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by @lloydi

Friday.

We've spent days in hospital and the poor wife's had a lot of things going on, but not the things she wants to have going on. Baby is still firmly ensconced.

The house is coming together well though. The first of the sofas appeared yesterday, we put the curtains up this morning and the carpets are all down and lovely underfoot. The window sills have all been painted and varnished, the French doors are sealed and watertight (a good thing with a storm blowing in), and I've just finished re-seating all the electrical wall outlets and light switches now the paint's all dry.

The baby's changing unit remains to be assembled, but the crib and car seat are ready. We just need a baby now.
Daily CTG's are strong. Baby's moving well internally. Things just, have yet to go pop!

in reply to D.Hamlin.Music

@dhamlinmusic not typical, but they wanted to induce labour early due to diabetes. They tried, but before we got to the water-breaking stage there was a mad influx of emergency sections (they've had over 500 deliveries in September). On our second morning there they had 14 cases booked to come in for induction, and 10 of their 10 beds were already full from previous inductees who hadn't moved on.
We've just had the call up now to go in for the Amniotomy in a few hours.
in reply to André Polykanine

"thrice" догадывался, но не был уверен, в ассоциативном массиве нашлось "twice", хотел проверить, но ты опередил. Есть ещё "quintuple" кстати, в своё время услышал от североамериканских хоккейных комментаторов. Тоже наверное не самое часто встречающееся слово.

Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) 2025 was last week. Here's the playlist on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn7…
#inclusiveDesign #webdesign #a11y #UIDesign #accessibility

Why now is not the time to think about WCAG 3

afixt.com/why-now-is-not-the-t…

Hurrah! #SOURCE issue 3 is out now! There's a focus on #openhardware for this issue with tutorials on the wonderful @FreeCAD , the mighty @kicad , the fabulous @inkscape and also getting your project certified by the brilliant @oshwassociation. As ever it's pay as you feel, links are on this post concretedog.blogspot.com/2025/… #CAD #CAM #PCB #KiCad #FreeCAD #Inkscape #FreeCadFriday #opensource

Please Boost! and have a great weekend. X

A algunos se les va a congelar la sonrisa al descubrir que las renovables no fueron el problema.

El apagón ibérico se debió a una "cascada de sobrevoltaje" y no a la generación renovable

noticiasdenavarra.com/sociedad…

Probably it's only me, but I find this song insanely, astonishingly beautiful, it touches something very deep in my soul. And the voices, of course. youtube.com/watch?v=37lvUhvUV-… #Music #Scottish #Gàidhlig

#Einheit - ein ganz schön großes Wort.

Irgendwann stand damals Stagnation, Frust, Hoffnung, Vision, auch Angst.

Dann Widerstand, Aufbruch, neue Ideen, Aktivität.

Leider allzufrüh DMark, Kapitulation, Beitritt, Anschluss.

Für Wiedervereinigung, Einheit, hätte es Augenhöhe bedurft. Die war nicht wahrzunehmen. Klar, (nicht nur) Freude auf beiden Seiten.

Dann aber ein beispielloses Abwerten, Ausverkauf unter Wert, auf Kosten der Lebensleistung Tausender.

Trotz allem auch wieder neue Wege und Energie.

Die Beschreibung, Erinnerung wird immer unvollständig bleiben. Die Standpunkte sind verschieden.

#Wende scheint mir immer noch passender.

#DDR #bunteRepublik

I'm seeing a number of posts about folk thinking of leaving #AndroidDev due to Googles policy changes.

For clarity I left the #Android world this year, and largely for those reasons.

I bought a T-Mobile G1 on the first day. I've built SDKs and firmware for Android, I have commits in the AOSP. I built (and sold) an app store in the early days. I also worked on the Android team at Google for a while.

Android, to me, is now a Google product. Not the open platform it was.

My advice; Just do it.

Encountered my first elevator wit a digital queueing system. You press an accessibility button on a touchscreen, then hear all the floor numbers from highest to lowest read back to you. Once it mentions the floor you want to go to, you press the accessibility button again, hoping that while searching for the accessibility button, you don't touch the screen, because it triggers a floor call randomly to the floor you touched on the screen. Back to hearing all the floor numbers again. The floors are read out very slowly, about 1,5 seconds per floor. If you miss your number, you need to start again. I wanted to go to floor 2 in a 15 floor building. I encountered a lot of annoyed people who were waiting behind me to also call the lift. The spoken prompts were translated wrong to Estonian, so it was hard to understand what they actually meant. THe narrator spoke extremelly slowly and with a tone you'd use with a child, who has drawn on a wall with crayons, for the 5th time. Slowly, patronisingly. Hugely embarrassing experience.

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in reply to Jakob Rosin

Yes all that. I'm surprised they read out highest to lowest, all the ones I have used go from lowest to highest. Also in your office do you have multiple touchscreens? In the ones I have used there have been plenty of screens available for others to choose the floor. People still try and help though and will sometimes cancel it by touching the screen so I have to try and cover up the screen so it is less likely to happen.

#digitalsovereignty in Portugal. Government CTO will be someone who was Microsoft employee until a week ago. Way to go #portugal! Let's just put Oracle's boss as Tax Minister too... Are people really this short sighted? Am I crazy to see issues here? digitalinside.sapo.pt/manuel-d…

Hi everyone, an exciting announcement today - we've released our first 64-bit alpha build, which ALSO includes on-device AI image captioning. For the full details and the caveats - please see this post in the NVDA user group: groups.google.com/a/nvaccess.o…

(Also, in response to a couple of questions:
- The keystroke for image captioning is NVDA+Windows+comma
- And yes, you can setup the new alpha as a portable copy rather than installing it).

#NVDA #NVDAsr #AI #ImageDescription #Image #64bit

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Also this Friday, look at this lovely #curl PR by @icing that we just merged:

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1870…

"Daniel Stenberg, Swedish Internet protocol expert and founder and lead developer of the #Curl project, speaks with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about removing Rust from Curl. They discuss why #Hyper was removed from curl, why the last five percent of making it a success was difficult"

se-radio.net/2025/10/se-radio-…

Musician Plays the Last Stradivarius Guitar in the World, the “Sabionari” Made in 1679. I had no idea Stradivari made guitars. openculture.com/2025/09/musici…