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Scene: My typical day.

VIP Customer: Build our new office network/tech/CCTV/PACS/BMS infrastructure, possibly with some server capacity... never know if we need a couple AI rigs.

Me: Okay. It's weird how the building has 5 electrical meters but one tenant, and maybe we should add some EVSEs too.

Cx: Don't worry about the meters thing, and yes, EVSEs are a good idea.

Me to Elechicken: How much power (KVA) can we get out the existing panels? What voltage? What current? (So I can order UPSes & PDUs.)

Elechicken: (getting back to me) Uh, I have to call the electrical safety authority because the building isn't wired properly [no disconnects on 600->208 secondary, times 5]

Cx: MYKE!!! WHAT DID YOU DOOOOOOO?

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Brits complaining that they can't engage in protests "against Israel" for one whole weekend after a synagogue was attacked and Jews were killed on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.

These protests usually contain calls for violence, antisemitic tropes, antisemitic rhetoric, and many times "just happen" to be outside of Jewish schools, synagogues, inside secluded Jewish neighbourhoods or even Jewish restaurants- never outside the Israeli embassy.

An image of Veruka Salt from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with the caption "But I want to terrorize the Jews now!"
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lol - lol - lmao

at first I thought this was for the Alto HSR project

nope...it's for the hyperloop-type gadgetbahn thing that's supposedly going to be built between Calgary & Edmonton 😂

best demand payment up front, is all I'm saying

> Algoma Steel will help build high-speed transportation project
sootoday.com/local-news/algoma…


Algoma Steel will help build a high-speed transportation project

Algoma Steel may supply 1.5–2 million tonnes of Canadian-made steel over the course of construction
SooToday Staff (SooToday.com)

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New bookmarklet: WCAG SCs Lookup tool
a11y-tools.com/blog/2025/08/ne…
#a11y #wcag #tools
by @lloydi

New Lookup tool: WCAG SC Reference (bookmarklet and extension) - A11y Tools

tl;dr - I made a tool to look up WCAG SCs and copy the links. As anyone who has spent more than 30 minutes with me where the conversation might veer towards anything technical, I am an über-bore where it comes to the Mac app Keyboard Maestro (KM).
Lloydi (A11y Tools)
#a11y #tools #wcag @lloydi

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Friday.

We've spent days in hospital and the poor wife's had a lot of things going on, but not the things she wants to have going on. Baby is still firmly ensconced.

The house is coming together well though. The first of the sofas appeared yesterday, we put the curtains up this morning and the carpets are all down and lovely underfoot. The window sills have all been painted and varnished, the French doors are sealed and watertight (a good thing with a storm blowing in), and I've just finished re-seating all the electrical wall outlets and light switches now the paint's all dry.

The baby's changing unit remains to be assembled, but the crib and car seat are ready. We just need a baby now.
Daily CTG's are strong. Baby's moving well internally. Things just, have yet to go pop!

The dog, a mostly white-furred fiend with black patches, is lying comfortable on one of the new sofa cushions.
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Sean Randall

@dhamlinmusic not typical, but they wanted to induce labour early due to diabetes. They tried, but before we got to the water-breaking stage there was a mad influx of emergency sections (they've had over 500 deliveries in September). On our second morning there they had 14 cases booked to come in for induction, and 10 of their 10 beds were already full from previous inductees who hadn't moved on.
We've just had the call up now to go in for the Amniotomy in a few hours.
@D.Hamlin.Music
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Kirill

"thrice" догадывался, но не был уверен, в ассоциативном массиве нашлось "twice", хотел проверить, но ты опередил. Есть ещё "quintuple" кстати, в своё время услышал от североамериканских хоккейных комментаторов. Тоже наверное не самое часто встречающееся слово.

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Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) 2025 was last week. Here's the playlist on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn7…
#inclusiveDesign #webdesign #a11y #UIDesign #accessibility

Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) / 25 September 2025

A free 24-hour online event for the global community. It celebrates inclusive design and shares knowledge and ideas from analogue to digital, from design to ...
YouTube
#a11y #Accessibility #webdesign #uidesign #inclusivedesign #id24

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Why now is not the time to think about WCAG 3

afixt.com/why-now-is-not-the-t…


Why Now Is Not the Time to Think About WCAG 3 - AFixt

If you work in accessibility or are responsible for compliance at your organization, you’ve probably heard about WCAG 3.0. The W3C has been developing it for years, and the most recent Working Draft was released in September 2025.
Karl Groves (AFixt)

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Hurrah! #SOURCE issue 3 is out now! There's a focus on #openhardware for this issue with tutorials on the wonderful @FreeCAD , the mighty @kicad , the fabulous @inkscape and also getting your project certified by the brilliant @oshwassociation. As ever it's pay as you feel, links are on this post concretedog.blogspot.com/2025/… #CAD #CAM #PCB #KiCad #FreeCAD #Inkscape #FreeCadFriday #opensource

Please Boost! and have a great weekend. X

The cover of issue 3 of SOURCE magazine. The cover has a diagonal image across the centre with a stack of purple PCB's which are the output of one of the tutorials in the magazine. There is some green text describing the magazine content.

SOURCE ISSUE 3 Out Now! Open Hardware theme!

  Indeed! It's that time again, I'm incredibly pleased to say that SOURCE issue 3 is out now. This issue's theme is Opensource Hardware and ...
concretedog.blogspot.com
#opensource #freecad #inkscape #openhardware #source #kicad #pcb #freecadfriday #cad #cam @Inkscape @FreeCAD @KiCad @OSHWA

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A algunos se les va a congelar la sonrisa al descubrir que las renovables no fueron el problema.

El apagón ibérico se debió a una "cascada de sobrevoltaje" y no a la generación renovable

noticiasdenavarra.com/sociedad…


El apagón ibérico se debió a una "cascada de sobrevoltaje" y no a la generación renovable

Se inició en el sur de España y en minutos se expandió por España y Portugal, según el informe técnico de Entso-E
NTM (Diario de Noticias de Navarra)

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Probably it's only me, but I find this song insanely, astonishingly beautiful, it touches something very deep in my soul. And the voices, of course. youtube.com/watch?v=37lvUhvUV-… #Music #Scottish #Gàidhlig

BRAIGH UIGE / UIG BRAE ~ MAC TALLA (LYRICS)

From the 1994 CD "MAIRIDH GAOL IS CEOL", MAC-TALLA performs ":BRAIGH UIGE" in Scots Gaelic.(Lyrics Below)https://www.facebook.com/groups/100107563413271/ht...
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#music #gaidhlig #scottish

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#Einheit - ein ganz schön großes Wort.

Irgendwann stand damals Stagnation, Frust, Hoffnung, Vision, auch Angst.

Dann Widerstand, Aufbruch, neue Ideen, Aktivität.

Leider allzufrüh DMark, Kapitulation, Beitritt, Anschluss.

Für Wiedervereinigung, Einheit, hätte es Augenhöhe bedurft. Die war nicht wahrzunehmen. Klar, (nicht nur) Freude auf beiden Seiten.

Dann aber ein beispielloses Abwerten, Ausverkauf unter Wert, auf Kosten der Lebensleistung Tausender.

Trotz allem auch wieder neue Wege und Energie.

Die Beschreibung, Erinnerung wird immer unvollständig bleiben. Die Standpunkte sind verschieden.

#Wende scheint mir immer noch passender.

#DDR #bunteRepublik

#ddr #wende #einheit #bunterepublik

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I'm seeing a number of posts about folk thinking of leaving #AndroidDev due to Googles policy changes.

For clarity I left the #Android world this year, and largely for those reasons.

I bought a T-Mobile G1 on the first day. I've built SDKs and firmware for Android, I have commits in the AOSP. I built (and sold) an app store in the early days. I also worked on the Android team at Google for a while.

Android, to me, is now a Google product. Not the open platform it was.

My advice; Just do it.

#android #androiddev

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Encountered my first elevator wit a digital queueing system. You press an accessibility button on a touchscreen, then hear all the floor numbers from highest to lowest read back to you. Once it mentions the floor you want to go to, you press the accessibility button again, hoping that while searching for the accessibility button, you don't touch the screen, because it triggers a floor call randomly to the floor you touched on the screen. Back to hearing all the floor numbers again. The floors are read out very slowly, about 1,5 seconds per floor. If you miss your number, you need to start again. I wanted to go to floor 2 in a 15 floor building. I encountered a lot of annoyed people who were waiting behind me to also call the lift. The spoken prompts were translated wrong to Estonian, so it was hard to understand what they actually meant. THe narrator spoke extremelly slowly and with a tone you'd use with a child, who has drawn on a wall with crayons, for the 5th time. Slowly, patronisingly. Hugely embarrassing experience.

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Andrew Hodgson

Yes all that. I'm surprised they read out highest to lowest, all the ones I have used go from lowest to highest. Also in your office do you have multiple touchscreens? In the ones I have used there have been plenty of screens available for others to choose the floor. People still try and help though and will sometimes cancel it by touching the screen so I have to try and cover up the screen so it is less likely to happen.
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