Canada’s new Housing and Infrastructure Minister Gregor Robertson says he doesn’t think housing prices need to come down, and that the federal government should focus on building more homes.
Satoshi's Bitcoin walks into a quantum bar; Shor's algorithm says, "Your keys or your life," and poof—nothing's funny anymore. blockchain.news/flashnews/sato…
According to @deanmlittle on Twitter, Satoshi Nakamoto's original Bitcoin holdings are locked in Pay-to-PubKey (P2PK) addresses, not Pay-to-PubKey-Hash (P2PKH), which leaves them completely unprote
> For active traders, this highlights a significant security risk for early Bitcoin addresses if quantum computing becomes practical, potentially impacting long-term confidence...
Yeah if they can invent a quantum computer that doesn't exist yet with specs exceeding anything remotely suggested and they can keep the power on and temperature stable to a millionth degree for decades they can break it.
I understand the hate most techncial people have for project managers, but god do I miss having good ones. Having someone who's sole purpose is to make sure work stays focused, on track, and small things don't fall through the cracks is a huge asset to any team full of people that tends to either get tunnel vission on a specific problem or shiny object syndrome on many.
Congrats to my beloved husband! I can attest to the many hours of every day that has gone into this latest edition! I'm glad to see all the love from folks! Go Mike go! mstdn.social/@mfeir/1145080197…
Hello everyone. Just in time for Global Accessibility Awareness Day, I'm delighted to release the third edition of Personal Power: Getting The Most From iOS as a Totally Blind User. This ebook is free to everyone and is available in a number of formats. You can find it at this link: michaelfeir.blogspot.com/2025/…
"Jayson, your blood glucose is 105 and stable." So says a Python program I wrote to query the Freestyle Libre Link-Up API for my most recent blood glucose reading. I had no idea you could even do this, but that's one cool thing about having a truly continuous glucose monitoring sensor on my arm. Now in most cases, I don't even have to use my smartphone to get a glucose reading, though I do of course have to use my iPhone to scan a new sensor initially.
Are you willing to share this application at some point? What OS is it written for? I'd love to see an accessible CGM application either as an NVDA add-on, a BT Speak application or both.
@DavidGoldfield Right now it's just a console app. I run it, it prints the result then exits. I'd be happy to release the code once I sanitize my auth credentials, with the caveat that it might not be the best code out there. I did write it myself, with no AI help, for whatever that might be worth. I'm running it under Python 3.11 and it uses the Pylibrelinkup and timedelta_nice_format modules which can be installed with Pip. To use this, you do need to have the Libre Link-up app, not just the particular Freestyle Libre app for your sensor, and you need to have sent an invitation for yourself to monitor yourself via Link-up, and accepted the invitation.
My list of RSS feeds has been updated! For those that aren't in the loop, this is a categorized list of feeds that I follow. You can easily copy the direct RSS link to things that interest you, or even download a full OPML file for import into your favorite RSS reader. RSS is the past--and the future! Everyone should use it! Feel free to respond to this with interesting RSS feeds that you follow.
Changes (05/14/2025): New: Manton Reece, WIL WHEATON dot NET, Newsweek, The New Republic, Release notes from authentik, Release notes from Docker, Release notes from pi-hole, Release notes from vscode, Home Assistant, Joel on Software, LambdaMOO Status Blog, Lobsters. Removed: AudioGames.net Forum New releases (no longer viable because of their aggressive Cloudflare protection), Popehat, James Hoffmann, Linus Tech Tips, Marques Brownlee, Not Just Bikes, TechLinked Moved: Changelog on Tailscale (now under Software Releases instead of Technology)
In case it wasn't obvious, all YouTube channels have been removed. I haven't been consuming YouTube via RSS for a long time, although I'd love to return to that someday. #RSS #feeds #IndieWeb
There were layoffs at MS yesterday and 3 #Python core devs from the Faster CPython team were caught in them. If you know of any jobs, please send them their way (they kind of know Python, CPython, and its internals well 😉):
15+ years experience in software development; primarily in Python and C as well as C++… · Experience: Microsoft · Education: University of Glasgow · Location: Greater Oxford Area · 107 connections on LinkedIn.
A group of four-year-olds were trying very hard to become accustomed to school. The biggest hurdle they faced was that the teacher insisted on NO baby talk!
“You need to use ‘Big People’ words,” she was always reminding them.
“John, what did you do over the weekend?”
“I went to visit my Nana.”
“No, you went to visit your GRANDMOTHER. Use ‘Big People’ words!”
She then asked Mitchell what he had done.
“I took a ride on a choo-choo.”
“No, you took a ride on a TRAIN. You must remember to use ‘Big People’ words,” she said.
She then asked little Johnny what he had done.
“I read a book,” he replied.
“That’s WONDERFUL!” the teacher said. “What book did you read?”
Johnny thought very hard about it, then puffed out his chest with great pride and said, “Winnie the Shit.”
To avoid disrupting your valuable work, we will be careful and start with very generous limits. Over time, we'll tune the configuration based on your feedback.
We also plan on helping you find and lower resource consumption, should you be shocked with the amount of storage you currently consume.
(By the way, we are aware of a bug that makes repo size count twice. It will get fixed soon)
New #OpenZFS tool landed this week: rewrite a file in place, updating location, compression, checksums and other storage characteristics, but without any evidence above the filesystem layer.
It's not quite the fabled magical block pointer rewrite, but with thoughtful use it can certainly help with much-wanted operations like rebalancing a pool.
oh shit this is great, I wrote my own tooling to do this for me but it wasn't "in-place". It works very well, but you have to run it multiple times to get an even distribution across VDEVs
Parfois, j'ai envie de remonter les problèmes d'accessibilité des sites que j'utilise, "gratuitement" (mais aussi parce que ça m'empêche de les utiliser confortablement). Sauf que bon, je l'ai déjà fait une demi douzaine de fois ces dernières années, et je n'ai jamais eu de réponses donc : la flemme... #a11y
Et malheureusement, on s'en fiche généralement. Maintenant il est à la mode de parler de de-googlisation, de-microsoftisation, de-toutes-les-choses-non-européennes-isation, mais personne, personne, même Framasoft (que j'estime beaucoup) ne mentionne l'accessibilité presque jamais. Ça me fait parfois baisser les bras.
Hello everyone. Just in time for Global Accessibility Awareness Day, I'm delighted to release the third edition of Personal Power: Getting The Most From iOS as a Totally Blind User. This ebook is free to everyone and is available in a number of formats. You can find it at this link: michaelfeir.blogspot.com/2025/…
zed: AI - fuck off vscode: microsoft, AI, electron.. - fuck off (neo)vim: No. micro: are you out of your mind kate: tell me when language config is worth doing sublime: never again if preincluded decade old abandonware means my os will prevent me from installing it due to security vulnerabilities atom: this joke stopped being funny litexl: sigh emacs: eat my astronomical cock stat gedit: it's bad, gedit? (get it?) nano: nanomachines be upon ye other tui based (helix etc.): i am tired of this lapce: i would be delighted if... any of the plugins worked
kakoune: death by ergonomic theory notepadqq: no, but worse xed: like gedit, with depression geany: IDE by IKEA lite: blink and it forks again cudatext: no nova: mac tax for less theia: vscode, but worse, somehow bluefish: why does this exist joe: PTSD from 90s Unix jed: no thanks, I'm sober medit: nothing meditative about it ne: not even once textadept: lua? in my editor? pluma: mate's revenge an: oh look, another gtk wrapper xedit: fucking Xedit mg: mini gnu, major regret ed: the standard editor (for pain)
Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app. This torsocks alternative uses namespaces to isolate Linux applications over the Tor network and eliminate data leaks.
During lunch at work, I ate 3 plates of beans (which I know I shouldn’t). When I got home, my husband seemed excited to see me and exclaimed delightedly, “Darling I have a surprise for dinner tonight.” He then blindfolded me and led me to my chair at the dinner table.
I took a seat and just as he was about to remove my blindfold, the telephone rang. He made me promise not to touch the blindfold until he returned and went to answer the call. The beans I had consumed were still affecting me and the pressure was becoming unbearable, so while my husband was out of the room I seized the opportunity, shifted my weight to one leg and let one go. It was not only loud, but it smelled like a fertilizer truck running over a skunk in front of a garbage dump!
I took my napkin from my lap and fanned the air around me vigorously. Then, shifting to the other leg, I ripped off three more. The stink was worse than cooked cabbage. Keeping my ears carefully tuned to the conversation in the other room, I went on releasing atomic bombs like this for another few minutes. The pleasure was indescribable! Eventually the telephone farewells signaled the end of my freedom, so I quickly fanned the air a few more times with my napkin, placed it on my lap and folded my hands back on it feeling very relieved and pleased with myself.
My face must have been the picture of innocence when my husband returned, apologizing for taking so long. He asked me if I had peaked through the blindfold, and I assured him I had not. At this point, he removed the blindfold, and twelve dinner guests seated around the table, with their hands to their noses, chorused, “Happy Birthday!”
"Дом содрогнулся до основания, и голос этот, заглушивший громкий вой собак, услышали все соседи Вардов. Миссис Вард, стоявшая за дверью лаборатории, задрожала, припомнив, что говорил ей сын в прежние дни о голосе, словно исходчщем из самой преисподней, о котором со страхом повествуют древние мистические книги. Она вспомнила также рассказ Феннера о том, как прогремел этом голос над обречённой на гибель фермой в Потаксете в ту ночь, когда был убит Джозеф Карвен. Чарльз даже назвал ей слова, которые произнёс голос. Он нашёл то заклинание в одной из бумаг Карвена: "ДИЕС МИЕС ЙЕСХЕТ БОЭНЕ ДОЭСЕФ ДОУВЕМА ЭНИТЕМОС".
Сразу после того, как прозвучал громовой голос, на мгновение воцарилась кромешная тьма, хотя солнце должно было зайти только через час, потом вокруг него распространился новый запах, отличный от первого, но такой же странный и нестерпимо зловонный. Чарльз снова запел заклинания, и миссис Вард сумела расслышать некоторые слоги, которые звучали как "Йи-нэш-Йог-Сотот-хе-лгеб-фи-тродог", а в конце раздалось оглушительное "Йа!", завершившееся воем, который постепенно перешёл в исторический сатанинский смех."
хм, мне одной кажется странным, что миссис Вард запомнила какие-то бессмысленные (для неё) слова и слоги на целые года? ~~или она тут тайно тоже замешана~~
Бывает такое, когда на стрессе врезается что-то в память, даже если кажется бессмысленным. Я слышал о подобных рассказах и в реальной жизни, когда люди запоминали какие-то слоги или слова на незнакомом языке, а потом выяснялось, что они значили.
L’ancien président de l’Uruguay, José Mujica, est décédé ce mardi 13 mai. À la fin des années 1960, « Pepe » s’engageait aux côtés d’activistes sociaux et anarchistes, avant de diriger la guérilla urbaine des Tupamaros. ↓
Arrêté en 1971, il est ensuite fait prisonnier-otage de la junte militaire uruguayenne jusqu’à sa chute en 1985 — il sera enfermé deux ans et demi au fond d’un puits. ↓
« Après son élection, en novembre 2009, il a dédaigné les dorures du palais présidentiel pour rester dans la petite maison au toit de tôle qu’il occupe dans un quartier populaire de Montevideo. »
Le président uruguayen José Mujica est le premier chef d’Etat à autoriser la production et la vente — dans un réseau de pharmacies — du cannabis, interdit ailleurs.
If you’re in the EU and you opted out of Meta training generative AI on your Facebook, Threads and Instagram posts and pictures, Meta are requiring you to opt out *again* or they will continue training on your data.
In a move that surprises absolutely noone, GitHub now requires users to login in order to browse public repositories (including open source projects). After a few (~10) requests, you get blocked (I can confirm). In order to fight AI scrapers, I guess.
So, GitHub decided to blanket-limit access to open source projects as a defense against the very scourge that they(r parent company) unleashed on the world.
I won't be hypocrite: it's a bit embarrassing, but undeniably satisfying to say "told you so". I moved away from GitHub long ago and I moved all my stuff to Codeberg instead. And so happy I did!
Select Topic Area Question Body "I'm experiencing an issue when trying to access files from a GitHub repository without logging in. After 3 attempts, I receive an Error 429 (Too Many Requests) and ...
Since today I can't send emails... It says the "Recipient field contains incomplete input" I tried sending an email to/and from several different accounts and is always the same error
We're so sorry you're having this issue, and we have a fix in the upcoming beta, and may push a point release if needed. For now, deleting the extra space at the end of the recipient or reentering the recipient manually is the best workaround. Just curious, what version of Thunderbird for Android are you using? (Release number and stable or beta?)
I don't use Spotify (I'm on Tidal) and I hate it when people post music with Spotify links. This site "translates" Spotify links to other music services, including Tidal and Deezer.
Veamos cómo disfrutar de la última versión del cliente de correo @thunderbird en openSUSE Tumbleweed (y otras distribuciones de GNU/Linux) y no es usando Flatpack
¡Muchas gracias por ayudar a los usuarios de Tumbleweed a cambiar al canal Release! Estamos muy agradecidos por toda la ayuda que prestas a nuestra comunidad.
Trying this again, since I got no answers last time, and only one confirmation that I'm not alone in seeing this behaviour: For whatever reason, the JAWS "Check For Updates" menu option under the Help menu is always unavailable when running Windows and JFW in a virtual machine on a Qemu-KVM hypervisor. What I'd love to know is if anyone knows if this is a bug or feature? If bug, is FS even aware of it? Any planned fixes? I tried to contact FS on this and got about as much as I expected, nothing. If a feature, does anyone understand the rationale of making JFW automatic Updates unavailable on virtual machines? #Accessibility #A11Y #automaticUpdates #JAWS #JFW #ScreenReader #Windows
@menelion Well, you can restart a VM by using the native OS restart functionality. And when the installer asks to restart, and yes is selected, this happens correctly. I am using libvirt on top of Qemu-KVM running on a Debian 12 hypervisor.
@Friendica Support As for my knowledge this intended newbee speaks fluently german, englisch and spanisch, tho maybe du/you/tu is a little bit to shy to ask for help .. not sure.
What is your setup and what have you tried till now @Mina to install your #friendica server, maybe we can figure out what's your problem with the installation. 🤔
until finally the browser told me "redirection error".
I then tested with some arbitrary PHP file if PHP worked. It did (in the root directory and the friendica subdirectory).
Then I tried stuff that was recommended in the forum (where I also found people told to become developers if they had problems), like entering database details into config files, some changes in .htaccess, but, alas, to no avail.
Not sure what is the actual state of the art of the installer is. Last I "heard" and experienced is that it was broken and that the best way to install is thru the console commands detailed in the helpers page: /help/Install#Option+B%3A+Run+the+automatic+install+script
Watching the @embeddedrecipes livestream on the side today, i found out that YouTube live streams work really well through #newpipe, including rewinding to rewatch a segment you just missed and then skipping forwards again. 🥳
Okay, this is officially the funniest programming book I've ever began to read!
But what has happened to the Lisp programmers during all this time? Have they completely succumbed to the AI winter? Are they once again lurking in the shadows, waiting for another day in the sun? No one knows for sure. But if you look hard enough, maybe in the highest mountains, in the deepest jungles, or on the lowest basement levels of MIT, you may catch a glimpse of an odd sort of creature. Some call it the Windigo; others refer to it as a yeti, Sasquatch, or rms. But those who really know think it just might be—that it could only be—a Lisp programmer.
OpenAI is moving to publish the results of its internal AI model safety evaluations more regularly in what the outfit is pitching as an effort to increase transparency.
Abe Lincoln: Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
ADHD Lincoln: Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first hour researching axe maintenance, an hour investigating the properties of different types of wood for making axe handles, a half hour making notes for an upcoming speech, 12 minutes sharpening my writing quills and doing a deep clean on the inkwell, an hour and a half doing my taxes, somewhere between 10 minutes and 2 hours trimming my beard, and two-score and five minutes organizing my formalwear and making little calligraphic labels for the drawers in my wardrobe. I should really chop down that tree tomorrow.
Hubert Figuière
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