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Jen pro zajimavost, kolega mi prave posila fotku z cesty jak to vypada v Devonu :)


still keep thinking back to that post I boosted on fingerprinting within text fields (seirdy.one/notes/2024/11/20/yo…) - and how at work, I always copy and paste from either blank Notepad or VS code scratchpad-type docs I temporarily keep. Even if that's a Slack response, I'll still paste in from notepad and then apply formatting to parts of the text to my desires (or write out the markdown and re-do it after pasting.)
Not sure why I've always done it this way, part of it I know is control over where and how formatting is applied. (Thinking about how Slack turns ``` code blocks into something that screen readers don't announce the formatting for, as an example.) The other part is typing indicators, perhaps - I get conscious if people see this typing indicator, even though I know most likely nobody cares, but if something takes me longer to write thoughts out on, I want zero judgment possibilities. In Google Docs, unless I'm making edits or proofreading, I'd rather paste in chunks of text at once because if I end up re-writing something to sound more accurate, I don't want the inaccurate version of it revisioned. And these are just my own personal reasons for always copy-pasting. I suppose if my workplace claimed I was doing all my work by AI writing, it's not like my workflow there had changed before and after its usage. With how much they promote internal AI tools though for increasing our productivity, don't see that happening.
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“Synchronized” methods/blocks (intrinsic locks) will no longer pin virtual threads to platform threads. This has been an annoying limitation of Project Loom. Coming in Java 24:
openjdk.org/jeps/491

#Java #JVM

#java #jvm


This feels weird to say because it should be obvious: Don’t download random #Conversations_im forks from the PlayStore!

I don’t know why people install apps with no website or source code. If you’re reading this, you’re likely not one of them—but server stats show they exist.

Yesterday, I warned one such fork about massive security issues and asked them to take it down. They refused.

in reply to Gonzalo Nemmi

@gnemmi @methuselah I guess this technically counts as having a website but there is hardly any information on there and all the source code links point to empty repositories...
in reply to Daniel Gultsch

absolutely .. there's no more information that what can already be found on the Play Store description .. or to put it simple: its just as good as nothing.

In all honesty, I believe that at it's core, the main problem is that there is no free "go to" full XMPP client for users to compare against, and it is almost unavoidable: new comers will not pay for an app to find out if they like/need/want to use a new service .. they'll only do it once they know what they are getting

@methuselah



me to the customer support chatbot: "Is it possible to hide my number in the phonebook?"

chatbot: "Sorry to hear you're cancelling your phone subscription."

me: "no, that's wrong"

chatbot: "I'm sorry, I don't understand"

me: "don't cancel my subscription"

chatbot: "sorry to hear something went wrong while cancelling your subscription, we'll try again later"

me: "I want to keep my subscription"

chatbot: "I'm sorry, I don't understand"

FUCK AI.



I think the main problem with kids these days is that they will just yank a USB stick out of the port without properly ejecting it to finalize any pending writes


Working on an open source Matrix project, and you would like the world to know more about it? Our FOSDEM DevRoom's Call for Proposals is open until the end of November, don't be late!

Talks will be recorded, livestreamed, and re-uploaded to our channel!

matrix.org/blog/2024/11/fosdem…



As of Chrome 131 you have more options to style `<details>` and `<summary>`.

You can now use the `display` property on these elements, and also use a `::details-content` pseudo-element to style the part that expands and collapses.

developer.chrome.com/blog/styl…

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Human-caused climate change is intensifying Atlantic hurricanes, with rising ocean temperatures adding an average of 30 km/h to wind speeds, according to a new study by Climate Central.
That's a lot.
wral.com/news/local/climate-ch…
#climate #ClimateChange #extremeweather #hurricanes


As users are flocking to BlueSky from social media platforms like X/Twitter, so are threat actors. BleepingComputer has spotted cryptocurrency scams popping up on BlueSky just as the decentralized microblogging service surpassed 20 million users this week.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…



We got lots of spam at MetaFilter and one time someone posted trying to promote something called "Exemplary Purchase" and we kept wondering what are they were trying to say until we realized it was a translation error, they meant to say "Best Buy" in English.

Ten years on, every time I drive past a BestBuy, I think "Exemplary Purchase!"

in reply to Matthew Haughey

I love that.

We were trying to arrange to meet at a restaurant with my grandmother. No idea where the 'Original Gordon' was. She was misreading 'Oriental Garden'. Original Gordon's become a placeholder when we're not sure where to go forevermore



I’m tired to talk about legal requirements for accessibility. If you do a good job, follow my/our advice, it will be fine. And for the edge cases of laws ask people who have laws in their job descriptions. Like “lawyers”. 😂


Already looking forward to the chaos the next time a major blindness convention is held at one of their hotels.

Be My Eyes, Hilton Executives Talk ‘World-First’ Partnership In New Interview forbes.com/sites/stevenaquino/…



Alright, everyone. You all need to decide. Is it going to be X, Bluesky or Mastodon? It feels so disingenuous and self-absorbed to keep reposting everything I want to share across all three platforms, and tiring to keep track of which conversation I had where. Please decide!


I'm about to buy a laptop from Dell. Does anyone have an opinion whether it's better to pay some more and get Windows already installed on it, or buy it with Linux and install Windows myself? If I get Windows installed, the disadvantage is I'll have to uninstall lots of broadware, but those I leave installed will be propperly set up already, especially hardware drivers. If I choose to install Windows myself, then I'll have to pick up the correct drivers afterwards, and I'm afraid some problem occurs in the middle of the road.


Que non se lle apague a luz que ten nin lle enferme a neurona,porque mimadriña que portavoz 🤦

lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/pont…

in reply to ORegoDoAro

Que mal queda eso das "fuerzas del orden", ou son só eu?


This weekend I wrote a #maubot that converts Spotify links shared in #Matrix chat rooms automatically to your preferred streaming service using #idonthavespotify <github.com/sjdonado/idonthaves…> by @sjdonado@threads.net.


So if you use Matrix I just opened a small "Luddites Unite" Channel on my Matrix Server. Dunno what it will become yet but setting up a "Luddite Slack" felt like it was the dumbest thing on the planet.

matrix.to/#/!RjZTZaZdcUlIsCWJc…

(all runs on my dedicated server, no 3rd party cloud stuff)



The mask comes off at LWN, as *two* editors (jake and *corbet*) dive in to frantically defend the honour of Justine fucking Tunney against multiple people pointing out she's a Nazi who fills her projects with racist dogwhistles

lwn.net/Articles/998196/

in reply to David Gerard

the sheer audacity of Jake replying:

>> I certainly don't go around personally vetting the beliefs of every maintainer of software I use against my own.
> Right. And we don't either.

Yer a journalist, Jake. You *should* be vetting the people you're doing an article on, ffs. It's literally your job.



vraj mám ocd...
...to som ešte nepočul
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Tomorrow and saturday, we are doing a #surveillance #camera walk in #Ghent: see meetup.com/openstreetmap-belgi… and meetup.com/openstreetmap-belgi…

We will be adding them to #OpenStreetMap using @MapComplete

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MapComplete reshared this.



Power Management Settings in Jieshuo Screen Reader accessibleandroid.com/power-ma…


People seem to enjoy these, so here's another photo of a winter sunrise near Arrochar, with the Cobbler in the background.

#Scotland #Photography




If anyone wants to write me an #NVDA addon for Christmas, second to one that looked up the current word in a local English dictionary for me would be a way of turning my numpad into a calculator.

I've been a laptop keyboard user for years without a numpad but spend a lot of time alt+tabbing back into my tape calculator.
To have access to that just by turning on the Numpad anywhere in Windows would be a great boon.

#nvda
in reply to NV Access

@NVAccess It was part of an addon sometime ago and i got to liking it , looking up a word I mean. Text Info I think. It was online, though, so a bit laggy and prone to occasional timeouts. NVDA works really well for this because you can be "On" a word without copying it.
The calculator thing I mentioned has probably less need to be an addon, although for efficiency's sake I'd want it to work wherever I am, so it'd need to be a blindy app speaking straight to the screen reader anyway, so it may as well be an addon.

I'm in no way suggesting this is core functionality, but of course this is the beauty of the addon ecosystem.

in reply to Sean Randall

Absolutely fair enough - just looking at the add-on store, "Text Information" is still there, so it would be worth having another look. A search for "Calc" brings up four results - though three look like specialised ones (eg calculate your BMI), one is "Simple calculator" which describes itself as: "A simple add-on for NVDA to make Arithmetical operations. Use the add-on Press NVDA+ALT+S to open the add-on window or you can open open add-on window from tools menu"


I bought a bedframe on the 11th, it arrived on Tuesday.
Just deleted my 13th email. Perhaps 2 were relevant to the order, the rest were all 'how did we do?' and the corny 'did we deliver?' wanting me to write a glowing review.
Hate the level of crap you get from just buying something these days.


Mám nějaký problém s optickým kabelem, který mi vede do domu. Teď je to moderní, nevíte, neměl bych náhodou po ulicích hledat ruskou nebo čínskou loď se spuštěnou kotvou?
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in reply to Archos

@archos no jéje, vo tom žádná! 😅 Dlouho jsem tenhle geniální kousek neviděl, kolegy určitě povzbudí... Nebo nasere... 😜 @cynik_obecny


Bitcoin

ja si teda myslim, ze uz jsme v bull-runu, uz 3 mesice exponencialne rostem

davam tomu tak 2 tydny, nez zacnou #BTC shillovat velka media, a pak uz ta jizda vede jenom jednim smerem ... k totalni devastaci planety 🤭 j/k

#BTC
in reply to albi von skládka 🇨🇿

Bitcoin
@albi von skládka 🇨🇿 @Archos :distros_arch: :matrix: Dost závidím, ale já prostě do projektu s tak vysokými náklady a nulovým fundamentem odmítl jít. Nepřestává mě udivovat, jak moc se dá bohatnout na bublinách, ale taky ze zkušenosti 2008 vím, jak hodně si na nich člověk může rozbít držku.
in reply to Archos

Bitcoin

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in reply to Jiří Eischmann

Bitcoin
@sesivany
To jo to je velký rozdíl. No já mám daňové plnění v Německu, když BTC neprodám hned ten rok, co jsem je nakoupil, tak daň neplatím. Teda jestli se něco nezměnilo.
@albi


Following up on the previous vote, the never ending flood of requests and careful considerations, the Bluesky bridge fed.brid.gy/ is no longer suspended from #tchncs :tchncs:.
The bridge depends on active consent from any linked account in order to work and will only bridge public toots: fed.brid.gy/docs#visibility

If valid concerns arise / things get out of hand unexpectedly, we might change this decision in the future.



Good morning all, working from home today, which is great as it is freezing here. hope you all have a super day.


Just did the "Global Digital Accessibility Salary Survey" by #WebAim. Looking forward to the results!

If you want to participate, go here:

webaim.org/projects/salary/sur…

The link on the website shown after submitting the survey is wrong, by the way...

#a11y #accessibility #disability #survey #salary



Blindness Technology Training as a Career with a Different Spin aphconnectcenter.org/stem/blin…


The full axe-con 2025 schedule is here: Plan your ultimate accessibility conference experience deque.com/blog/the-full-axe-co…
in reply to David Goldfield

Sadly, the two times I have attended, it has not been fully accessible. Sometimes I would get the slides for presentations during and could not get to them, and sometimes those slides were not accessible.


Dostal som päťku z angličtiny... právom lebo keď to po sebe čítam si hovorím, chlapče ty si musel byť dobre mimo. Nečítam to po sebe no.
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in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Ja mám skôr stavy z technických predmetov tam "hlúposti" rozprávať nemôžeš...
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in reply to SuspiciousDuck

...mali by sme si dať stretnutie podľa mňa lebo ja som z toho eh



Last night's dinner with Japanese colleagues was all about Persian cuisine—from lassi (my default drink of choice) to lamb biryani and kebabs, to raisin and tomato basmati rice, as well as pistachio and almond baklava. My tummy was happy. 😊

#food #MakanApaToday





Videos from the MiniDebConf Toulouse are now available! View any session via their title in the program here: toulouse2024.mini.debconf.org/… #debian #debconf #miniDebConfToulouse


Uber Adding Home Screen Widget on iPhone, UberXXL Option, and More macrumors.com/2024/11/20/uber-…