Notices by Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷 (larsmb@mastodon.online), page 5

I just tried to help a friend and found this - wait what, Save As a PDF in MS Office on your local computer, it ... funnels your local document through their cloud service? 🤯

Sure, no data leak at all.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/office-for-mac-saving-as-pdf-requires-internet/a14c45c6-c524-4e77-9f01-5fc62ded14cb

#Microsoft #WTF #LibreOffice

@thomasfuchs A lot of it boils down to "Browsers are a bad business model".
Given how browsers however are a, if not the, single most crucial way how people interact with the open world, this seems like it should be funded by society at large as a public good.

Is there a way to turn off the "helpful" correction of hashtags?

On desktop, it tends to destroy the capitalization that I intentionally include for readability, and on mobile, the popup captures the focus and is hard to dismiss, making edits a pain, plus it tends to "eat" adjacent punctuation.

I just want my text field to be a text field pretty please? 🙂

#Mastodon

@TechConnectify "Sealioning". It is so well abused, it's been given a name.

I can't wrap my head around how almost all of the #xz reporting focuses on the failures of #opensource.
Yeah, sure, but ...

Good luck finding such an attack in proprietary code.
Via the cliché paid off/blackmailed employee, hacked dev servers/repos, or via capitalism's favorite cost-cutting measure: a remote "offshored" contracted temporary developer (or nowadays, embedded into some LLM output).

If anything, Open Source Security has *worked*.

#cypersecurity #OSS

@mattdm I concur. We really need the equivalent of a "B Corp/Fairtrade"-equivalent seal (or something else) to reward such "good community citizen" behavior.
*Then* get it into the government procurement standards across the globe. And get ESG/SRI funds to consider this as part of the criteria of the businesses they invest in.

That'll weed out those business models from being hugely successful real quick.

@Funwithphotos EU would - will, most likely - fall over backwards to accommodate Scotland, both for economic reasons and to spite the British for Brexit.

I'm certain a lot of EU member states can agree on that. It'd be very, very popular.

@Laird_Dave I think the easiest way to connect Scotland to the EU by rail is via Ireland.
It'd be greatly simplified if there only was one Ireland, too.
But Stavanger to Wick/Peterhead would work :)
(Add a tunnel Kristiansand - Aalborg and now we're talking.)

@Funwithphotos

Und das, liebe Freund*innen, ist echte staatliche Zensur, Sprachverbote, Kulturkampf, und Bevormundung.

Es ist unerträglich.

https://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=48873

#Bayern #Reaktionär #Zensur #ChristoFaschismus #ChristoFascism

@vegard @pavel @kernellogger @gregkh It's still an intentional attack on the CVE system. That's perhaps a fair aim, but it can't be denied it also causes strive, confusion, and pain for some.

@kernellogger I think it's clear at this point that this isn't an unintended side effect.
It is intentionally aimed to bring the system down through overload, probably in the hope that something better will emerge later.
At best, it is "constructive destruction" - at worst, it is malicious towards the users and may spectacularly backfire on the trust towards Linux.

50% mehr Krankschreibungen wegen "Atemwegserkrankungen" als vor Beginn der Pandemie, und lange Ausfallzeiten mit #LongCovid / #PostCovid, die bis jetzt 3,3% der Beschäftigten mindestens einmal betrafen.

Aber klar, Luftfilter, Tests etc sind einfach unwirtschaftlich.

https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/konjunktur/long-covid-beschaeftigte-krankheitszeiten-100.html

#CovidIsNotOver #Covid19 #Covid19de #depol

Die dramatischen Warnungen vor der Legalisierung von #Cannabis in Deutschland wären wesentlich glaubhafter, wenn parallel dazu ein Verbot von Alkohol und Zigaretten gefordert würde.

Und wer vor "gesundheitlichen Folgen" warnt und "das Interesse einzelner Gruppen dürfe nicht über dem Gemeinwohl stehen" sagt hat ja sicher gegen den Abbau der C19-Schutzmaßnahmen auch massiv protestiert?

Verlogenes Pack.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/brandbrief-innenminister-cannabis-legalisierung-100.html

#depol #Legalisierung

@silverwizard Interesting, thank you very much! I'll check those hints out.

I'm thinking about migrating my #Pixel #Android to #LineageOS because #OpenSource, but am concerned that some apps - like banking #DKB, my health insurance #Generali and maybe others - may refuse to work due to issues with Device Integrity and/or detected root.

Is there some way of analyzing my device and apps *prior* to installing LineageOS to see which apps would be problematic?

My f'ing hell, the #Garmin Explore vs Connect apps 🤯

The UX is so bad I want to press the SOS button

@inthehands Someone should have given that lesson to me, 25 years ago :-D

@benno Wait that might empower workers, that sounds like you're planning a revolution.

What's next, unions

@mishari I don't think there are any easy answers for reality at large.
Indeed, in my opinion, the real red flag is that there *is* an easy answer, such as "the only principled decision is for tech to be amoral/apolitic".

@scy @alemann @josh @inthehands

@inthehands Kind of in agreement. However, I hope they are going to think about the issues now. It'd have been best if they had done so before, obviously ...

@kzhe