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Another laptop arrived, to replace the one I'm using right now, and now I wonder – Ubuntu? Debian? Mint?

Are there braille QSL cards? A fellow ham I correspond with is blind and I'd love to be able to send her a QSL card she can actually read. Thanks!

#disability

W gminie wiosenna promocja. Do każdego szczeniaczka dają dwa gratis. Sąsiednia gmina postanowiła to przebić i daje w gratisie dodatkowe cztery.

I'd like to make contact with someone who knows about pedestrian navigation for the visually impaired. Can anyone intro me? If not pls boost to your networks

You can add alt texts to figures in #LaTeX with `alt={...}`.

The alt texts won't necessarily appear in the generated PDF until new versions of LaTeX but let's start with this good practice now. #accessibility #TeXLaTeX

Are you guys ready for the buck-wildest agriculture story I've ever heard

*Well enough to cross a river. Not well enough to get back to land in the North Pacific.

Cows are not a maritime creature.

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Właśnie zapadł pierwszy wyrok sądu, w którym zakwestionowano dowody pozyskane za pomocą #Pegasus.

Sąd Apelacyjny we Wrocławiu nie dopuścił w sprawie karnej dowodów uzyskanych przez CBA za pomocą Pegasusa i uniewinnił jednego z oskarżonych. Sąd uznał niedopuszczalność takich dowodów, ponieważ:

* Program umożliwia skuteczne monitorowanie, zbieranie i pobieranie danych z zainfekowanego nim urządzenia. Może też zostać użyty do modyfikowania zawartości urządzenia – określonych jego treści.
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I am old enough to remember when things like multi-axis milling machines were smuggled across trade barriers. The idea was that they could be used for military production in communist block countries.

It is such a strange world now that game devices fall in the same sort of "dual use" category.

"Scalpers across Asia stripping RTX 4090 cards from pre-built PCs to smuggle into China"

tomshardware.com/pc-components

The elevator I was just in got a robocall on its emergency phone.

I wuz robbed.

More specifically, I was tricked by a phone-phisher pretending to be from my bank, and he convinced me to hand over my credit-card number, then did $8,000+ worth of fraud with it before I figured out what happened. And *then* he tried to do it again, a week later!

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyb

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@p some people revel in the fact they can make someone who in their mind is beneath them feel worse. imagine how low the attackers have to aim when targeting a mentally disabled person.

Ça m'a complètement échappé : La France a sa propre instance officielle:
social.numerique.gouv.fr/publi

I completely missed that: #France has its own official #instance in the #Fediverse.

The phrase "don't take this the wrong way" has a 0% success rate.

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