An accidentally discovered workaround that probably shouldn't even be mentioned as an actual one but got me through an hour-long webinar recording today: when an ad comes up on Youtube and your video is a part of a playlist, navigating to the next video skips it and loads the next one. As a result, if you skip to the next video when it's time to skip the ad and then return back to your video, the playback resumes. This obviously works also with remote controls on headphones.
Mother nature has been extremely inconsiderate. I ordered a new amateur Radio to replace my ageing one. Should have arrived yesterday but we got piles of snow. Hopefully will show up today.
The future of software development is Gemini adding and removing the "status/needs-triage" tag from an issue on GitHub 5,000 times.
Gemini is made by Google, a company once famous for incredibly high quality software engineering.
github.com/google-gemini/gemin…
allow exit and quit commands without leading slash (/)
What would you like to be added? This is feature request - someone can point it as bug as well but I will not. Ask / Request 👉🏽 Implement exit and quit as standard commands with a simple confirmati...pm-bhatt (GitHub)
RE: climatejustice.social/@termina…
Oh, good. It's driving up spinning rust prices too.
Terminal Tilt (@terminaltilt@climatejustice.social)
Hard drive prices are spiking because of "ai." Prices have jumped 46% on average since September. The 24TB Seagate BarraCuda used to be $239 on sale, but it's now sitting at $500.Terminal Tilt (Climate Justice Social)
@Piciok Hi there!
TIL: the standard Linux "tar" tool stores the PID of the tar process in the tar file... reproducible-builds.org/docs/a…
"tar --create --format=ustar --owner=0 --group=0 --numeric-owner --sort=name" ...
@bagder yeah that's why I just wrote that for myself: github.com/hannob/scripts/blob…
(tar --all-the-options-that-enable-high-compression-and-reduce-metadata)
(tar --all-the-options-that-enable-high-compression-and-reduce-metadata)
scripts/tarxz at main · hannob/scripts
Random quick+dirty scripts I want to share. Contribute to hannob/scripts development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
#Chromium embedders: imagine full extensions support, on your lightweight //content-only product. No more complex rebasings or //chrome hacks! Just clean APIs without chrome::Profile. Shin, from @igalia , has been working on this.
From an #Android prototype to a demo in the @WolvicXR browser, landing upstream in //extensions. A path to real extensions on TVs, cars, and custom #browsers. Read more in her new blog post! ✍ blogs.igalia.com/mshin/2026/01…
I never realized just how many sounds humans can make with their mouths.
You kidding? They're some absolutely cool noises people can do, especially those people who can do 2 notes at the same time. Well it's more like fake polyphony.
@delta Are there any plans to make something like stickers possible in DeltaChat? (can they be done with a webxdc app?)
Re last: In spite of the fact that I had lived in a city with a huge subway system for a long time, I'm still scared of escalators.
@adam Yeah, especially what scares me is those, I believe they are called travolators, where you don't have steps, but rather a sliding ribbon. I have very slight coordination problems, and when this beast goes down, my inner orientation system freaks out.
lol DHL - nachdem die Lieferung etwa ne Stunde überfällig ist, haben sie dann das Live-Tracking einfach ausgeknipst...
bei uns hieß das eine ganze Weile lang, dass das Paket dann innerhalb der nächsten 10 minuten ankommt. Verstanden hab ich das auch nie. 🤷♀️
Und mittlerweile geht das tracking dann glaube ich auch für die letzten 10 minuten hier.
@Bubu hier sind die Systeme so unzuverlässig, dass ich in Grunde mit Kaffeesatzleserei eine eindeutigere Aussage bekomme
God bless people who do stuff like getting in touch with the US patent office and putting the source code for the 1998 furby on archive.org
archive.org/details/furby-sour…
Furby 1998 source code : David Hampton, Wayne Schulz : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The source code of the firmware used in the 1998 Furby.The patent wrapper containing it was obtained and scanned by Sean Riddle (seanriddle.com).Internet Archive
Supposedly a IBM board member once said there's a market for maybe 5 computers worldwide.
Maybe he was just very good at making predictions.
Five computers. MS, Amazon, Google, Apple, Oracle.
To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
passo.uno/letter-those-who-fir…
To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
Hey you, Yes, you, who are thinking about not hiring a technical writer this year or, worse, erased one or more technical writing positions last year because of AI.passo.uno
I think one of the biggest changes in how I communicate online came after moving to Fedi. For the most part now I am able to have serious conversations with people who share my values, without being constantly pulled into squabbles with assholes who are wasting my time.
I'm happy to have some back & forth, receive new information from people, get called out if I'm fucking up, etc.
But I do not fucking need jerks who just want to cause problems wasting the energy which I could spend on good, important conversations.
some of these graphs are truly helpful to us, some of them I think show "interesting stuff" that we can extract from an old well maintained source code written in C even though that data might not really help us.
Then there is a subset of graphs that are mostly silly and they are there simply because I'm obsessed with graphs.
Just 6 graphs left to the big 100. Isn't that what all projects aim for?
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They have inspired me to finally get rid of the remaining calls to strcat and other stupid functions in my own code. This also got rid of lots of data copying, making the code faster. Good graphs.
Oh goody, a LinkedIn connection request with a message!
Let’s break this down:
> …vc backed…
Focused on quarterly profits / RoI instead of outcomes.
> …invite-only…
NDAs and other gag agreements.
> …openAI browser…
Chromium that begs authors for ARIA to parse content.
> …seeing promising results…
Which aren’t genuine results.
> …goal is 100% WCAG testing…
Ah, snake oil.
> …with high capture rates.
Sales targets, not WCAG coverage.
They responded. So I responded:
Because WCAG cannot be automated to 100%:
karlgroves.com/web-accessibili…
Automated tools have demonstrated that for years:
adrianroselli.com/2023/01/comp…
Every time someone claims higher, it's been a lie:
adrianroselli.com/2025/03/be-w…
Or otherwise based on bad math:
adrianroselli.com/2022/07/what…
Another vendor was fined by the FTC for claiming full coverage:
adrianroselli.com/2025/01/ftc-…
[…]
Web Accessibility Testing: What Can be Tested and How - Karl Groves
The Short Version Read this if you’re disinclined to read the entire list of specific WCAG Success Criterion and look at how each can be tested.Karl Groves (karlgroves.com)
No problem exists in this world that can’t be exacerbated by JavaScript.
I made a custom Firefox icon you can actually use as the app icon now! Also I did a little interview with the folks over at Mozilla about it, check it out :)
blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/mo…
Meet the artist behind Firefox’s new community-created app icon
Ruud is known for the charming, joyful characters in his comic series heyheymomo, and he brings that same energy to this design. He originally created the artwork as a quick five-minute doodle for fun.Jenifer Boscacci (The Mozilla Blog)
I haven't been around here much today because I've had problems with my email account. I had to change the password, which I managed to do through my email provider's iOS app, which is reasonably accessible: I can read emails there, but not as easily as on the computer. Unfortunately, after changing the password, Thunderbird, my default Windows app for email, won't accept my new password. If anyone has any idea what I should do, please let me know.
Interesting one. Can you type the password into say, notepad and then copy/paste it across, to see if there's any special characters that aren't coming over with it?
D Do you have any special characters there? It's the only reason I could think why it doesn't work.
Also can you go to the website in your browser and type it there? Maybe something got a bit transposed when you edited on phone.
Also can you go to the website in your browser and type it there? Maybe something got a bit transposed when you edited on phone.
@FreakyFwoof I'd go into the website if I could, but as soon as I pres Enter on the log-in link, there is a complicated captcha. My Mum, the only other person in this house most of the time, is not very mobile, so it wouldn't be fair for me to ask her to run upstairs every time I want to do anything with emails.
Is there no audio captcha option? If not, I recommend changing the password once more on the iOS app and see if you can avoid any non-standard characters just so you can get Thunderbird to see it.
Failing that, delete the account entirely from Thunderbird and start again, though that's probably last resort.
Failing that, delete the account entirely from Thunderbird and start again, though that's probably last resort.
@FreakyFwoof There is no audio captcha. I don't really want to delete my account in Thunderbird, so I should probably reset my password yet again.
@FreakyFwoof As a test, I tried logging into my email account with Apple's default Mail app, and I was told either my user name or password was wrong.
That makes me think that some character you used on phone is not translating properly to keyboard, or a capital where there shouldn't be one etc.
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