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I come from a family with no academic background. Mostly not even with white collar job traditions. And for better or worse I did kinda shape a "career" for lack of a better word for this.
But it's really been getting more and more apparent to me when meeting other people how much family traditions and the networks that come with those change things. Like just the level of mentoring people have had access through throughout their lives is incredible.
Things are not this hard for everyone. And I am happy for them, it just makes me very very tired.


🔓 Odemykám → Nejutajenější zrádce z roku 1968 pustil Rusy do rozhlasu. Šlo o připravenou akci KGB? #hospodarky
archiv.hn.cz/c7-67352850-12nc2…


Prosím vás, tenhle účet už nebudu používat, nově mě najdete na

@cynik_obecny

Pokusil jsem se tam vše přenést, ale sledující mi to z nějakého důvodu zatím nepřevedlo, takže pokud mě chcete dál sledovat, musíte mě zasledit tam.

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in reply to Archos

@archos Mě přijde ze tam vidím nějakou cyklickou referenci viz následující 2 screenshoty. Obě instance referuji že ten druhy je ten správný, nebo jsem proste jen unavený a nechápu psaný text. Je tohle issue klienta?


QT: misogyny, tech bro / dude bro culture

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“Are you telling me you don't know what year it is?”

“If I knew, I wouldn't ask. Don't be obtuse, man!”

— Laurence Scarman and the Doctor, in “The Pyramids of Mars”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation



Is that all you can say? She was a living being, and now what is she? A component!

— Romana, in “The Armageddon Factor”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation



“You know, I had a feeling that Niever was actually expecting to hear an answer to his prayer.”

“There wouldn't be much point in praying if you didn't.”

“I could quote you a few theologians who'd give you an argument on that.”

— The Doctor and Leela, in “The Face of Evil”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation



There is nothing purer and more unsullied, Madam, than the desire for revenge, but, if you follow the metaphor, I've thrown a pebble into the water, perhaps killing two birds with one stone and causing ripples that will rock the High Council to its foundations.

— The Master, in “The Ultimate Foe”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation



The generators were built by the old Eternity Perpetual company. They were designed to last forever; that's why the company went bankrupt.

— Vorg, in “Carnival of Monsters”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation



You are concerned about the fate of the blue whale and the natterjack toad, yet the obvious, most defenceless part of creation, the kingdom of plant life, receives no protection at all.

— Harrison Chase, in “The Seeds of Doom”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation



It was only a small explosion. They couldn't understand how blowing up the art room was a creative act.

— Ace, in “Dragonfire”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation




Why you should never share a security code office-watch.com/2024/why-you-…



The Seven Things You Should Do If Someone Is Using Your Social Security Number lifehacker.com/money/seven-thi…


uspol

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“Trump has allegedly been talking with PM Netanyahu to avert a cease-fire deal, fearing that doing so could help VP #KamalaHarris win in November.”

Doesn’t the Logan Act criminalize unauthorized negotiations by an Amer. citizen btwn the US & a foreign govt? #trump #press
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Are you serious? He did that? (no words)! mstdn.social/@Strandjunker/112…


Petition: Change.org: Save AppleVis: Preserve a Vital Resource for the Blind and Low Vision Community
change.org/saveapplevis

AppleVis, a vital hub for blind and low vision Apple users, is set to shut down on August 31, 2024. As the Publisher of Top Tech Tidbits, I'm urging David Goodwin to donate this invaluable resource to our care, or another trusted entity.



How do you tell the difference between a crocodile and an alligator? You will see one later and one in a while.


From #DadSaysJokes Two robbers were robbing a liquor store when one robber grabs a bottle and asks the other robber "is this whiskey?"

The other says "yeah but not as whiskey as wobbing a bank".



Technical FediMeta

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in reply to Seirdy

re: Technical FediMeta

IMO, federation with defederated instances should be restricted to:

  • Federating deletions.
  • Allowing users to migrate to other servers with their followers from defederated instances. If a user isn’t a good fit for a server’s moderation, it should be easy for them to leave.


What do you call a cow with no legs? Ground beef.


Now I need to figure out if I can get some of GPS coordinate -> location (place, city, country)


Unpopular opinion: the only rule for having a Wikipedia page about a topic should be : "Would someone in the world ever look for information about this topic on Wikipedia?"

The reason why some zealots try to remove "non-notable enough" pages is because they think it is a badge of honor to be on Wikipedia.

The reason why it is a badge of honor is because some zealots spend their time removing pages considered "non-notable enough".

in reply to ploum

I did not see anyone else address this so I’ll do it: there’s a definite gender bias in what deletionists consider “non-notable.” For people, it’s often women whose biographical pages go on the heap: for other things, topics like fashion or fiber crafts traditionally coded as feminine.


These are pretty impressive.

Microsoft releases three Phi-3.5 open source #AI models designed for basic/fast reasoning and more, available for developers to download, use, and fine-tune on Hugging Face.

venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft-r…

#AI


Food, not vegan, Mexican

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in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

Food, not vegan, Mexican

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Food, not vegan, Mexican

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wrote 10 years ago some code to parse some files. I did that in Go.

Now I can't rebuild it because Go broke shit. (think "modules")

I think I ran out of patience and will probably rewrite it in Rust. I mean the first version was in C++ so why not.

in reply to Hubert Figuière

Well, I mean, I just offered you a solution to what you were bellyaching about, but go ahead and persist in your inertia, I guess.
in reply to Hubert Figuière

@corruptian also I didn't ask if I should use C++. Because that wasn't even the question.
in reply to Hubert Figuière

It is, in the broader sense. You are upset because some hipster language did something stupid and broke backwards compatibility. Well that ain't the news.

Your solution is to go to the language that is consistent.

in reply to Hubert Figuière

It would be unkind to assume that you were a hipster, don't you think?
in reply to Hubert Figuière

I could never aspire to something so noble as trolling.

But you were bellyaching, and now you have an option, even if your pretense doesn't allow you to take it.



Cisco: We are laying off 7% of our workforce to address runaway expenses that cannot be supported by our revenue stream.

Also Cisco: Our C-suite executives are getting fabulous compensation, which is sheltered from taxes, as revenue is better than expected and the outlook for growth is better than ever before.

#WealthTransfer

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The three-finger swipe up to send a message with Braille Screen Input is suddenly not working in iOS 18.1. I'm not aware of any changes I made to settings, and I haven't gotten a beta update since last week, but now it just makes the boundary sound. How did I manage to break this??
in reply to simon.old

@jcsteh I hope that gesture will work in the full version of iOS 18.0, as I use it in several apps.
in reply to Clare Page

@frog67 It seems to be inconsistent between users even in 17, so who knows. Bizarre. And the fact that Apple don't provide any documentation whatsoever as to how apps can support it really doesn't help.


🔵 The Nonvisual Website
by Angelika Cathor @angelikatyborska
There's a treasure hidden somewhere on this website. But there is a catch.The content of this website is only #accessible with a #screenreader

nonvisualwebsite.com/

in reply to pablolarah

Very clever - and yes, I was definitely using a screen reader to access the treasure (can you guess which one?!)
in reply to NV Access

@NVAccess The one I would have been using if I’d been upstairs at my computer, the same one I ironically had to use last night to render text accessible to a sighted person. LOL
in reply to pablolarah

Of course ;)

NVDA is free, so anyone can use it;
open-source, so anyone can contribute;
powerful, so it gets what you need done;
lightweight, so it doesn't drag your system down;
and extensible with a thriving add-on ecosystem!




@Tusky It would be really helpful if Tusky showed thumbnails for YouTube video links using YouTube's new share style. It shows thumbnails with the old style (the URLs with watch etc. in them)

Instead Tusky just shows a placeholder with non-English text.



@Tusky when being used on a tablet, would be nice to be able to scroll without having to reach the middle of the screen 🤔

I mean it would be nice if the large unused space on the side could also be used to initiate the timeline scrolling.



Flu Shots Are Already Popping Up: When Do You Need One? cnet.com/health/medical/flu-sh…


Sibley Hospital, Washington DC, USA: last night an ER nurse called hospital security on the Executive Director of Long Covid Campaign and Fellow at both Harvard and Council on Foreign Relations for declining to remove her mask. Meighan Stone has #longcovid and is immunocompromised.