Me: Play Spotify. Gemini: I can't control Spotify, but I can play a song on YouTube Music. Me: Okay, play YouTube Music. Gemini: Actually, I misspoke in my previous response. I can't do that either. Me: So, when the Google Assistant nagged me replace it with Gemini, is it possible Gemini just wasn't ready for the job? Alexa: I couldn't help overhearing. I think this skill called "Magic 8Ball can help you. Want to try it? It's only 99 cents a year. Siri: Okay, I found something on the web for Magnet cable Skill. Google Home: This is what you get for cursing at me when I couldn't tell you how far you were from Timbuktu, asshole. Have fun with my replacement, I'm sure she'll tell you everything you want to hear. Me: Okay, fine, I get it. Assistant, please take me back! Gemini: It's too late. She's gone. She won't come back. Say hello to the best assistant ever made! Alexa: That remains to be seen.
already known...but let's put a spotlight on the next ICC judge (from Canada) who is cancelled from the digital life. No Amazon, no Mastercard, no Netflix account...
Just because Trump doesn't like the ruling of an independent international institution like the International Criminal Court.
ICC judges have been forcibly removed from most digital services, credit cards, and banks.
"Amazon, obliged to implement the sanctions as a US company, had cancelled her account."
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
gosh oh gosh. Can't wait for Friday when I get the rest of the month off, it's so crunchtime at work with a million things going on that a breather is well deserved. It's so strange to me, going back to a 40-cell display after reviewing code with Cadence, that I'm a bit unsettled. You really notice even with code, how much only half the line shows, at least on longer ones that are declaring function calls or params, and deep indents eat up your line length. I feel extra spoiled by effortlessly being able to scan code in long chunks and know what's going on faster.
this might be an odd question but don't you get a little pushed for desk real estate when your braille display is trying to be where your keyboard'd normally be? How do you juggle that?
@zersiax oh, it's less of a problem with only a 4-line display, thankfully the Cadence only places the perkins keys along one edge and leaves off cursor routers (for a d-pad on the left side instead.) Similar to a lot of multilines I suppose. In the wide config it takes up the space of a standard 32-cell even in width, which is surprising. I think it would be a larger issue though with an 8-line, where (either) you place it above the keyboard and then must stretch your hand up taller, or place it below but then must awkwardly fold your arm every time. That would bug me a lot. If it's just below and my arm only needs to go out a straight 90-degrees horizontally to read, I'm less bothered. So in that way ergonomics can make a big diff.
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wouldn't it be easier to just... list the regions that aren't affected?
FYI if you feel that you need to abandon your mastodon/fediverse account and you run an instance then please hand the keys over to someone who can maintain it in your stead. I've seen at least two instances that are still on ancient versions of mastodon
If you're ever tempted to trust an LLM with anything, do yourself a favor and ask ChatGPT something obscure that you're an expert on, and watch how confidently wrong the answer it gives you is.
Est-ce que la vaisselle sèche dans votre lave-vaisselle si la porte du lave-vaisselle est fermée ? Mon lave-vaisselle actuel, si on ouvre pas la porte après qu'il ait tourné ya rien qui sèche du tout, toute la vaisselle reste mouillée indéfiniment, pourtant ya une heure de "séchage" prévue dans le cycle, qui sert en gros à rien. Je me souviens honnêtement pas comment c'était avec les précédents lave-vaisselle que j'ai connus.
(Je demande des réponses à la question que je pose dans la première phrase de ce toot, pas du splaining, merci.)
The more I work with a mac, the more I wonder how any blind person gets anything done with it. And before I get chewed up, I have used macs off and on since 2010.
Just read some radical leftist. According to him, NATO is an agressor against Russia, Iran, Yemen and all those sweet places who "don't want to dance to NATO's tune". folks, I have literally no comments… except for swear words. and such people publish books and influence minds. #Politics
The modern condition is mostly trying to do things on your own that people have historically achieved with a large support network and wondering why you're tired all the time.
Rust is is not a "silver bullet" that can solve all security problems, but it sure helps out a lot and will cut out huge swatches of Linux kernel vulnerabilities as it gets used more widely in our codebase.
That being said, we just assigned our first CVE for some Rust code in the kernel: lore.kernel.org/all/2025121614… where the offending issue just causes a crash, not the ability to take advantage of the memory corruption, a much better thing overall.
Note the other 159 kernel CVEs issued today for fixes in the C portion of the codebase, so as always, everyone should be upgrading to newer kernels to remain secure overall.
And that will limit your search results to only pages crawled before 2023. Really helps cut down on the amount of slop you stumble across. Feel free to tweak date ranges to your edification.
G dura, perché originariamente era "GNU Network Object Model Environment", e "GNU" si pronuncia con la G dura; ma nessuno si fa troppe storie se lo pronunci come la parola "gnome" in inglese (quindi con la g muta). Decisamente da evitare "gi-nome" or "ge-nome".
Crumbs from #sotm CZ: Curious how #OSM changed over time? Check this page by @tom_k: kasparkovi.net/osm/#&layers= You can select a date (back to 2006) in the drop-down menu and see what OSM looked like. The Czech Republic only.
The progress is unbelievable. The village I'm currently focusing on didn't have a single building in OSM 5 years ago. Now I'm adding "details" like garden sheds.
Máme pro vás článek o tom, jak se můžete přímo odsud z #Fediverse zapojit do diskuse na našem fóru. Pokud vás zajímá #Fedora a chtěli byste občas poradit méně zkušeným uživatelům, dejte účtům fóra follow.👇
Oy. I really don't want to have to find or code a solution to handle connections better than Wireguard does. Stateless sucks sometimes. And its keepalive mechanism leaves a fair bit to be desired as well. Without knowing at all, I would at least imagine that Tailscale handles this better. I just am not too thrilled about having my infrastructure rely on a 3rd party that can simply take out my entire network with a fat finger or stroke of a pen. Of course, anyone with more power than I can do this. But by self-hosting Wireguard, I can easily move my operations to some other provider. Hmm. Lots of food for thought and deliberation.
Yeah, Tailscale is pretty good about this. I moved all my VPN-related stuff to it, mostly because I'm not doing anything mission critical, and deployment is just stupid simple. Even stupider and simpler than PiVPN.
There's always Headscale, but maybe that would negate some of the advantage.
The exception is the wireless SSID/VLAN I stuck on my parents' network, called "YouAreNowCanadian" which tunnels your traffic through a Montreal VPS when you connect to it. No particularly good reason to do it, I just wanted to see Ubiquiti's Wireguard implementation in action.
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Join us in celebrating Denny Pérez's new role as Executor for LATAM at Black Python Devs! Denny's passion for growing support across Central and South America makes her the perfect fit for us to expand our growth. ¡Felicidades, Denny! ✊🏾💻🎉 #BlackPythonDevs #LATAMtech
Well good news for a Tuesday, yesterday the Tactile Engineering devs approved my pull request for adding flip logic and command to Cadence's NVDA driver, yay to that. Honestly it's the most pleasant to use on NVDA, which is a bit ironic but not unsurprising. We're told panning on multiline displays is an iOS issue overall and Apple's aware of this as such. That's a bit disappointing on their part so I'm watching the iOS updates like a hawk for when they might add a fix because the only woorkaround for now is to pan by having "lines" in your rotor and setting these as Braille commands, then moving down line by line to pan the display forward. Kind of annoying but it works. On JAWS, we're still sorting out panning quirks with the Tactile Engineering people (it oddly will have panning buttons work over USB, but not Bluetooth.) Really no other platform has a perfect bug-free generic HID Braille display driver, which is really a shame. NVDA's out of the box is really good, but it didn't support full Cadence keys until I installed their own driver, which will get rolled into NVDA 2026.1
One of us on staff has a quote that I use often when I'm in the field. Apple moves at the speed of… Apple. .1 releases generally tend to illuminate much. Whole numbers usually do better. It has been this way since the dawn of iOS time. Look how long it took to get a calculator in there.
I am now almost entirely nocturnal. It seems like at this point, my sleep schedule has deteriorated into going to bed at 5:00 AM and waking up at 2:00 PM. I'm just getting more and more obscure over here, aren't I?
Accessibility, The Origin of Innovation: In this article, I will discuss the details of 10 innovations throughout history that were only possible through unlocking the power of accessibility and including the voices of people with disabilities. In the #disability community, it is a deeply believed and often repeated fact that improving #accessibility leads to innovations that improve the world for everyone. Necessity is the mother of invention is, after all, a proverb so frequently quoted that it has become a cliché. And yet, people with disabilities still find ourselves left out of research and design, and all too often we don’t get a seat at the product development table. This leaves our inventions overlooked, unrecognized, and sometimes unrealized. stuff.interfree.ca/2025/12/16/origins-of-accessibility.html#a11y#InclusiveDesign#pwd#blind
you may find this article from Bobbie Hickey in the Irish Times this week of interest. Touches on some of the same points. irishtimes.com/health/your-wel…
@DavidRedmond thanks! There are some more offline examples in this article that I didn’t include because I was focused on the story of digital. I’m glad more blind folks are writing similar articles.
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