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Google’s Gemini AI just shattered the rules of visual processing — here’s what that means for you. "Google’s Gemini AI has quietly upended the AI landscape, achieving a milestone few thought possible: The simultaneous processing of multiple visual streams in real time." "...Imagine a medical professional showing an AI both live patient symptoms and historical diagnostic scans at the same time... " - uh, do I want to? Keep AI far away from my medical records (I say that as I'm sure it's too late already.) venturebeat.com/ai/google-gemi…
Internal Meta memo tells managers how performance-based job cuts will work (This is a bit sad to me, because accessibility teams especially have to do a lot of comms with so many other parts of a company and so it's one of the least areas to have "underperformers" but this is often not as visible to leadership) businessinsider.com/meta-tells…
Thursday, February 20, 2025, 8–11am PDT / 5–8pm CET, we are hosting a new edition of our online community event Smashing Meets. In this Meets we're hosting 3 amazing speakers who will talk about various aspects of accessibility in web.
love this, we need more designers to talk Dataviz so spread to knowledge within my internal work A11Y community too, maybe that'll give more sign-ups :D
What about sharing to & from iPhones? Will that work with this update? All I saw was something about sharing items to & from Android. I may have to test that with my BrailleSense, although, I don't think it'd pair using phoneLink.
Hello Mastodon, I seek your retrogame expertise. I wish to play Barbie: As Sleeping Beauty on a modern Mac. How might I go about doing so? archive.org/details/barbie-as-…
I have tried both the above ISO, and the those found on Myabandonware, with the DOSBox fork "Boxer" without any success. myabandonware.com/game/barbie-… (MyAbandonware ISOs are said to be corrupted - the one from archive.org loads on my Mac, but Boxer says that it does not contain a DOS executable.) Any ideas? I am trying to get this working for a less tech-savvy friend, so I need the solution to not be TOO complex for an average Mac user to follow.
oof, best of luck. Really hope nothing bad happens to you or your team, fingers crossed with all this crap around defunding DEI, I always worry that it will branch out into accessibility teams because they see that as part of it, when in reality product accessibility and work inclusion are different areas. But we know the big-wig senior leaders can't distinguish that. And then we expect them to distinguish between knowing what compliance and usability are, ha ha.
I turned 40. My party was all the friends, the femmes, the theys and gays I have met along the way here in BCN for the last 6 years.
Our collective focuses and prioritizes Black and POC Queer and Trans folks. The bar? Queer and Trans owned. The decks? Ran by us. The vibe?? Set down by us.
There is something so amazing about POC Queer spaces, can never be replicated. It was amazing.
Some of mula will be going to local charities. IDK, I am blessed. Sexy, hydrated and blessed.
@matrix Hi, I have a question: How do I report a problem that I am facing if I do not know if it is the server or the client or where the problem occurs? It could be two different servers or clients involved....
The problem itself: I am part of empty room: People get kicked out of personal conversations with me and I get kicked out from their perspective, too.
I do not know why. A screenshot is attached. Where would I start to report such behaviour?
very weird; not a typical failure mode. i suggest starting filing the bug on the client where you're seeing it and then it can routed to the server(s) as needed.
PSA: With macOS 15 Sequoia (released in September 2024), Apple has started shipping openrsync (created by Kristaps Dzonsons, from OpenBSD) as an alternative to the original rsync (“tridge”, from the Samba project).
When you run “rsync”, a wrapper will inspect your command and dispatch to either /usr/libexec/rsync/rsync.samba or rsync.openrsync: github.com/apple-oss-distribut…
If you need one version over the other, select them explicitly — and probably rsync.samba will disappear eventually…
The SFFBookClub is our informal fediverse science fiction and fantasy book club. Everyone reading this is welcome to participate. We vote on a book, read said book, and then discuss and review on the #SFFBookClub hashtag over the course of the month. Feel free to jump in if one of these books catches your eye even if you haven't joined before. Wiki link with past books: sffbookclub.eatgod.org
If you have suggestions for books to consider for future months, comments, or complaints please reply below or send me a DM. As always, feel free to argue for your favorite book in the comments. Longer book descriptions are in the reply toot below.
This year’s best sci-fi outings are full of questions about how we might live differently with one another, on our troubled planet or in the farthest reaches of space.
Day 2 sharing teaser #HistoryPix for "Inventing the Renaissance" (out in one month!). Often in Florence one sees buildings like this, where one section is rough stone standing out amid stucco neighbors. It's actually a remnant of the old Guelph-Ghibelline feuds that so long rocked Medieval Italy 1/?
These are actually the bottom nubs of Medieval stone towers. The town of San Gimigniano is famous for having several still intact. Wealthy families built these as mini-fortresses within the city, where they could defend against riots, enemy families (think Montagues and Capulets) and invasion 2/?
Signs of wealth and prestige, these all-stone buildings were also fireproof, leading to a terrible but effective tactic: take your family, treasures & goods up into your tower then set fire to enemies' homes and let the city burn around you while you sit safe above. This was VERY BAD for cities 3/?
After many disasters, Florence's solution was to BAN private buildings over a certain height, forcing everyone who had a tower to knock the top off down to regulation height, leaving these recognizable stone nubs all around the city. This round one is the oldest (now a restaurant). 4/?
My favorite tower stub is this one, in Via dei Cerchi. I lived on the top floor for a year as a grad student, up 111 steps! I had calves of steel by spring, but the views from the top looked like someone had put a poster of Florence on the wall except it was a window! 5/?
Only city buildings were allowed to exceed the mandated height, which is why Florence's skyline is now all special buildings: monastery bell towers, the cathedral & baptistery, Orsanmichele the city's granary (tall to keep grain away from water & mice), the seat of government, and one special guy 6/?
The tower on the right here is part of Bargello, the prison & police fortress, but it didn't start that way. It was built by a private family, who sold it to the city when the law banning towers was passed, and the city incorporated it into their prison fort. 7/?
The city jail had to be a fortress in case someone from a powerful family was arrested and the family sent goons to break them out (those guys who bite their thumbs in the opening scene of Romeo & Juliet would *totally* have stormed the jail to bust Romeo out!). 8/?
In this photo you can see how the brick battlements are a later addition, added to the tower as part of its transformation from private fortress to public. 9/?
What did Florence look like back when it had all its towers? Its long-time ally across the mountains Bologna is famous for still having two intact towers, but in the Middle Ages Bologna was known as the City of 100 Towers because so many families built them. The reconstructions look... 10/?
...absolutely incredible. Here's what Medieval Bologna would have looked like when all its towers were intact. Florence didn't have so many but did have dozens, so the richest part of the city center would have looked much like this. Much to the despair of the city fire brigade! 11/?
p.p.s. A lot of people asking how they can crosspost from Mastodon to Pixelfed. The answer is this:
You do not need to crosspost from Mastodon to Pixelfed. Your posts on Mastodon are already visible to people on Pixelfed, because Mastodon and Pixelfed are both part of the same social network.
(The same in reverse, posts on Pixelfed are visible to people on Mastodon.)
Some of the accounts you see on here are Mastodon, some are Pixelfed, some are other types, but you can follow all of them.
@rommix0 lol my favorite passage from it: "One former senior member of the Alexa team said while LLMs were very sophisticated, they came with risks, such as producing answers that were “completely invented some of the time”. “At the scale that Amazon operates, that could happen large numbers of times per day,” they said, damaging its brand and reputation." Hopefully they'll keep the classic API around for a long time before pushing that big red button for everyone to switch to that new model.
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Fixes for a critical rsync vulnerability (CVE-2024-12084) have been released for Stable/Bookworm, Testing and Unstable. Oldstable/Bullseye is not affected. Fixes for other lower severity CVEs have also been released in the same update and can all be tracked at security-tracker.debian.org/tr…. The fixed Stable version is 3.2.7-1+deb12u1 and the fixed Testing/Unstable version is 3.3.0+ds1-3
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Are you on LinkedIn? I know LinkedIn has its issues but it's still an excellent resource. Also, is your resume on job sites like Careerbuilder, Monster, etc.
Today is Microsoft's January 2025 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 159 flaws, including eight zero-day vulnerabilities, with three actively exploited in attacks.
Mexico City is currently blessed with beautiful snow capped Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl. Snow occurred in Tenochtitlan, and there's even a record of a proper blizzard. #cdmx #nieve #tenochtitlan
Fixes for a critical rsync vulnerability (CVE-2024-12084) have been released for Stable/Bookworm, Testing and Unstable. Oldstable/Bullseye is not affected. Fixes for other lower severity CVEs have also been released in the same update and can all be tracked at security-tracker.debian.org/tr…. The fixed Stable version is 3.2.7-1+deb12u1 and the fixed Testing/Unstable version is 3.3.0+ds1-3
Debian should publish a micronews article about this soon.
Návštěvníci Krušných hor měli v pondělí dopoledne jedinečnou příležitost pozorovat nádherný a vzácný halový jev, který se objevil u Božího Daru a Klínovce.
Shorter Jack Smith: I had no legal means to DQ Donald Trump and here's stuff I successfully fought to release in October, which you ignored when it could have made a political difference. People who missed October: Why did Jack Smith wait!! www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/14/t...
@ppatel I don't think it would have made any difference, unfortunately. A fairly large chunk of the US populace have drunk the koolaid some time ago and the only way they will get cured of it is when the "kool" becomes "cool", then "cold", then "freezing". :)
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Pixelfed right now! 😅
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