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I have a question for people who work in accessibility and design:

Can anyone recommend evidence-based sources on how well Comic Sans does or doesn't work for people with dyslexia?

- I don't need anecdotes, opinions, or big feelings about fonts.
- I'm just looking for evidence-based studies.

I've seen strong, contradictory opinions & a lot of received wisdom about this. That's why I'm looking for actual evidence either way. Thank you!

#Accessibility #AccessibleDesign #Design #A11y #ComicSans

#a11y #Accessibility #design #accessibledesign #comicsans
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Shaula Evans
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Related question: I'm familiar with Atkinson Hyperlegible. the Braille Institute Free Font (link at the bottom.

If accessibility-oriented fonts make a difference for you as a reader (for dyslexia, low vision, visual processing, or any other reason), I would love to know what accessible fonts you personally like best and why.

*This is question for people who rely on accessible fonts only. No replies from others, please. Thank you!

brailleinstitute.org/freefont/

#Accessibility #A11y #Fonts


Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute

Read easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer!
Braille Institute
#a11y #Accessibility #fonts

Welcome to the RB family, Tool Telegram 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/dev.t…

Tool Telegram lets you send Message for Groups, topic groups, channels, and normal chats.

Thanks for Aquiles to help making it RB!

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid

„Tool Telegram“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Send messages on telegram as a bot, easily
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid
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IzzyOnDroid ✅
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🇩🇪 "In jedem vierten Ei!" 🎶

Jupp, es ist soweit: 305 apps (25%) bei #IzzyOnDroid sind jetzt #reproducibleBuilds 🥳

Ich fürchte das heißt aber auch: keine "Eier-Toots" bis auf weiteres – das "dritte Ei" liegt in zu weiter Ferne, das wird dieses Jahr nichts mehr 🤣

#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

Politics & DWP

Sensitive content

#politics #dwp #socialsecurity

Whenever I drop a small screw on the floor, 1% of the time it falls directly on the floor, easy to reach in plain sight. 99% of the time, it teleports to an alternate dimension and is never seen again.
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ferricoxide
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Even better is when working on a laptop and, just as you finally get the screw unthreaded enough to remove, it slips out of its seat and topples to the innards of the laptop. The only evidence of its existence being its rattling about as you shake the whole device in vain hope of shaking it free (and, if you do manage to shake it loose, then it pops out and scuttles off to through a dimensional tear, never to be seen again on this plane of existence).

At @NLNOG Day today!
A view of the stage with a big NLNOG logo on screen.
@NLNOG

wow interesting, I did the hearing test, and (yes) I do have the older Lightning pro 2's. Told me I have no hearing loss in both ears and it couldn't recommend any tuning for me at this time, I guess that's good, and what's nice is your results get saved to the health app so this can be useful over time comparing results, too. Very neat, reminded me of those middle school hearing tests for sure with the tones 3 times in repeat.
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Patrick Perdue
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I'm about to try it. Pretty sure it's going to say something like "yeah, you're screwed, we can't help you much."
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Tamas G
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@BorrisInABox what I find ironic is, part of me had that same thought (and indeed yours may say different,) especially as they're clever with inserting pauses between the sequences so someone can't just tap their way through it and get a false test. I think that's what astonished me, so a silence doesn't entirely mean it's your ears not picking something up, sometimes it can since they do a lowering - raising of volume effect for some tone series to test your DB range.
@Patrick Perdue
in reply to Tamas G

Patrick Perdue
Patrick Perdue
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I wondered if it was entirely random to prevent cheating.
in reply to Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺

Tamas G
Tamas G
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@tardis @BorrisInABox so what I did was, charge your AirPods, grabbing the IOS 18.1 RC build in the process. (For me this was like 7.9 gigs so took a bit.) If you didn't have 18.1 before you may need to wait after update, but if you had a public beta of 18.1 the firmware should install to the AirPods Pro during charging and should show 7B19 once you reconnect it in Bluetooth > swipe downw to "more info" on your AirPod.
@Patrick Perdue @Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Ah, I see. Is 18.1 too buggy? I only have one phone, but I could probably do it on the iPad instead.
in reply to Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺

Tamas G
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@tardis @BorrisInABox I mean, the build of 18.1 that's out now will be the same one dropping for everyone else next week, so really whether you grab it now or later then won't make a difference in terms of your experience.
@Patrick Perdue @Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Patrick Perdue
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Apparently, I have to wait. It yelled at me to clean my AirPods Pro. I don’t have any distilled water here (the water in this place contains lots of calcium and junk).
in reply to Patrick Perdue

Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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You can use some kinda alcohol but I forgot what kind it was, Apple has recommendations on their support website.
in reply to Patrick Perdue

Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Uh, Hand sanistasers with more alcohol will work too. Or these uh, I don't know how you call them in English, wipes that have hand sanitasing properties and literally smell like alcohol, just let it vaporise out for a bit, because you need it damp. It worked for me. LOL.
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Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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LOL Yeah, one day I will learn how to type in English, just not in this life probably.
in reply to Patrick Perdue

Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Noooo! No way. wow! I must teach you how to be a European from like, the central or eastern parts. We always have supplies, we always buy more than we need. Like, we might not need it now, but it's good to have it. LOL
in reply to Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺

Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Yep, new mission, visit you and like, bring a lot of things, so you don't have to ever go to that noisy place called a shop. I really dislike shopping, bleh.
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Patrick Perdue
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@tardis Ehhh, I just bought a bunch of stuff online. It will be delivered later today.
@Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
in reply to Patrick Perdue

Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Good good. I wish people shopped more online here, so we could ask sores kindly for accessibility, but meh, we still go to shops and markets.
in reply to Patrick Perdue

Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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I give-up on english, also I totally like your name. Hahaha. I should find one for me. It'll be super fun.
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Jamie Pauls
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@pixelate Do you do a one finger double tap with VoiceOver, or a magic tap? If the former, do you have to find a button before you tap?
@Devin Prater :blind:

#dobréRáno
#dobrerano

Dnes v poledne jsem vydal tohle fffilm.cz/2024/10/audio-recenz… a o tři hodiny později mi dorazila do datové schránky výzva, abych začal platit rozhlasové poplatky. Náhoda?

Shodou okolností jsem si zrovna dnes koupil rádio. To je ale náhoda.

#czech


Audio recenze: Výjimečný stav - 20 %

fffilm, František Fuka, Ilona Fuková, film, premiéry, recenze, Fuxoft
www.fffilm.cz
#czech
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Štěpán Škorpil
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teď jsme na tom byli se ženou. Očekávali jsme pitomou komedii na téma dezinformace, ale tohle bylo po všech stránkách blbý...
Chvílema jsem si říkal že vidím snahu o nějaký apel proti dezinformacím nebo předsudkům, ale pak je to zabalený do spousty předsudkú a dezinformací ztratí to zbytky smyslu...😳

Because it came back up in a fun conversation in the Corecursive Slack today, it seems like a great time to re-up this post I wrote about PL ideas, including type systems, including the super fancy ones we don’t see much of the real world yet: v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/wiz…

The Wizardry Frontier — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho

For 75 years, programming languages have steadily raised the baseline of what “normal” programmers can express in their languages. They can still.
v5.chriskrycho.com

Hot off the press in the International Journal of Learner Corpus Research: "The more proficient the learners, the less sophisticated their L2 vocabulary? The curious effect of the reference corpus on mean-frequency measures of lexical sophistication" co-authored with @RaffaellaBottini! 🤗

#CorpusLinguistics #LearnerLanguage #linguistics #OpenAccess

jbe-platform.com/content/journ…

#linguistics #openaccess #corpuslinguistics #LearnerLanguage @Raffaella Bottini
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Internationaler Tag der Feststelltaste – INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY
kuriose-feiertage.de/internati…

International Caps Lock Day - Tag der Feststelltaste - 2024

Seit 2000 feiern wir den 28. Juni und 22. Oktober als International Caps Lock Day (dt. Internationaler Tag der Feststelltaste).
www.kuriose-feiertage.de

It always amuses me how the things that keep us alive can also end our lives.
We need water to stay hydrated, but we can drink way too much, or drown.
We need oxygen to breathe, but too much is fatal.
We need blood to keep our body going, but too much blood can become a problem.
It's quite interesting.

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Egypt has had malaria for millennia. King Tutankhamen died of malaria.

After a century-long public health effort, Egypt has just been declared malaria-free.

who.int/news/item/20-10-2024-e… HT @anildash


item

The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified Egypt as ‘malaria-free’, marking a significant public health milestone for a country with more than 100 million inhabitants.
www.who.int
@Anil Dash

Time to upgrade #GoToSoicial to 0.17.1, small bugfix release. I'm going to live dangerously and not back up the db (I have a very recent backup from a couple hours ago).
#gotosoicial
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modulux
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Well, that was scary. The analyze query took a bit more than 3 minutes, so I thought I'd broken the instance. Fortunately (or not, depending if you can put up with me) I'm back!

My blog took an extra nap the last twelve hours. I hope you all took advantage of that and did something extra fun. Now the pause is over and we're back to our regular programming.
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Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Ya tenemos redactada la orden de delegación y su documentación aneja. Ahora a informes varios y a vivir.

Esta mañana iba en bicicleta, por el centro del carril derecho en una vía de dos carriles, uno por sentido. En un semáforo, el coche que tenía detrás ha decidido usar un estrecho margen a mi izquierda para intentar ponerse en paralelo, cosa que no ha conseguido porque, como digo, yo estaba en medio del carril. Y, además, había vehículos que estaban detenidos y miraban en dirección contraria.

Circular en el centro del carril es clave para la seguridad porque eres más visible, te adelantan menos y se ralentiza el tráfico de la calle, mejorando la seguridad de terceros.

Pero el señor™ quería pasar. Y quería pasar tanto que primero me ha rozado, luego ha tocado la bici con el morro, y finalmente ha empezado a empujar. Tras un intercambio de palabras sin sentido que no llegó a la categoría de 'diálogo', el señor™ no me ha dejado otra opción: he metido una pedalada, poniéndome delante, he metido mi bici DEBAJO de su coche, y luego he llamado a la Policía Local.

El señor™ no podía echar para atrás porque había más vehículos detrás, que han empezado a acumularse. Varias peatonas que contemplaban la escena se han quedado a comer palomitas y, una vez ha venido la policía, han servido de testigos ante los eventos. No ha ayudado nada que el señor™ condujese sin seguro, el coche no tuviese la ITV pasada y tuviese varias multas sin abonar. Pleno. Tampoco ha ayudado que se haya enfrentado a la policía a voces y que luego se haya puesto a darle patadas a una papelera.

✅ Ha sumado una multa más, se le ha retirado el vehículo y no se ha ido esposado de purito milagro.

✅ Al menos durante unos días, quizá semanas, tendremos un energúmeno menos en nuestras calles.

Y esta es la política a partir de ahora, sin medias tintas, sin grises, sin mirar hacia otro lado. Hay gente a la que hay que sacar de la calzada porque es un peligro. PUNTO

My Mona free trial expires in a couple days and TBH I'm not sure I'm sold. Not on Mona itself - the app is fantastic - but on Mastodon itself. It feels like no matter how I use it there's a drawback. More tight-knit instances silence too many others and essentially censor my feeds. The more general instances censor less, but there's less engagement and wildly less accurate people recommendations. Am I just using it wrong?
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Rachel Ramos
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@jscholes James put all this so much more eloquently than I ever could. Mona Pro is good, as it lets you write longer posts, (threads), and repost stuff, but those are the only 2 "pro" functions I use. Mastodon is somewhat like old Twitter, without the advantages of keeping up with news and other important alerts. The conversations are easy on here, but it's not easy to branch out and follow everything you might be interested in. (1/2)
@James Scholes
in reply to Rachel Ramos

Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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This is a feature of Mona which is useless, as longer posts are controlled by your instance. Nobody should be paying to have more than 500 characters, with the knowledge that one, there are free alternatives, and two, character limits for posts are controlled by instance, not client. Three, that's an overpaid app for which I could buy a month worth of food, still. Now, on the fedi topic. There's RSS for news, as far as I know, as well as news apps. No one really should tell us where to go or stay, nor should we follow trends. If we think here, or Facebook, or Twitter isn't our place, then we could live with our own limitations, imposed solely by us alone. I still have Facebook, use Whatsapp, and recently deleted Instagram. There are times where nowhere is our place, and we have to learn to let go of some things, to not follow others because of a community, but to look out for what is good for us, where we feel okay. Unfortunately, there is no perfection, so I do not think that people should be criticised for even using X or FB, even if I,myself, do not agree. Hate is petty sometimes, then it boarders on shear extremism of who can hate more, who can spam more, etc. And that goes for everything in the world. Conclusion, if you think Mastodon and fedi in general are not your place, do what is good for you. The choice is yours. And if they are your place, and you need to adjust, welcome to what the fediverse is. There are alternatives to Facebook, Goodreads, Instagram, twitch, and a few others I don't know of. Unfortunately, I wrote a novel, and this is from an instance where 5000 is the limit.

Bridging this account to #Bluesky so I don't need to make an account over there! bsky.app/profile/WeirdWriter.c…
#bluesky
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Robert Kingett
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@vick21 Combination of BlueSky getting an influx of users because of the lack of a block feature at Twitter, and blind people over here are curious about it. In my case, that’s where publishing Twitter went. Finally, I had to assure followers that their interactions with my posts over here are not transferred over there because of the bridge. I explained to them that this is only one way and their interactions would not be recorded by the bridge.
@victor tsaran

So, like, I have a pair of the 1st-gen Bose frames lying around here. Would be happy to give them away, but not sure if anyone would be interested. On top of this, the shipping costs have gone up so much that it does not often make sense to send things out unless someone agrees to pay for the shipping. There you have it! :)

#ostrava
#ostrava

Zemřel Paul Di'Anno, bývalý frontman Iron Maiden. V Kolíně už zpíval jen na vozíčku
magazin.aktualne.cz/kultura/ze…

Zemřel Paul Di'Anno, bývalý frontman Iron Maiden. V Kolíně už zpíval jen na vozíčku

Ve věku 66 let zemřel Paul Di'Anno, bývalý zpěvák kapely Iron Maiden. Účinkoval na jejích prvních dvou deskách, než jej nahradil Bruce Dickinson. Později se mimo jiné několikrát ocitl ve vězení, naposledy v roce 2011.
Kultura (Aktuálně.cz)

Finally, Montreal has its own composting plant

cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mo…

Horse before cart.

#mtlpoli

#mtlpoli

This Raspberry Pi ghost talks to trick-or-treaters using AI tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/…

This Raspberry Pi ghost talks to trick-or-treaters using AI

This is arguably the friendliest Pi project we've covered all year.
Ash Hill (Tom's Hardware)

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What happens when your finances are controled by the one you're supposed to trust most?
What happens when you're told to keep up appearances to family and friends when all you really want to do is confess?
What happens when walls get built and secrets are all you dabble in?
Find out in my latest #blog.
shimmerscript.net/the-cost-of-…

The cost of silence. | Laurens cove

shimmerscript.net
#blog
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Khronos
Khronos
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Blow the doors wide open and be yourself. Do what you feel is right for you. Make it clear that you will accept help, but you don't want any of it if there are going to be strings attached to it in the way there use to be. That is all from me on this issue.

Voy a pasar el diciembre andando en bici desde Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca hasta Orizaba, Veracruz. Una historia de una parte de la ruta:

andarres.com/siempre-hay-mas-d…

Siempre hay más de un camino: expedición a la costa de Oaxaca, México. – ANDARRES

andarres.com

Recommendation for scientific Mastodon!

We have seen how, once again, Nobel prizes have been awarded to men. why?

This article reviews the different studies carried out on this male chauvinist phenomenon and provides some collective solutions.

elsaltodiario.com/paradoja-jev…


Más allá del premio Nobel: por una ciencia colectiva

El trabajo de investigación realizado por dos mujeres es ignorado por el comité de la academia de las ciencias sueca encargado de la entrega de los premios Nobel
www.elsaltodiario.com

So learned something new about jaws today. You can hit insert space followed by F4 on your keyboard, and Jaws will shut down and restart automatically. Don't know if that would recover from a really bad crash, but as it's a new Jaws tool, for me anyway, thought I'd share
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Sean Randall
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Depending on what's caused the crash, the layer key (insert+space) might not work. They introduced insert+windows+f4 as an emergency kill shortcut with JAWS 8. I presume it still works!
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David Dunphy
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@cachondo That Windows Insert F4 never seems to work at my job sadly, but I was aware of that shortcut
@Sean Randall

Welcome to Nepal this week. We're starting off in Kathmandu and the joy of walking around some marvellous temples with a camera. So much to work with. So much inspiration.

#Nepal #Photography #Kathmandu #Lumix

Stupa at Boudhanath
Prayer wheel
Butter Lamps
Flower offerings
#photography #Nepal #kathmandu #lumix
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Federico Mena Quintero
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I love these pictures, such a beautiful place and people! ❤️

It breaks my heart that so many buildings are still held with support beams, so much earthquake damage everywhere.

Thunderbird for Android 8.0b4 is out and available for testing! Help us test the new subscription funding feature and the QR code Export to Mobile feature, now on the desktop Thunderbird Beta image! For more detailed testing notes, see our mailing list announcement. thunderbird.topicbox.com/group… Full release notes: github.com/thunderbird/thunder…

#thunderbird #development #opensource


Release Thunderbird Beta 8.0b4 · thunderbird/thunderbird-android

New: Monthly financial contributions are now possible in the Google Play variant of this app. Help us find out if it works today! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.thunderbird.andr...
GitHub
#opensource #thunderbird #development

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Comrade Rachel
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Do y'all plan to add some sort of sync feature between the desktop and mobile version? It would be super cool to use Mozilla sync or something similar.

A new bug emerging after refactoring your code
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.
#qa

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What I would be doing with my life if I didn't have to grind
youtube.com/watch?v=lZbfNtDCHd…

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...
YouTube

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
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
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full historical analysis of the malloc(0) and realloc(…, 0) fiasco: nabijaczleweli.xyz/content/blo…

017. malloc(0) & realloc(…，0) ≠ 0 — blognꞌt — nabijaczleweli

017. malloc(0) & realloc(…，0) ≠ 0
nabijaczleweli.xyz
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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
Haben Girma

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
castro.fm

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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
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