Currently stranded at an airport thanks to Crowdstrike, like so many others.

What I find most infuriating about the whole thing is how many governments continue to throw billions of dollars at Microsoft, instead of jointly funding secure open source infrastructure for all.

Imagine all schools, libraries and roads were run by SchoolCorp, LibraryBiz and RoadWare. For some reason we accept that for 21st century digital infrastructure.

After nearly two years of using Windows for work I'm finally back at a #Linux desktop.

I tried to convince myself that it was fine and that I could do everything I could do on Linux just as well on Windows (which for me is basically a web browser, email, terminal and code editor). But it was a lie, the overall experience just had so many things that annoyed me.

I'm happy now :D

How I escaped vim:

\v\i\m

Au weia: TikTok als Suchmaschine?

Konkrete Zahlen dazu gibt es nicht, aber es scheint einen deutlichen Trend zu geben, dass Jugendliche verstärkt TikTok (TT) für die Informationssuche nutzen. Das finde ich sehr bedenklich, schon wegen der Geschichte und Hintergründe von TT. Hinzu kommt, dass

https://www.pc-fluesterer.info/wordpress/2022/09/22/au-weia-tiktok-als-suchmaschine/

#Allgemein #Empfehlung #Hintergrund #Mobilfunk #Warnung #asoziale #fake #smartphone #usa #zahlen

Some women translators of the past.

After being anonymous or hidden behind a male pseudonym, women translators began to sign their translations with their real names in the 16th century. Here are the short biographies of 58 women translators (most of them were both writers and translators) from the 16th to the 20th century.

By Marie Lebert with the help of @wikipedia via @internetarchive

https://archive.org/details/women-translators/mode/1up

#books #translators #literature