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Not due to lead contamination. Due to "elevated" lead levels.
It's more contaminated with lead than it was supposed to be.
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mastodon 4.7.2Software developer, hobbyist keyboard player, kayaker, home cook. Casual gamer. Preferred games are no faster than Portal and less violent than chess. I need time to think.
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@organicmaps@fosstodon.org @sapash@privacysafe.social
Looks like someone named Alexander Borsuk (who appears to be the one representing Organic Maps' point of view) decided to end the discussion early by misrepresenting the other side's argument.
If you want change, don't end negotiations before a solution has been found.
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@anderslund@expressional.social
Three:
Aisleron for shopping lists.
Tasks for single todo items, with a widget showing them on my home screen along with calendar appointments.
Secuso Todo list for reusable todo lists, fx one with everything I need to pack for a kayaking trip.
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@byteback@mastodon.social @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social
Screen readers (the text to speech kind) don't care about fonts. They read the raw text.
This font tries to stop scrapers by turning the raw text into garbage, then using a font to make it look right. So anything that doesn't care about fonts (screen readers) see the garbage.
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@randahl@mastodon.social
Supporting homophobia: Ok
Handing a "peace price" to the guy who keeps ending the same war: Ok
Reversing a red card as a friendly gesture to the don: Ok
Selling out: Now hold on a second.
That's not corruption having consequences, that's either corruption getting too obvious (nah, everybody could already see it), or someone wanting their share.
What's an easy to use, preferably open source email program.
My father just turned 77, and only answers enails days later, even though I know he watches Youtube every day. My guess is that email has become too cumbersome.
I installed Thunderbird for him years ago, but he quickly went back to the Gmail web interface because that was easier, so I'm clearly looking for something much easier than both.
(He's on Windows, but with the amount of trouble Windows these days cause even seasoned power users, we might have to change that some day).
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@randahl@mastodon.social
On one hand, you are probably right.
On the other hand, what better place for a photo op?
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@randahl@mastodon.social
Technical nitpick:
Unclassified = not classified.
Declassified = it was classified until it was decided to change the classification.
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@MatthewToadAgain@climatejustice.social @failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to @cmconseils@mastodon.social
"The poor and the middle class pay taxes"
What happened to the working class?
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@deviantollam@defcon.social
Windows itself? Especially 8 and up.
I mean everyone complains about Windows, even my brother who needs it to play his Bethesda games.
No wait, Internet Explorer. Definitely Internet Explorer.
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@connynasch@mastodon.social @randahl@mastodon.social
Do they want to? The party that intentionally lost to him twice...
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@edri@eupolicy.social
How to finance universal basic income for every person in the EU ?
Give the EU commission a GDPR fine proportional to the severity and amount of data they will give away.
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@gimulnautti@mastodon.green @tante@tldr.nettime.org
Because landmines and cluster bombs didn't choose their victims with enough randomness.
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@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk Some drivers see nothing.
There was an idiot over here a few years ago, who made a right turn onto a larger road, without yielding to the approaching bike.
- The bike was a motorbike.
- The rider was wearing a high vis vest.
- As soon as the car pulled in front of him, the motorcyclist turned on his flashing blue lights.
How blind do you have to be to not realize you are bringing yourself into that situation?
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
So that's why people think that running away from them is a good strategy... 🏃🐋
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@randahl@mastodon.social
Is it still a war? I thought it was a special military operation.
But I might be mixing it up with a different one, it's hard to keep track of all the wars and conflicts the peace price president is starting.
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@kattascha@chaos.social
I haven't watched the video she talks about, but I suspect that it was sarcastically making the same point
Or I hope it was.
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@pfgl@social.folkdata.se @interrailinfosvenska@mastodonsweden.se
Tog i Danmark har kørt ustabilt den sidste måned. Det højeste jeg selv har set er 2½ times forsinkelse, men også togbusser, tog der vender i Padborg i stedet for at fortsætte til Tyskland, tog der aldrig kommer... Det skulle være slut fra i søndags, men det er selvfølgelig også forsinket.
Trains in Denmark have been unreliable for a month. The highest I've seen myself is 2½ hour delay, but also replacement busses, trains that return after reaching Padborg, rather than continuing to Germany, trains that never show up... The chaos was supposed to end last sunday (two days ago), but that is of course also delayed.
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@rebane2001@infosec.exchange
Huh? The page is a part of the web app, either the web app is installed and you already have the page, or it is not, in which case you can't download it without an internet connection in the first place.
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@rebane2001@infosec.exchange
What does offline and service workers have to do with each other?
When I turned my mobile game into a web app, I didn't have any need for service workers.
Also, if they were limited to web apps, I might not have as big a problem with them. All I've seen them used for, and what all documentation I've seen has all been about tracking users when they don't have your website open, running code in the background (i.e. bitcoin miners) and generating spam "notifications".
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@weddige@gruene.social @ecosia@mastodon.social @Qwant@mastodon.social
I have no problems with allowing the user to pick a specific region (I personally always used site:.dk for that purpose), the problems I'm talking about are 1. Non-consensual use of location and/or IP address, and 2. doing region-based search without the user asking for it. Inferring the region from the IP address breaks both.
If what you are telling me is true, both explains why Ecosia and Qwant give so bad search results, and why I should block both of them for privacy/consent reasons.
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@rebane2001@infosec.exchange
Actually, I don't. 90% of the times when I visit a page while disconnected I end up wasting time on stale information, when the browser really should just have told me that I don't have an internet connection.
The only pages I want to see without an internet connection is static pages, because they don't get stale.
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@weddige@gruene.social @ecosia@mastodon.social @Qwant@mastodon.social
It wasn't hard before search engines started trying to second guess users.
Alta Vista worked great except for one thing: They did an OR search instead of an AND search.
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@rebane2001@infosec.exchange
No, I was asking wtf you are talking about, because it seems like a bunch of disjoint sentences that make no sense together.
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@dansup@mastodon.social
Why not an integrated xmpp server, or extending one with the ability to use fediverse APIs for authentication?
I'm sure there is a bunch of technical reasons that I haven't thought of, don't take this as me saying you're wrong.
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@weddige@gruene.social @ecosia@mastodon.social @Qwant@mastodon.social
Let me try to make it even more clear:
The question should be: Has the user given their explicit consent to this use of personally identifiable information? No.
Not: Can we find a sufficiently convoluted excuse for violating the users consent?
The former is the kind of web site I can support. The latter is already on the way to get rid of their "don't be evil" slogan.
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@joschu123@mastodon.social @ecosia@mastodon.social @Qwant@mastodon.social
What country if not from the location?
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@dansup@mastodon.social @grishka@mastodon.social
Is it stored as an id or as a lat/lon?
I've had problems finding my parents home town by searching, in that case it eould be nice to have an alternative, such as clicking on a map or directly entering a lat/lon (i.e. copy/pasting it from osm/gmaps).
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@randahl@mastodon.social
Top five?
China?
India?
The USA?
And presumably two eastern countries that most of us couldn't place on a map, maybe Kazakstan or something...
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@cmconseils@mastodon.social Try to explain that one to the insurance...
- "Someone wacked my car with a big hammer, right on my license plate"
- "Sir, according to the DMV, your license plate says Hit Here"
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@organicmaps@fosstodon.org @sapash@privacysafe.social
How on earth would I tell you how the discussion went, if I did not read it? It was closed after the above mentioned post by Alexander Borsuk. I would have done the same.
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@rebane2001@infosec.exchange
It's hard to argue with someone who can't even explain what her argument is.
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@stux@mstdn.social
Weirdly, when I copy a Youtube link from my browser it doesn't have those. Do they only get added if you click some "share" button?
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@joschu123@mastodon.social @ecosia@mastodon.social
Ah, yes, one of the popular ways stalking websites use to find out peoples location without their consent.
The same way Google used to do it before they had Chrome and Android to track people with millimeter precision.
Look, when people tell me they respect my privacy, I want the next sentence to be "no, we would never do that", not "don't be paranoid".
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@faithisleaping@anarres.family
Non-native English speaking European here: I've heard it many times - online, so that doesn't prevent it ftom bring American. But I'd say it's petty well known on the English speaking parts of the internet.
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@randahl@mastodon.social
I think you are mixing up your elections. Make every vote Count is the UK. 😜
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@rebane2001@infosec.exchange
That makes no sense. The page still loads because it's cached by the browser.
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@rebane2001@infosec.exchange
Isn't that the idea? I've never heard of Service Workers being used for anything the user would actually want. They are like designed for malware.
And even if they can theoretically be used for something the user wants, if they weren't designed for malware, they would be behind a site permission.
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@weddige@gruene.social @ecosia@mastodon.social @Qwant@mastodon.social
The results that matches the search.
That's the big problem with search. Every search engine gives results based on anything but what I search for. An example of how bad it gets was Qwant, I did a search for a combination of English and Italian words, and got results in Danish. Results that did not contain what I searched for. That's when I dumped Qwant and went back to Google - though through StartPage.
It shouldn't be that hard. If I search in English, give me English results. If I search in German, give me German results...
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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
My I suggest instead of "no", using the red Ø from e.g. the no parking sign?
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@rebane2001@infosec.exchange
At this point I have no clue what you are talking about, and doubt that you have either.
Or perhaps you are willing to explain what this apparently very necessary service worker without Javascript is supposed to be and do?