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US military strikes on the Ras Issa Port in Hodeidah, Yemen, on April 17, caused dozens of civilian casualties and significant damage to port infrastructure. The port is a critical entry point for aid in #Yemen and hundreds of workers were present.
The attack showed a callous disregard for civilians’ lives and should be investigated as a war crime. hrw.org/news/2025/06/04/yemen-…
US military strikes on the Ras Issa Port in Hodeidah, Yemen, on April 17, 2025, caused dozens of civilian casualties and significant damage to port infrastructure.
The Shock Doctrine is Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein's companion piece to her popular 2007 book of the same name. In short, the shock doctri...
Personally I think that azerty was meant made by drunk students trying to troll people but it somehow caught on.
Hey, qwerty is kinda bad... You think we could try to make one that's even worse to mock it?
Oooh that'd be hilarious! Let's make a French version of qwerty but a lot worse!
I know, lets put dead keys for all accents except for the accent aigu so that when you need it on an uppercase letter you CAN'T type it!
Ahah good one! Let's also not add anyway to type an uppercase cedilla! Imagine, a French keyboard that can't type uppercase é and ç !
And what if we rearrange all the punctuation and symbols so that the open and closed parenthesis are no longer next to each other? It'd be sooo funny!
Right right! Let's do it too for the brackets and curly braces too!
Good one! How about we don't add guillemets which are used in French instead of english double quotes, so that people will be forced to type double quotes and their advanced text editors will have to automatically replace them by guillemets so that the text uses correct punctuation for French?
That's so sneaky! Let's also add § so you can cite your sources with the correct paragraph symbol, but not use real quotations marks for the quotes!
What else would be really stupid?
Let's use one key for a random greek letter!
What?
You know, like α and β?
Ermm... okay... which one? α or β?
Neither, people might actually use those once every 2 years. Let's just pick one at random!
µ it is! Has anyone even seen that letter used in a French text?
Nope, never, so it's perfect!
How about also adding ¤?
What the hell is ¤?
I haven't the faintest clue! And neither do you or most people! That why it's funny!
Sure, why not, let's cram pointless characters and not add actually useful ones like guillemets! Any other ideas?
Let's put the hyphen on the one most unreachable key!
Oh that's a good one!
I got better! Let's put the period on the same key as the semicolon, but with the semicolon as the default character, and periods will be Shift+semicolon! That way we can say that it's canonically why French phases are long-winded: it's easier to type a comma or semicolon than a period!
Man you're hilarious!
When I was still on Windows I put qwerty as my keyboard layout and used the Alt+number shortcuts for accents because that was less painful than using azerty... Those shortcuts didn't work anymore when I switched to linux so I had to find a real solution, which ended up being a colemak base which I modified to add accented letters. I don't like bepo, it moves z x c v and I like them being in the same place as in qwerty for the shortcuts I'm used to, and I didn't know qwerty-fr existed at the time 😅
So there's an ACTUALLY usable keyboard for French but no one in France even knows it exists because it's not metropolitan French? Why am I not surprised 😑
You even have division and multiplication symbols and FRACTIONS and every symbol that you might ever need? 😭 😭 😭
And it seems like it would work well for English, French and German?
I grew up en français, albeit in Canada. In our informatique classes, we had CSA standard layout keyboards (IBM, not Microsoft).
It's essentially a QWERTY keyboard with built-in compose key modifier and silkscreened characters on the board for accented characters (capitals included). Not too bad to learn on, and considering that QWERTY would be so prevalent in my life, I think it's a good compromise.
When I was in uni in the 90s and finally ran across an AZERTY keyboard, I literally couldn't use it. Not only is layout different, but the character mod sequence makes no ergonomic sense to me.
~~NB: fun fact, y a pas de mots qui commencent en C cédille. C'est pas pour dire qu'on a pas besoin de majuscules cédillées. 😀~~
NBB: ¤ is an end-of-cell marker, introduced at the advent of word processors to distinguish newline and carriage returns from the ends of cells in tables. Not sure if it had a meaning before then, but my memory is saying it had something to do with sub-paragraphs.
I know that last one as the "sun" character (circle with rays coming out) but really I once learned it's a placeholder character for "your local currency sign".
AZERTY is awful and anyone who uses it is a psychopath or even worse, french (québécois are fine though).
But jokes aside, I regularly switch between typing in French, English, and Spanish (so basically using all the accents and special characters including ñ) and even with all of it's faults, QWERTY with international layout works perfectly for me: * all accents are independent so you can capitalize upper and lower case and any kind of letter * cedilla is basically just a c with an accent and that's exactly how you type it (in Linux you might have to use a special key unless you actually mean "ć"), same for ñ * English apostrophe doubles as the accent key, if you want an apostrophe just press space after hitting the apostrophe key
I worked in France for a while and I deeply agree with everything you said... Except μ is by far the most useful Greek letter since it is used as a prefix for units of measurement, e.g. μm, μL, etc.
Also the Swiss layout is even worse, it combined all the bad features of the French and German keyboards and then just moves around all the symbols a bit more for good measure.
If you don't like BÉPO because you want familiar letter-based clipboard shortcuts, you've already made a better layout selection impossible. I learned to use the older clipboard shortcuts: ctrl+ins for copy, shift+ins for paste, and shift+del for cut. Those are still as universally supported.
Those are not nearly as conveniently located for left handed use though. Having z x c and v all easily reachable with my left pinky on control and my right hand on my mouse tops any other benefit of another keyboard layout.
I use them fine with my left hand. There's no reason to stay on home row if you're doing a lot of copy and paste. Of course, if you're doing that much copy and paste, using an extension that allows VIM shortcuts would be much faster.
As someone with a Thinkpad, that weird thing Lenovo does where they switch the control and function keys gets me every time I switch between Thinkpad and non-Thinkpad laptops.
I get that the function key isn't technically a standard key on the keyboard (I've only seen them on laptops) and Thinkpads always had that layout, but it's still annoying.
There are several Azerty layouts. Some don’t allow you to type uppercase accented letters easily, some do. I’ve switched to Linux about fifteen years ago and never had an issue typing these characters with the default layout. It used to be more complicated on Windows, I don’t know if that’s still the case. I should give it a try the next time I get the occasion to type on a Windows computer.
I currently use the fr-oss Azerty layout, which is probably not perfect but has many advantages. I love being able to type thin spaces and non breaking spaces easily.
I still don’t get why it’s easier to type a semi-colon than a full stop, though. I love semi-colons, but even I don’t use them that much.
transforming public space to favor humans and animals instead of cars and concrete is also antifascism in action, and all of us can do a little of that (or alot)
#Lifecentric, walkable cities with good public transportation are also more inclusive, cooler (literally and figuratively) and more attractive for tourists and shoppers.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said that the Israeli occupation is using the new mechanism it has established for distributing aid in the besieged Palestinian enclave as a “trap for mass killing in the Strip and a tool for the forced dis
Following a series of successful virtual meetings exceeding two thousand registrations, BRICS youth is preparing for next week's Summit, where elected guest observers from the seminars will take place
Welcome to a new privacy-first initiative challenging the digital identity status quo, urging a sharp turn away from the surveillance-ready infrastructure embedded in mobile driver’s licenses.
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What’s fueling the campaign is concern over how mobile driver’s licenses, increasingly adopted in the US and abroad, are built atop a technical framework that allows them to silently transmit data back to issuing authorities. While this function may not be active by default, it exists; and that, privacy advocates argue, is a serious vulnerability.
Even if unused, if the architecture allows for data to be sent back to government servers, it eventually will be the campaign’s statement warns.
The ship symbolizes the spirit of Palestinian resilience and the growing global resistance to Israel's collective punishment and starvation policies, says Ann Wright.
There are more than a billion PCs in use and, according to StatCounter, only 71 percent of them run Windows. Among the rest, about 4 percent run Linux. That's tens of millions of people with Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, etc as their desktop operating system. I envy them.
Windows 11 has become more annoying lately as it shoves ads for XBox Game Pass in my face, pushes AI features no one asked for and demands that I reconsider the choices I made during installation on a regular basis. Plus, it just isn't that attractive.
I'm ready to try joining that industrious four percent and installing Linux on my computers to use as my main OS, at least for a week. I'll blog about the experience here.
It's hard to give up Windows forever because so many applications only run in Microsoft's OS. For example, the peripheral software that runs with many keyboards and mice isn't available for Linux. Lots of games will not run under Linux. So I think it's likely I'll be using Windows again, at least some of the time, after this week is through.
However, for now, I'm going to give Linux a very serious audition and document the experience.
There are more than a billion PCs in use and, according to StatCounter, only 71 percent of them run Windows. Among the rest, about 4 percent run Linux. That's tens of millions of people with Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, etc as their desktop operating system. I envy them.
Windows 11 has become more annoying lately as it shoves ads for XBox Game Pass in my face, pushes AI features no one asked for and demands that I reconsider the choices I made during installation on a regular basis. Plus, it just isn't that attractive.
I'm ready to try joining that industrious four percent and installing Linux on my computers to use as my main OS, at least for a week. I'll blog about the experience here.
It's hard to give up Windows forever because so many applications only run in Microsoft's OS. For example, the peripheral software that runs with many keyboards and mice isn't available for Linux. Lots of games will not run under Linux. So I think it's likely I'll be using Windows again, at least some of the time, after this week is through.
However, for now, I'm going to give Linux a very serious audition and document the experience.
The one issue I have is the mind set. It seems to be from the point of view that Linux should be just like Windows and use the same software and hardware. If that is what you want run Windows.
On the otherhand if you want to use FOSS apps, use Linux and just dump Windows. My family has used Linux for over 20 years and yes it is fine. But you actually have to want that. And no, I do not use Windows, MS Apps, or Google Chrome at all these days and do not use dual boot.
Also, dual boot gets old pretty fast. Probably best to choose a primary OS and run the other in a VM. Yes, something like 27 years ago I started with dual boot but have not setup that for at least 20 years probably longer.
One thing I always find amusing about these kinds of write-ups is how much the writer is desperately trying to replicate the Windows experience. It's most exemplified in the section "Mission Center is the task manager you really need". Half the issues mentioned in this section are effectively aesthetical, from what I can tell. Mission Center looks a hell of a lot like Task Manager. I almost skimmed past the screenshot without realizing it was not a screenshot of Task Manager.
This theme comes back again with the section on KDE: "So far, I like this KDE desktop better because it feels more like Windows 11 or Windows 10. There's a Start menu and a taskbar at the bottom of the screen. The Start menu pops up as a small box, rather than taking over the whole screen like the Gnome menu did."
I don't own a Streamdeck, and I hear they're really useful, but reading this section about Boatswain I really wonder what's going on in the brains of the average computer "enthusiast" because if you're only using the Streamdeck as a push button interface to launch Gmail of all things... I really want to question what exactly about computers you're really enthusiastic about. It also really exposes how little the writer seems to understand about "advanced" computer usage.
There's no option to launch websites,
Yes, that makes sense. Since you can perform almost any task via the terminal, there seems little reason to have a "launch websites" function because...
but the workaround is to just but the command to launch your browser (in my case, google-chrome) in front of whatever URL you wish to launch.
You can just call your browser of choice using its command parameters. This isn't a "work around", this is base functionality of the software. I wonder if they understand that they could do this on Windows as well.
I wish this process were a little more seamless and you could get a menu of preinstalled apps to choose from or a dialog box that let you put in the website you want. But this is a process that works and, for that, I am thankful. Kudos to the makers of StreamController and shame on Elgato for not having a native Linux version of the Stream Deck app.
If you want to use Linux, then you should learn how to use Linux. Heck, it'll even make you better at using other operating systems like Windows and MacOS, because what StreamController is forcing you to do here is learn how to execute applications via the command line.
I'm trying to find a good, free PDF editor where I can enter text on a medical form I have to fill out. I've tried five different editors and all seem to have issues that make it difficult or impossible to put text on top of the form. Very lame. Any suggestions?
Pretty sure both Chrome and Firefox can do this in the browser window. Maybe I'm wrong.
Anyway. The closing sections are interesting.
For example, StreamController allowed me to configure my Stream Deck Neo, but it's not nearly as easy-to-use or powerful as Elgato's own Stream Deck software.
What is the measure of "Powerful" here, exactly? StreamController features a plugin system where you can build your own actions using python and their code library, which the Stream Deck software also has. If you can launch an application like chrome and feed it parameters to open a specific website, then you can probably tell StreamController to launch a bash script that does a whole list of tasks for you and more. I guess you'd have to learn bash, though.
Community versions of software are a mixed blessing: There are community versions -- apps made by independent developers -- that fill the gap where first-party software lacks Linux versions. However, these are often made by volunteers who have other things to do and don't have the kind of insight that would come from being part of the original hardware or software team. For example, AutoHotKey, a major macro app for Windows, is not available for Linux at all. There's a community version called AHK_X11 but it still hasn't been updated to work with the latest versions of Ubuntu, the most popular Linux flavor, because it's incompatible with the Wayland window manager that Ubuntu uses.
I have to highlight this whole section because it is mind-boggling. "There are community versions -- apps made by independent developers [...] these are often made by volunteers [...] and don't have the kind of insight that would come from being part of the original hardware or software team. For example, AutoHotKey" AutoHotKey is FOSS! It's maintained for free by a non-profit foundation. You can volunteer your time and submit a pull request on their GitHub page. This isn't exactly the "first-party software" you're talking about, and it also shows you've fully missed the point of what the Linux ecosystem is doing, and its foundational ethos.
This also makes me laugh a little because I wonder what exactly they were using AutoHotKey for? The most we get is: "I write AHK macros that select menu items you can't get to with a hotkey in Google Docs or in Photoshop Elements or elsewhere". If you desire a fully keyboard-driven experience, if that's what sits at the heart of this AHK thing, let me introduce you to a little program called GNU Emacs.
Too many ways to install software
Again, fully missing the point here. If you desire a monopolized, centralized, authoritative experience where you are locked into the precise workflow as prescribed to you by private interests, then go back to Windows or MacOS. It is a fair critique once you're well acquainted with the ecosystem, but it's something that is only resolved through centralization and mass adoption of a single distribution method, and that is never going to happen.
Changing Desktop managers is too much work
I would say that's a step up from having zero ability to change desktop managers but, who am I to say exactly?
Code editing: There are a lot of code editors. I still haven't found one I like as much as Notepad++ which I use in Windows. Notepad++ will run using Wine emulation but on my home desktop, which uses scaling, the font is too small to read.
This shocks me a little. Even in the world of VSCode, people are still loyal to Notepad++? I mean, the options are infinite really, Notepad++ really hasn't evolved in a long time. What exactly could Notepad++ be doing that can't be replicated even with VSCode? I know that Notepad++ is at least less of a resource hog then something like VSCode but is that really a concern given the systems they're using? VSCode isn't even a great option, it's just the most popular option with the most broad appeal and support. Again, you could be investigating things like Vi or Emacs.
Logi+
I have an MX Master mouse as well. I fucking hate the Logi+ bullshit, and it's insane that you are allowed to create a mouse like the MX Master and lock all its functionality behind software that wants to run all the time in the background, and phone home to Logitech with "telemetry data" for "enhancing user experience". I shouldn't have to have privacy concerns regarding the mouse I use on my computer. I'm glad Logi+ doesn't exist on Linux. When you set up the device on Windows it tries to automatically install the Logi+ software, it should be considered a virus at this point. I had to wipe my work computer recently, and uninstalled Logi+ after Windows was up and running again, and actually just used AutoHotKey to remap the side button on the mouse. Out of the box, all the button does is emulate a WIN+TAB keyboard command, which I intercept and change to Win+CTRL+S which launches screen capture.
Phone Link:
God only knows what Windows is doing with all the information it is nabbing off your device while connected to their operating system. "These work, but their UI looks very primitive in comparison to what you get from Microsoft." Again, aesthetics.
I really like Linux and, if it had just a little bit better support for the hardware and software I rely on, I could see myself switching to it for 90 or 100% of my daily usage. As of now, though, I'll still be using Windows, at least some of the time.
It's funny that they walk away with a positive experience, yet the real takeaway is that "it's not enough like windows". Learn Linux. Learn it for real, and you'll never need whatever you're missing from Windows. Decolonize your brain from decades of Windows lock in. You'll be better for it.
What is it with these people that when thinking of Linux base their decisions on decade-old knowledge and go straight for Ubuntu. Ubuntu isn't what it used to be, competition actually happened and we're all the better for it. In the meantime, Canonical F'd up, and Ubuntu should not be anywhere near the top of the recommended distros list.
Want something that actually works, go Linux Mint. Have much newer hardware and want to game, go with Fedora or an arch-based distro like EndeavourOS.
I got disappointed in Ubuntu. You had to use 'Ubuntu Pro' to get the latest updates.. Bullshit :c Linux should not have a paywall in regards to security! I will test out Arch and see how it goes. Especially now when windows 10 loses support in October 16th
IIRC that's not accurate. You only need that "pro feature" if you want to be able to apply kernel updates without rebooting. Unless you have that requirement and an armada of devices matching that profile you don't need to pay anything.
I started with Linux mint for my personal home computers that I use for browsing and some gaming. No need to tinker around with drivers or configuration etc. Ubuntu is a little raw for new comer.
Another vote for Linux Mint. Many Linux distros are available on bootable USBs, so you can try out Linux without messing with your Windows installation at all.
Koło cyfryzacji partii @razem szykuje plan działania na najbliższe miesiące. Jakie tematy z zakresu cyfryzacji są dla Was najważniejsze? Czas działać! 💪
@dwaem Ale to trzeba robić z głową, a nie wersjonować PDFy xDDD Git może i by się jeszcze nadał, ale GitHub i podobne byłyby do tego absolutnie bezużyteczne.
Podstawowa wartość takiego VCSa wynikałaby z wykorzystywania go przez parlament. Dzisiaj aby jako obywatel ogarnąć, nad czym właściwie toczy się głosowanie, musisz włożyć olbrzymi wysiłek w rozwiązywanie referencji w projektach i poprawkach - albo zapłacić za komercyjne opracowanie. To sztuczna bariera informacyjna.
@dwaem To tak żeby uściślić - marzyłby mi się publiczny system pozwalający wygenerować tekst ujednolicony (nienormatywny) na każdym etapie procesu legislacyjnego, włącznie z propozycjami poprawek w Sejmie i Senacie, a także wyświetlający czytelnie różnice między takimi tekstami i rozwiązujący referencje.
Większa tego część jest już dostępna na rynku komercyjnie - a powinna być publiczna, zintegrowana z systemami informacyjnymi Sejmu, Senatu i RPLem.
Zresztą, w tym kontekście to żadna różnica, czy PDF czy Markdown. Mógłby być nawet Dropbox czy Google Docs - to co jest tutaj ma się nijak do procesu legislacyjnego.
Oczywiście, że ma się nijak do naszego procesu legislacyjnego, ale w teorii można byłoby na bazie zwykłego repo w git stworzyć taki system. Wtedy marszałek by mówił "głosujemy teraz nad PR #123" - "X głosów za, Y przeciw, PR zmergeowany" 😁
@hlukasz @dwaem No i to jest właśnie chłopskorozumowa droga donikąd, bo teksty prawne funkcjonują na zasadach które nie mapują się zbyt dobrze na gitowy koncept merge'a.
Pewnie jakby się uprzeć to dałoby się zbudować sensowny system z gitem pod spodem, ale raczej wątpię by była to najlepsza opcja. Natomiast GitHub/GitLab/Codeberg etc. i koncepty takie jak PR/MR będą tu kompletnie bezużyteczne.
To był kampanijny damage control Mentzena po słynnym wygasłym hostingu. Sam pomysł nie był niczym nowym w środowisku okołokorwinowym, patrz bitbucket.org/knp-sekcja-prawa… @KrzysiekJ
Ce que beaucoup de gens oublient, c'est que la façon dont une personne connaît le passé influence sa compréhension du présent et sa perception de l'avenir. Si une personne connaît le passé de manière déformée, sa perception du présent et de l'avenir sera faussée.
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Larry Haiven Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir at the one-year celebrations of the settlement of Ramat Arbe, an illegal settlement in the Lower Galilee, West Bank. Photo courtes…
Whelp, here I am. Been an Arch user for over 10 years now, and to this date I love it. But something is bothering me lately. Almost two years ago I jumped ship and completely switched to Wayland (using Plasma first, then Sway). I tasted modernism with all its features and it was sweet. But those last two years were a timeframe where I had to troubleshoot quite a lot compared to before where I used XFCE which was a very stable and reliant experience.
I am at a stage in my life where I do not have the time, nor the energy anymore to troubleshoot problems on a regular basis. I am now almost afraid of installing updates, because something new could fail again. But I cannot go back anymore. Wayland is too sweet.
So although I still love Arch, maybe it is time for me to look for something else which gives me more ease-of-mind. I am specifically looking at immutable distros now since the concept seems to be exactly what I am looking for (stable, low maintenance, up-to-date packages, easy rollback). But I am a bit lost with the options and hope that you can help me with some recommendations.
I mainly browse the web, watch movies, game, do some scripting and run qemu VMs
I am comfortable with the terminal
I don't do fancy customizations
I don't like GNOME Distributions that I find interesting so far:
Aurora
Bazzite
NixOS
I am still trying to wrap my head around what the differences between NixOS and the other two are. Afaik, with Nix you can configure your system once (including what packages you want to use), save this configuration in a file, and load it up whenever I need to set it up again. And it seems to have the same concept of updates, such that you can easily roll back if needed. But it seems to be aimed more at professional users and that I might overshoot at what I was aiming for. So for someone who likes to setup a system once and then just wants to use it indefinitely without too much maintenance what would your recommendation/advice/critisism regarding my situation be?
Edit: thank you guys so much for all your recommendations and thoughts! After some further analysis I decided to install Bazzite for the following reasons:
shares a lot of similarities with other Atomic distros
but has all the nice gaming related things pre-installed and configured and it uses a properly pre-installed Steam (not the Flatpak version) (the main reason why I chose it over Aurora, which would have been my next best pick)
my qemu virtual machines run perfectly fine (also the shared folder)
some dev stuff already pre-installed (don't think I need more than there already is)
fast and the OS feels like made out of one block, very consistent
I was ready to use my machine like I want to in basically no time
I already love the atomic way of handling updates
so far no issues
The only thing left for me to do is to figure out how to properly install SyncThing and Zerotier-One, then I am absolutely set.
I noticed that you are interested in immutable distros! That's a good choice for your requirements, since it allows you to skip troubleshooting most issues by rebooting or performing a rollback.
I myself am happily using NixOS, but I think its advantages only shine when you want to spend time configuring your system. That being said, if you want to invest that time once and you stay on the stable version, you can also have quite a stable experience.
The other two options you listed are both atomic Fedora spins made by uBlue, which add minor customizations to the base image. Both of them seemt to be based on Fedora Kinoite, which would be another option. Fedora in generally is more opinionated, which is good if you don't want to tweak anything. If you want to try out multiple of these options, you can always rebase your current atomic Fedora desktop to another image.
I share your desire for a system that always, 100%, every time, is there and ready to be used.
At the same time, I really like arch and the convenience of the AUR.
Hence, I boot-strap reliability onto my system through btrfs snapshots.
The setup is extremely simple, (provided your install is grub+btrfs) just install timeshift + the auto-snap systemd services. Configure it, and forget it.
Next time something breaks, instead of spending time on troubleshooting, you timeshift back to a known good point and then just get on with using your system.
With the auto-snap package installed every update also creates a restore point to go back to before it.
In addition to that, I started updating my system less frequency. The logic being that the more often you update a rolling release install, the more likely you are to catch it at a time when something is wrong, before it is fixed. Still regularly, but instead of every other day, I now have an update notification that goes off once a week.
The result has been zero time spent troubleshooting my system. If it worked yesterday, it'll work today. If it worked last week, but doesn't today, I'm a reboot away from a known good snapshot.
Oh, for sure. If you wait a month, the bigger update can be a lot more trouble.
But look at it like this. If a rolling distro has a problem once a week, which is fixed within 24 hours, updating daily guarantees you will run into it.
While updating weekly means your chance is only one in seven.
I had my first fuck up with openSUSE+Gnome a couple of weeks ago when impatient me killed my laptop in the middle of like 1600-updates. BRTFS was the only reason I didn't rip my hair out and the primary reason I will be switching my daily driver gaming rig to Linux, finally! That FS is the tits!
If six months from now you decide that you do need updates, Arch won't like the accumulated six months of updates coming all at once and might throw a tantrum.
Also not updating is a bad idea in general, you do need security updates for stuff like your browser. Please don't use an out of date system. If you want, install something like debian which will give you only critical updates that won't break stuff until the next release.
🇹🇳🇫🇷Le terroriste raciste Christophe B, est l’homme qui a assassiné le Tunsien Hichem Miraoui en lui tirant dessus à cinq reprises. Il avait également blessé un homme d’origine Turque.
Was curious if anybody knows what the military convoy along I-90 westbound past Bellevue towards I-405 Southbound? Lots of weird armored vehicles that had four large tires on each side instead of tracks, also asphalt paving equipment. Made it impossible to get from Bellevue to I-5 because they wouldn't let me in to get to the other side of the freeway.
Wo Antisemitismus und Philosemitismus zwei Seiten einer Medaille darstellen, kann Linksparteifunktionär Wohlfahrth seinen früheren völkischen Nationalismus jetzt staatsräsonkonform mit Israel-Solidarität ausleben.
Kirn kommentiert ironisch: „Wir bringen jemanden dazu, George Orwell wegen Gedankenverbrechen zu verurteilen, und zwar in dem Buch, das er über Gedankenverbrechen geschrieben hat.“ Er schloss seinen Beitrag mit den Worten: „Also, danke für Ihre Warnung vor ‚1984‘. Es ist das verdammt ‚1984‘-mäßigste, was ich je gelesen habe.“
Zum 75. Jubiläum von Orwells „1984“ erscheint eine neue Ausgabe mit Triggerwarnung. In dieser wird vermeintlicher Frauenhass, das Fehlen von schwarzen Figuren und die fehlende Einbeziehung von Rasse und Ethnizität kritisiert.
Do they? I am sorry but I do not believe that and I feel that this child has been abused by those that have used her to push their propaganda. She is simply a tool. She is spouting dumb rhetoric that I grew tired of 30 years ago although then it was the Amazon rather than the car etc. but it was the same tactics and comments "If you do not do as I say the world will end in 5 years". The world did not end. Have you bought an electric car yet? Do you actually believe you will save the world in doing so? They produce more CO2 in their lifespan than an ICE car but that is not their point, they are throw away and they get the public to finally stop cutting down on pollution by buying things that last and buy cars that you throw away after 8 years. If people buy a new car every 8 years rather than every 30 profits soar. The ultimate in pollution. The world is much cleaner today than it was 30 years ago but that has nothing to do with people like her. It is because of normal people who do not shout at you. The earth will continue to get cleaner if we continue as we have but those abusing her want us to spend more to make them richer and stop caring about the planet. We can buy an electric car and believe we are saving the planet even though we are in fact increasing the pollution by 400%.
so it has watched the first few episodes of murderbot and it is really liking it so far , some context on their world building :
Security units (abbreviated to SecUnits) are robots based on humans with heavy augmentation
one of these augmentations is a "governor module" which appears to be the primary method for controlling the SecUnits: it penalizes the SecUnit for not following orders.
So here is a part of the opening scene :
I had devoted every spare second on this [minor] planet trying to hack my governor module, and now was a moment of truth: I just isolated an admin password and I was gonna use it to crack the final core encryption. Okay, patching the code... Holy shit... Holy shit, it worked!
like idk if its just a nerd but wouldn't this scene be much better if it was instead a vague description of a exploit chain ? ex. "I spent months finding little holes and connecting them, starting from a buffer overflow, getting arbitrary code execution, a privilege escalation, bypassing a signature check and I finally had enough to take control of the governor module."
like sure its longer and most entities won't know what it means , but like show a animation showing multiple layerd with small red holes and a line weaving between them going through holes and it will give the point across while sounding more impressive no ?
cause like what it understands its words as is the governor module has a backdoor . on a machine which is explicitly armed . yeag the attack surface isn't much for an outside attacker but still wtf .
like its really sad to it that they haven't put more work into their worldbuilding , the computer details are really underwhelming , more examples :
murderbot (main character) apparently has a large amount of access to the system of the habitat (all security cameras (some of which are positioned very much not like security cameras btw) , the media library)
in a scene where another character (also a cyborg but moreso on the lightly augmented human end) tried so access something related to murderbot (backups or logs don't remember , will edit once it finds the scene) and murderbot was able to disswade him by showing a security camera of other characters kissing
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Heute meldet die Tagesschau die RIAS Zahlen und titelt: >>Zahl antisemitischer Vorfälle erneut stark gestiegen<< tagesschau.de/inland/gesellsch…
Leider tut RIAS alles dafür um so intransparent wie möglich zu sein, packt alles mögliche in ihre Begrifflichkeiten rein und zählt das selbe Ereignis mehrfach (zb mehrere Anzeigen von den selben oder gleichen Sticker). So gut das Ansinnen mit RIAS auch war, die Zahlen als Fakten gemeldet, sind reichlich wertlos.
In der oben verlinkten Studie kann man zahlreiche Beispiele nachlesen, aus den deutlich wird, welche Probleme deren Begrifflichkeiten haben, welche Schlagseite deren Arbeit hat, wie systematisch historische Fakten verzerrt werden, und internationales Recht geleugnet wird um zur gewünschten Interpretation zu bekommen. Die fehlende Systematik, was, wann und wie gezählt wird macht die Zahlen reichlich unklar, und kaum nachprüfbar.
Le bureau du procureur général israélien a déclaré que Netanyahu avait utilisé la phrase « Je ne me souviens pas » au moins 1 788 fois lors de son interrogatoire dans les affaires pour lesquelles il est jugé.
C'est celui qui rêve de répéter le modèle « Churchill » et qui s'extasie sur la « victoire absolue », et derrière lui se trouvent Ben-Gvir et Smotrich !
Deutsche Medien schreiben hunderte an Schlagzeilen für die 5 LKW Lieferungen von Hilfsgütern nach Gaza (über 500 wären pro Tag notwendig), währenddessen Netanjahu sagt das sie diese nur zulassen weil sie sonst die internationale Unterstützung für ihre Kriegshandlungen verlieren.
Wieso fällt man auf diesen Trick rein, wenn er so blatant offengelegt wurde?
Zeitgleich werden humanitäre Hilfsorganisationen von Israel weiterhin angegriffen und nicht in die Region gelassen. Langfristig sollen humanitäre Hilfszentren in Zusammenarbeit mit einer U.S. Privatfirma aufgebaut werden, als Alternative zu den U.N. Hilfsorganisationen, welche laut der israelischen Regierung zu oft die Hamas unterstützten (Aussagen welche niemand bis auf die israelische Regierung selbst belegen kann).
Mit dem Ziel das diese Hilfszentren nicht für die Hamas da seien und dem Wissen wie oft und absichtlich in der Vergangenheit zwischen Zivilisten und Terroristen von der israelischen Regierung nicht unterschieden wurde, so werden diese Hilfszentren eine Katastrophe. Kein Staat kann eine humanitäre Krise auslösen und zeitgleich mit irgendeiner Ernsthaftigkeit diese bekämpfen.
Meine Behauptung ist das diese Form der humanitären Hilfe Teil der jetzigen Offensive gegen Gaza sein werden und somit auch genutzt um Menschen zu vertreiben.
Über 400 humanitäre Hilfskräfte wurden durch israelische Angriffe seit Ende 2023 umgebracht. Die Begründung lautete immer das es ein Versehen war oder sie Hamas-Soldaten geherbergt haben, ein Vorwurf welcher nie, für keinen einzigen Fall, unabhängig bestätigt werden konnte.
Es gibt einen Grund warum in keiner anderen humanitären Krise das Land welches eine ethnische Säuberung plant und durchführt, gleichzeitig auch die humanitäre Hilfe gibt, welche diese aufhalten soll.
Netanjahu will also den „Trump-Plan” von der Vertreibung von über 2.000.000 Menschen umsetzen, doch auf ein Mal gleichzeitig dafür Sorgen das Essen, Trinken und medizinische Versorgung in den Gazastreifen gelangen? Doch vor allem soll das nicht von den Organisationen (UNRWA, Rotes Kreuz, World Kitchen, Ärzte ohne Grenzen, u.v.m.) bereitgestellt werden welche alle an der Grenze drauf warten es zu dürfen, sondern einer US Privatfirma.
Es geht eindeutig nicht um humanitäre Hilfe, es geht um den Anschein dessen währenddessen man dafür sorgen will weniger Augen, weniger Kameras bei seinem Genozid zu haben. Darüber hinaus brauchen die zehntausenden Soldaten notwendig um die zwei Millionen Menschen zu vertreiben auch Essen, Trinken und medizinische Versorgung. Bei den Menschen in Gaza wird nichts ankommen.
Wir vergessen die 15 humanitären Hilfskräfte welche am 23. März von Israel in einem fahrenden, markierten Krankenwagen, beschossen wurden, obwohl er mit laufenden Sirenen gefahren ist, um daraufhin ihre Leichnam in einem impromptu geschaffenen Massengrab unterzubringen, welches mit Militär-Bulldozer dem Erdboden gleich gemacht wurde.
Daraufhin leugnete das israelische Militär alles, behauptete es hätte nur auf die Hamas geschossen und meinte sie hätten nie jemanden dergleichen begraben.
Erst als das Massengrab zufällig von Palästinensern gefunden wurde, sie die Ärzte in ihren Schutzwesten mit ihren Portemonnaies und allen Dingen die sie identifizieren sahen, behauptete die israelische Regierung das Auto sei ohne Markierung und Still auf sie losgefahren.
Dann wurde auf einen der Handys der begrabenen Ärzte ein Video entdeckt welches zeigte wie der Krankenwagen durch die Nacht fuhr, mit lauter Sirene, Markierung, und Lichtershow welche für alle klar macht: dies ist ein Krankenwagen. Erst dann räumte das israelische Militär ein „eine Investigation zu starten”, was bei vergleichbaren Ereignissegn in der Vergangenheit nie zu irgendwas geführt hat.
Bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt druckten viele westliche Medien die Israelische narrative ohne Zweifel ab, der Vorwurf die IDF habe kaltblütig auf Ärzte geschossen sei wahnsinnig. Zeugenaussagen waren praktisch irrelevant, es musste ein perfektes Video noch im Massengrab erhalten bleiben und es ins Internet schaffen, damit die Wahrheit ans Licht kam.
Wie viel öfter ist etwas dergleichen schon vorgekommen? Wie viele unmarkierten, undokumentierten Massengräber müssen noch erst gefunden werden um die Wahrheit aufzudecken? Vor allem: Wann werden wir die Zeit dafür haben, wenn jetzt gerade immer noch neue Massengräber geschaffen werden?
Meine Behauptung ist das diese Form der humanitären Hilfe Teil der jetzigen Offensive gegen Gaza sein werden und somit auch genutzt um Menschen zu vertreiben.
Diese Aussage klang vor 15 Tagen noch verrückt, heute hat sich längst die Tagesschau gegen die GHF gestellt, vor allem nachdem der Gründer und Leiter mit schweren Vorwürfen gegen die Organisation zurückgetreten ist.
Nachdem das israelische Militär an einem GHF Stützpunkt Gestern auf Schutz-, Nahrung-, und Hilfssuchende geschossen hat, wobei 27 gestorben und über 200 verletzt wurden, sowie die vielen Berichte, Bilder, und Videos dieser Zentren umzäunt und mit arbiträren Exekutionen, kann die Gaza Humanitarian Foundation kaum als unabhängiger Akteur angesehen werden. Sie ist ein Mittel dieses Genozids, denn erneut: Keine Organisation die einen Genozid durchführt wir die humanitäre Hilfe bieten um sich davor zu schützen.
Die komplette Bevölkerung des Gazastreifens ist von einer Hungersnot bedroht. Doch Israel lässt nur wenige Lkw in den Küstenstreifen. Nun soll eine Genfer Stiftung die humanitäre Hilfe organisieren. Aber sie ist umstritten.
Es ist faszinierend wie die israelische Regierung bis heute behauptet, die UN humanitäre Hilfsorganisation UNRWA seien Terroristen, doch der Moment in der die IDF verantwortlich für die Notfallhilfe wurde haben sie angefangen auf die Hilfssuchenden zu schießen.
Sucht man allein auf Google nach der UNRWA (eine humanitäre Hilfsorganisation der Vereinten Nationen) so ist das erste Ergebnis eine von der israelischen Regierung bezahlte Werbung, welche Lügen über die Organisation verbreitet und die, bisher aus keiner Quelle auch nur ansatzweise bestätigte, Behauptung verbreitet dies sei eine Terrororganisation.
Könnt ihr euch noch dran erinnern als die deutsche Regierung Zahlungen an die UNRWA pausierte als Israel das erste Mal diese Vorwürfe publizierte?
Wir haben den Vorwürfen natürlich einfach Blind getraut. Daraufhin musste die Bundesregierung selbstverständlich ihre Entscheidung begründen und hat die Thematik unabhängig überprüft. Nun ja, die Zahlungen an die UNRWA sind ziemlich schnell wieder fortgeführt worden, da keiner der Vorwürfe der „Hamas-Unterwanderung der UNRWA” auch nur Halt hatten.
Das bis heute diese Behauptung fortgeführt wird um zu begründen das keine andere humanitäre Hilfsorganisation in den Gazastreifen darf außer die, die Nähe zur US Regierung hat. Naja...
Was sind das denn für Hilfsorganisationen ohne Nähe zu den US? Weil alle Nationen rund um Israel haben schon öfter militärisch versucht, Israel zu vernichten. Hilfe von der "arabischen Welt" bedeutet da was anderes.
Und wieder verbreitest Du Falschinformationen. Und sag nicht, wegen der Zeichenbegrenzung. Ich kenne Dein Limit. Bitte bei den Fakten bleiben, statt selber noch zum Info-Krieger zu werden.
Gestern zeigt Youtube mir einen Werbespot vor einem anderen Video. Es war ein Spot für eine andere Hilforganisation, und ich brauche nur 5 Sekunden um die Scheisse zu riechen. Wenn man nicht die Nachrichten folgt, diese Lügen könnten sein Gehirns waschen.
Die Mehrzahl der User:innen nutzt (leider) Google, was einen erheblichen Einfluss u.a. auf Meinungsbildung zur Folge hat.
Um so wichtiger erscheint es, auf Alternativen hinzuweisen, niemand ist gezwungen Google zu nutzen! Deshalb sollte schon an Schulen frühzeitig auf diese Problematik aufmerksam gemacht werden und wir alle sollten auch im Freund:innenkreis das immer mal ansprechen.
Bei DuckDuckGo gibts eine andere Fundstellenfolge.
Das steht schon Recht lange da. Ich frag mich wie viel Geld die israelische Regierung bzw. Propagandaabteilun dafür ausgeben müsste, für diese prominent platzierte Verleumdung.
Wir wissen ja auch dass die Vorwürfe gegen UNRWA (wie auch dieses Bild von Hochschulen als Hort des Antisemitismus) im englishsprachigem Raum über AI-generierte Fake Accounts gestreut wurde für die höchstwahrscheinlich das Ministerium von Chikli bezahlt hat, leider ist das in Deutschland nie berichtet wurden
Halt moment, also es ist schon belegt, dass Teile der UNRWA mindestens Hamas nahe sind, und das macht aus israelisch militärischer Sicht es plausibel, Hilfslieferungen nicht über UNRWA laufen zu lassen, weil die wie eine Konfilktpartei aussehen. Das muss nicht bedeuten, dass Israel ein Werkzeug haben will, um die Bewohner von Gaza auszuhungern, weil Genozid-Absichten sind jetzt noch nicht so gut dokumentiert von Israel.
Kriegsverbrecher eben. Hat der IStGh in Den Haag doch bereits festgestellt und einen Haftbefehl für Netanjahu ausgestellt, nur sind ALLE zu feige, den auch nach Den Haag zu überführen, wenn man ihm habhaft werden würde. Auch unser Kanzler-Azubi vermute ich stark.
So sehr ich das feige Massaker der Hamas verurteile, so sehr ich der "Auge-um-Auge" Fraktion zuneige: Die israelische Regierung ist in Wort und Tat in Bezug auf den Gaza Streifen nicht vom Verhalten der Nazis im Warschauer Getto zu unterscheiden. Meine Gedanken sind bei meinen in Haifa und Tel Aviv lebenden israelischen Freunden, die dem fundamentalistischen Mob der aktuellen Regierung unter Netanjahu hilflos gegenüber stehen... hoffentlich finden in Israel nochmal Wahlen statt.
Laut UN sind es mittlerweile ingesamt ganze 9 LKWs gewesen... 2% von dem was es vor dem jetzigen Krieg war... Also nichts was einen Unterschied macht...
"Meine Behauptung ist das [es] genutzt [wird] um Menschen zu vertreiben." Israel will sie nicht 'vertreiben', sondern beseitigen. Das wird in Isreal inzwischen OFFEN so gesagt: radiohc.cu/en/noticias/interna… Sie reden von Holocaust, Völkermord! 😶 Wir sollten das deshalb auch bei uns verbal nicht beschönigen! 🧐
Dass die UN-Zentren dem Friedensprozess mehr geschadet als geholfen haben, hat sogar die UN festgestellt, dass kann man nicht so einfach ab tun. Unter den Augen der UN fand ein massiver Schmuggel von Kriegswaffen statt, den sie nie unterbunden bekommen hat. Auch weil eben das UN-Personal vor Ort nicht neutral war oder wenigstens der UN verpflichtet, das waren sehr oft Männer und Frauen der Hamas.
Ich denke, Du stimmst mir da wenigstens zu, dass es kein "weiter so" geben kann.
oh sie wissen es und die sind vermutlich sogar dankbar für diesen Trick. Schließlich darf Deutschland keine Kritik an Netanjahu und erst Recht keine Maßnahmen ergreifen (Sanktionen z.B.). Schließlich sind wir ja sonst Israel feindlich oder gar Antisemiten - da ist es leichter diesen lächerlichen "Knochen" zu bejubeln und zuzusehen wie ein Volk regelrecht vernichtet wird. Für mich ist Netanjahu genauso schlimm wie die Hamasführer. Narzisstisch, grausam und skrupellos und für keinen Cent besser. Mir tun die Israelis leid, die dieses ****** nicht in der Regierung und Frieden wollen. Aber im Moment tut mir die palästinensische Bevölkerung mehr leid (außer die Hamas).
Israel versucht momentan überall Zeit zu schinden, damit sie ihre Mission, Palästina palästinenserfrei zu kriegen, vollenden können, bevor ihnen einer auf die Füsse tritt oder dem Massenmord endlich Einhalt gebietet. Weiss nicht, aber langsam wären Waffenlieferungen an die Palästinenser, die Unterdrückten, notwendig. Existenznotwendig. In der Ukraine machen wir das schon seit 3 Jahren, in Palästina schauen wir nur zu und fragen uns, was Israel als nächstes als antisemitisch bezeichnet.
My doctor’s office just asked me if I consented to an AI scribe taking session notes. (Obviously I said absolutely not and over my dead body).
I am physically incapable of minding my own business so I asked for details. They confirmed that means the rooms are capable of recording now, but assured me that it is “completely deleted” in a “timely fashion”.
I’m with One Medical. So that means the steward of that data is AMAZON.
This initiative comes at an absolutely terrible time; as the GOP flirts with the idea of tracking pregnancies over state lines to criminalize abortion; eugenicist RFK threatens constructing an autism database; and the rest of the clown show seeks to eradicate transgender people.
Add to that the assembly-line problems that doctors— especially under Amazon— already have, and this is a recipe for disaster. It’s physically, literally dangerous.
Needless to say I will be unplugging it if I find it.
Why does nobody's boss realize that tech security is a placebo? Once collected and put on an enabled computer, that information is wide open to the fucking world. WTF, people? Stop collecting it!!!
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An American woman was sitting next to me in a cafe (in Australia) last week tslking to some eduction consultant about universities in the us about to have ai assistant professors (I think she was from Alabama state). She pointed out to the man that it was great tho usually hallucinates (tho she didn’t understand it and was sure that would get better lol) and they had to be careful as the military was paying for the ai and they had to ‘unwoke’ it.
i got asked this re copilot at a drs office recently. when i declined, he reached under a manila folder to stop the recording already in progress on his phone.
In theory this kind of thing could be designed in a way that keeps information confidential: use a model that does not change, record the session, have it summarize the session (risky, because LLMs make mistakes), then discard everything other than the summary which would be a confidential medical record retained by the doctors office. But that isn't what they are doing in many cases. They are retaining information and reserving the right to use it for training, which goes back to the company.
The big scandal is going to be one of these outside software as a service companies the medical management team and administrators insist on using totally sifting that data on the back end.
It can be as simple as a text confirmation of an appointment. Now imagine that appointment is with an oncologist, and who would like to know that data. It can easily go beyond you simply receiving more pharma ads into real estate vultures and others wanting your property and attention
Good Grief! The orthopaedic practice I use uses human scribes. Seems to let surgeon concentrate on explanations & results in our visits. I would be looking for another practice were I in your shoes.
Best case scenario they take away jobs from people who really need it. Worst Case scenario they're lying about deleting the data and using the data either to advertise or give to the government to harass and convict innocent people. (they absolutely are, it's cheaper to pay the wrist slap fines than to stop being evil) there's no positives to agreeing to AI, it's all negative.
I basically had to give up on my right to privacy as part of convincing myself to get some long term treatment. Because that system will eventually be breached, and that data will be leaked.
Full transcriptions are a completely horrifying escalation.
I’d have walked out, found another way. They have no right to invade our privacy, even for a second. I don’t like the license plate readers or the surveillance in cities they have now. Once you give up your right privacy, you’re not going to get it back, that’s my opinion. I’m mortified.
I mean, One Medical is owned by Amazon, so this is not at all a surprise. Horrifying, and probably disqualifying for One Medical as a provider at all, but not a surprise.
@mick_collins I REALLY liked my doctors and staff at One Medical, but I’m honestly kinda glad my insurance dropping them from my network forced me to find another doctor since Amazon bought them. 😛
shit like this is so very illegal in Germany that even suggesting that Idea would get medical professionals' licenses revoked on the spot.
Simply because Medical Data is so fucking sacred that not even a judge can force a doctor to disclose medical details against declined consent of the patient.
WHAT WERE THE PEOPLE THINKING THAT PUSHED THAT SHITE?
They might just wiretap their offices directly given Amazon being not only able but entirely willing to provide bulk access to any device for any agency that asks them for, not even faking "due diligence" by demanding a warrant or "emergency access request" due to "imminent danger of death or (self-)harm"...
As a doctor, the most professional comment I can offer here would also be "over my dead body".
Apart from the confidentiality issue, it's just not good medical practice. Writing down what a patient tells me helps me work through their symptoms, identify the crucial points to aid diagnosis, and gives me a precise record of the conversation to refer back to later. No way am I going to entrust that to a half-price HAL.
Papamousse
in reply to phantomwise • • •French Canadian keyboard is QWERTY but with all kind of symbol, like the 1 to = top row can give
with shift !"/$%?&*()_+
with altcar ±@£¢¤¬¦²³¼½¾
We also have the µ¯§¶«»°
and we can do all kind of Èiöç etc
phantomwise
in reply to Papamousse • • •Is that the one?
You have
« »and all the accents? 🤯You even have
OEandAE? 😭So there's an ACTUALLY usable keyboard for French but no one in France even knows it exists because it's not metropolitan French? Why am I not surprised 😑
You even have division and multiplication symbols and FRACTIONS and every symbol that you might ever need? 😭 😭 😭
And it seems like it would work well for English, French and German?
How have you not conquered the world yet? 😮
Papamousse
in reply to phantomwise • • •no, the one you put is the "official" french canadian one, used mostly by gov, but everyday people are using the "normal" one
This is why we have not conquered the world yet 😀
troglodyte_mignon
in reply to phantomwise • • •non_burglar
in reply to phantomwise • • •I grew up en français, albeit in Canada. In our informatique classes, we had CSA standard layout keyboards (IBM, not Microsoft).
It's essentially a QWERTY keyboard with built-in compose key modifier and silkscreened characters on the board for accented characters (capitals included). Not too bad to learn on, and considering that QWERTY would be so prevalent in my life, I think it's a good compromise.
When I was in uni in the 90s and finally ran across an AZERTY keyboard, I literally couldn't use it. Not only is layout different, but the character mod sequence makes no ergonomic sense to me.
~~NB: fun fact, y a pas de mots qui commencent en C cédille. C'est pas pour dire qu'on a pas besoin de majuscules cédillées. 😀~~
NBB: ¤ is an end-of-cell marker, introduced at the advent of word processors to distinguish newline and carriage returns from the ends of cells in tables. Not sure if it had a meaning before then, but my memory is saying it had something to do with sub-paragraphs.
saigot
in reply to non_burglar • • •PlutoniumAcid
in reply to non_burglar • • •nemo
in reply to phantomwise • • •AZERTY is awful and anyone who uses it is a psychopath or even worse, french (québécois are fine though).
But jokes aside, I regularly switch between typing in French, English, and Spanish (so basically using all the accents and special characters including ñ) and even with all of it's faults, QWERTY with international layout works perfectly for me:
* all accents are independent so you can capitalize upper and lower case and any kind of letter
* cedilla is basically just a c with an accent and that's exactly how you type it (in Linux you might have to use a special key unless you actually mean "ć"), same for ñ
* English apostrophe doubles as the accent key, if you want an apostrophe just press space after hitting the apostrophe key
porous_grey_matter
in reply to phantomwise • • •I worked in France for a while and I deeply agree with everything you said... Except μ is by far the most useful Greek letter since it is used as a prefix for units of measurement, e.g. μm, μL, etc.
Also the Swiss layout is even worse, it combined all the bad features of the French and German keyboards and then just moves around all the symbols a bit more for good measure.
brianary
in reply to phantomwise • • •Troz
in reply to brianary • • •brianary
in reply to Troz • • •HiddenLayer555
in reply to phantomwise • • •As someone with a Thinkpad, that weird thing Lenovo does where they switch the control and function keys gets me every time I switch between Thinkpad and non-Thinkpad laptops.
I get that the function key isn't technically a standard key on the keyboard (I've only seen them on laptops) and Thinkpads always had that layout, but it's still annoying.
Gueoris
in reply to phantomwise • • •phantomwise
in reply to Gueoris • • •troglodyte_mignon
in reply to phantomwise • • •There are several Azerty layouts. Some don’t allow you to type uppercase accented letters easily, some do. I’ve switched to Linux about fifteen years ago and never had an issue typing these characters with the default layout. It used to be more complicated on Windows, I don’t know if that’s still the case. I should give it a try the next time I get the occasion to type on a Windows computer.
I currently use the fr-oss Azerty layout, which is probably not perfect but has many advantages. I love being able to type thin spaces and non breaking spaces easily.
I still don’t get why it’s easier to type a semi-colon than a full stop, though. I love semi-colons, but even I don’t use them that much.
disposition de clavier d'ordinateur utilisé en France et en Belgique
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