Racism is systemic in Québec.

FYI It took the police 9 days to decide taking the time to boil water and throw it at a child is a crime...

AND NOW, she's out on bail. Must be nice to be white and pure laine, eh.

cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/wo… #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #CAQASTROPHE

Biweekly is a terrible word.

-- Would you know if “biweekly” means twice a week or twice a month in this email?

#translation

Edit: Guys, the whole point is that it can mean both :P

merriam-webster.com/dictionary…

Definition of biweekly

Definition of 'biweekly' by Merriam-Webster

^{Merriam-Webster Dictionary}

The new version of Wagtail, v6.3, has been released.
How many release announcements kick off with a strong commitment to accessibility like this one?

"We're just a little obsessed with accessibility around here. Between our accessibility checker feature, the accessibility workshops we've hosted, the accessibility statistics we shout about, and the dedicated Accessibility page we have here on Wagtail.org, you may have noticed that. So, ..."

💙 @wagtail
wagtail.org/blog/wagtail-63/

Level up your image accessibility and dashboards with Wagtail 6.3 | Wagtail CMS

Manage alt text like a pro and more with our latest Wagtail release

^{Wagtail CMS}

Happy Friday! We celebrated by releasing Wagtail 6.3! ✨

This is our latest LTS release, so we packed a lot of great features into this one. Have a look. 👀

wagtail.org/blog/wagtail-63/

#Wagtail #Django

Level up your image accessibility and dashboards with Wagtail 6.3 | Wagtail CMS

Manage alt text like a pro and more with our latest Wagtail release

^{Wagtail CMS}

печально мне что-то..

мир захватить что-ли...

Homebrew on this 2014 Mac Mini has 120 packages to upgrade. Since there is no official support for 12 anymore, this means that most things need to be built from source.

After 12 hours, around 30 packages have been upgraded, including Bash, GCC, LibreSSL, PHP, etc. This is what I call PureBrew.

In case this ever reaches whoever is building Mac binaries for Homebrew, I'd like to express my appreciation for all your work.

If you have a student with dyslexia, one way to help them with the tests is to give them an audio version of the test.

It takes no more than 10 minutes to set up the audio aspect of the test.

You can just record yourself reading the questions and make sure they can listen to the audio during the exam.

Since our exams are open book and computer based, this is quite easy to accomplish.

It is not “revolutionary” to break things. Everything is breaking. That’s the problem.

If you want a revolution, fix something.

Along with flash floods, we're also dealing with flash droughts — a new term for me.

"Where has all the rain gone? Bone-dry October strikes much of US"
phys.org/news/2024-10-bone-dry…

h/t @primonatura
#drought #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

Where has all the rain gone? Bone-dry October strikes much of US

A bone-dry October is pushing nearly half of the United States into a flash drought, leading to fires in the Midwest and hindering shipping on the Mississippi River.

^{Seth Borenstein (Phys.org)}

Oh thank god I have a reason to stop being nice to the fucking Walmart greeter.

“Facial Recognition That Tracks Suspicious Friendliness Is Coming to a Store Near You”
gizmodo.com/facial-recognition…

(This is clearly me making a joke — I don’t go to Walmart; I have to harass the greeter at their home.)

Facial Recognition That Tracks Suspicious Friendliness Is Coming to a Store Near You

Coresight AI has released a new product that sends alerts to store security when customers and staff have anomalous interactions.

^{Todd Feathers (Gizmodo)}

Have you voted yet?

#Vote #Election #Election2024 #Poll

• 📬 Yes! (Mail in ballot) (54%, 28 votes)
• 🗳️ Yes! (Early voting) (27%, 14 votes)
• 🇺🇸 Not yet - going on Election Day (15%, 8 votes)
• 😕 I’m not sure I’m voting (0%, 0 votes)
• 😡 I am not voting (2%, 1 vote)

here's an example of a recent event that ChatGPT Search can now help with, the launch of Fantastical for Windows. When I asked for info about this and whether it was accessible to blind people using Windows screen readers, it says:

Fantastical, a highly regarded calendar application previously exclusive to Apple devices, has expanded its reach by launching a Windows version on October 29, 2024. This development allows users to experience Fantastical’s intuitive design and robust features on Windows PCs.

The Windows version mirrors the functionality of its Mac counterpart, offering:

• Natural Language Event Creation: Users can create events by typing phrases like “Lunch with Tim Cook on Tuesday at Caffè Macs on Apple’s campus,” and the app will automatically parse the details to set up the event accordingly.
• Calendar Sets: This feature enables users to group specific calendars together, allowing for easy toggling between different sets based on context, such as work or personal schedules.
• Multiple Calendar Views: Fantastical provides various views, including Day, Week, Month, Quarter, and Year, to accommodate different planning needs.
• Task Integration: The app supports task management through integration with services like Google Tasks, Microsoft 365 Tasks, and Todoist, enabling users to manage their to-do lists alongside their calendar events.
• Conference Call Detection: Fantastical automatically detects conference call links in calendar invites and creates a join button in the event list, facilitating quick access to virtual meetings.

Existing users with a Flexibits Premium subscription can access the Windows version at no additional cost, ensuring a seamless experience across devices. The subscription, priced at $4.75 per month when billed annually, unlocks all premium features across platforms.

While the current release is not optimized for Arm-native devices, Flexibits has indicated that an Arm version is in development.

This expansion to Windows marks a significant milestone for Fantastical, broadening its user base and providing a cohesive calendaring experience for individuals operating across multiple platforms.

As of now, there is limited information available regarding the accessibility of Fantastical for Windows for blind users utilizing screen readers. The official announcement and documentation do not provide specific details about compatibility with screen readers such as Narrator, NVDA, or JAWS.

Given the importance of accessibility in software applications, it’s advisable to directly contact Flexibits, the developer of Fantastical, to inquire about the current state of screen reader support and any planned accessibility enhancements. This approach will provide the most accurate and up-to-date information regarding the application’s usability with screen readers.

#CAQASTROPHE! The CAQ pissed away an inherited surplus on its wishlist, which didn't include healthcare spending, and now the CAQ healthcare minister says healthcare spending is becoming untenable... and 1M+ Quebeckers STILL DO NOT HAVE A FAMILY DOCTOR.

montrealgazette.com/news/quebe… #assnat #QCpoli #polQC #cdnpoli #polcan #CAQBS #CAQLIES

Quebec's health-care costs are becoming untenable, Dubé warns

Says this year's budget will be $60 billion, a 50-per-cent increase in six years.

^{La Presse Canadienne (Montreal Gazette)}

So... this was a fun compiler bug: the D8 Java to DEX compiler (part of the Android toolchain) eliminated a redundant field load if running the class's static initialiser was known to be free of side effects, which ended up accidentally depending on the sharding of the input, which is dependent on the number of CPU cores used during the build.

issuetracker.google.com/issues…

I made a small example to illustrate why this optimisation is only valid when the class initialiser doesn't have side effects (or the initialiser is guaranteed to have run already, which is the case for a base class of the current one):

gist.github.com/obfusk/8382214…

#ReproducibleBuilds

issuetracker.google.com/issues/366412380

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/366412380. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

^Gist

Welcome to the RB family, Hash Checker 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.s…

Hash Checker is an app for generating and comparison MD5, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 and CRC-32 hashes from files or text. Thanks to the efforts by its dev, today's release is now RB

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid

A new dental scam is to pull healthy teeth to sell you expensive fake ones

Link: arstechnica.com/health/2024/11…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

A new dental scam is to pull healthy teeth to sell you expensive fake ones

It turns out you may not have needed those implants after all.

^{Ars Contributors (Ars Technica)}

It's been over two years since the initial release of the CLAP API for making audio effects and virtual instruments. Has the project been successful? Let's find out!

librearts.org/2024/11/clap-api…

CLever Audio Plugin API two years later

Let’s take a look at the evolution of the project and its adoption by developers of DAWs and plugins alike.

^{Alexandre Prokoudine (Libre Arts)}