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As reported by @derspiegel and @politico, Nextcloud has filed a complaint with the EU as well as the German anti-trust authorities over the behavior of Microsoft.

Find input from all the supporting organizations on our website antitrust.nextcloud.com

nextcloud.com/blog/eu-tech-sec

Working on redecentralizing the internet? The Internet Archive is holding a winter fair on Dec 9th with booths from many of the projects working on the same thing. Find new partnerships, chat about challenges, plot the future! eventbrite.com/e/dweb-holiday-

That's so PC! Sussex Police to use gender-neutral warrant cards after force's LGBT officers complained about having different ones for men and women

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1

To me, this makes more sense, as producing multiple warrant cards must cost more money then simply creating a single type of card that everyone can use and makes lots that are the same.

On the other hand, given the number of stabbings in the UK you would think the police would have different priorities. .

I am now in the process of getting in touch to suggest they use or at least offer Big blue button as an alternative.

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It’s quite amazing to me that the media here has not covered this… surely I can‘t be the first person to have noticed it?

Anyway, if anyone from the Irish press does want to chat about this, you know where to find me.

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Awaken with JP! ❤️ (The only guru I need!)

"Is it insensitive to pedophiles to call them pedophiles...?"

Hmmm... I seem to recall I once had a creepy uncle who tried to make that argument...

youtube.com/watch?v=kLTCPnpni0

Grr

When are people going to learn that not everyone has access to MS teams, I don't use Windows, Don't use office and therefore don't use teams.

Last time I had to sign up to MS was for an interview that never happened, it then too 60 days to get rid of the wreched MS account, it should take 30 under the GDPR

nwautismandsend.co.uk/training

To save people having to click, scroll and read the section I am refering to here reads

"What you will get with the course:

Online small interactive session (approx. 3-8 delegates currently via TEAMS) with a qualified trainer & SEND teacher
Resources delivered to your address: used during the training and yours to keep for future sessions (Lego-style starter kits valued at £100 each!)
Certified by NW Autism & SEND, a CPD provider using highly specialised and experienced teachers
Emailed a wealth of online resources for you to edit according to your setting’s needs
A certificate to confirmed you have attended the training"

I have just e-mailed the National Autistic Society (UK based) to invite them here, looking at their auto e-mail reply they are very busy but hopefully there will be a positive outcome.

We can but try.

In an effort to invite the Torbay Safer Communities team on here I sent an e-mail to the e-mail address provided on their website.

I got an auto reply (below)

This sort of nonsense is really starting to test my patience, if you can't be bothered to read your e-mail when why provide a contact e-mail address.

I would like these people to join the fedi so people on here who really need help and support can be signposted to some sort of assistance.

@zleap Thank you, Paul! This sounds like a good resource for the UK, and many things can probably be generalized enough. Also, I didn‘t see any red flags like the promotion of ABA or the lot. I‘ll definitely put it on the list.

@dsfgs @fediverse
If as a fediverse we were to develop some sort of training course in order to help new users, either use fedi, or for them to help develop to team up with a local CIC (community interest company) we need to fill out this survey

eatthatfrog.ac.uk/ - > links to their survey

surveymonkey.co.uk/r/FF5SC5D

Which to me looks like a pile of complex business techno twaddle.

This just assumes that anyone wanting to partner them is UK based of course.

@zleap @icedquinn
I've heard many reasons- I'm not sure on a single generalisation.

The formerly unemployed I know if personally are taking advantage of the openings being made.

I wouldn't be surprised if immigrants, refugees and other desperate people started picking up where other people left off.

>> They took my job!
<< MF, you left and I had a small business to run- they deserve it.

@zleap @ij @gitea @aral @codeberg

I don't think the platform itself is connected to the Fediverse.

But I think Gitea is working on federation? And Codeberg uses Gitea? (Not sure if this would link to Fedi though or whether it's just federation of gits)

@icedquinn
Meanwhile- many businesses in the US are facing a shortage of staff as people stop working altogether.

Rumors are that legislation will soon pass that unless people prove they were actively job hunting, they'll have to pay back unemployment via tax returns.

hello everynyan!!

for two years i've been developing a project known as MegaGRRL. it's a portable sega genesis music player that uses the original sound chips, and plays VGM files from an SD card.

the portable version is still in development, but recently i designed a simplified, desktop version of the player, and i'm happy to announce that the schematic, PCB, firmware, and 3d print design files for MegaGRRL Desktop are now available for anyone to build.

if you're an FM synth nerd or just a fan of chiptunes, check it out!

longer demo video on youtube:
https://youtu.be/fPXrVPKKeYM
hackaday.io page:
https://hackaday.io/project/169129-megagrrl-desktop
world wide web site:
https://kunoichilabs.dev/megagrrl_desktop.html

@aral I already moved from Github to Codeberg 2 weeks ago...

Reasons:
a) Codeberg is not Microsoft
b) Codeberg is a registered association
c) Codeberg is located in Germany/EU
d) Codeberg is active in the #Fediverse as well at @codeberg

🙂

All this bitching about saying "biological male" instead of "cis" is stupid bc the former is practically the definition of the latter, hence why I used it in context of the main points of the post. :comfyangery:
How is saying "biologically male" in a critique of someone's dislike of men any different at a glance than saying "same gender as sex", which is the definition of "cis" afaik.

This reminds me of the stupidity of "colored people" vs. "people of color" phrases. We are told the latter is more progressive than the former? Lol, wut? They're the same thing.

All these above examples of the policing & dictating of words is just ingrained in us to muddy conversation's main points & start needless hostility between groups.

Not getting any coding done because GitHub is down? Why not take the opportunity to check out Codeberg (codeberg.org/), Gitea (gitea.com/) or GitLab (about.gitlab.com/install/)

#alternatives

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