TL;DR #HP printers and ink cartridges have #RegionLocks, just like DVDs. Buy a brother laser printer, folks. theverge.com/23648726/hp-offic…

Region-locked globalisation. Fun! … not.

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We're back from #GDC23, where @godotengine had an official booth for the first time! :godot:

It was an amazing experience, with 16+ indie games presented by their developers, tons of great discussions with visitors, talks, and an IGF award! 🏅

Our retrospective:
youtube.com/watch?v=vdAwlI6NG0…

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We had our own Godot GDC Meetup hosted by @GitHub, which was a great time to meet old and new friends in a relaxed environment.

@gdquest gave an insightful talk on the governance challenges faced by big #opensource projects like Godot:
youtube.com/watch?v=ZRFv2rTJLU…

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And @reduz gave an inspirational talk about #GodotEngine's recent growth, and its development into an open ecosystem, similar to other big successful open source projects like Linux.
youtube.com/watch?v=XduuHNOGGq…

Since nightly-2023-04-01, this Rust code can panic:

unsafe {*(1 as *const i32)}

because rustc now inserts a check that raw pointers are aligned before dereferencing them.

github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull…

This check is only inserted when debug assertions are enabled. If you have any notable experience with this, drop me a line!

"Cat pictures and videos are often shared across the Internet. Many of these files display feline subjects interacting with boxes and other containers.

Since there is currently no compact notation for describing such media, this document details a standard notation to describe the position and interaction of cats, containers, and related subjects pictured in these images."

RFC 9402: Concat Notation
rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9402

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Research Article
Knitted origami
Elizabeth L. Wilmer

"Techniques are presented for embedding horizontal, vertical, and45◦diagonal crease lines into garter stitch knitted fabric. While theseare mostly based on standard lace knitting stitches, the horizon-tal creases use double-cable-crossed elongated stitches in a non-standard way. This crease library suffices to knit a model of a squaretwist, a foundational origami tessellation unit."

tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

I think centralized, large predictive text models (no, they’re not AI—just ask Qui-Gon Jinn!) are missing the point. The more interesting application than literally mindless spouting and regurgitating things that have been said on the internet is specialized, localized models trained on very specific data.

But most importantly, can people please stop pretending text models are somehow inherently intelligent?

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That's the fun thing about C---everybody knows enough to be dangerous!

I love working with shell, too; my only significant non-C program is in POSIX shell: codeberg.org/dgoodmaniii/makeb… And while it doesn't have C's footguns, it's idiosyncratic enough to need some creative thought, hence my enjoyment of it. But what I like best in shell is having to put together other programs in interesting ways. It's why I learned sed and awk! Which I use a *lot* in Makefiles now, too.

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I read through some of that code. It is very well written, and I especially like the use of command -v. Lots of people use which, and that’s fine, but I’ve always used command -v as well.

I wonder if you might be interested in helping me with bashtml? It’s a fork of bashblog that adds support for plugins. I have some other ideas I want to do with it, but without someone who can see to make sure the pages aren’t messed up visually, I worry that I might break it for everyone except screen reader users lol.

I was wondering what happened to the beautiful Japanese actress in The Last Samurai with Tom Cruise. Her name is Koyuki, and her Wikipedia entry led me to a manga about a career woman who takes in a young man as her pet. Koyuki starred in the TV version of this.

This was 20 years ago. Japan blows my mind. #kink en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramps_L…

#kink

First 2023 translation workshop from the pt_BR team debianbrasil.org.br/blog/first…

MiniDebConf Brasília 2023 - de 25 a 27 de maio debianbrasil.org.br/blog/minid…

*sigh*

Just because someone claims a _thing_ is “accessible” does not make it so.

Failing WCAG, the bare minimum, can be confirmed with a quick automated check: nested interactives (1.3.1/4.1.2), not dismissable (1.4.13), hidden items get focus (2.4.7), state not conveyed (4.1.2), heading mismatch (1.3.1/2.4.6).

This demonstrates why CSS-only widgets are inaccessible: adrianroselli.com/2023/03/css-…

#a11y #accessibility

I have officially found a way to solve all the focus mode issues on Orca. If you're in an app such as semaphore and you're going to be for some time, this is worth doing. Press Orca f12 to make the application control the caret, then press orca Z to disable structural navigation. Now the app you're using has full control of everything and Orca just reads stuff. Although I find myself unable to change those shortcuts, as I'd personally like to be able to press orca R, then orca Z to snap into this state quickly. #Accessibility #Linux

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@fireborn That's true, but for stuff like browsers where you kind of want to use structural navigation and stuff like that, it's better to do it this way when you're in a web app in a browser. As far as I know Orca won't detect the window title and go yep let's automatically disable these things.

9 Website Redesign Mistakes that Destroy SEO 3.7designs.co/blog/website-red… from 3pointross #webdesign #seo #tips