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A polar bear sticking his head out of a hole where he hides in a mountain of snow. Bonjour, he says

#QA humor
Tumblr post by Linux-real, Sept 26. A software tester walks into a bar. Runs into a bar. Crawls into a bar. Dances into a bar. Flies into a bar. Jumps into a bar. And orders: a beer. 2 beers. O beers. 99999999 beers. a lizard in a beer glass. -1 beer. "qwertyuiop" beers. Testing complete. A real customer walks into the bar and turns on a screen reader. The bar goes up in flames.
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What I would be doing with my life if I didn't have to grind
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Hermeto Pascoal - Música da Lagoa (Sinfonia do Alto Ribeira, 1985)

Trecho do filme "Sinfonia do Alto Ribeira", de Ricardo Lua. "Música da Lagoa"Snippet of the 1985 movie "Sinfonia do Alto Ribeira", by Ricardo LuaGravado em 1...
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this dystopic scene of identical robocars clogging an entire block to carry maaaybe 1/4 of a busload of people, was posted by a waymo employee who thought it made his company look good.

#banCars

Post on X by Brian Wilt: "Charli XCX post concert pickups, SF, October 20, 2024" A row of identical white cars with black spinning sensors on the top stretches down a block as far as the eye can see. There is also one further down that appears to block the bike lane.
#bancars
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Federico Mena Quintero
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Some years ago, on the birdsite, I used to follow an account from the city government that tweeted photos from the city's cameras. One was a whole street clogged with taxis. No non-taxi cars in sight. That street does not have bus service.

hey @thephd does Very Old ISO C have Rationales or "History of Decision Made"s (I would like to know if the reason C allows malloc(0)=0 is because it believes the SVID which says this happens on SysV (it doesn't, the manual lies. malloc(0)≠0 always (unless OOM), and this has always been the case in every malloc implementation ever (on anything unix-shaped)))
@Björkus "No time_t to Die" Dorkus

The Struggle with Mobile Job Applications: Accessibility Insights blog.usablenet.com/the-struggl…

The Struggle with Mobile Job Applications: Accessibility Insights

Discover the accessibility challenges blind users face with mobile job applications and how to improve the experience for all job seekers.
Michael Taylor (UsableNet Inc.)

This article is old, but the description of how Coverity evolved from a research tool to seeing real-world usage in a commercial context, is REALLY GOOD. web.stanford.edu/~engler/BLOC-…

Apple’s Impressive AirPods Pro 2 Hearing Aids Launch a New Era of Health Tech habengirma.com/2024/10/21/appl…

Apple’s Impressive AirPods Pro 2 Hearing Aids Launch a New Era of Health Tech

Disability Rights Lawyer, Author, Speaker
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Making Castro’s Feeds Update Faster the Lazy Way castro.fm/blog/making-castros-…

Making Castro’s Feeds Update Faster the Lazy Way

Optimizing Castro's worker jobs to get your podcasts to you more quickly
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The difference between Chrome's address bar autocomplete and Firefox's address bar autocomplete? Chrome will try to fill out the full URL if you type the first part, for example, if you had foo.com/example-1, Chrome will type that full string with just foo and then pressing right arrow or tab, ETC. Firefox is smarter, and only fills out the first part of the URL. Both let you down arrow through a top list of sites to visit. I like Firefox better at this one every time, though

Best Light Therapy Lamps for 2024 cnet.com/health/best-sad-light…

Announcing The Launch of Access Park: My Mission to Build a Global Marketplace for Assistive Technology and Empower Buyers and Sellers Within the Access Community - AT-Newswire groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/79…

Announcing The Launch of Access Park: My Mission to Build a Global Marketplace for Assistive Technology and Empower Buyers and Sellers Within the Access Community - AT-Newswire

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Regarding Using Hartgen Consultancy Products With the Upcoming Release of JAWS 2025 groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/79…

Regarding Using Hartgen Consultancy Products With the Upcoming Release of JAWS 2025

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Workshop From the Florida Outreach Center for the Blind: Learn About AIRA: Thursday, October 24, 2:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/79…

Workshop From the Florida Outreach Center for the Blind: Learn About AIRA: Thursday, October 24, 2:00 PM Eastern Time

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Links to Hadley's Apple Watch workshops
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Apple Watch Series | Hadley

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My early 2010s heart BREAKS
A popup in a screenshot of the Foursquare City Guide app saying: Important Notice! We've made the tough decision to say goodbye to the Foursquare City Guide app, effective December 15, 2024. We're here to support you through this change and invite you to check out Swarm!

T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users

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Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users

Carriers fight plan to require unlocking of phones 60 days after activation.
Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)

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Does anyone remember a Christian soap opera that aired in the early '80s called "Another Life?" I remember really getting into that show in 1981.
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Robin Frost
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Wow it had a classy theme. youtube.com/watch?v=Ryvx9GxrsJ…

Another Life (1981) - Closing Theme (Version #1)

And now I bring you another classic theme song. Yes, this is from another soap but this is not just your average type of soap. This was a Religious soap that...
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David Goldfield
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@robini71 That's amazing. Hadn't heard that theme in over 40 years. Thanks for finding it.
@Robin Frost

I'm hoping this is not the case but I need some answers from tech people. I have a 128 GB SD card. I use it to listen to movies/TV shows/graphic audio via my Victor reader three. Currently I am trying to copy a graphic audio onto it with 39 GB space available. It is refusing to copy or cut onto this card. Does this mean that the SD card is going bad? This has only started to happen recently. I can put the graphic audio on my hard drive but it is not allowing me to put it on the SD card.
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Asia Quinones-Evans
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@DavidGoldfield It took me some figuring out because I for some reason can't get the computer to display the size. So I plugged my hard drive into my phone. This is the size of the file I want to copy onto my SD card. Size, 902.5 MB
@David Goldfield

Wow, it's great seeing more of the Internet Archive back in operation. I was so disgusted at what happened to them. This amazing library helped me to find electronic copies of out of print books that I've wanted to read for decades. These are books that I honestly never thought I'd be able to read, short of purchasing used copies of the books and spending hours of my time scanning them. I can't express enough my thanks for the hours of joy I've received from this service after finding books that I thought would always be inaccessible to me as a blind reader.
@internetarchive

Internet Archive Services Update: 2024-10-21
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Book Talk: The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood

Join us for a book talk with legal scholar JAMES BOYLE, discussing his book THE LINE: AI and the Future of Personhood, in conversation with KATE DARLING of the MIT […]\n
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I always wanted to look into why I procrastinate, but I keep putting it off.
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David Goldfield
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You'll find plenty of good company at this year's 1994 procrastinator's convention.

#DoctorWho was probably the last thing the English could offer and now the Americans own it.
#doctorwho

Our DM is experimenting with giving us players more free rein to suggest aspects about the world and especially stuff that concerns our characters. He's finding it's more fun for him if he gets to enjoy what other people add to the story.

I think it's fantastic, but it's difficult to foster that approach in #DnD. It's not really built for it. Of course, at this point the version of "D&D" we are playing is so homebrewed and tweaked that it's eventually not going to qualify as the same game.

#dnd
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Artemis
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I wish they'd just be content to sell books with cool, creative content instead of trying to somehow gain control over the *game* itself.

You can own the license to publish official D&D content. You *cannot* own D&D.

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Jess👾
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Blame Hasbro and their investors for fundamentally failing to understand the D&D community, and instead wanting to tightly control and monetize it in search of the greatest profits.

Personally, I've been liking the campaign architecture of newer systems like Forged in the Dark or Apocalypse Word for using different ways of encouragement towards specific play styles. Even the way they use dice like 2d6 means you've got a better bell curve distribution of success. Or how "well, bad thing happened, but you can push yourself to resist the bad thing, but the pushing yourself adds up".

What would be your dream #DoctorWho video game
#doctorwho

It confuses me that #PlutoTV has anything else other then #StarTrek & #DoctorWho.
#startrek #doctorwho #plutotv
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David Goldfield
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And Pluto, at least, attempts to play DW episodes in order, unlike Amazon Prime Video and Xumo Play where you just never know what you'll get. #DoctorWho
#doctorwho

Fun facts:

The most sustainable commute comes with working from home.

The most fuel and power efficient commute comes with working from home.

The fastest commute comes with working from home.

Hmm I have a book I bought saturday that came with PDF and Epub versions. Q-read won't open the Epub, error says parsing failed "Unable to parse document." Any other programs for windows that can open it and save as txt?

i'm love lil gayterm
a screencap of my standard terminal, which uses windows terminal, wsl2, and oh-my-zsh. Before the prompt is colorful ascii art of a waving rainbow flag, along with a reminder of how to use the keyboard to get to the settings. the prompt itself is a nonbinary flag and cycles through black, purple, white, and yellow in little arrow segments. white has a tilde in it, representing the current directory

What if Doom II had a propper OPL3 soundtrrack?

It would fucking slap, that’s what.

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What if Doom II had a proper OPL3 soundtrack: Running from Evil

I was wondering what a soundtrack that actually used the OPL3 features decently might have sounded like. Here's a quick demonstration :]Video rendered with c...
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Matt Campbell
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Ah, my family had an SB16. That might be why OPL3 was familiar to me. Never played Doom or Doom II, though.
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Andrew Hodgson
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@matt Most DOS games were OPL2 and didn't have much optimisations for OPL3. There was a list of games that fully supported it somewhere, can't remember where I saw that.
@Matt Campbell

Wellp, over the weekend, I got Sling TV again, and boy do I regret it. When I had it in 2016, only the guide was inaccessible mostly, now the entire video player has no accessible controls, not even a way to adjust volume via the keyboard. I'm crushed, honestly, just crushed. YouTube TV being $72 is too much, Philo is better but with fewer channels, and FRNDLY TV has some of the ones I want but even fewer. Sling sucks, if you're blind, just don't get it.
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Goemon Ishikawa
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nowadays if you're using an actual tv more and more sites aren't working like they're supposed to, so the best chance you have is to pirate or find a good tv service.
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Tamas G
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yeah what's hard is that we don't have a physical TV here (I stream content from my computer through a local-hosted Icecast server that gets pulled in through 2 multiroom Echo studios, 2 dots, from a skill.)
upside: No fuss about video and audio syncing or using propriatary OS and screen readers.
Downside: Well, this, I guess. Ideally I would somehow play streams as playlists in VLC and channel surf that way, but never in our corporate DRM-protected world.
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Goemon Ishikawa
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Brother man you could still use websites if you know where to go, you might want to use an adblocker for this one though.
thetvapp.to/

TheTVApp.to | Watch Live Sports, Shows, News

TheTVApp.to - The easiest way to watch live TV, NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL streams
thetvapp.to
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Tamas G
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@GoemonIshikawa ha yeah, that's not a bad one with the hosts file I have none of the ads show. I think my big problem tends to be the quality of streams and then of course not knowing when something moves, but for sure a sad state of the world when sites like that are more simple and accessible than mainstream paid streaming sites are who would have the money but not dignity to relinquish control for user freedom and ease of access, either.
@Goemon Ishikawa
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Goemon Ishikawa
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right? It's almost like accessibility is becoming more of a service issue than anything elce nowadays.
I think you can check what comes on as well if you can get the schedual from the site and manage to import it somehow.
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Tamas G
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@GoemonIshikawa that schedule is perfect for each channel too, that's what's surprising there, no fuss, just the straight channel schedules. Ugh. It's almost like in an effort to feed us more content and recommendations and have fancy two-directional scrolling for the guide and bla bla bla ruins it all. LOL. Will probably cancel Sling because their iOS app shows actual .PNG filenames with URLs attached, gonna screen record it and complain to them.
@Goemon Ishikawa
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Goemon Ishikawa
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Yes you should as that's really bad on there part.
Hopefully they can fix it because when a dam piracy service does better than your actual leegal service, you know you have issues.
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Lino Morales
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Neverused Fubo, but Direc TV Stream and YouTube TV are the most expensive. Direc TV Stream has the most channels. I wish Google would get their shit together and bring back MLB Network.

I just drove four hours round trip for a monitor lol
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Tip of the day: When it comes to #PDF documents, what you see and what is actually there can be two different things. Just because you can read words in the document doesn’t mean it is searchable. Or perhaps you have a searchable #PDF but it’s still not found in a search in #DEVONthink. Here are a few ways to deal with such #PDFs. #macos #paperless #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday devontechnologies.com/blog/202…

DEVONtechnologies | How to Deal With PDF Searchability

DEVONtechnologies develops DEVONthink, DEVONagent, and other Mac and iOS apps for document and information management and web research.
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It's interesting how thin a skin the React crowd has. They think I'm being deeply antagonistic when, in fact, I've been holding my fire (and the confidences of consulting counterparties) for ~8 years. This has only served to make things look *better* than they really are.

The damage I'm seeing isn't just in the public sector, or limited to exceptionally bad cases. It's now ecosystem-wide, and JS-first culture owns a share of the blame.

But why do I care? A short thread.

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Alex Russell
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My primary motivation is that I want the web to win.

What does that mean? Concretely, that means that I want folks to be able to accomplish most of their daily tasks on the web. A reasonable diagnostic metric is time spent as a percentage of time on device. JTBD fraction would be the natural leading metric, but it's wicked hard to track.

This phrasing – fraction of time, rather than total time – has the benefit of not being thirsty. It's also tracked by various parties.

Ok, but why?

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The Archive is back! (In read only mode). Get to the things you love, and we will continue our quest to be dependable, clean up the mess left behind, and be there for you.

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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Three cars parked in the bike lane. Paint as infrastructure

I’m not a pessimist, I’m an optimist with experience in how the world actually works

Just applied to the STF fellowship in a project with #GNOME, #postmarketos and #alpinelinux. This was only possible after my dad and @craftyguy got me out of a terrible emotional deadlock earlier this week. Asking and accepting help is truly worth it.

#mentalhealth

#gnome #postmarketos #MentalHealth #alpinelinux @Clayton
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