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I’m constantly amused by the idea that we will invent AGI and AI will solve all of our problems. We don’t need AGI to solve our problems, even ChatGPT can already tell us obvious solutions to our current problems.
We already have good answers on how to reduce gun violence, infant mortality or climate change. The problem is too many people have a vested interest in the problems being unsolved. It isn’t because we haven’t invented smarter than human AI. When we do, we’ll ignore it too.
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August 1st - Googler asks the community if XSLT should be removed from the HTML living standard.
github.com/whatwg/html/issues/…
Respondents overwhelmingly reject the suggestion.
August 6th - Google starts work on removing XSLT from Chrome.
issues.chromium.org/issues/435…
August 14th - Googler sends PR to remove XSLT from the standard.
github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11…
Like, I don't have a particular view of whether this is a good idea or not. But these sham community engagement exercises piss me off.
What is the issue with the HTML Standard? XSLT v1.0, which all browsers adhere to, was standardized in 1999. In the meantime, XSLT has evolved to v2.0 and v3.0, adding features, and growing apart f...mfreed7 (GitHub)
True that said I'm not sure WHATWG really has a consensus building process, case in point the last few comments being marked off-topic and then discussion locked while they point that libxslt has a lack of maintenance.
What I see is Google effectively answering "Fuck off" to the "Fuck you pay me" of libxslt maintainer, and WHATWG (mostly Google but not only) supporting that.
As far as I can tell WHATWG is steered by Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla.
github.com/whatwg/sg#steering-…
And given M$ is still there, independent implementation doesn't matters.
A place to raise issues with the WHATWG Steering Group - whatwg/sgGitHub
It's a very selective approach to dropping parts of web. Chrome still supports <plaintext> tag that has been deprecated in HTML 2 (1995). And the tag does some wild stuff to HTML parsing. I'm also confident its usage is much lower than XSLT. Somehow no one's calling for removing its support.
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do…
The security argument is a bit disingenuous, too. First Google unleashes Project Zero on libxml/libxslt. They unload a whole bunch of security issues on the maintainer, propose no fixes. And now declare the project poorly maintained and insecure. Google has resources to fix all the issues and help maintain the libs. They have resources to write a new XML/XSLT lib in a safe language of their choice.
They just don't want to. And if they don't want, no amount of evidence or arguments can change that.
They started with "we want XSLT dropped” and then reasoned backwards to find some plausible arguments. Not started with the arguments that led to the conclusion that removing XSLT is overall the best solution.
The HTML element renders everything following the start tag as raw text, ignoring any following HTML. There is no closing tag, since everything after it is considered raw text.</div></body></html>developer.mozilla.org
How GNOME made its Calendar application accessible
This article will explain in details about the fundamental issues that held back accessibility in GNOME Calendar since the very beginning of its existence, the progress we have made with accessibility as well as our thought process in achieving it, and the now and future of accessibility in GNOME Calendar.
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Endspurt!
Ihr habt nurnoch 11h Zeit eure Talks für die besten MRMCD aller Zeiten einzureichen 📝
Heute Nacht um 23:59 ist Deadline!
Ihr hättet übrigens nicht ALLE bis kurz vor Ladenschluss warten müssen.
Danke euch für die vielen großartigen Talks! Wir sind alleine in den letzten paar Stunden nochmal komplett überrannt worden 🙈
The existence of billionaires is a market failure
The existence of billionaires is a policy failure
The existence of billionaires is a societal failure
The existence of billionaires is a humanitarian failure
The existence of billionaires is an existential failure
The existence of billionaires is a failure.
Didn't the Canadian public just give Air Canada $5.9B in a covid bailout the year before their execs got these salaries in 2022?
From Ben Thomson on X:
"Air Canada Executive salaries:
CEO M.Rousseau: $12.38 Million
CFO A.Kazzaz: $3.1 Million
COO C.Landry: $2.93 Million
CCO L.Guillemette: $2.74 Million
Exec VP A.Meloul-Wechsler: $2.0 Million
Full-time entry-level AC flight attendant earns LESS than minimum wage (27k/year before tax)
CEO makes 458x more than entry-level flight attendant
Time for AC executives to take a large pay cut"
#cdnpoli #AirCanada
Edit: got it now, it's phrased completely differently, thanks Kel!
Mastodon'll know this - who said the famous quote "If the person who makes your coffee can't afford to live in your 15 minute neighbourhood, it's not a 15 minute neighbourhood it's a theme park"?
Nahverkehr ist keine Rocket Science
Nahverkehrservice Sachen-Anhalt (NASA): hold my Unternehmensabkürzung
Nein, ich hab mir das nicht gerade ausgedacht
I won’t worry about AGI until services stop doing this..
“Would you like to book a return trip?” Yeah I did. Now I’m worried.
“We found some products you might like.” I mean, the products I JUST bought.
“Earn points if you sign up for our loyalty program.” You mean the one I’m signed into?
Sometimes an app I use because the functionality is very important to me is so badly made that I would volunteer to work without pay if they’d let me fix it.
This message brought to you by the Deutschebahn (German railway service) app (especially around bicycle tickets) and Urban Sports, both of which have so many UI problems that they feel like the developers must not use them ☹️
@matt the steady but so so slow progress of the DB app, plus the ubiquity of DB use in Germany, makes me certain that the devs (and even some managers) use the app.
It's just that like any other project in Germany, improving something takes ten exploratory studies and several thousand meetings to be really sure everyone's OK with making it better.
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Jako chápu, že nejít k volbám je právo každého.
Ale když vidím Rajchla, Vidláka, Konečnou a spol., přijde mi to pořád jako ta úplně nejhorší možnost.
Pořád lepší pětikoalice, než ruské svině.
Ne... Sorry, ale to prostě není pravda.
Demokracie je sázení na zloděje, a samotný akt volby je legitimizuje v očích občanů k tomu aby kradli dál. A přestože jim absence hlasů v krádeži přímo nezabrání, je lehčí krást polud věříš, že tě v tom podporuje milióny lidí.
Reminder about removing OpenVPN: we are removing support for OpenVPN entirely on 15th January 2026, in six months time.
OpenVPN servers will be completely removed on this date, and support for it within our app will disappear.
Please reconfigure your configurations to use WireGuard to avoid interruptions.
Read more here: mullvad.net/blog/reminder-that…
This is a reminder that we are fully removing support for OpenVPN on January 15th 2026.Mullvad VPN
Hacker News is my guilty pleasure. I just love the "How I sold my 'basic Unix tool rewritten as a 300 MB Node.js app in a Docker container' startup for $500M" posts.
Half the comments on the "FFmpeg switches to @forgejo" posts are complaints about the anime girl from Anubis.
You Silicon Valley tech-bro motherfuckers who think it's OK to DDoS small websites are the sole reason we had to put her there in the first place.
#HomeAssistant verbessert nach eigener Aussage die #Barrierefreiheit der Webanwendung durch Anpassung an die #WCAG AA accessibility standards.
home-assistant.io/blog/2025/08…
w3.org/WAI/WCAG2AA-Conformance
@homeassistant@fosstodon.org
#a11y #Inklusion #HausAutomation
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) (Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI))
Meanwhile, if you abuse the API and don't comply, asan might complain but that's not a #curl security problem.
## Summary A **Use-After-Free (UAF)** vulnerability was discovered in `curl` at **`curl_trc.c:195`**. When processing specially crafted input, the code accesses memory after it has already been...HackerOne
The first release candidate for the pending #curl 8.16.0 release is up and if you have a chance, do try it out and report any and all issues you experience:
Tarczyński Arena, koncert Eda Sheeran 16.08.2025 i trakowanie osób z niepełnosprawnością.
Proszę was o przeczytanie całości.
Godzina kilka minut przed 18, idę do toalety.
Pukam do drzwi, zamknięte, stoję i czekam, następna dostosowana toaleta jest za daleko od moje strefy, a ja mogę poczekać. Czekam, 5,10 minut. Podchodzi do mnie dziewczyna poruszająca się przy pomocy balkonika. Pyta, czy czekam w kolejce.
Tak, czekam, ale od ponad 10 minut nikt nie wychodzi, a lampka nad drzwiami się w sumie nie świeci. Idę zgłosić do osoby z obsługi, która stoi najbliżej, że toaleta jest zakluczona, nikogo tam nie słychać, i w sumie nie wiadomo o co chodzi.
Sytuacja zostaje olana przez pracownika.
Mija kolejne 10 minut, zgłaszamy kolejnym osobą, że nie wiadomo czy w tej toalecie ktoś zasłab, czy ona jest cała czas zamknięta. Szef obsługi odpowiada jednej z pracownic obsługi, że wszystkie toalety są otwarte przecież 🙃
Po kolejnych minutach przychodzi trzech pracowników obsługi i w sumie nie wiedzą, co zrobić.
Mówią, że mamy skorzystać z innej toalety. Mówię im, że nie ma mowy, teraz chcę doprowadzić sprawę do końca i sprawdzić czy ktoś tam, nie daj boże jest, czy toaleta jest zamknięta cały czas na cztery spusty.
W między czasie podchodzą do nas różne osoby i próbuję pomóc ogarnąć sytuację razem z nami.
Po około 5 minutach przychodz jakiś ważniejszy typ z pękiem kluczy, otwiera lekko drzwi toalety i… SOBIE IDZIE BEZ SŁOWA.
Było pusto
Toaleta nie została otwarta przez prawie 40 minut mimo zgłoszenia problemu kilkakrotnie przez kilka różnych osób.
Obsługo Tarczyński Arena, która wczoraj ogarniała koncert Ed Sheerana, wiem, że macie dużo pracy. Ale otwarcie toalet i odpowiadanie na zgłoszenia to podstawa. Tym bardziej, jeśli chodzi o osoby z niepełnosprawnością, a tych wczoraj były wiele, a toalet przystosowanych jest kilka.
Takiego olania sprawy i bezradności w działaniu pracowników dawno nie widziałam.
There is quite a lot from SPL in there, isn't there? Including a couple of freezes which look linked to it. I also found one for C:\Users\jammi\AppData\Roaming\nvda\addons\navSounds\globalPlugins\NavigationSounds\
Definitely disabling SPL is the first thing I'd try looking at that log - and chatting with the author to see if they're aware of any issues.
looking at this #NVDA log trying to see if I can figure this out, one thing I am seeing a whole olot of is from the studio addon, and I am not even touching the stuff for studio. oh sure studio is running in the background as that is what is running my stations automation, but I am not seeing things for other addons, just the studio one. a lot of the lines look something like this.
DEBUG - external:appModules.splcommon.splbase.studioAPI (22:29:41.255) - MainThread (15036):
SPL: Studio API wParem is 0, lParem is 124
DEBUG - external:appModules.splcommon.splbase.studioAPI (22:29:41.255) - MainThread (15036):
SPL: Studio API result is 71
if you start a command prompt at the location or windows run dialogue, and type NVDA.exe --debug-logging
(Replace NVDA.exe with the alpha build name) - that should produce a debug log. Check your %temp% folder (note the percent signs around temp) and either NVDA.log or nvda-old.log should be the one
NVDA, the free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows - nvaccess/nvdaGitHub
Josef Zettl alias Princezna
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in reply to Archos • • •Jednou jsem do něj omylem dal tymián, od té doby ho tam trochu dávám pořád.
Zoufalec
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in reply to Zoufalec • • •𝕆𝕥𝕥𝕠 𝕧𝕠𝕟 𝕎𝕖𝕟𝕜𝕠𝕗𝕗 🐾🐐🐇🐔
in reply to Josef Zettl alias Princezna • • •Já dal jednou z nouze do bramboráku oregáno, páč marjána došla, a už jsme to párkrát zopakovali. 😋
Archos
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𝕆𝕥𝕥𝕠 𝕧𝕠𝕟 𝕎𝕖𝕟𝕜𝕠𝕗𝕗 🐾🐐🐇🐔
in reply to Archos • • •Kdo má hlad, zbytečně nepindá! 😅👍
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U nás bramboráky skoro neděláme, marjána trvale mizí, vždycky ji někdo vyhulí ... 😂
@Zettl_josef @archos
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