Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa@mastodon.online

Over 500 stung by scorpions in Aswan as extreme weather causes damage, pushes scorpions and snakes out of habitats | MadaMasr
https://www.madamasr.com/en/2021/11/14/news/u/over-500-stung-by-scorpions-in-aswan-as-extreme-weather-causes-damage-pushes-scorpions-and-snakes-out-of-habitats/

فضائح أرشيف الأهرام – خالد فهمي
https://khaledfahmy.org/ar/2021/10/31/%d9%81%d8%b6%d8%a7%d8%a6%d8%ad-%d8%a3%d8%b1%d8%b4%d9%8a%d9%81-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%87%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%85/

I want a #FOSS visual #RSSreader. One that can let me see posts with images in a #pixelfed / #instagram like feed or #pinterest like board. I use #miniflux but it isn't optimised for #rss feeds with images such as ones produced by #bibliogram. Any suggestions?

When people setup their Android or Google Account for the first time they put my email address as backup. Google doesn't verify if they really own this email.

Same thing with lots of websites. They don't verify email address ownership during sign-up. I end up with thousands of newsletters, receipts, bank statements, plane tickets, hotel bookings, school coursework, etc. that are not strictly spam but have been addressed to me by error.

I add a tag just to keep tabs on what is going on. Rinse repeat.

Unfortunately this is a tedious process. My text editor, Gedit, offers regular expressions in its find/replace tool which helped in creating the XML files for filters that I later imported. But I really wish Gmail offered better tools to manage blocklists.

I also wish Gmail offered better controls on the huge number of "forget password" emails that I receive from them.

I found out this week that Gmail
limits the number of emails that you can block to 1001. It doesn't alert you when you reach the limit.

So I have been blocking spammers and emails wrongly-addressed to me for months while thinking I am being proactive in cleaning my inbox.

I figured a workaround, which is going to settings then copying & pasting the list of emails blocked, then create filters (each filter shouldn't have more than 20 email addresses) that trashes the emails directly.

Prevalence of complex post-traumatic stress disorder in refugees and asylum seekers: systematic review

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-open/article/prevalence-of-complex-posttraumatic-stress-disorder-in-refugees-and-asylum-seekers-systematic-review/8E5FC93909268C4D992DDAD3A8F4D097

#CPTSD #mentalhealth #refugees

I have been using #Ubuntu for more than 12 or 13 years. Sadly, this week I have decided to stop using it for good & the main reason is forcing us to use #Snap packages. I want to be in control of what runs as a snap package & what runs as a deb from a disto repo. Being in control is why I use #Linux. I moved to #Debian today and despite some minor difficulties during installation I have a happier & cleaner setup. I use #Flatpak (much faster than Snap) with Debian for proprietary apps like Zoom.

RT @Baraka18@twitter.com: 600 Egyptian doctors dead since start of the pandemic: Egypt's Medical Syndicate https://t.co/7Fu5XeUiB1

Facebook algorithm boosts pro-Facebook news

https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/22/kropotkin-graeber/#zuckerveganism