Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa@mastodon.online

忍びの者にゃ

Are you based in Europe? Make sure to set libpaper's /etc/papersize to a4 😅

#ohno #linux #tips

WhatsApp reverses course, now won’t limit functionality if you don’t accept its new privacy policy - https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/28/22458805/whatsapp-privacy-policy-no-plans-limit-functionality

Not that the Egyptian security services have seen any change since the #Mubarak days, but let us not forget who put the current government in place and what their democratic credentials are.

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Italian judge orders trial of four Egyptian officers over Regeni murder

An Italian judge on Tuesday ordered four senior members of #Egypt's security services to stand trial over their suspected role in the disappearance and murder of student Giulio #Regeni in #Cairo in 2016.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italian-prosecutors-ask-judge-try-egyptian-officers-over-regeni-murder-2021-05-25/

I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.

@moftasa And then if you want to learn more advanced concepts, like OO or data structures, they are right there in the language you already know.

The most significant down-side I know of is that, for people who _do_ go on to learn more programming, there are certain pretty common concepts that might be more confusing for them -- notably static typing.

PixelDroid is a FOSS app for using PixelFed (the Fediverse's alternative to Instagram). You can follow PixelDroid at:

➡️ @PixelDroid

The official site is at https://pixeldroid.org

PixelDroid has just been released on F-Droid at https://f-droid.org/packages/org.pixeldroid.app

You can find out more about PixelFed from its site at https://pixelfed.org

You can join a PixelFed instance at https://pixelfed.org/join

#PixelDroid #PixelFed #Apps #FOSS #Fediverse #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Photography

SCI-HUB NEEDS YOUR HELP!

Do you have a few dozen gigabytes of free diskspace and a machine that can seed it via #bittorrent?

You can help save an unbelievable trough of scientific knowledge from disappearing behind the elites' paywalls!

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_mission_for_scihub_and_open_science_we_are/

https://phillm.net/torrent-health-frontend/seeds-needed-scimag.php

Spread the word and seed till you bleed – for the betterment of humanity!

#AP's top editor wants investigation into Israeli #bombing of its #Gaza office

The Associated Press' top editor wants an independent investigation into Israel's bombing of a building in Gaza that was home to her news organization as well as broadcaster Al #Jazeera.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/aps-top-editor-wants-investigation-into-israeli-bombing-its-gaza-office-2021-05-16/