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when i’m hanging out with non-devs and they have computer problems, i can usually score a laugh by saying “ah, yeah, as a programmer, that’s my bad”

but inside, i yearn for the butlerian jihad



A lot of comedians are really smart. Not just quick witted. Smart as in, they read things, they know things, and they understand things. They keep the mask up though, because it's not as entertaining to know things.🤷🏿‍♂️

Sometimes they let the mask slip though. Here's Roy Wood jr, temporarily letting it slip that he knows things about hurricanes.

tiktok.com/@hignfyus/video/742…



No Thunderbird live streaming today as my building is going through a fire inspection and they're testing alarms all day.
This one should be the last interruption for the winter, let's hope!



Stop this. Stop this at once.
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reshared this



When Netanyahu is done with his genocide of Palestinians and is done with sacrificing the Israeli hostages the world will still have on its hands an entire population of genocidal men and women who enjoy seeing others suffer.

All of this was preventable were it not for the US and Germany.

#Israel #Gaza



Big news from NBC today archive.is/rd35w

Edit: Cut down in its prime, replaced with an archive link

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@Tusky
Hi Tusky Team.
The #moshidon client has a very, very nice feature that allows you to track timelines from self-defined servers.

Is there a plan to implement such a function in #tusky ?

in reply to 8Srider 🏁

Hi!!! No, sorry, we don,t have that planned
At least for now :)


For anyone with the Meta Ray-Ban glasses. Does anyone know why I can’t seem to connect them to Facebook? When I press the connect button, it opens the Facebook app but I don’t see any connection screen.


Balade au cimetière de Charonne: il m'a fallu plusieurs secondes pour comprendre cette épitaphe, "Nez-Vert-Mort", sur la tombe du dessinateur, peintre et sculpteur Daniel Milhaud


Was wondering if pocketbase.io could possibly be improved upon, then I found pocketpages.dev.

This might just be my new goto tech stack. Kinda hard to argue with a single-file backend, and by the time you outgrow it you can likely afford to transition away.




Блядь. Дали джуну права на мердж. Ну он и смерджил непротестированные правки в мастер в пятницу вечером. Дебил сука.


знакомый рассказал о приключениях его родственницы в одном из банков москвы. она хотела узнать, есть ли отделение этого банка в Татарстане. такой вот диалог:
(родственница):здравствуйте, я бы хотела узнать, если у вашего банка отделение в Татарстане.
(тётка в банке):извините, наш банк имеет отделения только в России.
(родственница): так... это Россия. Там город Казань...
(тётка в банке): Казань? я повторяю, только по России.
(родственница): но... там река Волга...
(тётка в банке): Волга? ммм?
(родственница): ну да, Волга. она еще в Каспийское море впадает.
с этими словами она ушла, оставив банк в полном шоке.


I'm now bridged to 🦋 which means even more people can read my bullshit :3



Could someone please write Taylor Otwell a bot that replies with "💩" to every Pull Request he closes, so that he doesn't have to endure the pitiful and tremendously time-consuming task of having to select one of his reply templates that he can't even be bothered to check if it is even fitting (honestly, it's more likely, he doesn't give a flying fuck given the amount of times this happens)? 🤡

#amCoding #amProgramming #PHP #openSource #FOSS #webDev

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This piece on reading the Baby-Sitters Club books as a middle-aged man is pretty decent.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I’m a similar age to the author, so as I read it I absolutely recognised that feeling of repulsion I’d have as a kid at the very notion of accessing any ‘girl’ content. Wonder-Woman, She-Ra, Supergirl, ‘girly’ pop music, books about girl things; I’d actively have nothing to do with them.

I don’t think I’m unusual in that. Perhaps these days, but not then.

#Bookstodon




📱 Vyšla nová verze upravené Instagram klienta Honista v10.0. Přináší mnoho zajímavých funkcí a odstraňuje reklamy.

ℹ️ Vychází z oficiálního Instagramu: v347.3.0.41.103

🔗 Článek o aplikaci Honista: infoek.cz/honista-je-instagram…

🔗 Stáhnout instalační APK Honista v10 z OSCloudu: oscloud.cz/s/GTef33KKpJmE24p



For all the email writing pros - comment your best email greeting 🥰

And if you can't decide on the email greeting - we can help!

Read our QUICK GUIDE to starting an email 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-start-an-…

#email #emailwriting #tuta #emailtips #encrypted



Be My Eyes and Microsoft partnership, a good thing... Microsoft recruits accessibility app to make its AI more useful to blind and low-vision users engadget.com/ai/microsoft-recr…
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield @bemyeyes I agree that it would have been better to do that and have users defaulted to opt out unless and until they chose to include themselves as I have. However, I understand that such a partnership is far more attractive to Microsoft with an opt in default. (1/2)
in reply to Michael Feir

To some extent, blind people and companies trying to use AI to improve life for them will have to accept the privacy tradeoffs if these services are to be sustainable and affordable for the majority of blind people. If we can't afford to develop our own AI, we have to pay with something if we want to leverage AI developed by others. (2/2)


I just got a message from someone via LinkedIn. Since this individual chose to connect with me on LinkedIn, I do assume that she read my profile and, therefore, is aware that I have over 30 years of experience in the blindness technology field. Her message asked if I might be willing to volunteer to help make a certain Web site accessible. Bear in mind that I have never worked with or corresponded with this individual prior to her reaching out to me so it's not as though we have some established working relationship. I thought about beginning my reply mentioning the disturbing trend of people with disabilities being asked to do work for free. However, I told her that I was only available for paid opportunities and that, if such an opportunity became available, to please reach out so that we can determine whether I'm an appropriate fit.
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Me when not programming: I miss programming
Me when I can program: I hate programming, not doing this shit again


To jsou furt Mastodon srazy, BlueSky srazy, Linux days, ... Pojďte někdo udělat sraz pro pankáče. Aktuální a bývalé 😁
Třeba pod heslem Vlasy slezly, Punk zůstal....

Sedám na letadlo a jsem tam za dvě hodiny....

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in reply to Ivan Stloukal

ja mám číro a už má skoro 12 cm! Ibaže mám kučery tak to vyzerá že nemám vôbec dlhé vlasy.


Summarizing the state of the last few months of #accessibility work, slowly but surely getting a full stack with no vision support across all layers from CLI shell to window management to cooperative clients to uncooperative clients.

arcan-fe.com/2024/10/18/access…

in reply to Bjorn Stahl

ahh, interesting, so you want to make your own platform for which accesskit builds an adaptor? I wonder, would that help the current situation with chromium and similar? whoe, you have that much support for esoteric devices like those? linux doesn't have them even now, not as advanced as your thing, awesome! Also, I know the name sounded familiar from somewhere, now I found it, this popped up in my articles list when I was researching something about wayland. Reading some of your building clients with arcan articles, especially the part where you apparently have to clone arcan and build your apps into its source tree somewhere to make them found by the thing, I came to the conclusion that you're using wayland in some very, very weird ways, dk if that's awesome or not. Anyway, this is the article I read back then, but as I had no context, I dismissed it because it sounded weird

arcan-fe.com/2017/12/24/crash-…



The people that think collaboration can't happen remotely are also the ones who only get their ideas implemented by being loudly wrong and basically a bully. They need face to face interaction because how else will they float around, sprinkling their bad ideas, and pushing for features that both no one asked for and don't meet user's needs.


📏 LA PARADOJA DE LA MEDIDA PRECISA 📏

🪵 Encima de una mesa tenemos dos palos de diferente longitud. Los vamos a medir con un instrumento que cada vez que lo usamos comete un error de medida aleatorio, de una cierta magnitud que llamaremos Sigma. El instrumento se equivocará más o se equivocará menos aleatoriamente cada vez que lo usemos (con un error diferente en cada caso), pero el error en la medición siempre será en torno a Sigma unidades. Eso sí, el instrumento está INSESGADO, es decir, el error es aleatorio pero centrado en el valor real; no tiene una desviación sistemática que ocurra siempre.

❗ Podría parecer que la mejor estrategia es medir cada palo individualmente… pero no. Gracias a una investigación desarrollada por Harold Hotelling en 1944 sabemos que hay una manera más eficiente de medir los dos palos sin tener que darle más vueltas de la cuenta y consiguiendo mayor nivel de precisión.

💡 El error de medida aparece en muchos instrumentos de todo tipo que utilizamos en nuestro día a día.

🧑‍💻 Código de la simulación: github.com/picanum/misc/tree/m…

#estadistica #divulgacion #matematicas

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It sounds like an interesting idea, but a bit like the venerable comic book, silent cinema seems beyond me. There's an event in London for those who are interested, though.
[Tactile silent cinema](groups.google.com/g/braillists…)
in reply to Sean Randall

Covid did happen, but the RNIB seemingly haven't touched this sort of research since 2017. I wish they'd move on it. the UK used to lead the way, and now we're so not. NO push for apps to be accessible, no push for live streams to have a feed (that broadcast television already does), and no progress on portable access.
[Audio description apps for people with sight loss | RNIB | RNIB](rnib.org.uk/living-with-sight-…)
in reply to Sean Randall

maybe worth reaching out to RNIB immersive media team who I know have been working in related areas in recent years.
in reply to Sean Randall

Honestly, if the idea is to watch a film with no actual diegetic sound at all and read descriptions? I'd prefer a book.
I hope i'm misunderstanding the idea. Obviously if you have some eyesight, or used to, or have an interest in the medium, you'll be more interested by default.
It souns to me like an interesting idea for a research proposal but an utterly impractical waste of time and energy, especially given people's levels of Braille literacy and reading speed contrasted with the speed of film.


If you got to pick a computer model and OS for middle school students what would you pick?

I understand some of the reasons SO many schools choose chromebooks. Low cost, durability..

Drop a macbook it might break. The chromebook works just as well before and after being dropped. Which is to say they work like they have been dropped right out of the box.

Touch pads are unresponsive, touch screen is annoying. I kind of loathe them.

But, designing computers for children isn't glamourous.

in reply to myrmepropagandist

Designing computers for children ought to be glamorous, celebrated, You will shape a generation. It's not fun, or easy at all.

Frankly, even more than the software the poor quality of the touch pad, and the jitteriness and hypersensitivity of the touch screens on most models made for school markets are making a whole generation hate laptops.

And when young people hate laptops they become phone only computer users. It's a dead end.

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in reply to myrmepropagandist

Double this for disabled kids. Teaching blind children the benefits of good keyboarding is hard enough. Of the 45 touch-typing tools I explored, the ones that were usable without eyesight were so boring as to make you cry.
in reply to myrmepropagandist

Say mean things about Apple all you want, their input devices have never caused me to notice them. And that is *success* I have never thought about the touch pad on my laptops ONCE.
in reply to myrmepropagandist

unfortunately in Germany most schools have the kids work with iPads straight off. So many terrible implications…
in reply to Felicitas Macgilchrist

@discoursology

I'm so glad this idea was rejected at our school. They need to type! And those keyboard cases are NOT the same.

But worse, understanding the file system on an iPad is challenging for *me* it's designed to make you not think about it. I know I sound like an old lady but the youths need to know where their files are!

in reply to myrmepropagandist

@discoursology Most mobile devices work a little like this. I have been using Android for years now and the file system seems to be intentionally convoluted in modern devices, with every app creating their own directory tree rooted wherever the hell they want. There is no easy, straightforward way to download a podcast from your aggregator and then playing it with VLC, for instance. I don't know where the hell is anything anymore.
in reply to Molondrongo

@Molondrongo @discoursology I find this even on GrapheneOS, which is generally great. When I open the Files app, there's a sidebar item called "Documents." Is that the "Documents" directory on my phone? Nope! Does it show me all my document-type files in one place? Also nope! How does it decide what should be in there? Nobody knows!


This is Nathan. Nathan is trying to make money by offering overpriced domain names which are otherwise free for registration.

Don't be like Nathan. Get a real job.

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🚩Red flags in supply chain security

- "There is a significant amount of unaccounted for mass”
- Hezbollah noticed the battery was draining faster than
expected
- Salesperson who conveyed the offer made a very inexpensive proposition for the pagers, and kept bringing the price down until he was pulled in

reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-PA…



Handout: Introduction to MuseScore Studio soundwithoutsight.org/handout-…



Long time no post! Been building a graphical #WASM interpreter!

Very useful when your program is doing funky stuff and you don’t know why… Here’s a sneak peek 👀

#wasm
in reply to Jonas Kruckenberg

would this be able to be run in the browser?

Then it could join the ranks of awesome web based debug tools like the godbolt compiler explorer and rust playground.

in reply to treefit

@treefit Actually the “default” version is in-browser yeah!

Since it’s written in rust ive built the gui using egui, so it can support web+native where native def has better performance but shipping a website is just so much easier so thats the default



Audio Overview on Google’s NotebookLM can now turn your boring lectures into interesting podcasts—with more control mspoweruser.com/audio-overview…


The #38C3 presale is starting soon.

If you have worked 15 hours or more as an angel on #37C3 and checked the "Please send me emails" checkbox in your user settings in the angel system, you should receive a voucher on Tuesday next week (October 22nd).

There will also be community vouchers again and the open presale starts on November 12th.

All further details can be found on the event blog: events.ccc.de/2024/10/17/38c3-…

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