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I honestly couldn’t tell if this was a joke but it did make me want to bike past doing a loud monologue
on the side of a hilly road with houses on the left side, a small yellow sign that says “please bike quietly - no loud speaking”
a closeup of the sign

git retch

who called it creating a new python package manager and not reinventing the wheel

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TFW you write lava in you D&D notes and realize you may have mispelled Java. Not really.

#dnd5e

#dnd5e

daniellecoffyn • 15h My poem won a Pushcart Prize alongside Diane Seuss and Joyce Carol Oats IF ADAM PICKED THE APPLE by DANIELLE COFFYN from SOKTH MENIDIAN REVIEW There would be a parade, a celebration, a holiday to commemorate the day he sought enlightenment. We would not speak of temptation by the devil, rather, we would laud Adam's curiosity, his desire for adventure and knowing-We would feast on apple-inspired fare: tortes, chutneys, pancakes, pies. There would be plays and songs reenacting his courage. But it was Eve who grew bored, weary of her captivity in Eden. And a woman's desire for freedom is rarely a cause for celebration. Nominated by North Meridian Recicio

Not one conservative in a thousand understands this.
Photo farmer standing in front of a field of corn. Text: There was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn. Every year he won the award for the best grown corn. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. "How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?" the reporter asked. "Why sir," said the farmer, "Didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn." So is with our lives... Those who want to live meaningfully and well must help enrich the lives of others, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all.

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Very often drivers yell at me something like "go ride a bike way". It's often on a road where there is no bike way nearby and there is no legal restriction for me riding the road.
But when there is a restriction for motorized vehicles, nobody cares. Like literally every day on this road.
That's what #cycling in #Prague looks like.
#Prague #cycling

humor negro, negrísimo, la curiosidá mató al gato

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Federico Mena Quintero
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humor negro, negrísimo, la curiosidá mató al gato

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The media just conceded on #CBC their relentless push to expel Justin Trudeau has failed. Can we now get back to the business of the whole foreign interference thing and how the leader of the opposition won’t get a security clearance while he has foreign agents in his cabinet*?
#cdnpoli #Canada
#canada #cbc #cdnpoli

The result of the annual "Stop the US embargo of Cuba" vote at the UN.

#Cuba #UnitedNations #Israel #USA #Politics

A table showing the votes of UN member states. It shows around 190 votes in favour with only the US & Israel voting against.
#politics #USA #israel #cuba #unitednations

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 323
Minimus oculos rotundos et os subridens in peponi insculpit (Minimus carves round eyes and a smiling mouth into a pumpkin). Silvius cupit cultellum tractare, sed tata eum vetat (Silvius wants to handle the knife, but Daddy forbids him).
Photo of Minimus and Silvius, the Latin mice, standing on a fallen vine leaf. Minimus is carving a face into a tiny pumpkin with a little penknife. Silvius is watching him very closely, hoping to be allowed to have a go with the knife
#fabulamurina

#curl source code age, take 4
#curl

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Daniel Böhmer
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Really the best visualization of this dataset so far!

I find it confusing that only even years like 2000, 2002, etc. are listed. Did you skip every 2nd year? If data for each two years is accumulated please write "2000-2001" in the key.

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@dboehmer as said in the top, they are two-year segments. It's just a limit I decided on to keep the number of fields reasonable.
@Daniel Böhmer
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Daniel Böhmer
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Oh, I didn’t see/read this bit 🙈 Maybe that’s an indicator that this might be too subtle …
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@dboehmer I wanted to keep the labels simple to reduce the amount of text, as it quickly becomes "heavy" otherwise. But yeah, I'll think of how to improve it.
@Daniel Böhmer
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Daniel Böhmer
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May a make two (edit: three) suggestions:

a) write "2000 f." for 2000–2001 like common for giving page numbers in citations.
(I just learned that "f." is for giving someone’s birthdate in Swedish 😁 )
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/f.#Adje…

b) Use "≤" or "≥" mathematical operators. As the key is most probably read from the top to the bottom maybe give the lower number year instead like
- ≥ 2023
- ≥ 2021
- ≥ 2019
- …
- < 2000

c) short form 2000/01 to 2023/24

f. - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Wiktionary
#adjective
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Daniel Böhmer
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You’re so quick! I find this better than take 4, for sure.

If you want to minimize text space I’d consider this the optimal solution.

But to be honest I think it’s a bit too technical even—for software people. it takes a moment to understand this means each color represents two years …

More than ½ h after posting my suggestions I tend to think option C (that I added to the post) might be the most common notation: just "2023/24". Don’t you think? At least Germans use that a lot.

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@dboehmer unfortunately I think that version gets too messy, probably because too many numbers. Without being crystal clear what it means. I think I'll stick with the ≥ for now.
@Daniel Böhmer
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sirjofri
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@dboehmer for me, reading the graph part makes everything very clear. Like, the year number is just a point in time, at the transition between two years (e. g. black covers 2010-2012).

It would also be possible to work with dashes, like saying "up to 2002", though that needs a different numbering then:

- 2000
- 2002
- 2004
...

@Daniel Böhmer
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robryk
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It might be interesting to see this with log scale on y axis and, if those lines seem to decrease roughly linearly, to compare how halflifes change over time.

"Matt Mullenweg says Automattic is ‘very short-staffed’ amid WordPress vs. WP Engine drama"

MAYBE THAT IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF YOU DIPSHIT FIRING EVERYONE WHO'S NOT A FUCKING SYCOPHANT?

Goddammit. What a dumbass.

techcrunch.com/2024/10/30/matt…


Matt Mullenweg says Automattic is 'very short-staffed' amid WordPress vs. WP Engine drama | TechCrunch

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says the company is "short-staffed" amid WordPress's ongoing drama with WP Engine, which hosts websites built on WordPress.
Aisha Malik (TechCrunch)

"A good sysadmin always carries around a few feet of fiber. If he ever gets lost, he simply drops the fiber on the ground, waits ten minutes, then asks the backhoe operator for directions."
A slide from a Sumitomo Electric presentation Studies of Historical Cable/Fiber Failure Causes, Reported Failures, % Dig-ups, 172, 57% Craft/Workman Errors, 22, 7% Rodent, 13, 4% Fire, 11, 4% Vehicles, 11, 4% Defective Cable, 8, 3% Firearms, 7, 2% Intrinsic Electronics Failures, 6, 2% Flood, 6, 2% Lightning, 4, 1% Extreme Temperature, 3, 1% Ice, 3, 1% Steam Damage, 3, 1% Other, 15, 5% Unknown, 16, 5% Total, 300, 100% Ref: V. Hou, “Update on Interim Results of Fiber Optic System Field Failure Analysis”, NFOEC Proceedings Vol. 1, p. 539-545, (1991)

Congrats to the @thunderbird team and especially @cketti on the Thunderbird Android release! 🎉

It's been a while since the Prototypefund [1] days and me complaining about the white icon background during 36C3 and being responsible for the pink icon background about an hour later [2]. (Which caused a steady supply of angry users after this was released as a stable version 1.5 y later.)

Sorry but not sorry😅.

[1] prototypefund.de/project/jmap-…
[2] github.com/thunderbird/thunder…


add background color to adaptive icons by Bubu · Pull Request #4411 · thunderbird/thunderbird-android

This adds a desaturated version of K9-Mails envelope color as the adaptive icon background color. This should look a lot better than a plain white background. Also slightly enlarge the icon shape. ...
GitHub
@Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox @cketti
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Question for #screenreader users: do text emotes like kaomoji generally cause your tools to read out noise or annoying nonsense, or does it just not pronounce it? I am wondering whether it's okay to use them or whether I should go back to good old emoji (that, to my knowledge, get properly read out).

Like this one:
˚‧º·(˚ ˃̣̣̥᷄⌓˂̣̣̥᷅ )‧º·˚

#accessibility #totallyblind

#Accessibility #screenreader #totallyblind
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Lianna
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@NVAccess That's very enlightening, thank you! I suppose it's not really a solvable problem with dictionaries, because as opposed to standard smileys like colon and uppercase D - this one :D - Kaomoji are very, very varied and can be personalized.

I am wondering whether some traditional machine learning classifier could be good at detecting what is and what isn't a smiley.

@NV Access
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NV Access
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Since Microsoft do definte a whole list of Kaomoji, if Unicode or someone even just defined descriptors for those, we could perhaps incorporate it as a starting point. Although as you say, as soon as you change one slightly, it will break that. So it may be something solveable with machine learning, perhaps as an NVDA add-on (there are several for image description and other things, so it would certainly fit) - definitely interesting!

Well, I went out for 2 minutes and was about to strangle one of the kids, so I went back in. I'm sorry, but a 9-year-old doesn't get to play blind games with me. My wife wasn't around, but she sure gave him a lecture when she came back out. I have tons of patience with kids, but when they try tricks, only because I'm blind? It angers me.
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Tamas G
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lol that was one of the most common annoying ones for years in HS / college! Or when even people you thought were friends who wouldn't trick you would do the hiding one, trying to notice if you can sense their presence with your special super-sonic blind hearing. xD
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JamminJerry
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@Tamasg when people ask me how many fingers am I holding up, I just say one, and put up my middle finger, and say this one. lol. I wouldn't do that to a kid, but there you go.
@Tamas G

Unlike iPhone 16 Models, Apple's M4 Macs Lack Wi-Fi 7 Support macrumors.com/2024/10/30/m4-ma…

Unlike iPhone 16 Models, Apple's M4 Macs Lack Wi-Fi 7 Support

Apple introduced new Mac mini, iMac, and MacBook Pro models this week, adding faster and more efficient M4 chips, along with some other updates like...
Juli Clover (MacRumors.com)

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#linux #blind #introduction #tech #intro #metal #intros
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#curl source code age, raw line numbers

Next I'll see if I can make a version where the early code stays at the bottom of the graph.

#curl
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@jvossen I'm writing a tiny custom script for this that generates all the data, then I render graph from that using gnuplot. I have them all in a git repo, but I'm still polishing these ones.

Others have mentioned this existing tool for this: github.com/src-d/hercules


GitHub - src-d/hercules: Gaining advanced insights from Git repository history.

Gaining advanced insights from Git repository history. - src-d/hercules
GitHub
@Jake Vossen

howtogeek.com/mistakes-beginne…

10 Beginner Linux Command Line Mistakes:

- Assuming You Know Your Location
- Reckless Use of Elevated Privileges
- Skipping Package Updates Before Installing
- Unintentionally Overwriting or Deleting Files
- Confusing Path Types
- Ignoring Built-in Help Resources
- Not Using Shortcuts to Speed Up Navigation
- Dismissing Error Messages and Logs
- Neglecting to Make Backups Before Making Changes

Each item above is explained in the article & how to avoid it.

#linux


10 Common Mistakes Beginners Make With the Linux Command Line (and How to Avoid Them)

Avoid common Linux command line mistakes with these tips.
Richard Dezso (How-To Geek)
#linux

> As CEO, I take full responsibility for this decision and the circumstances that led to it, and I’m truly sorry to those impacted by this change.

So you firing yourself?

Something worth reiterating: The fediverse consists of people, no algorithms here. Anything you see happens because someone took the time to interact with a post (e.g. boost) or typed out a post or a reply.

A lot of posts deserve attention, so don't be afraid to boost or favorite what you read Favoriting shows that someone out there actually read the post and liked it. Engagement is key.

Be kind and interact away!

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Starlink Mini review: super compact and light, can be powered by a small power bank, installs quickly at new locations, but Wi-Fi range is sometimes a concern (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)

theverge.com/24275688/starlink…
techmeme.com/241030/p31#a24103…


Starlink Mini review: space internet goes ultraportable

SpaceX’s Starlink Mini satellite dish provides fast battery-powered internet with low enough latency that can be set up quickly in places 4G and 5G don’t reach.
Thomas Ricker (The Verge)

Seamless migration from any VMware environment to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and Amazon EC2
aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/s… #aws #blog

Seamless migration from any VMware environment to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and Amazon EC2 | Amazon Web Services

Over the last 20+ years, commercially available compute virtualization solutions such as VMware have become powerful tools used to lower costs, improve efficiency, ease management tasks, and improve on-premises flexibility.
Amazon Web Services
#blog #aws

Apple launches entry MacBook Pro 14-inch with M4 chip, 16GB RAM, new Center Stage camera, more 9to5mac.com/2024/10/30/apple-l…

Apple launches entry MacBook Pro 14-inch with M4 chip, 16GB RAM, better battery life, more - 9to5Mac

Apple has unveiled the new M4 MacBook Pro in several models, including a 14-inch version that serves as the more budget-friendly entry model.
Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)

How to Install Seafile Self-Hosted Cloud Storage on Debian 12 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

How to Install Seafile Self-Hosted Cloud Storage on Debian 12

Seafile is an open-source file-hosting system written in the Django web framework. This article will guide you through installing Seafile on a Debian ...
Arvid L (Howtoforge)

I've been recently tinkering with #Python to build myself a better RSS feed experience with Youtube and GitHub feeds.

hamatti.org/posts/i-built-cust…

#blogging


I built a custom RSS hydrator for better GitHub and Youtube feeds

Youtube and GitHub RSS/Atom feeds didn’t quite offer the experience I wanted so I built a web service that takes in a feed, hydrates its contents with more useful stuff and outputs a new feed.
Juha-Matti Santala
#python #blogging

in Mac OS 15.1, I was casually reading system information app with VoiceOver. I navigated into the hardware overview text area, then back to the list, and chose "software." here's where things got strange. Arrowing around in the text area would read me the hardware overview in one single chunk, but listening to it upon focus read the new content. So I ask: What the heck is going on with VoiceOver?
What would cause the virtual buffer and focused content to go out of sync like this?
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Q&A with scientists Charley Kline and Bill Duvall, who sent the first Arpanet message in 1969, on what the internet has become, lessons from Arpanet, and more (Scott Nover/BBC)

bbc.com/future/article/2024102…
techmeme.com/241030/p8#a241030…


'We were just trying to get it to work': The failure that started the internet

On 29 October 1969, two scientists established a connection between computers some 350 miles away and started typing a message. Halfway through, it crashed.
Scott Nover (BBC)

The drawback of leaving the Fascist Bird shite is that "brands" haven't migrated.

So I can't ask a car maker why their service (repairs) is worse than MAGA-Mobile which is a landmark in shittiness.

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Hubert Figuière
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FWIW it has been a month and a half and Nissan still doesn't have the replacement bumper.

(my *brand new* car was rear ended in its parking spot, 20m DOWN from the kerb)

Thinking getting a Nissan?

Hahahahaha! #WhatsApp survey question I just received asks:

'How visually appealing is WhatsApp’s design (that is, the way the app looks) to you?'

#whatsapp
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Andre Louis
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These days apps are far more complex than they were in 2010, so if you don't explore by touch and at least try to know where common things are, you're going to have a very slow time indeed.
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Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Yep, sometimes, explore by touch is the only thing that would adiquately work in some apps, if VO loses focus or reaches some kind of boundary that doesn't exist, but it decided to do so. Same thing used to happen with talkback and other readers. It's good to know both. Speaking of using that, how would you teach someone the concept of explore by touch? I honestly can't explain it well I suppose, but I am trying to help someone from around here. What do you compare it vs swiping, for example? To me it's just like drawing on your screen, but drawing lines. also I am one of the people who uses explore by touch a lot, and also manages to guess half of the things on the screen if apps are well-made.
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Rebecca
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@tardis @jscholes Have they used tactile maps? If so you could say it's a little bit like exploring a tactile map but it's just your phone screen. I know speed dots have shut down but when I had them they really helped me orient to my phone at first.
@James Scholes @Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Oh, these never shipped here, well, yeah I tried that approach but I guess they didn't get it, so I tried drawing. It's a person who likes working on a computer, so.
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James Scholes
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@tardis The majority of physical surfaces a blind person will encounter don't support sequential swiping. Explore by touch has to be the default for restaurant tables, kitchen counters, a new computer, etc. So I don't think you need a fancy explanation for how to find stuff on a screen; they can just be explored like those other things. I'm no teacher though so what do I know. @FreakyFwoof @silverleaf57
@Rebecca @Andre Louis @Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Yeah, trust me, neither am I. But at least I am getting paid. and I better be. I spent three hours trying to make this guy learn how to use iPhone, because he wanted an iPhone. And I could've done something else with my time, too. Plus, he insisted on paying, so, well, I don't deny.
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Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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the three hours were spent trying to disable subscriptions he subscribed to. Because Apple is, well, Apple, and the appstore isn't translated in my language. and then trying to disable the personal data thing icon. and it turns out it needed screen recognition, but I can do it with VO turned off, so go turn on that, swipe a thousand times through settings. and someone setup the iPhone by transfering from android, so now, it's a mess. Even the apps went to transfer. also, Apple photos sucks now. No idea what they did to it, but unless you use explore by touch, you screwed, unless you have like, two photos, but I have at least a few hundred even with the recent cleanup. So, yep, explore by touch in my opinion must be taught to people, the earlier the better. also, it's just easier. Haha.

Whenever companies “overinvest and underperform,” for some reason the people that have to go are never the execs who made these strategic mistakes.

Save the bachelor study Celtic Languages and Culture at Utrecht University from extinction!

Dear Fedi, we need your help!

On Monday, the University of Utrecht announced that they would shut down six bachelor studies, including the 'bachelor of arts' ("BA") Celtic Languages and Culture.
Current students will be able to finish their study, but from 2026 on no new students are to be accepted.

This was shocking news to receive.
We will not go down without a fight, though! :drgn_knife_angry:
We started a petition to stop it! (see the end of the toot if you want to skip all about why it is bad to loose Celtic in Utrecht.)

The Celtic BA at Utrecht University is unique in the Netherlands, and rare worldwide. Moreover, being able to study Celtic here in the Netherlands, away from the political context you have when you study it in Ireland, for example, allows us to bring new insights, because we can see it all from a slightly different perspective, which is very valuable for the whole field of Celtic studies.
It should be no wonder then, that the department of Celtic studies at Utrecht University is internationally respected.
The Celtic department also delivers important contributions to the field of Celtic studies that are much-needed worldwide.
Therefore, it would be disastrous to lose this beautiful and culturally important bachelor, that celebrated its centenerary just last year!

Hence, I emplore you all to sign this petition to save Celtic!
chng.it/tBwmVpYqMF

It is also possible to write a letter or email wherein you write why it is so important to keep the Celtic bachelor, to the Rector Magnificus of Utrecht University, who has to vote together with the 'rectores' of all other Dutch universities about the dissolution of the Celtic bachelor.
If you decide to write a letter or email, the staff of the Celtic department would love to receive a copy.

Written letters can be directed to:
Professor dr. Henk Kummeling
Universiteit Utrecht
Bestuursgebouw
Heidelberglaan 8
3584 CS Utrecht
The Netherlands

Emails can be directed to:
h.kummeling@uu.nl

You can send the Celtic staff a copy by:
Adding their email address in the BCC, or emailing a scan of your letter:
keltischezomer@uu.nl

Alternatively, you can send a physical copy to @drnike, Aaron Griffith, or Natalia Petrovskaia, at
Trans 10
3512JK Utrecht
The Netherlands

There exists an example draft for letters, if you would like to see that, please ask me!

#CelticStudies


Red de Opleiding Keltisch/Save the Bachelor Celtic!

Nike Stam (Change.org)
#celticstudies @Dr Nike
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I wanted to watch something else after Downton Abbey. So I' begun Upstairs Downstairs. It's good so far.
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David Goldfield
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My wife and I started watching Upstairs, Downstairs but we stopped sometime during either season 1 or season 2. It was a great show and I enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed Downton. I really should rewatch it and keep going as I liked the characters. The episodes on Amazon Prime didn't have audio description, although the newer series from around 2010 does have it.
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Brian Hartgen
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@DavidGoldfield Hi David, you are right. We have both versions. Lulu has watched it lots of times. The 70's drama doesn't have AD, but like all the 70's dramas we have, there is plenty of dialog, more than enough to follow it.
@David Goldfield

New game added to the Accessible Android apps directory: BitLife accessible accessibleandroid.com/app/bitl… #Android #Game

BitLife - Accessible Android

One of the few, if not the only, Life Simulator app accessible to the blind and visually impaired. How will you live your life? Will you become famous? Commit
Accessible Android
#android #game

Part of the ADHD tax is, for example, when I change the tyre that was
flat this morning, replace it with the spare tyre, and since I already put the supermarket bags in the car I start thinking of the route - whether to go to the store first or the tyre shop first - so I forget to make sure I have the fucking security lock nut with me - and so I eventually arrive to the tyre shop and discover I don't have it.
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Federico Mena Quintero
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So I go back home, park the car, retrace my steps to see if the nut is somewhere on the street, but of course it is a lost cause. So I unload the groceries and have a quick lunch and in a few minutes I'll go to the tyre shop again and tell them to please break the goddamned security bolts and replace them because I'm that doofus that lost the nut.

Also, fuck cars.

@freedomscientific It's been a while since I've used Face in View but when I try to adjust Face in View settings from Settings Center using the default profile, it indicates
Only available when Freedom Scientific Kernel Camera driver is installed.
When I attempt to enable it from the layered keystrokes insert+space, F O JAWS announces
Unable to initialize any camera. Face in View will now close.

This is the case with JAWS 2025 and 2024.
What do I need to get Face in View working?
I couldn't find an article mentioning this in your knowledge base.

@Freedom Scientific
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Jessica Dail
Jessica Dail
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I just tried on my end & it worked. I'm now running #jaws2025. Is it possible either, A: your laptop doesn't have a camera or B: the camera quit working? That would be my guess anyway.
#jaws2025
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David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@KE8UPE Laptop definitely has a camera. However, I did wonder if it had malfunctioned so that's my next step.
@Jessica Dail
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Jessica Dail
Jessica Dail
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Is the camera internal or external? If external, try to unplug it & plug it back in. You may also want to try plugging into a different usb port, if possible.
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David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@KE8UPE Fixed it. Camera Privacy Settings were off. Enabled them as well as the toggle to allow desktop apps to access the camera.
@Jessica Dail
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David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@KE8UPE Well, while Face in View itself seems to be working, I still am not able to adjust Face in View settings from Settings Center with default.jcf opened. It still says
Only available when Freedom Scientific Kernel Camera driver is installed.
I'll continue to investigate but would welcome suggestions.
@Jessica Dail
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David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@KE8UPE Yes, it's a camera issue as I get an error from Zoom when I try to start video in my meeting. I will troubleshoot.
@Jessica Dail

CLIMATE PROTESTORS NEED TO STOP BLOCKING ROADS!!
Photograph taken in Alfafar, Valencia, Spain, showing a city street littered with overturned and piled-up cars after massive floods caused by heavy rainfall. The road is covered in mud and debris, and a few people walk through the wreckage amidst buildings that appear largely intact. The scene highlights the extensive destruction and disruption caused by the flooding.
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So apparently Google is now generating over 25% of their new code via AI. Given Google's downward quality trajectory, that explains a lot.
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Charlie Stross
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Google is roughly 28 years old. A founder/executive at the start who was then aged 30 is now pushing 60. Insofar as corporate culture is set from the top down, Google is now running on the fumes of the original vision. It's no accident that the life expectancy of a successful corporation is only half that of a human organism ...
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Lauren Weinstein
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Yep. Years ago I publicly predicted that Google would follow the usual arc (DEC, HP, Bell Labs, etc.) -- and that really the only question was how fast it would happen. Sundar really sped up the process.
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