The GOP hid a reckless provision to shield Trump officials from contempt of court in their Medicaid-slashing megabill. We need to get Republican senators on the record about that sneak-attack on democracy — and push Democrats to disrupt the GOP’s anti-democracy agenda with every tool at their disposal. howwefightback.com/p/did-repub…
While I'm happy to keep writing and analyzing the news for free, I'm soliciting donations to help my elderly mother and my cancer-stricken stepfather stay housed. I'm doing okay myself, but because neither of them can work anymore and their pension doesn't cover the mortgage, I've been helping them out for a while now. They're short about $1,000 a month on the mortgage and medical supplies for my stepdad; anything you could spare to help me keep a roof over their heads during this difficult time would be most appreciated.
100% of all donations go to helping my mom, stepdad, and their cute little dogs. If you're unable, or unwilling to help, please don't feel bad - I live in capitalist hellworld too, and I know "spare" money is hard to come by these days. Even a simple retoot would be appreciated.
I hesitate to call this a review since I did not use this Motorola Razr as my primary phone for any substantial amount of time. However, I did acquire it
so, if you want a comcast like version of fiber, well try this on for size. T-Mobile launches fiber internet service in the US with a five-year price lock theverge.com/news/678897/t-mob…
T-Mobile is expanding its fiber internet service to more people following its deal with Lumos. The company will now offer three plans with symmetrical speeds of up to 2 Gigs.
Aujourd'hui, dans le cadre d'une rencontre de mediateurices numériques, j'ai appris qu'une des conséquences de la loi immigration serait qu'à partir du 1er juillet, la majorité des personnes souhaitant accéder à la nationalité française et ayant l'obligation de suivre des cours de français le feront seul-es sur une application, là où iels avaient des cours en présentiel jusqu'à présent...
« Quand depuis plusieurs années, un étranger en situation régulière ne maîtrise pas le français, c’est qu’il n’a pas produit d’efforts », affirme le Ministre de l’Intérieur B. Retailleau.
I’ve been podcasting for over 20 years now, and hosted some of the most popular podcasts in the blind community. Blind people often ask me about all aspects of creating podcasts accessibly, including defining the kind of podcast you want to run, choosing the best tools for the job and the budget, interviewing, editing, and marketing. So, I’m thrilled that on June 11 at 1 PM Eastern, the National Federation of the Blind’s Center of Excellence in Nonvisual Accessibility will be hosting a free four-hour webinar on podcasting as a blind person. It’s not necessary to have any prior experience, we’ll start at the beginning, but there will be useful tips even if you’ve been podcasting a while. I’ll be anchoring the webinar, and you’ll also hear a couple of familiar NFB voices. Melissa Riccobono, co-host of the NFB’s Nation’s Blind Podcast, Mushroom FM host, audio describer and audiobook narrator, will discuss how she turned a dream of working with audio into reality. Will Schwatka is the technical genius behind most of the NFB’s audio and whose voice you will have heard narrating the audio edition of the Braille Monitor among other things. He’ll join us to talk about equipment choices, including microphones, mixers, and audio interfaces. There will be plenty of time for your questions. I’m looking forward to presenting this for you. This webinar on podcasting is just one of many regular webinars CENA offers. You can register by visiting this URL. nfb.org/programs-services/cent…
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On Cygwin, it is unsafe to call POSIX functions from DllMain, which OPENSSL_thread_stop does. Additionally, it should be unnecessary as OpenSSL uses pthread_key_create to register a thread destruc...
Since yesterday, I have had an urge to play with CSS again, and it's the least practical time for it.
(Since work during the day and a brain that is currently saying no.)
There is a three-year-old article by Ryan Mulligan that has been living rent-free in my head for a while, and I recently applied it to a hobby project for the first time. I want to learn more about these techniques as I'm not fluent with them yet.
"Layout Breakouts with CSS Grid" featuring named template columns.
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
Hi @kasnder, As part of the targeted user group I'd like to experiment a bit with #GreaseMilkyway
Fortunately I'm not addicted to one the apps listed in the examples. On the project page you mention Developer Assistant from the PlayStore as one potential tool to identify the elements one wants to block. Do you happen to know a comparable #FOSS tool from an #FDroid #Repo I could use instead? @IzzyOnDroid
The Bill will strengthen our laws and keep Canadians safe by ensuring law enforcement has the right tools to keep our borders secure, combat transnational organized crime, stop the flow of illegal fentanyl, and crack down on money laundering.
"For now, the most comprehensive protection against Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica tracking is to refrain from installing the Facebook, Instagram, or Yandex apps on Android devices."
I genuinely have no idea what the left’s strategy is (or has been) for Gaza. Everything has been to force attention on it as a monocause, but only in the most unsympathetic ways possible.
Like I understand the thought “we need to make America pay attention to this” but they seem not to have a way of doing that that doesn’t involve them doing toxically unpopular things. Who are they listening to?
Yes, there is real anger in Ann Arbor over the vandalized peony garden at the University of Michigan. It's not just a loss of some pretty flowers. It's a central part of the city's identity.
i think the 'pro-palestine' movement would be very furious if Israel and Palestine would work out a peaceful and lasting solution tomorrow. They wouldn't know how to fuel their hate against jews anymore.
Do you have any idea how many times I had to throw this fucking stuffed bear into the air, swing my camera up to my eye, and try to take the perfect picture of it as it fell?
"LLMs can't write code, not possible, you're all liars"
has now devolved into
"well, CloudFlare provided an extensive example proving it can produce extensive working code, BUT IT MADE A MISTAKE JUST LIKE A HUMAN WHO MISREAD THE RFC" RT: hails.org/users/hailey/statuse…
Meta und Yandex haben die Browsernutzung von Android-Nutzer'innen mit einer perfiden und bisher unbekannten Tracking-Methode deanonymisiert und damit die strikte Trennung von Apps ausgehebelt.
Das in Websites eingebettete Tracking-Script (also z.B. "Facebook Pixel") konnte sein _fbp-Cookie über einen internen Port (z.B. 127.0.0.0:12387) senden und die Facebook-App hat auf diesem Port gelauscht und das Cookie abgefangen. So wurde ein Webseitenbesuch, bei dem Facebook eingebunden war, auch an die Facebook-App gemeldet.
War also gar keine so falsche Entscheidung, keine dieser Apps zu nutzen – und auch keine der zu Meta gehörenden Seiten je anzusurfen, sowie deren Domains gleich im DNS gesperrt zu haben…
Oh man, die Strafe für eine derartige, vorsätzliche Verletzung des Datenschutzes sollte aber bitte richtig heftig ausfallen. Idealerweise "Laden dichtmachen" (wird nicht passieren), 2. Platz: Bußgeld in 9-stelliger Höhe (damit es nicht aus der Portokasse gezahlt werden kann). 🤯
Die Schwierigkeit könnte sein, dass Facebook von den Seitenbetreibern verlangt hat, dafür eine Einwilligung einzuholen. Und vielleicht reicht das auch schon, um diese Technologie zu erlauben ("Weiterleitung von Daten wie Facebook ID an Meta").
Bei der Studie finden sich Ergebnisse von einem Top 100K Seiten Crawl.
Tatsächlich haben demnach auch einige deutsche Seiten das Pixel noch immer ohne Einwilligung in Betrieb, darunter dominos.de cineplex.de
Und immer noch Verlage wie Ippen (OVB24/rosenheim24.de) und Burda (efahrer.chip.de).
Aber ich wüsste nicht, dass deutsche Behörden schon Strafen wegen Metas Pixel ohne Einwilligung verhängt hätten.
Traurig, dass sie das noch nicht haben (Strafen verhängt). Und ja, für die Masche mit "Verantwortung abwälzen" sind sie ja bekannt – siehe "hochladen des Adressbuches" bei WhatsApp, wo der Anwender bestätigen soll, von allen (!!) im Adressbuch die Zustimmung zu haben. Hat Dich schonmal wer gefragt, ob das für Dich OK wäre? Mich nur eine einzige Person. Und ich glaube kaum, dass sonst keiner meiner Kontakte WA nutzt ("Das braucht man doch…") 😔
My latest project is code-named "Total Reprint." I ported The Print Shop (1986) to ProDOS and made it hard-drive-installable. Then I made some other improvements, like live previews of third-party graphics and borders. It's bundled with every graphic, border, and font that Broderbund ever released, plus hundreds of other openly licensed graphics that I back-ported from modern artists.
Come to INIT HELLO in July for the product launch. <init-hello.org/>
@jaybird110127 Your latest boost from 4am is the second time that this INIT HELLO conference has come across my feed. Not gonna lie, I'm tempted to go; it might be fun. But I'm not a hard-core Apple II enthusiast.
@matt I guess I've missed something. They keep talking about INIT HELLO. Has Kansasfest gone by the wayside for some reason? That IIRC used to be the primary Apple II enthusiasts' conference.
Faizan Zaki, a 13-year-old speller from Allen, Texas, is the champion of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Zaki earned the prestigious title in round 21 when he correctly spelled “éclaircissement,” which is defined as “the clearing up of something obscure: enlightenment.”
Meta struck a deal with energy company Constellation to expand an old nuclear power plant, part of a bigger trend of tech companies turning to nuclear reactors to power AI data centers.
Xisco Fauli, Ilmari Lauhakangas and Mike Saunders from The Document Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind LibreOffice, discuss Quality Assurance (QA...
Every 24 hours, a mid-tier LinkedInfluencer watches a mid-tier AI short and proclaims the death of Hollywood like he’s Martin Luther, nailing a Midjourney jpeg to the gates of Burbank Christendom.
AI will disrupt filmmaking. But not like Netflix disrupted Blockbuster. More like spam disrupted email. A flood, not a revolution. Volume without vision. Output without ordeal.
Sežrala půl kila kuřecích křidélek, odřezky hovězího, a jeden zbylý frankfurtský párek a teď už ji prý mám dát pokoj a ani kolem ní nedýchat 😂 Holt ženská, narvat břicho a odpočívat 😇
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The note to make on this post is the domain. Fly is an hosting company so if “AI lets us go faster” and “AI makes bad code but we’re slowing down to make it usable” (paraphrased) is their self-contradictory policy, that puts a question mark on hosting with them
Also, going “many of you will lose your jobs but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make” is almost admirable as a douchebag move, but it’s also the norm in tech. There is no class solidarity to speak of in tech.
> “many of you will lose your jobs but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make”
That wasn't what I took from that section. I think the point of that section, and the one after it about plagiarism, was that he thinks we programmers deserve what we've got coming, because of how our work has destroyed so many other kinds of jobs already, and how many of us have flagrantly violated copyright because we want our entertainment now and for free. And both of those sections did give me pause.
@matt You’re outlining his motivation behind his willingness to sacrifice other people’s jobs. Fundamentally, he’s still stating a willingness to sacrifice other people’s jobs.
Also, I don't think all automation is equally bad. I've spent most of my career working on assistive technology for blind people. It's true that before personal computers, OCR, and ebooks, some people could get paid to read text aloud or transcribe it to Braille. But, on the whole, I think it's a good thing that those jobs are obsolete, because probably most blind people didn't have access to readers or transcribers. I guess it's possible my reasoning is self-serving though.
It still hurts me to see tables like this. While I learned that stuff (30 years ago) the base was 1024 instead of 1000.
Using 1000 for Memory like people do it for vegetables looks always like a marketing trick. Just a way to sell me less Memory For the same price. And it works. At just 1TB they embezzling 99511627776 Bytes.
All of these comments simply point out the fact that we should never have used metric prefixes to name binary numbers. Current technology is based on two and powers of two, not on ten and powers of ten! ( Although there might have been an advantage and it would be appropriate had we stuck with processors with 10-bit bytes and 20-bit words.)
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in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅ • • •Hi @kasnder,
As part of the targeted user group I'd like to experiment a bit with #GreaseMilkyway
Fortunately I'm not addicted to one the apps listed in the examples.
On the project page you mention Developer Assistant from the PlayStore as one potential tool to identify the elements one wants to block. Do you happen to know a comparable #FOSS tool from an #FDroid #Repo I could use instead?
@IzzyOnDroid