Does anyone have experiencing renting a cold laser to treat their dog/cat? My dog has some pretty sever arthritis and the laser sessions at the vet seem to be helping, but they're bleeding my wallet dry. Vet recommended renting one for home use, but I don't know whether it's worth it, so looking for anyone that has experience with one.
25 years, one website: ISS in Real Time captures quarter-century on space station From the makers of Apollo in Real Time comes a site with 500 times more data. arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/…
Pretty wild that Unix and C didn't have getcwd until relatively recently (historically speaking -- it starts appearing in the 2.x BSD series and didn't make the POSIX.1 cut, finally landing in the 2001 rev).
As a result, there's a decade+ period where this is a perfectly reasonable way to get the current working directory path. This code is from the V7 tar implementation, but similar code appears in the shell.
Amusingly, the first documented reusable library version of getcwd that I can find appeared in 2.9BSD... in Fortran77 only.
How is the state of PDF #accessibility on macOS for #screenReader users? If I gave someone a PDF that was prepared in a fully #accessible way, what would they use to read it with #VoiceOver, and to what extent would the accessibility be retained?
Note that I'm specifically not interested in applications that strip out all of the text to essentially make a plain version. Those can be useful when you just need to read something and don't care how, but the degree to which accessible semantics like headings, tables, lists, etc. are kept at that point is usually zero.
I'm also not asking about applications that reinvent the accessibility for PDFs and ignore what's already there, as many browsers do.
If it's anything like iOS, I would say that the Safari browser does a good job at rendering the accessibility tagging, but no idea if that translates over to the Mac or anything. Yep, I became that guy that doesn't answer questions whatsoever but generates noise instead.
@twynn Does it though? Or does it give you the impression that it's doing a good job by completely discarding the author's work and constructing a new accessibility tree. I am legitimately interested in this distinction.
I am almost positive that it does keep the accessibility layer, as I looked at one with specific alt text and heading/list markup. I can double-check if you like, specifically against iOS and not Mac.
@twynn That would be very helpful, thank you. Asking because I'm pretty sure both Chrome and Firefox ignore all or most of the underlying accessibility a PDF might include.
Firefox on Windows does not strip out the accessibility tagging. Uh.. checked against Safari and iOS, and looks like there's an rendering issue now as some of the underlying text is skipped entirely. Used this as my test document: zoomcorp.com/media/documents/E…
@twynn Interesting. I just opened a PDF in Firefox that was exported from Word. And while it did keep things like headings, lists and tables, much of the text was spread across multiple lines where it should not've been, rendering the whole thing unreadable.
@twynn Importantly, the PDF is fully readable in Acrobat. So while there could be problems with the PDF that Word has generated, my aim is just to understand where gaps exist in the rendering. And it seems like there is a significant gap between Acrobat and Firefox even if much of the accessibility is retained.
Hmm. I know that NVDA and Acrobat has issues with line breaks, but did not know the opposite was true in Firefox, i.e., it added breaks where there were none: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue… #CC @jcsteh
Continuation of #7275 Steps to reproduce: Download this file and try to read it with NVDA in Adobe Reader Actual behavior: This is NVDA's speech output on the third line class Node: def __init__(se...
There's a thing that @nick and Bob couldn't talk about they've been teasing.
Now they can talk about it.
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I’ve used spicy auto-complete, as well as agents running in my IDE, in my CLI, or on GitHub’s server-side. I’ve been experimenting enough with LLM/AI-driven programming to have an opinion on it. And it kind of sucks.
Very very interesting point. I’ve been trying to get a long with how I feel about LLMs and programming and.. besides better autocomplete, yeah iyt’s stressful and boring.
A mundanely fantastical poll, contains friendly spider mention, no image!
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So, you have a house spider now. She’s completely not venomous to humans, has a friendly sort of fuzzy appearance with big glossy eyes, lives with murder in her soul so you’re no longer plagued by any pest smaller than a shrew… But she’s also about the size of a field mouse, has kind of questionable taste, and is definitely clever enough to operate a keyboard. Quiet trombone and polka music plays at strange hours of the day, and sometimes you find that there’s an image search for “sexy spider ladies” open on your computer. She’s also typed for you that her name is Sirpa, and that she’d appreciate if you left her webs on the ceiling alone. How’s this all treating you?
Anything she wants, the tiny queen! (19%, 5 votes)
As long as the music is quiet, it’s fine… (34%, 9 votes)
Enjoying the pest-free life, locking up the computer! (30%, 8 votes)
You’re thinking of a diplomatic way to get her to move? (11%, 3 votes)
It’s quite possible some sort of terrible accident is going to befall Sirpa... (3%, 1 vote)
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I chose "Enjoying the pest-free life, locking up the computer", but it's not quite this. I'd buy her a laptop of her own, that's it. If a being is sentient enough to handle a keyboard, as you said, why should I suffer by sharing my laptop with her, and (the most important!), why should she suffer by sharing her laptop with me? No way, she's getting a new laptop tomorrow! 😊 BTW, true story back from my times in Ukraine. There was a year cherkasy, my city, was literally invaded by a kind of absolutely awful small green insects (I googled, in English they are called black flies but they are actually green). Really tinny tiny creatures but bite as hell! they were everywhere, except our apartment. And I should mention, we never kill a spider that weaves their web in our house: not only because it's a bad omen according to Slavic superstitions, but because… why in the world should we kill a harmless being, just because? Anyway, the fall came, spiders went away for the winter, and we decided to vacuum the balcony and the ceilings. And guess what? Thousands and thousands of dead green insects were there, caught in the finely woven webs of our eight-legged friends. So absolutely, tell Sirpa she is more than welcome.
The sad truth is, computers have always been fascist technology.
IBM helped the Nazis organize and tally the Holocaust.
Early computers were used for weapon calculations, from artillery to missiles to nuclear weapons, etc.
The web was used at first as a way to disseminate information (CERN) but quickly mutated into the ungodly spawn of Edward Bernays public influence and Jeremy Bentham panopticon (Google, NSA).
It brings to mind the Soviet critique of US cybernetics.
Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote a little book about how every scientific advance in astrophysics gets used for war. A complementary book on computer science could also be written about the same type of thing...
The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military By Neil deGrasse Tyson & Avis Lang In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-r…
Somebody is annoying you or you're receiving unwanted messages? You can block a single entity with `li blocking block some_jid@example.org` or a whole domain with `li blocking block example.net`.
See who is already blocked with `li blocking list`, and remove an entity from the list with `li blocking unblock some_jid@example.org`.
The commands use XEP-0191, which must be supported by your server.
Mobile Linux: Why Its Time Hasn’t Come Yet (and Is Unlikely to Come Anytime Soon) My first acquaintance with Android took place in 2010. It was the HTC Wildfire X, and certainly, after the feature …
The NSF's terms were quite perverse – even ignoring the clear ethical fuckery they demanded.
"Promoting a diverse and international Python community" is written into our IRS-registered mission. Accepting the NSF's terms would have meant using funds in a fashion contrary to the mission that gives us a non-profit status in the US, and explaining that to the IRS in four years time would have been a heck of a time.
> Together with HHS, ensure the 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) reflect sound science and practical advice for the American family, including encouraging protein as the foundation for every meal.
Echoing Janus: DON'T SIT THIS ONE OUT, DON'T ASSUME ZOHRAN'S GOT IT IN THE BAG, GO OUT AND VOTE AND GET YOUR STICKER RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5bkxy…
The Python Software Foundation just had to pass on a US$1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation for PyPI maintenance. One condition of the funding was that the PSF drop any DEI efforts, and if this condition is violated, the NSF can claw back the money even if it's already been spent. That clawback is too risky, so the PSF had to pass on the funding. (This is pretty shameful: PyPI security is a broad benefit, but of course the administration prefers to grind its own ax here.)
If you develop #Python code or rely upon it for your business, it'd be great if your company could become a sponsor of the PSF, or if you could donate personally to the PSF.
The PSF applied for a $1.5M grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to make innovative improvements to packaging security—and we were recommended for funding! But as a condition of funding, we were asked to affirm that we wouldn’t undertake any diversity, equity, and inclusion work, whether or not we used the government funds to do so.
I would be glad to donate to the #Python project, but doing so requires me to divulge my name and contact information as per their 501(c)(3) charitable organisation status:
"Contact information is required for tax reporting purposes and will be shared only with the US government."
Considering the current status of the US government, I don't feel comfortable doing this. Are there some other ways to donate to Python project without getting the US government involved?
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Finally, we have an internet connection worthy of 2025. But the story behind it...
Our LTE connection was originally 50/10 Mbps, and the actual speeds remained the same even after increasing the speed to 100/20 Mbps. I spent a lot of time with O2 support, got a more expensive plan with unlimited speed, and a new, expensive 5G modem. But the actual speed was still 35/8 Mbps. I was losing hope.
Until today, when I discovered that in the Unifi Dream Machine settings, there was the Expected ISP Speed item with 50/10 Mbps values, which I had set there for the original speeds 3.5 years ago. All this time, I thought it was there to just set the scale of the chart, but it also works as an upper limit. 🤦♂️
@jwildeboer I would if I had contacts of the individuals I spent time with. On the other hand, they all started support calls with sales pitches "Before we get to your problem, can we offer you another phone plan? For kids, parents? No? How about our IPTV?..." I think we're even. 🙂
i had noooo idea that those settings actually affect the speed! ...now i'm tempted to set it to at least double what would be expected to ensure it'll never ever cap speeds.
@bastilian if you don't know your official/theoretical internet connection speeds, it's really better to set the values rather higher than lower. I really thought it was just for informative purposes. To set the right scale for speed test charts, to tell you what is your actual speed compared to the official.
I also disabled smart queues which they don't recommend for speeds above 300 Mbps, but I don't think it had any significant effect.
it always seems like pragmatic, well organized, and beautifully written and managed projects understand the DEI is important and not just some political buzzword.
I'm not really sure how to feel about this personally. Coming from a country with a lot of affirmative action, I've always seen it as incredibly harmful. You should always try and treat people equally, instead of putting on a racial lense when hiring and making those sorts of decisions.
I'm honestly a little disappointed to see the Python foundation go a different route.
The PSF's commendable action aside, it is interesting that the US government is implicitly saying that they *want to* surrender open source security safety, security, for attacks on DEI. That means they figure that less ethical organizations will fill the gap, or they dont really care about security, etc in the first place.
I always really enjoyed Python for many reasons. Now I have even more reasons. That is strong show of force of maturity in the world where lack of principles is regular. Will consider automated payment 🙂
When did large companies ever do the right thing - at anytime - for anything ? It is the responsibility of the individual to speak up before its too late to speak.
Một chút hương, một chút thương — gửi tặng cùng Hẻm Nhà Boo Có những điều điều nhỏ bé, nhưng đủ khiến ngày thường trở nên đặc biệt. Như một hộp quà thơm gói bảo vệ, kèm theo vài cánh hoa khô và tấm hoa nhỏ xinh. ✨
Cung mình — Hẻm Nhà Boo — tin rằng, món quà không chỉ là vật chất mà còn là cách để nói: “Cảm ơn”, “Mình nhớ bạn” hay đơn giản là “Chúc bạn một ngày thật thơm.”
"Đặt set quà sinh nhật gấp mà shop vẫn chuẩn bị rất nhanh, phối màu tinh tế, thiệp viết tay xịn. Bạn mình mở hộp là ‘wow’ ngay. Sẽ ủng hộ shop dài dài! Đặc
@PadraigOCinneide We should all donate to the foundation to show support of their spine. Make it so they ended up with MORE funding as a result of this decision than if they had taken it. Lots of small donations can add up to a lot quite fast based on my experience on Kickstarter of the years.
Jesus H. Christ! I logged onto Wise to see I had a balance of negative 1 grand. It was over charges I did not authorize, but the fact that they could let my balance go that low is just alarming. I filed a dispute. My money is protected. But I am just in awe. And not in a good way.
This one's personal for me. @sethmlarson and I went through months of intense, complex work to climb a steep and slippery learning curve, only to be stopped short at the very end by a hard ethical line we couldn't cross—it was gut-wrenching.
I'm proud of what we did and I'm proud of what we didn't do.
The PSF applied for a $1.5M grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to make innovative improvements to packaging security—and we were recommended for funding! But as a condition of funding, we were asked to affirm that we wouldn’t undertake any diversity, equity, and inclusion work, whether or not we used the government funds to do so.
I won't lie. I'm feeling a bit down today. Because the only contact it feels like I've gotten lately is just people trying to hit on me. That's not really what's happening. That's just what it feels like. I miss the days when I didn't have to worry about who's going to decide to treat me like a piece of meat next. The random calls have stopped. I'm just over the boundary setting. It feels like batting flies away. You swat one, and there's another trying to get into your hair. Hope everyone is having a good Monday.
I politely tell people like that I am busy. And I give them the most boring ways one could make a person bored out of their mind Or, in extreme cases, I don't bother with humans.
A student in my functional programming class is also in the poetry club. The other day, he was late to class because he was working on this:
O Caml! my Caml! our functional program is done, The variables are immutable, the functions take only one, The syntax is clear, its elegance revered, its rules designed so plainly, While follow eyes the consistent types, which ensures you program safely; But O heart! heart! heart! O in binary terms of terror, Where in the terminal my Caml claims, Failed: type error. O Caml! my Caml! rise up and fulfill your task; Rise up—a function recursively done—cleverly pattern matched, The final case a wildcard—this makes it all exhaustive, I’ve checked my list; it ends with nil, if it doesn’t than I’ve lost it; Here Caml! dear function! Born by your programmer! It is some dream that in the terminal, You’ve returned a type error. My Caml does not budge, the cursor cold and still, If the compiler could return remorse, its value would be [], It hath misled, the function name; I am not having fun, If I could somehow trace my types, the problem would be gone; Exult O professors, and resolve O piazza posts! In arrogance thought I be right, When all along Ocaml knew, My code was poorly typed.
Soon your data like your resumes and profile information will be used to train LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Co.'s artificial intelligence. And no, you didn’t opt-in. Take action and stop this now.
As it seems, you have to go back more than once, as I seem to remember to have it switched off, and today it was switched on again. I used to be an avid poster on LI but I was paying a lot, was swamped with ads on my FYP, and was only getting connection-requests by people wanting to sell me shit. I have yet to get anything off of LinkedIn, of which I am a patron since a decade (or more?)
question: If our account was deactivated "specifically stating the platforms aggressive AI push as the reason," will those account's data also be opted in?
Like others here I doubt it will not push it into AI anyway probably if your data is shared with anyone in your network that has AI eneabled (like someone that died or retired), then it will just steal your data true that profile. But anyway my linkdin is just public data. I do not post anything there that I do not want to end up on the internet. So I really don't care. I'd love to move that info to my own website, but sadly it is impossible to get any reach with my own website.
J'aide mon père (91 ans) à obtenir une carte mobilité inclusion (la carte « place handicapés »).
Après avoir rempli les trouzemille pages de dossier, identifié le bon interlocuteur et renvoyé le tout, on reçoit des mois plus tard un courrier physique demandant d'importer une photo d'identité sur un site Web, avec un identifiant de 16 chiffres et un mdp de 12 caractères alphanumériques.
La photo scannée doit faire moins de 2 Mo (l'aide préconise d'utilise Paint pour recadrer) et à la fin, la photo est affichée « non valide » sans spécifier pourquoi. J'ai rogné de quelques pixels et ça a été accepté 🤷♀️
Excusez-moi, c'est vraiment pas pour vous agacer, mais n'aurait-il pas été beaucoup plus simple d'amener votre papa pour le faire photographier à un photomaton ? J'ai téléversé une e-photo scannée et ça a passé sans aucun problème. Mais la paperasse… oui, c'est vraiment trop « commode » quand on est aveugle comme moi.
Libreitalia Conference 2025 was organized by Marco Marega – a LibreItalia and TDF Member – in Gradisca d’Isonzo, near the border with Slovenia, in Gorizia’s province. Gradisca is a very nice fortified city surrounded be beautiful parks.
пиздец как у меня пригорает по поводу этого ебаного буревестника.
на всех сука каналах о полете буревестника рассказывают как о свершившемся факте и даже чтобы ни у кого сомнений не возникло, дают под это картинку с запуском каких то ракет.
люди ебанулись. точнее ебанутые в медиа делают ебанину для всех остальных ебнувшихся людей.
в принципе там же и «60 000 убитых палестинцев» которых ни кто не видел и не считал но что мешает подложить рандомные картинки под заявления «минздрава хамас»
![A screenshot of some fairly hairy old C code, which I'll paste below for your benefit, but the gist in case you don't want to listen to the whole thing is: this spawns a subprocess to execute the external pwd binary, trying two paths just to be sure, and then captures its output into a buffer.
The code follows.
void
getwdir(char *s)
{
int i;
int pipdes[2];
pipe(pipdes);
if ((i = fork()) == 0) {
close(1);
dup(pipdes[1]);
execl("/bin/pwd", "pwd", 0);
execl("/usr/bin/pwd", "pwd", 0);
fprintf(stderr, "pwd failed!\n");
printf("/\n");
exit(1);
}
while (wait((int *)NULL) != -1)
;
read(pipdes[0], s, 50);
while(*s != '\n')
s++;
*s = '\0';
close(pipdes[0]);
close(pipdes[1]);
}](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/718111 "A screenshot of some fairly hairy old C code, which I'll paste below for your benefit, but the gist in case you don't want to listen to the whole thing is: this spawns a subprocess to execute the external pwd binary, trying two paths just to be sure, and then captures its output into a buffer.
The code follows.
void
getwdir(char *s)
{
int i;
int pipdes[2];
pipe(pipdes);
if ((i = fork()) == 0) {
close(1);
dup(pipdes[1]);
execl(\"/bin/pwd\", \"pwd\", 0);
execl(\"/usr/bin/pwd\", \"pwd\", 0);
fprintf(stderr, \"pwd failed!\n\");
printf(\"/\n\");
exit(1);
}
while (wait((int *)NULL) != -1)
;
read(pipdes[0], s, 50);
while(*s != '\n')
s++;
*s = '\0';
close(pipdes[0]);
close(pipdes[1]);
}")
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Implementing form filling and accessibility in the Firefox PDF viewer - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
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NVDA ignores line breaks in PDFs, making some types of text like source code unreadable with Adobe Reader
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