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Schedule Rewind 1987-88: Star Trek: The Next Generation Leads the Way for Sci Fi TV cancelledscifi.com/2024/12/14/…

Schedule Rewind 1987-88: Star Trek: The Next Generation Leads the Way for Sci Fi TV - Cancelled Sci Fi

Sci Fi TV Shows on Prime Time in the 1987-88 Season: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Max Headroom, Beauty and the Beast, ALF, The Highwayman, and More
johnnyjay (Cancelled Sci Fi)

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Come May 2025, #curl will drop support for Secure Transport.

If you develop something for apple devices and use libcurl, you might want to think about what this means. And maybe do something too.

github.com/curl/curl/discussio…


Apple iOS Secure-Transport deprecated, is there plan to port to use Network.framework · curl curl · Discussion #15759

Apple has deprecated Secure-Transport capabilities since iOS 13.0 (which is several years by now) with a recommendation of porting to. use Network.framework instead. Therefore building libCURL with...
GitHub
#curl
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the esoteric programmer

re: audiogame-manager
also, a lot of games fail to download, could you eventually either remove them or host them in a more permanent place? when I try to download the super mario bros audio rendition and a lot of other games, I get error downloading <file_name>, installation can not continue and stuff like that. Is it only me? O yeah, and also stuff like danger at the wheel is giving me ShellExecuteX failed, what's that even? agm doesn't give me any more logs besides that

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We've been asked about it for years, and we are pleased to confirm that we have finally setup an official NV Access mailing list. You can subscribe to receive:

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#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #News #MailingList #Newsletter #Information #Accessibility #A11y #Blind

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Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail Timetable change days - Zürich - Chiasso - Mendrisio - Cantello Gaggiolo - Pino-Tronzano - Locarno - Domodossola – Zürich

Borders:
Chiasso VG 🇨🇭 - Como S. Giovanni 🇮🇹
Stabio 🇨🇭 - S Margherita Confine 🇮🇹
Stabio 🇨🇭 - Arcisate 🇮🇹
Ranzo-S. Abbondio 🇨🇭 - Pino-Tronzano 🇮🇹
Camedo 🇨🇭 - Ribellasca 🇮🇹
Brig 🇨🇭 - Iselle di Trasquera 🇮🇹 (crossed before)

These borders on the borders map:
umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…

Today's routes on the routes map:
umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…

#CrossBorderRail All The Borders

All of Europe's rail borders - categorised by type, and whether I (Jon Worth) have been to the location.
uMap
#CrossBorderRail
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Jon Worth

This SBB Giruno, built by Stadler… well I have mixed views

It’s a low floor high speed train, but all except 2 doors have steps still at Swiss platforms. The ramps inside over the wheels result in many odd spots and corners. Door vestibules are very cramped

It’s like the ICNG I took in Netherlands on Sunday - turning a regional train design into an InterCity results in some strange design aspects

Giruno door
Corner and door over wheels
Door to next carriage

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I mean, debugging is sometimes as intense as a sport, but surprised to read cURL is maintained by an actual "curling team", @bagder 😁

cybersecuritynews.com/curl-vul…

"The vulnerability was reported to the curl project on November 8, 2024. After thoroughly investigating and fixing development, the curling team contacted distros@openwall on December 3, 2024."

Curl Vulnerability Let Attackers Access Sensitive Information

A critical security flaw has been discovered in the popular data transfer tool Curl, potentially allowing attackers to access sensitive information.
Guru Baran (Cyber Security News)
@daniel:// stenberg://

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Analysis: "Netflix’s Removal of Palestinian Films adds to the Erasure of Palestine"

"Netflix faces calls for a boycott after it removed its “Palestinian Stories” collection this October. This includes approximately 24 films."

juancole.com/2024/12/resistanc…

#Palestine #Censorship #NetflixCensorship #USPol .

Reel Resistance: Netflix’s Removal of Palestinian Films adds to the Erasure of Palestine

By Chandni Desai, University of Toronto (The Conversation) - Netflix faces calls for a boycott after it removed its “Palestinian …
Informed Comment
#censorship #uspol #palestine #netflixcensorship

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"Testing has been completed of a device for carrying out irradiation tests of various radioisotopes - such as yttrium-90 - at the two pressurised heavy water reactors that make up Phase III of the Qinshan nuclear power plant in China's Zhejiang province.

There is no isotope irradiation test function module in the original design architecture of the pressurised heavy water reactor (PHWR), People's Daily reported. It said this meant that the Qinshan project team needed to create a special device that could seamlessly embed the isotope irradiation test function and is compatible with the existing design of the reactor, as a core irradiation test platform. It noted medical isotopes are mostly short-half-life isotopes, which require the rapid loading and unloading of irradiation test targets during the normal operation of the reactor.

"After repeated adjustments, the project team and the design institute finally designed a prototype of the device concept," People's Daily said. The isotope irradiation test platform reportedly has the ability to automatically load and unload isotope irradiation targets online.

"During the debugging and verification process of the device, it underwent thousands of action tests, which fully verified the reliability of the device," People's Daily said. "On 3 April 2023, the National Nuclear Safety Administration officially approved Qinshan Nuclear Power to use the irradiation test device to conduct yttrium-90 irradiation tests. On 23 April, the project team continued to work for nearly 120 hours during the overhaul of Qinshan No.3 Plant, successfully completing the device installation, cold commissioning and system identification operations. On 14 December, with the first yttrium-90 target successfully unloaded from the reactor, the hot test of the device was successfully completed."

The report noted that this marks the official completion of the first commercial reactor isotope research and development platform in China.

"The platform has successfully realised the research and development and production of short-half-life medical isotopes for domestic commercial reactors, opening up a new path for the localisation of medical isotopes and the development of radioactive drugs," it added. "In the future, Qinshan Nuclear Power will continue to deepen the production of reactor-irradiated isotope irradiation, and contribute to the independent and controllable supply of medical isotopes and the expansion of diversified applications of nuclear technology in China."

China National Nuclear Corporation's Qinshan comprises seven reactors, making it China's largest nuclear power plant. Construction of Phase I of the plant - a 300 MWe pressurised water reactor (PWR) which was the first indigenously-designed Chinese nuclear power station to be built - began in 1985, with the unit entering commercial operation in 1994. Qinshan Phase II is home to four operating CNP-600 PWRs, built with a high degree of localisation. Units 1 and 2, comprising the first stage of Phase II, began operating in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Units 3 and 4 entered commercial operation in October 2010 and April 2021. Phase III consists of two 750 MWe pressurised heavy water reactors supplied by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd and commissioned in 2002 and 2003.

In April this year, CNNC announced that the Qinshan plant has started mass production at one of its PHWRs of carbon-14, which is used in medical and scientific research and in fields including agriculture and chemistry as well as in medicine and biology. Apart from very limited production in experimental reactors, it was previously imported."

#Nuclear #News #China

world-nuclear-news.org/article…


Qinshan plant set to increase production of isotopes

Testing has been completed of a device for carrying out irradiation tests of various radioisotopes - such as yttrium-90 - at the two pressurised heavy water reactors that make up Phase III of the Qinshan nuclear power plant in China's Zhejiang provin…
World Nuclear News
#News #Nuclear #china

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Jieshuo+ vs. Jieshuo Lite: Differences and Which One Should You Choose accessibleandroid.com/jieshuo-…

Jieshuo+ vs. Jieshuo Lite: Differences and Which One Should You Choose - Accessible Android

Jieshuo screen reader comes in two versions: Jieshuo+ and Jieshuo Lite. The Lite version is sometimes referred to as the "International" version on the GitHub
Kareen Kiwan (Accessible Android)

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Super exhausted. Some of you are wanting that old version back because you felt it was faster, it seams there's no pleasing everybody. Compare the two if you want, but this new thread-pool and executor dispatching speech queuing events is what we're going to stick with for the future unless you dingbats have better ideas. But try both, if you want, it'll install over your other copy. So.
No thread-pool version: eurpod.com/BestSpeak-older.nvd…
Thread-pool version (newer, better, but may have more delay when speaking): eurpod.com/BestSpeak.nvda-addo…
This way people won't complain to me that the last version got lost, no it didn't, happy now? Hope so. Sheesh.
in reply to don Elías (como los buses) 🥨

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don Elías (como los buses) 🥨

"Esta es la última de una serie de esculturas en la que retomo las cabezas olmecas para hablar de temas específicos. Esta pieza está compuesta por dos elementos. Por un lado, tenemos una réplica de una cabeza Olmeca tallada en cantera, de aproximadamente nueve toneladas, y un Tesla model 3, el cual fue destruido por el peso colosal de la cabeza. Esta obra fue una comisión hecha con el apoyo y la ayuda de Colima 71, a quienes agradezco mucho por creer y por arriesgarse con mi trabajo"

Chavis Mármol

chavismarmol.com/

#Arte #CDMX

Cabeza Olmeca de 9 toneladas aplastando un Vehículo marca Tesla en Colonia Roma en Ciudad de México
Cabeza Olmeca de 9 toneladas aplastando un Vehículo marca Tesla en Colonia Roma en Ciudad de México

chavismarmol

Chavis Marmol
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#cdmx #arte

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Alright folks, this is it. Test the new add-on. Download from: eurpod.com/BestSpeak.nvda-addo… - rapid typing or cycling through stuff should no longer crash the thread since we are managing a thread pool. Previously, handle closing and re-initialization might happen from multiple places—either the main thread would try to re-init before the next chunk, or _speakBg() would close the engine after finishing. This created a race condition where both the main thread and the background thread could attempt to manipulate the engine handle around the same time. only the _speakBg() thread—after finishing the TtsWav call—handles closing the engine now.

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I did some testing with zlib-ng, which Fedora and Arch are already using as a replacement for the original zlib and Debian plans to as well, and I'm not happy with what I found.

[...] With the original zlib, you will always get an identical output stream given the same input stream and compressor parameters [...] I expected that zlib-ng would often produce a different output steam than the original, but what I found was a lot more non-deterministic than just that.

With zlib-ng, feeding the data into the compressor in e.g. 1024-byte chunks always gave me a different output stream than using 4096-byte chunks [...] In fact, every chunk size I tried gave a different output. And that's with fixed size chunks, which is not a given if you're handling e.g. a stream of input.

Even using the same buffer size, I cannot get an identical compressed output stream with Python and Java any more [...]


lists.debian.org/debian-devel/…

#ReproducibleBuilds

Re: [Summary]: Supporting alternative zlib implementations

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#reproduciblebuilds

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Hmm I don't know, that might be more difficult than solving a typical captcha.

To Log Into WordPress, You Now Have To Agree Pineapple on Pizza Is Good it.slashdot.org/story/24/12/16…


To Log Into WordPress, You Now Have To Agree Pineapple on Pizza Is Good - Slashdot

WordPress co-founder and CEO of Automattic Matt Mullenweg is trolling contributors and users of the WordPress open-source project by requiring them to check a box that says "Pineapple is delicious on pizza.
it.slashdot.org

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Another week, another new & unsettling recipe for making a computational sausage. Today it was this massive text file enumerating how every button and axis from every known gamepad is reported on every known platform in order to map them to a standard taxonomy:

github.com/mdqinc/SDL_GameCont…

I guess I should have known that ultimately it must boil down to this...


SDL_GameControllerDB/gamecontrollerdb.txt at master · mdqinc/SDL_GameControllerDB

A community sourced database of game controller mappings to be used with SDL2 Game Controller functionality - mdqinc/SDL_GameControllerDB
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Tiktok will be just fine now that the incoming president said he has a "warm spot" in his heart for this social med. We all know what that means... :) mastodon.social/@macrumors/113…

MacRumors.com (@macrumors@mastodon.social)

TikTok Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Temporarily Block Upcoming January Ban https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/16/tiktok-asks-us-supreme-court-ban-delay/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Mastodon

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Not directly NVDA related, but something many of us can relate to: "Why online shopping isn't so fun for those who are blind or have low vision" abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/onl…

#Shopping #OnlineShopping #News #Accessibility #A11y #ScreenReader #Blind


Why online shopping isn't so fun for those who are blind or have low vision

Next time you're scrolling for bargains online, consider the half a million Australians who don't find shopping on the web fun or simple, writes Nas Campanella.
Nas Campanella (ABC News)
#a11y #Accessibility #blind #screenreader #News #shopping #onlineshopping
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