Cable and internet provider Comcast released its Quarter 1 financial results this morning, ahead of an investor call to discuss performance for the beginning of the year.
The American Association of People with Disabilities proudly joined this statement from a broad coalition of leading autism and disability organizations, including Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Autism Society of America, Autism Speaks, and more, ex…
To access this resource as a PDF, click here. To access this resource as a Word document, click here. On April 16, 2025, the Washington Post reported on a leaked budget proposal from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Drivers saw quite a scene during the afternoon commute Wednesday as provincial police officers were on foot on the Décarie Expressway to arrest suspects allegedly involved in a car theft.
Very good for getting critiques on tone, characterisation, story structure. Good for dialogue, improving or shifting character voices. Reasonably good for plotting, planning, world-building.
Okay this has provoked a lot of tributary conversations which are giving me an hypothesis.
For the purposes of this poll, typing “fast” means reliably more than 100 words per minute, and “liking” LLMs means that you personally interact with and use their output voluntarily, even if you maybe still have a lot of reservations about the ethics or safety of doing so.
I like LLMs and I type fast. (10%, 25 votes)
I don’t like LLMs and I don’t type fast. (32%, 76 votes)
I like LLMs and I don’t type fast. (6%, 14 votes)
I don’t like LLMs and I type fast. (50%, 118 votes)
Boosts on this would be much appreciated, particularly to get it in front of some more folks who *do* like LLMs; my followers are probably weighted pretty hard in a particular direction :)
what surprises me is the number of fast typers. Over half of the responses do 100 WPM or more. I just did a test and only did 87 WPM, and I don't know so many people who type noticeably faster than me.
(This keyboard is not great, but I think I've never tested over 100 WPM, 90+ is my max.)
@coder It's been a long time since I tested. Maybe I can't do >100 anymore. I started typing very little, around 7 or 8. But I may be slowing down with age.
❓ Sprints (aka Hackathons) are a great opportunity for interoperability testing, planning new features, meeting other XMPP developers and generally having a good time.
Do you remember how curl became a CNA early last year? I was reminded that I had not really gotten back to this topic and explained to you, my dear readers, how it is and how it has worked out. This curl-being-a-CNA thing I mean.
there was actually some conversations about what you talk about CVSS scores at #vulncon25. Nothing specific, but it was talked about as a weakness too.
Fresh off the press: Transition Technologies, the Polish company behind everything with Seeing Assistant in the name, have done it again. Seeing Assistant Go is their brand-new navigation app that improves on the previous Move offering. Most of the features you know are there plus a few additions. There is a simple as well as an advanced mode with a couple more settings and options. You can explore all of the OSM tags for a point which lets you find out pretty useful things e.g. does a pavement have tactile flooring or do the traffic lights have acoustic signalling. The navigation no longer provides instructions based on clock-wise or compass directions but rather you turn around with the phone in your hand and once you hear the assigned sound, you know you have found the direction and then carry on straight. This one will need a bit of getting used to but I was told by an experienced blind tester of the app it actually works once you got the hang of it. As far as I know, a blind developer and user of navigation apps is involved full-time in the project. Happy testing! iOS: apps.apple.com/pl/app/seeing-a…: play.google.com/store/apps/det… #Accessibility #a11y #Blind
The Seeing Assistant Go app supports the spatial orientation of blind and visually impaired people. It provides information about the surroundings using synthetic speech, sounds, vibrations and pointing in the direction of the top of the phone.
There used to be an iOS app, nearby explorer online, which sort of did this as well. You spun your phone in a circle, and it would vibrate when you pointed your phone at the target as the crow flies, somewhat similar to how a lot of videogame nav assists work actually :) It does work surprisingly well particularly in cities that work off a grid system, as you can figure out what general way you're meant to go and then find a side street that goes that way. I'll have to try this out
@pitermach Interesting. I'm still sorta the spanish translator for Move, although some or many of the strings are not translated. If I may have to translate SAG, then I'll do it
I was very much surprised that they came out with the app but its cool that they did, because today especially on Android you don't have to many choyces for blind gps apps.
@ZBennoui I'm one of the many who's testing Seein Assystent Go. Plus, I'm translating this app into Spanish. Hope one of the translations are added to the app so I can use it. It's a plus for me translating this app since I bring more people to this new software. Maybe I'm the only spanish-speaking person using this app, maybe not.
#Children have long been put in migrant #detention if they were apprehended at the #border. Today, lawyers have found, #families are being removed from stable lives in the #UnitedStates.
Now up to 363 university/academic signers -- more than 60 added in the last few hours. Still silence from Dartmouth, Stanford, and the entire state of Texas.
"We must oppose undue government intrusion in the lives of those who learn, live, and work on our campuses."
FBI: Americans aged 60 and older reported losing almost $3 billion to crypto fraud last year. In total, Americans reported being scammed out of around $9.3 billion via crypto, out of a total $16.6 billion in total reported Internet crime losses that year.
Pronatalist agenda: Encourage white births, enforce regressive, hierarchal & stratified social roles, push women out of public sphere and narrow women’s prospects for social, professional intellectual life to pregnancy, child care & housework. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
“the pro-natalist movement...is not really interested in making parenting easier or less burdensome for women. It is not interested in making children more affordable, or making them healthier.”
“It is not interested in making pregnancy safer, or in making childrearing less damaging to women’s careers.
“It is not interested in these because all of these pursuits are in fact antithetical to the movement’s real agenda”
Pro-natalists' agenda “is to encourage primarily white births, to enforce regressive, highly hierarchal and stratified social roles, to push women out of the public sphere and to narrow women’s prospects for social, professional and intellectual life to little more than pregnancy, childbirth, childrearing and housekeeping”
“Despite the extreme anti-woman bigotry and regressive gender politics...American liberals have been hesitant to combat the right’s embrace” of it.
“women should be able, free and encouraged to live lives that do not conform to regressive notions of women’s proper roles as wives and mothers, that they should be free to invent themselves on their own terms – including as permanently childless adults. This is not, as the pro-natalists would have it, an abandonment of their biological duty – and it is not, as their liberal sympathizers would say, an example of cultural decadence.”
A year ago, I saw someone open a book lamp in a bar. It was a pretty expensive product. Since I combine electronics and paper crafting, I had to DIY it and develop an easy-to-use circuit template and instructions for it. This educational project is perfect for libraries. Please #retoot Template and instructions are available on my website: voltpaperscissors.com/diybookl…. Feel free to ask any questions. #papercircuit #papercraft #diy #MINT #STEM
I don’t know who needs to hear this but corporations cannot be “furious.” They also cannot be “happy”, “sad”, or gripped by any other emotion because they are not people. Stop anthropomorphising corporations. mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1…
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Apple and Meta furious at EU over fines totaling €700 million
EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M in first Digital Markets Act penalties.
https://arstechnica.
It would be awesome if the voters in Carleton fired Pierre PoiLIEvre!
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is at risk of losing Carleton riding as the party scrambles to send in volunteers to save the seat he has held since 2004... theglobeandmail.com/politics/a… #ABC #cdnpoli #polcan #elxn45
Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)
She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).
So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!
Meta today announced that it is rolling out a new live translation feature to all Ray-Ban Meta glasses users, providing wide access to functionality...
The Web Applications Working Group published UI Events KeyboardEvent key Values and UI Events KeyboardEvent code Values:as W3C Recommendations.
key Values defines the key attribute values that must be used for KeyboardEvent’s key attribute. The code value contains information about the key event that can be used to identify the physical key being pressed by the user.
Question to people doing electronics and other fields using very small units: do you use the name "thou" or "mil" for the unit representing 1⁄1000 inch?
Considering adding this in unit list in @GIMP. Wikipedia seems to say that Thou is more common globally (but North America) and it looks like @FreeCAD (a good reference!) uses "Thou" too.
Yet a reporter insists that "mil" is more common and that "thou" wouldn't be understood by engineers. So which is it? 😄
The ride is coming to an end. The experiment is done. We tried, but we admit defeat. Four years ago we started adding support for an alternative HTTP backend in curl. It would use a library written in rust, called hyper.
In this new release you'll find a new avatar and banner configuration panel, animated GIF support in the picture proxy and some more improvements in the internal color palette management 🎨
Movim is also now supports the XEP-0392: Consistent Color Generation that allows you to have the same default color for your contacts between all the XMPP clients ☺️!
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