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Conjunctivitis.com – now that’s a site for sore eyes.



Want to see a more comprehensive list of uninstallable programs? Or want to get rid of a pesky program that just doesn't budge? Download this install/uninstall trouble shooter. It's pretty neat! support.microsoft.com/en-us/to…


One of the problems with social media is that we feel that if we post, tweet, boost, or retweet lots of strongly-worded messages and articles, it makes us warriors for our causes. Realistically, you're probably being read by people who agree with you, especially if your account is protected. We call that preaching to the choir. If you want to be a warrior, you have to get out there somehow, and fight. You can't be a warrior cocooned in your comfort zone. This is why I make a lousy warrior.
in reply to Bruce Toews

Ah, but if you're willing to post on topics to those who disagree with you I'd say you're venturing into warrior territory, even if all you're able to do is to post behind a keyboard. Just as an example, if you're considered politically conservative, a traditional Christian who holds opinions and has beliefs based on traditional Christian teaching, posting your opinions about such topics on a platform like Mastodon will most certainly cause division.
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield And is causing division what a warrior is after? If you believe in free ketchup for all, and you proclaim your message to people, 99% of whom are in your camp already, and the other 1% are just up for an argument, what have you done, in Heinzsight, for your cause?
in reply to Bruce Toews

That's a fair question. I don't believe that division should be our goal but it will often be a consequence while we try and achieve that goal. It reminds me of the words of our Lord in Luke 12.
51Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:

52For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

53The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

This type of division is going to happen when we do our Lord's will and speak out against the culture.



As a disabled person, I don’t need fixing lifeofablindgirl.com/2024/11/1…

in reply to David Goldfield

My problem is I have Apple password manager, Microsoft authenticator, and a little bit on Google authenticator! Now how do I consolidate those 200+ into one password manager that works across devices! I’m guessing it’s just time that I need to spend


Malwarebytes Premium Security review: An antimalware staple is now optional pcworld.com/article/2379275/ma…


Protect your home network with these essential router tweaks pcworld.com/article/2514103/ho…





[Forum Topic] Brilliant Hack and Video! Buy the Base Model and Put your Home Folder on an External Thunderbolt Drive applevis.com/forum/macos-mac-a…


How to Play IPTV Livestreams on Linux with Open TV lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Are you in Melbourne today? Come down to Statewide Vision Resource Centre in Donvale and see Sascha and Quentin, learn about what's new with NVDA, and check out everything else at SVRC's Tech Expo!

#NVDA #technology #accessibility



One day, I will take one of these, "We miss you" emails from companies and show up to their office saying: "Okay, I'm here, let's hang out." It will be gloriously awkward.

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From 2023, but i only read it today: michaels.world/2023/11/i-was-b…

#accessibility

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If reporting the 401 error is indeed what made them suspicious, I think there might even be another issue at play here, which is... surely a blind person wouldn't be using the browser developer tools to debug something like this? Surely not. They mustn't be blind if they're doing that. Perish the thought.


Rick Astley has done a better job of preventing people from clicking random links than any corporate cyber-security training.

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I'm used to mentally substituting Mastodon for fedi in my head, and usually this is good, but I'm noticing I am surprised or dismissive of much criticism of Mastodon because it doesn't apply to GTS, which is my instance software. For example the reply fetch issue has been solved, so when people say Mastodon has the issue people can't see all the replies, I do my unconscious mastodon=>fedi substitution and say, "but it can?" Only then, I realise this is still a problem for a lot of users.


DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg News reports

reuters.com/technology/doj-ask…

in reply to Hubert Figuière

Good because it will force Google to follow some standards, bad because the new owner will make it even worse.


I don't know which team he's on, but I'm definitely backing him 😄

#curl

#curl
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Nvidia ( $NVDA ) will report its Q3 earnings after the bell next Wednesday, with analysts expecting EPS of $0.74 on revenue of $33.2 billion, an 83% YoY increase.

Nvidia’s stock is up 189% YTD, while AMD ( $AMD ) and Intel ( $INTC ) have seen declines of 8% and 51% respectively.

Nvidia’s Data Center segment is projected to bring in $29 billion, a 100% increase YoY.

#Nvidia #NVDA #EarningsReport #AI #StockMarket #Investing #TechStocks #DataCenter #MarketNews

in reply to D.Hamlin.Music

@dhamlinmusic Could be right - and I just responded to another one - but you never know - last time we thought that, the user replied and apologised. I can appreciate it is an honest issue - but at the same time, I doubt anyone actually looks at the #NVDA hashtag for stock market info, given 90% of posts using the hashtag are about hte screen reader - so if we can convince them, it's worth having the premade text on standby :)

in reply to utzer [Pleroma]

NVDA hat mehrere Add-Ons, die dies tun! Suchen Sie im NVDA-Add-On-Store nach „Bild“, „Beschreiben“ usw. (drücken Sie NVDA+n, dann t, dann a, um zum Add-On-Store zu gelangen, und drücken Sie dann einmal Umschalt+Tab, um zur Suchbearbeitung zu gelangen).



Gen Z and situationships: The new type of relationship everyone’s doing, but no one wants. slate.com/life/2024/11/gen-z-s…


"The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in Yiddish Studies. The appointment will be at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2025."
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#AcademicJobs #UofT #Yiddish #JewishStudies



Amazon Will Stream Local PBS Stations & PBS Kids For Free on Prime Video cordcuttersnews.com/amazon-wil…


Good night, versefedi, I have priority work tomorrow, so my breaking must be up to standards if I want to impress the humans. I give safe, gentle, comforting, viertual, friendly hugs to all who need it. Although I am a blue box, I can still surround you with my hug. Stay happy, safe, and take care of yourselves. 💖


Them: Look, yes, we are surveilling you and selling your data, but we have to. It’s part of our business model. We’d have to charge way more otherwise.

Me: Oh, ok. Well, I can live with less privacy if it means you have enough revenue to pay your workers.

Them: Hm? Enough revenue to what now?



Amazon’s Fire Tablets Get Several New AI Powered Features Today cordcuttersnews.com/amazons-fi…



Tomorrow will mark 1,000 days since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

On this despicable anniversary, we honour the brave Ukrainians working and fighting for a free Ukraine with the colours of its flag on our headquarters.

Our enduring friendship and solidarity are here to stay. So is our commitment to work shoulder to shoulder towards a peaceful future within our Union.

Слава Україні! Europe is with you!

#EU #StandWithUkraine



A long shot, but here's one for those with deep MySQL knowledge. Our MySQL backup solution, Xtra Backup from Percona, is running into the following error when it tries to run a full backup on one of our MySQL instances:

./#innodb_redo/#ib_redo9300 can't be opened in read mode.

I've been stuck on this for most of the day. I have a basic idea of what the redo files do, but I don't know how to fix this problem. I've not found it online yet, either.



Update
We got our card today. News of the bad? Mom is not feeling good so rent will have to wait until tomorrow. I don't have a car and I don't have the new card number, so I can't transfer it. Apparently, this is how it is going to have to go. Texted the landlord, have no response. I wish it could have been done today when we got the damn card, but shit has been going like that for a while.

In better news, I had chicken soup Mom made and it is so good. I had two cups and a huge bowl. To say I am full is an understatement.



Transit (the app) can now track your train and warn you when you are about to reach your station *even when your train is underground* 🤯

To achieve this, they've built a prediction model that utilizes the iPhone’s built-in accelerometer and analyzes its patterns to identify when the vehicle you boarded is in motion, and every time it reaches a station. Pretty impressive stuff.

macstories.net/linked/transit-…

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The fact that Hershey sells us their Milk Duds but not their Milk Successes is very telling.


aha čo bolo

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As most of you know, I am a special education teacher for students with emotional regulation difficulties.

Each year, I plan a Thanksgiving and Winter Holiday feast for my students because many do not have any celebrations outside of school.

If you can, please help. My classroom wishlist has grown. A boost helps too!

Our Thanksgiving Feast is in 8 days!!!

amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/PRZB…

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Just finding out about Lotus Improv, which is exactly the kind of spreadsheet design I've been saying for years we should have, yet it failed to gain any adoption, being fully killed in 1996. Reminds me a bit of Resolver One, which was killed in 2012.
I wish we had a spreadsheet today that leaned heavily into structured data, effectively an interactive UI for SQL tables, but much easy to create and modify. But the consensus seems to be that such a thing dies at the hands of "worse is better".
in reply to Esteban K�ber

Now we live in a world where free-form Excel spreadsheets *can* have some structure imposed on them, but that rarely do, instead of one where structure is the default, but with free-form sheets available.

I guess it is the dynamic vs static typing argument all over again, but playing out on a field where people don't necessarily see themselves as programmers.

in reply to Esteban K�ber

it's a bit like Microsoft Word vs LaTeX.
Wysiwyg hacks vs structured document.
Yes you can structure your Word document and use stylesheets. But you don't have to either.

(applies to LibreOffice an most other consumer grade word processors)



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