in reply to Emmanuele Bassi

The stuff I had the most trouble with in blocks like notes/admonitions was where you had to nest markup. E.g., style the name of a token in a Note title or use reserved chars like " and _ . That broke with a lot of constructs that have an open delimiter but relied on whitespace instead of having a closing one.

Certainly it's the parser's fault in that case, but whatcha gonna do? 🤷‍♂️

So, wondering if you've combatted that here...

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@n8 I'm using a slightly modified Admonition extension from Python-Markdown, which essentially extracts the block(s) nested under the admonition and parses them as usual. I'm not entirely sure it supports nested admonitions, but it does support nested blocks; it stops once it reaches an empty block, so you need to use two newlines after an admonition if you want to have more content.

I'm looking for a new job, or contract work, for the first time in a while - boosts appreciated!

I'm a polyglot programmer, with a wide range of experience behind me, from developing firmware that runs on 8-bit AVR, to highly distributed systems across hundreds of nodes, I covered pretty much the whole landscape.

I had my fair share of Ops experience too, and worked in (technical) Customer Service aswell.

I speak many languages (#C, #Rust, #Lua, #Python, #JavaScript, some #Go among them), but I pride myself in being able to pick up a new language at a decent level between signing a contract and starting on the job.

I'm a #Linux guy through and through, and have very little experience (or desire) to work with anything else, save maybe for the BSDs. I worked with containers, databases (relational and otherwise); in the cloud and on premises. I can debug, I can mentor, I can teach, and build, and integrate (continuously, even!). I'm not afraid of git rebase, nor of a crowd to speak in front of.

I live in Hungary, and am seeking remote work. I cannot relocate.

If you are someone looking for something like that, or know someone who is, please get in touch. My CV - with contacts - is available here.

#GetFediHired

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How do you solve the language problem? You can’t make that announcement before showing the language picker, and the user won’t know how to use the language picker before turning on the screen reader.

Tomorrow, SCOTUS will hear an accessibility case — specifically around "standing," or who has grounds to sue. Though SCOTUS's opinion isn't expected until next year, it will address whether civil rights testers, many of whom are disabled themselves, can sue businesses for having inaccessible websites, or if instead, you must have been an intended customer to have standing. @LFLegal's post on this is worth the read!
lflegal.com/2023/10/acheson-te…
#a11y #accessibility
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"Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet."

Just #mozilla making your #firefox more privacy preserving, as we are wont to do.

blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f…

On October 4 the United States Supreme Court will hear a case about who can file lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Opinion (not expected until 2024) may impact digital accessibility lawsuits. My article about the case is here. It includes links to the audio and transcript of the argument that will be posted. lflegal.com/2023/10/acheson-te… #accessibility #disability #disabled #a11y

Patrick Stewart Boldly Explores His Own Final Frontier

Everyone’s favorite #starship captain is back in the hot seat—this time as the author of a revealing, open-hearted memoir, Making It So.

wired.com/story/patrick-stewar…

CC: @Ranger1138 #Startrek

Did you know @igalia is a cooperative? If you've ever wondered about how that works, my colleague Valerie Young gave a great talk at FOSSY (and organized the breakout session!) which breaks it all down. Great talk!

youtube.com/watch?v=du7fC8VCbX…

So, funny story: remember how that Stanford professor described last years' layoffs as a "social contagion" exercise, where CEOs were just doing it because everyone else was doing it?

news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/e…

Well everyone get your surprised face ready but it was in fact a coordinated effort by execs, large shareholders and hedge funds to cover up mismanagement and suppress wages:

teamblind.com/post/How-we-got-…

Did I say funny, I meant awful, typo sorry those keys are right next to each other.

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📣 iOS Conf SG takes place January 18th-19th, and I'll personally pay for tickets for 10 women to attend the event, including the extra SwiftData workshop. You'll need to cover travel/accommodation, but the ticket price is on me. Interested? Email me: paul@hackingwithswift.com 🙌

More details about the event here: iosconf.sg

Not sure if this site is well known outside the niche community of researchers of late Russian Empire klezmer. It gives free access to streaming versions of the Ukrainian National Library's reissue CDs of wax cylinders of #klezmer, #Yiddish song, #nigunim, etc. from the 1910s through the 1930s. Most of these were recorded on folklore collecting expeditions in the Pale of Settlement or later in Soviet Ukraine and Belarus. Some very scratchy, fascinating stuff.
audio.ipri.kiev.ua/index.html
#WaxCylinder

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A really nifty deep dive on the current state of #AI #VoiceCloning #music #CoverSongs, via getting the artists #WeirdAlYankovic parodied to ‘cover’ his songs

It mainly shows how distinctive Weird Al’s voice is, though MechaLorde singing ‘Foil’ is pretty good

AI has the potential to disrupt the whole comedy genre of pop-cultural pastiche and parody. Why would you watch comedians doing impressions of celebrities, or riffing on pop-culture texts, when you could just manipulate the celebrity yourself using AI?

Still, what constantly annoys me about the state of AI-driven parody (eg the meme of pop-culture characters as #Balenciaga models) is that the writing underpinning them is so poor

So even if we get to a point where we can completely puppeteer real people’s likenesses and voices, it still fails if there isn’t decent writing

Weird Al’s writing has always been excellent and hilarious. I mean, lines like in ‘Fat’, his parody of ‘Bad’: “When I sit around the house, I really sit around the house”

So far, that kind of stuff can’t be automatically generated – AI-created comedy is of the surreal and absurdist kind that reads as an unintentional, “machine-innocent” artefact of the generation process

waxy.org/2023/10/weird-ai-yank…

Tohle je maximální paráda. Pro mě, jako pro člověka co nikdy nesložil ani základní kostku ( hanba mi ), je to úplné sci-fi. Neskutečné 👍👍
#rubicscube

youtu.be/MUxCYi0YRMA?si=jCgbAK…

North Carolina Republicans create a "secret police force"

North Carolina’s new $30 billion state budget contains a provision that gives extraordinary investigative powers to a partisan oversight committee co-chaired by Senate Leader Phil Berger (R) and House Speaker Tim Moore (R).

The Joint Legislative Committee on Government Operations — or Gov Ops for short — is empowered to seize “any document or system of record” from anyone who works in or with state and local government during its investigations.

The rule applies to contractors, subcontractors, and any other non-state entity “receiving, directly and indirectly, public funds,” including charities and state universities. 

Moreover, Gov Ops staff will be authorized to enter “any building or facility” owned or leased by a state or non-state entity *without a judicial warrant*.

👉This includes the private residences of subcontractors and contractors who run businesses out of their homes, lawmakers say.

Alarmingly, public employees under investigation will be required to keep all communication and requests “confidential.” 👉 They cannot alert their supervisor of the investigation nor consult with legal counsel.
Violating this rule “shall be grounds for disciplinary action, including dismissal,” the law reads.

Those who refuse to cooperate face jail time and fines of up to $1,000.

In the event that Gov Ops searches a person’s home, these rules mean that the person
👉 1) must keep the entry a secret,
👉 2) cannot seek outside help (unless necessary for fulfilling the request, the law says), and
👉 3) could face criminal charges if Gov Ops deems them uncooperative
popular.info/p/north-carolina-…

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Na síti X jsem uspořádala hru o můj fotokalendář. Dostalo se na dva výherce. Poté mi mnozí napsali, že by měli o kalendář zájem a klidně si jej koupí. Rozhodla jsem se, že nechám vytisknout větší sérii a nabídnu ho všem, kteří by měli zájem.

Vymyslela jsem, jak to uskutečnit:
Předběžně by se cena pohybovala (kalendář formátu A3 + pevná přepravní obálka + doprava po ČR = konečná cena) pod 300 Kč. Nebude to víc.
K tomu ale potřebuji vědět, kolik by bylo zájemců.

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in reply to Alena Boninska

Na zdejší platformě, by předobjednávky nebylo možné úplně přehledně shromáždit. Proto prosím zájemce o zprávu na e-mailovou adresu:
alenabonin@gmail.com, ve tvaru:
Jméno, nebo nick na Mastodonu a počet kusů.
To zatím bude stačit.

Zhruba za týden (jakmile budu mít, díky znalosti množství, pevnou cenu), napíšu všem zájemcům zpět informaci, jak bude možné kalendář objednat. Napíšu samozřejmě i sem.
Myslím, že bychom zvládli vše naplánovat tak, aby byl kalendář do konce října u vás.

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I’m sorry but the interface for adding alt text (image descriptions, which all images should have) on mobile is terrible in most apps. Here is tumblr and the Mastodon app. 👎 #mastodonsupport #mastodonapp #alttext

(please do not reply telling me to use desktop, I do, it’s great, or with other work-around suggestions. I just posted the names of 30 insects using OCR and a host of other tools— I’m the queen of work-arounds! the point here is that “accessibility” shouldn’t be an afterthought!)

I have rewritten the Build Configuration chapter of the Rust Performance Book.

nnethercote.github.io/perf-boo…

It's now a much better guide to all the ways you can change the performance characteristics of your Rust program without changing its source code. These characteristics include runtime speed, memory use, binary size, and compile times.

Big improvements to your Rust program's performance are possible with simple changes. Try these things out!

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HUGE BREAKTHROUGH, ESPECIALLY FOR SUB SAHARAN AFRICA

BBC News - Malaria vaccine big advance against major child killer
bbc.co.uk/news/health-66985273

#BlackMastodon
#BlackTwitter
#Africa

Reminder for #Outreachy applicants, the contribution phase has begun and we're looking for 3 interns for our project Implementing end-to-end tests for GNOME OS using openQA! Get started contributing through your Outreachy dashboard: outreachy.org/apply/project-se…

#GNOMEOS #Internship #opensource

every woman in academia needs to stop and read this 2021 profile of Katalin Karikó. it’s enraging and inspiring all at once.

and every man should read it for a very simple reason:

🗣 THIS IS WHAT A REAL GENIUS LOOKS LIKE

not Jobs.
not Musk.
not Zuckerberg.

not 99.99% of the Silicon Valley conartists calling themselves geniuses.

no.

it’s this middle-aged mother who works at a lab.

❝ Messenger RNA vaccine pioneer Katalin Karikó shares her long journey

statnews.com/2021/07/19/katali…

What would it sound like if the musicians parodied by "Weird Al" Yankovic sang *his* parodies instead? I jumped off the deep end into the world of A.I. voice cloning to find out, and the results are even worse than you imagine. waxy.org/2023/10/weird-ai-yank…

New article posted by Hasan Çimen: For us visually impaired individuals, accessing image descriptions has long been a challenge. While object recognition apps provided some assistance, they were limited in their ability to describe images comprehensively. However, recent developments in AI have brought about a groundbreaking solution, making detailed image descriptions accessible to the community. Let’s look at the brief history accessibleandroid.com/detailed… #Android #AI #GPT4 #Bing

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Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, who identified a chemical tweak to messenger RNA that laid the foundation for vaccines against #Covid19, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine.

As this photo shows, both scientists are wearing masks and NOT relying on the "vax and relax".

#WearAMask #WearARespirator
#MaskUp #NobelPrize #Covid #CovidIsNotOver #SarsCov2 #COVIDisAirborne

Some exciting news: Over the past few months I have been working on founding a new organization: Blodeuwedd Labs (@blodeuweddlabs)

We are now in a position to offer subsidized security assessments (and other services) for open source projects.

(In addition to a whole array of analysis, development, and custom research offerings for everyone else)

Announcement (and more info): blodeuweddlabs.com/news/open-s…

#infosec #security #appsec #canada #opensource