I've never gotten into Martha Wells, but I know that my daughter will be desperate to start Murderbot, which airs on Apple TV on her birthday. Now she's done with Lower Decks she'll be after the next thing. So perhaps it is time...
The beg bounties are frustrating. Particularly when you explain why something isn’t a vulnerability and they come back later to ask if there’s any progress and can they please be paid (from a non-existent bounty program).
Los pueblos indígenas de América del Norte han decidido volver a llamar al Golfo de México "Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl". Es lo que el pueblo náhuatl lo llamó originalmente, ya que es el dominio de la diosa Chalchiuhtlicue, que está asociada con cuerpos de agua, incluido el Golfo de México.
Yesterday my son lost his wallet on a London bus This morning the wallet was pushed through his letterbox, intact, with a note attached which just said. 'Mate, you left this on the bus, good luck'.
It's great to be reminded that there are good folk .
PipeWire 1.3.83 is out! This is hopefully the last prerelease of the next 1.4 release and has some small improvements and some last minute regression fixes. More details here:
The Foundation is at a crossroads. We need to raise an additional $610K to break-even, and more immediately to raise $100K to keep our bridges running.
As a neutral custodian for the specification and much more, the Foundation is key to the success of Matrix. It is time to step up for it.
those who forgot. VIA Rail was created to take over the passenger service from both CP and CN as they were divesting from it.
There problem is that it all stopped there and here we are. The inherited rolling stock, routes, station and got crumbs for the traffic priority. All as a result of Government policy (or lack thereof).
Also CN was the Government consolidating all the bankrupt railroad into a national railroad. And then it got sold off to the private sector in 1995. Like what? Public money to make Bill Gates[1] richer?
I'm Daniel Stenberg, maintainer and lead developer in the curl project. I stream curl related stuff. Release presentations, curl development and related topics.
The University of Bedfordshire’s Post Graduate Centre in central Luton will host a one-day conference that sheds light on the history, politics, and lasting impact of land-based 'pirate' radio
Using this tool, you can extract your Mastodon archive and create a static site that can be hosted anywhere. posty.1sland.social cc / @FediTips @FediThing where I can find more tools like this?
reading it today I realised it's ambiguous if they meant that you have no business and provide a service to 1B people or if you have no business providing a service to 1B people
A talk from the LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024 in Luxembourg, with Patrick Weber. More details: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffic...
Le Chat combines the power of advanced AI with extensive information sourced from the web and high quality journalistic sources, helping you rediscover the
Unless anyone thinks that we are overreacting to the felon and the musketeers: {edit} I just realized of course the White House didn't alt-text the image. It's a Time Magazine-like cover called Trump with an image of the felon with a gold crown and his stupid grin with a backdrop of NY City skyline. It is subtitled "Long Live The King."
Gestern habe ich erfahren, dass #Mozilla in "privatsphäre-respektierende" Werbung investiert. Ich bin da etwas skeptisch; #Privatsphäre und #Werbung stehen sich irgendwo diametral gegenüber. Darum habe ich mich mal nach Alternativen umgelesen. Dabei bin ich auf #librewolf gestossen, ein Fork von #Firefox, mit dem Schwerpunkt auf Privatsphäre und Sicherheit. #UBlock und weitere Features sind standardmässig mit an Bord. Werde ich wohl die Tage mal antesten...
It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!
I've been using #Firefox derivative #Zen #browser for a couple of months, and am very happy with it. As a refugee from #Arc, I love the similar tab UI and the split-screen view. And it has all of the #privacy features of Firefox, with none of the #chromium
Vivaldi with uBlock Origin Lite and the built-in blockers turned on works well, and overall, I trust the company, even if I don't prefer their browser. At least they're a European company with all the protections included.
Firefox, on the other hand, does have the reputation. I'm concerned about their direction though, and I have concerns about AI. If they develop it for localized translations, that's not too bad. As for advertising, I understand they need to find an income stream that's not Google, and if the ads are based on the site being visited, not on user browsing history, that's fine. I expect to see ads for beer and trucks when I watch sports, so why not ads for music-related companies if I visit a music website.
I'm using #zenbrowser as a casual replacement to Firefox atm. The native customization options are a big feature plus for me. #arkenfox user.js can be applied to any #firefox fork.
In the future #ladybird could be a good option, lets see...
Zen Browser/Vivaldi here. Not comfortable with Mozilla putting "privacy preserving advertising" in the browser (honestly feels counterintuitive to the whole adblock thing), and Zen knocks that out with the setting automatically applied, while having a nice GUI.
Vivaldi's there as a Chromium backup (since Gecko is still slow to add some stuff e.g. gradients)
Ginger ale has long been considered an at-home remedy for nausea, but it turns out that this, and all sorts of other assumptions, may be totally untrue.
Berlin, 20 February 2025 – LibreOffice 24.8.5, the fifth minor release of the LibreOffice 24.8 family of the free open source, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), MacOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux, is available on our d…
Hi there, I'm an overall happy user but there's one feature I'm sorely missing. Where would be the best way to check if it's sth you're working on for future releases, or to bring it to the developers' attention?
@proscience Hi! You can submit enhancement requests here: bugs.documentfoundation.org – But of course, we're a volunteer-driven project with very limited resources. To get a new feature more quickly, you can consider helping our volunteers, or funding a developer. Thank you ☺️👍
Is there any screen reader or browser extension that eliminates soft hyphens when reading a web page? Some authors or blog themes add soft hyphens throughout text, presumably to allow the browser to do hyphenation at the end of the line, but this has the side effect of breaking up words, which is bad for text-to-speech. Here's the latest example I've come across: robinsloan.com/lab/reasons-ing…
I don't have a solution for you, but this did remind me of this Firefox bug I filed, where one of the solutions I proposed was not exposing soft hyphens to accessibility at all. bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
In browse mode, that's probably reasonable. There are reasons that would be a bit annoying to implement in NVDA related to the logic to calculate IA2 text offsets from buffer offsets, but that's just a technical issue that would need to be overcome. For editable text, it's obviously a lot harder because you're relying on the browser caret there.
that example has random hyphens at the beginning of lines too though. It's not something i come across often. I guess any screen reader could use dictionaries to ignore these but I'm not sure what the substitution would be ... a nonbreaking spae maybe?
I stuck it in NVDA's speech dictionary to get rid of them when reading generally. doesn't work when navigating by word, of course, but it's helpful for your average sentence.
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in reply to Sean Randall • • •Oh lord.
1) How old is she?
2) If she's any sort of reader like I am, she won't be able to put the bloody thing down. It's a fantastic read.
Sean Randall
in reply to Scarlet Phoenix Collective • • •Scarlet Phoenix Collective
in reply to Sean Randall • • •Yeah. She won't be able to put it down then.
I actually like the naration style. Dry and somewhat lacking in emotion, but since it's a robot ... well now. xd