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Why are so many women hiding their voting plans from their husbands? A lot of households are not democracies; they’re dictatorships. This may mean voter intimidation and suppression. https://www.theguardian.Mastodon 🐘
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Back in the old days, we used alt text because folks didn't always want to wait for them to download.
I'm sitting at the end of my driveway, ready to hand out candy, connected to the house wifi.
I'm not getting photos 🤣
I am currently very thankful for those who have added alt text to their images and videos!
#Halloween #a11y = #accessibility
Amazon reports Q3 AWS revenue up 19% YoY to $27.5B and AWS operating income of $10.4B, up from $7B in Q3 2023, and subscription sales up 11% to $11.3B (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
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Amazon shares pop on earnings beat, cloud growth
The company's cloud and advertising units showed strong growth.Annie Palmer (CNBC)
Me: What should I be for Halloween?
Hereafter follows a series of siri's answers:
1. I see London, I see France, I see you dressing up as the English channel.
2. Wear yellow and white, put on some little red horns and you can be a deviled egg.
3. Put a radio on your head and dress up as a creep.
4. Put on a duckbill, carry a basketball and a slide rule, and be a technical fowl.
5. If you stayed home, and just chilled with your iPod, I suppose, you'd be a HomePod.
6. You could put on surgeon scrubs, hold some instruments, and tell people you're an operating system.
7. Put a little red microphone icon on your shirt. Then, pretend to talk without making any sound. You're that person on every video call who's stuck on mute.
8. Get a rhinestone jumpsuit, sideburns, tinted glasses and some pointy ears. Tell everyone you're elvish.
9. jump up and down over and over and shake your fist. You can tell everyone you're anti gravity.
10. Just smile and nod. Then you can be your own bobblehead doll.
11. You could be a pirate. I'll be your co-pirate.
12. Just carry around a martini glass filled with some guacamole, go around clinking glasses with everyone, and yell: Ävocado toast!".
13. You could carry around a squirt bottle and say you're a streaming service.
14. Be a ghost. All you need is an old spreadsheet.
15. You could go as an eclipse. Just dress in black and stand in front of things.
Blind TikTok Brings Attention To Facial Expressions Understanding
And can AI make emotions more accessible?www.letsenvision.com
I had 4 girls dressed as vampires at the door trick or treating just now.
In unison they said "sick or shit?", or at least that's what it sounded like through their ill fitting plastic teeth.
I gave them plenty of candy, best to not take the risk. If anything, sick or shit is now their parents problem.
[ footnote: the candy was not poisoned, but if you eat that many jelly bats too quickly who knows the outcome ]
#LibreOffice 24.2.7 Released as the Last Update in the Series, Upgrade to LibreOffice 24.8 9to5linux.com/libreoffice-24-2…
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LibreOffice 24.2.7 Is Out as the Last Update in the Series, Upgrade to LibreOffice 24.8 - 9to5Linux
LibreOffice 24.2.7 is now available for download as the last update in the LibreOffice 24.2 office suite series with 57 bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Happy birthday to ARPANET, the forerunner of the modern internet! 53 years ago, the first message was sent over this pioneering network, paving the way for a world of interconnection and innovation.
As a tech enthusiast, I am constantly amazed by the ways the internet has transformed our lives, allowing us to communicate, learn and share ideas across boundaries and borders. From social media to e-commerce, from telemedicine to remote work, the internet has become an essential part of our daily routines, enabling us to connect with others and access a wealth of information at our fingertips.
#ARPANET #InternetAnniversary #Transhumanism #TechInnovation
#InternetHistory #Networking #DigitalRevolution #Innovation #Communication #Cyberculture #OnlineCommunity #TechHerstory #NetNeutrality #OpenSource #Decentralization #DataPrivacy #Cybersecurity #DigitalRights #Accessibility #Inclusion #SocialImpact #DigitalTransformation #FutureTech #TechOptimism #InternetOfThings #AI
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the web dev class was rough today, but for reasons mostly out of my control.
Several Chromebooks had build issues with the downloadable Debian VS Code package, so I had to help them add the MS apt repo and install from there.
We had to do some command line work to set git usernames and emails for commits, so that caused friction.
The VS Code git buttons are TINY. I'm sticking with that for now because their editor skills are growing, but it wasn't very clear how to stage files.
I'm going to work on a muscle-memory protocol for them to develop. Fire up the local copy, fetch any updates, and then get to work.
Commit when a chunk of work is done. Don't push til you're ready to be done for the day. Don't open a PR until you're _totally_ done with the task.
All good things, but it's going to take time.
I've been sick, and thus unable to work on commissions, or general art, or promote myself as much as usual, and weekly bills are now due :(
I had to duck out of an exhibition this week too because of MH (and then getting sick so I'm glad I didn't go).
I had a lot of little prints made for it, so how's this - if you spend £10+ in my Ko-Fi shop on physical items with postage, I'll send you a random small (4x4 or 6x4) print for free. ❤
Dread whispers echo across the Information Superhighway. Y2K is coming, heralding the rise of the Old Ones. Barter with gods, embrace the deathless aeons, or go offline permanently...
The Shadow Over Cyberspace. Releasing January 10 for FREE. youtu.be/xEzTKtm5grA
The Shadow Over Cyberspace - Cinematic Trailer
Dread whispers echo across the Information Superhighway. Y2K is coming, heralding the rise of the Old Ones. With your meatspace mind unraveling, time is runn...YouTube
In our new #visualnovel The Shadow Over Cyberspace, you'll:
💾Hack classified websites
🐶Pet a dog that definitely is not spyware
😨Experience many "fun" hallucinations
📺Watch non-haunted TV shows
💀Pick your flavor of eldritch apocalypse
Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/298…
The Shadow Over Cyberspace on Steam
Dread whispers echo across the Information Superhighway. Y2K is coming, heralding the rise of the Old Ones.store.steampowered.com
Tails 6.9 Now Available with Tor and Thunderbird Updates | Linux Today
Tails 6.9 privacy-focused Linux distro released with the latest Tor Browser 14.0.1, Tor client 0.4.8.13, and Thunderbird 115.16.LinuxToday
If an employer ever asks you to resign, tell them "no".
There is no benefit to resigning unless you have another job lined up already.
Make them fire you. Get your unemployment benefits. Make sure you are legally protected in case of malfeasance. Resigning undermines all of that.
This message brought to you by AWS telling workers to return to office 5-days-a-week by commuting or relocating, or they should resign.
Again, the answer is "no, you'll have to fire me."
EDIT: To clarify, in most areas "fired" and "let go" are not legally meaningful terms and can be used interchangeably. The important term is "for cause" or not. So don't commit misconduct to get fired. Poor job performance is typically not a "for cause" reason, nor is failure to accept changes like RTO
Philip Cardella (@philip_cardella@historians.social)
#Florida Dem canvasser knocked on a woman's door. Woman thought she couldn't vote. Canvasser reached out to their team lead and the team lead called the Florida Democratic Voter Assistance Hotline. I got the call.Mastodon
@matt If you have actually read Kropotkin and you're trying to reverse engineer what an actual person might think, you're overthinking it :)
There *is* an actual kind of stupid person who watches streamers react to video essays where the essayist might cite Kropotkin; this sort of person is likely to be far left, and to care a lot about e.g. Gaza, and maybe even say stuff about how electoralism is bad and " we need revolution". But that's not who I'm talking about…
Other features include:
Recognizing PDF documents.
After tapping "More Info" to get a rich description of an image, you can now ask questions on the same screen.
On the Product channel, both barcodes and Enhanced QR codes can now be recognized at the same time.
#Android #AI #SeeingAI
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