Relive the early '90s text-based internet.David Delony (How-To Geek)
Make the Threads app accessible with a quick tweak.Ray Malik (How-To Geek)
In the Victorian era, there was a disease: climacteric insanity. It was a form of hysteria which specifically *only* affected women aged 40-60. And these were its symptoms, which might sound familiar to a lot of you around that age...
From F. Skrae, 1884.
Maximize your audience in a few simple steps.Tony Phillips (How-To Geek)
So the wife ran over the power cable of the vacuum earlier this week.
She had a bit of a shock when winding in the exposed cable, but luckily no harm done.
I sent the image off for a repair quote and of course to a few people.
the interesting thing was, when I read their responses (my brother, for example, said " Hahaha she done a proper job on that!") I naturally heard it in his voice. Ditto for the other few people I showed it to.
Then the response from the LLM comes in, of course,
"The damage visible across these images suggests that the electrical cord of the vacuum cleaner has been compromised, likely due to accidental contact with the vacuum's rotating brush or similar mechanical damage. This cord should not be used in its current state, as it constitutes a significant fire and safety hazard. It is essential to either repair or replace the cord before using the vacuum cleaner again to avoid any potential for harm."
And I hear it in Data's voice from The Next Generation. I don't know why.
Using a domain on Bluesky helps identify you to your followers. Here's how to do it, step-by-step.David Gewirtz (ZDNET)
Day 6 - #adventOfIOSAccessibility. With regular buttons from UIKit or SwiftUI, you are all set. With complex views, headings, or table/collection view cells that, when selected, bring the user somewhere else in the app or perform an action, you'll have to add the button accessibility trait yourself to convey users that it is an interactive component.
A Japanese #translation is now available for #FeatherWiki thanks to the marvelous BALLOON | FU-SEN (github.com/fu-sen)! Thanks so much!
Find the download on the Downloads page:
feather.wiki/?page=downloads
If you want to get your language added to Feather Wiki, you can also contribute a translation! Instructions can be found at feather.wiki/?page=translation
ふうせん🎈 FU-SEN. fu-sen has 31 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.GitHub
Une série d'applications, développée par Cédric Eyssette, qui utilisent le Markdown pour produire des cartes mentales, des quiz,marklab.forge.apps.education.fr
Rock-solid #curl with Daniel Stenberg
youtu.be/DvicV2MYKW4?si=9G1ilk…
The ideas behind these new long-term support curl release branches. How they work, why we do them, how the different from the normal curl releases and so on.YouTube
Help us work out how to save TLS sessions with #curl
github.com/curl/curl/discussio…
Thinking about storing TLS sessions more permanently, e.g. in a file. This would make these available the next time you start curl. Reusing them is beneficial for performance, especially now that w...GitHub
“Amelia… was recently looking at the famous triptych painting The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch with a friend when they noticed a man on the right-hand panel with musical notes written on his butt. Highly amused, Amelia then transcribed these notes into modern notation and created a little sound clip that has been colloquially called “The Butt Song From Hell” — which is available for listen on her Tumblr.”
tumblr.com/chaoscontrolled123/…
Hieronymus Bosch - The Music Written on This Dude's Butt Luke and I were looking at Hieronymus Bosch's painting The Garden of Earthly Delights and discovered, much to our amusement, music written up…Tumblr
Some big news (for me) regarding my Forbes column: I’m still part of Forbes’ contributor network and still part of DEI, but my column is being shifted to the broader consumer tech section.
My reporting on accessibility is “resonating.”
"Researchers at Google said on Friday that they have discovered the first vulnerability using a large language model. "
*the first*. As in singular. And they figured they would do a media splash about it.
therecord.media/google-llm-sql…
In a blog post on Friday, Google said it believes the bug is the first public example of an AI tool finding a previously unknown exploitable memory-safety issue in widely used real-world software.therecord.media
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We have 2 days to gather $567.83 or else the sole working vehicle for two families will be repossessed. This will make it impossible for my son in law to work and support the new baby that will be arriving this month, and will limit me to relatively scarce remote-only positions for my job hunt. Please help us if you can. Thank you in advance for any assistance you can give, even if it's just a boost.
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Přejděte na adresu paypal.me/AaronHosford a zadejte částku. Protože jde o PayPal, je to jednoduché a bezpečné. Nemáte účet PayPal? Nevadí.PayPal.Me
This is true for a big part.
The same people who pushed blockchain hogwash are now pushing AI and will push the next thing in a year or two.
It's almost as if those people were not serious or honest.
mastodon.bsd.cafe/@duncan_bayn…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org They're all too busy with AI grifting now to apologise for the Web3 grifting ...BSD.cafe Mastodon Portal
The Quebec government is launching an investigation of two English-language junior colleges in Montreal over complaints that the conflict in the Middle East has created an unsafe climate on campus.Montreal
Santa Reads Braille is back! Sign your child up to receive a braille or large print letter from Santa. brailleworks.com/santa-reads-b…
#BrailleWorks #SantaReadsBraille #Braille
Santa Reads Braille - Parents & teachers can reach out to receive a letter from Santa in braille & large print for their child.Braille Works
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Highlights in the devtools 1.3.0 release
A stunning time-lapse of Earth setting below the Moon's horizon captured by the Japanese spacecraft Kaguya as it orbits the Moon.
Credit: JAXA/NHK
The Global Voice brings together an international team of broadcasters, producers and radio journalists to present for you a wide range of entertaining and informative programs.The Global Voice
Has your phone been acting up? Here's how to check if malware is to blame, and what to do if it is.Jason Cohen (PCMag)
Readers enjoyed Criss Onan’s article about the NAB cartridge and the machines that played them. They sent the following letters.RW Staff (Radio World)
Judy Dixon is a woman of humility, generosity, spunk, and drive. Judy worked for the National Library Service for the...Devon Price (American Printing House)
The Department of Labor is building a federal database to make it easier to find 'lost' retirement money.Courtney Johnston (CNET)
Na drony se vybralo přes 200 000 000 Kč. Teď skupina vybírá peníze na 100 tun plastické trhaviny. 💣
At last, the USB portal originally authored by @refi64 in 2021, later continued by Georges Stavracas in 2023, and finalized by @hub, has been merged!
The USB portal allows sandboxed formats like Flatpak to access USB devices without poking holes in the sandbox. This is great for security, as accessing USB devices will now need to be explicitly granted by the user.
Now we just need to wait for implementers to implement them in their respective portal implementations, starting with GNOME: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-des…
The documentation for the USB portal is available on the xdg-desktop-portal website: flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-…
Description: Portal for USB device access This interface lets sandboxed applications monitor and request access to connected USB devices. Applications should prefer specialized portals for specific...XDG Desktop Portal
Surprise, @github is now pushing Copilot on the home screen 🤢
Keep in mind that I've never signed up for Copilot, have disabled Copilot in every way that's possible, and yet I still have a "Copilot Individual Subscription" which comically has "Enabled" as a text field amongst drop-downs for disabling specific features and buttons for signing up for professional services.
ChatGPT Pro is a new $200/month subscription offering unlimited access to OpenAI o1, o1-mini, GPT-4o, and Advanced Voice, plus a new o1 pro mode with even more capabilities.Laurent Giret (Thurrott.com)
One of my all-time favorite spots, the trolley graveyard was a privately owned collection of streetcars on 19 acres of track stretching back into the woods. The owner, my good friend Ed Metka, passed away earlier this year and the cars are being scrapped.
abandonedamerica.us/the-trolle…
This trolley graveyard may look like a wreck if you don't know any better but it is in fact one man's personal collection.www.abandonedamerica.us
Official music video for "Ein Tag wie Gold", performed by Meret Becker & @MEUTE, title track from season four of hit series Babylon Berlin. Available now: ht...YouTube
I wrote some thoughts about why and how we should make code review easy, as developers.
richvdh.org/rubber-stamp-revie…
Some thoughts on why we should take the time to make our pull requests easy to review, and how to do so.richvdh.org
thanks for writing this down. Makes it easier to argue for this with my teammates :).
And I didn't know about the --update-refs flag. That's helpful!
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in reply to Vagina Museum • • •Now, in great news for any 48 year old woman undergoing mood swings in the 19th century, climacteric insanity was considered eminently curable, and in even better news the cure usually wasn't being sent to the asylum, unless you were particularly rage-y.
The cure for climacteric insanity had several main strands. First of all, the patient was advised to be away from friends and family as they might prove to trigger anger or sadness. Usually this would be a trip away rather than the asylum.
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in reply to Vagina Museum • • •Enriching entertainment was a crucial part of the cure for climacteric insanity, as well as eating a good diet. Oh, and a ton of drugs, too. Morphine and cannabis were recommended to relieve insomnia and calm "nervous irritation".
The final part of the cure was regular enemas or laxatives, because Dr Skrae was convinced that it was the climacteric insanity which caused constipation, and not the dosing with morphine.
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