I called EMS once and police showed up before paramedics (paramedics were busy).
The first thing they said? “You don’t look sick.”
They waited for paramedics who took me to hospital - but that initial response stuck with me.
It’s why mask bans are dangerous. Police aren’t trained to make medical decisions. They shouldn’t be the ones deciding who can and can’t legally wear a mask.
Many illnesses are invisible - you wouldn’t KNOW we’re disabled to look at us.
Most of us have experienced gaslighting from friends, family and even doctors - people are quick to judge and decide you’re “not that sick.”
So are we really expected to risk criminal charges by wearing a respirator & just HOPE police will believe we truly “need it”?
Not to mention that medical exemptions leave behind anyone who wants to mask to protect and preserve their health - as well as caregivers and family of disabled people.
We rely on them to keep us safe - we NEED them masking in public.
I sincerely hope more people join the fight against mask bans soon - because if we don’t fight against them - more cities and states will pass them and more people will suffer.
A good respirator is excellent protection against covid & other illnesses.
We shouldn’t be further excluding disabled and high risk people from public - but that’s exactly what these ugly laws do.
Call your elected officials - tell them medical masks can not and should not be banned.
Don’t embrace escalating fascism and eugenics just because you don’t think it will impact you.
Don’t celebrate it because you hold a grudge about mask mandates.
It won’t stop with disabled people. Help us now & your future self will thank you.
My full article on mask bans, medical exemptions and how we’re witnessing (and even welcoming) escalating eugenics and fascism: disabledginger.com/p/we-are-wi…
I was trash talking advertising and while searching for a reference to something I vaguely remembered I found this discussion of a result showing the more advertising a society is exposed to the unhappier people are.
"The University of Warwick’s Andrew Oswald and his team compared survey data on the life satisfaction of more than 900,000 citizens of 27 European countries from 1980 to 2011 with data on annual advertising spending in those nations over the same period. The researchers found an inverse connection between the two. The higher a country’s ad spend was in one year, the less satisfied its citizens were a year or two later. Their conclusion: Advertising makes us unhappy."
"In seinem Neujahrswort 1990 spricht der Thüringer Landesbischof Werner Leich davon, dass der lange "Weg in die Freiheit nur in Versöhnung und Gewaltlosigkeit" gelingen könne. Dafür hatten viele keine Geduld. Der schnellen deutschen Einheit folgte die sehr feste geschwisterliche Umarmung. Der gerade erst so hoffnungsvoll begonnene breite Dialog, die Kernforderung des Neuen Forums, war zu Ende, bevor er begonnen hatte. Damals mahnten Stimmen die Aufarbeitung der gemeinsamen Geschichte an, vor allem der vor 1945. Doch das Gespräch zwischen Ost und West gestaltete sich schwierig. Gesellschaft und Kirchenvolk im Osten hatten das Gefühl, bei der Gestaltung der Einheit von Staat und Kirche nicht auf Augenhöhe mitreden zu können."
When your software is comprised of 5 applications, and they all can have 7 toolbar layout UI variants, you can be pretty sure that your software is not fully tested. bugs.documentfoundation.org/sh…
'Fietsers nemen weinig ruimte in beslag, ze vervuilen niet en fietsen is gezond. Wat is er dan mooier voor een stad, dan het aantal fietsers te zien groeien? Maar daar moet je de stad wel op inrichten. Want -vooral in de ochtendspits – is het héél druk op de fietspaden.
October 6: who is lying to me? The app that says a Tram 14 will come in two minutes or the electronic announcer saying no departure for the next half hour? I decided not to risk it and take the bus. Said bus took a wrong route, forcing me to run 500m in two minutes to catch my train. And *that* train is full due to reduced service, meaning I'll stand for the next 40 minutes next to a lady playing loud Schlager for all of us whether we want it or not. Public transport is the *true* Köln Marathon.
O icónico avião do filme TopGun de 1986, o F-14 Tomcat é ainda utilizado por um país no Mundo. Por ironia do destino é um dos principais inimigos do EUA: o Irão.😄
o meu lado de engenheiro admira os gajos que conseguem manter esses aviões em serviço. Estamos a falar de tecnologia dos anos 70, alguma mais antiga, herdada do f-111.
Vendo o video é esse o principal problema, até porque os EUA fizeram questão de destruir todos os F14 em sua posse para evitar as peças serem usadas. Mas os engenheiros iranianos até fizeram o milagre de por o avião a usar misseis de fabrico iraniano. Mas a força area iraniana é tão fraca que ainda não estão dispostos a abandonar definitivamente os F14 , embora também já tenham MIGs mais modernos
lembro-me de um documentário sobre a guerra irao-iraque em que usaram os f14 e até f-4 Fantom de forma muito eficaz. Aliás, a maioria dos abates por f14 são deles, dos EUA so me lembro daqueles incidentes com os libios.
@ragb Sim, foram muito eficazes nos combate aéreos contra os MIG e Mirages iraquianos num rácio 1 para 5. Talvez por isso os iranianos tenham ganho forte respeito pelos F14
Tak takhle vypadá to "nesmyslně předimenzované" a "poloprázdné" parkoviště u Panské skály v říjnu, za zamračeného počasí, větru a osmi stupních. Jak to tu vypadá uprostřed letní sezóny, to si asi dokážete představit. Ale petičníci, kteří tu nikdy nebyli, vědí přesně, co město potřebuje 🤭
That imprecise terminology leads to more miscommunication between sales folks, designers, and devs than is necessary. Then weird stuff gets built from scratch instead of leaning on existing patterns.
You should dismiss articles that conflate the two.
I don’t think most people realize how Firefox and Safari depend on Google for more than “just” revenue from default search engine deals and prototyping new web platform features.
Off the top of my head, Safari and Firefox use the following Chromium libraries: libwebrtc, libbrotli, libvpx, libwebp, some color management libraries, libjxl (Chromium may eventually contribute a Rust JPEG-XL implementation to Firefox; it’s a hard image format to implement!), much of Safari’s cryptography (from BoringSSL), Firefox’s 2D renderer (Skia)…the list goes on. Much of Firefox’s security overhaul in recent years (process isolation, site isolation, user namespace sandboxes, effort on building with ControlFlowIntegrity) is directly inspired by Chromium’s architecture.
Interdependence for independent components can be mutually beneficial. For something to be part of Chromium, it needs to build and test with a battery of sanitizers and receive continuous fuzzing. Mozilla and Safari do something similar. All benefit from libraries getting patched to meet each others’ security requirements. Without Google, Mozilla and Apple must assume responsibility to maintain these libraries to a browser-grade standard.
I see many advocates for Chromium alternatives say the Web would be better without Chromium. That may be true, but Chromium alternatives may also be worse.
For completeness: Firefox and Safari’s influence on Chromium in recent years includes the addition of memory-safe languages, partitioned site storage, declarative content blocking (from Safari), and a vague multi-year repeatedly-delayed intent to phase out third-party cookies. Chromium would be no better off without other browser projects.
But you also need to consider how much of that is because chrome shipped those features and therefore everyone else had to as well - Mozilla does not have the money to compete there even before its slow motion implosion
For everyone else it’s just time - plenty of these things are *huge* amounts of work, and insanely complex, and the “standard” is pretty much “whatever Google implemented”
“But you also need to consider how much of that is because chrome shipped those features and therefore everyone else had to as well”
@ohunt Color space processing, cross platform GPU-accelerated 2d graphics, and brotli compression are things that aren’t necessary to use websites but all browsers chose to ship, and they chose Chromium’s implementations. Firefox already had other 2d backends but switched to Skia. HDR in particular is an OS feature that all programs capable of playing video and showing images are generally expected to support, and that means handling complex color metadata.
“the ‘standard’ is pretty much ‘whatever Google implemented’
This is not the case for most examples I cited; the first sentence of the post set the scope to exclude Web standards. I was describing libraries chosen by browsers.
Multiple implementations of WebP, Brotli, and others exist; most of them aren’t browser-grade implementations. Tons of implementations of TLS 1.3 exist, but Apple (and AWS, and Cloudflare, and several others) switched to Google’s BoringSSL over popular alternatives like OpenSSL, LibreSSL, Mozilla’s NSS, and GnuTLS.
JPEG-XL has a very popular independent Rust implementation which Mozilla is not considering, in favor of one supplied by Chromium which doesn’t even support JXL right now.
None of the Chromium-inspired security improvements in Firefox are necessary to render web pages or implement standards.
Part of the point of my post was to show how reality isn’t as simple as the popular “everybody has to do what Google says because it has market share” narrative, or the “if Mozilla had an alternative to Google’s revenue it would be truly independent” narrative. Browser vendors do have choice when picking libraries that implement features or deciding on security architecture improvements. They tend to pick what Chromium has done even when given feature-complete choices because they find the Chromium options to be best.
I agree with you when it comes to Web standards, though. But this post wasn’t about standards.
@Sirs0ri the point was that the chrome team is responsible not just for funding, but actually developing, a significant chunk of its own competition. All WebRTC, WebP, VP8/VP9 encoding, and JPEG-XL code in all major browsers is from Chromium. I don’t know how this is an example of competition; it’s an example of how the different browser engines aren’t entirely competitors, but instead rely on Chromium’s continued existence.
Underground! Overground! Trams! Vintage buses! 3 different types of cab! The Thames Clipper! High Speed Rail! Hire bikes! Foot tunnels! The Woolwich ferry! The cable car!
I took 25 different forms of London transport in a day, and so can you. Here's a guide.
In a move that absolutely no one asked for: I am porting the Windows Vista/7 desktop Gadgets to Wayland with some GTK sorcery.
These widgets are actually zip files with web resources plus some metadata. I got the Machine CPU and RAM stats working, along with some of Microsoft's weird JS API's.
Hledám pro matku práci. Má základní vzdělání a s počítačem neumí. Celý život dělala uklízečku. Na současnou práci už nestačí, protože jí z tahání těžkých věci bolí páteř. Ideální lokalita Hlučín, Moravská Ostrava. Na plný úvazek.
Koukám na jeden inzerát... Uklízečka... Angličtina a filipinstina výhodou. Lidem už jebe.
@pavel @archos To je bohužel zákonný požadavek. Kamarád říkal, že aby mohl zaměstnat uklízečku z UA, napsal do požadavků schopnost překládat z Maďarštiny do Švédštiny 😁
@Unreed @pavel @archos to dělala dlouhá léta nějaká jihokorejská firma. Chtěli nějakého extra odborníka ale i skladnika s vysokou úrovní korejštiny a když se nikdo logicky nehlásil, bo nabízeli minimalku, dovezli si svoje lidi. Obcuravaji tak zákon.
Btw, pro Filipínce je i mininalka a chudý život u nás rájem na Zemi. A ty firmy to ví.
Am I misunderstanding something or does this article indicate that adding menu/menuitem roles somehow ensure keyboard operability of dropdown menus? (They don’t.) The use of <ul>/<li> elements is also superfluous as the added roles mean it could be just <div>s. Not a bad practice, but the article seems to indicate using a list is somehow helpful to AT users. (It isn’t.) I’d also recommend the aria-haspopup=menu (although equivalent to true, it’s more specific).
In fact, using the menu roles in the wrong way can have serious repercussions on the screen reader experience, since for historic reasons, menu systems need special handling, especially on Windows, but the Mac has some similar mechanisms where wrongly used menu roles can put VoiceOver in an undesired state where strange things occur. I wrote an article about that in 2018 or so, outlining some of the problems. And of course, the fact that ARIA roles don't change browser behaviour or add keyboard functionality is as true today as it was 20 years ago when ARIA was first conceived. CC @andymarcozehe.de/wai-aria-menus-us…
Je toho celkem dost, klouzek sličný, strmělka mlženka, strmělka anýzka, čiruvka fialová, slizák mazlavý, nějaký prášivky, pozor nemyslím "prašivky" jak se blbě říká a pod. ty hřibovité asi znáš. Ale zlatý hřeb jsou opeňky měnlivé 😁
@archos Mám houby rád už od mala, nakoupil jsem nějakou literaturu a prošmejdil dost lesů, tak se dá říct, že ano. Otrava z hub ještě nebyla, tak asi zatím dobrý 😁
@archos Tak ono to samozřejmě není podle knížek, atlas je vodítko a pak musíš chodit do lesa a učit se, nejlépe vždy s někým, kdo fakt ví že to je právě tahle houba. Praxe v lese se nedá nahradit knížkou 😁
Der 30jährige staatenlose Robert A., der seit kurz nach der Geburt in Chemnitz lebt wird in ein Land abgeschoben, in dem er nie lebte, dessen Sprache er nicht spricht, dessen Kultur er nicht kennt. Unsere Normalität eines autoritären Kapitalismus: Menschen abschieben, die ihr Leben lang gut integriert waren und nichts anderes als diese Kultur und Sprache kennen, ohne Notlage Grenzen schließen, der permanente Überbietungswettbewerb in Forderung und Härte gegen Fremde als politischer Grundkonsens.
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