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Some days you just need to say "fuck it" and go for a ride on your ostrich.

#ostrich #animals #animal #humor #humour



YouTube play next: here are videos you already watched.

Also YouTube play next: fuck of you want the next part of that video series. "Part I" means nothing to us.

Trillion dollar genius product design.



Look I don't mean to be an overbearing boss but nobody in the Spritely Institute is allowed to talk about Haiku OS or Be OS or unusual GUI toolkits today
in reply to Now at cwebber@social.coop !

A one day ban, today you absolutely cannot talk about NeXT, you cannot talk about Windowmaker, you cannot talk about the 1980s Symbolics 3d graphics demos, you cannot talk about Smalltalk machines


It is very rewarding to see that after just 1 year of my ethnography on data centres in México (when nobody talked about this country), more people are now interested:

"En Querétaro, Microsoft no tiene uno, sino dos centros de datos. Baptista descubrió a través de registros públicos que a uno de los centros de la firma que encabeza Satya Nadella se le concede acceso a 25 millones de litros de agua, aproximadamente una 1/4 del agua asignada a Colón para su uso público."

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UK Business Secretary Says Right To Work From Home Boosts Productivity news.slashdot.org/story/24/09/…



Stock tickers are a commonly sighted example of something ARIA live regions might be useful for. But has anyone actually ever seen this in the wild? Would #screenReader users actually want a stock ticker to ever be implemented in this way? #accessibility
in reply to James Scholes

nope. The places I want live events they don't happen and the places I do they don't.
in reply to Sean Randall

Many pages with stock tickers usually have more than one, and the updates would be so frequent as to be overwhelming (at least during market hours). So I'm just not clear on the expected user experience. Seems like someone was just reaching for an instance of information that changes a lot, and a bad example has propagated.
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in reply to James Scholes

@cachondo yeah, unless there were quick keyboard shortcuts which gave control over injected live alerts and which tracked stocks have them, it would be more useful. Unfortunately it's easiest to use an example without considering the finer implementation details Thus if someone made that without thinking through what's cited, they'd make a horrible experience. Live regions only work if the dynamic content is timely, not overwhelming and context-aware
in reply to James Scholes

Yes I've seen it, for foreign exchange and not actual stocks but still, and it's an awful, terrible, insane idea.


Oi, now on the hunt for a macOS Sequoia ISO file. It's just not high-prio in my life RN, I bet the Internet Archive will eventually get one uploaded or something, and running Mac OS on a virtual machine is a bit like eating room-temperature icecream that you end up drinking mostly by the end.
in reply to Tamas G

Usually you install the installer app, and there's a folder you turn into an ISO image.

in reply to AkiraUX

what are the current goals of @akiraux ? what were the problems with the old codebase you are trying to solve by starting from scratch?

BTW great to see the project development continues! 🤩

in reply to treefit

@treefit the primary goal of Akira is to offer a fast and stable UX and UI design tool. No prototypes or dev mode at first, what Sketch used to be at the beginning, built with native code and targeting Linux.
The rebuild in Rust comes from a performance and inheritance necessity, as well as safety and a more appealing codebase to onboard more contributors.

For how much I love Vala, it’s still a niche language and lacks a lot of the standard libraries and tools compared to others more widespread



Any blind folks, or sighted folks too for that matter, have a favorite non-WYSIWIG resume formatting tool that actually looks good? A good LaTeX template is fine, as is something markdown-based. Hesitant to use Word, where I may not know if margins are bad or if I didn't close a bold or something. Also hesitant to use a web app that may be accessible today but may not be tomorrow.

Other suggestions welcome, I'm just not seeing a path forward that isn't LaTeX/Markdown-adjacent. And maybe I'm unnecessarily afraid of Word but it seems too easy to throw the formatting off or to not understand what's actually going on with a block of text.



Another school year, another education platform.
She's on Sparx for maths, now.
in reply to Sean Randall

I'm surprised that schools are still taking in all of these platforms. They must be paying a lot in subscription fees.


I'm still deciding whether to leave BSI set to come on when the on-screen keyboard appears, or have me manually trigger it. It's nice to have BSI ready to go, but I also sometimes want to review previous messages or do something else when I activate a text field.
in reply to Alex Hall

be nice if it were app dependent, I suppose. I often open slack to read before responding, but almost never want to review when going back to Frotz, for example.


#фалыстыннаш

а вот не надо было пейджеры самсунг покупать. не… пейджеры??? серьезно? может их просто сразу с пластидом поставляли?

in reply to Galactic Jew 🇮🇱

Ещё бы они у хамасников взрываться начали, было бы прям совсем хорошо. Хесбола тоже неплохо, конечно.


There should be an immediate ban on all packaged shredded cheeses in the United States!

Make America grate again.



@bagder Japanese taxis run curl! (Via aosp)
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canpoli; byelection results

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in reply to Rick Scott 🏳️‍⚧️

canpoli; byelection results

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Police are shooting people over a $2.90 subway fare.

There’s no way cops can be trusted to enforce a mask ban by determining who is exempt because they are wearing a mask for health reasons.

in reply to Dr. Lucky Tran

They're shooting each other over a $2.90 subway fare, because the only thing a cop is better at than being evil is being incompetent.


Interview with the vampire

2nd round interview with the vampire

Zoom interview with the team with the vampire

we have decided to pursue another candidate but will keep you in mind if future positions open up with the vampire




Do screen readers actually read the plus/minus/tilde symbols when doing content warnings like "PH -"?

Or are screen reader users just rolling the dice every time they open a toot with a PH/MH warning?

#Accessibility

in reply to Aurani

depends on which screen reader, whether the + or - has a space or not, and on the many many settings, tts, punctuation level, etc.
in reply to Talon

like just as an example mine doesn't usually read it. But I usually remember to check if MH or PH comes up.
in reply to Talon

@talon yeah, that was my thinking.

I also suspect that they would typically say "dash" or "hyphen" - if anything - unless they were able to identify and announce math being performed.

in reply to Aurani

unless you use math notation like ➖ or ➗, or mathml or something, screenr eaders will always say - as dash even if it's in context of math. I think predictability > cleverness in cases like that because otherwise you're not sure what's actually written there or not. Like was it the unicode minus? The dash? The word? Something else?
in reply to Talon

but that's also my opinion. other screen reader users have different opinions probably and you'd have gotten a different answer based on whom you ask. Most readers are highly configurable so you can tell it how to pronounce certain things from symbols to words etc. And different speech engines also have their own rules and quirks. So definitely not an easy question to answer. But personally there are only very few things that actually trip me up or annoy me so I'd say write it how you want especially in this case.


If you're new to Thunderbird, helping someone get started, or were just curious, we explain not only how Thunderbird's spam filters work, but our tips and tricks for putting them to work to keep your inbox spam and junk free. 📧

#Thunderbird #Spam #OpenSource

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/09/t…

in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

Since few days ago, at my workplace, I cannot use Thunderbird anymore since they shutdown IMAP/SMTP logins.
At home I had to install Evolution to be able to use f*in' M$365 account.
Since, I believe, Evolution is open-source, why can't Thunderbird use it's technology and support Exchange/M$365 accounts?
I love new Thunderbird interface, and Evolution gives me Thunderbird v45.x vibe.. or worse.
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Ehm, povedal im niekto, že toto nebola práve tá kladná strana?


When someone follows me, my app (Tweesecake) shows me their bio. I always read it, to get an idea of who the person is that thought I'd be interesting enough to follow. Today, someone followed me who says they like Harry Potter fan fiction more than the original books! That's a stance I haven't run across before. Not that it's wrong, it's just completely new to me.
in reply to Alex Hall

common viewpoint nowadays, I think, given the reactions to Rowling's commentary on trans rights.
I do enjoy a good fanfiction. I have just started a reread of [the Arithmancer-Verse ](archiveofourown.org/series/993…)
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo Good point. I was thinking it solely from a literary perspective, not considering the author in the equation.
in reply to Alex Hall

Personally I feel that the original books lost their way toward the end. I wonder how they'd have developed if they hadn't been so successful, ironic as that sounds.
in reply to Alex Hall

From a literary perspective, I find many aspects of the original books to be unbearably illogical, compared to how much better I've seen them done in fanfiction.

A lot of people consider book 6 or 7 to be the point at which the series went off the rails. Personally, I think it happened when Harry, faced with the prospect of his godfather's imminent death, decided that flying from Scotland to London on a horse was a sound idea. Absurd.

So, I probably do fall into the "fanfiction" is better camp, at least when the fanfiction is actually good.

@cachondo

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in reply to James Scholes

@jscholes @cachondo tbh, as somebody young enough to have read the entire series at once, a few years after it was released, and I would say that all the books were basically at the same level of badness.

Even the philosophers stone had a lot of glaring errors.

in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki @jscholes I guess that's a perspective I can never have. I spent a few weeks reading the first 2 or 3, then waiting years for the rest like everyone else.
in reply to Sean Randall

I think I'm in the same situation. There's a lot of range in quality, but I'd say the best fanfic is definitely better than the original works.
in reply to modulux

@modulux @cachondo I haven't read a lot. Mostly just that famous one, I think it's Method of Rationality? I read that because a professional audio book narrator made a free podcast where he read the whole thing. It was interesting, but certainly not better than the original.
in reply to Alex Hall

There are ... so so many.
Some authors take up midway through Rowling and do their own endings, that was very common when waiting for official releases and I suppose those are the most familiar to people who've only read the originals.
Some do post-hogwarts and shoot off after that, having Harry go into another world sometimes, like a crossover with Marvel or go back in time or whatever.
Others reimagine things from the beginning: Harry gets introduced to magic differently, or earlier, or by a new or familiar character.
And yet others poke at other times or parts of the universe: what would happen if Sirius Black got expelled for nearly setting Lupin on Snape, for example? Was one I read recently.
or what if Voldemort's attack happened on twin boys and their parents didn't die? Another one that's been made into a huge series.
They go on for countless iterations, with quality ranging from absolutely dismal to surprisingly hard to put down.
in reply to Alex Hall

I would agree that one's not better than the original, though also not bad. There are some really good ones around though. I'm reading too ongoing ones at the moment, New Blood and Prince of Slytherin and I'd say both are better. Just downloaded the arithmancer ones, curious to read those.
in reply to modulux

@modulux when i first read the Arithmancer, my notes said: I rather enjoyed it, although there's much to grumble and quibble over both in terms of characterisation and plot. It still felt like a clever twist, and that's what I was looking for.
They got worse not better and I only "liked" (3/5) book 3. But they're an experience
in reply to Sean Randall

So reading a chapter of this fanfiction during my lunch break and I can't help but remember a different one where Harry and Professor Vector do all sorts of kinky stuff. Pretty sure he gave her a magical butt plug.
Not remotely connected to this one, but of course she didn't have a very big part in the Canon so that's all my brain has to go on!
I don't remember which fic it was. Perhaps fortunately.


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Trying to use BSI with iPad. Pretty hard though. i wonder how its possible to calibrate it? #Blind
in reply to Nick's world

are you on iOS18?
2 fingers moves through the available tables you have chosen I think. Sorry I don't have a device in-hand and it's all become automatic.
in reply to Sean Randall

I keep uncontracted, contracted and Unicode braille in my table list. I like the unicode table for showing people braille if they are sighted and want to know what it looks like and correcting adults who are learning.
I don't often use uncontracted nowadays, but it's legacy from when I was teaching and used my phone as part of my job. Had it in there for years.



A list of commits is not a changelog!

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in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Takze uz konecne bude dobre.

Ibazeby zase nieco.

Lebo vsak, p. Fico si ide uz 4. Vladu, a super fasa chytry aj pracovity je, len mu to furt ktosi kazi. (A furt sa pride na to, ze ti co boli volakedy jeho favoriti a terazky uz nie su, ze kradli. Ale o tom po tom.)

in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Caro ludskej fantazie: nema medze.

=>

Vymyslia dalsiu blbost.

(Ako vsetko: ma to dve strany. T.j. aj ta fantazia: da sa vyuzit na dobro, alebo zneuzit na zlo. Fico&co. si jasne vyberaju zlo.)

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SuspiciousDuck
@Petr90 neviem, zrejme asi áno "tradičná".


Veľký a "starý" ThinkPad prenášať hore dole nebudem.


The “Pillars of Creation” taken by James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) 🛰️✨

📸 NASA / ESA

#space



Omlouvam se ze to tu nejelo, ale meli jsme tady "trosku" problem s vodou, elektrinou, internetem, plynem a tak vubec ... Nastesti me se velka voda vyhla asi o 50m a mam jen vytopeny sklep.

Sorry for instance not working, but floods happened ...

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in reply to Koubik

Tak hlavně, že jsi zpět 👋
To je síla dole ta voda 😳
in reply to Archos

@archos já už teď jen čekám na čerpadlo … v sobotu mi odešlo. Hned jsem objednal, ale z pochopitelných důvodu alza ještě nedovezla. Snad zítra 🤷‍♂️
Hasiči mají o dost důležitější práci než odčerpávat můj sklep.


Maybe Google shouldn't strip non-ascii characters when training AI



They should remake Jurassic Park but the moment of foreshadowing in the presentation-ride is "we used AI to fill in the gaps in the DNA samples"



8 notepads, 6 recordings, 3 web browsers, 2 chat apps and a calendar to clear out of the way before lunch.
Busy morning!


Billionaire and #Oracle co-founder Ellison wants an 𝐀𝐈-𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞.

Do you think billionaires will be able to pay to stay #private? We're curious to hear your thoughts!

arstechnica.com/information-te…

𝐏𝐥𝐮𝐬, #𝐆𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬:
tuta.com/blog/google-gemini-ai…

#surveillance #masssurveillance #Pay4Privacy #AI

in reply to Tuta

Seems data hungry...

I'm hungry as well...guess I'll have to eat the rich until they know what human rights and moral values are

in reply to Tuta

Every human should read or listen to the audiobook 1984.


mod_tls, the rustls based alternative to mod_ssl has its own repository again.

I hope this eases participation with maintainers and distributions and allows it to follow the API evolution of rustls in a better way.

I made an initial v0.13.0 release. Let me know if there is anything missing.

cc @graaff @brnrd @cpu

github.com/icing/mod_tls



I've recently taken to adding a direction tag to benches in #OpenStreetMap. My convention is that the tag value corresponds to the direction of view.

Delighted to find that @vespucci_editor now shows (single) direction values, but wished I'd known about the whizzy direction tag gadget which uses the phone's compass yesterday. (It's a bit too clever if adding the values in retrospect.)

in reply to SK53

mapcomplete.org/benches allows you to add benches and has a specialized direction input module. And you can also easily add pictures with it