That thing transphobes do, where something trips in their brains and they end up doing nothing but obsessing about trans women, while probably in a darkened room with no clean underwear surrounded by empty pot noodles and bags of their own urine.
There is a pop-psychology concept amongst tech geeks of a "basilisk". This is something that, once you become aware of it, it breaks you. You cannot come back once you have experienced the basilisk. It's a one way ticket to, usually, madness, or perhaps total system shutdown. It's generalised from the idea from antiquity of the basilisk as a creature that turns you to stone.
There's a fun story called Blit - linked here, infinityplus.co.uk/stories/bli… about a visual basilisk. Another example is something called Roko's Basilisk which is basically Pascal's wager for atheists who spend too long in Silicon Valley (it's stupid, but some of the terrible people with more money than sense, like Musk and Thiel, actually appear to believe it, and are therefore broken by it, and I reiterate, it's really, really stupid).
Anyway, in the latter case, Roko's Basilisk breaks you by becoming aware of it, BUT, here's the thing: it only works on certain people. They have to be susceptible, and in the case of Roko, the susceptibility lies around a particular weak spot in the ability of otherwise intelligent people to think critically and realise, "this is fucking stupid".
But, here's the thing, TO THOSE WHO ARE SUSCEPTIBLE, I've realised that trans women are a basilisk.
Look at people like Graham Lineman, J K Rowling, and a load of less famous people who have ended up in the same state. They all reached a point where SOMETHING relating to the fact that trans women exist tripped them into some downward doom spiral that has basically pushed their brain into a self-reinforcing state of insanity that they can't recover from.
There are probably several psychology PhDs for the taking on the subject of this.
But it seems I, and many women like me, are basilisks. This is a public post. Some of the people hate reading it have already passed the trigger condition. If you're one of them, you should probably empty some of those bags of your own wee and eat a fresh vegetable, if you can. Good luck!
My name is Sarah, and I am a basilisk. Fear me.
24px? 44px ? Wait, 48dp on Android, hu? What is the size of an accessible button exactly?
Well, it depends (haha). @eric clarifies a lot of miss conceptions around the minimum WCAG-conformant interactive element size.
Short answer:
- For 2.5.5 (AA), your target must be 24px, you can use padding (extend the size) or margin (add spacing) to achieve it. This doesn’t apply to link in blocks of text.
- Same for 2.5.8 (AAA) except you need to achieve 44px.
#curl 8.9.0 is out: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/07/24…
2 CVEs fixed
11 changes
260 bugfixes
by 80 contributors, out of which 47 authored commits
in 63 days since the previous release
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Hanna sat down with Henry from @techlore for an in-depth talk about #privacy, #encryption, and #email!
You can watch the full interview here 👉 youtu.be/0wgpuiIoG_g
Who Runs Your Email? Revealing Tuta's Security with Hanna Bozakov
In this interview, we chat with Hanna Bozakov, press officer at Tuta (formerly Tutanota), a leading secure email service provider. Dive deep into the world o...YouTube
I only got the chance to listen to this yesterday.
Great interview. Thank you to both Hanna & Henry!
Navigating Hotel Apps as a Blind Traveler: Accessibility Challenges
Learn about the challenges faced by blind travelers navigating hotel apps for essential functions like check-in and housekeeping tips.Michael Taylor (UsableNet Inc.)
Blind Barbie And Assistive Technology For Visual Impairment
Learn about designing for visual impairment, braille, and assistive technology with Low Vision/Blind Barbie and her white cane!Veronica Lewis (Veroniiiica)
Your Build AI Questions—Answered
Learn about Aira's exciting new Build AI Access Offer, including how to participate, the benefits, and why we've launched this innovative program.Hannah Griffin (Aira)
> Fast forward to 2018. OpenAI releases GPT-1, and suddenly, the future of content creation becomes crystal clear. AI-generated content, indistinguishable from human-written text, is on the horizon.
> (…)
> I'm sure that a vast amount of valuable content is being overlooked. Information that you might search for may never appear in Google's results. Not because it doesn't exist, but because Google has chosen not to include it.
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Big Tech eating itself.
Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content - Vincent Schmalbach
Picture this: It’s ten years ago, and you’ve just launched a new WordPress blog. Within hours, sometimes even minutes, your content is indexed by Google.Vincent Schmalbach
My response (Fedi link). Google has a longstanding bias against new sites as part of its Experience, Expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (EEAT) guidelines, not in spite of them.
LLMs just exacerbated an issue that already had a long history, and Google’s established-site bias has long been visible (though perhaps less so in the past). It’d crawl instantly but not index for weeks or months.
On a more selective Google
Selectivity is long overdue. Marginalia, Stract, and Teclis feel like a breath of fresh air for broad short-tail queries because they downrank or skip pagesSeirdy’s Home
Reply to Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content by Vincent SchmalbachSelectivity is long overdue. Marginalia, Stract, and Teclis feel like a breath of fresh air for broad short-tail queries because they downrank or skip pages full of ads, trackers, scripts, and even SEO. However, Google’s selectivity can’t penalise such criteria as that would conflict with its ad business.
Google has a bias against new sites. This makes sense, given their spam potential. I disagree with your argument that a bias against new sites is a pivot away from Experience, Expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (EEAT): it takes time for a website to become an authority and earn trust. If delayed indexing of new sites is wrong, then the problem lies with EEAT. I argue that EEAT is a good framework for an answer-focused engine, but a bad framework for a discovery- or surfing-focused engine like Marginalia or Wiby, respectively.
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seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE). #Google #SearchEnginesGoogle Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content - Vincent Schmalbach
Picture this: It’s ten years ago, and you’ve just launched a new WordPress blog. Within hours, sometimes even minutes, your content is indexed by Google.Vincent Schmalbach
Evaluating Adobe’s new cloud-based auto-tagging feature for PDF
Our expert Principal Accessibility Consultant, James Baverstock covers how to access Adobe's new cloud-based auto-tagging feature for PDFs and how well it compares to Acrobat Pro’s previousabilitynet.org.uk
"The Biden administration has quietly pushed more than a half-dozen countries to weaken, delay or rethink baby formula regulations aimed at protecting the public’s health — sometimes after manufacturers complained, a ProPublica investigation has found."
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#PublicHealth #breastfeeding #BabyFriendly #formula #marketing #advertising #business #trade
Under Biden, U.S. Officials Fought Baby Formula Regulations Around the World
U.S. officials have challenged baby formula regulations in more than half a dozen countries, sometimes after manufacturers complained. Critics say the efforts are undermining public health.ProPublica
House Committee Calls On CrowdStrike CEO To Testify On Global Outage - Slashdot
According to the Washington Post (paywalled), the House Homeland Security Committee has called on the CrowdStrike CEO to testify over the major outage that brought flights, hospital procedures, and broadcasters to a halt on Friday.yro.slashdot.org
Wise Sons Deli Enhances Accessibility for the Blind and Visually Impaired with RightHear Technology - RightHear
Discover the transformative power of Audio Format Signage in enhancing accessibility and inclusivity in public spaces.Noa Nadler (RightHear)
WOW! Something just let loose on the far side of the sun and Earth (as well as the entire solar system) are getting peppered with hard protons. Debris from the blast emerged in the form of a full halo CME. Hard protons are good at charging spacecraft bodies, fogging their cameras, and causing reboots of onboard computers. Indeed, you can see a hint of the "fog" in the movie above. Each speckle is a hard proton striking the spacecraft's digital camera. spaceweather.com has the latest on this big, BIG boom.
#CME #Boom #protons #SOHO #Spaceweather #FullHaloCME
It's amazing to see how many buses a single subway rail line needs to be temporarily replaced for track construction.
#mbta rail replacement buses for the red line. Full buses every 2-3 minutes, bus berth full of buses. And that's only one line!
Don't underestimate the capacity of a subway train system!
A statement that does not inspire confidence:
"Our [Honeywell] Level-6 [Minicomputer from the 1970s] has been deassessioned and shipped to EDF Energy who own and run eight nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom." — ricomputermuseum.org/collectio…
Honeywell/Ultimate Level-6
Our Level-6 has been deassessioned and shipped to EDF Energy who own and run eight nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom.www.ricomputermuseum.org
abc.net.au/listen/programs/big…
#media #journalism #democracy
Read all about it! — why local news matters and what we can do to save it
Who's watching your local council, keeping you abreast of issues in your neighbourhood, and celebrating your community's achievements? That used to be the role of your local newspaper, but now many of us don't have one.Natasha Mitchell (ABC listen)
There's now an implementation of the reading-flow property behind a runtime flag in Canary! As part of the work to implement this we need to make some decisions about how to handle elements with display: contents, and I've written a post to ask for your feedback and use cases.
developer.chrome.com/blog/read…
Request for developer feedback on reading-flow and elements with display: contents | Blog | Chrome for Developers
Help us to make sure reading-flow meets your needs.Chrome for Developers
Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source zdnet.com/article/switzerland-… by @sjvn
Switzerland is one of the world's leading #opensource countries; now, if only the United States could follow its lead!
Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source
The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
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Big model release today: Meta AI's Llama 3.1 series, including Llama 3.1 405B which appears to be the first openly licensed model that genuinely competes with current top proprietary models GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet
My notes here: simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/23/…
Introducing Llama 3.1: Our most capable models to date
We've been waiting for the largest release of the Llama 3 model for a few months, and now we're getting a whole new model family instead. Meta are calling Llama …simonwillison.net
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today today with 10 updated and 1 added apps:
* FluxTube: Ad-free YouTube client using piped API
Oh, and the #Magisk repo had some updates as well as 1 added module:
* AshLooper: Boot Loop Protection
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
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POL-K: 240723-2-K Verletzter Radfahrer - Zeugensuche nach Unfallflucht
Köln (ots) - Am Samstagabend (20. Juli) gegen 20.30 Uhr ist ein 59 Jahre alter Radfahrer wegen eines mutmaßlichen Fahrmanövers eines dunklen SUV in Köln-Flittard gestürzt....Polizei Köln (Presseportal.de)
When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind.
One of the use cases I thought was reasonable to expect from ChatGPT and Friends (LLMs) was summarising. It turns out I was wrong. What ChatGPT isn’t summarising at all, it only looks like it…R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
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PSA: iOS 18 is going to disable your old ‘Today’ view widgets - 9to5Mac
Apple is planning to end support for legacy widgets on the iPhone’s ‘Today’ view when iOS 18 debuts this fall.Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)
Immer öfter muss ich von #m4a zu #mp3 convertieren.
Da hab ich meiner Kollektion von #Nautilus#Scripts für #Ubuntu doch mal wieder eines hinzugefügt:
codeberg.org/cExplorer/nautilu…
Ein Rechtsklick genügt 🎉
Die Scripte kann man sicher professioneller machen 🤔
#Audio#Workflow#OpenSource
Comcast Lost Over 419,000 TV Customers & Lost 120,000 Internet Customers in Q2 2024 as Cord Cutting is Speeding Up | Cord Cutters News
Cord cutting is continuing to hit Comcast hard as the company has recently lost both TV and internet customers. In Comcast’s 2nd quarter earnings report released this morning, the company reported it lost 419,000 cable TV customer losses.Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
Practical SVG is Now Free to Read Online
Back in 2016 I wrote a book called Practical SVG. Recently, the publisher, A Book Apart, closed shop. Now you can Read Practical SVG on the web, here on this site, for free. I always like how Mat's book was online so now mine can join that cool club. I'll echo what I say on the site: Thanks to Jeff Eaton for…
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Practical SVG is Now Free to Read Online
Back in 2016 I wrote a book called Practical SVG. Recently, the publisher, A Book Apart, closed shop. Now you can Read Practical SVG on the web, here on this site, for free. I always like how Mat…Chris Coyier
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So thanks to @rmader@mastodon.social we managed to get the front camera in the Pixel 3a working with a libcamera/pipewire stack 🥳 Thanks to @flamingradian for the work on the whole port!
EDIT: The driver does not properly release the camera when closing the app, so it only works once per boot. It would be lovely if anybody with the skills would like to contribute to improve it!
gitlab.com/sdm670-mainline/lin…
#postmarketOS #LinuxMobile #Pixel3a #Snapshot #GNOME #GUADEC
media: i2c: imx355: Parse and register properties (!1) · Merge requests · Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 Mainline / linux · GitLab
Analogous to e.g. the imx219. This enables propagating V4L2_CID_CAMERA_SENSOR_ROTATION values so that libcamera can detect the correct rotation from the device tree and propagate it further to e.g....GitLab
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Wir sind heute Abend mit unserer kritischen Position zum Thema #Behindertenwerkstätten bei ZDF frontal.
ZDF, 23.07.2024, 21:00 - 21:45 Uhr
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Menschen mit Behinderungen haben immer noch einen auffallend schlechteren Zugang zum Arbeitsmarkt als nichtbehinderte Menschen.Institut für Menschenrechte
Just read an interesting post: Software engineers are not (and should not be) technicians haskellforall.com/2024/07/soft…
The ending summarizes the key point well:
> Or to put it another way: I actually view it as a red flag if an engineer or team gets into a predictable “flow” because it means that there is a promising opportunity for automation they’re ignoring.
Software engineers are not (and should not be) technicians
Software engineers are not (and should not be) technicians I don’t actually think predictability is a goo...www.haskellforall.com
Purism can produce made-in-USA, tailored GFE devices to gov specs. From wearable COP screens to field & office solutions. #GovTech #MadeInUSA #Purism
puri.sm/posts/purpose-built-sm…
Purpose-Built Smartphones for Government vs. Commercial Off-The-Shelf Devices – Purism
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
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in reply to Tomáš Znamenáček • • •Ja jsem ho zkousel pred nejakou dobou a tak nejak jsem dosel k zaveru, ze vyhledavani jako sluzbu moc nepotrebuju. Google je pro me ve vetsine pripadu spis zkratka/bookmark na par webu (SO, Wiki, news...).
Vyhledavani, jako objevovani neceho, pouzivam treba 2-3x tydne.
A pak jeste vyhledavani jako x-ray, ale to je taky vyjimecne.
Ale koukam na jejich changelog a mozna to zase zkusim.