Today my fishmonger Fran in el mercado Salamanca, had some really wonderful clams - almejas de carril. Just the right size, not too big, not too small.
I'm making a sofrito. Just with an onion and two tomatoes, finely chopped, and some salt.
The trick is to let the onions cook slowly. In Spanish, this is called ‘pochar’ - to poach in oil. It gives the onions a complexity of flavour, and then once they’re translucent, in go the finely chopped vine tomatoes (I peeled these, because they’re delicious but the skin is a little tough) again, simmering slowly, to bring out that magical change that happens to slow cooked tomatoes. #cooking
One of the things I love most about a lot of Spanish #cooking is that, often, there aren’t a lot of ingredients. The object is to let the few that are there shine. Which is why we’re so picky about ingredients down here. Good olive oil, good tomatoes, good onions, good clams and a nice manzanilla to steam the clams in with some garlic.
The complexity of flavour tends, I think, to come from the method of cooking, rather than seasonings.
I've officially finished the email<=>XMPP gateway grant 🎉. Lot of stuff done. The gateway is working but there are still things to do, notably finishing the e2ee encryption which is complex.
I'll most probably blog about it (and the previous A/V one) next week.
Mastodon feels like the future the 1980s promised us. "Oh look, a post from my friend at hacker.space, and what a funny comment from some guy on gaysex.cloud, perhaps I should follow them, they seem witty."
It feels like you could turn a corner and wind up in a tearoom filled with furries discussing existentialism. Across the street are anarchists arguing loudly with socialists about how best to stick it to the capitalists.
Just down the way is a photographer who only takes pictures of bees.
Maternity pay in the UK is insultingly low. It's no wonder the birth rate is declining so much.
I don't know why this isn't more of a national scandal.
After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.
By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads. propublica.org/article/seattle…
Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.
OK, FWIW, I was never a big fan of how the Meta Ray-ben glasses looked. So, when it came to choosing between the gen 2 Ray-bens and Oakley, I decided to go for the latter. They look cooler and feel much better on my nose! :)
Overnight Russian attacks have left at least six dead and dozens wounded, hitting homes, power lines, and public facilities across multiple regions of Ukraine. kyivpost.com/post/61895
Crypto markets crashed after Trump threatened an extra 100% tariff on China, triggering $19.1B+ in liquidations, 10x+ the liquidations during the FTX crash
Trump’s 100% tariff warning on China ignited a global sell-off that wiped out $16 billion in leveraged crypto longs and pushed Ethena’s USDe to a rare sub-$1 print.
Suis-je la seule chez qui #tusky crashe au lancement ? C'est arrivé d'un coup, j'ai enlevé le cache, les données, redémarré mon tel... Mais rien n'y fait.
I go to download an iso from download.opensuse.org in order to test something, and it gives me a 302 and redirects me to mirror.tspu.ru. I presume it sent me to a mirror at random. I feel like this shouldn't happen--I am nowhere near Russia, and, of course, the download is taking forever.
> “There’s still the issue of data security. We’ve heard about problems in the past, and while the government says it’s made the new system safe, it’s still a concern for parents and for us. We just hope they’re working really hard on it,” Peyric said.
Zoom just continues to impress in the worst way with their desktop screen reader #accessibility. Here's the label for a button at the top of the calendar view on Windows. no, this is not copied speech. This is the actual label of an actual button. There is no ARIA on that button except for the label. Are you sitting down? Okay, here goes: "Select Calendar Date, Combo box, Today, Oct 8 collapsed, October 8, 2025". Again. That is the *label* of a button according to NVDA. I copied that text directly off the page. So, given that we've just been told this is a collapsed combo box, and Zoom considered this information so important that they put it in the label when they couldn't figure out how to use ARIA or semantic HTML correctly, which of the following statements do you think are true? A. If I press the arrow keys in focus mode, the date will adjust. B. If I press alt+down arrow, the combo box should open so I can pick a date without refreshing the page. C. None of the above. Yeah, it's C. This isn't a combo box at all. It's a button which pops up a standard calendar view. No combo boxes in there either, and the buttons use the words "Selected" or "Not selected" at the *end* of their labels, and the escape key won't close it. What kind of person calls something a combo box when it doesn't have one single bit of resemblance to a combo box? The same kind of person that can figure out how to put an ARIA label on a button but can't figure out how to use roles, states, and expanded properties, I suppose? Congratulations, Zoom. you make over a billion dollars per quarter and managed to hire a web accessibility guy who did everythin wrong and nothing right.
It’s Nobel Prize season again. News reports are coming out each day sharing the name of the illustrious winner of the various categories — Science, Literature, etc. But there’s one of the prizes that’s a little different. Well, that’s putting it lightly… you see, the Nobel Prize in Economics is not a real Nobel. It wasn’t created by Alfred Nobel. It’s not even called a “Nobel Prize,” no matter what the press reports say.
It's awarded by Sweden's central bank, foisted among the five real prizewinners, often to economists for the 1% -- and the surviving Nobel family is strongly against it.
Every day, I write down ten things in life I am grateful for. It’s a good practice that keeps things in perspective. I wanted to share one of those things today. While I fund the CaneAndAble.social instance and am pleased to make that contribution to the independent social media I believe in, I don’t play much part at all in moderating. That often time-consuming, often thankless task is handled by @lynessence. Had she not agreed to do it, I probably wouldn’t have accepted public sign-ups. Doing moderation well takes grace, skill and patience, and lately, elements who would destroy the community blind people have built on this platform across multiple instances have tested those qualities. So, thank you, Lynette. You’re a star. You’ve ensure that our users here on CaneAndAble.social are supported and as safe as possible. And you do all these things as a volunteer.
Les conseils départementaux de l'accès au droit (CDAD) sont des groupements d'intérêt public qui définissent et mettent en œuvre la politique publique de l'accès au droit dans leur département respectif.
Well, time for another #fedidreams! Last night I dreamed that I'd gotten Nintendo's latest console attachment: a jockstrap. Then I played the latest best-seller game, called "kick ball". The jockstrap attachment would sense your leg movements, to detect when you had kicked a player in the balls. Then it would squeeze the players balls based on the strength of the kick. The rules to kick balls were: two players join, standing across from each other. Then they kick one another in the balls until someone surrenders. After I won several games, I discovered that Nintendo had a public leaderboard of players who won the largest number of kick balls games. But they captioned it "Ladies, avoid these guys. They're stupid and their dicks won't work." I think I woke up from sheer embarrassment at that point.
I'm Tuta through and through now. I'm done with intrusive tech companies harvesting my data. Tuta is less than a cup of coffee a month and you know you're in safe hands. Happy to send a coffee Tuta's way for the peace of mind they give me ☕
Favorable decision by the Austrian DSB: Microsoft Education 365 may not track school kids and Microsoft is ordered to provide full access to kids' data.
I'm beginning to suspect that a key skill in working effectively with coding agents is developing an intuition for when you don't need to closely review every line of code they produce. This feels deeply uncomfortable!
I am begging companies to test out their interview questions, especially the coding tests, on their own senior people as calibration, before using them as a gauge for hiring new folks. An awful lot of them are functionally just random-number generators.
By now you know that Microsoft is now defaulting to saving new Word documents directly to OneDrive. I guess Excel will be the next inline. The cynical take is that this is incredibly convenient for them, especially if they plan on using that data to train future LLMs. Imagine paying for software only to have your data automatically funneled into their cloud. Plus, what happens when you're offline and need those files? Just use the LibreOffice and just say no to all Microsoft products.
Gosh. Kinda amazing how many things can't understand SI units. The OpenSearch API reports index size as "mb". I'm pretty sure they don't mean millibit.
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in reply to Madeleine Morris • • •I'm making a sofrito. Just with an onion and two tomatoes, finely chopped, and some salt.
The trick is to let the onions cook slowly. In Spanish, this is called ‘pochar’ - to poach in oil. It gives the onions a complexity of flavour, and then once they’re translucent, in go the finely chopped vine tomatoes (I peeled these, because they’re delicious but the skin is a little tough) again, simmering slowly, to bring out that magical change that happens to slow cooked tomatoes. #cooking
Madeleine Morris
in reply to Madeleine Morris • • •One of the things I love most about a lot of Spanish #cooking is that, often, there aren’t a lot of ingredients. The object is to let the few that are there shine. Which is why we’re so picky about ingredients down here. Good olive oil, good tomatoes, good onions, good clams and a nice manzanilla to steam the clams in with some garlic.
The complexity of flavour tends, I think, to come from the method of cooking, rather than seasonings.