Welcome to my crossworld | To The Best Of Our Knowledge ttbook.org/interview/welcome-m…
Welcome to my crossworld
Puzzle constructors like Anna Shechtman are pushing to make crosswords more socially and linguistically inclusive. She writes about gender and puzzles in her memoir “The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle.”To The Best Of Our Knowledge
There are too many EV charging networks in Australia. So far I've had to install 11 apps and register my card details with them.
Sure, once that's done it's easy to charge at each of them. But how about just accepting a credit/debit card at the charger?
Sure, once that's done it's easy to charge at each of them. But how about just accepting a credit/debit card at the charger?
in reply to Kieran Murphy
But but but... how could they extract other personal data from you if they just did that?
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A new braille reader could save users thousands of dollars goodgoodgood.co/articles/brail…
Braille readers cost upwards of $3,000. This teen invented a more accessible model for just $35
1.3 million people in the US have impaired vision, but only 10% read braille. A new, inexpensive braille reader could change lives.Meghan Cook (Good Good Good)
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Why are cassette and CD players so bulky now? theverge.com/24295971/we-are-r…
Why are cassette and CD players so bulky now?
A quick in-person glance at the We Are Rewind cassette player and the Fiio DM-13 CD player reveals they are seemingly not as advanced as their vintage counterparts.Andrew Marino (The Verge)
Black Friday Accessibility: Tips for E-commerce Websites blog.usablenet.com/black-frida…
Black Friday Accessibility: Tips for E-commerce Websites
Learn key tips to improve Black Friday accessibility for ecommerce websites, ensuring an inclusive shopping experience for the disability communityMichael Taylor (UsableNet Inc.)
Well, I've taken the plunge and done it. Though I'm perfectly happy on X, I've joined BlueSky Social, mostly to check it out for accessibility and follow a few friends over there. @wesderby@bsky.social for anyone over there who's interested.
in reply to Wes Derby
When time allows, please consider letting us know what it's like from the standpoint of accessibility.
in reply to David Goldfield
@DavidGoldfield Will do. I can say so far, I’m very much underwhelmed. I won’t say it’s a complete accessibility nightmare, but I also will say it’s not for the faint of heart, at least on iOS. Going to test the website later. Probably going to do a podcast episode on it over the weekend.
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Has anyone found a really good WebDAV server for Android? Asking because you can actually mount those as network drives in Windows and interact with them through File Explorer. I currently use WiFi Pro FTP Server, which does exactly what you'd expect and does it well ... but is FTP/S. I'm finding myself interacting with my S10E's filesystem often enough that this would be really useful, and either MTP or USB2 is a huge bottleneck anyway.
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@x0 @masonasons @jscholes Somehow, I've never tried rclone before today. I just did (not even mount yet, which isn't my current use case) and I'm wondering why this has never been in my life before this point. I must have been living under a rock or something. I've heard of it before, but I thought it could only do S3 and hosting services like that. Turns out it can do... many services, including consumer ones.
in reply to Jamie Teh
@jcsteh @masonasons @jscholes I know right? THere's a post of mine a while back about how rclone is just one of those programs. I can use it for a Windows rsync equivalent when syncing directories too, it need not be remote. Unlike rsync it doens't do per-file deltas to my knowledge, it's all or nothing on a per-file basis, but at least it can track renames. And it's inherently trivial to sync entire directory trees. The ability to *mount* a webserver outputting an http index and download/sync from that as if it were, say, an NFS or FTP server is perhaps the coolest thing ever.
Clearly, the president elect favors sex offenders like himself. Why would that be? LOL Perhaps they will offend each other now? journa.host/@w7voa/11348963111…
Steve Herman (@w7voa@journa.host)
Pete Hegseth, the Army veteran turned Fox News host selected by President-elect Trump to be defense secretary, was investigated for an alleged sexual assault in 2017. https://kion546.Journa.host
In the latest #MosenMove developments, Bonnie discovered a company run by a couple of entrepreneurial guys, called Bolt Bins. The site is accessible, and very easy since it uses Shop Pay, so it already knew who I was, had my payment details and knew our address.
Bolt Bins will quickly deliver a huge bin holding 1, 2 or 3 cubic meters of stuff. It’s kind of like an incredibly sturdy canvas bag. We’re using it to load more priceless, irreplaceable technological mementoes, or junk, depending on which of us you are talking to. Bah.
Then, when you’re done, you just push the request pickup button on the top of the website, and they pick it up and take it away! Cool! And effortless too.
But you mark my words, one day, Bonnie’s going to regret throwing out that old charger for, for, well whatever it once charged. You mark my words I tell you! And those floppy disks too! And the RS-232 cable.
Bolt Bins will quickly deliver a huge bin holding 1, 2 or 3 cubic meters of stuff. It’s kind of like an incredibly sturdy canvas bag. We’re using it to load more priceless, irreplaceable technological mementoes, or junk, depending on which of us you are talking to. Bah.
Then, when you’re done, you just push the request pickup button on the top of the website, and they pick it up and take it away! Cool! And effortless too.
But you mark my words, one day, Bonnie’s going to regret throwing out that old charger for, for, well whatever it once charged. You mark my words I tell you! And those floppy disks too! And the RS-232 cable.
Some of y'all here would see a story about someone's experience with genocide written on Google docs or discussed on Zoom & attack those bringing this story to the fore for using the wrong platform.
Makes you look so incredibly privileged & out of touch.
The priority can be to reach as many people as possible using platforms that are easy for them to use, rather than proving that one is against Big Tech.
Same attitude that makes some of the most vulnerable people not want to use Mastodon.
Excited to share our latest blog post on memory safety! We’re tackling spatial safety in our massive C++ codebase by hardening libc++ by default. It adds bounds checks to things like std::vector, preventing a fair bit of out-of-bounds vulnerabilities: security.googleblog.com/2024/1… 🧵
Retrofitting spatial safety to hundreds of millions of lines of C++
Posted by Alex Rebert and Max Shavrick, Security Foundations, and Kinuko Yasuda, Core Developer Attackers regularly exploit spatial mem...Google Online Security Blog
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Storm Dragon pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project Add reminder for backing up deck and game directories before reinstalling for upgrade from beta78 and earlier.
Intéressant, dans #Windows11 24H2 ils ont ajouté une nouvelle disposition de clavier française. Maintenant on a plein de choses avec AltGr, même le fameux œ. Par contre, il est maintenant très difficile d'ajouter des raccourcis clavier avec Ctrl+Alt parce que dans ces cas-ci AltGr ouvre des applis au lieu de produire des lettres…
in reply to André Polykanine
Практически ничё не понял, но я так понимаю, что-то читается не так как хотелось бы, а там уж фиг знает))
Вообще надеюсь когда-нибудь найти время на французский, хотя бы на базовом уровне, чтобы понять например, смогу ли разобраться с этими загадочными правилами чтения. Помню ты говорил что там всё не так сложно, но блин, когда увидел что фамилия Жиру, может быть написана как Girous и Giroud, подумал что понимание всей логики оно для избранных.
Вообще надеюсь когда-нибудь найти время на французский, хотя бы на базовом уровне, чтобы понять например, смогу ли разобраться с этими загадочными правилами чтения. Помню ты говорил что там всё не так сложно, но блин, когда увидел что фамилия Жиру, может быть написана как Girous и Giroud, подумал что понимание всей логики оно для избранных.
in reply to Kirill
@Yinshi Там фигня читать, но сложно писать. То есть, грубо говоря, читать ты можешь научиться ну за полчаса-час, но это не гарантирует, что ты сможешь правильно написать каждое слово, это всё же не испанский и даже не итальянский. А я написал, что в новой Винде, которая 24Х2, добавили вообще новую французскую раскладку, где занята почти вся клавиатура с правым Альтом. А правый Альт, как известно, действует ещё и как Альт-Контрол, поэтому становится неудобненько назначать ярлыки на горячие клавиши.
in reply to André Polykanine
А, теперь понял что это было. Мда уж, странное решение с новой клавиатурой.
Кстати не помню где читал или от кого слышал, что французы часто пишут с какими-то знатными ошибками, условно в комментах к какому-нибудь посту. Видимо и для них написание это квест.
Кстати не помню где читал или от кого слышал, что французы часто пишут с какими-то знатными ошибками, условно в комментах к какому-нибудь посту. Видимо и для них написание это квест.
in reply to André Polykanine
Если оно так, то могу понять почему. Вроде есть такое слово lourd "тяжёлый" кажется. Поставил себя на их место, ага, знаю как оно звучит и чё означает, а вот как пишется, да хрен его знает, может быть lourd или lourp.
in reply to Kirill
@Yinshi Да, это проблема, особенно среди, как бы это сказать… выходцев из арабских стран, у которых по сути дома арабский, а французский только в школе, и то если школа нормальная. А сам понимаешь, где арабский, а где французский, даже без всякой политоты.
in reply to Kirill
@Yinshi Сам видел вот такое, своими слепыми глазами. Сравни, как говорится, результат. Перевод: «Я не знаю, о чём она говорит». Правильно: «Je ne sais pas de quoi elle parle». что увидел я и запомнил до сих пор: «Je ne sé pa de koi el parl».
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the master branch of the linux-game-manager project Improved logg display.
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project The logs were reliably being reported, so try a new approach.
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project Show latest changes after doing updates.
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the master branch of the linux-game-manager project First attempt at showing logs after update did not work, try putting it in a brace group.
i just found out that `#pragma comment(lib, ...)` works with clang on an ELF target but not on a COFF target. the
i... what? how do you even end up in this situation? i'm completely lost
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the master branch of the linux-game-manager project Show latest changes after doing updates.
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the master branch of the linux-game-manager project Updated Fantasy Story II installer to latest version.
Mastodon is benefitting from the #X exodus (eXodus?) too: The official app downloads are up 47% on iOS and 17% on Android. Sign-ups are up approx. 27% compared to previous month with about 90K new accounts, while the MAU has jumped to 894K (across all Mastodon servers).
The National Federation of the Blind is continuing constructive discussions with Meta about Facebook #accessibility regressions.
We’d like to hear if those using the current Facebook for iOS build are still experiencing the bug where it is not possible to review content you write when composing a Facebook post.
We’d like to hear if those using the current Facebook for iOS build are still experiencing the bug where it is not possible to review content you write when composing a Facebook post.
Just to give everyone an update. They looked at the X-rays done on me this afternoon right away, and they saw the exact kidney stone that was giving me trouble. It was right where I said it was. Holy cuckoo clocks these things cause pain. But I think it's finally coming out. Kidney stones. I feel like some eged person discussing health issues.
in reply to Bruce Toews
Good one. No, honestly, it was not meant as a pun. I wouldn't joke about someone else's suffering; if the one doing the suffering wants to do so that's fine but it's not something I would ever intentionally do.
in reply to David Goldfield
@DavidGoldfield I didn't think so. But I had to be sure. And it is passing, so we won't call it suffering so much as infinitely painful inconvenience.
Welcome Logan Buth as #curl commit author 1318: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1554…
Docs: Add result code on prereqfunction failure by oantby · Pull Request #15542 · curl/curl
Pretty trivial change, but I had to search the code (or just try it out) to find the answer to this, so I figure someone else will have to at some point, too. Most (all?) other callbacks that can a...GitHub
It's disturbing seeing some medical and public health professionals trying to normalize RFK Jr by saying "we have to meet him halfway."
NOPE.
RFK is a charlatan who has deliberately spread disinformation that has killed people.
Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
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This ‘AI Granny’ hack wastes telephone scammers’ time with boring chit-chat - TechCrunch news.google.com/rss/articles/C…
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In 2018, the CAQ was elected on the promise of providing a family doctor to every Quebecer...
In 2022, the CAQ was re-elected on the promise of providing a family doctor to every Quebecer...
It's 2024, and 1 in 4 Quebecers, or around 2.1M do NOT have a family doctor.
This F*CKING FAUX LAÏCITÉ BS needs to stop and the CAQ need to get each and every one of us a family doctor... or GTFO.
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/se… #CAQASTROPHE #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #cdnpoli #polcan
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project Added reinstall warning for anyone updating from Crazy Party beta <= 78.
I've said this before, but I think Bluesky's growth spike should motivate folks who believe in the fediverse to build the sturdiest and most intuitive and safest fedi platforms they can in the next year or two, because if Bluesky does go the way you think it will, all those people heading there now will all need good homes.
(Full disclosure, I am going to mute this thread, as my kid says, immediently.)
Hurry, the Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet Is Back Down to $75 Ahead of Black Friday Day cnet.com/deals/hurry-the-amazo…
Hurry, the Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet Is Back Down to $75 Ahead of Black Friday Day
This already affordable tablet just became even cheaper with a sweet 46% discount.Oliver Haslam (CNET)
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project Improved the Crazy Party update script.
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