John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺

@MicroWave

If true, Elon Musk likely violated the Privacy Act of 1974 and should be prosecuted accordingly.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy/_Act/_of/_1974 :

“The Privacy Act prohibits the disclosure of information from a system of records absent of the written consent of the subject individual, unless the disclosure is pursuant to one of twelve statutory exceptions. The Act also provides individuals with a means by which to seek access to and amendment of their records and sets forth various agency record-keeping requirements. Additionally, with people granted the right to review what was documented with their name, they are also able to find out if the ‘records have been disclosed’ and are also given the right to make corrections.”

direct link (without the wrapper):

“Why some female physicians are eyeing a move to Canada from the U.S.”

By Avis Favaro
February 18, 2025 at 5:00AM EST

https://www.cp24.com/news/2025/02/18/why-some-female-physicians-are-eyeing-a-move-to-canada-from-the-us/

@kilgore_trout @Mio

Computers can be bought off-the-shelf with operating systems other than Windows from a few vendors including Apple, Dell, System76, and others.

@jared @RmDebArc_5

I can only imagine the soundtrack to Pong: The Musical

Beep Bop (intro)
Beep Beep Bop Bop
Beepedy Bop Bop Boo
…
Beep Bop Bah (finale)

@enigma @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

As I recall:
Microsoft Windows used to have good online help, circa 1991-1994 (Windows 3.1).
It was based on the Rich Text Format (RTF).
Then Microsoft added a web browser, and called it Internet Explorer.
Internet Explorer really wasn’t very good for exploring the internet, apparently because its development had been rushed and it didn’t display some things like other browsers would.
Then Microsoft argued in court that its web browser was an integral part of Windows, which Windows could not work without.
Then the judge removed the web browser from his own Windows-based computer and experienced no problems.
Then Microsoft changed its online help to HTML and made us use its web browser to access it.

@NaoPb @aeronmelon

I prefer a graphical user interface free free from advertisements also.

For the last decade, I’ve been using primarily Linux (which I started to experiment with more than 20 years ago). I also use some older Apple OS X systems and occasionally boot a workstation running Windows 7 (but that’s the dunce sitting in the corner).

@DumbAceDragon

I have several Wacom tablets, including a ET-0405-U that has a stylus and mouse with a scroll wheel. The latest Ubuntu doesn’t work with the scroll wheel.