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Because of sudden car trouble I had to order groceries today. Guess who just realized their food was sitting on the porch for an hour because the delivery person never rang the doorbell???
in reply to Chris 🌱

That's the worst! Decent refund policy at least?

I had to start temperature-checking food deliveries that were left out so I didn't use unsafe foods.



I got so fed up of waiting for Meta to launch their AI for the Meta Raybans that I took the plunge and set up a VPN. Lo and behold, my glasses now have the AI feature. I’m really enjoying the ability to ask questions about my surroundings & get quick responses, but some of the answers have confirmed that AI is far from infallible. Today, I found a jar in the cupboard which I was pretty sure contained honey. I asked Meta and it said it was a jar of peanut butter. Wrong; it was honey, as confirmed by Be My AI. I suppose the contents are a similar colour, but I thought Meta might read the label.
But if it gets this sort of thing wrong, I’m not convinced it is going to take over the world. If it does, we’re in trouble.
#Accessibility #AI #Tech #Meta
in reply to Gordon Anthony

Not only that. I noticed that when Meta AI provides the wrong answer, it tends to blubber on and on as if trying to jiustify its folly! :)


I'm on a social media fast, which is why you haven't heard much from me, but I did want to share one cool thing. Our stuff has been 8-bit RGB for a while, but it's increasingly clear that's not going to cut it in an HDR world. Inspired by bevy_color and some conversations, I've started a color crate: github.com/linebender/color

If you're into color, I'd love your feedback. If you use color in Rust, let me know whether this crate would be useful, or what might be changed.



There were 2 Democrats on the entire state ballot here in Alabama, at least in my district. Every other Republican was unopposed. If you live in a blue state, don’t you dare take it for granted.

in reply to CySec Feeds

Yesterday! Not tomorrow, not 2025! Yesterday, please, or now at latest.



I don't have an opinion about systemd, other than the fact that every 3-5 years something breaks on one of my Linux boxes and I have to re-learn everything I knew.
in reply to Dominykas BlyΕΎΔ—

So then I go and start reading some tutorials. They begin like so:

> For years Linux admins and users have configured their network interfaces in the same way. [...] The configuration was incredibly easy and never failed to work.

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Da ich nicht genau weiß, wann ich zur Aufbereitung des weiteren Backlogs komme, habe ich meinen lieben Leseratten schnell noch die 17 bereits fertig gestellten #eBooks bei ebooks.qumran.org/ hochgeladen. Kommt bald wieder Nachschub zu den jetzt 12.917 BΓΌchern dazu, weiß halt nur noch nicht genau wann…

Bis dahin also: HΓ€ppi SchmΓΆkering! :awesome:



StΓ‘le na pozΓ­cii lΓ­dra aliancie, neuveriteΔΎnΓ© (to som to uΕΎ chcel ale tri krΓ‘t delegovaΕ₯ na niekoho inΓ©ho). NemΓ‘me Discord server a pre progres ho potrebujeme... vΕΎdy som chcel maΕ₯ Discord server. :kekw:


NY Times tech union has asked users not to play Wordle or other Times games while they are on strike. It's a really easy way to support them. polygon.com/news/474209/new-yo…

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Kdo na tuhle pΓ­sničku krouΕΎil po parketu jako puberΕ₯Γ‘k? Nestyďte se, pΕ™iznejte se.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power Of Love youtube.com/watch?v=WtdRv6GT9Z…


Hey, friends: today we win. Today will protect each other, and the most vulnerable in our communities. Today we are going to stand up against fascism & violence and joyfully come together to care for those who need protection & support. We do this *no matter* how votes go today, no matter what disruptions or attacks come, so find peace in knowing what does not change, what they can never stop. Once you’ve voted, sign off, and don’t look or scroll if it causes you stress. Tomorrow we get to work.


Zmizeli beze stopy. TragΓ©dii hokejovΓ½ch reprezentantΕ― stΓ‘le halΓ­ zΓ‘hada

PΕ™esnΔ› pΕ™ed sto lety, 5. listopadu 1924, se narodil českΓ½ hokejovΓ½ ΓΊtočnΓ­k Karel Stibor. Mistr svΔ›ta z roku 1947 a stΕ™Γ­brnΓ½ medailista z olympiΓ‘dy o rok pozdΔ›ji byl jednou z obΔ›tΓ­ leteckΓ©ho neΕ‘tΔ›stΓ­, pΕ™i kterΓ©m zemΕ™elo i pΔ›t jeho parΕ₯Γ‘kΕ―. PΕ™ipomeňte si jednu z nejvΔ›tΕ‘Γ­ch tragΓ©diΓ­ v historii českΓ©ho sportu.

sport.aktualne.cz/hokej/hokejo…



Check Your Local Network Speed in Linux, Windows, and macOS linuxtoday.com/blog/check-your…


Superfile: A Modern Terminal File Manager for Linux and macOS linuxtoday.com/developer/super…


From the mouth of my 8 year old this morning. Jaydon, if I could vote, I would not vote for Trump. Dad, why? Jaydon, because he's in jail and he just wants to be president so he won’t go to jail. Dad, but he’s not in jail. Jaydon, also, he’s mean and won’t allow babies. I would vote for Harris, she’s nicer. Me, Jaydon where did you hear about the presidents and the election stuff? Jaydon, from ads. LMAO, welcome to election day at my house this morning!
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I have just received information that I have an opportunity to DJ at a party on the first of November :)
in reply to Cobalt

fliers are printed and handed out. if there is anyone here who is going to attend, feel free to drop by the DJ booth!
in reply to Cobalt

jolly good time! the PoS system wasn't gonna be in use for the event after all so they told me I could set up there. this ended up being my setup. shout out @mixxx for being cool software


Great guide by @vantablack that explains how to run your own πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈ radio using azuracast and mixxx on the Oracle free cloud tier:

vantablack.writeas.com/vantas-…

With the neat idea to use #ffmpeg through "yt-dlp --extract-audio" to "borrow" some cool audio fillers from one of thousands of video services supported.

Thanks to Vanta #azuracast and #mixxx

🎢 // @vantablack // @azuracast // @mixxx // 🎢



Somehow, I ended up with two #NVDA shortcuts on my desktop. One points to nvda.exe, and another one points to nvda_slave.exe. They both seem to work. They both have the same hotkey registered. Anyone have some idea what the difference is?
#nvda


Reminder:

Republicans changed the way votes are counted specifically to convince their voters that Democrats "stole" the 2020 election.

On Election Day, only the votes cast that day will be counted and it will look like Trump is winning by a lot.

Then, other kinds of votes will be counted, and Kamala will suddenly do better.

Be ready for it. Don't get depressed on Election Day.

in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt
It doesn't matter. I completely misjudged things. This was not like 2020 at all.

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in reply to Tofu Golem

I'm sorry, you did provide that link to an article on forbes.com.


TIL: Puerto Rico actually doesn't vote in the presidential election.

Simply, it's the electoral college. And that by itself is more than unfair. Probably a result of colonialism.



No content note for this one β€” everyone should read it.

theappeal.org/trump-mass-depor…






weirdgloop.org/blog/why-were-h…
this is cool


How to Identify and Add Labels to Unlabeled Elements in TalkBack and Jieshuo Screen Readers accessibleandroid.com/how-to-i…


I wrote down some thoughts on community moderation:

"Enablers of abuse in online communities" – piegames.de/dumps/enablers-of-…



Voted a few weeks ago. All I can do today is hunker down, ignore the outside world, hope for the less shitty outcome, and play the cards we're dealt starting tomorrow.

Also can't wait until I live in a state where my presidential vote actually counts, and where the government doesn't illegalize the things that do pass that it doesn't like. Funny how small government is such a good thing until that small government does something republicans don't like, then the fascism comes out. Going to be glad when Texas is just a memory in the rear view.




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Just because I run this Raspberry Pi from an ssd, I should really vacuum journalctl logs more often. Just deleted 10 GB.


These turned out magnificently. 'Baristicuffs' combines the arts of pugilistic boxing and making an amazing coffee.
Buy your prints here:
jaunty.art/product-category/ba…
Although not listed on the site, I printed this for sale in A2 for Milkjug cafe and it looks amazing
If you want that get in touch.


@bagder wanted to check if there is any option/tool that you are aware of that will allow me to filter out ads from a page when downloading it using curl. (Similar functionality to how uBlock Origin works for a browser.

Tried searching on the net but didn't find anything relevant.

#curl #adfilter #uBlockOrigin

in reply to Suramya Tomar

you mean that would work like a filter which you can pass HTML through and it cleans it? Nope, never heard of something like that
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

yeah. That's what I was looking for.... Let me keep searching.

thanks for the quick response though :)

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Interesting. In Google Meet, I toggle my microphone and camera with CTRL+D and CTRL +E, but the `aria-pressed` state of these button does not change to false. (Text dodes shift to "turn on" though.) Am I the only one for whom it also says "pressed" even when it's off? Screen reader users on web, please let me know.
I should also note that other toggles like "raise hand" say "not pressed" so not API related. Thank goodness the label *DOES* change so here, doing both saved them a bit.
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I refuse to use any meeting platform where the state of my microphone and/or camera can't be unambiguously determined. If I'm hearing "toggle button not pressed turn off", that is nonsensical and far too much cognitive processing to determine if someone can see/hear me or not. No thanks.
in reply to James Scholes

yeah, I think that's why I realized later on that the label was changing but not the attribute. Wish I knew when it exactly regressed as I do recall this correctly working about a month ago as well. Alas, work requires it, so not much option for me on when I must use it.
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The October Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest is out! In it, we have updates on:

* Exchange support πŸ¦€
* QR cross-device support πŸ“±
* Account hub πŸ‘₯
* Upstream changes and database issues πŸ› οΈ
* and more! ✨

#Thunderbird #Development #OpenSource

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/11/t…

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in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

is there a way for feature requests / discs? Would love to See shared Labels between desktop and mobil :blobcat_winking:
(To be honest, would be y very first benefit after k9 migration ...)
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

Did you transform K-9 Mail to Thunderbird Beta and then back to K-9 Mail in F-Droid?

And than adding Thunderbird Beta APK to F-Droid or something similar?

Just asking, my update notes from F-Droid were somehow strange.

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