Apple’s decision to put satellite connections in iPhones is already saving lives, and as Hurricane Milton threatens Florida, now is the time for every US iPhone user to learn how the system works.
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I appreciate the smaller indie developers, particularly in the Apple world, who specialise in a certain field and do it well, and take pride in being accessible. Rogue Amoeba is one. Their audio products are one of the best advertisements for Mac. Agile Tortoise is another, with the fabulous Drafts app. And another is Flexibits, who make the Fantastical Calendar app. This is a sound investment for management of the several calendars I keep. And they care a lot about #accessibility.
I use their Openings and proposals feature regularly in my professional life. Now they have added RSVP. Here’s the explanation from their blog. If you’ve not checked out Fantastical yet, I did a demo on Living Blindfully and they have plenty of videos and help guides. I highly recommend it.
How a UK treaty could spell the end of the .io domain: theverge.com/2024/10/8/2426544…
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Tons of people listening to the radio traffic now in Florida... Feeds still running.
Increasingly, a lot of autonomous projects aren't setting up websites or doing any form of reporting on their organizing efforts on counter-info websites beyond posting on social media.
A lot of projects also aren't posting even email info - moving all communication onto platforms like Meta and Instagram.
It's becoming harder and harder to follow the work of some efforts or get updates - especially when platforms like Facebook and Instagram require you to have an account to see most content on the site.
One of the good things about Mastodon is that you can always log onto our feed and read updates - regardless of if you are on the platform or not.
This brings up all sorts of questions: from accessibility, to the legal and surveillance implications, and also what kind of movement do we want to build, one on our own terms - or the algorithm.
A few days ago I read this piece by @davidgerard about Eric Schmidt, formerly of Google, calling for burning all fossil fuels and letting climate change run without restraint for the sake of "AI" - pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/06/eri…
On the first reading, I missed how Schmidt apparently has a new military contracting venture called "Istari".
Yet another person who managed to read Tolkien's legendarium and completely misunderstand everything in it.
Shots fired at office of man who owns Old Montreal buildings that were sites of fatal fires
I hear you loud and clear Nobel Prize, you don't want to be left off of the AI hype train.
Next will be a Nobel peace prize for "AI safety."
Don't they supposedly wait for decades before seeing the impact, like new drugs that were created or something like that, before awarding Nobel Prizes?
Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records.
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I bet my girlfriend that this picture of our cats could get 10 billion boosts on Mastodon.
She said she doesn't believe me. She said there's only 15 million accounts on Mastodon. She said there aren't even 10 billion people on Earth. She said it concerns her that I struggle to comprehend large numbers.
Let's prove her wrong everyone. Boost away and show her just how awesome the Mastodon community is.
Someone is DDOSing the internet archive, so we've been down for hours. According to their twitter, they're doing it just to do it. Just because they can. No statement, no idea, no demands.
Meanwhile, we literally rescued 400,000 dissertations from being pulped.
I like our side.
Reminder to anyone in the path of #Milton
When speaking to your insurance, do NOT use the word "flood". No matter what your claim is, do NOT say that word. Use the following words ONLY:
- hurricane
- wind-driven rain
Your insurance will try to trick you into turning it into a flood claim, so they can then categorically deny it. Don't fall for it.
as I have mentioned elsewhere I have worked fiercely on reducing memory calls and memory copies in curl code over the last few years, and I have come to realize that strncpy is often a marker for questionable code decisions, so I have worked on removing those questionable code paths.
As I have reduced the amount already before, the remaining few uses were not hard to just fix with better conditions and improved logic
yeah I have a fondness for K&R C but looking back many of its standard lib functions were a Bad Idea that at best only made sense for some brief "Garden of Eden" period in the world's software ecosystem
before any user could be a determined (and well-resourced) adversary or a mind bogglingly careless idiot. haha
while I understand that C was always ever meant as a relatively light abstraction, I still don't understand why native string handling was never incorporated. Dealing with strings is relevant in _so_ many use cases, that not having a sane and safe abstraction for it is just asking for trouble.
I think that's one of the first things Borland improved on in their derivates of Pascal.
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