The best burgers in Toronto range from classic patties at simple spots to indulgent creations in fancy restaurants.blogTO
INDIAN FOOD MEETS METAL! Pre-save our upcoming album NU DELHI if you like what you hear!: https://found.ee/nudelhi 2025 Return of the Singh Tour (EU/UK/Japa...YouTube
A maintainer tracked down an AI company that said the spam was a mistake. But reports suggest the problem is more widespread and growing.Loraine Lawson (The New Stack)
@davidbisset This didn’t make it over here for some reason, but I wanted to share that I often have nightmares that look like this.
Aaaaand there we have it.
Google’s new AI policy removes promises not work on weapons or surveillance - The Washington Post
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For macOS Sequoia 15.3 Intro This guide discusses the many ways you can change verbosity options in macOS VoiceOver, and how they work.applevis.com
The NRSC’s AM Improvement Working Group published a study examining the effects of RF noise on AM radio reception in cars.Nick Langan (Radio World)
Be wary when adding additional context only for #screenReader users. An example:
Say you're working on an e-commerce site, and some products have two prices to show how great a sale discount is. The before and after is made visually apparent via some aspect of text formatting, and you want to make it explicit for screen reader users too.
The first step is to ask if this is necessary. If a user encounters two consecutive prices and one is lower than the other, they may intuitively understand what's going on without any explicit signposting, and can verify how much they're gonna pay during the checkout process. Only your users can provide this verdict.
If it's determined that some additional context is helpful, you could format it as something like: "Was $14.99, now $8.99" (optionally swapping the prices). It's short and punchy in braille and speech, perfectly descriptive of the situation at hand, and mirrors how it may be spoken out loud on an ad.
Resist the temptation to go further than this. You do not need to say "original price: $14.99, current sale price: $8.99". This is much longer and more verbose, while adding nothing. It also implies that you think screen reader users need to be told what a price is and explained the concept of a sale, even though you're not doing so for other audiences.
You also don't need to spell out the word "dollars", format the price in words, repeat the product name, and so on. If you find yourself with screen-reader-only text like: "The current price of 500 Grams of Premium Oolong Tea was fourteen dollars and ninety-nine cents, and is now on sale for eight dollars and ninety-nine cents", it has gone way too far.
In short: Set out to identify the problems that actually need solving, and only solve those problems.
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A Grubhub security breach has exposed personal data for both customers and drivers, says the company, after an “incident” involving...Ben Lovejoy (9to5Mac)
Another ringing endorsement of cryptocurrency:
El Salvador Abandons Bitcoin as Legal Tender After Failed Experiment
ticotimes.net/2025/02/02/el-sa…
Understand the implications of Bitcoin's downfall in El Salvador. Learn about the failed economic bet and its impact on the country's financial stability.AFP (The Tico Times | Costa Rica News | Travel | Real Estate)
The makers of Twitterrific just launched a new iPhone app for social and web feeds. Tapestry brings together Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and more.Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)
Apple announced the new invites app which is available on the App Store now
apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/int…
Apple today introduced Apple Invites, a new app for iPhone that allows users to create custom invitations to gather friends and family.Apple
🎉 Tapestry by Iconfactory is here! Your favorite blogs, social media, and more in a unified and chronological timeline with no algorithms and no tracking! Try it for FREE from the App Store: apps.apple.com/app/tapestry-by…
Tapestry weaves your favorite blogs, social media, and more into a unified and chronological timeline.App Store
Carbon dating puts Saskatchewan first nation settlement site as 10,800 years old.
For settlers needing a reference point, this is as old as the oldest parts of Stonehenge, and five thousand years older than the pyramids. #archaeology
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📢 January 2025 Newsletter is here! We’re kicking off the year with exciting updates:
⚙️ Rust support progress for Native
🔤 Web font improvements in GL JS
💡 Read more: 🔗 maplibre.org/news/2025-02-03-m…
Spent a moment this morning reading some old Beautiful Soup bug reports and freshly appreciated my spouse. Example:
bugs.launchpad.net/beautifulso…
Leonard gives a calm and thorough explanation of why and how the issue emerges from another library, and how the reporter can pragmatically mitigate.
I'm just feeling mushy right now about the man I'm lucky enough to have married. 💞
Normally when parsing an xml file, bs4 converts html entities in a piece of text to the character they encode. Ex. given '', `soup.find("item").string` becomes ''.Launchpad
Hello, Mastodon family! It's been a long time coming, but Xubuntu has officially left X behind!
x.com/Xubuntu/status/188675427…
If you're still using X, consider sharing our update to spread awareness. We'll continue to bring you the best of #Xfce and #Linux... all in one place.
(edit: because everything is confusing and nothing makes sense... we're leaving X, formerly known as Twitter, not X11. Wayland is still very much in the future!)
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Tomorrow at 9:00 CET I release #curl 8.12.0 live-streamed. What could possibly go wrong?
github.com/curl/curl/discussio…
The feature window is closed. The pending 8.12.0 release is scheduled to happen on February 5. If things go well, we open the feature window again on February 15. The curl release cycle is explaine...GitHub
Fresh off the press: what's next for Flathub build infrastructure
docs.flathub.org/blog/flathub-…
There is a storm coming and we are re-architecting our build infrastructure.Bart Piotrowski (docs.flathub.org)
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Release Notes This discussion was created from the release v4.3.0.GitHub
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For the most part I only gain new maintainers when I add such a request to an announcement. During the quite phases I lose sponsors and while a few new sponsors join during the off-season, it's always fewer than those that stop.
This is what I think about whenever infosec wonks on here start telling people they should use matrix or xmpp+omemo or whatnot instead of signal
To be fair, I understand the arguments and to a large extent I agree with the critiques. However, I think anyone making these recommendations is vastly underestimating the capacity or appetite for most people to deal with the user experiences presented by these alternatives.
User experience is the ultimate force multiplier. For anything that requires network effects to function (ie most anything involving communication), if it doesn't *just work* then you've lost 90% of your audience.
#matrix #xmpp #infosec #cybersecurity #signal #ux #design #ui #encryption #privacy #crypto
My talk "A Universal and Stable API to Everything: XMPP" is already available online, thanks to FOSDEM staff for their amazing work, and thanks to people who attended or we met at the RT Lounge.
video.fosdem.org/2025/k3601/fo…
If you have questions, you can ask me here.
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