Proposal: Let's revive "centigrade" rather than "Celsius" as the English term for the 100-degree temperature scale that most of the world uses. "Centigrade" is descriptive, as opposed to just enshrining some random surname.
I imagine one of the reasons for the change was that the "centi-" prefix is commonly used to modify other units (most commonly centimetres). You've then got the question of whether "grade" is a unit.
Also, dividing something by a power of 10 is not that uncommon in countries using the metric system. Also, Fahrenheit is also defined by dividing a chosen temperature range into 100 parts, so it's not even unique to temperature units.
Modern Microsoft Windows: the 64 bit enshitification of 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
One week with the iPhone Air. Setup, hand feel, thinness, drops, battery, VoiceOver, and all the ways it works (and doesn’t) when you actually live with it.
Since 2007, Apple has produced a vast number of iPhone models that constantly push the boundaries in technology and innovation. They have truly staked their
@drew yeah the 17 is physically smaller width/length than the air, I just wasn't sure if the 11's bezels were big enough to make up for the screen size difference.
Okay, love your post as always. I should get this thing. My muscles are weak, like, for real, it'll change life a lot, because even the 13pro, that's not that heavier is heavy for me. I held an air in a store, and I thought I was going to accidentally make it fly. Saw the flip and fold, and these are so fragile, cute, but fragile and nowhere near what I would want from a phone. Flip phones were cool, in the past, but that's my personal opinion. A flip with an outside screen, or even a fold with an outside screen? And I put those on the table, or bang it against something? Nah. But damn do I want an air. I wondered if anyone would touch on how blind folks hold their phone, and finally, we don't have to hold it backwards because, bottom speaker is louder and we hear it better, or maybe it's just me. I would just hold an air as if I am talking on the phone and use it that way, seems a bit more normal in public, in my opinion. I don't, can't hear the stereo field on a phone unless it's the first time. Not wide and stage not open enough for stereo to really shine. Again, it's my opinion and my degrading hearing. Thanks for the post!
Also, the 4 years with my phone and I have dropped it, a lot. It's a nicely made phone, no visible scratches even after that much time of use. Would love to see the air being something similar if I invest into it, with a case of course, because, clumzy me.
There are pretty light cases, especially some cheaper ones. Not buying apple, but that glass back, needs some protection. I would get the bumper, yeah. Did you try out the strap?
Oh? How is that supposed to be used? And also, damn is it expensive!I think it'll be quite cool for my use case. Finally be able to just carry my phone around. Now, if a wallet or bag-like case existed for this phone compatible with that strap, I am sold on it. I should look at phone pouches, it takes an hour and a half to find it in a purse. :D
,You don't know how many time I spent looking for my phone. General forgetfulness is normal, but damned be mental health when it whispers to you after 5 minutes of blankly stairing, hey, it is there, stop stairing around...
Friday. Still no baby. The painter's on her last day today. The shelves and TV brackets are all going back up tomorrow, ready for the new carpet on Tuesday. Got the first of the new sofas moved up to the day after the carpet, which is quite handy. Baby really should be out by then!
Did I miss some blindy drama? I'm hearing people are locking their accounts.
@Lynn I'm really hoping that when he makes an appearance he sleeps for a week to be honest!
I don't quite understand by being followed by someone objectionable is so problematic. If one's profile is public anyway, what difference does it make?
I used to feel that way until I was harassed on Twitter by this person, years ago, and still endure fallout from his actions to this day. It isn't just about someone following you, in this case, it goes far beyond that. It's why I've protected my account here for a long while now, and likely always will. Thankfully, this instance is extremely good at blocking these accounts, so I don't have to do it.
We have a very virulent troll singlehandedly ruining things for all of us. He follows people incessantly, or tries to, spouts hate if he gets in and imitates people to get other accounts, so watch out.
I think this needs to be repeated, since I tend to be quite negative about all of the 'AI' hype:
I am not opposed to machine learning. I used machine learning in my PhD and it was great. I built a system for predicting the next elements you'd want to fetch from disk or a remote server that didn't require knowledge of the algorithm that you were using for traversal and would learn patterns. This performed as well as a prefetcher that did have detailed knowledge of the algorithm that defined the access path. Modern branch predictors use neural networks. Machine learning is amazing if:
The problem is too hard to write a rule-based system for or the requirements change sufficiently quickly that it isn't worth writing such a thing and,
The value of a correct answer is much higher than the cost of an incorrect answer.
The second of these is really important. Most machine-learning systems will have errors (the exceptions are those where ML is really used for compression[1]). For prefetching, branch prediction, and so on, the cost of a wrong answer is very low, you just do a small amount of wasted work, but the benefit of a correct answer is huge: you don't sit idle for a long period. These are basically perfect use cases.
Similarly, face detection in a camera is great. If you can find faces and adjust the focal depth automatically to keep them in focus, you improve photos, and if you do it wrong then the person can tap on the bit of the photo they want to be in focus to adjust it, so even if you're right only 50% of the time, you're better than the baseline of right 0% of the time.
In some cases, you can bias the results. Maybe a false positive is very bad, but a false negative is fine. Spam filters (which have used machine learning for decades) fit here. Marking a real message as spam can be problematic because the recipient may miss something important, letting the occasional spam message through wastes a few seconds. Blocking a hundred spam messages a day is a huge productivity win. You can tune the probabilities to hit this kind of threshold. And you can't easily write a rule-based algorithm for spotting spam because spammers will adapt their behaviour.
Translating a menu is probably fine, the worst that can happen is that you get to eat something unexpected. Unless you have a specific food allergy, in which case you might die from a translation error.
And that's where I start to get really annoyed by a lot of the LLM hype. It's pushing machine-learning approaches into places where there are significant harms for sometimes giving the wrong answer. And it's doing so while trying to outsource the liability to the customers who are using these machines in ways in which they are advertised as working. It's great for translation! Unless a mistranslated word could kill a business deal or start a war. It's great for summarisation! Unless missing a key point could cost you a load of money. It's great for writing code! Unless a security vulnerability would cost you lost revenue or a copyright infringement lawsuit from having accidentally put something from the training set directly in your codebase in contravention of its license would kill your business. And so on. Lots of risks that are outsourced and liabilities that are passed directly to the user.
And that's ignoring all of the societal harms.
[1] My favourite of these is actually very old. The hyphenation algorithm in TeX trains short Markov chains on a corpus of words with ground truth for correct hyphenation. The result is a Markov chain that is correct on most words in the corpus and is much smaller than the corpus. The next step uses it to predict the correct breaking points in all of the words in the corpus and records the outliers. This gives you a generic algorithm that works across a load of languages and is guaranteed to be correct for all words in the training corpus and is mostly correct for others. English and American have completely different hyphenation rules for mostly the same set of words, and both end up with around 70 outliers that need to be in the special-case list in this approach. Writing a rule-based system for American is moderately easy, but for English is very hard. American breaks on syllable boundaries, which are fairly well defined, but English breaks on root words and some of those depend on which language we stole the word from.
The pattern-matching is making Google searches more useful for me.
But I am entirely against referring to any of this stuff as ‘artificial intelligence’. It actually is not even an ATTEMPT to solve the problem of artificial intelligence. It is only mistaken for an attempt to solve that problem.
I have a simple proof of this: artificial intelligence cannot possibly be reached by ‘language models’ of any kind. Why not? Because a human is nearly the same as a language-less ape.
Everything that people mistake for ‘AI hallucinations’ and so forth are easily understood if you simply view all the ‘AI’ not as ‘AI’ but as pattern processing algorithms.
True artificial intelligence would be an entirely different problem. The people doing the pattern processing are probably incapable of understanding the difference between the two problems, however.
Apes truly are language-less BTW. People sometimes object. But true language has infinitely recursive structure. No animal has language in this sense.
And human intelligence MUST be a variant of ape intelligence. Therefore must have language only as an adjunct facility, not as a foundational one.
I expect LLMs never to be any good at mathematics. They claim otherwise, but what they demonstrate is only that it can solve high school math tests, which isn’t the same thing.
@chemoelectric I would like to hear more about this connection between proprioception and math. (I have terrible proprioception, but math is easier than language for me.)
Most mathematics is really geometry. Even non-geometric stuff is usually solved by converting it to geometry. Whathisface proved Fermat’s last theorem by geometry.
@hosford42 @chemoelectric I'm not good at maths, I'm not good at thinking visual things like: a dice spread out as a plane. But when someone talks in metaphors I see the images in my head. 😅 I didn't know proprioception and math were linked. I would like to hear more about this!
I mean proprioception in the sense of navigation. Knowing left and right. That sort of thing. Which obviously fully healthy apes are very, very good at.
(I’m not so extremely healthy these days, but that’s partly because I am old now. If I turn rapidly, I’ll likely fall down. :) )
People may be better at mathematics than they realize. Teachers are very, very, VERY bad at teaching it.
> People may be better at mathematics than they realize. Teachers are very, very, VERY bad at teaching it.
I second this. I cringe every time my girls, who are both *very* good at math, say they hate the subject. It has everything to do with the teachers. I think the education program for teachers misses something that must be vital for effectively teaching math, especially in a way that makes kids feel competent and enjoy the subject. At least, that's how it is here in the US.
@hosford42 @chemoelectric @marionline I've always struggled with math, as a blind guy it's really hard for me to visualize, and I don't think school prepared me very well. Just started a CS degree designed for people who don't have much coding experience, and we have to take Discrete Structures. It's definitely a challenge, and I'm not sure that I'll ever "like" math, but I'm just taking it one day at a time and will try to make the best of it.
@ZBennoui @chemoelectric @marionline I wonder if they used tactile "visualizations" if that would help. There is an awful lot of reliance on vision that isn't strictly necessary, simply because it's easy for the teacher and the people making the learning materials.
@ZBennoui @chemoelectric @marionline Even some play dough or clay that could be shaped by the teacher to represent what they're drawing on the board might be an improvement. Or they could draw on paper with Elmer's glue and let it dry. There are lots of options. This is just what comes to mind off the top of my head. I can't imagine the difficulty of trying to learn math without the primary mode of communication that math teachers use.
@hosford42 @chemoelectric @marionline Yeah you've definitely got the right idea, I went to a school for the blind here in Boston and that's exactly what they did. A lot of Braille, a lot of tactile graphics. The issue is many colleges simply don't have the tools to make the same accommodations, and you need teachers who are trained to work with blind students to get anything effective done without a ton of advocacy on the part of the student.
@ZBennoui @chemoelectric @marionline It's always a problem getting the real human beings to follow the accommodation plan, isn't it? I have the same experience with autism accommodations. Inevitably, you end up depending on someone who is ignorant and not interested in changing that about themselves, or someone who says it's too hard or too expensive.
@ZBennoui @chemoelectric @marionline Do they make tactile screens, to your knowledge? Something that forms raised or lowered areas to dynamically form images and text like a visual screen does? That seems like it would be a game changer.
@hosford42 @chemoelectric @marionline As it happens, that's something a few companies are looking into, however, they are extremely expensive. There was one device released last year, the Monarch, that's like $15,000. Essentially, it's a multiline Braille display that you can either connect to another device or use standalone. It runs Android, and is able to display not only Braille, but graphics as well if they're presented in the proper format. Out of reach for most though, and that situation isn't likely to change soon.
@ZBennoui @chemoelectric @marionline That is going to be awesome when it comes to market. And as with other accommodations, it will end up being helpful for other people, too. I imagine people who are tactile learners will do better with something like that. Or people who want to use a screen at night and aren't put off by a bit of a learning curve.
@hosford42 @chemoelectric @marionline Yeah, that would honestly be incredible and open so many doors. I just spent the last five or six hours trying to code a fairly simple Python program, and my brain is killing me lol. I'm not done either, I have one more to do.
@ZBennoui @chemoelectric @marionline I wonder... It might be possible to tailor a bespoke programming language for screen readers, too. It's an interesting challenge from a language design perspective.
Truth to tell, I can't imagine trying to write code while blind. I am massively impressed, and don't understand how you can manage it. I'm very uncertain that I could.
@zakalwe @chemoelectric @ZBennoui @marionline Yeah, I imagine trying to use a screen reader for it, based on my experience with them, and in my imagination I become instantly, profoundly frustrated. I would probably immediately start looking for other options. This is a real consideration for me, as my vision has gotten progressively worse with age and coding is my favorite activity.
@hosford42 @zakalwe @chemoelectric @marionline Yeah having used computers for like 15 or so years, both throughout school and undergrad, it's definitely second nature to me at this point, but it takes me much longer than a sighted person to accomplish a similar task. Case and point, I was in a lab a few weeks ago having to write some Python, and it took me like 30 minutes to write the same amount of code that everyone else wrote in five. No one really knew what to do with me, I was basically on my own lol.
@ZBennoui @zakalwe @chemoelectric @marionline There has to be a better way. I can't help but think that, anytime I hear a frustration like this. There has to be some other way to get information from the computer into your brain faster. Obviously, I don't mean a brain implant made by someone oh-so-trustworthy like Musk. But there has to be some kind of gadget that could improve that process. The tactile screen I described in another branch of this thread would be an option, if we only knew how to build one.
WHat the "anti-ai" people forget about is that humans also make mistakes, and each mistake has a price associated with it.
It's also worth remembering that some people would prefer cheap AI that sometimes makes mistakes over expensive but reliable humans, even in fields like law or healthcare.
The one thing AI is really bad at is being a scapegoat, and sometimes what you actually need is a scapegoat.
@preciousoso I've still never seen it, after years and years. There was a live performance of it not too far away earlier this year, which I would have seen had I not been away at the time.
Was ist denn heute mit #tutamail los, ich kann keine mails mehr versenden. Wenn ich im browser mein maiolccount öffne, du kannst in mom keine mails versenden, melde dich bei deinem admin
das schlimme ist, das ich wichtige mails verschicken wollte, aber bisher nicht konnte. Das finde ich gelinde gesagt, sehr beschi**en.
War bisher zufrieden mit euch, aber in den letzten monaten, bin ich nicht mehr so zufrieden. Hab auch an euren support eine mail geschickt, diese ist versendet worden ? Jedenfalls kam kein fehlermeldung.
So bin zuhause .... hab meine Account auf meinen PC aufgemacht, der über meinen Router - DLS läuft, kriege dieselbe Meldung wie auf meinen Tablet ...WARUM????
Ich kann nichts mehr in meinen Account machen, kalender ist eingeschränkt, kann es sein, das mein Account da irgendwie gedowngradet wurde ? Ohne mich da zu informieren oder sonstwas ?
Anyone using RPi Camera Viewer (apt.izzysoft.de/packages/ca.fr…)? Is it still working and useful? Its last release was made in 2019, and not even issues are replied to anymore since at least 2020 – so we wonder if we should remove the app from #IzzyOnDroid
Linux users when they need to remember a simple command in the terminal:
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"Back to work today, forgot my pass so locked bike outside Cannon Street station. Left work at 6pm to find just the cut lock and no bike, resigned to never seeing my trusty stead again asked the station if they have cameras. A guy appeared waving at me, asked me to put the code into my cut lock. He replied ‘I have your bike’ with a smile I will never forget!! His name is Abdul Muneeb and he works for South Eastern Railways, he was on a break and saw a guy bolt cut the lock and challenged him to give it back, he then took it inside and waited 4 hours after his shift finished to personally make sure I got my bike back. The world needs more Abdul’s, he is a legend of a man and a credit to his employer." Story Credit: Steve Farmer
In most ways I hate it, but as a disabled person who cannot carry a drivers license, having a form of ID other than a passport that companies are forced to accept would be nice. No Jane at the till in Tesco I don't carry my passport in my arse pocket.
@fireborn no what’s going on? Are they messing up our ID situation again? Also, I heard you’ve met Morgan. She tells me when she makes a friend that doesn’t run away from her.
@fireborn some countries give non permit to drive driving licences which would be easy to do in the UK. Just give the DVLA a bit more money. I'd probably still have a passport as well (I can't drive for disability reasons) but a a more portable thing would be useful.
ID cards like proposed wouldn't fix the claimed problem and I don't trust any governments right now
@NatalyaD I think we actually can get provisional driving licenses, but that requires the person you're talking to actually knowing what they're talking about. I could be wrong about this myself, as I've never tried, just heard that it is possible.
@simon how many systems that don't have __int128_t do you expect to perform such large transfers, though? Maybe it can just be progressive enhancement?
128-bit math is ... tricky. We implemented a 128-bit type for n-dimensional arrays to represent images in our #ImgLib2 library for image processing. So many gotchas in defining basic arithmetic operations; at some point in version history all our custom implementations were replaced by java's BigInteger's. github.com/imglib/imglib2/blob…
Our motivating use case? Integral images (summed-area table: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summed-a… ). But now the 128-bit type has found other uses too.
For reference, this is roughly where the aggregated data from the big LHC experiments expect to have around 2031-2032. The data management plan is not to put it in one big file though.
Hm. I could see a (very limited) practical use case for this from around 2040-2050 then, like "consolidate the 20 ZB of old data from 2030-2033 to cold storage to make room for new stuff on the active storage near computing".
And while a single curl command is not the most likely tool choice, it would be neat if it was viable.
@kytta primarily that #curl is C89 compliant so we can't rely on C99 types so we have our own, and we actually only have a signed version atm. Mostly out of laziness.
Hi @NVAccess I was just looking at the Alpha snapshots and noticed that the latest ones are downloading as 0 byte files. Another one several entries down showed a size of 18 mb and wouldn't run either. I just wanted to reach out to see if this is known. The last one that runs is: nvda_snapshot_alpha-52731,f294547a.exe. Current ones don't let me run them to try and get a log, as it shows the message "this app can't run on your PC." Thank you very much for your time and I look forward to any input you may have. Thanks!
Words cannot express my appreciation to @Tutanota for allowing me to come and say hi today. I know they're busy fighting the good fight and there was really nothing in it for them, but it was a real honor that they took time out of their schedules to show me around. I was able to put faces to names I've only seen in blog posts and signatures for years and got to know the crew a little. They seem like they've got a real great team doing real great things! Makes me proud to be a Tuta user :)
Pokud má být cílovkou někdo jiný než voliči demokratických stran, tak to má zásadní problémy. Například tvrzení, že „jsme schopni zastat se slabších a na úkor vlastního pohodlí dělat něco, co má větší smysl“. Jak tohle asi vezme někdo, kdo má dvě práce a stejně má potíže s nájmem? Není on ten slabší? Jak jsme se ho v posledních čtyřech letech zastali? Tyhle lidi to video opět gaslightuje, upírá jim nárok na legitimitu jejich problémů a dělá z nich hlupáky, kteří propadli dezinfu.
Every `cargo add` or `pip install` is a leap of faith that attackers exploit.
Supply chain attacks are escalating: from typosquatting campaigns to self-replicating worms like Shai-hulud (compromised 500 NPM packages) to the XZ Utils backdoor where an attacker spent 2+ years building their reputation.
But the ecosystem is working to make trust explicit and verifiable rather than assumed with cutting-edge defense, like Trusted Publishing.
Supply chain attacks exploit fundamental trust assumptions in modern software development, from typosquatting to compromised build pipelines, while new defensive tools are emerging to make these trust relationships explicit and verifiable.
So refreshing to see actual thought-through improvements that are well designed as opposed to the general garbage of asking for your ID and assuming that just because the publisher knows your legal identity (or that of the ID card you stole/faked) nothing can go wrong.
The Open Source community is so far ahead in security compared to big tech like Google. It's both amazing and absurd.
Great work, thank you for improving security in tangible and logical ways :)
@libreoffice@fosstodon.org I'm noticing that it seems to take disproportionately much longer to save an ODT document with tracked changes than one without. It's a difference between one or two seconds, or fifteen to twenty seconds of 100% utilization on one core.
Is this behavior (a) known, and (b) expected?
(I'm not completely certain that it's track-changes involved. It might also be a factor of having at some point been saved as .DOCX. I do not have a full history of all changes made to the relevant document.)
Hi! Without details (eg the LibreOffice version and operating system) it's hard to say. Please report to our QA community at bugs.documentfoundation.org with details about your setup, and someone will investigate 😊
Raději se ohlížíte za uštědřenou lekcí než za nedokončeným projektem. Nic vás nezastaví. Protože kdyby to bylo snadné, dokázal by to každý. http://hornbach.c...
Tyhle grafy a procenta. každý den nový výzkum, každý den jiná čísla.... Už jsem to přestal sledovat, přijde mi,že jde spíš o metodiku, než o tak velké změny. A taky jsem četl, že se radujeme z každého procenta, ale ať si to zkusíme převést na lidi. Zjistíme, že to není jedna vesnice, ale dost velké město, které by muselo změnit názor. #volby #volby2025
@gklein88 nah, just potential ram. :) The moment I load an ollama 7B or 14B model in, at least anywhere from 16 to 30 gigs of that can eat up in an instant. So i like to keep it maximized in case I need it later for something.
@ppatel lol I feel like for running 27B or above models on anything, Linux will probably be it because of that low ram usage. If the OS itself only uses less than 10% of your ram, you've got a lot to work with for tokenizing and the model. I eventually do plan to get an eGPU but for now Linux actually supports iGPUs better than Windows for Ollama, so it's my best bet for any iGPU acceleration to help even. On Windows you're stuck on crappy CPU-only inferencing, ugh.
@FreakyFwoof @ppatel yeah, I think on the iGPU the most I'll eek out is maybe the 20B with fairly decent tokens per sec, nowhere near 5080 territory but at least closer to Mac. I think for a 27B model you need closer to 32 GB Ram so I don't think it could run out of the 24 Unified I have here, should have grabbed 48 but it wasn't worth the $400 premium to me to jump SKUs. Ah well.
@FreakyFwoof I've finally decided on purchasing one of the Thinkpad P series of laptops that Lenovo is about to release in October. Depending on the model, they'll have either the NVIDIA H1000 or H2000 built in. I plan to duel boot that thing with Debian.
📣 Hovorí sa, že keď je somárovi dobre, ide sa na ľad šmýkat. Ako dobre sa majú Česi - možno vôbec najúspešnejší postkomunistický národ - ukazujú mnohé štati...
Very few things are more satisfying than slicing a whole ripe pineapple with a Chinese cleaver, then eating the cubes or slices in dark sticky soy sauce with birds’ eye chillies. Maybe some belacan.
The tastiest pineapple I ever had, and it was probably completely contextual, was at a rest stop while taking the bus to Zacatecas. There was a fruit stand and I got pineapple chunks with chamoy, chile, and lime. My GOD that was good. Bus dehydration, hunger, etc. - but it was incredible.
Lots of data and neat graphs here illustrating the global problem of #inequality and how it is distributed across the world. Puts into perspective quite a few often repeated myths. Have a look!
Work of the reknowned degrowth scholar Jason Hickel (who still has an inactive fedi account @jasonhickel )
Hey Somervillens! AWESOME opportunity to turn your paved-over driveway or yard into green space! Green & Open Somerville has teamed up with the Mystic River Watershed Association to depave a site and plant it with native species. Learn more: greenopensomerville.org/depave. Must be in the actual Mystic watershed; see map here: mysticriver.maps.arcgis.com/ap…
SD card is something that tends to get mangled up by everything. From screen reader voices doing this, to braille screen input saying I need to find a said card, it seems like SD card is just impossible for blindy tech to parse correctly.
I love how the public library is a space with power outlets and wifi where you are allowed to simply exist for a period of several hours without spending money
What Apple is trying to pull in the EU is as embarrassing for Cupertino as it is for the EU and the tech press that have credulously repeated Apple's talking points. The only good news is that the EU declined to unilaterally disarm:
Apple wants to launder the consequences of its own anticompetitive, anti-user choices through a credulous tech press. The goal is to frame regulators for Apple's own deeds, and it's rotten to the core.
Pay attention to who is actually calling for violence. Arizona Republican Fascist Representative John Kingman calls for WA Representative Jayapal’s hanging. azmirror.com/2025/09/25/john-g…
If you hate the idea of your job becoming about cleaning up horrendous "vibe coded" output, spare a thought for accessibility specialists. They've been doing that all along.
So I've just started my masters in CS. This is a program designed for people like myself who don't have much coding experience but want to learn more. Had a meeting with one of the TAs today and he pointed out that people who worry about AI replacing jobs are completely missing the point. Yes, AI will be used more and more in the future, but it may never be at a level where someone will simply be able to "vibe code" a solution without putting any actual work in. These models are really good at generating little snippets of code, but at this point in time, simply cannot operate autonomously without human intervention.
I just got an email from Guide Dogs for the blind where I have gotten my four Guide Dogs. They are following up on the announcement of the suit brought against Uber for its persistent ADA violations against those with disabilities, especially those with Guide Dogs. They urge all guide dog users to keep reporting ride refusals. They had a few helpful numbers I wanted to share along with the Department of justice website where you can register complaints. Here's what the last part of this email had to offer. Guide Dogs for the Blind remains steadfast in our support of everyone’s right to ride. We will continue to advocate as an organization and in concert with like-minded groups, and we encourage you to continue doing so as individuals.
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“A new report from Senate Democrats claims members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team have access to the Social Security Numbers of all Americans in a cloud server lacking verified security measures, despite an internal assessment of potential “catastrophic” risk. The report, released by Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), cites numerous disclosures from whistleblowers, including one who said a worst-case scenario could involve having to re-issue SSNs to everyone in the country.
As outlined in the report, DOGE staffers moved a live copy of Americans’ personal information to a cloud server despite an internal risk assessment done by the Social Security Administration (SSA) that determined the impact could be “catastrophic” without the proper safeguards. The report notes that this information is considered “production data,” potentially allowing DOGE to “directly manipulate” it.”
A new report from Senate Democrats reveals that Elon Musk’s DOGE has moved sensitive information, including Social Security numbers, to a cloud server without verified security measures.
"An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an ‘Escalator Temporarily Out Of Ordersign,’ just ‘Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience." Mitch Hedburg #UN #escalatorgate #TripleSabotage youtube.com/shorts/tqOkWWV6a_U…
Just want to thank those who took the time to tell me happy birthday and not by AI predicted text. The calls and texts made my day. Also thank you to those who sent physical and virtual gifts. They are appreciated. Today was a wonderful day.
Lmao I was literally getting ready to Google it. You should make it a real thing and try marketing it, would probably get sales through the roof. The name is epic.
I just did and found various references to things such as cocoa cake, coo coo cake, a sweet dish from Trinidad, and someone baking in Europe or something? Safe to say your idea is pretty original lol.
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in reply to Matt Campbell • • •James Henstridge
in reply to Matt Campbell • • •I imagine one of the reasons for the change was that the "centi-" prefix is commonly used to modify other units (most commonly centimetres). You've then got the question of whether "grade" is a unit.
Also, dividing something by a power of 10 is not that uncommon in countries using the metric system. Also, Fahrenheit is also defined by dividing a chosen temperature range into 100 parts, so it's not even unique to temperature units.