sfera

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sfera ,

I’m one of those evil people who works in marketing.

Yet here you are, complaining about the ads in Windows. Are you sure that you can go without them? :-D

China's Xi Jinping in Paris: “It’s a slap in the face that Emmanuel Macron is giving us,” say the Uighurs of France ( westobserver.com )

The French president Emmanuel Macron’s decision to welcome Chinese President Xi Jinping to France has sparked anger among the Uyghur community in France. The Uyghur people consider Xi Jinping to be responsible for the genocide and persecution of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang, China. Many Western countries, including...

sfera ,

I would at least expect outstanding genocide and human rights abuse topics to be at the top of the list of things needed to be clarified before anything else can be discussed.

sfera ,

Changing Biden's mind won't automatically feed those people. Providing food and basic necessities to the civilians trapped there should be the first priority.

sfera ,

Then work on one generating heatmaps instead fog-of-war!

sfera ,

Is he just using words for not saying anything?

sfera ,

Related app, but which can also be used without Trakt: Series Guide.

sfera ,

You probably implied it, but I think that it doesn't matter what one deserves but what they actually get and if they are content with that.

"Digital sovereignty": German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein ditches Microsoft for Linux and Open Source alternatives ( blog.documentfoundation.org )

Schleswig-Holstein, the northern German federal state, will be a digital pioneer region and the first German state to introduce a digitally sovereign IT workplace in its state administration. With a cabinet decision to introduce the open-source software LibreOffice as the standard office solution across the board, the government...

sfera ,

This is really good news. I just hope that state institutions using OSS don't take it for granted and also start investing (contributing, auditing) into the software they are using. With increasing adoption, OSS also becomes an attractive attack vector for all kinds of malicious parties. Recent events (xz utils) have shown how this can happen.

sfera ,

What's scary about it?

sfera ,

Original article: https://aeon.co/essays/bernard-stieglers-philosophy-on-how-technology-shapes-our-world

sfera ,

It's never too late. "Back then", when I started using Signal (called TextSecure), only one other single friend used it. Nowadays, almost all my personal contacts use it. Every additional Signal user adds a contact in someone other's address book as a potential Signal contact. It just takes time. Good luck!

sfera ,

The making of Savage Sinusoid is also very interesting. It's what convinced me to to listen to more from Igorrr.

sfera ,

Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence is the first book of a very dark trilogy.

I will also add this, even if it doesn't match the request, but because it's so weird and funny: Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde. It's about a quite absurd society where people's social status is determined by their ability to perceive colors. And they are not allowed to manufacture spoons. Sci-fiish

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