It's still utterly baffling to me that some online shopping sites will trash your basket if you reach checkout and realise you weren't logged in, so go and do so.
Listen. I wasn't born yesterday. I know that fungi aren't plants: they don't have chloroplasts to photosynthesize. They don't use cellulose for their cell walls like plants.
But what *do* they use then? Chitin! Like a bug! This is what the exoskeletons of insects (such as ants) are made of!
The implications of this are marvelous. Consider Prototaxites, the tree-size fungi of the Silurian. They stood tall using chitin. And to me? THAT says that giant ants may be more possible than we think!
An #ngtcp2 lead developer told me they have no current plans to adapt to the new #OpenSSL #QUIC API because of its lack of 0RTT support and the "pull model".
Of course someone else can go ahead and write it and ideally someone from #OpenSSL does it, for dogfooding purposes.
I have no heard of any other QUIC stack either having adapted to it yet.
someone from open SSL told me privately that they spoke to four stacks and they were all had planned to support it. Do you think, perhaps, that they were not being completely straightforward?
"We did get some feedback from other QUIC stacks" they said to me. But few QUIC stacks support several different TLS library QUIC APIS, and with this being very different they need to if they don't at the same drop the support for the other TLS libs - which seems unlikely.
"plan to support it" might not mean much, plus we don't know what those authors knew about the API when they said so.
Clearly one of those four was not ngtcp2, which in my eyes is the most important one...
I'd love to get my wife @MoonCat into doing audio-description and audiobook reading. Now I know she sounds great behind the mic, I should try to find a way for her to branch out. She has such a clear, calming voice with fantastic diction.
What's that I hear you say? Bias? Me? No way. Of course not. Definitely not me.
In March of 2018, 18 years after being banned from the Empress Hotel in British Columbia, Novia Scotia resident Nick Burchill wrote them a letter and asked f...
Hallo @Friendica Support mir ist im Monitoring vor ein paar Minuten aufgefallen, dass meine Instanz gerade viel zu tun hat. Also wesentlich mehr, was sonst los ist. Ein Blick im Adminpanel bzw. in die Warteschlange sagt mir, dass aktuell wieder viele "UpdateContact" Jobs am laufen sind. Verstehe ich das richtig, dass diese Jobs einfach nur die Kontakte aktualisiert? Wenn ja, wieso verursacht das so viel Last auf der Maschine? Oder steckt da mehr dahinter? Cc.: @Michael Vogel
I've had up to 10k jobs in queue with "update contact", with a tremendous load on the system. I ended up disableling completely the "auto discovered contact directory" thing in the admin panel. This thing seems to go in endless loop or something like unregulated jobs spawning.
I generally find "Conversations" too generic and also difficult/long to pronounce. I wished a "themed" name and mascout, which makes the whole story stand out and easier to remember. For example I find the parrot of snikket quite nice when I want to refer my parents/friends to its app.
just an idea. Maybe naming XMPP IM network (giving it its own cool name) would give us an opportunity to create a cool name for XMPP address? It wouldn’t be attached to any project and could be easier to remember and use by the users?
TechCrunch rivela l’esistenza di un altro possibile spyware governativo sviluppato in Italia.
A seguito di una segnalazione da parte di un ricercatore di sicurezza sono infatti state analizzate delle applicazioni Android ed è stata confermata la presenza di uno spyware chiamato Spyrtacus. 🕵️
Italian company SIO, which sells to government customers, is behind an Android spyware campaign called Spyrtacus that spoofed popular apps like WhatsApp, per security researchers.
Tato města na severu USA sice nejsou vůči oteplování světa zcela imunní, ale mají dobré předpoklady pro uspokojení potřeb přílivu klimatických migrantů.
Question: How many lines of code does it take to get a slider control to expose a text value (i.e. not entirely numeric) to UI Automation (and thus Narrator)? Answer: more than 200. Contrast: On the web, we could just do this with a single aria-valuetext attribute. github.com/jcsteh/osara/pull/1…
Narrator uses UIA, not MSAA. Unfortunately, we can't annotate the UIA Value pattern's Value property. Instead, we use a custom UIA implementation.
Fixes #758.
@trib Oh for sure. My point was simply that as the UI developer, I don't have to worry about this on the web - the browser does it all for me - whereas in this case, for native Windows UI, I had to write all of that code myself, which is very tedious and annoying.
one of the reasons I did design was I was very good at seeing and describing problems to solve, very good at writing the logic for them, and utterly terrible at coding anything. Go you!
@trib The funny part is that I did write a lot of that accessibility code for Firefox, so I didn't get away without writing it strictly speaking, but that's not the point here, haha.
Selling my BTSpeak Pro for $950. It's a really neat idea, I just don't have the time for it myself. Upgraded to latest firmware of course and will include a 90 day warranty against defects.
Why? Because others will see you do them, and it will make it easier for them to take their own (slightly less lonely but equally beautiful) action by your side
Old MacDonald had a farm, and on that farm he had a cow. But then he lost the farm because the government cost-sharing program that he bought into had it’s funding frozen by the administration he was duped by so who knows where the cow is at this point. E I E I O.
Just out of total curiosity, have their been updates to Dectalk for android recently? I'd use it as a daily driver if it didn't have that weird artifacting it does. I hope that gets taken care of.
I recently watched #StarTrekTheVoyageHome (aka #TheOneWithTheWhales) with my kid for her first time. It was great fun! But... uh, I'd forgotten how many colorful metaphors there were. 😅
In happier news, it turns out that the population of humpback whales -- which #StarTrek expected would be extinct by the time of the Star Trek future -- now have a population over 100,000, and are no longer considered endangered! Hooray! Sometimes things do get better.
I'm certainly not the first to express this, but I'm reminded of it again this morning:
You are not alone.
As you scroll around the internet, you may find people going about daily life and enjoying hobbies while it seems like the world around you is burning. That doesn't mean those people aren't just as hair-on-fire-concerned as you. They may even be doing something about it. But finding joy is also a form of resistance.
It would seem prudent--perhaps even a brilliant business move--for billionaires like @mcuban.bsky.social and Bill Gates to set up an institute for preserving scientific expertise and then hire up all the talent being released now. Maybe locate it in Switzerland.
"It's becoming increasingly clear that the Trump regime is turning away from our allies in order to embrace our enemies. They are dismantling our institutions and rule of law for the sole purpose of protecting and enriching a small cabal of extremely rich, extremely corrupt and extremely anti-american traitors."
Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy —
Now one of the most powerful people in the U.S. government, Peter Marocco’s turbulent tenure during the first Trump administration sheds light on his current efforts to dismantle the American foreign aid system from the inside out.
More "enshittification". This time from Amazon. Amazon is pulling a Google, killing off popular services. Evidently, I have until 25th February to download my 708 books that I have purchased from them. After the 25th you can no longer download YOUR books for backup or transfer via USB
Good job I did this 2 years ago eh? Buy the books from elsewhere.
The Debian Release Team is keeping pace: the first trixie freeze step (transition and toolchain freeze) is coming next month! lists.debian.org/debian-devel-… #debian #trixie
Walmart customer banned from every store in US over self checkout 'watch' trick that let them pay $1 for expensive items the-sun.com/news/13552922/walm…
RETAIL giant Walmart has banned an alleged serial shoplifter from every store in the US over a secret barcode scam. Ashley Cross was caught on security cameras using an old watch battery barcode to…
The Khadas Mind 2s is now available for sale. It's a modular mini PC that can be expanded with many accessories, some of which turn it into a laptop or even a well-performing workstation with a decent amount of GPU power.
A little boy and a little girl went to the same school and became good friends. Every day at lunch, they sat together and soon realized they both always brought chicken sandwiches. This routine continued throughout the fourth and fifth grades until, one day, the boy noticed that the girl’s lunch was different. "Hey, how come you're not eating a chicken sandwich today? Don’t you like them anymore?" he asked. "I love chicken," she said, "but I have to stop eating it." "Why?" he asked, curious. She pointed to her lap and whispered, "Because I’m starting to grow little feathers down there!" Surprised, he said, "Let me see." "Okay," she replied, and she showed him. He looked and nodded. "You're right! You’d better stop eating chicken." The boy kept eating his chicken sandwiches—until one day, he brought peanut butter instead. "I have to stop eating chicken sandwiches too," he told the girl. "I'm starting to grow feathers down there as well!" She gasped. "Can I see?" He hesitated, then showed her. The girl took one look and exclaimed, "Oh no! It’s too late for you... you've already got the neck and giblets!"
Measles has a 12% mortality rate in unvaccinated young children. Children cannot be vaccinated until they are at least 12 months old. And if infants need to be kept home and out of daycare to avoid potentially fatal measles outbreaks... Guess who that removes from the workforce. (Women.)
I really enjoyed the first 22 or so chapters of this one. I finished the rest. It got a bit too dark for my taste, though, and the things it was trying to say, combined with the way it was saying them, just didn't quite land for me.
Nemesis Quest [Isekai + LitRPG Satire]by Charmpagne: "Nemesis Engine engaged. Nemesis found... Transporting... And now that I had EVERYTHING going in the right direction, I'm sucked into another world as a scullery maid because some ex-boyfriend from high school still hates me? Seriously? I was pre-med! I had a family! And a cat! What do you mean I can have my cat? Well, that's a start...but once I get the hang of this, someone is going to pay because if I'm what you wished for, your genie doesn't like you. Did I mention I can cook? Finished and Complete" www.royalroad.com/fiction/68328/nemesis-quest-isekai-litrpg-satire
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