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A poll, about microwaves!

Assuming you have a microwave oven, does it have a digital display and buttons, or a number of dials only? Just got a new microwave, with dials as I hate the digital beeps, and a friend was surprised that it had dials and not a screen. Over here I think mine is quite normal and common and it's the type I always get! The "microwave is done" sound also comes from a physical bell, which is nice.

Share for science, should you care to.

  • Buttons plus display (14%, 1 vote)
  • Buttons, no display (14%, 1 vote)
  • Dials plus display (28%, 2 votes)
  • Dials, no display (42%, 3 votes)
  • ✨ No microwave participation club ✨ (0%, 0 votes)
7 voters. Poll end: in 23 hours

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Time for serious questions on #Reform and #Russia

(In March, the New York Times reported that “one of the biggest corporate donors to the #populist #ReformUK party has sold almost $2million worth of transmitters, cockpit equipment, antennas and other sensitive technology to a major supplier of #Moscow’s #blacklisted state weapons agency”.)

heraldscotland.com/politics/vi…


Time for serious questions on Reform and Russia

As a former prominent leader of Reform faces jail for taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements, Neil Mackay says we have to ask serious…
Neil Mackay (The Herald)
#Russia #Moscow #reform #blacklisted #reformuk #populist

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I am collecting texts and resources on the "Haitian Revolution" for my Human Rights class and I thought I'd share a few things with you.
First of all, this Graphic Novel (online), which helps you understand what happened: "The Slave Revolution That Gave Birth to Haiti" thenib.com/haitian-revolution/

And this short article which also gives an overview - both written by historian Laurent Dubois, who is an expert on the field: aeon.co/essays/why-haiti-shoul…

#HumanRights #Haiti #HaitianRevolution #Slavery


Why Haiti should be at the centre of the Age of Revolution | Aeon Essays

Haiti, not the US or France, was where the assertion of human rights reached its defining climax in the Age of Revolution
Laurent Dubois (Aeon Magazine)
#HumanRights #haiti #haitianrevolution #slavery
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daniel:// stenberg://

@pablo_martan there is clearly capable AI tooling in the works: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10/10…

A new breed of analyzers

(See how I cleverly did not mention AI in the title!) You know we have seen more than our fair share of slop reports sent to the curl project so it seems only fair that I also write something about the state of AI when we get to enjoy some positive a…
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devSJR

@pablo_martan
Yes, he discussed slob, but in all the cases it was purely machine fabricated and not checked by a human expert. And I think that's what it is all about. If there's a human in the loop, it can be a handy tool. On a side note, the European AI Act also requires humans in the loop for the final check. And back in the days when there were large hopes for decision support systems, people also said they don't work without the humans in the loop.
@bagder
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Asking in English in hope that it'll reach more people! Do you know of some soft a deafie could use to game with her pals? Like, one that could transcript what people say in their mics? Not necessarily free, I'm willing to pay for something that works well, even if it would be a real pain in the ass because I think that a second screen will also be mandatory at some point.

Asking for a me.

Please, boost so a girl can play with her friends 🥰

#accessibility #Steam #gaming #discord #disability

#Accessibility #gaming #discord #steam #Disability

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The word 'Vrede' jumped out at me from this 'Peace' installation. 'Vrede' is Danish for anger, fury, wrath. I wondered if it was an artistic provocation. But it seemed too confined to chance, that someone who happens to understand Danish happens to see this German artwork. So I looked it up and learned that 'vrede' is Dutch for 'peace'.

Vrede. Peace in Dutch. Wrath in Danish. I wonder if there's a word for words like these, that mean the opposite in different languages.

pixelfed.social/p/Rudini/88129…

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Krásné dobré ráno mastodonní bando! 🙋‍♀️🐈🐶
Zítra to bude rok, co odešel taťka. Mamka na dnešek naplánovala výlet na Portáš v Javorníku. Každoročně tam spolu jezdívali na borůvkové knedlíky. Pojede nás hodně. Jedna ze sester bere i tchána s tchýní. Docela nevím, co mám čekat. Prochajdu s Baldínem musím odložit. Vyrážíme ráno, protože sraz je u mamky. No, myslete na mě.
Vy si užijte krásnou neděli plnou pohody, dobrot a nicnedělání! 😊
#dobre_rano
#dobréRáno
#dobre_rano #dobrerano

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I remember coming home from school and telling my mom Columbus "discovered" America. She told me it was a load of crap, and set me straight. Mom was a hippie who challenged the status quo. At the time, it embarrassed me, I'd get frustrated and just wanted her to be like the other parents.
I realized later how lucky I was, and do the same with my daughter.
#indigenous #fuckcolumbus #indigenouspeoplesday
Alt-text: A woman gesturing with her middle finger, along with bold and subtitle text, surrounded by a decorative geometric pattern frame. Transcribed Text: This Monday, don't forget: Fuck Christopher Columbus.
#indigenous #indigenouspeoplesday #fuckcolumbus

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Go to log in.

<password is incorrect>

No, it isn't, I double-checked by opening my encrypted pwd file.

<password is incorrect>

<Login with backup email to be sent a verification code.>

Entered backup email, received verification code.

Enter verification code.

<must enter this info you never needed before>

What?!

Entered info, logged in.

It was never about an incorrect pwd.

I did remove the added info, though. We'll see what happens next time I need to log on. :(

Yes, I am grumpy.

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On my AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS mini PC, NVDA is a bit sluggish in some cases in Firefox; e.g. cursoring through messages in Gmail folders. For reasons I don't fully understand, setting the processor affinity to a single CPU core and setting the process priority to "above normal" helps significantly, even when the CPU is nearly idle. I don't currently have the time/energy to debug the root cause for this or write a proper add-on, but I wrote an NVDA global plugin to make the change for me automatically when NVDA starts. If it breaks something, you get to keep all the pieces.
```
import ctypes

import globalPluginHandler

class GlobalPlugin(globalPluginHandler.GlobalPlugin):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
p = ctypes.c_void_p(ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetCurrentProcess())
ctypes.windll.kernel32.SetProcessAffinityMask(p, ctypes.c_void_p(1))
ctypes.windll.kernel32.SetPriorityClass(p, ctypes.wintypes.DWORD(0x00008000))
```
#nvdasr

#nvdasr
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Jamie Teh

@FreakyFwoof What's really intriguing about my situation is that clearly, it's not really anything in particular that is slow, but rather, how NVDA gets scheduled by Windows. That's not a bottleneck I ever expected to be noteworthy. One of these days, I might try to profile it and figure out what's really going on, but definitely not today and probably not any time soon.
@Andre Louis
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