Hey, folks. Anyone know of any blind pet owners (specifically, blind cat owners) mailing lists, groups, etc. etc. etc. or even books/articles/courses out there? Probably going to be a new cat owner in a couple of months and would like to bounce some tips/advice off of folks.
We recently learned about the UK's new eVisa system; since official communications on the topic seem kinda non-existent, I wanted to raise awareness.
If you're in the UK on indefinite leave to remain, but *don't* already have a biometric residence permit, you'll need a BRP before you can be transitioned over to the new eVisa system in early 2025.
They recommend applying for a BRP *as soon as possible*, since it can take up to 6 months to process.
It's Esperanto Day today. Feliĉan Esperanto-Tagon al ĉiuj, kiuj ŝatas la lingvon! Got any questions about the language? It's one of most used ones, so ask away!
Music's a weird concept, isn't it? I'm going to make an array of different noises at you in a way you will find inexplicably pleasing. I will even shout ooh and hurgh and day-o and you will enjoy it somehow.
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One of the biggest complaints I hear about Mastodon is that its local search is unusable. It certainly was. But not anymore. Now it’s quite powerful, if you know the basics. So here’s a primer for…
Well here I am all dressed up in my smart casual best to go out. I get to wear a tommy Hillfiger top I bought last year which still had the tag on, I never got to wear it, it's banging! Oh, I did take the tag off first! Giggling.
This has been out for nine months already, and the feedback has been very positive. With airplay on BBC 6 music among other stations, it's garnered quite a lot of attention in the media. The track is called 'Deusa' and is one of my absolute favourite things to have made in a while. I imagine hearing this as you walk down the street, coming out of a restaurant, clothes or shoe shop or in someone's car on a Friday night. Roberta Silva is a fantastic Brazilian-Portuguese singer that lives in London. I first heard her at a gig and when I told Cian (aka Bruk Rogers) about her after he wanted us to find a singer, said she'd be the absolute best fit for the job, which she is. Listen on your music platform of choice here: truthoughts.ffm.to/degl.OTW
having an amazing progress on getting rid of #telegram 😄
managed to move 27 conversations from telegram to #signal (I think one conversation was moved to #threema 😄)
About half of the people already had signal. The other half I spent time explaining all the things that are wrong with telegram.
The fact that people listen to me and then make the move, shows me that my friends, especially the ones who are not into tech, trust and respect me. One of my friends was really
impressed because she thought that all messengers are the same and just have different skins and buttons 😆😆😆
Only 1 friend left who has not (yet) downloaded #signal, but is going to 👌🏾
The family group was impossible to migrate. Apparently older people don't like change. Not really a surprise 😆 No idea how I'll handle that. Maybe my cousin will be a proxy or I'll have to use telegram every now and then (on desktop) to check the family group. OR I will just keep pestering every one when we meet IRL 😂 "We have to move to signal" and one of my uncles will be like "NO! I INSTALLED TELEGRAM BECAUSE LAST TIME YOU SAID WE HAVE TO LEAVE WHATSAPP. I WILL NOT DO THIS AGAIN" 😆😆😆😆😆
Other than that I have a handful of telegram bots. Most of them I have written myself. Nothing crazy though, almost all of them just wrap some APIs.
Since I've started to use #matrix since April, I'm now thinking about turning my telegram-bots into matrix-bots. I think it could be a fun project and would make telegram even more obsolete 😄
I've been contributing to Google Maps for a while, specifically, I usually upload pictures of menu's from restaurants, so future visitors can see them before they decide to eat there! I'm trying to degoogle my life a bit & was wondering if there is a way I could contribute these to OSM?
This is going to be controversial but here it goes. At least for the #Blindness community, there's a 70% unemployment rate. That's worst than quite a lot of third world nations and part of the problem in my opinion is the entitlement some people have about receiving SSI. There are some people out there who believe that because they have a #Disability that they are owed a living. News flash, nobody owes you a living and yet I see people talking about how the money they get every month is *their* money. No, its not your money. It's cash that tax payers pay into the system so you can sit on your ass all day and collect your precious SSI. Here's my opinion. I feel that SSI should be cut off if you're not doing 1 of 3 things. If you're not going to College, working a job, or making a business, you shouldn't have support because getting money for doing nothing just isn't fair to anyone. At that point, you're just draining resources. It's the hard truth. I expect backlash over this yet I have believed in this for years. #Disabilities, #Disabled, #Blind, #SSI, #Government, #Business, #College, #Jobs
the benefits system in the UK is frustrating to me because, even if you are *just* blind, you can claim you can't work. It's inconsistent as to how this is applied. Some people are told if you are blind only you can still look for work and ahve to do this on less money, others are assumed to be incapable of work due to blindness and paid more. Say the right things during your application and you can get the same income as someone on a full-time minimum wage job.
I have no problem with taxpayers funding people who are honestly looking to improve themselves, and think people who have more serious medical conditions should have more than they get.
But my real issue is the blind people who spend a day online with their hobbies then meet an advisor and say tech's too complicated to find work so they get extra paments.
I have to disagree with you. Plenty of blind people don't sit and do nothing because they feel they are entitled to their benefits, many of them go through years of fruitless job-hunting, because far too many sighted employers won't employ them: I was one of those for quite a long time. If you ever find yourself in that situation, I'm sure you wouldn't want to be without any money at all.
I did higher education when I was young, and never being employed hasn't given me the self-confidence to feel I could start my own business. Now that I am less than ten years away from retirement age here, it is even less likely that anyone will give me paid work. I still make myself useful, though, for example I do secretarial work on a voluntary basis for my church.
@frog67 I don't know how things work in France but here in the US, at some point, its expected that a self-respecting person will find a way to pay the bills in any relationship, weather it be family or romantic. Disability doesn't matter at that point.
@frog67 I agree with Clare about an income, but that income shouldn't be more than you can earn at a job unless blindness isn't your own problem, in my opinion.
@cachondo @frog67 There has to be some sort of insentive to get the unemployment rate way down here, because its unsustainable to just keep paying people money for nothing to the economy at large.
@cachondo Good point! There are some blind people in any country with other more serious conditions who wouldn't be able to work. Here in France, the amount of the the disability allowance is less than the minimum wage, but I don't know if anyone who is completely unable to work gets extra money, that's not something I've ever investigated.
Bug Description The PR #695 causes maturin to ignore files that are gitignored. This generally makes sense when maturin is used in an isolated context. However, when a package-builder such as conda...
@Friendica Support Ich habe eingestellt, dass Beiträge nach 14 Tage gelöscht werden. Das scheint nun wohl nicht mehr zu funktionieren. Ich habe Beiträge im Profil die sind einen Monat alt. Ist das Problem bekannt?
Es sollte eigentlich das Gegenteil sein. Das Löschen hatte eine Zeitlang ein Problem, aber das ist beseitigt. Laut meinem Monitoring werden bei mir einmal pro Tag Beiträge gelöscht:
@Michael Vogel Kann ich leider nicht bestätigen. Habe in meinem Profil Beiträge die weit Älter als 14 Tage sind. Also der Löschmechanismus scheint nicht zu funktionieren. :thinking face:
Das ist als Frontend Grafana und die Daten kommen von Zabbix. Es ist echt sehr gut darin, Probleme zu erkennen. Z.B. kann ich sehr gut sehen, wenn sich Worker-Jobs ansammeln, der Worker nicht läuft, etc.
Nun aktuell hab ich eh keine Instanz mehr am Laufen. Denn mit der 32 GB Datenbank - Single User Instanz wollte mein Server nicht mehr. Der Docker Firendica hat dann schon nach 2 Wochen die Flügel gestreckt, weil der Worker nicht mehr lief.
Bin also noch am Schauen, ob ich nochmal eine hochziehe.
Wyciek danych nie jest udostępnieniem danych - tak wynika z ostatniego wyroku Wojewódzkiego Sądu Administracyjnego w Warszawie.
Pewna spółka, zajmująca się obsługą płacową, została zaatakowana przez ransomware. W rezultacie dane jednej z firm (kontrahenta spółki) zostały zaszyfrowane. Poszkodowana w ten sposób firma zwróciła się ze skargą do Prezesa #UODO.
Organ nadzorczy stwierdził jednak, że odpowiedzialność za naruszenie ponosi... firma, która (zdaniem PUODO) udostępniła dane osobie atakującej i to właśnie ona została ukarana upomnieniem.
Decyzja organu została zaskarżona. Wojewódzki Sąd Administracyjny w orzeczeniu z 25 lipca 2024 r. (sygn. akt II SA/Wa 2430/23) przyznał rację firmie. Wskazano w szczególności, że Prezes UODO nie wykazał, by w sprawie doszło do udostępnienia danych osobowych.
Firma, która zapłaciła za to, by administrowane przez nią dane osobowe były właściwie chronione, nie może odpowiadać za ich wyciek w konsekwencji ataku hakerskiego - orzekł w czwartek Wojewódzki Sąd Administracyjny w Warszawie.
V eDokladech je chyba, která bude brzy opravena. Omlouváme se.
Nejedná se o něco bezprostředně zneužitelného, ale být to tam nemá. Z mého pohledu se jedná o šlendrián programátorů a je ostuda že nebyl odhalen dřív.
Na Lupe se Martin Mesrsmid vyjadroval k problemum eDokladu. Co se stalo tak nejak vime. Jako novinka padla otazka: "Planujete zverejnit eDoklady jako open source?" Na cez jednoznacne odpovedel:
Velmi by nám to zkomplikovalo situaci.
Kdo nekdy neco programoval, tak tusi, o jake komplikace se jedna 🙈. Pro IT netknute jsme poprosili Yenerator, aby nam situaci priblizil. Dekujeme!
Vyzblepty Yeneratoru a nazory na stav Ceske IT infrastruktury najdete na diskutuj.digital/
Pepik: A co kdybysme to rovnou udělali jako open-source?
Martin: Nene, to by nám hrozně zkomplikovalo situaci: museli bysme pořádně definovat requirementy (nemohli bysme pracovat agilně)! A navíc: takhle si tady v analýze rizik můžu škrtnout všechna reputační rizika ...
From EYB re #AsmaKhan's new book, #flavour [My comments are in square brackets.] It sounds interesting, especially as I have #MasalaLab by #KrishAshok on my desk at the moment.
Asma Khan, creator of Darjeeling Express in London, thinks that the idea of what Indian people eat at home is so wrong. “No one in India eats naan at home,” she says. “You need a tandoor. Your bloody house would catch fire. People’s idea of what we eat is so warped.”
Her two #cookbooks focus on Indian home cooking. Her upcoming book, Flavour – Discover the Elements Behind Delicious Indian Cookery, is different.
It is structured around the six core #ayurvedic tastes: Tangy, Bitter, Hot, Sweet, Sour, and Salty and how they correlate to the six seasons in Bengal. [These aren't actually the 6 Ayurveda tastes, which are Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Pungent, Astringent.]
This book aims to illuminate Indian cookery by giving the foundations needed to build balanced flavours, dishes and sumptuous feasts. [All from a Bengali perspective, of course. Each region in Indian has very different food and approaches.]
With core techniques including roasting, grinding and tempering spices, how to cook with ghee, chillies, and onions, and what to add and when to re-balance flavours in a dish, Flavour will have home cooks applying fundamental processes intuitively to their cooking of Indian [Bengali] food.
According to #NS, people on the go are not used to returning deposited bottles at the stations so it makes no sense to deploy more reverse vending machines there.
How come that often three out of four machines at Amsterdam Centraal are full? And what would it then look like if people were used to returning bottles at the station?
Dat komt naar voren uit een rondvraag van de NOS onder grote verkopers van drankjes. Op dit moment zijn er veel te weinig inzamelpunten voor een goedwerkend inzamelingssysteem.
I think I posted it before, but gonna post again. A fanfic prompt.
You're home alone 1 night reading, working on a paper for school, just playing around on the computer, Etc. From another room you hear voices and some movement. You grab a nearby object that you might be able to defend yourself with, and go to see what it is. You find some characters from your favorite fandom there. Who are they? Did they come on purpose or are they just as confused as you are? What happens next? #Fanfiction
I have been travelling the past few weeks, and have not yet had the time to fully digest the recent announcement by Deepmind of how their two new #IMO problem solver engines, AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry2, were able to between them solve 4 of the 6 problems at the most recent International Mathematical Olympiad: deepmind.google/discover/blog/… . But I can record some preliminary impressions.
1. This is great work, shifting once again our expectations of which benchmark challenges are within reach of either #AI-assisted or fully autonomous methods. For instance, IMO level geometry problems are now effectively a solved problem for specialized AI tools; and it seems now that IMO problems that can be readily formalized and with formal proofs that can be located through a reinforcement learning process are now at least somewhat amenable to AI attacks (though currently requiring genuinely significant amounts of compute per problem, and human assistance on the formalization side).
2. There may be side benefits of this approach into making formal mathematics easier to automate, which could in turn facilitate mathematical research methods that contain formal components. In particular, the database of formal proofs generated by this effort could be a useful resource if shared more openly.
3. The approach (based more on reinforcement learning than large language models, somewhat in the spirit of AlphaGo, and heavily emphasizing formal methods) is clever, and makes sense in retrospect. As per the "AI effect" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effec… , once explained, it does not "feel" like an exhibition of human-like intelligence; but it is still an expansion of the capability of our suite of AI-assisted problem solving tools.
"We estimate that the decline in Nuclear power Plants caused by Chernobyl led to the loss of approximately 141 million expected life years in the U.S., 33 in the U.K. and 318 million globally".
So, for the slow kids, let’s spell this out: 1. Chernobyl happened 2. Many countries close down nuclear or no longer build it 3. Instead fossil fuel plants get built 4. Air pollution is spiking 5. 318 million life years are lost globally (thus far)
You cannot befriend and date people who are neurodivergent and/or disabled with the expectation that they will behave neurotypically and/or able-bodied. I don't think people truly grasp how ableist and damaging that is.
Sooo many people think this entails accepting abuse or severe incompatibility, when what it actually entails is learning about your loved one's neurodivergencies, hearing them out when they explain to you what they need, and adjusting how you interact with them + how you navigate certain situations based on this knowledge with the mutual goal of maintaining a healthy, harmonious relationship.
If you refuse to adjust in any regard, then don't insist on befriending and dating neurodivergent and/or disabled people. It's not fair to them or you, and it's also extremely unrealistic.
People act like compromise is the worst thing ever or is inherently toxic, when it's literally essential for maintaining relationships, ESPECIALLY if both parties are multi-intersectional and have neurodivergencies and/or disabilities that contrast.
It's not in-tune with reality at all to treat everybody the same way because not everybody is the same.
Bratislavská krajská prokuratúra súd žiada o obnovu konania a umiestnenie páchateľa do väzby. Zásadnú zmenu pre prípady nepríčetných páchateľov priniesla kritizovaná novela Trestného zákona.
I'm not accepting donations for Emerald Social. If you did want to donate to my instance, please consider donating to someone asking for donations to survive instead. This instance is in no trouble and its costs are something I'm willing and able to cover myself
Takže "Internet je naše moře", pojďme si to shrnout: - digitální stavební řízení nic moc - evidence ubytovaných je WTF - #eObčanka taky průser - v ochraně před copyright lobby se vůbec nic nestalo - v oblasti drogový politiky je úplný ticho
Možná se pletu #Piráti, ale nezačínali jste jako strana, která má problém s velkýma bratrama a podobnýma srandama? Kde je důraz na soukromí?
Ano, práva LGBT, sociální role státu a všechny tyhle věci jsou důležitý, ale kvůli tomu vás nevolim. Dělá něco #Šalomoun? Dělá něco dobře #Bartoš?
V tuhle chvíli jedinej důvod, proč vás znovu volit je #Lipavský.
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Sean Randall
in reply to Lulu Hartgen • • •nothing worse than an itchy scratchy scritchy tag tickling your skin all day! Well done on zapping that!
have fun!
Lulu Hartgen
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