i suppose even if you can't patch it you can mitigate it with rate limiting so they can't send you enough packets fast enough to successfully achieve the birthday attack to poison the cache, though. It's still not a particularly easy CVE to exploit either way.
I've never understood so much emoji as a blind person. 🔭 is a telescope, apparrently. Makes sense if you're hearing it. 🔍 is a "magnifying glass tilted left", though. why is the direction important? There's also a lot of fingerpointing: 👉 (backhand index pointing right) for example. And as to the snowman! ⛄. Snowman. without snow. But it's not just a man. It's a snowman without visible snow? the invisible snowman? Nooo. Confusing? Or is this just my bad blind brain?
@cachondo ah- never thought about the blind-user's perspective on emojis. I rarely use them to be honest, though I've been trying to do so a bit more lately.
I'm still a fan of the old school punctuation based ones, like colon+bracket for a smiley. How do screen readers handle those? They're probably worse, I'd guess.
Funny story there. I used to think there was a smiley face on the properties window of my hard drive. I'd moved from a hardware speech synthesizer when I got to Windows 95, and it'd suddenly say "c smiley" because of the titlebar of the window. I used to think it'd change to a sad face if I ran out of room.
Generally speaking :) etc are converted on-the-fly in a lot of apps now.
Lidi začínají být čím dál tím větší svině. Někdo je upálil zaživa, oplakává majitelka feny, které uhořely na Karlovarsku novinky.cz/clanek/krimi-nekdo-…
Zdrcená je chovatelka kavkazských pasteveckých psů Vlasta Kretschmerová ze Žlutic na Karlovarsku. Během noci z pondělí na úterý totiž přišla o svých pět milovaných fen, jež uhořely v kotcích. Ty podle policie někdo pravděpodobně zapálil.
I like this joke, find it hilarious. A love story film (a Swedish one), lots of emotions, lots of drama, then the happy ending, the couple is together, the male hero takes the main guy takes the main girl by the hand and they go away from our view, and then there is that huge inscription on the screen: "SLUT"!
nothing more annoying than tracking down the replacement part number you need for an appliance (DG67-00216A, samsung) and then finding it's literally not available anywhere at all, period.
it's only "soldering without ventilation" if you print with ABS, which is pain in the ass to print to begin with. PLA and PETG don't produce fumes, or at least don't produce odor. Also you can always open the window.
Fellow blind internet users, I have a question. I would like to undertake several tech exams including the Azur AI practitioners 900. I can access the learning material online through Pluralsite via my company. However, the exams are run by Pearsonview, who take over and lock your laptop into the test. I worry this will break NVDA. Pearsonview do not seem to understand what being blind is, it frightens them. Has anyone done this before or can suggest an alternative? if possible I'd like not to have to travel to a place to take the exam. Please booste.
great(?) news everyone I'm watching Clarkson's Farm, or as I like to call it "Fool Who Can Afford Infinite Mistakes Does His Best To Commit All Of Them"
but he wound up being a mascot for UK landowners because it turns out "wealthy dumbass who doesn't know what he's doing" is actually the norm there. 70% of the land is owned by 1% of the population- that's banana republic numbers.
So the gag has become real. He's now a bona fide "agricultural spokesman" despite having a very dim understanding of what's wrong with British agriculture: people like him.
I don't agree; I've watched the entire show and the prevailing message has been clear: farming is hard, the government is making it harder, and that's also why they're forced to import so much in the UK.
My aunts and uncles who did grow up on the family farm and watch the show have found it to be a very accurate (and entertaining! Jeremy stop buying those stupid Lamborghini tractors!) depiction of farming struggles.
I'm a small farmer. I came up working for people with more estate than sense. So I don't find the show or its version of "farm struggles" entertaining. Or even accurate.
Farming is hard everywhere. But somehow countries with similar climates similar to the UK manage to make it work- see the Netherlands. They grow so much, they have to export. And they do that by letting normal working people have a crack at farming. Not just the wealthy.
@feld I would say the show serves less to "make people interested in farming" and more as "propaganda to convince the public that farmers are helpless & need their money." Which is absolutely NOT the goal I'm focused on ( :
70% of the land in the UK is owned by 1% of the people. Farmland is exempt from inheritance tax. That makes it an excellent tax shelter & drives its price to phenomenal levels. That's much of what makes farming so hard in the UK.
> propaganda to convince the public that farmers are helpless & need their money
Would you support ending the reauthorization of the Farm Bill in the USA then? Because you're right, we need to stop giving them handouts or paying them to grow crops we don't need like all the excess corn. Same goes for other historical blunders like dairy which led to the gov buying billions of pounds of cheese and storing it in caves, etc etc
@feld Ma'am the US doesn't even have a Farm Bill to reauthorize anymore. All we have is a budget that eliminated food stamps for the poor, and gave farmers $52B more in "safety net" so millionaires with land can keep getting paid while people starve.
I am 100% for ending that. That's just common sense.
Check out the Cairns Group for info on how many countries have ended their farm subsidy programs- and wound up with stronger farm sectors as a result.
The American Relief Act, 2025, signed into law on December 21, 2024, extended the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (also known as the 2018 Farm Bill) for one year through Sept. 30, 2025.
also you're 100% right about the tax shelter, but I don't see that as a problem. Everyone should be doing this until we repeal the tax exemptions.
If you're reading this and you're in the USA and you have the minimum required amount of acreage in your state: graze some cattle, plant an orchard, and get your property taxes reduced as far as you possibly can. My friend did this in Hawaii. Everyone should do it.
there are plenty of lower income people who have a few acres and could do it if they just knew how to apply for the exemption and what to do to be fully compliant with the law
I don't have the data to make an accurate estimation there. But even if we only helped 500k American households lower their tax base it would be worth it.
edit: every American should use every tax loophole available to them, full stop. Not doing so is just punishing yourself, whether it be out of ignorance or moral quandary. The system isn't fair. Don't let it beat you down if you can help it.
> I would say the show serves less to "make people interested in farming"...
Finally, we have statistics that are at odds with your opinion because regardless, it's working. Agriculture related education applications are up 20% since Clarkson's Farm debuted.
> "Students have said that the recent spate of farming TV shows like Clarkson's Farm ... have been vital in showcasing to young people the different opportunities and farming way of life."
Well, it looks like the fire service in the United States can't admit that smoke is bad for firefighters because then it would have to admit that it had been putting people at risk for all these years.
This is identical to what we saw healthcare doing during COVID. (Which they did before COVID, and continue to do today.)
At the height of wildfire season, thousands of firefighters regularly face a host of dangers on the frontline, including confronting toxic smoke. As seasons grow longer and more intense, the health of wildland firefighters is under renewed focus.
Hello, I know there are some people that I follow and follow me that use the cardio arm blood pressure cuff. I’m looking at maybe trying my mothers on Sunday. Any tips anybody has? Anything people want to say about it? Good or bad? I’ve been using perplexity this morning and she told me a few things, but I’d like to hear individuals Testimonies about it. How easy is it to put on with one hand. How successful is the app and right now I tried to create an account and it won’t let me do. It is the service down or something?
@cachondo Thank you for that. I won’t invest anymore in it. I’ll get rid of the app right now. No wonder I couldn’t set up an account so I’m ready for Sunday. What is out there that you recommend that is easy to do with one hand. I liked it because perplexity said it had a magnet kind of closure and that was easy for me to do. I can’t easily do a Velcro one anybody have anything that you recommend that’s easy to use with an app in sync with Apple health.
we've replaced with a Braun, but it's a 2 part system (cuff attaches to the battery powered machine. It's also velcro unfortunately.
We were going to look at Omron next - those are on-arm, I believe, but I've not seen one to verify. The Braun app is ... usable, if not 100% accessible. it doesn't sync with native health apps but does allow data to be exported.
Order cancelled. They claim "it got stuck in the system" for two weeks. But given that there is No Human Involved to perform customer service, it was not resolved.
"Your refund can take up to 10 days" and "here is a gift card as a thank you".
[1]Turns out all the customer service is subcontracted to a company that use sparkling-auto-complete instead of humans. "The complement to your " MAGA operated "store".
In the current world, yes. Because you are giving them market share in the browser realm apparently. Just like using Brave is supporting Brendan Eich's past opinions.
I dunno, it might sound silly, but I imagine there's a line for everyone. Would you keep using software if you found out it's developed by an ardent neo-Nazi?
it's not like there's 5 guys on the planet with awful opinions and we have to cancel them to save humanity from doom.
A lot of awful people keep their mouths shut but they're racist, homophobic, transphobic, neo-Nazis, etc. I guarantee some have contributed to the Linux kernel. Many have been employed by Microsoft. One of them probably helped develop your favorite game.
Now what?
People need to get a grip on reality. Awful people are everywhere. If we stopped using every invention and piece of technology created by a monstrous person we wouldn't have a lot of things.
The important question is: "Are you by extension of using the [software] funding them or helping them achieve their goals to be a horrible person?"
🤔This is kind of like when newspapers report that police officers are "quitting en masse." But then you read the article and for them "quitting" just means "I will not report to duty. I will still collect a paycheck and earn a pension."
He's moving from CEO to Executive Chair of the Board. 🤷🏿♂️
He was both CEO and Executive Chair of the Board before too. He's just dropping the CEO part. 🤷🏿♂️
No judgment either way, but this isn't a board leadership change.
Do what makes you happy. Seriously! If you enjoy shopping at Target, I love that for you. Seriously. It's your wallet.
Demain, je passe l'après-midi à #Strasbourg entre deux trains. Je ne connais pas du tout cette ville. Vous me recommandez quoi sachant que : - je peux marcher mais je ne veux pas m'éloigner trop de la gare - j'aime bien les musées scientifiques, techniques ou historiques, mais en général les musées artistiques ça m'ennuie - j'aime bien me balader dans des quartiers étonnants ou jolis.
Je prends les recommandations pour me nourrir le midi aussi (boulangerie ou petit restau pas cher).
I keep hearing about how Android is better than ever, it'll replace iOS for everyone soon. But I also keep hearing it bleeding through people's voice messages, slowing them down, and not typing as fast as me with Braille screen input.
My current workflows are all vast improvements over what they were when I started with the iPhone in 2010 and mostly unimaginable from the perspective of a Nokia before that time.
@cachondo Yeah, my friend's phone is really slow and certainly wouldn't encourage me down the Android route. But for all I know that could just be a phone specific thing. No idea. I might give IOS the occasional grumble, but at least, for the most part, it's consistent.
@cachondo Yup, can confirm that even on a Pixel 9 Pro, TalkBack might be slower, also depending on which settings (sound, TTS) you have, but less buggy, especially looking at IOS 18 if you ask me.
@jonathan859 I confess that for my very specific use cases iOS has just gotten better than ever. The BSI command mode is fabulous. I can use eloquence to hear books or play text adventures, read print from the camera, organise my diary, communicate by email or on social media where necessary, pay for things and buy train tickets or book taxis. I don't find the web a particularly fun experience, but I don't use a keyboard or anything as I'm so often close to a computer so those few instances are fine.
@cachondo And that's really fair, because for especially that reason I switched to Android. Way nicer and intuitive Zoom, I love directly installing APKs through things like Optainium, I prefer the design, and generally, Android is home somehow. But yes, I'll admit, Voice Over is faster, you have Eloquence, etc. Nevertheless, I got really annoyed of it at some point last year and waved bye bye. Not really missing it yet unless for very specific small cases.
@jonathan859 I don't know if it's because there's only so much you can do with a touchscreen, or the idea of a proper keyboard is just built in to my brain. But yeah, I've never seen it handled very gracefully.
I receive a "The connection to the server was lost. Please try again." error message when I try to open the mail and the site shows an "Network is unreachable".
So Github seems to have a bug where if you delete a repo and then transfer ownership of another repo to the same org/repo combination you just deleted, the transferred repo vanishes, never to be heard from again.
We have local backups of the code (thank God for git and its decentralized nature), and we didn't use any Github-specific functionality, so this isn't really a problem for us at all, but this is certainly a nasty one.
By Emily Alex and I were at WorldCon (the World Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention) last week, talking about The AI Con with people whose livelihood...
Whoops? I thought I'd told emails from Audible just to die. I only use them to buy gifts for other people. There were over 1,300 emails in a folder I'd accidentally diverted them to instead.
I can also recommend Ray Porter as an excellent scifi reader. And not just because he did project hail mary which everyone talks about. At least I personally have found great reads by looking for his reads
He's done the bobiverse series, and seemingly everything else by the same author. Roadkill by Dennis E taylor is a very fun read. Also the Joe ledger series is all by him.
The following is from the Audiogames Forum, but it's also from the Department of Redundancy Department. "I never encountered this problem with USB headphones. I used to use USB headphones and I never encountered this problem."
I know someone that speaks like that on WhatsApp groups very very slowly. Sends hugely long messages and I die a little inside each time. Each time I die a little inside.
@cachondo @FreakyFwoof I love that WhatsApp has the feature where I can speed up a message, but I also have a voice message hierarchy. If I don't know you very well, maybe a minute max. If I kind of know you and we talk on a somewhat regular basis, 2 to 3 minutes. If we're super close, you can ramble at me all you like, but I will speed you up so it sounds like you had five cups of coffee. I myself also do a text summary in another message if I've gotten rambly because that does happen sometimes and I understand that not everybody has the time or patience to listen to me rant for five minutes.
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