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Dame Maggie Smith, star of the Harry Potter films and Downton Abbey, has died at the age of 89

A statement from Dame Maggie's sons says she died peacefully in hospital on Friday morning

Fellow Downton Abbey actor Hugh Bonneville says she was a "true legend of her generation" with a "sharp eye, sharp wit and formidable talent"

A legend of British stage and screen, Dame Maggie won two Oscars during her career - for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in 1970 and California Suite in 1979

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David Goldfield
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@robini71 Oh, I absolutely adored Downton Abbey. Watched the first movie but never finished the second one. It was an amazing series.
@Robin Frost
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Robin Frost
Robin Frost
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@DavidGoldfield Aww yay I agree. It is kind of my happy place one of my favorite series to revisit.
@David Goldfield

Apparently there's a Bacon County Georgia

For those who don't understand how Americans relate a waffle restaurant to weather events:

Waffle House restaurants are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. They do NOT close for ANY reason except impending catastrophe.

So when Waffle House reports that all locations in a city have been closed due to weather, that area is most likely fucked after the storm is over.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_H…

#HurricaneHelene #Hurricane #Helene #WaffleHouse

#helene #hurricane #wafflehouse #hurricanehelene

During the last weeks @vsz and me worked on curl's CI performance and reliability. We are pleased.🙂

github.com/icing/blog/blob/mai…

@vsz

Interne Untersuchung zu Pushbacks: Schwere Vorwürfe gegen Frontex

Anfang des Jahres war Frontex offenbar erneut in Pushbacks involviert - das haben Recherchen von NDR und WDR gezeigt. Jetzt stellen auch interne Untersuchungen schwere Fehler fest. Frontex-Direktor Leijtens steht unter Zugzwang.

➡️ tagesschau.de/investigativ/ndr…

#Frontex #EU #Pushbacks #Griechenland

#EU #frontex #pushbacks #griechenland

++ Umweltaktivist*innen gewinnen gegen Unterlassungsklage des Braunkohlekonzerns LEAG ++ Gericht: ‚menschengerechtes Erdklima‘ grundsätzlich ein notstandsfähiges Rechtsgut ++
Kohleausstieg ist Handarbeit - steht auf einem Transparent, welches auf einem Braunkohlebagger von Aktivist_innen von Ende Gelände gezeigt wird.

Super excited to have all the seasons of Stargate SG-1 described now. I suppose that's what I'll be doing for my birthday, that show needed description pretty badly and the TTS one is better than I expected it to be. (for those curious, it's on both Audiovault and Amazon Prime, I first started with vault but had better audio through my own prime so I switched to it.) Amazon page: amazon.com/Stargate-SG-1-Seaso…
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Does anyone who does #GUI programming and uses or has users who use a #ScreenReader or #BrailleTerminal have the scoop on how well Tk (the GUI toolkit of Tcl, accessed via Tkinter in Python) integrates with these tools?

I saw some references to #accessibility as an area of focus in the 8.5 roadmap, and with 9.0 out now, I'd really like to use it - but I need to be able to support screen reader users.

#Accessibility #screenreader #gui #brailleterminal
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Matt Campbell
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@alterae The Toga project from BeeWare is probably worth a look. It's just too bad they have to bring in .NET as a dependency on Windows so they can use Windows Forms. I understand, though; there are probably very few programmers left who want to work directly with Win32.
@chell (friend of eggbug)

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#tutamail #tutacontact #encryptedcontacts

Good morning!

I'd like to gift some audiobooks to folks who might really enjoy them but don't have the money to spend on them.

On offer:

Three books by the amazing @pluralistic which I wholeheartedly recommend:

SUPER interesting insights here on the fugly economics of streaming services and what that means for artists and society:

Chokepoint Capitalism: libro.fm/audiobooks/5184389278…

The adventures of Martin Hench, forensic accountant (If you're nerdy/techie but think Silly Valley is a bit insane, these are a must read :)

Red Team Blues:
libro.fm/audiobooks/5184389278…

The Bezzle:
libro.fm/audiobooks/5184389278…

This trilogy is a must read if you're into science fiction or even just a wild way of thinking about our role in the uinverse as humans on planet earth.

The Three Body Problem:
libro.fm/audiobooks/9781427251…

Drop me some Ye Olde Fashioned E-Mail at:

feoh at feoh dot org and let me know which ones you want!

And thanks to @pluralistic for turning me on to Libro FM which makes this possible! I'm loving their new two book a month plan :)

@Cory Doctorow

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Web Accessibility Cookbook

Provides you with dozens of recipes to help you build common components on the web, such as navigation, forms, filters, tables, and dialogs, in an accessible manner.

accessibility-cookbook.com/

by @matuzo

#webdev #webdesign #a11y #books

#a11y #books #webdev #webdesign @Manuel Matuzović

Regarding todo list management: yesterday, @bill told me about todo.txt. If you love Markdown, you'll probably love this. Your todos are stored in a human-readable file, but the file conforms to some simple rules to let computers help you manage it. There are a bunch of apps for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and CLI, and making your own seems pretty easy. As long as your text file is shared (NextCloud, Dropbox, iCloud), you can sync your list across your devices.
@Bill Dengler

I'm thinking of all my friends and family in Florida and the Carolina's this morning, as the effects of monster hurricane Helene are felt across the entire region with Helene having made landfall last night around the Florida panhandle Big Bend area. It will be peaceful down there again soon enough, but wow I'm amazed at the fury of mother nature when events like this happen.

Sometimes you have to realize and appretiate what time we are living in. There are still wars, there are still people which dayly have to put an enormous effort into surviving on the street, but still we should be thankfully what time we are born into. I'll give you just a few examples here:
- Painful eye operation:
A doctor tried in the 17th century to surgy a client suffering under an eye disablitation that would cause one eye to not develop properly. While this can be fixed very simply today (by just forcing the weaker eye to develop by putting an eye patch on the stronger one) this wasn't known back then.
And so there was an operation in which the doctor used a sharp knife to directly hit the weaker eye, yes it is exactly that painful as it sounds.
That isn't the worst, however. Back then they didn't know how to make the human body to don't feel pain. And so the client was fully awake, felt the pain and being observated by a large growth of other humans as surgies were done public then.
Not only that, sadly it turned out that this doctor just was a cheater and thus at the end it didn't even help.
I'll left you off with that thoughts. Keep in mind, it always can be worse than you ever could imagine.

Someone on the DVSwitch group has a "manger authentication error." To that, I want to say "403:forbidden. no room at the inn," followed by "301:moved permanently to stable," but I won't do it. Wrong season, anyway.
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1. Bartoš vyštínul dodavatele z ITC unie a ušetřil 1mld na nákladech
2. Bartoš ale musel postavit narychlo nový tým
3. Kterej to nestihnul a Bartoš udělal úplně blbý kroky v komunikaci a neposunul platnost legislavity (nechápu)
4. Mediální masáž (Půr&spol)
5. Analýza ministrů, kteří se v digitalizaci topí ještě víc
6. Bartoš odvolán
7. Převeleno na Min. Dopravy - nejspíš v rozporu s kompetenčním zákonem

Pane Premiére @strakovka s tím ne úplně zvládnutým managementem vás ve vládě bude víc.

@Úřad vlády ČR
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Jachym Cepicky
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Na straně @Pirati a Ivana Bartoše zejména bych chtěl: Víc politické prozíravosti (to je součást té práce a musí se to naučit) a určit víc pokory (zvorali jste to, to se může stát každému, ale je důležité to říct nahlas a říkat, jaké kroky povedou k nápravě).

Na straně ODS&Spol: máte máslo na hlavě úplně stejně a předáváte stát zpátky do rukou monopolních dodavatelů s vendor lock-in. Jste pro mě přizdisráči.

Půr: Nejedná v zájmu veřejnosti, pouze v zájmu svém. Jeho karma.

@Piráti

Nelituju ani minuty casu stravene nadavanim nad debilnim trackingem ve Final Cutu!

Ispirace od @Yamato, cestna zminka @marcel_kolaja

Internet je jejich more!

#pirati #Lipavský

#pirati #Lipavský @Marcel Kolaja @Miroslav Hylš 🇺🇦 🇹🇼

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Aleš "ELfkaM" Havlas
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Geniální 😂 Ještě bych to protáhl o pár sekund dál, ta následující scéna by se také hodila 🤭

@Yamato @marcel_kolaja

@Marcel Kolaja @Miroslav Hylš 🇺🇦 🇹🇼

Ow. Ow ow ow. That is just a savage burn

nytimes.com/2024/09/25/busines…

When Mr. Altman visited TSMC’s headquarters in Taiwan shortly after he started his fund-raising effort, he told its executives that it would take $7 trillion and many years to build 36 semiconductor plants and additional data centers to fulfill his vision, two people briefed on the conversation said. It was his first visit to one of the multibillion-dollar plants. TSMC’s executives found the idea so absurd that they took to calling Mr. Altman a “podcasting bro,” one of these people said. Adding just a few more chip-making plants, much less 36, was incredibly risky because of the money involved.

I miss when Intel Centrino was a thing. Anyone remember Centrino? Whatever happened to that brand? After like 2012 it sort of died I guess. Cool name, though, as a result of that back in the day in 2006 I made an Alter Aeon character called Centrino, but that's neither here nor there. I had the 3rd-generation of Centrino notebooks at the time with a Core Duo (not even core2Duo). That's my Throwback Thursday on a Friday moment for you
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I had a Centrino laptop back in I think 2006, that thing had great battery life, was quiet, had decent WiFi for the time, I liked it a lot. Was a Toshiba.

google Notebook LM is so very, very disconcerting. Staying far away. Like, physical uncomfortable levels of disconcerting.
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Tamas G
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it was only a matter of time... Once you can swap in your own voice models and do more direct prompt engineering on what script it records (right now it's just the briefing) podcasting as a medium will no longer be the same, or at least it will get split into AI-casts and those where people physically sit down, and maybe the sit-down podcasts will hold higher value eventually in a world of spit-out crafted AI crap. Who knows.

Happy Friday, since it's 2 days before my birthday I took it off work. Even though there's a mountain of stuff to do and be looking at. Thursday's Xfinity outage did not leave a sweet taste in my mouth either. I worked until 9 PM last night to make up some ground, update project stuff I'm doing, so that is making me less anxious about it I guess, but I hate leaving work with everything hanging. That and have no clue of what I'll do for this birthday as I'm stressed to make plans, lol.
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Tamas G
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not even sure why they had to have our network out for an entire day, the only thing I'll give them over past years of Xfinity is the warning. Even that came only 1 day in advance, but hey, at least they said there will be an outage. I didn't expect it to last until well after 5 PM, though. Maybe we got some type of speed capacity upgrade in our area, I would have to guess with how long it took, but I'm happy with my 600MBps one for now

After this week, I'm going to go out to eat, and eat the absolute biggest burger my belly can handle. Oh my gosh! And fries, and fried oreo. And either sweet tea or Doctor Pepper! Like, I can't tell y'all how ready I am to sink my teeth into something good. I know, stress eating isn't good for me. But goodness I haven't done that in, well, quite a while.

Meet Your Match with Memory Puzzles: Shapes aph.org/meet-your-match-with-m…

Aktuální stav podporu nominací na předsedu @Pirati:

Lukáš Wagenknecht PRO 184 (77%)
Martin Šmída PRO 100 (64%)
Jana Holomčík Leitnerová PRO 73 (62%)
Adéla Šípová PROTI 63 (60%)
Rudolf Špoták PROTI 145 (76%)

#politika #pirati #piratskastrana

#PirátskáStrana #Politika #pirati @Piráti

Xfinity Agreed to Drop Its '10G' Branding. Here's What the Term Actually Means cnet.com/home/internet/xfinity…

an ex-cop being charged with crimes....

Lasst uns über #CrippingUp sprechen – wenn nicht-behinderte Schauspieler*innen Rollen von Menschen mit Behinderung übernehmen. Das schadet der Repräsentation und schränkt Möglichkeiten für echte Inklusion ein, da behinderten Schauspielenden die Teilhabe verwehrt wird. /1
#CrippingUp

#ANO nemá žádné škraloupy... 😁

#podvod #nemocnice #čáslav #ano2011 #anobudelíp

kutnohorsky.denik.cz/krimi/cas…

#ANO #podvod #nemocnice #caslav #ano2011 #anobudelip

just a heads-up that if you're using Adblock Browser for Android, you should probably consider switching to something else. under the hood it's running Chromium 111 (from Mar 2023) while current stable is 129.
Screenshot: About Chrome Application version Chrome 129.0.6668.70
Screenshot: About Adblock Browser Application version Adblock Browser 3.4.5; Chromium 111.0.5563.102
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Rick Scott 🏳️‍⚧️
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ABB updates have slowed considerably since this past March. if you're looking for alternatives, Firefox for Android + uBlock Origin is one good option.

#лытдыбр #фалыстыннаш после общения на шиномонтаже я вспомнил мысль, подслушанную у Шульман. Каждый человек идентифицирует себя как то.

Отец, мать, сын, учитель, программист, мясник, шиномонтажник.

И только самые бессмысленные и опасные люди идентифицируют себя как еврей, араб, русский и т.п.

потому что кроме национальности в них ни хуя и нет и в других они ценят только это

#лытдыбр #фалыстыннаш

Vysvětlení přímo od Ivana.
#pirati
#pirati
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Archos
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@fredbrooker
Hele to nikdy nevíš, taky jsem si to říkal a už jsem stavěl chajdu na zahradě 😀😀
@Fred Brooker

There will be 4 SSI payments in the next 3 months - Social Security makes it official lagradaonline.com/en/4-ssi-pay…

PipeWire 1.2.5 is out! Some critical bugs were fixed. More details here:

gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewir…

We’ve launched a comprehensive database to catalog TalkBack and Jieshuo (CSR) screen reader bugs affecting blind and low vision Android users. Our mission is to raise awareness of these issues and help developers address them more effectively and promptly. Join us in improving accessibility for all! Feel free to add your screen reader bugs to make the database more comprehensive. 🌍 accessibleandroid.com/bugs/ #Accessibility #TalkBack #Jieshuo #AndroidAccessibility
#Accessibility #talkback #jieshuo #Androidaccessibility

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Ach jo, tak moje cyklo hospůdka, už místo gulášovky a domácího borůvkového koláče, má už jen kung-pao, závitky .....
A místo #birellovka jsem dostal Plzeň 🤦
Tak tu jsem vrátil, vypil kafe a valil pryč.
#birellovka

‼️Mal día para los agoreros de los datos económicos.

📈PIB 2º trimestre +0,8% (3,1% en variación interanual)

📉Inflación interanual IPC septiembre 1,5%. Subyacente 2,4% y intermensual -0,6 (la mayor caída en muchos meses).

#лытдыбр

кто то спиздил с машины два колпачка от ниппелей.

из этого печального факта и легкой формы окр, не позволившей с этим жить оказалось можно извлечь много пользы:

- прокатиться с удовольствием и проверить, что может #tesla в крутую горку (все)
- немного вернуть веру в хороших людей. араб на шиномонтаже открутил колпачки от каких то валяющихся у него ниппелей и пытался всучить бесплатно. (лишился попутно единственной налички - 5 шекелей для отрицания тележки в супермаркете) ->

#tesla #лытдыбр
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André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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О, у вас тележки тоже за шекели отпирают?) прям как у нас, только у нас еврошекели 😊
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Galactic Jew 🇮🇱
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@menelion чаще всего так. почти везде. одно время пытались сделать так что в можно было взять по номеру ID. но по-моему почти везде это уже поумирало.
@André Polykanine

So a lot of things I've read about the new Braille screen input on iOS suggest that you dismiss it by pulling your fingers apart on the screen. Personally I find it easier to use both my pointer fingers and pinch them toward each other. It feels way more natural to me. Really it can be done either way, as long as your fingers are going in opposite directions.
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aaron
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Apple call it a "pinch" in settings, so I think that's the way they expect it to work.
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