So we’re going to have support for styleable HTML `<select>` menus from Apple and Google before we have support for `aria-activedescendant` from Apple and Google, right?
More than a decade of failure to implement ARIA, but the CSSWG can push its thing through in, what, two years?
my week: lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel…
400+, Barcelona, Opinion, Joshua's issues, HackerOne, Podcast, Features, wolfSSH, Anniversaries, CRA, EuroBSDCon
Linux admins when they have to use Windows: :/
Windows admins when they have to use Linux: :\
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Post office clerk: I'll put some tape over the back of your envelope.
Marn: Thank you. It's the kind that sticks down with spit, and then if the edges stick and the middle doesn't… why am I telling you this?
Clerk: It's all right! You can tell me anything you like.
Marn: Oh cool! Did you know that "uncopyrightable" has no repeated letters but contains more than half the alphabet?
Clerk: I didn't. I like facts like that.
Marn: Oh right? Well, there's a genus of grass called Aegilops where all the letters are in alphabetical order.
Clerk: I will go home and look these up.
"please disregard my previous email"
Did it before you even asked, buddy
my driver yesterday said I look buffer than last time he drove me.
yeah I’m gonna ride that high for at least a month.
@moof thing is "oi" and "eau" are pronounced like that in French. This is not an exception. (unlike a lot of other things in French).
eau -> water. it's pronounced "o"
also i get a bunch of js errors like this.
An error has occurred in the script on this page.
Line:
20
Char:
1
Error:
'eformat' is undefined
Code:
0
URL:
file:///D:/WimBuilder2-Full.v2024-11-11_Beta/assets/default_config.js
Do you want to continue running scripts on this page?
The 'small tech' map - it's great to see that so many good alternatives to #bigtech unethical #datarape products exist.
Which will you switch to?
(This map appears on this page of our website: rebeltechalliance.org/stopusin… , and all these products are linked to in the Alternatives sub-menus)
#privacy #surveillancecapitalism
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Kindersuchmaschinen sollen Schutz bieten – doch die bekannten Angebote wie fragFINN oder Helles Köpfchen leiten Suchanfragen teils direkt an Google weiter oder lassen Drittanbieter (kräftig) mittracken. Damit wird das Surfverhalten von Kindern ausgewertet. Trotzdem gelten sie vielerorts als Empfehlung. Wirklich kindgerechte, trackingfreie Alternativen fehlen aktuell leider. 🙄
#suchmaschine #tracking #google #fragfinn #FediLZ #schule #kind #kinder #datenschutz #dsgvo
/kuk
Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened
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The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask.
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Seit dem 28. Juni ist das neue #Barrierefreiheitsgesetz in Kraft. Welche Produkte und Dienstleistungen sind umfasst – und welche nicht? Welche Potenziale hat das Gesetz für Menschen mit Behinderungen? Welche Beschwerdemöglichkeiten gibt es?
Stefan Resch berichtet von der Jahreskonferenz des Österreichischen Behindertenrats
ANDI
26.09.2025 17:00
UKW 94.0 & o94.at
#European AccessibilityAct #EEA #Barrierefreiheit #DigitaleBarrierefreiheit #Barrierefrei #Accessibility #Inklusion
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Also...wenn du mit dem Gedanken spielst dir einen #Asus Laptop zuzulegen und #Linux draufzuspielen...lass es.
Habe zwei Asus ROG und zwei Acer auf Linux gebracht, die Acer waren problemlos, die Asus haben mich das doppelte an Zeit sowie einige graue Haare gekostet und laufen heute noch nicht ganz sauber (Sound-In).
Grund ist m.E. der absolut fehlende Support von Asus in Bezug auf Linux!
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I feel like people see bikes and irrationally associate them with slowness. I get aggressively passed on residential streets at least one week. I'm on an ebike, I'm already going the speed limit! And then half of those people promptly slow down to the speed limit and now the only difference is I have to smell their car exhaust.
The Govt want Canada Post to remove home delivery and switch to (communal) boxes around the corner.
I lived in suburbia eons ago where this was the norm. I can tell that many time mail wasn't delivered in the winter because the boxes were not accessible (snowed in), Given the recent record of the city in clearing the street, I can tell you this would be worse.
When I get packages delivered by Canada Post they always ring the bell. Even if there is no signature required, in which case they leave.
Got a FedEx delivery in the last two weeks? I only know it was delivered because I heard the truck. Not because they rang the bell. And I'm not gonna even mention the Amazon contractors. Half the time they don't bother.
Really I should put sign: "package deliveries, please ring the bell".
Also you know who doesn't deliver in remote areas? FedEx, UPS, any other for profit.
You know who does? Canada Post.
Why? Because it's a service. And they are required by law.
Canada Post is on strike. Here's what you need to know
Went & put all the "we had anti-slavery regs for farm workers & Trump got rid of them back in June" videos in one place
Trump just made it easier to force farm workers who came to the US LEGALLY into slavery. The US rolled out new rules to stop trafficking of farm workers- and...YouTube
Managing Focus and Visible Focus Indicators: Practical Accessibility Guidance for the Web
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#webdesign #UIDesign #a11y #ixd
Visible focus indicators and logical focus order remain frequent pain points in web development. Kirby Tucker shows how to ease the pain.Kirby Tucker (TPGi)
Apple wants to launder the consequences of its own anticompetitive, anti-user choices through a credulous tech press. The goal is to frame regulators for Apple's own deeds, and it's rotten to the core.Alex Russell
Cher Masto, j'ai un problème de traduction en anglais et aimerais vos suggestions si vous en avez!
J'aimerais expliquer que nos relations imaginaires (adjectif) à un objet puisent dans un imaginaire (nom), qui est constitué d'images.
Le -aire comme recueil:
a,b,c,d -> abécédaire
bêbêtes -> bestiaire
question -> questionnaire
images-> imaginaire
Je n'ai pas de vrai dictionnaire sous la main, wordreference ne semble pas connaître ce sens.
Est-ce que, puisque abecedary semble exister, je peux faire le parallèle avec imaginary? On peut en faire un nom?
@Friendica Support
Ich habe heute Vormittag ein "git pull" auf dem Release-Candidate gemacht.
Danach waren die Menüpunkte unter den Suchfenster weg. Das ist doof 😡
Also in der "Network" Seite die Punkte wie Persönlich, Global usw. Auch ist der Beitragserstellungsbutton weg. Themen "Frio" - und da sich beim Git-pull einiges geändert.
Auch im eigenen Profil-Modus sind die oberen Links weg.
Wenn ich das Themen Mal auf "Vier" umschalten, sind die Menüpunkte da.
Wer hat an dieser Uhr gedreht ? 😂
Konnte es reparieren, indem ich die Smarty Templates (Dateien unter .../view/smarty3/compiled/*) gelöscht habe und PHP-FPM neu gestartet habe und den Browser-Cache geleert habe.
Danach funktionierte die Seite wieder. Nur Browser-Cache löschen hatte nicht geholfen.
@Steffen K9 🐰
Es gibt noch einen weiteren Fehler, der damit leider nicht gelöst wird. Der betrifft die BBCode Funktion im Editor
- git pull
- sudo -u www-data ./bin/composer install
- Verzeichnisse unter smarty3/compiled löschen
- php-fpm restart
Nun gehts wieder ! 
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Feeling that the govt abandoning #Canada Post is just handing the lucrative delivery business to US corporations. There's no doubt that a transformation is necessary, but the Carney vision is to dismantle it, which will allow the commercial services to enshittify, and that will be bad for Canadian individuals and businesses.
A big question is why there are 6 trucks/day delivering 6 individual packages to each address. Surely we can do better.
Sounds good to me. Never liked US agents on Canadian soil anyway.
GTFO
Bonjour les gens !
Un ami à #Strasbourg quitte sa #collocation
Accueillante pour les #LGBT et en centre ville à côté de l'université (arrêt Gallia).
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Si ça peut servir à quelqu'un :)
Une chambre se libère dans notre colocation en face des bains municipaux ! L'appartement est idéalement situé avec l'arrêt Gallia juste à côté où passe les lignes C, E et F. Tout est compris dans les charges (électricité, eau, etc...), sauf l'Int...La Carte des Colocs
I imagine one of the reasons for the change was that the "centi-" prefix is commonly used to modify other units (most commonly centimetres). You've then got the question of whether "grade" is a unit.
Also, dividing something by a power of 10 is not that uncommon in countries using the metric system. Also, Fahrenheit is also defined by dividing a chosen temperature range into 100 parts, so it's not even unique to temperature units.
One week with the iPhone Air. Setup, hand feel, thinness, drops, battery, VoiceOver, and all the ways it works (and doesn’t) when you actually live with it.
Friday.
Still no baby.
The painter's on her last day today. The shelves and TV brackets are all going back up tomorrow, ready for the new carpet on Tuesday.
Got the first of the new sofas moved up to the day after the carpet, which is quite handy. Baby really should be out by then!
Did I miss some blindy drama? I'm hearing people are locking their accounts.
I think this needs to be repeated, since I tend to be quite negative about all of the 'AI' hype:
I am not opposed to machine learning. I used machine learning in my PhD and it was great. I built a system for predicting the next elements you'd want to fetch from disk or a remote server that didn't require knowledge of the algorithm that you were using for traversal and would learn patterns. This performed as well as a prefetcher that did have detailed knowledge of the algorithm that defined the access path. Modern branch predictors use neural networks. Machine learning is amazing if:
The second of these is really important. Most machine-learning systems will have errors (the exceptions are those where ML is really used for compression[1]). For prefetching, branch prediction, and so on, the cost of a wrong answer is very low, you just do a small amount of wasted work, but the benefit of a correct answer is huge: you don't sit idle for a long period. These are basically perfect use cases.
Similarly, face detection in a camera is great. If you can find faces and adjust the focal depth automatically to keep them in focus, you improve photos, and if you do it wrong then the person can tap on the bit of the photo they want to be in focus to adjust it, so even if you're right only 50% of the time, you're better than the baseline of right 0% of the time.
In some cases, you can bias the results. Maybe a false positive is very bad, but a false negative is fine. Spam filters (which have used machine learning for decades) fit here. Marking a real message as spam can be problematic because the recipient may miss something important, letting the occasional spam message through wastes a few seconds. Blocking a hundred spam messages a day is a huge productivity win. You can tune the probabilities to hit this kind of threshold. And you can't easily write a rule-based algorithm for spotting spam because spammers will adapt their behaviour.
Translating a menu is probably fine, the worst that can happen is that you get to eat something unexpected. Unless you have a specific food allergy, in which case you might die from a translation error.
And that's where I start to get really annoyed by a lot of the LLM hype. It's pushing machine-learning approaches into places where there are significant harms for sometimes giving the wrong answer. And it's doing so while trying to outsource the liability to the customers who are using these machines in ways in which they are advertised as working. It's great for translation! Unless a mistranslated word could kill a business deal or start a war. It's great for summarisation! Unless missing a key point could cost you a load of money. It's great for writing code! Unless a security vulnerability would cost you lost revenue or a copyright infringement lawsuit from having accidentally put something from the training set directly in your codebase in contravention of its license would kill your business. And so on. Lots of risks that are outsourced and liabilities that are passed directly to the user.
And that's ignoring all of the societal harms.
[1] My favourite of these is actually very old. The hyphenation algorithm in TeX trains short Markov chains on a corpus of words with ground truth for correct hyphenation. The result is a Markov chain that is correct on most words in the corpus and is much smaller than the corpus. The next step uses it to predict the correct breaking points in all of the words in the corpus and records the outliers. This gives you a generic algorithm that works across a load of languages and is guaranteed to be correct for all words in the training corpus and is mostly correct for others. English and American have completely different hyphenation rules for mostly the same set of words, and both end up with around 70 outliers that need to be in the special-case list in this approach. Writing a rule-based system for American is moderately easy, but for English is very hard. American breaks on syllable boundaries, which are fairly well defined, but English breaks on root words and some of those depend on which language we stole the word from.
The pattern-matching is making Google searches more useful for me.
But I am entirely against referring to any of this stuff as ‘artificial intelligence’. It actually is not even an ATTEMPT to solve the problem of artificial intelligence. It is only mistaken for an attempt to solve that problem.
I have a simple proof of this: artificial intelligence cannot possibly be reached by ‘language models’ of any kind. Why not? Because a human is nearly the same as a language-less ape.
Everything that people mistake for ‘AI hallucinations’ and so forth are easily understood if you simply view all the ‘AI’ not as ‘AI’ but as pattern processing algorithms.
True artificial intelligence would be an entirely different problem. The people doing the pattern processing are probably incapable of understanding the difference between the two problems, however.
Apes truly are language-less BTW. People sometimes object. But true language has infinitely recursive structure. No animal has language in this sense.
And human intelligence MUST be a variant of ape intelligence. Therefore must have language only as an adjunct facility, not as a foundational one.
I expect LLMs never to be any good at mathematics. They claim otherwise, but what they demonstrate is only that it can solve high school math tests, which isn’t the same thing.
@hosford42 It could also be ‘visualization’.
Most mathematics is really geometry. Even non-geometric stuff is usually solved by converting it to geometry. Whathisface proved Fermat’s last theorem by geometry.
I mean proprioception in the sense of navigation. Knowing left and right. That sort of thing. Which obviously fully healthy apes are very, very good at.
(I’m not so extremely healthy these days, but that’s partly because I am old now. If I turn rapidly, I’ll likely fall down. :) )
People may be better at mathematics than they realize. Teachers are very, very, VERY bad at teaching it.
> People may be better at mathematics than they realize. Teachers are very, very, VERY bad at teaching it.
I second this. I cringe every time my girls, who are both *very* good at math, say they hate the subject. It has everything to do with the teachers. I think the education program for teachers misses something that must be vital for effectively teaching math, especially in a way that makes kids feel competent and enjoy the subject. At least, that's how it is here in the US.
WHat the "anti-ai" people forget about is that humans also make mistakes, and each mistake has a price associated with it.
It's also worth remembering that some people would prefer cheap AI that sometimes makes mistakes over expensive but reliable humans, even in fields like law or healthcare.
The one thing AI is really bad at is being a scapegoat, and sometimes what you actually need is a scapegoat.
das schlimme ist, das ich wichtige mails verschicken wollte, aber bisher nicht konnte. Das finde ich gelinde gesagt, sehr beschi**en.
War bisher zufrieden mit euch, aber in den letzten monaten, bin ich nicht mehr so zufrieden. Hab auch an euren support eine mail geschickt, diese ist versendet worden ? Jedenfalls kam kein fehlermeldung.
Kann es sein, das mein account gesperrt wurde ?
Anyone using RPi Camera Viewer (apt.izzysoft.de/packages/ca.fr…)? Is it still working and useful? Its last release was made in 2019, and not even issues are replied to anymore since at least 2020 – so we wonder if we should remove the app from #IzzyOnDroid
play a raw H.264 stream from a Raspberry PiIzzyOnDroid Repo Browser
Linux users when they need to remember a simple command in the terminal:
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Matt Campbell
in reply to Adrian Roselli • • •Adrian Roselli
in reply to Matt Campbell • • •@matt It should, but see further down in my thread.
But even then, what the fuck were they doing for the intervening 8 years?
And why do we accept that?