Notices by Andrew Bartlett (abartlet@mastodon.nzoss.nz)

@libreoffice It is even worse than that, I had a conversation with a fellow parishioner over a morning tea where he extolled moving to OpenOffice.

On discussion about the security and release issues with AOO, he clarified that yes, he had moved to LibreOffice but still thought of it as OpenOffice.

The moribund AOO sadly continues to cause active harm to users :-(

@GossiTheDog

They say:

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The new CDN is path-compatible with those servers. It’s only the domain that needs to change.

Why can't they just use a CNAME or a server that simply replies with a 301 redirect?

Seems strange to me, but I am not a web dev.

@feld @micahflee For an OS of an era before full disk encryption what should it have been encrypted with?

@blogdiva @aredridel Owner operator truck drivers, pre-Uber taxi owners are a particularly nasty case.

Chained to the truck to pay off the loan.

@publictorsten

Also happened in Australia to an MP:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-01/georgie-purcell-ai-image-nine-news-apology-digital-ethics/103408440

@gemelliz

In mainstream press:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-if-reelected-wont-have-to-vote-fixed-1235069397/

Video: https://x.com/Acyn/status/1817007890496102490

Just wow!

@mcc @patricus @affine

There is a FORTRAN colouring book:
https://www2.seas.gwu.edu/~kaufman1/FortranColoringBook/ColoringBkCover.html

@GossiTheDog I wonder if https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/copilot-plus-pcs#shop explains the inability to walk this back.

It is one thing to walk it back after a pre launch preview and an insider build, but to do so after a panel of hardware vendors have built production laptops is another thing entirely.

I also wonder if the at edge dragnet is part of trying to do safer, personalised AI, like we would want, and a competitive advantage compared to Google, but which shows that would never be safe either.

@w7voa

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/nyregion/letitia-james-trump-fine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LU0.-h4K.52zv79x1q8TY&smid=url-share

@forteller I can highly recommend these for the backpack pannier:

https://www.basil.com/en/ever-green-bicycle-daypack-beige.html

We got two and they were well liked before the kids abandoned bikes for kick scooters.

@feld This is why the plan to put h2 into natural gas pipelines as a way to preserve that infrastructure is just plain silly.

Let alone the interoperability issue of appliances expecting methane but getting hydrogen instead. Can't do a flag day on a whole town!