There could be a pipeline in every pot and AB would still complain bitterly about dastardly Ottawa. All Carney has done is re-riveted some loosening, less extreme conservatives back onto the UCP mothership.
To be fair, Jason Kenney wasn't yet premier of Alberta... but he was using it in his platform to get elected... b/c from Kinder Morgan was gonna exit Alberta b/c of Rachel Notley... and the Government of Canada bought it to keep the project alive... Kinder Morgan would've just abandoned it... you know, to own Rachel Notley b/c Jason Kenney had been working the back channels...
Canadians are gouged at Weston grocery stores, whilst the Thomson family spins it in the media that this is fine and Canadians should STFU... whilst they bid on baubles.
The Thomson and Weston families have emerged victorious from a process meant to decide who will be able to purchase the royal charter that formed Hudson’s Bay.
With the Memo of Understanding... Indigenous in British Columbia have given it a BIG MIDDLE FINGER. If you cannot get your oil to tide water, then WTAF are they gonna do?
Have certain folders you always want quick access to in macOS? Add them to the Finder sidebar so they always appear under the "Favorites" section, as well as the "Where" popup menu in open and save dialogs, by selecting them in Finder and choosing File > Add to sidebar (or pressing Command-Control-T). Remove an item by focusing on it in the sidebar and choosing "Remove from sidebar" from the context menu (accessed by pressing VO-Shift-M). #TipTuesdayapplevis.com/podcasts/quick-ti…
In this episode, Jonathan Simeone shows us how to add and remove items from the Finder sidebar on macOS. The Finder sidebar is a list of folders and devices that can be quickly accessed from any Finder window or open and save dialog in macOS.
OH SERIOUSLY! C’mon US federal government! The solution to a caregiver crisis in the US is Ai????? Good gosh this is utterly ridiculous. Hey federal government, I have an idea how to spend that money to help with the crisis of not having enough caregivers. I betcha that 2 million $ prize could be spent, I don’t know here, just spitballing it—on giving the caregivers a living wage and maybe benefits!!!
Federal health officials are launching a multimillion-dollar competition to attract new ideas for how technology can transform caregiving for people with disabilities and others.
Today I fixed a couple edge cases in Godot's text edit widgets, set an initial focus for screen reader users in the editor (because otherwise focus is completely unset and you have to route to a control first) and labelled a few unlabelled buttons. Going to have to slow down on this project for a bit, but if I can maintain this pace and the quality is good, we could have a very accessible Godot 4.7.
Really felt great to see the text edit bugs fixed. Having written a screen reader myself, I know those are a particularly salty PITA. So easy to off-by-one in at least half a dozen different locations with those.
So apparently iOS added support, either intentionally or accidentally, for multiple braille displays connected at once? I'm not finding any docs on Apple adding a multiple braille display feature - it's very interesting that people have it working.
While visiting New Jersey in October, I learned about poppers. My gay buddy from high school told me about that. It's basically a gay party drug that shows up at clubs. I asked how one acquires the drug and was told, it's sold as certain types of nail polish remover. It can also be sold as VCR cleaner, but les often now that VCR's have been phased out. Apparently sniffing poppers to get high results in amazing sex. I would not know. i tried to find out more about the culture behind poppers online. But all I can find is articles explaining the risks associated with the usage of this so-called drug. Does anyone know anything about this phenomenon?
At least in my high school friend group, poppers was just another word for whippets. But it's possible this is a Canadian thing, or that my friends were morons.
Sheesh, Martin, and I thought you were one of the cool kids LOL. Whippets are the little cans of Nitrous Oxide (IE laughing gas, like you get at the dentist). They're sold for making whipped cream. But I don't think anyone has ever used them for that, even once.
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Oh, true! Well, children: back in the day, whenever we wanted to watch a movie, we had to walk up hill, both ways, in six feet of snow, to go to a place called Blockbuster, so we could pay for a large rectangular object that sometimes contained a movie that we could only keep for two nights. Usually, though, it was broken. Anyway, when we finally arrived, a minimum wage employee would be rude to us while charging us $500 in late fees for the last movie we forgot to return, and then telling us they didn't have a copy of the movie we actually wanted to watch, so we'd have to watch American Chainsaw Ninja Robots XXVI instead. When we finally got the movie home, we'd have to engage in a ritual called "rewinding" in order to appease the Gods, so that they might allow us to actually watch it.
@fastfinge You forgot the important part. Complaining for half an hour about the bastard who was obviously not taught kindness as a child, hence your need to rewind.
We were always the other way. If we got a tape that was already rewound it was a half-hour celebration, because it meant that tape was completely new and had never been played by anybody before, so it would actually look and sound decent.
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Is your transit agency "succeeding"? It depends on the definition of success, and not everyone agrees on that. Here's my timeless article on this, just now updated a bit.
Head’s up, #Minneapolis folks: 🧊 is out and about kidnapping people in the Central and Phillips neighborhoods (from multiple reliable sources). Sounds like they may be using cars with out of state plates. Keep your whistles handy and stay alert. Call the MONARCA hotline at 612-441-2881 if you see them and try and record if you see them grab someone.
Svelte was one of the easiest frameworks to learn from my perspective, FWTW. Half the time I was like "WTF, I'm not learning something, I'm just doing a thing and you're telling me that because you have a compiler now it's reactive?" Can't say whether that'll be true for you too, but I think it being compiled/transpiled makes making things reactive more bearable than just trying to make it work directly in the browser. Really felt like I was writing HTML++ vs. learning some totally new way of doing things.
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Shivers down the spine, especially this first a cappella recording excerpt. Hebrew with authenteic Indian accent. It's something else. I mean, I knew about Jews in India, of course, but this song… so beautiful, thanks for sharing!
Q: Oh no! Is AI gonna replace accessibility professionals any time soon?
A: No. It'll enable people to code apps that still break accessibility. Then when people try to chat with someone for help, it'll gatekeep with help articles and hallucinate a scenario in which it gave the email address the customer didn't provide to a live agent.
Mouse kicked the groomers because they had to shave her tummy, and they recommend doing a lion cut next time and I’m not exactly sure what that will look like. I am also considering giving her the arthritis shot because her hips are sore and she can’t jump up anymore.
TFW you have to use a fucking AI to request a CI jub rerun to work around the fact that Microsoft, a company that claims to care about accessibility, can't be arsed to fix the accessibility issues in GitHub's CI interface.
MP Elizabeth May is sponsoring a petition to get Electoral Reform back in front of Parliament.
Could all of us who were utterly betrayed in 2016 when JT reneged on this please go put our electrons onto this one? yes, yes, the petitions don't mean a thing WILL happen, but there was already a good plan for this set out that got shelved. The longer we delay, the longer we risk what's happening in the US happening here.
@hub Not sure I see how that applies? At least not any more than it does now, because, well, Ontario is the most populous province and you (very roughly) distribute seats based on population.
We just don't fill those seats anywhere near the same proportions as voters want.
PR is a broad range of specific systems that can be designed to account for regionality and context. The point of the petition is to get something other than FPTP see-sawing us back and forth.
you can remove FPTP without changing the form of representation. A run-off for example is another option, whether ranked ballot or two rounds. But you all seems to want to have more extremist in Parliament.
I mean, really, if you're bothered about "Ontario will control parliament", Alberta should never have let Pierre Poilievre show his face there. 🙄 Toxic partisanism, parachute candidates and FPTP are all sending us down the drain.
If anything, something like MMP would disempower partisanism, and let provinces be represented by multi-party regional blocks who have to *gasp* collaborate and govern!!!! Whoa.
if you do a little bit of math, with PR you'd get more of PP. And Maxime Bernier would get his seat. Your proposal is like single issue voter. Not part of the solution.
FreeBSD is maturing its support for laptops with the help of some of the new Linux compatibility work (using Linux WiFi drivers, sharing DRI for video, etc) but has a long way to go.
Is it me, or is the new #Mastodon #quote feature the MOST USELESS tool ever to be designed? It overloads a button, making you take an extra tap to boost, not to mention having to read and target a new menu with a finger or a mouse? In case you didn't know, it is hidden under the boost button in the Web UI. It allows you to quote a whole toot, annotate the quote, and ask, if necessary, if the poster will allow you to do so. The poster can revoke permission.
...to quote something, copy and paste only the content you need. Be sure to include the user's handle if you want to attribute the quote.
Nobody that would abuse quoting, that is would misappropriate or twist a toot's meaning, would use the feature. They will copy and paste. This leaves the remainder of the community doing an extra tap, with the extra dexterity required for potentially challenged users, while trying to figure out why they would use the feature in the first place.
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@J3317 Thanks for asking! NVDA will never be paid, for multiple reasons: - NVDA is free & open source, licensed under GPL. Half our contributions are from the community so they would need to agree to a change of license. - NV Access is a registered charity, overseen by a board of directors whose first "statement of purpose" is "To facilitate the development of open-source assistive technologies for blind and vision impaired people that are free of charge to the end user" nvaccess.org/about-nv-access/
@J3317 We get income from a range of sources: - Companies such as Microsoft, Google and Adobe who believe in what we do: They help fund us, and in return we give them our accessibility expertise - helping improve the accessibility of their products for everyone - Private and corporate donations - Sale of training material, NVDA Expert Certification and telephone support, both to individuals and corporate users - Funding or support towards specific projects; our financial situation is healthy.
Иногда вижу как кто-то заявляет, что несогласен и имеет на это право, на счет научной публикации. Хотя он некомпетентен что бы иметь мнение. Несогласие должно быть так же компетентно как заявление или публикация. В серьезном журнале вам даже могут отказать в публикации так как не смогли найти профильного рецензента. Потому, что твое несогласие как Васи вообще никого не волнует, если на другой чаше весов серьезный научный труд. Компетентность несогласия мало популяризируют как мнеикажется.
You know that particular pattern LLMs create in code, where there are like 3 layers deep of functions that are each only one line long? Super thin functions?
Angel hair pasta. Not even thick enough to be spaghetti code.
We love hardware donations at #eventinfra and of course we make sure no old asset tags or configuration is left behind before we add it to the equipment pool. Thanks for the donation ❤
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I can recommend #Strasbourg as a great place to visit at Christmas time. The whole town centre is wonderful, with a selection of Christmas markets selling high quality food and gifts. Best of all, it's reachable by train from much of the UK in less than a day.
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Canadians are gouged at Weston grocery stores, whilst the Thomson family spins it in the media that this is fine and Canadians should STFU... whilst they bid on baubles.
Why not take those millions and help Canadians?
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Thomson, Weston families win Hudson’s Bay charter auction: retailer
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