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In my journey to self hosting and Degoogling, one thing I've missed is being able to access my phone on a computer. Is there a self hosted solution that allows syncing between text messaging and a PC/web interface?

I don't necessarily need a sophisticated Features like customer management or automation. I just want to access my messages from another device, and of course have a server based backup. The ability to reply to messages from the computer is a plus but not necessary. Is there a good option for this?

The Bones always knew they'd have a big family, but their whole outlook was changed when their first child, Griffin, was born with a heart condition.

"We spent a lot of time at Vanderbilt," Ruchala continued. "He needed open heart surgery when he was 3 months old."

While there, the Bones learned there are many children with complicated medical situations in the foster care system. They decided to do something about it. At the time of this 2022 visit, they'd just adopted a child named Maurice, who needed a kidney transplant.

Flash forward to today, Maurice has had that transplant and is healthy and happy. The Bones have now either fostered or adopted four children with complicated medical situations. Finding families like them is so important to Suzanne Jones of Youth Villages.

"We have a lot of children who end up coming to us out of hospitals," she explained. "Foster parents have to go through training at the hospital, so sometimes that can be daunting. They have to go through the full medical training to know how to care for their medically needy child."

European leaders on Monday condemned the attack as a war crime. There were calls for more sanctions on Russia. A Kremlin spokesman says Russia's military only strikes military targets.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Russia on Monday claimed its deadly missile attack on Ukraine’s Sumy that killed and wounded scores including children had targeted a gathering of Ukrainian troops, while European leaders condemned the attack as a war crime.

Ukrainian officials have said two ballistic missiles on Palm Sunday morning hit the heart of Sumy, a city about 30 kilometers (less than 20 miles) from Ukraine’s border with Russia, killing at least 34, including two children, and wounding 119. It was the second large-scale attack to claim civilian lives in Ukraine in just over a week.

Like the dengue and Zika viruses, Oropouche virus causes a febrile illness. There are recent indications that infections during pregnancy can cause damage to unborn babies. Researchers have now determined that the virus is much more widespread in Latin America than previously assumed. Their study also suggests that climatic conditions have a significant influence on the virus's spread.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A historic antitrust trial began Monday for Meta Platforms Inc. in a case that could force the tech giant to break off Instagram and WhatsApp, startups it bought more than a decade ago that have since grown into social media powerhouses.

The trial is bringing Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg into federal court in Washington to testify.

In opening statements, Federal Trade Commission attorney Daniel Matheson said Meta has used a monopoly to generate enormous profits as consumer satisfaction has dropped. He said Meta was “erecting a moat” to protect its interests by buying the two startups because the company feared they were a threat to Meta’s dominance.

Meta, the FTC argues, has maintained a monopoly by pursuing CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s strategy, “expressed in 2008: ‘It is better to buy than compete.’ True to that maxim, Facebook has systematically tracked potential rivals and acquired companies that it viewed as serious competitive threats.”

Ever since middle school, Jennefer Russo wanted to be a doctor—by the time she entered college she knew she wanted to be one who performed abortions. The reason was simple. As she told Ms., “I grew up watching the impact that abortion had on the women in my life, and I saw that it allowed them to have autonomy and relative control over their lives.”

It would take only two months to stop the DuPont Clinic from opening.

A majority of Californians have supported the right to abortion from the moment it became a political issue, and California law and the state Supreme Court have protected that right for decades.

But the state’s Reproductive Privacy Act was just a statute—a bill passed by the legislature and signed into law by the governor. If one day the political winds changed or some cabal of rogue lawmakers grabbed power, the legislation protecting the right to abortion in California could be overturned too. An amendment to the constitution, on the other hand, would remain untouchable.

Just two weeks later, Kristin Turner—of the extremist groups Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) and Pro-Life San Francisco—made that threat specific.

“We’re shutting it down,” Turner wrote.

President Trump Monday threatened to send Americans to a notorious prison in El Salvador, asking President Nayib Bukele to "build about five more places."

Sending American prisoners to foreign jails would violate the Constitution's Eighth Amendment, which bars "cruel and unusual" punishments, according to criminal justice advocates.

It's not the first time Trump has threatened to send U.S. citizens to Salvadoran prisons. His comments Monday came while meeting with Bukele, who said returning a wrongly deported Maryland man would be "preposterous" despite a Supreme Court order to facilitate his return.

Human rights observers have said the Salvadoran prison is overcrowded, and have documented instances of inhumane conditions and torture.

In 1944, a middle school girl gave her friend a card for her 14th birthday. When the girl’s birthday came around, the friend sent the same card back to her. “Neither one of us can remember who started it,” said Pat DeReamer, one of the two girls, who is now 95. The other teen was Mary Kroger, now 94.

For the past 81 years, DeReamer and Kroger have been sending the same birthday card back and forth to each other on their birthdays, signing their names and the date each time. DeReamer opens it every year on her birthday, April 1, then signs it and mails it to Kroger, so she can open it on her birthday, May 20. Kroger lives in Carmel, Indiana, and DeReamer lives in Louisville

“It’s been a long time,” Kroger said. The timeworn card features a cartoon dog with a large red polka-dot bow tie. It reads: “Here’s wishing you a BIRTHDAY that really is COLOSSAL.” The message continues on the inside of the card: “’Cause it’ll be a long, long time before YOU’RE an old fossil!”

As they’re both nearing 100, the greeting “has taken on real meaning this year,” DeReamer said. The inside of the card has an illustration of a large dinosaur skeleton spanning both sides. The women write the years on the dinosaur’s bones, and cross out the other’s signature when they receive the card. After eight decades, it is crowded with writing.

“We never missed a year,” DeReamer said, noting that one year, the birthday card got lost in the mail, but her husband tracked it down. The friends have not seen each other in a few years, as it’s gotten more difficult for them to travel. The birthday card, though, has been a constant in their lives.

“I’m always excited to get the card,” DeReamer said.

They said they intend to continue the card exchange for as long as they are able, and they believe their families will eventually take over. “I’m sure if I can’t do it, my children will,” Kroger said.

Near present-day Marfa, Texas, a prehistoric hunter once took shelter in a cave. The person built a fire and went through their hunting tools, leaving behind the ones that had broken. Then, they left. Those tools stayed in that cave, largely undisturbed, for 6,500 years, until researchers recently dug them up.

Archaeologists have pieced together this likely scene based on weapons, preserved human waste and the remains of a small fire discovered over the past several years in a West Texas cave. As they dug deeper and deeper, they uncovered more artifacts: a folded animal hide, wooden darts with stone tips, a boomerang, pieces of a spear-throwing tool and wooden shafts thought to be used for delivering poison. The tool kit may be the oldest intact weapon system found in North America, writes Louie Bond for Texas Parks and Wildlife magazine, which first reported the story.

This video is not about politics, it's actually just about math. But I was told to post this here instead.