A doctor was having an affair with his nurse. But soon enough she told him that she was pregnant. Not wanting his wife to know, he gave the nurse a large sum of money and asked her to go to Italy and have the baby there. "But how will I let you know the baby is born?" she asked. He replied, "Just send me a postcard and write "spaghetti" on the back. I'll take care of expenses." Not knowing what else to do, the nurse took the money and flew to Italy. Six months went by, and then one day the doctor's wife called him at the office and said, "Dear, you received a very strange postcard in the mail today from Europe, and I don't understand what it means." The doctor said, "Just wait until I get home and I will explain it to you." Later that evening the doctor came home, read the postcard, and fell to the floor with a heart attack. Paramedics rushed him to the hospital emergency room. The head medic stayed back to comfort the wife. He asked what trauma had precipitated the cardiac arrest. So the wife picked up the card and read: "Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti - Two with sausage and meatballs; two without."
Люблю эту Винду, где чтобы поставить программу, надо установить .NET 4.6, 4.7, 4.8 и MC Visual C++ 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012..., 2022. Куда проще, чем этот вашб Линукс
After some years of not seeing XML-related anti-WHATWG rhetoric, it feels weird and like some kind of 20-year time warp to see XML-related anti-WHATWG rhetoric again.
@djc Thanks for the pointers. I have no horse in this race, except for looking into replacing GNOME's use of xsltproc(1) for something else - we almost only use it to turn DocBook into Unix man pages.
@djc yeah, by default, all single-file man pages that are now written in DocBook should be converted into reST. rst2man is a common enough dependency on distros already.
There are a couple of apps that use libxslt's API (LibreOffice, Yelp) as opposed to just xsltproc, but that is Their Problem(tm) now.
@djc there's no particular reason for using DocBook, other than that's what people started doing ~20 years ago to avoid writing troff, and then everyone also copied the Makefile incantations to turn it into troff.
A federal appeals court rejects T-Mobile's bid to overturn a $92M fine for illegally sharing customer location data without consent, per a 2024 FCC ruling (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
#resist #actives #antifa #politics #palestineaction #refugeeswelcome #nrm #forevereuropean Is it me? It's that time of year when organisers get organised only to find just how many 'virtue signallers' there are amongst our numbers. Please note I do not march on Saturdays, only aggravates the tourists. I'm a 'stop the city' #polltax vet. Effective #NVDA needs to be targeted. Weds / Thurs best for #westminster
We approve use of #NVDA every day of the week! We do firmly believe it is the best screen reader on the market ;)
(Yes, I know you meant Non-Violent Direct Action - we are much more used to it as the name of the "Non Visual Desktop Access" screen reader used by blind people around the world)
Cassiopée, 33 ans, 3 chats et 2 amoureux. Polyamoureuse, bi, queer, féministe intersectionnelle d’extrême gauche/anarchiste. Polytrauma & handi 😉
Attachée à l’autocompassion, l’épistémologie et les luttes sociales. De manière générale j’essaye d’apprendre à m’améliorer et à me remettre en question, à avoir un discours radical mais nuancé. Je trouve qu’il est essentiel de faire la différence entre l’individu et le système, et à ne pas faire porter le poids des injustices et disfonctionnements aux humains quand cela dépend des structures dont ils sont usagers.
Je trouve que les pratiques de justice restaurative et transformative sont essentielles, comme tout ce qui permet aux personnes de s’émanciper, de se soigner et d’exercer leur esprit critique.
Je suis le genre de personne qui pense que globalement le monde irait mieux si tout le monde allait voir un psy (non psychanalyste) ; mais j’ai aussi conscience que c’est plus facile à dire qu’à faire et que c’est une démarche qui doit être volontaire.
Dans le même genre je suis très attachée à tout ce qui relève des pratiques d’éducation « bienveillante » et je pense que les pratiques éducatives avec des violence ordinaires sont un des fléaux de notre société, s
au même titre que le capitalisme, le patriarcat, le néocolonialisme, le validisme et la psychophobie. (liste non exhaustive) J’essaye d’être la moins oppressive possible, j’ai conscience que la perfection n’existe pas, que c’est l’enjeu de toute une vie et que de faire de son mieux c’est déjà pas mal.
Je suis passionnée par tout ce qui relève de la communication et de la compréhension de comment nous fonctionnons. J’aime apprendre et je suis très curieuse. Je rêve de vivre dans un monde d’entraide ou tout le monde est raisonné et raisonnable.
Je recherche en ce moment majoritairement à me faire des ami.e s, pour découvrir la ville dans laquelle j’habite (#strasbourg), rire, faire des activités, s’apprendre des choses, s’entraider… J’ai la joie d’avoir un trouble de l’anxiété sociale qui fait qu’il est très difficile pour moi de sortir seule, mais je fais une thérapie d’exposition. C’est une des raisons pour lesquelles, quand je suis à l’aise, je préfère inviter quelqu’un chez moi qu’aller dehors. Je suis traumatisée, mais je me soigne. Ça prend du temps. Si tu as la solution universelle contre la dépression : je prends :D ⤵️
I mean, differences between different posixy OSes from the point of a cross platform library maintainer? Or maybe something rather technical, like ways that OSes make TCP fast for userland libs and what your dream API for that would look like? Is it the good ole socket?
Works on My Machine (tm). I would really love to hear more from behind the scenes of supporting so many platforms and operating systems. There’s not that many as universal libraries.
10:25 on Monday I will do a *15 minute* keynote at the Open Source Summit Europe conference in Amsterdam.
In those fifteen minutes I will talk about what it means to run a small open source project with a huge impact in 2025.
It's not a lot of time, but I'll try to get something said. That's why I accepted to go there and speak in the first place. To TRY to make a difference. To tell truths. To share my view of the world.
Maybe I reach a slightly difference audience there than I usually do.
Microsoft has added COPILOT AI to Excel — but give it a miss if you use the spreadsheet software for numerical calculations or in scenarios with legal regulatory and compliance implications because COPILOT "can give incorrect responses," the company warns. Here's more from @theverge.
Microsoft Excel is testing a new “COPILOT” function that lets you use AI to generate summaries, tables, tags, and more based on a group of cells you specify.
I was wondering what vibe coding reminds me of. And today I figured it out. It really reminds me of my experience brewing beer from Coopers brew kits: it was quick and I ended up with drinkable beer. But I knew nothing about the brewing process, the result was suboptimal, and most importantly, I didn't really have control over it.
I used AI (gemma) the other day to create a beer recipe for me from the hops and yeast I had at home. It was different from my usual recipes so I gave it a go and the beer was solid.
I guess AI simplifies things for us that we no longer need to experiment and get into the details.
@TomasTomec if you ask AI to give you tips for recipes and then you brew yourself, it isn't really vibe-brewing just like it's isn't vibe-coding when you ask AI questions, but code yourself. I don't generally critise vibe coding. I've never been a serious programmer and it was always difficult to get into it when I needed to code something. It's much easier now. But at the same time I don't have ambitions to build serious software and it isn't my job, so I'm not worried about losing skills. I'm fine using it to build something for myself, just like I was fine brewing Coopers kits to have beer for myself.
someone needs to push and ask the right questions. I thought he was going to do that at the start when he mentioned the price difference between the UK and the US.
@dmills87 I think you had two problems there. First, the audience member, Steve I think he said it was, could have been a little more eloquent, but perhaps he is not experienced in this area. But I think this subject is very much outside Peter White's field of expertise.
we need someone who asks the really hard questions. sight and sound doesn't need to be involved with jaws over here at all. people would be more than happy to get the software from the US.
@dmills87 I couldn't agree more. I accept that there are organisations and perhaps some individuals who do need them, but a lot of us definitely do not and probably know a great deal more about how it works.
@dmills87 In my case I had an issue with JFW causing me issues on a laptop secured with some fairly serious security software. FS refused to help with this and had to go through S&S. Was fobbed off with their support as they just didn't have the answers, they eventually pushed me to FS again and with the help of a senior tech at FS and the security company we got it sorted. Interacting with S&S wasted just over a week.
@andrew @dmills87 I've had this a lot, too. Seriously complex scripting issues where S&S do everything I've already done, eating into the support time the employer had paid for with them. I'm more qualified to script than anyone on their helpdesk, for heavens sake. But they didn't listen.
@cachondo @dmills87 S&S wanted me to get ATW funding to get some scripting to help me with this security software issue as well. That would have been a waste of money, the issue was the security software was blocking the API hooks JFW was using into the applications, so the scripter would have been in the same boat as I was. I am an end user of this endpoint software and don't have any admin access.
2. Vispero is private equity and they purchased FS a few years ago. The PE model is simple. find a good product, extract revenue by hiking prices/changing the model to squeeze the customer, then when customers turn away and company starts loss making, saddle it with its debts and walk away, asset stripping the business as they go. FS is heading for a long walk off a short cliff. @andrew @cachondo @brian_hartgen @dmills87
@bermudianbrit @cachondo @dmills87 I think everyone knows this really. I wish more scripters would work with NVDA and we could then get a real push for making this work in work situations. I do think we will be worse off though without JFW, it will be one less choice.
@andrew @bermudianbrit @dmills87 I have been scritping JAWS since I started using it with Windows 95. It's a system I'm comfortable with and I do miss it with NVDA because I'm less comfortable in Python. I can do addons and modules with a lot more effort than I can do scripts. It's frustrating that I know that technically the NVDA ecosystem is far more powerful, but the training materials of JAWS were there when my mind was flexible enough to soak 'em up.
@cachondo @bermudianbrit @dmills87 Yeah I hear you. I suspect others people are in similar positions. I just can't help feeling we're flogging a dead horse and that will bite us if we don't think ahead somehow. I count myself in this category.
@cachondo @dmills87 This was stopping me from working with clients and there was talk about putting me on the bench while this got sorted. The responses from S&S especially regarding getting a scripter involved caused me serious anxiety and dread to think how anyone not as tech savvy would have coped in this situation. S&S don't get all the blame, as the company I work for were doing their bit to make things difficult as well.
@cachondo @andrew @dmills87 Putting this politely, I don't think they have any scripting talent there. They typically use Blazie to do that work for them. Thankfully, other companies use me, but they use Blazie.
Apart from being a quite senior software engineer with management experience, a specialisation in fintech and card networks, and a talent for reading hundreds of pages of standards and docs and being really pedantic about them - I’m a jack of all trades, with a silly broad range of experiences, and enjoy novelty and variety.
Want a photographer? Bartender? VJ for your party? Help organising an event? Need to win an argument about Mastercard rules?
Something else entirely, where a background in tech, music and/or events might come in handy? Hit me up and I’ll see what I can do.
(I’m happy to help out nonprofits, clubs and others doing good/interesting things, but who don’t have very deep pockets, for a more affordable price. I started out maintaining a WordPress site for my dad’s choir, and I’m happy to do it for yours too.)
**Talk:** Building UIs for Everyone: Accessibility as a Frontend Responsibility
**Speaker:** Kushal Kumar Nerella
**Abstract:**
Kushal will share some of t
waiting for my ride and at the last chapter of Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban. Why did JK have to kill black off? Since we've only met him for like two years and then he's gone. What the heck man?Off to work to do assessments on two people who speak Micronesian
Curious about our progress on Thunderbird Pro? Our latest update, direct from Managing Director Ryan Sipes, keeps you in the know - and lets you know how to stay updated:
I find it interesting that you want to operate Thundermail in Germany. How will you ensure to comply with the GDPR, when both MZLA Technologies and Mozilla Foundation as US-based entities can both be forced via CLOUD Act to violate the GDPR?
great update, thank you! I didn't see any mentions about OS or platform availability though, did I miss them?
I'd love to hear details about how Android fits into these plans since many launches like this often tend to either exclude mobile platforms at launch or restrict the feature set. Is that the plan with Thundermail?
@perksofbeingben Hey there! Thundermail will work with all apps on all platforms, mobile and desktop. Send and Appointment will take a bit longer to come to mobile, as those are more desktop-oriented for now.
@perksofbeingben You're welcome! Whenever we get closer to this integration would be when we'd need beta testers, and we'll definitely put out a call on our blog and share it here!
Masking tape, the 1st adhesive tape, was invented in 1925 by 3M employee Richard Gurley Drew who noticed frustrated auto painters using butcher’s paper and glue to mask cars for painting then popular 2-tone paint jobs and stripes.
strike is over and they've reached a preliminary deal, supposedly all unpaid work is over and done with. They told the company and the government to go fuck themselves and all that happened was that they won.
I hope at least one US union learns from seeing these results.
On my way to work there are a couple of train stations that have orange tiles with uranium glazing, no dangerous amounts but easily detectable with a geiger counter.
- Almost same value (1 kilocalorie / Calorie is ~1.1 watt-hours) - more intuitive for people who use electricity - never the confusion between calories (science), Calories (food, which is technically kilocalories), kilocalories, and 'kilo Calories' (which is technically megacalories) - you get to feel more like a robot with your 2.5kwh power consumption a day which may feel like validation to some creatures on this fediverse - become powered by cake
Hey, something that regularly bums me out is that #Lego continues to make Harry Potter products. Lego brings me a lot of comfort, but their complicity in JK Rowling's hate campaign sours that significantly.
As a trans person, it makes me feel kinda helpless and invisible.
So I'd appreciate it if y'all could help me boost this petition across the fediverse, and share it around with group chats, and other socials if you're on them!
Not necessarily because I expect Lego to listen to a change.org petition, but because it would give me a lot more hope and faith in people if the voices saying "Hey, it's really messed up that Lego is doing this" were a lot louder than they are now.
(Alt-text: a change.org petition called "LEGO: End your relationship with JK Rowling and the Harry Potter franchise.") chng.it/mgvbH5qw5h
The "Conversations" screen (which shows a list of open chats) has always been the main screen of #Conversations_im, following the behavior of Signal, WhatsApp, and Google's Messages (SMS) app. However, after sign-up, users were taken to the "New Chat" screen (which lists all contacts and group chats) on the premise that they have no chats yet and would likely want to start one. This may have confused first-time users about which screen is the main one.
“Activists who disrupt the flow of weapons to a genocidal regime may violate petty criminal statutes, but they uphold a far greater law and a more profound human imperative: to protect a people and culture from annihilation,” she wrote. aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/18/u…
Plasticine Action is a group of like-minded artists and concerned citizens, who want to be vocal against the rise in AI generated animation and art, and raise awareness of how AI is being used in an increasingly authoritarian manner.
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@srtcd424 yeah, when I was at high school (2000-2004), we programmed a screen that was identical to the Novell Netware login screen that was used to authenticate on school computers. It loaded first, the user typed in their credentials, it gave them an error message "try again" and then it loaded the genuine login screen. That's how we got credentials of most users at the school. Not sure if I should be proud or ashamed of it, but it definitely boosted confidence in our IT skills. 🙂
Now my question would be, is that thing actually worth it to get? I won't mind me a client that works, if it sends notifications and stuff. Web browsers are great, and I love it, but it gets in the way of screen recordings a lot. LOL
I’m not sure I’m the biggist fan of python either, but It seems to be the only thing that is working right now with all the features. I don’t think you will have to have python unless your building it your self, but I’ll put up a test build to make surethings are working. right now Git is giving me trouble, I may consider something else that ain’t github if I cannot get this working.
Imagine a bar / restaurant where the staff gets paid only when the doors open to the client until the door closes.
Said staff also has to setup the tables, the chair, clean the dining room, etc. They also have to stock the bar, prepare the utensils, etc. All of this is done when the doors are closed.
That's not fair, is it?
[1]That's flight attendants.
[1] the "tip wage" is another story for another time.
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