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Came across some spam with the subject "Verified Damsels". Now I want a short story about the government department in charge of verifying and licensing damsels, and punishing the hero for rescuing an unverified and unlicensed damsel. And/or a damsel who has to rescue herself and go on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment because she can't get properly verified.


Western observers often express cynicism towards China’s self-proclaimed “Whole-Process People’s Democracy” without fully grasping its distinct characteristics and underlying principles. While Western liberal democracies prioritize periodic elections, China argues this approach is inherently limited, susceptible to corruption, and ultimately fails to truly represent the people’s will.

🧵

en.qstheory.cn/2024-07/08/c_10…



TL;DR:
1. Probably don’t add `­` without guidance from a copywriter.
2. Probably don’t add `­` to foreign words without expert guidance.
3. Probably don’t add `­` to URLs, email addresses, code blocks, etc.
4. Probably restrict `<wbr>` to URLs, email addresses, code blocks, and similar where technical accuracy is key.
5. Probably restrict `<wbr>` to before periods and dashes and maybe slashes in URLs and emails.

#accessibility #a11y #css #html

in reply to Adrian Roselli

these are all so so good - soft hyphens have gotten tiring when just browsing the web for their verbosity, so at this point I think my brain just skips over them as noise, but this guidance for sure needs to be out there.
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg I find them visually destructive outside specific cases. A signal of poor typography (but not always).



@tink will be attending #DevFestNantes to share her talk: “The Land That Time to Interactive Forgot.” 🌐

She’ll explore how Time to Interactive (TTI) impacts web performance, accessibility, and user experience, offering insights into how we can all make the web faster and more inclusive.

Read more about her talk and find the full schedule at: devfest.gdgnantes.com/en/sched…

#WebDevelopment #Accessibility #SustainableAccessibility #DevFest



Thunderbird for Android 8.0b2 has landed on the Google Play Store and on our Github Releases page. We've removed the existing folder class system, and would love feedback on this change from new and existing users. For more information on the release, see the release notes on GitHub:

#ThunderbirdForAndroid #Thunderbird

github.com/thunderbird/thunder…

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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
@ryan_harg Hi! This has been a requested enhancement. No idea yet on any possible timeline, but this would be the best place to follow any development: github.com/thunderbird/thunder…
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

And all iOS users continue to sit in the corner crying and hoping for an app.


🔊 We're finally getting a fully stylable <select> element!

Me and @surma dive into the details, including 10 web platform features we got along the way.

⬇️ Listen here ⬇️
offthemainthread.tech/episode/…



Welcome to the RB family, USB Serial Telnet Server :awesome: Thanks to the help of Alexey, this was finally achieved:

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.c…

And it means that 275 of the apps at #IzzyOnDroid are now set up for #reproducibleBuilds – or in relative numbers, 22.9% Hoping for the "forth egg" (25%) though it's quite a way to go, still 😊




Installing Microsoft Teams on my home PC, because I need it for a meeting this morning. Went to the Microsoft Store and the first thing that comes up with the search isMicrosoft Teams with a rating of 2.3. I didn't think it would have been that high. Lol!
in reply to Andrew Hodgson

@andrew Work use a combo of teams and slack. Slack's handling of file attachments, text-based messages and threads, and the integrations outside 365 it has are superb. Be nice if they settled on one for convenience, but that'd probably be Teams
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo Yeah Slack has its issues but I think fosters a discussion ethos a lot more than Teams. When I've migrated from Slack to Teams the free conversation dynamic changes a lot.


Quebec's language law may force music gear off store shelves

montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-s-l…

Yup. Franco Fascist. I thought these goons were pro-business but apparently they are not either.

in reply to Hubert Figuière

and then banning Anglo channels? Non-dubbed movies?

They are going for all of that. Like Fascist.

in reply to Hubert Figuière

I am more sympathetic than most to the need to ensure products & services are equitably available in french

but

at some point the gov't has to realize that the entire rest of the world is not going to bend to their whims

in reply to Rick Scott 🏳️‍⚧️

@shadowspar exactly. The requirement of a user manual in French is fine. But anything else is over reaching. "we sell 3 units a month of this"
in reply to Rick Scott 🏳️‍⚧️

I'm sure music isn't the only kind of specialty store that has a hard time sourcing products with french labelling. do they really want all these kinds of stores to shut down in Quebec, so that people have to sneak across to Ontario to buy these things?


NO ONE EVER ASKED FOR THIS #CAQASTROPHE.

Québec's language law may force music gear off store shelves...

And, how long before Québec cannot reach anglophone websites to purchase anything...

montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-s-l… #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #languagewars #cdnpoli #polcan



In my last Italian blog post talking about #Google I suggested your service @Tutanota a service I purchased proudly 🙂 I'm planning to write a specific post in English to talk about Tuta.

giovanniventuri.com/2024/10/07…

in reply to unruhe

Wow, thank you, that's a nice blog post! 😍 Let's keep on fighting for privacy. 💪 🔒


Arm position during blood pressure check may lead to wrong reading, study finds nbcnews.com/health/heart-healt…


Yeah yeah, the privacy and encryption is pretty cool @Tutanota, but the dark blue theme...
@Tuta


Jupyter is yet one more example of the hypothesis that all programming languages eventually converge towards Lisp.
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

I use Jupyter notebooks for my data science class, and I have to extract the files and open them in VS code because the web layout is a hot steamy disaster.
To this day, I don't understand the point of Jupyter or what it even is.


do you play games in fullscreen or windowed mode

boost for sample size please?

  • fullscreen (81%, 805 votes)
  • windowed (18%, 186 votes)
991 voters. Poll end: 1 month ago



using LaTeX is easy, all you need to know is that when Donald Knuth failed the Mark of Mastery Exam and lost his ability to wield a keyblade, his heart manifested that power into a new person: Tela Type

Tela had the power to wield the Fountain Keypen, which was mightier than any Keyblade.

However when Tela's best friend Roxe was consumed by darkness (creating the nobody Xerox and the heartless Bell), Tela fell into despair and lost her heart too, creating the nobody LaTeX and the heartless Metafont.

You first meet Metafont in *Kingdom Hearts e-ε: ligature drop descender*, although they aren't that important.

LaTeX first apprars in *Kingdom Hearts π-ε : hbox overfull*, although at that point they're called TeX.

They only become LaTeX in *Kingdom Hearts Literate:coded* where they merge with their digital replica in a simulation of TAOCP and discover the χ-macro that was hidden inside themselves by king Mickey.



Voting today; this is the longest early voting line I've ever seen

in reply to ⚛️Revertron

Удивляться тут уже нечему, но пипец, конечно, лютый.


Какому гению пришла в голову идея, что сделать дефолтным действием отказ это хорошо?
- sudo dnf <...>
- будет сделано вот это, продолжаем?
- да (просто тыкает энтер)
- операция прервана
in reply to Мя

Это прекрасная идея. Кто-то по-нечайке мог нажать на ентер, при чём ещё и угробил себе систему в хламину.
in reply to Zvonimir Stanecic

@asael это просто приведёт к тому что люди будут не глядя писать y<cr>, только материться при этом
in reply to Мя

Пусть лучше матерятся и читают сообщения, чем не читая делают апгрейд.
in reply to Zvonimir Stanecic

@asael это не поможет юзерам начать читать. Совсем.
in reply to Мя

Кстати, днф, как и апт склонные не ризолвить все зависимшсти.


In which we read out three user-submitted stories about meeting their partners.

#StroongeCast E04: How You Met Your Other: youtu.be/kqgFs_TpyXU
@MoonCat

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in reply to Andrea

@andijah this with us, too. Audio annoys me 9 times out of 10 but you guys are rocking it.

first thing my wife's mother said to her about me was 'you're not going to get together with that idiot, are you?'.



Invitation to Participate in the 200TH Anniversary initiative “Braille 200” livingbraille.eu/invitation-to…




I just deleted my Twitter account.

I saw a viral pro-H*tler tweet on my timeline with 66,000 likes and 9.5 million views. That was enough for me to ensure my posts don’t contribute any value to that garbage dump.



What happens to the backup of #Conversations if the backup is not completed (no success message received) and the phone is switched off. Will the backup continue after switching it on?
@daniel@gultsch.social#XMPP #Chat #Messenger


It's so uncanny how some people's writing styles are extremely similar to Chat GPT.


Yesterday night I came home to this. The air was basically water at this point.


Wow. To vypadá na hodně zajímavou změnu ve školství.

> „Půjdeš do první třídy a teď ti to začne.“
> A hned v září dítě dostane jedničku nebo třeba trojku. To je prostě vražda na dětské duši, tak jsem to bral i jako ředitel.

denikn.cz/1542196/razantni-ome… #odemceno



Proč jenom, když tohle čtu, tak už vidím, že to bude zase zase černá díra na prachy...

irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/digit…



Před kupé si jeden zvídavý cestující zdlouhavě kontroloval, jaká místa jsou zde označena místenkou.

A pak si důležitě sedl na jedno z označených míst
#korporatnivylet

in reply to Archos

@archos V pátek mám korporátní výlet a pak mastopivo. Takže páteční vysílání bude nabito prémiovou zábavou!
in reply to Archos

@archos připrav červený koberec, chléb se solí a dětský sbor v krojích. Dorazím

A jestli nebudou mávátka, tak si mě nepřej!

in reply to Pavel

😄😄 To je jasná věc.
Že jsem tě neviděl na srazy.arch-linux.cz/poll/R6Z49… tak jsem myslel, že nejdeš.
in reply to Pavel

To se nedivím, je tam toho hodně na vyplnění 😃😃
Jasný v pohodě, jsem rád, že dorazíš 👍👍
in reply to Unreed

@Unreed
Ne, jen aby jsme věděli kolik nás dorazí. Registrovat se nikdo nemusí.
@pavel


𝐀𝐝𝐚 & 𝐙𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐞!

We are celebrating with our supporters #AdaLovelace Day on 8 October with the world premiere of the animated movie 'Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream! 💥

ada.fsfe.org/movie

If you are planning to support the :fsfe: , do it today and do not miss this event!

#Ada #SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware




Case in point: there's no way to build a backdoor that only the "good guys" can use.

When the entire technical community says that the EU's ChatControl legislation + similar pose serious cybersecurity threats, we're not exaggerating for effect.

wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s…



Preocupado de que la preocupación por la inmigración vaya por delante de la preocupación por la hostelería.
in reply to modulux

@modulux literalmente es la defensa progre por excelencia. Lo ves en todas partes."¿Quien va a hacer los trabajos que no queremos hacer nosotros?"


Ayer falleció una gran amiga de mi familia. Llevaba 7 años con un cáncer complicado.

Mi madre se ha ido al funeral a Madrid, pero yo me quedaré a echar una mano a mi padre, al que la sesión de ayer de inmunoterapia ha dejado muy flojo. Él también sufre varias enfermedades graves desde hace años.

Coincide que ayer vimos una serie británica sobre cómo se vivió en un hospital británico la pandemia de coronavirus.

Y Raquel y yo recordamos esos días no tan lejanos, donde muchas familias pasamos a convivir con los cuidados intensivos y la amenaza fatal.

Todo ello me hace pensar (de nuevo) en la falsa idea de que hoy en día vivimos de espaldas a la muerte.

Lo que yo creo es que hemos cambiado rituales espirituales y sociales por prácticas sanitarias y cuidados.

Pasamos años acompañando a los nuestros en largos procesos sanitarios y afectivos.

Quizás no dedicamos tanto tiempo a los muertos porque dedicamos más a que los vivos vivan más y mejor.

Y cuanto todo termina, termina.




Buenos días. Estoy de permiso por operación de pariente de 1º grado.

Entretanto, tenemos 7 alertas meteorológicas. Viene la tormenta, parece ser.



I learned to do a pie chart with gnuplot so let me introduce "#curl CVE severity distribution" .

curl.se/dashboard1.html#cve-pi…

#curl