I pay too much for healthcare and am always looking for a cheaper way to buy my ongoing prescriptions, so earlier this year I signed up for Mark Cuban's Rx company that sells things at cost plus 15%. It's been great so far, cheaper than anything else and the shipments are fast.
I'd like to have a #Chrome extension that would automatically accept all #cookies, because I'm super tired of those banners, and some of them are even not accessible for screen reader users. What do you folks use for that? #Help
I am totally blind. But I am not sure what you mean about inaccessible banners. I've never seen anything related to cookies that was inaccessible. These things are just annoying!
@dandylover1 It's when you press Accept All, and the banner either doesn't go away because devs are idiots and the keyboard doesn't press the button, or it does go away, but only visually, because again, devs are idiots and instead of hiding it they make it 1 by 1 pixel, so it's sort of hidden, but still can be seen by us.
А главное что это всё настолько бессмысленно, оповещения и прочее. Кто хочет собирает какие пожелает данные и продаёт их, без всяких там. Вспомнился один чувак из твиттера - отправил ему ссылку на новость чтобы самому не заниматься пересказыванием. Отказался смотреть, потому что оно запрашивает разрешение на хранение кукис или что-то вроде. Я даже не знаю какой это уровень паранои.
Sometimes, I say things that go over people’s heads. It’s a penalty I pay for being a partially nonverbal cog sci buff. Or rather, I’m still coming out of my nonverbal stance. Anyway, so then I try to simplify what I’m trying to say. But I’m just seen as arrogant instead, because I say the wrong thing. And then I get judged for saying the wrong thing. So, I’m done with group convos with some people for awhile. Today is the last day of a three-month break I’ve taken from the virtual. And you know what? Everyone I talk to since then? I make sense to them. I’m not scaring anyone. I’m not overwhelming anyone with data. I’m not coming off as arrogant. And that’s when I realized, I really am too much for some people. At least, for now. And I’ve learned to be okay with that. If me trying to practice my verbal skills is triggering figurative you, then we don’t need to talk. Because, I’m not here to scare a dang soul on this planet.
@tardis Well, different people will receive the same message differently based on their knowledge and experiences. So, I’m working on tailoring my communication style to people who think differently than I’m used to. That’s my area of opportunity.
If it's a self change, for you, and makes it easier for you, go for it. I think your style is fine, I mean, I don't see you expressing yourself any different right now, than any other average human. But then I haven't interacted much with people lately. Antisocial much. LOL.
What I wanted to say was, that the way we express ourselves is just as important as the difference in thinking of each individual. The best we can do is keep an open mind and try to understand. But change is for ourselves, not for others. If we want to change the way we express ourselves, that's absolutely valid, but I do not see changing one's self to suit different people as a thing, particularly, because I think it does a bit of self harm to our own selves. All we can be is our authentic selves, no matter what people thin. There are people who understand our ways of expression, and will not want us to change to make it easier for others. That, however, doesn't mean we have to not try and understand where others are coming from with the way they express themselves.
One of the new skills required to get the most out of AI-assisted coding tools - Claude Code, Codex CLI, etc - is designing agentic loops: carefully selecting tools to run in a loop to achieve a specified goal. Do this well and you can solve many coding problems with brute force
Here's my expanded explanation of what it means to design an agentic loop, how to do it safely (while running in YOLO mode!) and kinds of interesting problems this approach can be used to tackle simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/30/…
Coding agents like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex CLI represent a genuine step change in how useful LLMs can be for producing working code. These agents can now directly …
One scenario where I used this is third-party API integration. You need web search (for API docs) and a tightly-scoped credential (read-only was good enough for us) to do this well. I didn't even need yolo mode, unrestricted curl access was good enough.
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When Russia implements mass surveillance, we shake our heads and call Russia a dictator ruled country. When EU wants to do the same, it is "for the children" and it is expected that everyone nods their heads in approval.
This is so spot-on!
I'm happy they have received over 55.000 votes so far. 50.000 votes from citizens who can vote in Danish parliament elections are needed to get this proposal processed in the Danish parliament.
Now I just hope those 55.000+ votes so far are 100% valid votes. And I hope this proposal will double in the days to come.
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“Given the press and popular support of using a specialized font as a remedy for dyslexia, it is critical to highlight that results from this study failed to identify any positive effect for using it. Currently, there is no documentation to support a specialized font is an evidence-based practice.”
Unfortunately, it looks like dyslexia-friendly fonts (Open Dyslexic, Dyslexie) don’t actually work.
A single-subject alternating treatment design was used to investigate the extent to which a specialized dyslexia font, OpenDyslexic, impacted reading rate or accuracy compared to two commonly used fonts when used with elementary students identified .
I know, it's been a lot the last two days, so I'm going to summarize some principles on why the "don't trust the organization" screaming bothers me:
Good orgs are _groups of people._ By casting doubt on the organization you're doubting the people in the community around you.
Good communities are built on trust. If you don't trust the people around you, you cannot be relied on by those same people. It takes a lot of effort to reintegrate into a healthy community if they're used to no trust organization.
That work is important, but it cannot come at the cost of reducing overall trust in the community. You cannot let a distrustful troll cause damage and expect to keep a high trust community.
This is the tension at the heart of community management and why folks who do a lot of it have very different ways of talking about bad actors than average.
Also, all of this should be culture. Community managers are people too, and communities should outlive their current people.
Really, just taking advantage of the fact that I am no longer formally affiliated with _any_ Python Code of Conduct enforcement to talk about the actual reality of being a Code of Conduct enforcer.
More importantly: The formal reprimand stuff? That sucks so much. No one likes doing it. It's worse because the number of cases that come back after needing a suspension are so few.
I’m going to just step in as someone who has run multiple communities (including multiple Python user groups), and use modified CC for every community I’m in charge of.
Siímvás, v neděli 5.10. budu v Karlových Varech cca od 10 ráno, tak kdybyste chtěli skočit na pivo, kafe, steak (prosím ne cizrnu, veganský oběd a tak) a měli jste pocit že zrovna Cynik je ta společnost, co by vám vyhovovala, dejte mi vědět 😇 Rád vás poznám osobně
A great researcher I work with @carlysagan is looking for research funding or a remote position! It is really depressing how little funding is available to research the effects of satellite reentries... we REALLY need to get more scientists on this, because 1-5 Starlinks per day are reentering now and we don't actually know what that's going to do to the atmosphere... ugh.
Are people really being hired through Mastodon posts? I feel embarrassed to put my CV on here but I see a lot of people doing it and my workplaces and funds are illegally removing the only women and would appreciate any help finding remote work in ST…
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So, this has nothing to do with residential school, but It just came back to me. My dad has recounted to me many times this very odd story of his school when he was a child. He lived in a small French community in Manitoba. Every 6 months or so, an English representative from the government would come to survey how things were goin in the small school. My dad was tasked with hiding all of the French books and they were to make sure not to speak French during the visit. Now I have to call him and actually listen more closely as to why this was happening. Was it illegal to learn French back then in Manitoba? I mean, i wouldn't think so, but, guess I'll have to ask.
Really wish I didn't have to say what I’m about to say, but here goes. I am having serious doubts on whether hosting my own Fedi instance with #GoToSocial was really such a great idea. My instance still feels more like a deserted island in the middle of nowhere rather than part of a huge decentralized network with lots of activity. My timeline seems incomplete compared to what I was getting when my account was on a larger Mastodon instance, although I’m actually following more accounts on here. Or so I thought, because actually, something seems to be very seriously wrong on my end when it comes to following accounts. Yes, I uploaded my following_accounts.csv file to this server, and yes, it did then start following these accounts as expected. Here's the weird thing though, if I look at the accounts that I’m following, a lot of them will have a status of „Follow request sent“. To be clear, these are unprotected, public accounts that anyone can follow, except me apparently. It's also not like this issue only shows up with one other instance or 2, it's a whole bunch of accounts across various different instances where this is going on. I can then retract the bogus follow request and then follow the account again, at which point it’ll correctly show that I’m following the account. As soon as I refresh or close and reopen that profile, however, I’m again seeing a pending follow request… Also, pulling up account profiles only seems to work 25% of the time. Searching for a user like „someone@example.com“ will show the account, but without any profile info, as well as post and follower / following counts as 0. Opening the profile often results in nothing showing up for a few minutes, until the profile and posts eventually start to populate. I am also not finding anything in the GTS logs that would indicate issues with the config, no unexpected HTTP status codes, nothing which to me would indicate that there might be some issue in my config or network. I've been running hypebot and FediFetcher for several days at this point, but haven't really notized any significant improvements. So am I just being impatient / spoiled by the large Mastodon server I was on before, or am I right to be concerned?
"All of the Arab countries are signed up. The Muslim countries are all signed up. Israel is all signed up. We're just waiting for Hamas. And Hamas is either going to be doing it or not. And if it's not, it's going to be a very sad end."
Beginning very soon, you'll need to have Deno (or another supported JavaScript runtime) installed to keep YouTube downloads working as normal. Why? Up until now, yt-dlp has been able to use its bui...
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Airlines successfully lobbied Trump, so now USDOT will not only ignore rule, it will write a new rule that will almost definitely be punitive toward disabled passengers.
The widget stopps working after spending some hours in airplane mode. It then shows as blank with a loading icon, which persists until an internet connection is restored. It would be helpful if it keeps showing the events.
Reminder that #USB is, and always was, a bad design; as usual for Intel. We had #Firewire, a true bus, and not the worst option of many, polling, like USB. We could have had everything USB-C offers now -- reversible plugs, power-negotiation, multi-protocol -- with Firewire decades ago if USB hadn't taken over. Firewire even had Ethernet-over-Firewire, at 400MBps, fifteen years before Thunderbolt would do the same.
Firewire didn't need a different plug for the computer-side and for the device-side (USB-A & USB-B) because it was a true bus. You could hook any two devices together via a normal Firewire cable and you'd get instant two-way communication. This is how the PS2 did link-play. USB pushed the workload on to the computer. USB-C solves the "who is the host and who is the client?" problem by putting a tiny *computer* into the cable, that's how insane USB has become.
Firewire has been gone so long now that most #Apple #Mac users probably don't even know that you could plug a Mac into another computer via Firewire, power it on holding T and the internal disk drive would appear *as an external HDD* to the other computer.
Ed Zitron keeps choosing violence for breakfast: "Every CEO talking about AI replacing workers is an example of the real problem: that most companies are run by people who don’t understand or experience the problems they’re solving, don’t do any real work, don’t face any real problems, and thus can never be trusted to solve them."The Case Against Generative AI. A thread full of bangers 👇 🧵 wheresyoured.at/the-case-again…
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Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 words.
My blog has a very basic comment system that uses Mastodon/ActivityPub. It's a bit cumbersome, but I never liked the alternatives like Disqus, because I always feared they would add enshittification at some point. Seems my gut feeling a few years ago was right. ryansouthgate.com/goodbye-disq…
Přišlo mi ochranné sklo od dbrandu. Originální fólie, co instalují přímo v Samsungu, už byla dost jetá a navíc jsem ji poškrábal mikroutěrkou při čištění a už se to nesrovnalo. To jsem myslel, že ani není možné, ale asi tomu trochu pomohla IPA. Co se týče samotné ochrany tak si na ní stěžovat nemůžu. Displej mi vždy přežil.
Nicméně .. "idiot proof installation" skla od dbrandu dostálo svého jména a zatím dobrý. Žádný prach, žádné bublinky, sklo přesně vycentrované.
Na kolik to vyjde? Já už to raději nosím do Datartu, kde na to mají mašinu. Je to drahé, ale já tohle neumím. Když jsem to dělal sám, vždycky jsem to měl nakřivo nebo s bublinami.
@Tutanota Please update the Linux flatpak! It uses EOL freedesktop libraries 23.08. BTW the flatpak is not verified too... I know there is an appimage as well, but appimage is horrible security wise. Thanks.
Is there any timeline available? Flatpak still uses EOL library which does not get any security updates anymore.
Honestly, as a long time customer I get more and more the feeling that over time Tuta invests more and more efforts in TAKING about security and less in actually DOING security.
What's the benefit of post-quantum encryption when Tuta is not capable of deploying patches for EOL libraries they consume?
I'm currently not that happy with Tutas software quality. :(
@Tutanota a few weeks ago I tried creating and paying for tuta, but maybe there is an unofficial ban on encrypted emails here in India I tried two credit cards and neither worked. Proton was the same but PayPal worked there but PayPal didn't work for me in tuta. Such a bummer. Have you heard of payments issues from India ?
Dear lazyweb, I'm continuously pulling my hair trying to escape Microsoft's firm grip on the Czech educational system by making my son use Libreoffice Writer instead of Word, but running into a format translation issue where citations ('www document' kind) lose the URL as they switch to 'article' and the inserted 'short name' is replaced by 'title'. Any tips? Even came down to trying Office 365, but their importers are way worse than LO exporters.
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