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Este viernes en las Españas hay huelga general por la vida y la libertad del pueblo Palestino. Planteándome ir teniendo en cuenta que la convocante es CGT, y yo no soy anarquista.

in reply to modulux

Jamás me he planteado al hacer una huelga quién es el que la convoca, sino cuál es el motivo de la huelga 🤔
in reply to Ramón Corominas

Es una forma de verlo, desde luego legítima, pero teniendo en cuenta que una huelga es una medida de acción colectiva, creo que hay que tener en cuenta la convocante, al que se le da apoyo expreso o implícito.

Ejemplo extremo en plan reducción al absurdo: si el "sindicato" de Vox convocase una huelga en favor de la subida del SMI, no la secundaría.

in reply to modulux

ese es un gran fallo de diseño que tenéis los coloraos: para que me apunte a la fiesta, tienen que hacerla los míos.
in reply to José Manuel Delicado

Tampoco es para tanto, pero tiene que haber unos mínimos de compatibilidad, vamos a decir.
in reply to José Manuel Delicado

Pues no sé, yo soy Colorao y ya te digo yo que miró más la causa que el convocante, aunque está claro que si el convocante es azul o verde seguramente sospecharé de sus motivos verdaderos
in reply to Ramón Corominas

Pues yo me estoy acordando de hace años, en la época Zapatero, que los medios de derecha (COPE, Intereconomía, etc.) no paraban de dar la matraca con que la gente no reacciona, que no se queja con la crisis que hay, que está juventud es muy conformista no como la de antes, que haría falta una huelga para echar a zapatero de la Moncloa (qué casualidad, como ahora), que solohacen huelgas cuando gobierna el PP…1/2
in reply to Javi Domínguez

Cuando finalmente los sindicatos convocaron una huelga general entonces empezaron a decir: ahora no es el momento, no es conveniente, con la crisis que hay lo último que necesita este país es parar la economía… Vamos, que sí pero no. Igual es que el objetivo no era el que decían o igual es que el fallo de diseño no solo es cosa de coloraos. Yo que sé. 2/2
in reply to Javi Domínguez

No sé si estabais el 14 de diciembre del 88. Esto sí que fue una huelga huelga, el metro en Barcelona en aquel momento aún no hacía los paros que hicieron en los 90, y estuvo cerrado, no tenías transporte y había menos gente en la calle que un domingo por la mañana. Creo recordar que la convocó CCOO y UGT. @Javichi @tinitun @jmdaweb @modulux
in reply to Tere Codina

Yo existía, pero no en el mundo laboral, claro. Sí me acuerdo de que había huelga y no había tele, o por lo menos no era la programación normal.

@Javichi @tinitun @jmdaweb

in reply to modulux

¿Tú te acuerdas de quienes fueron los convocantes de las anteriores huelgas generales o solo te acuerdas de sus causas, si es que te acuerdas de alguna de esas cosas?
in reply to Ramón Corominas

En las que participé me acuerdo, pero dicho esto es raro que participate en una huelga que no convoquen CCOO o CIG.


For some odd reason, every time I have dreams that I'm entering the Tardis it's always very small on the inside. I don't know why this is but it's a bit of a letdown. #DoctorWho


Regular reminder that if you do this with your webapps, you're a part of the problem, and any attempts to reason with me on that will be met with laughter and image macros.

in reply to Seirdy

this is the worst name pun i’ve seen since Liam Nii-San


Volby v naší obci. V podstatě jsme tři vesnice pod správou jednoho Obecního úřadu, celkem asi 350 stálých obyvatel, kolik je to voličů nevím.
Moje Milá se zeptala, koho budu na kraj volit. Měla vybrané dvě kandidátky. Já jsem celkem stálý ve svých postojích, takže jsem měl jasno (vlastně přemýšlím, proč se mě tedy ptala).
Řekl jsem, že STAN, jako vždy a ona STAN odložila a nechala si kandidátku SPOLU.

Proč o tom píšu. Výsledky voleb (účast 31,47 %) byly těsné. Vyhrálo ANO o jeden hlas nad STAN. O ten Milé hlas. Je nás tak málo, že jeden jediný hlas stačí, aby se miska převrátila na druhou stranu. Tedy... v tomto případě by to byla plichta, ale stejně. To potom přistupujete k volbám úplně jinak. Divné, že 69 % voličů si to nemyslí.

Například SPD utržilo 11,11% hlasů. 8 voličů. Osm je nic, ale 11 procent, to už je síla.



Very pleased to see that iOS 18.1 beta 5 has given VO users access to Type to Siri again. It’s a feature sighted people have had, they implemented a way of accessing it, then took it away.
It's going to take some getting used to, but now, to invoke the App Switcher, you have to swipe up a bit further until you hear another click. If you swipe up in the way you used to for the app Switcher, you will get Type to Siri instead.
If you don’t like this behaviour, you can disable Type to Siri, then the VO gestures will go back to the way they were.
Also, for now, there are some focus issues with Type to Siri, and it would be good if VO spoke Siri’s answers back, much like typing to ChatGPT, which is a great experience.

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in reply to Jonathan Mosen

Perhaps they think that people will more often want to type to Siri than open the App Switcher?
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in reply to Rick Scott 🏳️‍⚧️

we still had to indent and put the `*` in the right column like it was punch cards. And the vendor of the compiler was MicroFocus...
in reply to Hubert Figuière

@hub I was going to say, that was something I learned just now! that if you don't indent the code 8 spaces to leave room for the punch card numbers the compiler will tell you to go 🖕 yourself 😂




In retrospect, it's kind of crazy that the two biggest developments in CPU technology over the last 20 years were "use much less power, for mobile" and "use much more power, for AI", and Intel managed to miss both of them
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Ok, I should be sleeping right now, but what's happening is SO FUCKING CRAZY.

Long story short: WPEngine is suing Matt Mullenweg, Automattic and the WordPress foundation for slandering them. In return, Matt is suing them for trademark violation.

But, BUT, WPEngine has fired their first shot. And what a shot it is, friends:
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Link to the full letter

Some extracts:

Stunningly, Automattic’s CEO Matthew Mullenweg threatened that if WP Engine did not agree to pay Automattic – his for-profit entity – a very large sum of money before his September 20th keynote address at the WordCamp US Convention, he was going to embark on a self-described “scorched earth nuclear approach” toward WP Engine within the WordPress community and beyond. When his outrageous financial demands were not met, Mr. Mullenweg carried out his threats by making repeated false claims disparaging WP Engine to its employees, its customers, and the world. Mr. Mullenweg has carried out this wrongful campaign against WP Engine in multiple outlets, including via his keynote address, across several public platforms like X,YouTube, and even on the Wordpress.org site, and through the WordPress Admin panel for all WordPress users, including directly targeting WP Engine customers in their own private WordPress instances used to run their online businesses

During calls on September 17th and 19th, for instance, Automattic CFO Mark Davies told a WP Engine board member that Automattic would “go to war” if WP Engine did not agree to pay its competitor Automattic a significant percentage of its gross revenues – tens of millions of dollars in fact – on an ongoing basis. Mr. Davies suggested the payment ostensibly would be for a “license” to use certain trademarks like WordPress, even though WP Engine needs no such license. WP Engine’s uses of those marks to describe its services – as all companies in this space do – are fair uses under settled trademark law and consistent with WordPress’ own guidelines. Automattic’s CFO insisted that WP Engine provide its response to this demand immediately and later, on the day of the keynote, followed up with an email reiterating a claimed need for WP Engine to concede to the demands “before Matt makes his WCUS keynote at 3:45 p.m. PDT today.”

In parallel and throughout September 19 and 20, Mr. Mullenweg embarked on a series of harassing text messages and calls to WP Engine’s board member and also its CEO, threatening that if WP Engine did not agree to pay up prior to the start of Mr. Mullenweg’s livestreamed keynote address at 3:45pm on September 20, he would go “nuclear” on WP Engine, including by smearing its name, disparaging its directors and corporate officers, and banning WP Engine from WordPress community events.


They... they have text message captures. In the pdf. Matt Mullenweg was trying to extort them ... by text messages. They seem to have the entire thing in the writting.

In the final minutes leading up to his keynote address, Mr. Mullenweg sent one last missive: a photo of the WordCamp audience waiting to hear his speech, with the message that he could shift gears and turn his talk into “just a Q&A” if WP Engine agreed to pay up


They finish requesting Automattic to "preserve, and not destroy, any and all documents or information in their possession, custody, or control that may be relevant to any dispute between WP Engine and Automattic". They are going to war, big time.

All this crap is just because they refuse to pay his protection money. And the guy has been stupid enough to put everything in writting.

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT.

They are going to toast him alive

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35% of #bisexual men in a relationship *with another man* have never told that partner about their bisexuality. And only the minority of us are very or fairly open about our #bisexuality to our male partners. That's from ILGA Europe. The norm is for us bi #men to be quiet about our bisexuality, even in same-gender relationships. #Gay men, you can think about that one during #BiVisibilityDay.

#queer #lgbtq

ilga-europe.org/report/interse…




Spiders after someone accidentally walks through their home
in reply to 10-volt

Me when I try to figure out weather a spork should go in the fork shelf of spoon shelf




Just got MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 installed in a VM with no sighted assistance whatsoever. I believe I have audio working in DOS, however I'm not sure how to test it. Now I'm trying to get audio in Windows. CC @datajake1999 and anyone else interested.
in reply to Khronos

@khronos I need a screen reader for WFW 3.11, and I need to figure out why there's no! Audio! In! DOS!
in reply to Seedy of Chucky

I don't know if there was a scren reader for windows 3.x. My first experience with Windows was with win95 and Asaw.


Question for anyone who knows Spanish well. I listen to a podcast where two Mexican Spanish teachers talk to each other. They record it to let learners practice listening. They speak slowly and clearly. One host always pronounces the j sound like a y, though, which isn't something I've ever heard of. During an English bit where they talk about Patreon, for instance, he pronounces "join" as "yoin". Is this a regional thing? His co-host doesn't do this.
in reply to Alex Hall

My Spanish is close to zero, but I did hear from native speakers that this is the thing. Even in Spain, notwithstanding other countries that use Spanish, this difference is regional. Say, in the phrase “coffee to go” (café para llevar in Spanish) the word “Llevar” can be pronounced as “Jevar” or as “Yevar”.
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"The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday proposed prohibiting key Chinese software and hardware in connected vehicles on American roads due to national security concerns"
Tesla auto-crash software still allowed


Seeing with AI | The Prompt with Microsoft's Chief Questions Officer Trevor Noah featuring Saqib Shake youtube.com/watch?v=vCsg-Sbb5v…
#accessibility #ai



discussion elsenet is bringing back fun memories of work travel and...interesting memories of work travel policies 😂

"why are you galavanting around the Netherlands when the event is in Amsterdam?" "because our hotel max rates don't actually allow me to book a hotel in Amsterdam" 🤣



time to install a third gnome runtime weighing hundreds of mb for like two of six GTK applications.
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Could you do me a favour? Could you tell me something nice that happened to you recently? I’d love to hear about that. 🥰


Hello everyone, I’m Maartje De Meulder. After spending years on X, I’ve decided to give Mastodon a try.

I’m a senior researcher at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht and I split my time mainly between Belgium, the Netherlands, and Norway.

I’ll be mostly posting about all things language, disability, and technologies, and how they intersect, along with navigating academia. 



#introduction #deaf #disability #academia



Department of Justice Adopts Access Board’s Minimum Standards for Accessible Medical Diagnostic Equipment equipmentlink.org/blog/?p=5643


Protect your future today with Quantum Safe Communication. Quantum-proof your data before it's too late. #Purism #CyberSecurity
puri.sm/posts/quantum-safe-com…

in reply to Kari'boka

Yeah, I'm using XMPP long before Matrix entered the stage and it's good. But for more advanced work, Matrix is providing features, that XMPP dosn't have, like formatting code and text markdown like or organizations for multiple rooms and so on....


Some Kaspersky customers receive surprise forced-update to new antivirus software

techcrunch.com/2024/09/23/some…

Security software indistinguishable from malware.



Yesterday I discovered that the new Sonos app requires you to physically scroll through every part of the terms screen before you can press the accept button. On iOS, VoiceOver's scrolling method skips through most of it, so you just have to go to the top and manually pass through a bunch of one-finger scrolls. The whole thing is one block of text, so you can't tell how far it's scrolled until you get to the bottom. I have no Sonos products and was just trying to troubleshoot this with a friend, but I am suitably horrified. This is the first thing the app presents after downloading it for the first time, and most VO users wouldn't be able to do it, leaving the rest of the app (and possibly your devices) unusable. I'm not sure what could convince me to buy a Sonos product at this point. I used to just find them too expensive to justify—now I don't think I'd buy them if they were all 75% off. #Accessibility


You know you're getting old when it requires three people to find someone with good enough vision to read the tiny little bolt code at Home Depot 👓
in reply to AI6YR Ben

Same with cooking instructions on food containers. Guys, don’t use white font size 3 text on a gray background. Don’t know how many times I’ve not purchased something because I can’t figure out what the brilliant marketing team has rendered unreadable.


Food, meat, beer

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Honored to have had a chance to speak at (the very well-attended very well-run) #matrixconf this year. Great (and livestreamed!) talks, a good audience, a proper indoor masking policy and CO2 monitors on every floor live-updated, exactly what a modern conf should be in every respect.


“I’m going to buy him a copy of the Mythical Man Month. Actually I’m going to buy him two copies so he can read it twice as fast.”

— Unknown

#Q4TD #Quote #Quotes q4td.blogspot.com/2024/09/im-g…



Disingenuous rule making:

If China can do these evil things with their proprietary cars, then so can U.S. and Japanese cars.

Make the rule fair: ban proprietary cars.

(But it's not about being fair, it's about the U.S. wanting to preserve the ability to use domestic cars for spying, while preventing other countries from having that ability.)

tech.slashdot.org/story/24/09/…




My super secret hobby project is now public. It's a CI engine that let's me run CI on untrusted code without having to worry.

blog.liw.fi/posts/2024/ambient…

#continuousIntegration #CI #Ambient



Finally this journey begins! And with a surprise twist, too: Amsterdam’s number 1 tram.
in reply to Martin Hoffmann

But back to walking. I’m only down to 42nd street – it’s a long way to the tip of Manhattan at South Ferry. Well more than 42 blocks, in fact. There are plenty more streets south of 1st street but they are older than the grid and have names.
in reply to Martin Hoffmann

Turkey is promoting itself as a partner in sustainable development by driving gas-powered trucks with LED billboards through the already grid-locked streets of Manhattan. You can’t make this stuff up.


Ah, so US is going to ban connected cars. A good measure actually, and the rationale is conclusive. But why stop at those from China? Connected cars are a security and privacy nightmare, regardless of the country.

arstechnica.com/?p=2051655