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@adrienne Meanwhile… WP’s accessibility team meetings are on hold, because… neither of the team’s reps can log into WP.org anymore.
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I'd just like to make sure everyone's aware that

-0.000014750162760416649838945447881233263842659653164446353912353515625

represented in IEEE754 double precision floating point, and then bitwise covered to an integer and printed in hex, is

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEE5

🐝🐝🐝🐝



Don't know why I didn't realize it sooner, but, while LLMs produce a lot of bullshit, they're absolutely perfect for producing those endless shitty interpretive papers I had to write in college for classes like English Lit. I hope students are making mockeries of those now. Ask ChatGPT to write a 1,000 word paper explaining how the song WAP is a protest against 'nuclear weapons.
in reply to bryansmart

I think another LLM should grade such essays these days! :) Students and teachers could then go on vacation or whatever! :)

in reply to Eugene McParland 🇺🇦

@drew Is there a source from which I can forward to other social media? Also, is there an original voice track?


Is it wrong to hate someone based on how they park their car?
in reply to Virginicus

now if a cat was driving, you could let loose. Cats are great drivers, but full of malice.


‘Clutter isn’t really an East versus West thing,’ continues Tsuzuki. ‘It’s a rich versus poor thing. Wherever you go, anywhere in the world, the wealthy have the luxury of living in clean, minimal spaces, while the poor have to make do with small, cramped ones, without any way to hide their belongings.’

aeon.co/essays/the-life-changi…



Yahoo Finance says that Twitter's revenue has dropped by 84% since Elon Musk took over. finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter…

84%! It's bringing less than one sixth of what it did pre-takeover!

That's one stable genius, right there.

in reply to Mike Taylor 🦕

@drew but like, to be honest... Who cares? It's not like Elon bought it to appease investors...


I just wrote a tip for the book about how difficult I found it getting the new BSI activation gesture to work. TURNS OUT. My BSI Activation Gesture setting was toggled off. On my new phone? Anyone else see Off as a default? Also, if you can’t get the gesture to work, go find that toggle in BSI settings. #a11y #ios #voiceover
in reply to Shelly Brisbin

Never seen this by default off. I don't think the gesture is described well by Apple. The language sounds too confusing, at least to me. I like how someone described it in their podcast: "simply place your fingers as if you were about to type the letter C. Now, type it twice". Works for me! :)
in reply to victor tsaran

@vick21 I read that somewhere, too. I agree. Makes much more sense than the way Apple describes.

in reply to Peter Saathoff-Harshfield

Sections of Fifth Ave in the Gaslamp Quarter were closed to cars and open to people, enforced with permanent-looking metal bollards. It was nice to have a space for people to exist without noisy, dangerous cars being everywhere, and Aubrie liked being able to freely roll in the street rather than having to maneuver along the sidewalk.


I'm taking a semi-break from posting here at the moment, but I hope everyone has had a good weekend. I do have some Christmas music news coming in the next post.


Posted by a gentleman I follow, and I have added alt-text to it, for the benefit of those who might want to boost it. And for the benefit of those who cannot see the picture, of course!
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Re last (it was a post about canceling accessibility meetings at WordPress): #WordPress began to get screwed when Gutenberg appeared, now it seems screwed for good. If I were you, I would migrate from it as soon as possible.


As neither of the current Accessibility team representatives are able to log-in to WordPress.org, team meetings are suspended until further notice. Bug scrubs will continue to run as normal.


Totally fine! make.wordpress.org/accessibili… #A11y

#a11y



“We were trying to get to a show and got four Uber denials within a half-hour period. These denials happened after sending a message to the drivers letting them know that we would be traveling with a service animal.” – Guide Dog User in California, January 2024

This is one of many rideshare denials. End the discrimination. Respect our guide dogs and white canes. It’s our #RightToRide. #StopGuideDogDenials #Rideshare #Discrimination



an meine Followys in Köln. Wer kennt einen Location nähe Köln Hansaring, wo ich kommenden Mittwoch (16. Okt) abends, nach der Arbeit, nicht allein sein muss.

Bin die nächste Woche dienstlich in Köln und würde mich sehr freuen den Abend nicht allein meinen Gedanken auf dem tristen Hotelzimmer verbringen zu müssen.

Es geht mir wirklich in erster Linie um: Nicht allein sein. Ich muss nicht unbedingt neuen Bekanntschaften machen, es reicht schon ein Umfeld, wo nette Menschen zu Small Talk bereit sind. Hauptsache nicht allein auf dem Hotelzimmer.

Gern einen Boost und bei sehr konkreten Ideen auch eine direkt Nachricht.

Danke Euch ❤️
:boost_requested:​ ​:reboost:



OH: "Antibrumm"-Spray, aber gegen Autos statt gegen Mücken.


Budúci týždeň opäť dlhý plus vo štvrtok Piváreň, pravdupovediac už teraz sa mi nechce. Ten ďalší by som mohol robiť menej.
in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Odpísal som na päť ponúk v podstate každá z nich sa mi páčila a keď sa uskromním si to budem môcť "v pohode" dovoliť. Tak to som zvedavý tiež.
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Ozvali sa z jednej, aj to z tej čo je najďalej a čo sa mi najmenej páčila.


Jung, links, propalästinensisch – und am wenigsten antisemitisch


Eine neue Studie der Uni Mannheim zeigt: Der Antisemitismus-Vorwurf gegen linke Studierende geht »an den Tatsachen vorbei«. Zwischen propalästinensischen Einstellungen und Antisemitimus bestehe kaum ein Zusammenhang.


nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1185968.…



вы бы стали жить в мире, где я буду правителем?

  • да (4%, 1 vote)
  • конечно (0%, 0 votes)
  • разумеется (9%, 2 votes)
  • сосиска (86%, 19 votes)
22 voters. Poll end: 2 weeks ago



#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 15 updated and 1 added apps:

* BinEd - Binary/Hex Editor 🛡️

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:



The repair works in the Mülheimer Brücke will not be done by November as promised and the new date is "end of March at the latest".
I know "I bet this construction work will not be finished on time" is not a particularly wild guess in Germany, but nonetheless: called it!



Excel, Word, PowerPoint und Co. sind mittelmäßig. Weil sie aber allgegenwärtig sind, muss die reale Welt an ihre Mittelmäßigkeit angepasst werden. Wie aber können wir dieser Abhängigkeit vom Mittelmaß entkommen?

netzpolitik.org/2024/degitalis…



Ward Christensen, co-founder of first online BBS system and creator of XMODEM, dies at 78. Peace.

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Woohoo! It's a pity I haven't tried the #tuba #fedi client built with #gnome technologies earlier. It's verry accessible with a #screenreader. I am running it on the desktop using the keyboard to navigate.


Thanks to @ChristineMalec and some amazing friends, my slightly early birthday present yesterday was to go up in an Extra 300 aerobatic aircraft and experience roles, loops, etc. Even got to take the controls for a bit. This was a completely amazing experience. This is a two seater aircraft that is specifically designed for aerobatics. A video is coming as soon as I get it. There will also be an audio described version.
in reply to Scary Martin

@mcourcel We are already talking about doing it again at some point. Not at all cheap though.
in reply to Jason Fayre

@mcourcel Just being there was exciting, but not as exciting as it'll be to do it myself on my birthday!
in reply to Jason Fayre

@mcourcel I wonder if there's a language with a word or concise expression for the joy we take in the happiness of our beloved.


Debian will participate in this year's December Outreachy round with the projects "Automatic Indi-3rd-party driver update" and "Migrate the Debian main website to HuGo". We are currently in the Intern selection period and are looking forward to start the work. See wiki.debian.org/Outreachy/ . #debian #outreachy



has anybody been able to explain why the spanish dystopian film series "platform" names its characters after seemingly random indonesian words (goreng, perempuan, kekasih, daging babi, imogiri, trimagasi/ terima kasih)...


Israel's ongoing massacre of Jabalia refugee camp is one of the most violent attacks on Palestinian people in a year of violent attacks, in 78 years of violent attacks.

People need to stop scrolling past these crimes of humanity. No more excuses. Or saying "it's complicated".

Everyday, Palestinian people are being slaughtered by Israel, and too many people don't care because they're racist shits who don't see Arabs/brown people as human.

(Yes, you, the person that will report me for this post, you are a racist shit)

@palestine #Gaza #Genocide #FreePalestine #AntiArabRacism
middleeasteye.net/news/israeli…




I favourite a lot of cool stuff on Mastodon. I'd love a service to go through that stuff on a regular basis, pick some of it at random, and remind me of it. Maybe by email, DM, or whatever.

Note: last time I mentioned using favourites in this way, Mastodon's corrections brigade came out in force to tell me I should be using bookmarks instead. Please don't do that again.

in reply to James Scholes

you still can't export your favorites? What the hell is this?
in reply to Talon

I really like this idea though. I put it in my cool ideas.txt file which are full of ideas all of which I will definitely for sure get to within my lifetime.


To je brutál
youtube.com/watch?v=OOy8LGQe9F…
in reply to Archos

Není nějaký sestřih toho podstatného na cca ±10 minut? 🤔 96 minut nemám a posouvání je vlastně neodborný střih, kdy mi občas něco podstatného může uniknout 🤷🏻‍♂️, takže bych to nechal na odbornících 😊.
in reply to Ferda 😼✔️

Já moc velký odborník na střih videa nejsem, dělám to úplně stejně jako ty :-)) . Já jsem hlavně koukal na ten konec, na to zachycení.
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in reply to Ferda 😼✔️

@ferda Vlastně stačí jen tohle youtube.com/watch?v=wvZwwnybX_… :-))
in reply to Archos

Super 👍🏻, dám si to ještě jednou 😊, to se neokouká 😁, díky 💚.


Had a conversation last week that went something like this:
Person A (marketing): we need to redesign our website so we can make it more informative
Me (CTO): great
Person B (PM): I have the old WordPress account info, maybe we could start over on that
Me: lol absolutely fucking not
in reply to Matt May

Have you decided what you're using instead?

My little company is also redesigning our website. We were already using WordPress, and we've started a new WordPress site. With everything Matt Mullenweg has been doing lately, I'm tempted to suggest using something else, but I don't know what. Having such a wide selection of themes and plugins is certainly convenient.

in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt Not yet, but I’m kind of a minimalist. It might just be a static site in Eleventy with a blog/newsletter hosted on Buttondown.


Hey, they did it! People have known for a long time that in 4 dimensions you can pack equal-sized balls so that each touches 24 others. In 2008 someone showed that's the best you can do. But in April this year, three mathematicians showed there's essentially just 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 you can accomplish this!

This way is easy to describe. Take the points whose coordinates are all integers, together with those whose coordinates are all integers plus 1/2. Use each of these points as the center of a ball of radius 1/2. Then each ball touches 24 others. This pattern is called the 𝗗𝟰 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲.

The new result shows that if you pack equal-sized balls in 4 dimensions so that each touches 24 others, you're 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑑 to create a version of the D4 lattice - possibly rotated, translated and/or rescaled.

This sort of thing is hard to show: it took a lot of fancy math and two weeks of calculation on a standard desktop computer. I believe only other dimensions where we know a result like this are 1, 2, 8 and 24. In dimension 3 it's just false: you can pack equal-sized balls so that each touches 12 others, and this is the best you can do, but there are uncountably many different ways to do it!

arxiv.org/abs/2404.18794



We've spent decades trying different things to counter our rising domestic extremism problem. Good news: We've finally found a strategy that seems to work. thestar.com/opinion/contributo…


Deutschland braucht mehr Einwanderung und eine großzügige Asylregelung.