Trying to find a place to stay for the academic year in London. So far, three places have been all great and ready to offer a viewing until I mention I'm blind. Then it's all "are you sure you can go up stairs? Because I don't want to be responsible if you fall or anything".
Quoting literally. I'm not kidding. I don't so much mind that they don't know that the average blind person can go up and down stairs without a problem, but telling me to my face that they don't want to be responsible in those words is amazing. Seriously I love this.
Yep, ya guessed it. Immediately after I reauthenticate to windows itself.
This bothers me just like those websites where you reset your password and still have to log in.
Probably just getting grumpy in my old and tired state.
#LinkedIn is not familiar with the concept of "#privacy by default"
Suggest everyone check their settings. lnkd.in/efq-wHms
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profiles.ini is located when Thunderbird is installed as snap on ubuntu?
After almost a year since the last release, a new version of #Eyedropper is now available.
It now features a color editor, allowing to directly modify picked colors, a new warning page for unsupported systems (Thanks to @bragefuglseth for the illustration) and a rewritten color conversion backend.
The new version should be available on Flathub soon.
Es könnte vielleicht etwas damit zu tun haben, dass man dem eigentlich zustimmt, weswegen man in den Wintermonaten auf der Straße war?
Was ist der Unterschied zwischen Sellners Deportationsplänen und dem heutigen Vorgehen an den Grenzen?
Warum schweigt ihr?
Vielleicht, weil es eure Parteien sind, die ihr gewählt habt?
CHECK YOUR SETTINGS: LinkedIn gave itself permission to use your personal data to train its AI models. Instead of opting in, you have to opt out.
Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement
linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/s…
Reminder that my team is still looking for a Senior Embedded Engineer to work on our charging station software in @rust:
jucr-gmbh.jobs.personio.de/job…
Relocation to Berlin is a hard requirement though but it can't be helped when working on constantly improving hw.
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Компания Neuralink Илона Маска представила устройство Blindsight (habr.com/ru/news/844190/), способное вернуть зрение слепым от рождения, получившее одобрение FDA (Управления по контролю за продуктами и лекарствами США).
Это устройство представляет собой мозговой чип, даже если у пациента нет глаз или зрительного нерва, но не повреждена зрительная кора.
Устройство находится на ранней стадии тестирования.
@menelion не знаю. У подопытных Маска, судя по новостям, личность не терялась. Правда проводники, входящие в кору головного мозга обрывались, что вызвал в последствии дискомфорт испытуемого. И на просьбу об удалении нейрочипа сообщили, что это невозможно.
Может когда-нибудь вся эта технология будет доведена до совершенства. Как знать...
А может Маск с командой переберётся на Марс, как он заявлял.
The CAQ: We must protect the French language!
Also, the CAQ: We will make it as difficult as possible for non-Francophones to learn the French language.
montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-lib… #CAQASTROPHE #FRANCISATIONFAILURE #polQC #QCpoli #polMTL #MTLpoli #cdnpoli #polcan
Ich fordere:
- offene Grenzen
- Wärmepumpen bis zum Abwinken
- Kindergrundsicherung + Kekse
- eine Windrad- und Photovoltaikekstase
- barrierefreien ÖPNV bis in den letzten Winkel der Republik
- eine Zukunftsvision, die einen glückselig lächelnd einschlafen lässt
- verständliche Bedienungsanleitungen
- pestizidfreies Obs un Jemös
- Deutschkurse für ALLE
- 90% Vermögenssteuer für Überreiche
- einen Generalstreik
- Gerechtigkeit
- Solidarität mit Traumwandler*innen und Zipfelmützen
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und so 😏
Two reasons to do anything: a good one, and a real one.
Good reasons to hate AI: the energy consumption! The theft! The plagiarism! It's a parrot! The corporations, man. Did you know it's actually a parrot???
Increasingly, the real reason some developers hate AI:
It is driving the value of being The Syntax Knower to zero, and some folks built their whole deal on that single pillar.
JAWS 2025 public beta is now available for testing.
A few notes about this if people are trying the public beta.
Hartgen Consultancy products are not supported as part of this test beta cycle.
On a personal note, I do think there are some very rough edges with this public beta.
Two good examples would be:
1. There are times when, if you move to the desktop, the response time of JAWS reporting the focus is significantly slower than JAWS 2024.
This has been reported by me a number of times.
2. If you open up Winamp, and press Insert+T to read the song title and artist of a radio station which is playing, the URL for the stream is announced instead.
For these reasons and a few others, I am not using version 2025 for my day-to-day usage with work or even pleasure.
But that is what the beta process is about; to report such findings.
Anyone who wishes to try it can do so:
support.freedomscientific.com/…
This sometimes happens to me post-update because the system might be doing some stuff in the background.
I'd wait a few hours, possibly restart the device, and start worrying if nothing changes.
@lerven Can you do that accessibly now?
It used to be that a settings reset would turn off VO, turn off the accessibility shortcut, turn off siri and unpair all your computers, making it basically impossible to turn VO back on, possibly except through a wipe and the the DFU procedure.
@lerven I'm pretty sure it asks you at setup whether you want it to be on, and there's no setup after a settings reset.
This might be a language thing though, I could have had my phone still set to Polish when I did this.
@lerven I think I'd almost prefer backing up to a real computer and restoring from backup over a settings reset.
The new Apple APIs that let apps opt out of backup make that process far more annoying than it should be, though.
For me, the best thing about the #WatchOS11 update is that you can finally change the sounds for certain alert types, and when you change the sound, it changes the haptic as well. This means that I can finally tell the difference between text/iMessages and emails without having to use VoiceOver to check. Such a simple thing, but long overdue in my opinion!
GNOME 47 (codename “Denver”) is out today! I’ll be celebrating by upgrading my desktop to Fedora Silverblue 41 beta.
My favorite feature is definitely Accent Colors, but there is a lot of refinement and polish in this one. Check it out:
#GNOME #GNOME47 #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS
Thanks to everyone who has shared feedback about GNOME; we’re listening and constantly working to make it better release after release. And thank you especially to those who spent countless hours designing, architecting, organizing, developing, and testing everything. It’s often thankless volunteer work, but we do it because we care about making a platform and ecosystem that’s stable, usable, and a joy to use.
It’s a lot of work, but we’re all just a little… ambitious enough to make it happen 💙
Oh look, Starlink is continuing to screw up the sky in every way possible.
"Second-Generation Starlink Satellites Leak 30 Times More Radio Interference, Threatening Astronomical Observations"
astron.nl/starlink-satellites/
It's going to be "hilarious" when Starlink messes up the radio sky so badly that radio astronomers can't even use quasars to calibrate GPS anymore. There are so many consequences from all these stupid, cheaply built, disposable satellites. universetoday.com/105160/navig…
Guillem Leon
in reply to Guillem Leon • • •And also of course, no matter how unlawful it is, the only thing I can do is complain, send them informative documents, etc unless I want to get into legal battle, which I don't have the money for. Of course it'd be much easier to stay in a place by myself, but in London I also don't have the money for that.
Soooooo yeaaaaah, if anyone knows anything about decent accommodation in London...