@p nah, but around 2015 my wife was doing a lot of running events and it was about 3 weeks before a half marathon and she kept poking the bear, daring me to run it so I did like one 5 mile run and one 8 mile run and then showed up and crushed it, beat her by like 15 minutes
never ran like that again. I suffer from an affliction called "extreme boredom" and when doing long distance running I start thinking about how this is such an absolute waste of my time and wishing I was able to do something productive instead of being trapped in a mental prison cell.
Also I just got really hungry, almost peeled off to go to a diner to have brunch instead
I do like long distance cycling though, because the scenery is better
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Mentioning this because I encountered this for probably the thousandth time today.
I can confirm that Adobe 2025.001.21978 returns accessibility support to reading and filling out Adobe pdf forms. The same version of Reader has the same fix. So glad it's fixed and that you and my agency users who need to be able to fill forms for their jobs have access to this critical fix.
So has anyone figured out why these new GPT-5-era chatbots love love to use the term sanity-check? Sanity-check this, sanity check that. I'm gonna sanity-check your sanity-check
I do like the part where Shultz - facing friction over Franklin having the audacity to be black - told em to fuck off.
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Alright, so what if we just pass a law that requires all elected officials to only have access to the Medicaid program of their state? That would change things quick
Wife has identical twin cousins in their late 20s, known them since they were babies. They both grew up to become music teachers (yes they're gay) and apparently one of them has been writing musicals? There's some online platform out there where you can publish / sell musicals?
Anyway their mom was telling me about this and mentioned that he sold copies of a musical about Auschwitz.
Today Apple announced the Apple Creator Studio at $13 a month, and I think this is a good thing! It allows people to afford apps like Final Cut and Logic Pro that have been out of some people's price range, along with giving access to new features in these apps. Also, $3 a month for students is amazing. I think this is a jab at Creative Cloud, and I would go more for what Apple is offering.
I hate it when someone Slacks me with a simple "Hi Matt". Isn't it obvious? When you interrupt me, give me the whole thing at once, so I don't have to wait for a round-trip before I can make the most of the interruption. Let's not make this a bad high-latency IPC protocol.
Then again, in this case, the person messaging me isn't a programmer.
I've found using nohello.net/ helpful sometimes, other friends started using it as well (for status messages on Instant messaging systems such as Teams).
Other times I'm direct, but as you point out, it's heavily dependent on receiving side.
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@freaktechnik @alecaddd Yeah tbh one of the other reasons I went with this layout change is in my previous place I used to look at traffic through the window to give my brain a break every now and then, which I couldn't do anymore. And squirrels are much more interesting than cars.
9 HOURS at THE OFFICE TODAY: Logging into my private Desktop I had to think about my 6 digit numeric PIN because I was already typing the work Laptops password. I'll leave up to you if that's good or bad. And my fingers start to get used to that ugly office keyboard. I should get a nice mechanical board there as well. Just not willing to spend the money.
I knew that the majority of my work duties involves typing in some way, so getting a good keyboard was the first thing I did upon landing the job position. My keyboard wasn't all that expensive comparatively speaking, but it makes typing far less frictionless, and even if it were expensive, it would have been worth it for the comfort alone.
We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing ---
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I once used google AI to point out the flaws in GPT. That was fun, or to tell the AI to tell google to get their screws and nonsensical pieces together, because surprise, Apple beat up a lot of the market around here when we changed currency this year.
@tardis So, TBH, I tried out the "DeepDreaming" software when it first came out. I had fun creating stuff until it got infiltrated by porn, so instead of eyeballs or other weird objects getting thrown in, everything ended up having penises. Proto-Grok? Garbage in, garbage out, I guess.
Eww, someone said to me that x ai thingy cloned their voice. Imagine the scare. Yikes! I use it to mostly help me out, google's AI though. I am too lazy to do math sometimes, especially when there are headaches involved, so giving it a prompt is better for my sanity than just making a huge multiplication. I am not amath person, I like music and languages. I make it keep track of things sometimes, or create random little things. I don't use the stupid X though, I used it when it was Twitter, and long before it was bought I deleted it because I joined fedi.
It doesn't have a "problem", but Audible noticed the Harry Potter books leaking all over the internet, they prevent downloading of Atmos books now, only streaming is possible. Libation will have to figure out wether it'll be able to download Atmos books ever again now.
@x0 Depends on the software used. Works quite nicely here on Windows with VLC or PotPlayer and e.g. Dolby Atmos for headphones, or on iPhone with spatial headphones like the Airpods. Or on a surround system in your livingroom if you're happy enough to have one.
@x0 Well, dunno if Foobar does Dolby Atmos, but doesn't sound like it. Kinda sad, as nowadays streaming services do provide Dolby Atmos mixes of music.
@ToniBarth @x0 VLC pushes the narrator off to the right for some reason and then there's a bunch of empty space. Don't know why this is, it's just something that's been happening. Also with the m4b's VLC at least for me gets a bit stuttery.
Yesterday, for the first time ever, I did have a positive experience with an AI based customer service chatbot. For a few months, my Oura ring 4 has showed a declining battery life, dropping from the promised 6 7 days to just 24 hours. While I can tolerate charging my watch every two days, pulling a smart ring off my finger and charging it up every morning is not what I call good user experience. SO I pulled up the help chat feature in the app last night when I went to bed and saw the notification, that my sleep tracking ring battery is about to die. groaned, because it said its an AI" bot and its very very helpful and good and could I please tell it everything whats wrong." So I did. "My gen 4 ring which I bought in march 2025 battery dies within 24 hours, which is way less than the promised 7 days", was my message. The bot then told me that to verify my identity, it had sent me a confirmation email with a link to klick. After the klick, I returned to the app, where the bot had pulled up my order, and wanted to know if its the problematic ring. A preset "yes" button surfaced a new question, confirming my address, which was already prefilled, from my last order. Another tap on the "Yes" preset. "I've estabilshed your replacement, and you should be getting your confirmation soon," the bot said, and wanted to know, is there anything else worth fixing in my life. The whole interaction took maximum 3 minutes and by this morning, I already have received an email with tracking number and shipment info. I don't even need to return the broken ring. So, either they trust their AI bot a lot, have a very good service, or more likely have enough trouble with the ring that its cheaper to replace them than escalate the cases to humans, nevertheless, I was impressed.
wow, finally a company who made something usefull with AI what is the advantage of having both a applewatch and a ura ring does ura track sleep better?
The biggest area that do needs improvements before I'd recommend actually using it in practice would be in terms of error handling. It's currently not very graceful about handling invalid task definitions or mistaken command-line invocations, which is less than helpful.
But again, this is a ~six hour effort. I plan on making it more useful, but I needed to get something off the ground to unblock other projects for now.
If you are brave and do want to give Do a try in your own projects, it is *by design* a single long file that you can copy and paste into your own projects. That's not the most elegant way of doing things (heh), but it does mean you can easily vendor it in when bootstrapping would otherwise be a problem.
You can also use `do` as a development dependency, so `pdm run do` should work. Lots of ways of running it, depending on what your project needs.
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https://ici.radio-canada.
TWBlue just got quoted post support, at least for reading them. Tweesecake can't handle quoted posts, and lacks other features the new TWBlue update announced, like scheduling. Has anyone used both? I tried TWBlue, but didn't stay with it, and went with Tweesecake instead. I don't remember why.
I tried both, ended up going with TW Blue. There was a while when there was a serious bug that didn't let it open a window with a toot if it had utf-8 stuff in it. But that was sorted out for a while. I think TW Blue is quite ok.
So far, so good, with the main UI. I'm not sure the invisible interface is working, though. Do you plan to keep this open-source? If so, I may see about a pull request to add other session types.
just be warned this is not a TC replacement, and thus I probably wouldn't accept session types that aren't social media, as the app design doesn't really allow for that anyway really.
@jonathan859 LOL I mean, I'm not trying to hide it. I just don't want people running to me right now asking where can I dl it, this doesn't work that doesn't work blahblahblah
@Bri Are we supposed to create GitHub issues yet, for example just found that when you press enter on a boosted post it says view profile of booster, pressing that though shows the person of the original post, so the boosted one. Certainly don't want to pressure or so, just saying I noticed in case you didn't yet.
@Bri Say Tom boosts Bobs post and I press enter in the tl to view it, then there is a button called view profile of Tom, clicking that button brings me to Bobs profile though.
Can you, possibly make this thing use Uv? Like not really a developer here but I think that's what a lot of Python projects use now and its easier I think to just do an uv sync then run, LOL.
This is basically using an oldschool requirements.txt file and Pip. There have been multiple strides forwarding in Python packaging in recent years with tools like PDM, Poetry, and Uv that centralise management of project metadata, dependencies, an actual lock file for pinning dependencies to specific versions, creation and activation of a virtual environment, etc.
Not that the current approach doesn't work, but those newer tools can make for a more convenient developer experience (albeit with an initial cost of learning how they work). @johann
@jscholes @johann Nods. I may look into it at some point. I personally have no interest, but I'm sure other folks looking to run from source and such do
@Bri @johann I mean for what it's worth, I think you might enjoy what those tools bring to the table even if you don't struggle with your current setup. But it's your project; you expend your effort where you think it's needed most.
ahahaha here's one, when pressing cmd r to write a reply like this one, the focus jumps to some empty table, that's probably not as big as some of the other issues LOL, but that's one I've noticed.
@Bri @johann One of the things I want with this is dark mode support, I might be able to pull it off somehow, oh and also the timeline list isn't even visible on screen, only the timeline contents. Gonna try and get those fixed when I can, so expect a pull request at some point, not now as I need to get to bed, but what I will do is create the fork and get that cloned to my computer ready to go.
@alexchapman @johann Sure go for it, just know that I'm constantly working on the app, so you might wanna wait to fork until you're actually ready to do your code changes.
Okay y'all, I'm looking into getting smart glasses with this coming paycheck. I don't want to spend more than $450 or so on it. So, what's good in the middle of January 2026? Lol I say that because it'll probably change tomorrow or next week or next month.
@lerven Same! I have the Echovisions and they're making lots of rapid updates at the moment but the hardware is a bit disappointing and I don't think they're going to be able to keep up as far as that goes, especially when Google raises the bar with their new hardware. The glasses plastic feels cheap and the camera doesn't do well with small print, (big downside,) or even slightly poorly lit areas. They say it's a software issue and I'm no camera expert, but I'm beginning to not fully believe that.
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I hereby coin the term "Ptolemaic Code" to refer to software that appears functional but is based on a fundamentally incorrect model of the problem domain. As more code is generated by AI, the prevalence of such code is likely to increase. 1/7
I just got falsely flagged as a bot while trying to use the DB train connection lookup service (from first use on, on a residential connection, both in Firefox during multiple attempts, then also in Chromium, only the third attempt in an Epiphany browser got through). People will be very amused if that happens to them on a journey while frantically trying to figure out alternative connections during one of the usual DB situations. โ(ใท)โ
(Going by what I'm reading from sysadmins these days, I guess this is another case/consequence of big tech AI scrapers DDOSing the web to death.)
@Piciok They indeed are! (a "less than impressed, shrugging face/figure") Anytime let me know when I'm overdoing it hehe, as mentioned recently I'm definitely open to dropping my kaomoji obsession if screenreader folks consider my usage to be overly annoying.
It's fine - actually you put all of the essential info before the Kaomoji so I got what you wanted to say. I was just curious and I have seen that before, also in the display names of other users.
I received a lot of responses to the Ptolemaic Code discussion, which brought up a good point. The early versions of the Copernican model were actually less practical than the Ptolemaic one 1/4
Although it might have been hard for sailors to use the new model at first, the fact that it was based on a consistent and logical way of understanding meant that people could improve and develop it over time, like Kepler did. 3/4
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hey @FreakyFwoof I just had a quick question for you as I know you have a switch 2. if you get an sd card for it, does it *have* to spasifically say nintendo switch 2?
I only got 256, haven't had to use it yet, internal is 256 and even with MK1 at 40+ GB, and Mario Cart World at 21, still have enough room. 256 is fine.
the price of a 1TB card double the price of the 512GB at around $212. you said 256 would be good for now, so that is what we will eventually get. thanks for your help on that.
You may also find this of interest, if you ever decide to get the boys the Nintendo Switch online plan, as these are the list of games provided by the service if you download the free emulators from the Nintendo EShop. I spent nearly two hours on a call with a fantastic Aira agent who was kind enough to type out these lists for me in text form, then I had an AI turn them into tables for easier viewing. onj.me/ngg.html
It took an age to compile, but so long as you don't rearrange your tiles which you can do, you should be able to load up those games independently as a blind person as well, that's why they're listed in the order they are.
a little bit of trivia for you, just in case you didn't know. here in the US, our mario 2 is actually not the real mario 2? they took a game called DOKIDOKI panic, and changed the characters in it to mario characters, and things like that.
there is actually a youtube video about it. I actually saved the video, but if you want to hear about it, you could look it up on youtube, if you don't mind the language in it. smile.
I am not finding the video that I have on youtube anymore, but maybe I wasn't typing it correctly. I just put it in our dropbox if you want to see it. it was done by The Irate Gamer.
ok, but it doesn't have to say switch 2 though right? meaning as long as it is what you just said micro sd express, it will be fine if it doesn't say switch 2 on it?
Hey @bagder, there are currently some discussions about open source licensing and post open source. If you could magically change curl's license (also for all existing version & distributions and with no other changes to reality), would you pick a different one?
I'm generally pretty satisfied with the curl license. I mean, I wanted maximum distribution and impact and I reached that. It may not be the best license to monetize my work with, but that was not my goal back then. I suspect a part of curl's ability to conquer the world was thanks to the license.
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in reply to :thonk: • • •@p nah, but around 2015 my wife was doing a lot of running events and it was about 3 weeks before a half marathon and she kept poking the bear, daring me to run it so I did like one 5 mile run and one 8 mile run and then showed up and crushed it, beat her by like 15 minutes
never ran like that again. I suffer from an affliction called "extreme boredom" and when doing long distance running I start thinking about how this is such an absolute waste of my time and wishing I was able to do something productive instead of being trapped in a mental prison cell.
Also I just got really hungry, almost peeled off to go to a diner to have brunch instead
I do like long distance cycling though, because the scenery is better