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FOSS heliboard is a strong competitor to Gboard.

Belgian youngsters aged 17 wil get a voluntary call for 'vacation camps' in the army in a few weeks. Recently a lot of people were hired four the federal and regional governments to handle strategic supplies. All Belgians were asked to stock their own 3 day emergency kit.

You're right. The while planting messages on bodies is what put me on the wrong track.

I work for some local governments in Belgium and with every system they put in place I keep insisting on a analogous version. Online forms? Great but if anyone chooses the should be able to send in a paper form or get assisted by someone who fills in the online form for them.

You can listen to the podcast, if you want.

It's called operation Mincemeat

https://pca.st/podcast/0d412ec0-af39-0139-c19f-0acc26574db2

I've known it all my life since my grandfather had a Medlar (Mispel) in his back yard. They use to make great spicy compote from the fruit.

THE WAKE FROM SLEEP IS TERRIBLY ANNOYING INDEED!!

They do so because it's a tax thing. After three years the devices aren't deductible anymore. Benefit of the whole roulette is that all our devices are constantly under extends warranty so most defects are covered. It turned out to cost more to keep these devices for longer that to replace them every three year.

We run dell or HP laptops at work. After 3 years they get replaced. I usually buy my old work laptop to use it for personal use or to hand off to my family.

Tge first one I bought in that way is still working after 14 years. I converted it from Windows to Linux a few years ago and My mother uses it for browsing, banking and email. Personally I'm using a 7 years old HP.

Batteries get upgraded when necessary and first thin I do after buying is adding RAM.

I don't get how 5 years is a good lifespan on a Mac?

A lot of comments on Notion and Obsidian. Does anybody use Siyuan as a Notion alternative? https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan

Jup, it's a directive.

It's not white, it's bone.

You were mentioning productivity as a reason for motoring your every move at work. Productivity is not a valid reason.

The reason the can't use video footage is because your image is biometric data.

There are other ways of monitoring at the workplace without being so privacy invasive.

My team is set free. We don't have work hours. Technically we have to work 3 hours a day, between 10:00 and 12:00 and between 13:00 and 14:00. Without any monitoring they've reached their yearly target in may of this year.

So productivity is a falsehood. Nobody works harder when they're watched. People work hard when they are valued.

Fair performance reviews now and then do the job.

Then back on safety. I used to work in a bar years ago. It was in a busy part of the city and out of 30+ bars on the square I was the last to close. I had 3 cameras and they were installed for my safety. Imagery was erased every morning and only used when needed after a bar fight or theft. That's fair use.

Never use biometric data lightly.

On a sidenote. I just don't get why people want to live in a surveillance state so much. You can't build a society without trust.

I work from home half of the time. I have clear targets. Some I set for my team, some are set for me. If I reach or surpass my targets, why should I be spied on constantly?

My employee can intrude on my privacy when he had probable cause but only then. Otherwise it is illegal to collect personal data. I need mutual trust to be productieve and evaluation of my work should always be upfront and transparant.

Otherwise I'm puzzled by your claim of productivity. Especially since we are stalking about labour productivity.

Notice that the top tier of the list is populated by countries with strict privacy laws.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_labour_...

> “There is a fundamental shift in how nations approach economic output. Strong social policies and strategic investment in worker well-being are creating more productive economies than traditional long-hour work cultures. The financial sector remains a key driver of high productivity, but it’s the emphasis on work-life balance that distinguishes the leading economies."

https://businessday.ng/news/article/top-10-most-productive-c...

We're past the industrial revolutionaire for while. A happy pig is a fat pig, one could say :-)

I wasn't challenging you. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

It is a flex that will result in great pushbacks. If my government feels the need to monitor all my communication without proper reason I know they're only a step away from using my words against me.

I will oppose any government that outlaws encryption and privacy. There are numerous accounts of peoples personal info being misused for crime. More than there are proven cases of encryption being used by criminals.

I'm so happy those uses of camera's are illegal in the EU. Camera's at work can only used for safety. You could have other - less intrusive - systems in place for all tge other issues.

Don't you have Lineage OS on you phairphone?

We don't even need this google layer. There already is a digital EU ID.

https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...

And here we find openai responding to the issue.

https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-study-mode/

This is no matter of students cheating but of the system to evaluate students failing.

They are using the tools at hand and that is what I expect from my team members too.

When applying for a job in my team I either send a test to complete at home or give them an on site test.

I look at the results and the task test comes in the interview when we discuss the reasoning and sources they used. I expect them to use enduring they have at hand. One of the applicants even confessed she had her husband assist. When I asked whether she understood what she filed as an answer she explained the answer. That is what I need from my coworkers. Call it cheating if you please but then I expect them to cheat their way through life to tge fullest.

When evaluating my coworkers, a forlal procedure at my company, I am well aware of their accomplishments and how they perform. I address issues right away and don't wait for formal procedures.

Teachers should know their students, should get the opportunity to work closely with them. I know thats hard with the size of classrooms but of classes are this big and students only have to absorb, why not replace them with interactive online tools? Give teachers the opportunity to teach smaller groups, to work, to remediate,... Then, when a student gets a degree you'll know its worth.

That's neat! Thanks! I also like his other applications.

https://games.productartistry.com/

It's old stats and - coming from Android authority - the response group is literate when it comes to Android phones but from their 2020 survey 35% claimed to have auto updates of.

https://www.androidauthority.com/auto-update-apps-google-pla...

Then, on a worldwide scale, you can see that a lot of people are running unsupported Android versions.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/android

Yes, there is no guarantee they a web app is more secure or up to date but tge likelyhood is far greater as it's a developer's responsibility and not the end consumer.

By the latest I also lean the lost secure and patched version of an app. You should care.

You need to update the app on your device. That's automated for a lot of users but not all. A web app should be maintained by the developers and should be updated to the latest stable version at all times. A web app shouldn't depend on your OS either so it would also run on OS'es that aren't supported anymore.

This is the way. Belgian banks joined forces years ago to create such a platform for identity verification and private companies can get granular acces when needed and after they are vetted. It's all based on the 2014 eIDAS regulation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIDAS

Actually, they could release a platform quite easily that only delivers age verification, without anything else.

For example, our id's have a qr on it that contains some basic info. Why not provide a platform for age checks with that qr? Anyway, fuck them. Education goes a lot further than trying to force identity verification on private companies when there is no real life threat in play.

The banning guns is easier when you control the sales part.

Preventing children from accessing certain websites is not working at all. It also is a cop out. I have children aged 15 and 17. They received their forest smartphone at age 12. The phones were restricted in a certain way and they didn't get unlimited use. We educated them about proper use and at age 15 restrictions were lifted. They allready know how to use VPN's because they're on my paid account. I see it no different from sexual education.

I don't need a government to make a private company collecting my personal identification. The best guardrail against data loss is not collecting any.

:-) be nice to margarine. It can be used to better your health. Because it's not butter, it can be supplemented with vitamins and minerals and can be used to lower cholesterol. But, I get your point.