Congrats voters. Your Doug Ford will likely be remembered as the premier who gave the people beer at gas stations. Instead of the premier who failed to address the housing and healthcare crisis. Cheers 🍻
the one who spend your tax dollars in the hundreds of million to cancel a contract of exclusivity to the oligarchs that should never have existed in the first place.
Yesterday's mail brought the Lily Seika Jones print I ordered from Gallery Nucleus in Portland. Hard to explain just how much I love this vagabond possum adventurer.
Poslední letní večer a noc. Tak si to ještě užijeme ve stodole a pak už se pomalu začneme pakovat do baráku. Jako myši s podzimem. Snad ještě bude “babí léto”🤗
Use Intel’s diagnostic tool to see if your 13th or 14th-gen CPU is crashing due to the overvoltage bug (or other reasons) intel.com/content/www/us/en/do…
I've been running mail servers and writing email software since the dialup days of 1995. I guess by today's trends, that could brand me a holdout.
But we're still hosting mail for hundreds of company domains across dozens of mail servers, all in a nicely packaged system that's always just an "apt install" away.
The landscape has changed over time, and, yes, it is annoying dealing with the imbalance that the behemoth mail providers represent these days.
But there's a lot to be said for not bargaining away your digital autonomy.
I saw @mwl selling his "Run Your Own Mail Server" book and jumped to pick up a copy. Not so much because I had a need for it (though it'll be interesting to compare notes!), but because I strongly support the idea that email is still a shared ecosystem and love that Michael is sharing the knowledge to encourage folks to continue to participate.
Drawing: Possible causes of your problems. I've been appalled at the scenes we've witnessed over the last few days. It's utterly unacceptable that people should have to live in fear because of the colour of their skin. [Polite comments only, please.]
Only now learning about Susan Banks, a prominent #accessibility advocate who "regularly interacted with [large game development studios], pushing for better options and designs", "helped to revolutionize games journalism", and even had an award named after her.
Calling for the help of the fediverse! Help spread the word of our browser extension Consent-O-Matic that helps automate answering those ever-present cookie consent pop-ups.
It's developed by researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark and free to use for Chrome/Edge, Firefox and Safari including for iOS.
Also, it's open source, so if you have a bit of technical skill, you can help us improve the rule set for greater coverage.
@schmidt the GRIII is also out of stock over here. And I fucking hate not having a viewfinder. (which is also why I don't enjoy the original GR Digital 2 I have)
I want that 5DMkII OK maybe not, I have too many cameras. The 5DMKI i have is amazing except for the loud shutter noise but then i have other cameras that are silent
Here's a .ISO file of Mac OS Sonoma that can be installed on a virtual machine, provided it's not AMD and modern AVX2 Intel: drive.google.com/file/d/1FdocB… - create a new virtual machine inside of VMWare to use this machine. May need to change HDD type to Sata if installer isn't seeing the drive (or disk utility first) Also grab the unlocker first and install it: github.com/paolo-projects/unlo…
"Even though this outcome was always a strong possibility, the final ruling is just incredibly damaging, especially in that it suggests that all libraries are bad for authors and cause them to no longer want to write. I only wish I were joking. Towards the end of the ruling (as we’ll get to below) it says that while having freely lent out books may help the public in the “short-term” the “long-term” consequences would be that “there would be little motivation to produce new works.”"
"there would be little motivation to produce new works" without profit motive?
the ENTIRE FANWORK INTERNET WOULD DISAGREE, which is probably, by quantity, a sizeable if not majority of fiction writing in the past 2 decades, it contains some of humanity's longest works!
it's the opposite if anything! how many people got into reading and writing BECAUSE of libraries? I know I did! I started writing because I was always holed up in the library reading fiction and it inspired me. If libraries didn't exist, I wouldn't have had so much access to books. I didn't have money to buy books, I didn't have bookstores near me. Without libraries, your incentive to write if you ONLY care about paying audiences and profit, would also only be narrowly targeted at people who bought books, and not the general audiences available to you through libraries.
also libraries allow you to try out tons of books, i can't imagine without libraries how people would even decide what to purchase, simply going in blind based on reviews like movies except way more expensive and with a much larger time commitment which means people would be even more selective
but then publishers don't actually care about that, they want to turn digital books into a streaming model, where all works are just "content", a featureless sludge to be pumped into the machine to drive subscriptions :\
the other thing is libraries are one of the few remaining public spaces that people can go to that serve people and not profit or landowners. the reason I read so much as a kid? I hid in libraries to escape bullying. Sure, there's some bookstores that allow people to sit & read, but they're still private stores, and they'll kick you out if they think you're "loitering" or the wrong kind of person. and they're not a place unattended children can just go into & stay.
Libraries provide access to information and access to the wider digital & analog world for so many people, but also, they're run for a completely different purpose than almost any other kind of "public" space left. The death of libraries would hurt more than even the lack of ability of people to read free books. :\
"Tragically, the Court then undermines the important ruling in the Betamax/VCR case that found “time shifting” (recording stuff off your TV) to be fair use, even as it absolutely was repackaging the same content for the same purpose. The Court says that doesn’t matter because it “predated our use of the word ‘transformative’ as a term of art.” But that doesn’t wipe out the case as a binding precedent, even though the Court here acts as though it does."
It's also really bad and is going to hurt a lot of other things about digital preservation and being able to copy/backup/record stuff if the courts now start to decide that recording TV never should have counted as fair use :\
also, libraries aren't a charity, they're a public service
the anti-IA people say the IA allows anybody to borrow while "real" libraries exist for the poor but that's not the purpose of a library & RL libraries don't just exist as charity for the poor
we as a society have lost the concept of what a public service is, we only see things in terms of profit and charity
public libraries exist b/c our societies decided that access to culture, to information, to knowledge, and to a public space that preserves those things is a public good, it's something everybody should have
public libraries are not and should not be a charity that we only minimally fund b/c some people are too poor to partake in capitalism and therefore need a little handout so they can get smarter to partake in capitalism
I've ranted at length about how I think it's utterly fucked up that RENFE put security checks on their high speed trains. And when people ask why I care I've mentioned not being able to bring a knife on the train with me.
"But why do you need a knife on a train?"
Well on this train I've used it to make me lunch. Cutting open some bread, and slicing cheese. I also used the scissors to cut the elastic in my new cycle cap.
Small knives like this are a useful tool that I often carry.
I will be joining the #httpworkshop, too and am very much looking forward to learning about interesting #http projects and meeting again some great people. httpworkshop.org/
Macht bitte zahlreich beim Fahrradklimatest des ADFC mit: Handeln der Verwaltungen wird durch öffentlichen Druck legitimiert und diese Umfrage ist ein etabliertes Mittel, Aufmerksamkeit auf den Radverkehr zu richten. #LastRT
The first live streaming of (hopefully) a long series went fairly well. The plan is to show the full process of getting a feature into Thunderbird, going through every steps of the planning, designing, and coding stages out in the open.
I admit that this is a bit weird because I’m doing this entirely on my own, trying to not affect my team or distract them from the other tasks, as this is a nice feature to have but hasn’t been prioritized.
The even weirder part is gonna be asking for reviews and feedback to documents, designs, and code, considering that most of the other folks in the team will look at these things and say “wait, WTF is this?” 😅
NPR: The spacecraft landed in New Mexico early Saturday morning leaving two astronauts behind on the International Space Station. The crew members will return to earth in February aboard a SpaceX craft.#news #NPRnpr.org/2024/09/07/nx-s1-51037…
And to add to the joy at least for this hour of this day those of us on the #EastCoast can once again search for replacement items within the #iOSApp using #VoiceOver #Accessibility. It only took them 5 months to fix that one.
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[Panel 2] Omni-man looks at and speaks to Invincible, the subtitles reading "Look at what they need to mimic a fraction". The rest of the usual quote, "of our power" is blanked out.
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[Panel 1] Omni-man and Invincible look at the sky, where is superimposed a graphical representation of how a floating point number is stored in memory on digital systems: a sign, an exponent, and a mantissa.
[Panel 2] Omni-man looks at and speaks to Invincible, the subtitles reading \"Look at what they need to mimic a fraction\". The rest of the usual quote, \"of our power\" is blanked out.
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OK maybe not, I have too many cameras. The 5DMKI i have is amazing except for the loud shutter noise but then i have other cameras 
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