan by downloads and views last month, according to Podscribe, a podcast ranker."
thedailybeast.com/joe-rogan-re…
Joe Rogan Fans Respond After He Loses Top Podcast Spot
The podcaster’s fans hit back after he lost his #1 ranking to an anti-Trump podcast.Amethyst Martinez (The Daily Beast)
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Slept way better last night, thankfully. Still got a hellish sore throat and general lurgi this morning. A blend of paracetamol, ibuprofen, and lemon, ginger, and honey drink seems appropriate!
#MedicalScienceAndNaturalRemediesAreNotEnemies!
Thanks, that's so nice.
It's shown all these wild colors for more than 2 hours, and absolutely nothing has reached the ground.
I think it's waiting until we actually have to leave... 😀
Me: “Actually, advertising doesn’t work on me! I’m immune to that nonsense!”
(Sees a gif of E.T. lifting his glowing finger)
Me: (Somehow already driving to the grocery store to buy Reese’s Pieces.)
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"The Gainesville Intermediate School was aware Carranza was being bullied and mocked by students who told the young girl she would be left alone when her parents got deported. It had gotten so aggressive, Carranza was meeting with a school counselor multiple times a week. Her family, however, was never notified."
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11-Year-Old Texas Girl Bullied Over Family's Immigration Status Takes Her Own Life
A sixth grade girl took her life after classmates bullied her over her family's immigration status and threatened to contact ICE to deport her parents.Taylor Odisho (Latin Times)
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Other school workers and administrators almost certainly knew this was happening and are probably the ones who set her up with counselor services in the first place, so it wasn't "on" the counselor to "tell" them. (This is, in part, an illustration of how abuse is "erased" by reframing it as a "mental health issue" of the victim.)
Yes every adult in the school failed her. I simply don't see "telling the victim's parents without the victim's consent" as something that could have fixed this.
(What could the parents have done? Anything the parents could have done about the bullies, other adults *also* could have done about the bullies. Other adults in the school could also have a conversation with her about why it might be a good idea to tell her parents - while ultimately trusting her to make that call as the person who knew her family/living situation best.)
It was a complex job, but nothing got to me like cases of harassment: usually sexual harassment, but a few were rooted in gender, race, and ethnicity
I can still see the eyes of every single victim who came ito my office thinking they were alone and powerless.
Last year I found myself needing to have some 10000 pictures automatically tagged.
I found that all existing software either cost a silly amount of money, required a subscription, and/or was cloud based.
So I decided to write an #opensource App running on the local machine, free for everyone to use. Here it is.
It works like a charm with #darktable 😊
(divis.io is the company I work for and has kindly supported me in this endeavour)
GitHub - DIVISIO-AI/stag: An AI based automatic image tagger
An AI based automatic image tagger. Contribute to DIVISIO-AI/stag development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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MathJax is installed
Mathjax: $$x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}.$$
Produces: $$x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}.$$
Leonard Peltier Left Prison on Tuesday Morning
Censored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
"Since getting re-elected in Nov., Trump has repeatedly called for Canada to join the US as the 51st state but has said he wants to use economic, not military force, to make that happen"
“After we destroy their economy their will to resist will erode. We will then march in unopposed & deliver Canada to its rightful place as a territory of the U.S. with no political representation.”
-- US right-wing influencer Tim Pool, on X, in a post that got 2.2 mill. views.
The Tyee:
thetyee.ca/News/2025/02/12/Onl…
The Online Warriors Calling for a Violent Invasion of Canada | The Tyee
As Canadian sovereignty is undermined and an election approaches, politicians are calling for an investigation of X.Jen St. Denis (The Tyee)
@Pawpower 🙏thank you.
And we'll try to be angry at your electeds, not you. ❤ Hang in there.
Send good vibes for our upcoming elections 😀 🤞
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