I am trying to get TW blue on my Windows 11 laptop. I get it into the downloads folder, but Microsoft defender is giving me a warning that it isn’t commonly downloaded and to make sure I trust it, but it won’t let me get past the warning, even though I do trust it. What do I need to do so that I can try it out?
@alexchapman @TheQuinbox Ahahahaha I just went to look into series 4000 to find where that ow is and I immediately ran into the JAWS forms mode sounds.
@alexchapman @TheQuinbox Literally the very first track of the whole library, bonk snap, among its first 10 variations, has the sounds used for forms mode as well as the components of the layer gesture sound, and later in it are some other bonks that JAWS ships for scripting usage.
Big challenge for me on Sunday was helping a local pal learn to use a laptop. This man is older than me and has never used a computer. He uses his smartphone for everything and wants to get a computer so he can, among other things, go to recovery meetings on Zoom (there aren't enough local in-person meetings). I have, as you might expect, many extra laptops. Figured we'd start with the basics (point, click, double click, click drag) and go from there....
@matt Right now he's got the free laptop I am ledning him just to see if Laptop Life is good for him. If it is, he'd like to buy his own laptop and it would probably be a Chromebook. I do not know much about Chrome OS Flex, I'll poke around a little. Thanks.
My little brother (lives close to where Renee Good was shot & killed in Minneapolis) has been 3D printing ICE whistles & handing them out to neighbors & giving some to local businesses & churches to hand out. I'm really proud that his response is action, not fear.
The George Floyd protests play a part in this. The local places he knows will gladly hand out whistles are people he knows from 2020. All that commotion was NOT for nothing. A lot of people learned about organizing for the 1st time.
Dear #Mastodon this (quoted below) is the Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy of the European Commission. Who joined today (Jan 13). Great to have someone from the commission here. 🙌 🇪🇺 ✌️
Update/Good news: The mastodon.social account *was* legitimate, and has been migrated to @HennaVirkkunen All people who were following on mastodon.social have been moved to follow that account. (Thx @dgoldsmith for the update🙏)
X offering the use of Grok to create and share pictures of undressed women and children is horrendous.
The EU Commission has already:
• taken investigative steps
• ordered the company to retain internal documents.
@solimanhindy it's a small thin client PC -- Dell Wyse 5070. Pop in an SSD and it's perfect for a fedi server even though it only has 4 old cores and 4 gigs of ram.
What #Grok generates is non-consensual and abusive. It is not "AI porn", it's AI sexual abuse materials. "#AISAM", let's call it.
Sex work is work, there are plenty of sex workers trying to make a living publishing their own works.
Conflating porn with sexual abuse materials is how we get to a place where independent sex workers get ostracized and lose their livelihood through being banned by payment processors, while a fascist oligarch can materially benefit from sexual abuse materials.
@Bri That's right! I knew that somebody had to know that at least. I actually ate that shit back then. Talk about a throwback Tuesday, I would say throwback Thursday, but it's Tuesday.
I don't think I've ever seen an emerging technology that's driven CEOs from multiple companies to come out in public and ask people to stop saying mean things about it.
Thank you for waiting until I'm temporarily staying with a friend who has fiber. I have to tolerate being envious of the 3 gigabit upload but at least I'm not the target of hate.
@simon ... I have fiber but now I'm a wee byt jealous because we only have 250 Megabit up and down symmetric Granted I could get more, but it already costs 85 bucks a month. I can'n even fathom that speed right there.
I have Gigabit symmetric at home, with the option of 2.5. Here, where I am staying now, they have 200 symmetric, and they offer up to 8 GBPS for $ProbablyWayTooMuch.99. I didn't look.
@blindbat84 It's surprisingly common to find fibre in the middle of nowhere, because lots of the nothinghams and boringvilles had no cable until the 2010s, by which point fibre was yubiquitous enough that companies decided to just build fibre infrastructure. It's harder to justify that in an area where you can already get gigabit cable. Sure, it's not symmetrical, but go survey a thousand Comcast users and ask them what their upload speed is, I dare you. Unless you're a YouTube creator, a tech enthusiast, or someone who relies on good upload for remote work, you don't know and you don't care.
I just hate all people with a faster connection than I do, even if I do like them really. I'm essentially on now what's coming close to third-world internet speeds, 80/20 DSL. In London... A financial capital of the world.
@FreakyFwoof @simon @blindbat84 To add fuel to the fire, I was speaking to someone in Vietnam the other day, and they apparently have a 300Mb fiber connection for around 200000 Vietnamese dong (roughly 5.5 Pounds). I don't know if that's true fiber, but eh.
@twynn @FreakyFwoof @simon @blindbat84 It won't matter too much. Connectivity outside of Vietnam is super slow. I have a friend who lived there for a while, and he told me that, with a Gigabit connection, the best he could do even to just the rest of Asia was about 2 or 3 Mb/sec. Even worse to North America. Fast inside Vietnam though.
This article provides information about the changes in Firefox 147 that affect developers.
Firefox 147 is the current Beta version of Firefox and ships on January 13, 2026.
Arresting every ICE employee would get more criminals off the streets then arresting all of the people ICE is targeting. people.com/ice-employee-arrest…
Ok yes, he has been a douche for a few years And That Said ... I cut my teeth in I.T./Corporate reading DIlbert and most of the time it was Waaaay too close to home.
All cops are bastards because when Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good by shooting her three times in the head, none of the cops present tried to stop him or apprehended him, and because those same cops made sure that doctors could not treat Good before she died, and because cops have helped Ross hide rather than hunting him down and arresting him for murder, and because cops around the country haven’t spoken out to demand the arrest of this fugitive murderer because they think he did the right and justified thing, because all cops are bastards.
these psychos put a Discord link in their github FAQ on how to build the project. The instructions are not in the Github repo FAQ, they're somewhere on Discord
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
You know, I'll be super interested when they bring the new version of Tweetscake. I think they've been working on it for a while. Always love to see people compete with great programs.
Dear #SysAdmin fedi – I need a CLI tool that would canonicalize a DNS zone file. As in: put all the entries in a well-defined order, replace whitespace with a predefined pattern, organize the SOA section in a reproducible manner.
My basic need is being able to tell two zone files are 100% functionally equivalent, even if one uses tabs, the other spaces, and if entries are in completely random order, etc.
Edit: sorted, named-checkzone probably does the trick
Despite what some folks might say, I am very aware of what's happening these days. I am not ignorant or turning a blind eye to things, but I'm also in a position where there's not much I can do. Some people might say I should protest, but something like that could be dangerous, even more so for me. I'm not necessarily hiding somewhere and waiting for things to pass, I'm keeping eyes on things, but I also have fragile enough mental health that the constant worrying and reading of the news is going to do me no good and I know that.
OK, I have heard it all now. I have gotten some crazy things when I have tried to talk about the Meta glasses, everything from metal glasses, to other things that I can’t remember. But today’s takes the cake! What I said, Meta glasses. What this crazy ass device heard, medical classes. What in the entire hell?
Also, I tried to find out if she was bad, so I typed "Naomi Klein controversy" and the worst she has done is being confused with Naomi Wolf. That's unfortunate
Winterdienst in Finnland: "Jeder einzelne Beschäftigte des Räumdienstes muss regelmäßig selbst auf seinen Routen radeln. Wenn die Nutzer besonders zufrieden sind, kann es Boni geben. Die Wege sind breit genug, damit dieselben großen Maschinen darauf fahren können wie auf den Autostraßen." spiegel.de/auto/fahrrad-im-win…
Im nordfinnischen Oulu herrschen monatelang strenger Frost und Dunkelheit – trotzdem fahren viele Menschen rund ums Jahr Fahrrad. Stadtplaner Pekka Tahkola erklärt, wie Radfahrer sich für den Winter begeistern können.
I tried last night to pre-order a Dreame X60 Max Ultra Complete (as if I really need one of those) but couldn't complete the transaction with either of my credit cards. Then I got a text alert from my bank this morning where they suspected fraud and blocked my debit card. Hopefully it would go through if I try again.
to be fair, from my read of the article, it sounds like one of his staff was using it for AMA replies while he was in the road. The fact that he's owned up to it is encouraging too.
I especially liked that the other candidates didn't jump on him for it. They all seem pretty classy.
Andre Louis
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