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I'm not blind, but I get value out of alt text captions. Thank you to you people who take the time to add those to your photos.
Endlich mehr #Sicherheit für 🚲 Fahrräder und 👩🏻🤝👨🏾 Fußgänger.
Fordere ENTWEDER #Tempolimit ODER #Radwegbau.
🖋️ Hier mitmachen: https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2025/_05/_23/Petition_181621.%24%24%24.a.u.html
@ADFC @VCDeV @SheDrivesMobility @mastobikes_de @fedibikes @fedibikes_de
The Gjovik v Apple hearing earlier this week was very traumatic. Apple got the court's explicit okay to harass me to extent I might off myself & the court said it was misconduct by me to complain. I was shellshocked for a few days, but I'm ok now, I think because I always knew Apple was this evil.
It was like a very traumatic and disturbing confirmation of a preexisting theory.
Amazonian scorpion molecule wipes out breast-cancer cells in lab tests. Brazilian scientists isolated a peptide from Brotheas amazonicus venom and, using yeast ‘factories’, mass-produced it to screen against tumour lines. In vitro, the compound triggered necrosis in breast-cancer cells within 24 hours, achieving effects comparable to chemotherapy without damaging surrounding tissue. https://www.sciencealert.com/amazonian-scorpion-venom-can-kill-breast-cancer-cells-scientists-say?ref=fixthenews.com
#ShareGoodNewsToo
You mean the "No politics here"? Or their kinda transphobic one?
Nonetheless, I am currently using @MetaGer and am quite happy with it for now.
‼️ Großartige Neuigkeiten: Das Warten hat ein Ende! Der Petitionsausschuss des Bundestags hat unsere Bundestagspetition "Tax the Rich" für eine gerechte Besteuerung großer Vermögen ENDLICH online gestellt! Unterschreibt, teilt und sagt es allen weiter – schon ab 30.000 Unterschriften muss der Petitionsausschuss des Bundestages eine öffentlichen Anhörung zur Vermögenssteuer einberufen. Setzen wir das Thema endlich auf die politische Tagesordnung! #TaxTheRich
https://www.attac.de/startseite/teaser-detailansicht/news/tax-the-rich-epetition
I'm beginning to understand why there are so few blogging platforms that work with #activitypub. I thought I'd make my own as a weekend project and while it shows up fine in https://browser.pub/, getting #mastodon to correctly display posts and followers is driving me absolutely crazy.
Why does Mastodon need its own weird special stuff? Why can't it just load the followers and outbox collections like the standard expects? WHY?
People of the Fediverse, stop everything. This is some true shit happening here: Two-Factor Authentication, a thread:
In French, the word for "factor" is "facteur". But it has another meaning: mailman. Yes, the one who delivers letters in your physical mailbox. For this reason, there is a funny meme in French where 2FA is in fact your mailman coming in and confirming that it's you.
"I came here to stand up for the rights of a minority... but this crowd looks like a majority." - Judit Hernádi
#BudapestPride today was illegal... but also the largest we had in 30 years. Incredible turnout. Trying to ban it made it stronger. Propaganda trying to make hate the majority opinion failed.
A handful of counter-protesters blockaded the Freedom Bridge (because irony is lost on them), but the parade moved one bridge over and passed them by.
I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 4 – Wayland Is Growing Up. And Now We Don’t Have a Choice
Great up-to-date post on the state of Linux and Wayland accessibility.
Also read:
And:
I love a good rant, and this is one I totally endorse. A great examination of macho Linux horseshit. https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/
I learned something today: Google's Gemini "AI" on phones accesses your data from "Phones, Messages, WhatsApp" and other stuff whether you have Gemini turned on or not. It just keeps the data longer if you turn it on. Oh, and lets it be reviewed by humans (!) for Google's advantage in training "AI" etc.
But this only came to my attention because of an upcoming change: it's going to start keeping your data long-term even if you turn it "off": "#Gemini will soon be able to help you use Phone, #Messages, #WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off."
This is, of course, a #privacy and #security #nightmare.
If this is baked into Android, and therefore not removable, I'd have to say I'd recommend against using Android at all starting July 7th.
#spyware #AI #LLM #Google #spying #phone #Android #private #data
Kurze Erinnerung: Diese Petition braucht Zeichnung!
Bundestagspetitionen sind bei Erfolg bindend, insofern sich der Bundestag dann damit beschäftigen muss, und diese hier ist wirklich wichtig für eigentlich alle von uns, denn der Zugang zu Psychotherapie soll ziemlich erschwert werden: https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/content/petitionen/_2025/_04/_16/Petition_180389.html
Billionaires
"Bezos' Venice wedding party moved to isolated area on security concerns"
Good. Billionaires should never feel safe. They should be running, hiding, hunted. Always looking over their shoulder, unable to trust anyone or anything. Let them skulk in their underground bunkers and never party in our streets.