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Ceasefire:

• Permanent ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine

• Immediate initiation of technical implementation negotiations

Security Guarantees for Ukraine:

• Robust security guarantees for Ukraine

• Guarantors: a group of European and willing non-European states

• Ukraine agrees not to pursue NATO membership

• Ukraine may pursue European Union membership

Territorial Arrangements:

• Crimea: U.S. grants de jure recognition of Russian control

• Luhansk: U.S. grants de facto recognition of Russian control

• Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Kherson: De facto recognition of Russian control of occupied parts

• Kharkiv Oblast: Ukraine regains territory

• Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant & Kakhovka Dam: Ukraine regains control under U.S. administration, energy distributed to both sides

• Ukraine gains full navigation rights on the Dnieper River and control of the Kinburn Spit

Economic Provisions:

• U.S.–Ukraine economic and minerals cooperation agreement

• Full financial compensation and reconstruction of Ukraine

• Removal of all Russia-related sanctions imposed since 2014

• Resumption of U.S.–Russia economic cooperation, including energy and industrial sectors

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/25304615

snips from the article:

Patricia Celan said she decided last June to file a request to determine whether anyone had accessed her records after seeing news reports about privacy breaches in the health-care system.

The result showed that a fellow Dalhousie University medical school resident had inappropriately accessed Celan's records multiple times in March of 2023. She had not been previously notified of the privacy breach.

[...] When she took her findings to Nova Scotia's health authority, Celan said officials confirmed the breach and that there was no reason for the person in question to have looked at her records.

But Celan said she was also told there was little that could be done because by that point the resident who had snooped in her records had completed his training and was working as a doctor in another province.

She said officials at Dalhousie told her something similar.

[...] "And that is concerning because doing something like this is a reflection of someone's ethical values and now that person is practising as an independent physician and facing no consequences for this."

https://web.archive.org/web/20250425160757/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/medical-records-privacy-breach-dalhousie-university-health-1.7517812

https://explosm.net/

From Harold Wilion

When I initially found this owl in the woods, he was behind a bunch of sticks and there was no real shot there. I figured I would just give him space and hang out with him for a little bit and observe.

It wasn't long before he spotted something, flew very close to me, and spent some time concentrating on something that caught his attention. He was actually too close to me at first, so I grabbed a few quick shots before backing up for this shot. I love it when that happens. Not much cropping done for this photo.

Hi, I tried using an email client over a year ago, and after trying almost all of them in the span of a week I gave up in frustration. Would anyone have a recommendation ? For an email client :

• That is actively maintained
• That is not controlled by a company that could pull a Mozilla on it (Thunderbird)
• That isn't proprietary
• That doesn't need 77 dependencies and 450 GB (WTF KMail 😭 )
• That is reasonably fast and light and not too bloated (I just want to read emails, I don't need a full app suite...)
• That supports POP
• That supports writing HTML messages (sorry Claws, I really liked you but occasionally I kinda need to write formatted messages to preserve other people's sanity 😅 )
• That supports reading HTML messages without showing the HTML version as attachments so that every single email has the paperclip icon and I can't tell which messages have real attachments (Sylpheed I think ?)
• That supports MailDir format for portability (why isn't it the default everywhere already instead of weird non-portable formats ? 😭 )
• If possible, that doesn't have an interface that's so awful it's a pain to find anything (Thunderbird)

I also tested Geary and another one but I don't remember much about it... I can't find out whether Geary does support POP and maildir, its documentation page is... well it's a list 8 lines long, but on a page called "Documentation" so it's technically counts as documentation I guess ? 😅 https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary/Documentation

Any recommendation would be greatly appreciated !

Bring the Affinity Suite to Linux - #AffinityOnLinux

About two weeks ago, I posted my frustrations with Linux, and how it seemed unstable and breaks too easily. At the time, that had been my experience every time I tried Linux over the last 20 years.

But I made an effort to persist, tried some other distros, and found my happy place!

Thank you to the people who sent me on the path of "atomic" distros, and mentioning the likes of Bazzite, Bluefin, and Aurora (All from the Universal Blue group).

The last two weeks have been pure Linux joy on my daily-driver (Framework laptop), with only a few problem-solving expeditions.

I was looking for stability, and got it!

As a Windows user since the 90s, it's such a breath of fresh air to use an OS that's clean and designed to serve me (and not the corporation in charge!).

And I've also replaced windows on the minipc hooked up to our family room TV, and will also replace Windows that I've got on a lesser used desktop.

It's exciting to see just how far Linux has come, and even though I'll likely need to learn some terminal commands, I don't feel it's necessary for most people to even get into that.

The GUI in both KDE and Gnome already offer more than Windows. And I'll never have to see those goddamn pop-ups and banners about Office 365, OneDrive, or Xbox, at least not outside a VM!)

Freeeeeedom!

Thanks again!

Source- C-Rowlesdraws.tumblr.com

Paywall? https://archive.is/ZSHXV

After appx. 20 years in the apple eco-system I have decided to move on.

This will take time, i’m thinking 2-5 years.

My first order of business was a tablet. I couldn’t find a viable european tablet so went for a Samsung Tab S10 Ultra which has worked out great. It won me over from my pre-conception that android is somehow more budget, 2nd tier stuff. Its actually a very solid well-designed/built piece of kit in every way an equal to an iPad.

So i’m looking at Fairphone and Nothing right now for a new phone, i’m not in a hurry, I was supposed to upgrade my 14 Pro this autumn and i’m thinking that is still the time line.

Are there other european alternatives that I should be looking at?

Will air pods and apple watches still work in any sort of way with android? I will eventually replace them but both are still quite new.

Any advice from people who has already done this journey?

Pic ridiculous but related.

Senior US officials have warned that the administration could soon give up attempts to stop Russia's war in Ukraine if Moscow and Kyiv do not come to an agreement.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/04/25/trump-says-crimea-will-stay-with-russia-in-latest-interview

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