Notices by hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com), page 3
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hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Feb-2019 11:12:44 EST 
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(The Guardian)
Volunteers in blue uniforms begin escorting Palestinian children past Israeli settlers to school
Now the international observers are gone 'The soldiers are acting differently, the settlers are acting differently.'
#palestine
Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/palestinians-patrol-hebron-after-israel-ejects-foreign-peacekeepers/ -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Feb-2019 02:06:29 EST
hosh
(The Guardian)
Human Rights Watch blames police inertia and government failures for lack of justice for those affected
"between May 2015 and December 2018 at least 44 people, including 36 Muslims, were killed in attacks over beef consumption and the cattle trade... In almost all of the cases, the police initially stalled investigations, ignored procedures, or even played a complicit role in the killings and cover-up of crimes. Instead of promptly investigating and arresting suspects, the police filed complaints against victims, their families, and witnesses"
#india
Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/a-free-pass-for-mobs-to-kill-india-urged-to-stem-cow-vigilante-violence/ -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 17-Feb-2019 16:13:59 EST
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"SOLDIERS—arrive in Vasenka to “protect our freedom,” speaking a language no one understands. "
I thought of Ingmar Bergman's "The Silence", a film about which I remember almost nothing, other than the boy looking out the window to see a tank lumbering down the empty street. And the film also touches on the way in which the hearing of unintelligible languages enforces a sort of silence... And then I thought of Circassian villagers who, during the 1940s, sheltered a group of Russian Jewish children from St. Petersburg. The villagers successfully hid the children for several months under the noses of Nazi occupiers. One household was often visited by a German officer, so, in order to hide the child's identity, his adoptive parents claimed that the poor child was "mute". (The officer took a liking to him and would bring him chocolates.) -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Feb-2019 17:18:23 EST
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@Oliver Shykles Privacy Badger is the only addon I have running (under Waterfox) -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Feb-2019 12:30:28 EST
hosh
Yes, all true; they are usually the first of the flowering trees - as if they just can't wait for the Spring. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Feb-2019 12:23:10 EST
hosh
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/12/eu-soviet-union-european-elections-george-soros
"Europe is sleepwalking into oblivion and its people need to wake up before it is too late."
This article by George Soros blames almost everything on "the antiquated party system that ... reflects the divisions that mattered in the 19th and 20th centuries, such as the conflict between capital and labour. But the cleavage that matters most today is between pro- and anti-European forces."
Probably the EU is serving mainly as a scapegoat towards which it is possible for "anti-European forces" to deflect popular anger, and without finding a way to address the deeper causes of discontent, we'll be stuck with solutions like Brexit, and the rise of populist leaders who only make things worse.
Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/european-elections-the-eu-looks-like-the-soviet-union-in-1991-on-the-verge-of-collapse/ -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Feb-2019 03:21:46 EST
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It's a sign of the times that looking at the neat way Vivaldi creates a graphic presentation of one's browsing history and top sites seems more creepy than helpful.
Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/vivaldi/ -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Monday, 11-Feb-2019 17:02:33 EST
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I used to have (probably still do) Tomita's Debussy LP Clair de Lune, and listened to it really a lot -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Monday, 11-Feb-2019 12:43:55 EST
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@h.ear.t Anyway, it's nice, by the way; it's a nice looking web page. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Monday, 11-Feb-2019 01:10:08 EST
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I've printed this out for the community message board. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 21:38:01 EST
hosh
Our association director yesterday asked me to look into purchasing new non-profit sector licenses for MS 365. These go for only $3 a month per user, but that's still not an inconsiderable amount for us.
I pointed out that it's almost 20 years now since I've used Microsoft products and that all my work is accomplished with FOSS programs. She responded that she's used those programs too but that in her estimation "they aren't good enough for people lacking in computer skills".
When we opened our office in the early 1990s, it was Bob and me, in our mid-30s, and Coral, in her mid-80s, and we were all teaching ourselves to use WordPerfect under MS DOS. Then we made the transition to MS Word under Windows 3.1, so we had to learn how to use a mouse, which was especially tricky for Coral, as old people have trouble with their eye-hand coordination. But she managed quite well, and was able to continue working successfully until she had a stroke at about the age of 90. After a while she began speaking again, but permanently lost her ability to use a computer.
So I'm wondering if there has perhaps been a decline in the average intelligence of workers nowadays, or whether it's just our expectation of what they will be able to learn?
#computers
Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/buying-nadella-a-coffee/ -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 14:35:06 EST
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It may be true but I'm not seeing that double chevron in any of my browsers, right now. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 13:53:28 EST
hosh
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature
More than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered, the analysis found. The rate of extinction is eight times faster than that of mammals, birds and reptiles. The total mass of insects is falling by a precipitous 2.5% a year, according to the best data available, suggesting they could vanish within a century.
Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature/ -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 13:07:33 EST
hosh
I definitely won't be buying an HP printer again.
https://boingboing.net/2019/02/08/inkjet-dystopias.html
https://boingboing.net/2017/09/14/repeat-offenders.html
Besides-which HP merrily profits from the Occupation.
https://globalexchange.org/2014/03/04/hp-profiting-from-the-occupation/
Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/hps-ink-drm/ -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 11:52:47 EST
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Maybe it would be more practical to adopt a new alphabet. Or go back to runes; quite a reasonable option for English. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 02:47:46 EST
hosh
Its pronunciation is even more difficult Oh! Ooh! Ugh! -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 02:45:23 EST
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!Hubzilla Support Forum https://project.hubzilla.org/ is currently unavailable. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Friday, 08-Feb-2019 12:19:31 EST
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World's first Caducean 3D-printed pen holder? -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Friday, 08-Feb-2019 01:44:28 EST
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The CNN site is always full of trashy clickbait headings. Today, "The princess who could be PM", "Delta and Coke thought these flirtatious napkins were clever", "Scary video shows bus flip hitting ice", "Why Ariana Grande won't be at the Grammy Awards". Even when the story might actually be worth looking at, they sometimes use these titles.
Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/clickbait/
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