Penelope passed away peacefully in my arms tonight. We made sure her last few hours were wonderful. I'll describe more later but it involved going to the park, meeting a toad and dark chocolate mousse.
This is the worst day of my life, she was everything to me. I was her Daddy and she was my bouncy, feisty little girl. She knew she was a rough and tumble princess and she acted accordingly. She was always in charge.
I loved her with all of my heart. Every day she was the first person I saw and the last person I saw at night.
I know I'm going to be posting a lot over the coming days but words will never be able to describe the love I had for her and she for me.
This M.2 card adds classic beep-boop boot-up sound to your PC
A novelty M.2 card from Japan can give your modern PC the startup sound of a vintage NEC PC-9801.Michael Crider (PCWorld)
Dig out your vintage FireWire audio interface and rub some #Linux on it. Testing FFADO with Pipewire.
interfacinglinux.com/2024/07/2…
FireWire + FFADO With PipeWire
By default, PipeWire uses ALSA drivers for FireWire interfaces, which usually works fine, but the latency is terribad. Thankfully, PipeWire learned how to FFADOInterfacing Linux
Gmail Labels Using the Keyboard - dSurf
Labels in Gmail using the keyboard: Create, add colors, search, create a filter to move messages out of inbox using a label, and more.Dan Clark (dSurf)
Gmail Labels Using the Keyboard - dSurf
Labels in Gmail using the keyboard: Create, add colors, search, create a filter to move messages out of inbox using a label, and more.Dan Clark (dSurf)
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for selfish reasons (unwillingness to spend spoons on if even if they are plentiful), i will not give a detailed re-hash of what’s going down this time. IYKYK.
maybe in private after sufficient time has passed.
Every time someone from a marginalized background makes a bad take, actually refuting the take is always secondary to finding a way to ostracize them from their community with ad-hominems. Which shouldn’t be necessary when there are actual points people can make to address the bad take.
Within 12 hours, “she’s not really trans a” became “she’s not really trans and neurodivergent” became “she’s not really trans and neurodivergent and poor” as a reason to say that a trans woman who said something transmisogynist wasn’t part of the queer community. People can’t seem to comprehend that people of every background are 100% capable of having bad takes and not conforming to what you think acceptable behavior for a marginalized background is. Highlighting or refuting a bad take doesn’t give as much clout as finding a way to say “that person isn’t one of us, so we can discount what they said!”
Public callouts aren’t enough for some; the impulse to ostracize and move goalposts to say “it’s okay, she’s not really one of us; that’s why she said that!” and dig through someone’s profile to find the first bit of privilege you can point to to explain a bad take is mind-boggling.
You can consider someone problematic and of your marginalized background at the same time, and address their take instead of lawyering your way around someone’s identity to cancel them for not properly conforming to the norms you’ve decided are correct for a given combination of marginalized backgrounds.
Monday Tech Tip: Irie-AT’s Refreshable Braille Displays - Assistive Technology at Easter Seals Crossroads
During the 2024 ATIA Conference, Cody Mitchell from Irie-AT, showed us some of their refreshable braille systems. Check it out here: https://youtu.be/zbXWonX0SFY Click this link for more information about Irie-AT's refreshable braille displays.Nikol Prieto (Assistive Technology at Easter Seals Crossroads)
Announcing Aira’s Meta Ray-Ban Giveaway! - Aira
Aira is announcing a giveaway of four pairs of Meta Ray-Ban glasses in August! Learn all of the details and how you can enter here.Hannah Griffin (Aira)
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Montreal byelection expected to be a tight race between Liberals, NDP: analyst
The countdown is on for the byelection in the Montreal riding of LaSalle-Emard-Verdun and it's shaping up to be a close race between the Liberals and the NDP, according to one political analyst.Montreal
Someone I know who is chronically ill recently contracted #covid because a healthy person she trusted didn't tell her about being at an indoor event.
They both got COVID. The healthy person bounced back. My chronically ill friend? Now sicker than she ever was and no way to know if her downturn is long term or permanent.
That's what it's like now. If you're already chronically ill the world is a dangerous place and healthy people generally DGAF.
After reading Google’s announcement that they no longer plan to deprecate third-party cookies, we the @tag wanted to make our position clear.
Third-party cookies have got to go.
We have updated our TAG finding “Third-party cookies must be removed” to spell out our concerns.
w3c.social/@hadleybeeman/11283…
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Hadley Beeman (@hadleybeeman@w3c.social)
This is NOT good for personal data rights on the web. #privacy “Instead of deprecating third-party cookies, we would introduce a new experience in Chrome that lets people make an informed choice that applies across their web browsing.w3c.social
it's been a while since I taught Advanced Compilers and this time I thought I'd start out having the class read a few big-picture papers about the field.
some ideas I had include:
- Reflections on Trusting Trust
- Impact of economics on compiler optimization
- Death of Optimizing Compilers
cr.yp.to/talks/2015.04.16/slid…
what else should be on this list?
ok so @yosh suggested "A Catalog of Optimizing Transformations" which of course I should have thought of clear.rice.edu/comp512/Lecture…
then there are a few fun things to read about Proebsting's Law such as gwern.net/doc/cs/algorithm/200…
What did people call ghosting before we had the term ghosting?
For example if people were having a romantic relationship mainly through written communication (letters/postcards) and then one suddenly cut off contact.
… just “cut off contact”?
🚀 Cinny v4 Update! 🚀
We’re excited to roll out Cinny v4 with amazing new features and fixes:
Lobby feature for easier space management
Organize spaces into folders and customize room order
Multi-room message search with filters
Redesigned Explore Community section and new Notification Center
Key-based account registration and password reset support
Check out the update at app.cinny.in/
Cinny
A Matrix client where you can enjoy the conversation using simple, elegant and secure interface protected by e2ee with the power of open source.app.cinny.in
Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusionInclusive Design 24 (#id24)
#WhatsApp for #Windows lets Python, PHP scripts execute with no warning
Granted, Python needs to be installed on the system prior.
Meta says they will not bother to fix this, despite maintaining a built-in list of potentially dangerous file types (ex: .exe)
@xogium apparently this has been reported before. 
You would think they’d just add these to the list they already use, it’s low hanging fruit. But seems like it’s not worth the effort because it’ll “only” affect a handful of users.
I got my partner - who is non-technical - a Windows laptop for Christmas in 2023. A fancy one with Windows 11, TPM blah blah. Clean install.
It has Defender, Smart App Control enabled etc so I wasn’t concerned about the security.
Anyhoo, just looked at 7 months later and Defender is disabled, a ‘free’ AV called RAV is registered which appears to be a fake Chinese AV, Smart App Control is disabled, her traffic is routed to a Chinese VPN, her browser is Opera GX (a Chinese owned one).
One of the downstream effects of the AI boom that I hadn't really thought about is that sites are starting to introduce anti-crawling tech as standard, because they don't want all their bandwidth going to training chatgpt7.
This is going to make life harder for people who run benevolent scrapers. How many sites are going to be blocking the wayback machine now, just because it looks too much like an AI scraperbot?
Gajim 1.9.3 has been released 🎉
This release fixes an issue with the MS Store installer and brings some improvements. Thank you for all your contributions!
gajim.org/post/2024-07-29-gaji…
Gajim 1.9.3
Gajim 1.9.3 fixes an issue with the MS Store installer and brings some improvements. Thank you for all your contributions!cal0pteryx (https://gajim.org/)
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Snac2 does! You put regular expressions in filter_reject.txt and any incoming post which matches a filter regex is silently dropped.
snac2 is great
Dear accessibility people. I have a project that has been laying on my shelf for a while and is almost ready for release. I've been putting it off for a more than a year now because of one issue I have. I needed both inteeractivity and server-side rendering, so I went with Next.js. It generally works, but whenever a page is reloaded, the title is "artificially" announced with a live region, and it doesn't feel like a page reload to a screen reader.
Can I do anything about this, or does it have to stay this way?
Jessica Dail
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