Didn't the Canadian public just give Air Canada $5.9B in a covid bailout the year before their execs got these salaries in 2022?
From Ben Thomson on X: "Air Canada Executive salaries: CEO M.Rousseau: $12.38 Million CFO A.Kazzaz: $3.1 Million COO C.Landry: $2.93 Million CCO L.Guillemette: $2.74 Million Exec VP A.Meloul-Wechsler: $2.0 Million
Full-time entry-level AC flight attendant earns LESS than minimum wage (27k/year before tax)
CEO makes 458x more than entry-level flight attendant
Time for AC executives to take a large pay cut" #cdnpoli #AirCanada
Máme už dlouho robotický vysavač Roborock S7. Se ženou jsme si říkali, že i přes nepřízeň osudu, tzn. dvě děti a dva psi, ho zkusíme v podkroví načasovat na vysávání jednou za den. Takže nesmíme nechávat nic na zemi a ujišťovat se, že se někam nevyblil pes. Oba naštěstí většinou blijí jen do postele. Naplánovaný úklid je důležitý hlavně v tom, že jde o bod čistoty, kterému se přizpůsobí vše včetně nás.
Vám se podaří s dětmi dostat denně podlahu do stavu, kdy ji může vysát robotický vysavač? Tak to máte můj obdiv. My bychom ve vysavači potřebovali speciální zásobník na kostičky lega. :D Na zahradě nám to ale funguje. Tam jsou děti naučené, že když něco nechají na trávníku, přejede jim to robotická sekačka.
@sesivany Máme přízemí a podkroví a zkoušíme zatím podkroví, kde se děti moc nepohybují. Nehrají si tam ani ve svém pokoji. Raději všechno natahají dolů do obýváku. Dole by se podle mě dal vytyčit koridor, kde by se řeklo, že co v něm bude to vysavač uzme. To by pokrylo kuchyň, chodbu, ženy místnost, koupelnu, záchod a část obýváku. Kostičky lega bychom ale asi nacházeli i tak.
I was cleaning out my closet this morning, looking for things that I should throw away. And as I was just about to finish up the job, I found a rectangular device. It's a thick little guy, and it sits neatly in a velcro case. It's a rectangle, and it's about the size of maybe an older phone from the early 2000s. However, I have no idea what it is. It has a severe case of rubber reversion, and I cannot tell if the charger port works anymore either. There's a lot of things I don't know, all I know, is it's not a toy. It has a charging port, a headphone jack, and the buttons that oddly make it look like some retro device. If you have any theories as to what it could be, feel free to share your thoughts in addition, there are buttons on the side of this device. I have seen some volume buttons as well, so there is that. That means there are speakers in this thing. However, when I was pressing the buttons on it, it did not talk or or make some sort of powering on sound.
📣 Sei #A11y und unterstütze den Zugang zum !@metalab für Menschen mit Sehbehinderung oder Blindheit! Komm zum Do-It-Blind (DIB) Treffen 🛠️ am Montag, 18. August, Treffpunkt Ring-Passage, U3-Station Volkstheater um 16:00; Ende 20:00 metalab.at/calendar/event/8151… #make #blind #inklusion
In today's episode of #accessibility shit-fuckery, in an article comparing different platforms for hiring support workers on a website for a company which apparently specialises in disability support plan management: "In the table below, we compare some of the key features of the most popular support worker platforms: Mable, Hireup, LikeFamily, Care Seekers and Find a Carer image.png" Wow. That's brilliant. Because surely people with a disability won't actually be reading this, will they? And making a table accessible is just so hard in 2025, so fuck that, we just won't bother. planpartners.com.au/knowledge/…
Oh hahaha, they also use Userway (an accessibility overlay). I know this because Userway just opened a modal with no useful content and no close button.
I still can't get over userway being owned by one of the largest web accessibility consulting companies. I had heard Level Access was certainly not the cheapest such company, but I always figured if you hired them to fix your site, you'd at least get that... And then I learnt they own user way - and not just recently, for several years, and they still got sued for a million dollars earlier this year by a... Either a bakery or a hairdresser - who themselves got sued for being inaccessible for using user way...
Someone put a bunch of effort into making sure everything a prospective customer could want to know is included in that image.png. And in a way, it worked. Pricks.
## Summary
A **Use-After-Free (UAF)** vulnerability was discovered in `curl` at **`curl_trc.c:195`**.
When processing specially crafted input, the code accesses memory after it has already been...
Suppose one wanted to honour such reports, what on earth is the curl library supposed to do to prevent this?
I can't even think of a theoretical way to do that, and I don't think the reporter did so either. I suspect they just ran a fuzzer and never even understood what had happened.
@loke right, there's no way we can prevent this from happening. You could *possibly* argue that the API is a little fragile designed here, but that's a decision we took 25 years ago so a little late to change now.
And yeah, I think the reporter here did not actually read the documentation properly or perhaps not not properly understand it.
I'd go as far as suggesting that security reports that assumes that the product being reported is used wrongly should not be CVE worthy at all.
I could see a case being made for some kind of advisory, similar to CWE's, but relating to specific products: "how to avoid common security issues when using the curl API" or something like that.
But CVE's should always assume that the product is used correctly. I believe that a majority of the noise in the CVE ecosystem comes from reports assuming that the product is used incorrectly.
@loke I completely agree and we clearly state that in our guidelines: if you're not adhering to the API and follow what the documentation states, we can't guarantee anything and they are left on their own - and that's not what CVEs are for.
Yes, and you can enforce that by being a CVE authority, no?
Sadly, the in general, this is not enforced, and it causes a lot of work for downstream consumers of CVE data. The more I work with CVE data, the more frustrated I get. At least when it's a curl issue, I know I can take it seriously.
The first release candidate for the pending #curl 8.16.0 release is up and if you have a chance, do try it out and report any and all issues you experience:
This has to be some AI bullshit recommendations. I’m browsing spoken.io. Not really looking for anything in particular. I tap a coffee grinder (first image). I scroll down. I see “looking for something similar?” and it’s a bunch of products whose product photo is a black monolith on a light background: - an indoor trash can - an outdoor trash can (the size of a barrel) - a cylindrical light fixture that I could mount on the wall - a nightstand table that is vaguely similar in shape
It’s the most absurd way to calculate “something similar” It’s hard to get this stupid with natural intelligence. You have to augment human stupidity with computer stupidity to get this stupid.
@feld It’s obviously not generative AI, but it is probably computer vision ML. I’ve interviewed machine learning specialists who do exactly this. One was trying to analyse photos to determine merchandise material based on lighting, reflections, etc. It’s really hard and, well, error prone.
@feld This. I helped build one back in 2014/2015 (I cant remember which) for a fashion company, long before todays LLM bullshit. Automated similar product recommendations is fairly standard, not sure why you'd try and get a human to do it - its a lot of work for something very few people click.
@mkc Using product image similarity to find “similar products”—without also using some other metadata like category, size, or product name to exclude bad matches? It seems obviously broken.
Someone paid to have this implemented. If so few people click it, why do it at all?
Lots of people have pointed out that there’s no reason this needs to be AI. That’s true. It’s just the first explanation I reached for.
> without also using some other metadata like category, size, or product name to exclude bad matches? It seems obviously broken.
Unfortunately this is our future. The cost to accurately attach this metadata is too high. It would require manual human intervention considering that they're just scraping the web to even find these images using, presumably, reverse image search tools.
The days of neatly categorized items in a database are pretty much over unless you're a giant corporation that can afford to do it right. If you're a startup? You're just going to rely on any AL/ML tools you can and hope for the best.
Prices are getting much high, but as for shocking... well I'm not surprised that a moron funneling our taxes to a state on the other side of pond is basically jeopardizing non-contested imports.
NVDA 2025.3 Beta 1 is available for testing! Improvements to Remote Access, SAPI5, Braille, Add-on Store, and more! Read the full update and downloaad from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-3b…
Goodness y'all, did you hire like ten extra employees? All these releases are starting to make my head spin. I mean I'm notcomplaining in a bad way or anything. I'm all up for Braille improvements.
Prism File Explorer is a modern, feature-rich, and lightweight file manager for Android, delivering a seamless file management experience with a beautiful Material Design interface. Thanks to the efforts taken by its developer (and now using CI to build it), the app is now reproducible.
Remember Axel Spinger is that Springer that basically publish AI generated scientific books and paywall science. He is right there next to Xelon, Bezos and Zuck. And the others. And if I believed in hell I'd wish him to rot there.
Across the internet, users rely on browsers and extensions to shape how they experience the web: to protect their privacy, improve accessibility, block harmful or intrusive content, and take control ...
A reminder here that arbitration always favours the abuser -- which, in the case of a corporate/individual dispute, is almost invariably the corporation.
Background: Air Canada decided to skirt labour laws by saying that flight attendants aren't on the clock until the plane leaves the runway. This, combined with the fact that the contractual pay did not keep up with inflation, has led to a strike against the company, well-known for being abusive and dismissive towards employees and customers alike.
12 hours after the strike began, the Liberal government, known well for sucking off Air Canada's fuel line, declared that forced arbitration would need to be done.
The union saw that arbitration would, by its nature, favour Air Canada and fuck over their members, and said, 'No.' So good on them.
To those who've had their flights cancelled by Air Canada, remember that they legally have to reimburse you for a flight on another airline unless you accept another option, so don't accept a refund when the replacement might be more expensive.
Je donne une TV LCD pas tout à fait neuve, puisqu'il s'agit d'une Acer AT3235 720p /32"/2 ports HDMI/1 entrée VGA/sortie audio composite et ....2 prises SCART (pratique pour brancher votre magnétoscope ! ) J'avais mis une annonce sur Le bon coin mais faut croire que personne ne veut plus payer pour ça 😄 A récupèrer à Illkirch centre. Pour les détails, contactez-moi en privé. Edit : elle a trouvé preneur ! #don #strasbourg
If the cookie returned by the server is expired, curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_COOKIELIST, &cookies) will still retrieve one expired cookie(Only the last one).
Below is the test code:
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Glad you enjoyed it. Will do another dancing workshop next year.
I've also read your section on alcohol with great interest. I can handle seeing alcohol, but don't drink that and would hope that society can leave it behind one day. And I've had negative reactions on not drinking before in the youth movement, as if someone who doesn't drink should be 'fixed' by learning them to drink (which I found very rude)
We are impressed with the new fightchatcontrol.eu/ website, and the way it provides all the info needed to engage in distributed diverse action to prevent the EU from preparing the ground for, or sliding into, authoritarianism by breaking end-to-end encryption for everyone. Germany and France are particularly important to engage with and we'll see what we can do from our circles. We don't know the people behind @chatcontrol but big kudos! #chatcontrol
Sinds het begin van juli wordt op de Burg in Brugge, door middel van krijtboodschappen, geprotesteerd tegen de genocide op het Palestijnse volk. Vandaag, 17 augustus vormde daar geen uitzondering …
What can be done about London's overheating homes?
Andre says he saves a lot on heating in the winter As a musician, Andre Louis works a lot at his home in Kilburn and in summer, despite having numerous fans placed around the rooms, he says it gets unbearably hot. "The way that these places are built, they are built for warmth, but that means that in heat, it is doubly warm," he explains. "We don't turn the heating on in the winter, for example. We haven't done in about eight years. In that time, we've actually saved a lot of money by not having to turn the heating on. "But because these places don't come with air conditioning, we find that anything we do to mitigate doesn't help."
air conditioning would be nice. It went down to 10 degrees outside last night and the bedroom was still up in the 20s. yeck. Congrats for being on the news, though. Cool stuff.
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Danke euch für die vielen großartigen Talks! Wir sind alleine in den letzten paar Stunden nochmal komplett überrannt worden 🙈
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