#NDP Leadership Race officials need to explain to Canadians who is verifying gender identity and how gender identity is being verified, etc.
Go ahead, I'll wait.
Getting the Most of Braille on Android - Accessible Android
Braille is important. Braille allows Deaf-Blind people to use their devices and read. Braille allows blind people to read silently or, for some, to betterDevin Prater (Accessible Android)
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just wow. read this, from Techdirt:
Wired, Business Insider Editors Duped By Completely Bogus ‘AI’ Using ‘Journalist’ Who Made Up Towns, People That Don’t Exist
techdirt.com/2025/09/02/wired-…
Here's Wired's mea culpa:
wired.com/story/how-wired-got-…
Techdirt's Karl Bode correctly concludes: "This country has taken an absolute hatchet to quality journalism, which in turn has done irreparable harm to any effort to reach reality-based consensus or have an informed electorate. The rushed integration of “AI,” usually by media owners who largely only see it as a way to cut corners and undermine labor, certainly isn’t helping. Add in the twisted financial incentives of an ad-based engagement infotainment economy, and you get exactly the sort of journalistic outcomes academics long predicted."
Wired, Business Insider Editors Duped By Completely Bogus ‘AI’ Using ‘Journalist’ Who Made Up Towns, People That Don’t Exist
The rushed integration of half-cooked automation into the already broken U.S. journalism industry simply isn’t going very well. There have been just countless examples where affluent media owners r…Techdirt
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..len tak ma to napadlo, ako dekorácia sa mi to páči
Greentext shitposts are a fad, again.
Stop that shit.
Shit happens! No one should be judged.
But, can one do better?
Maybe there could be a better user guiding for new registrations in #Matrix #Apps (#Element, #ElementX) to give a better choise for #Homeservers instead to lead people always to matrix.org.
@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org
#Chat #Messenger #Decentralisation
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Fiasco #SAAQclic : la version de l’ex-PDG Marsolais encore mise à mal
« L'ex-secrétaire général Yves Ouellet a contredit M. Marsolais, qui disait l'avoir avisé des dépassement. »
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2… #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #SAAQ #caqastrophe
Fiasco SAAQclic : la version de l’ex-PDG Marsolais encore mise à mal
« C'est clair qu'il ne m'a jamais parlé du 200 millions. Il ne m'a jamais parlé de dépassements de coûts. »Jean-François Thériault (Radio-Canada Info)
Is Matrix down?
YES
FYI the TFWP that the Harper government expanded to bring in more than 500,000 LOW-SKILLED workers btwn 2006 and 2014 to be exploited by employers in the restaurant and retail industries, in addition to the agriculture industry, etc.?
Remember the Harper government that Pierre Poilievre propped up for a decade?
Pierre Poilievre calls for TFWP to be scrapped: cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre… #cdnpoli #polcan
Va a sonar raro, ya lo sé, pero quisiera saber si a vosotros os interesan las reuniones, actividades, información que proviene de las instituciones de y para ciegos. Veo que tienen presencia en redes sociales, incluso en algunas tan visuales como tiktok y me pregunto si realmente personas ciegas les siguen y si consideran útil la información que difunden, incluso seguirles en redes.
La pregunta no va con segundas, es genuina curiosidad.
Today I went to a customer site.
Rocked up, no one about apart from a dog who came out to greet me.
Played with the dog for a few minutes.
Did what I was there to do and packed up.
The dog - Ziggy, according to the name tag - re-appeared with a tennis ball in his mouth.
So I played with Ziggy for a few more minutes.
Sadly, I then had to move on to my next appointment.
This was by far my favourite thing that happened today.
# Mixxx 2.5.3 Released!
## Back to School, back to DVS.
We're proud to announce a new stable release of Mixxx: version 2.5.3, this version not only contains updates and fixes for some issues reported by users, but it also contains improvements to the Digital Vinyl System (DVS) support. These improvements are the result of some bright new insights of developers spinning the wheel instead of sunbathing.
Have a nice Mixxx.
mixxx.org/news/2025-09-03-mixx…
Mixxx - Mixxx 2.5.3 Released
Download the most advanced FREE DJ software available, featuring iTunes integration, MIDI controller support, internet broadcasting, and integrated music library.Mixxx DJ Software
I keep reading that the “right way” to use AI for coding is to treat it like a team of junior developers.
Wow, every developer’s dream: writing less code, managing more people, and reviewing lots of poorly written code. And with the added bonus that the “junior devs” you are pouring all this time into, will never improve as a result of your efforts.
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I'm not anti-AI. I'm just pro-thinking.
What do I mean? I mean that everyone I know who is REALLY into AI uses it for reading EVERYTHING longer than 1000 words.
This is the mental equivalent of eating only smoothies, because they go down easier.
I say this with love: reading is thinking.
Stop letting slop think for you.
buttondown.com/access-ability/…
#webdesign #UIDesign #a11y
Pseudomotion, Motion Sensitivity, and Accessibility
Newton’s Cradle with one red ball hanging on a thread, retracted and about to bang into five silver balls also hanging by threads. Motion sensitivity is a...Access * Ability
If other jobs had the same hiring process as programming roles:
"For this sous chef role, we will only accept applicants familiar with modern cooking methods such as microwave ovens and freeze-dried Maggi powders".
As a nuclear engineer, I have never been asked to show my portfolio of reactor designs I maintain in my free time, I have never been asked to derive the six-factor formula, the quantization of angular momentum, Brehmsstrahlung, or to whiteboard gas centrifuge isotopic separation, water hammer, hydrogen detonation, or cross-section resonance integrals.
There's something deeply wrong with an industry that presumes you're a fraud unless repeatedly and performatively demonstrated otherwise and treats the hiring process as a demented form of 80s-era fraternity hazing.
HTTP Upload on conversations.im is temporarily unavailable. Our hosting provider is working on resolving the issue.
In the meantime you should be able to get half decent results - at least in 1:1 chats - by long pressing the failed file transfer and selecting 'Retry as P2P'.
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The Jury has spoken 👉 Meta stole Flo app users' intimate menstrual data. 🩸
Yep, Meta wants it all - even your most intimate data.
Find out why here: tuta.com/blog/meta-guilty-flo-…
#FloApp #FlowMenstrualApp #Meta
Flo app controversy: Jury rules Meta stole your menstrual data. | Tuta
Millions of women entrusted their menstrual data in the period cycle app, Flo. But the court says Meta was intentionally eavesdropping on users' in-app communications.Tuta
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@drathir , probably I will never understand the women who need to lead such notes. I mean any notes for their m cycle. Because it is natural, intuitive, even easy. In 95% and even more the lady can feel and trust her body. It’s not like flush.. it takes time with regular and very precise warnings.
Pity that so many people can’t read or sense these body signals. Because they happen a day or even several days before.
Poll: How many screens do you work with? 🖥️
Vote + Boost 🔁 = ❤️
(Feel free to reply with how this setup helps you 👇)
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- 🧍 Just 1 screen (0 votes)
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It’s interesting that `git exclude` seems to be a relatively unknown feature.
(Then again, there is so much to git.)
It is so handy for personal and temporary files.
I use it for justfiles in other people’s projects, for example.
I also use it for a personal Django management command where I can run random code from.
Since my git blame config breaks if I don’t have `.git-blame-ignore-revs` in a repo, I also make that file if needed.
Check out git exclude if you haven’t yet!
#git
Today is exactly twelve years ago since we created the lib/http2.c source file in the #curl source tree, and doing HTTP would never be the same again.
The paradigm shift going from one transfer per connection to possibly multiple transfers per connection was massive and took many years until most of the bugs were ironed out.
@schnedan Several assumption in code modelling needed to change.
Every request is still tied to a socket, a socket is now shared by many request.
And if you process reqest 1 and read from its socket, you may get data for request 2. etc.
@icing well, if the spec is complete and unambiguous, it should be possible to describe the problem with a state machine? Then it should be possible to implement and verify it, or?
"And if you process reqest 1 and read from its socket, you may get data for request 2. etc."
these chucks of data are not tagged somehow?
Sorry, my mindset was shaped by doing Code for an ASIC (with an own communication protocol) --> and we knew: It has to work 99,99% bugfree with the first tape out. But it needs a lot of Testing and Verification to ensure that.
Guess make it perfect was not an option for you cause of the shipping delay.
AI slop attacks on the curl project - Daniel Stenberg
Keynote at the FrOSCon 2025 conference, August 16, in Bonn Germany by Daniel Stenberg.YouTube
This is a simple offline tool that converts Spotify's JSON streaming history into a clean, readable text file. It works entirely in your browser.
It all started when my "Discover Weekly" playlist on Spotify refreshed and all the great songs I liked were gone. Unfortunately i was on the trip, and music was playing in the background, so i forgot to add those songs to the library. I checked the listening history in the app, but that only shows the last 50 tracks.
Then I discovered that you can request your full listening data from Spotify, so I did it and received a ZIP with large JSON files.
Files were technically readable, but not convenient at all, so I wrote a small HTML + JavaScript tool that converts them into a clean text file with just the date, artist, and track title. It works offline in your browser and makes the Spotify history actually useful.
tdprograms.ovh/pfiles/SpotifyJ…
Sometimes it's the little things that really impress.
My phone case was falling apart, and the mother-inn-law picked me out a rather posh one to replace it.
Alex Sikora
in reply to Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 • • •bahaha. Now I'm imagining other code based nutrition labels.
"This app contains singletons"
The Penguin of Evil
in reply to Alex Sikora • • •This application uses programming languages known by the state of California to cause buffer overruns.
And seriously - this would be a really good thing to implement