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I have a happy favour to ask.
Last year, I had a US intern working with us and she now is looking for help that you- good reader of this account- could give.
(She needs academic survey participants)
Check out her flyer below, click the link, and please RT
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Research Study on Data Privacy and Collective Redress
A researcher at University College Dublin wants to conduct anonymous interviews to learn about why you would or would not participate in a legal action to rectify a data protection violation. This information can be used to help nonprofit organizations better represent you when organizations violate your data protection rights. Provide your email to receive more information. All personally identifiable information will be deleted following completion of the study.

So Bitvise, the developer of an SSH client that competes with PuTTY, the widely-used open-source SSH and Telnet client, somehow got hold of the domain putty.org and is using it to promote its own products.
Here's how Bitvise responded to a tech blogger/journalist who wrote about this situation.
https://blog.pupred.…

Luckily, it‘s not as bad as it may appear …
#LibreOffice Lands Built-In Support For #Bitcoin As Currency - Slashdot

Ok, in BW wurden „aufgrund eines Computerfehlers“ 1440 Lehrystellen nicht besetzt.¹
Aufregung, Skandal, zahlreiche Artikel. Nur: was genau passiert ist, erklärt wieder mal niemand.
Ich kann mir das ja nicht so vorstellen, daß die Mike-Krüger-Gesamtschule plötzlich feststellt, daß heute niemand die 7b unterrichtet.
Muß ich annehmen, daß ein Rektor ohne Nachfrage im Ministerium hinnimmt, daß er dieses Schuljahr zwei Lehrkräfte weniger hat (z.B. nach Pensionierung nicht nachbe…

Peinliche Computer-Panne: Mehr als tausend Lehrerstellen 20 Jahre übersehen
Über 20 Jahre fällt niemandem auf, dass hunderte Lehrerstellen unbesetzt sind. Das Kultusministerium ist peinlich berührt, kann nun aber kräftig einstellen.

Grönland gibt's nicht, Liechtenstein ist verschwunden, von Neuseeland hat niemand was gehört
TAZ: Grünspan im Eismeer
Immer mehr Länder fordern geografische Anonymität und möchten mit sofortiger Wirkung von der international regulären Weltkarte gestrichen werden.
https://taz.de/Die-Wahrheit/!6091936/

Die Wahrheit: Grünspan im Eismeer
Immer mehr Länder fordern geografische Anonymität und möchten mit sofortiger Wirkung von der international regulären Weltkarte gestrichen werden.

Netanyahu said:
“There’s so many false reports of conversations that never happened, and I’m not going to get into that.”
“But I can tell you, I think that we do what we need to do, we’ll do what we need to do.
And I think the United States knows what is good for the United States,”
Anonymous administration officials had claimed that the Israelis reported they had an opportunity to kill the top Iranian leader, and that Trump waved them off of the plan

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Aimee Mann:
🎵 Suicide Is Murder
#NowPlaying #AimeeMann
https://open.spotify.com/track/3b3gGKj8NbZXr1saznk7tz

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

pySpainMobility: a Python Package to Access and Manage Spanish Open Mobility Data
Ciro Beneduce, Tania Gull\'on Mu\~noz-Repiso, Bruno Lepri, Massimiliano Luca
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13385

pySpainMobility: a Python Package to Access and Manage Spanish Open Mobility Data
Mobility patterns play a critical role in a wide range of societal challenges, from epidemic modeling and emergency response to transportation planning and regional development. Yet, access to high-quality, timely, and openly available mobility data remains limited. In response, the Spanish Ministry of Transportation and Sustainable Mobility has released daily mobility datasets based on anonymized mobile phone data, covering districts, municipalities, and greater urban areas from February 2020 …

If you are what you eat, I guess that makes me a cheese danish.
-- Anonymous