I don't think I've ever seen an emerging technology that's driven CEOs from multiple companies to come out in public and ask people to stop saying mean things about it.
Thank you for waiting until I'm temporarily staying with a friend who has fiber. I have to tolerate being envious of the 3 gigabit upload but at least I'm not the target of hate.
@simon ... I have fiber but now I'm a wee byt jealous because we only have 250 Megabit up and down symmetric Granted I could get more, but it already costs 85 bucks a month. I can'n even fathom that speed right there.
I have Gigabit symmetric at home, with the option of 2.5. Here, where I am staying now, they have 200 symmetric, and they offer up to 8 GBPS for $ProbablyWayTooMuch.99. I didn't look.
@blindbat84 It's surprisingly common to find fibre in the middle of nowhere, because lots of the nothinghams and boringvilles had no cable until the 2010s, by which point fibre was yubiquitous enough that companies decided to just build fibre infrastructure. It's harder to justify that in an area where you can already get gigabit cable. Sure, it's not symmetrical, but go survey a thousand Comcast users and ask them what their upload speed is, I dare you. Unless you're a YouTube creator, a tech enthusiast, or someone who relies on good upload for remote work, you don't know and you don't care.
I just hate all people with a faster connection than I do, even if I do like them really. I'm essentially on now what's coming close to third-world internet speeds, 80/20 DSL. In London... A financial capital of the world.
@FreakyFwoof @simon @blindbat84 To add fuel to the fire, I was speaking to someone in Vietnam the other day, and they apparently have a 300Mb fiber connection for around 200000 Vietnamese dong (roughly 5.5 Pounds). I don't know if that's true fiber, but eh.
@twynn @FreakyFwoof @simon @blindbat84 It won't matter too much. Connectivity outside of Vietnam is super slow. I have a friend who lived there for a while, and he told me that, with a Gigabit connection, the best he could do even to just the rest of Asia was about 2 or 3 Mb/sec. Even worse to North America. Fast inside Vietnam though.
This article provides information about the changes in Firefox 147 that affect developers.
Firefox 147 is the current Beta version of Firefox and ships on January 13, 2026.
Arresting every ICE employee would get more criminals off the streets then arresting all of the people ICE is targeting. people.com/ice-employee-arrest…
Ok yes, he has been a douche for a few years And That Said ... I cut my teeth in I.T./Corporate reading DIlbert and most of the time it was Waaaay too close to home.
All cops are bastards because when Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good by shooting her three times in the head, none of the cops present tried to stop him or apprehended him, and because those same cops made sure that doctors could not treat Good before she died, and because cops have helped Ross hide rather than hunting him down and arresting him for murder, and because cops around the country haven’t spoken out to demand the arrest of this fugitive murderer because they think he did the right and justified thing, because all cops are bastards.
these psychos put a Discord link in their github FAQ on how to build the project. The instructions are not in the Github repo FAQ, they're somewhere on Discord
I hereby coin the term "Ptolemaic Code" to refer to software that appears functional but is based on a fundamentally incorrect model of the problem domain. As more code is generated by AI, the prevalence of such code is likely to increase. 1/7
You know, I'll be super interested when they bring the new version of Tweetscake. I think they've been working on it for a while. Always love to see people compete with great programs.
Dear #SysAdmin fedi – I need a CLI tool that would canonicalize a DNS zone file. As in: put all the entries in a well-defined order, replace whitespace with a predefined pattern, organize the SOA section in a reproducible manner.
My basic need is being able to tell two zone files are 100% functionally equivalent, even if one uses tabs, the other spaces, and if entries are in completely random order, etc.
Edit: sorted, named-checkzone probably does the trick
Despite what some folks might say, I am very aware of what's happening these days. I am not ignorant or turning a blind eye to things, but I'm also in a position where there's not much I can do. Some people might say I should protest, but something like that could be dangerous, even more so for me. I'm not necessarily hiding somewhere and waiting for things to pass, I'm keeping eyes on things, but I also have fragile enough mental health that the constant worrying and reading of the news is going to do me no good and I know that.
OK, I have heard it all now. I have gotten some crazy things when I have tried to talk about the Meta glasses, everything from metal glasses, to other things that I can’t remember. But today’s takes the cake! What I said, Meta glasses. What this crazy ass device heard, medical classes. What in the entire hell?
Also, I tried to find out if she was bad, so I typed "Naomi Klein controversy" and the worst she has done is being confused with Naomi Wolf. That's unfortunate
Winterdienst in Finnland: "Jeder einzelne Beschäftigte des Räumdienstes muss regelmäßig selbst auf seinen Routen radeln. Wenn die Nutzer besonders zufrieden sind, kann es Boni geben. Die Wege sind breit genug, damit dieselben großen Maschinen darauf fahren können wie auf den Autostraßen." spiegel.de/auto/fahrrad-im-win…
Im nordfinnischen Oulu herrschen monatelang strenger Frost und Dunkelheit – trotzdem fahren viele Menschen rund ums Jahr Fahrrad. Stadtplaner Pekka Tahkola erklärt, wie Radfahrer sich für den Winter begeistern können.
I tried last night to pre-order a Dreame X60 Max Ultra Complete (as if I really need one of those) but couldn't complete the transaction with either of my credit cards. Then I got a text alert from my bank this morning where they suspected fraud and blocked my debit card. Hopefully it would go through if I try again.
Went to an aquarium supply store last night and was delighted to see the staff in N95 masks and all customers still required to wear masks also. I wish I saw more places still doing this. The sign behind the till particularly got me 😂
“COVID-19 SURCHARGES $50 If we have to explain about masks $100 If we have to hear why you disagree”
Anyway if you need any fish-related supplies, go support Aquarium Central. 🫧🐠🐟🐠🐟
U.S. President Donald Trump visited a Ford factory in Dearborn, Mich., Tuesday and dismissed the relevance of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, saying the U.S. doesn’t need the trade deal and that “Canada would love it.”
"Well our politician show how much courage they have. There is a lot of pretend to do, very little action."
Examples:
- Getting off X? - Digital Service Tax? - IT sovereignty ? (I need to pay two american companies to apply for a passport because of their IT choices, not even talking about filing taxes)
agree on right to repair and cutting software protections...could even agree with cutting chinese EV tarrifs BUT ONLY of they open source their OS to Canada to prevent surveillance and #killswitchdiplomacy
@john I would add "comprehensive privacy legislation" encompassing the collection of data including vehicle, where they can be hosted and the penalties.
It's kind of orthogonal but it's an essential part of what we need too.
One reason it won't happen, at least not easily, is that while the tariffs were put in place under US pressure, their current effect is to protect the Ontario auto industry, which mostly manufactures big bloated un-innovative gasoline SUVs that can't compete on value for money with Chinese EVs.
@dragonfrog You mean the industry that is subject to closure on a whim? Look at Stellantis closures in 2025 "because tariff". That's what you want to protect?
Is it harming Cargill, Louis Dreyfus, Richardson, ADM, Bunge and Viterra more than Canadian farmers? Will farmers be any better off with six multinationals chipping away at their profits than China?
"The biggest impact on farmers of the Chinese tariff situation may not be lost sales to China, but increased profiteering by the vertically integrated grain and oilseed processing multinationals. "
Headlines about China’s tariff on canola are raising alarm and concern among farmers. Many popular and influential media stories imply this tariff applies to…
"protecting the american lobby" is far from the only reason for the tarrifs on those chinese EVs (as others have noted, surveillance, but relying on china for transportation isn't a great idea either), *in addition* that removing them would harm the canadian workers at non-US-owned manufacturing plants as well.
@developing_agent because when the surveillance is done by the US, it's OK? Each time I see that arguement I shall remind people that US car maker do the exact same (and Japanese, German, etc). So if that's your fear then why not regulate that. (I'm totally on board)
No surveilence is ok, and there definitely should be privacy laws.
But do you really think chinese cars *won't* come with it? It is a known fact that they surveil drivers in ways that extend beyond those of other automakers.
P.S. and you haven't addressed other points either. What do you say to canadian manufacturing workers on a japanese or european-owned production line?
The European Commission has published a call for evidence for an upcoming initiative titled Towards European open digital ecosystems, inviting stakeholders to provide input ahead of a planned Communication to the European Parliament and the Council e…
Even before we knew it was a nazi bar (aka before the c-suite said it was ok they fund nazi writers, which is way before they actually promoted nazi content with spam) it was sketchy. There is that thing I was following that would be in the category of "computing history, first person account". It started revealing all the anti-pattern that prelude enshittification, something medium exhibited.
The Government of Canada was OK to ban TikTok because it was Chinese. But they are not OK with banning X or Grok (the CSAM generator formerly know as Twitter).
That tells you it's never about the people all about the racism....
Theseus and the Minotaur is a turn-based logic maze and puzzle maze game about escaping a monster through planning and strategy. It’s a calm thinking game and
the most cryptic notification I've ever gotten from #Windows: "Notification from File Explorer: Starting the process of getting a trace". Hmm... Ideas anyone? I instantly remembered George Carlin and his standup about airline companies and their way of speaking English. P.S. UPD. It's some kind of a diagnostic I didn't ask of though.
LOL. That's something new. Seriously is windows as slow as people say it is nowadays? I haven't used it in ages, the whole, explorer crashing and saying working on it plus random AI pushing from ms was like, nope, thank you.
Says the windows user. The other tends to disagree, which means, points straight at me. Honestly though, I only use windows when I am visiting elderly grandparents, and I have a windows in the house, but even then I am dragging two macs around because. I mean I can even game on mac these days why do I need windows, again? But yeah, I don't like win 11. I am glad I still have a computer with 10 on it, and I will install any tweek under the known sky, if it lets me keep what I have. I don't care about support or security, or whatever. Just that, 10 is better than 11.
I mean, damn it. I tried windows for year, 20 years on windows, and only about, five on mac. I just, never want to look at windows again, unless it's for work, or because I want to run games specifically on windows. I just don't see things I can't do on mac I can do on windows, even microsoft's apps are better, which is ridiculous. I would like to guess that you're not using the actual explorer, but from that post, you probably are. Anyway, I also had huge issues with windows audio, and because I am losing hearing, hehe. Something always breaks, somehow, and I have to fix it, all the time. IT gets tiring after a while. I love NVDA though, I won't lie, that's probably the only thing I like windows for, and it's not for windows itself, it's for the option to have NVDA. And yes I have a watch and an iPad and a phone, actually two of them, a retired one I will use for work, but I have android too. So me and the war between mac and windows doesn't apply. Still though, when people report that windows works, the apps work, etc. without the mother of scripting scripts and addons, I will be super happy, because ms is vibe coding these days, so much that they even visually had an update where the password field was a blank. Thingy on the screen. What in the name of OS coding is that? LOL. I guess windows 10 is dead for good now, but I am still running it. Also, windows is getting heavier and heavier on Ram usage, and its ram usage is just so... Inifficient, that we had 1000tabs in excel, and mac never complained, launched it on windows, and my 16Gb weren't enough, for some odd reason. Haha. I would love me laptops with awesome specs, but neither do I have the money, nor do I want stuff that weighs five KG because you know, gaming laptops, but actually for work. :D
@tardis Wait, but you're blind also, no? I mean, voiceOver is far worse than JAWS or even NVDA. VoiceOver on Mac, I mean, at least when I saw it last time. And Braille support on Mac is also far behind, as far as I know.
Uh, when did you last see a Mac? Braille support is awesome on Mac, there's even braille screen input via the keyboard now. I mean, what is making you think vo is bad? Sure, you can't use it in the terminal, although, if I full screen my terminal, and it's the default terminal app, you can interact with it nowadays. Which, is pretty cool me thinks.
@tardis I use a terminal every day, so yes, for me it's a necessity. Probably I need to see a working Mac somewhere. but when I last saw it, it was a pain to work in the browser, for example. Don't know about VS Code for Mac these days, which I also need. Also, on windows I have WSL that allows me to have basically a lightweight Linux environment for console development.
Oh, there's tdsr both for linux and mac. I mean, if the linux terminal works well, it wouldn't exist for it, but apparently, it exists. IT works well with mac, for now. Except, my speech framework was bugged, so I had to delete espeak, and now I has 0 Bulgarian readability, hehe. Browser is good, browser is like an iPhone with a keyboard, in some ways, I see it as more logical. Also, the options to customise stuff for visually impaired users is huge, better than on windows in some cases, my colleague said so.
I mean, if you mean that I could use my braille display on mac, without using a keyboard for everything, then yes, braille support probably sucks, but it doesn't. You could connect braille displays on mac way before you could with NVDA, without downloading any drivers, etc. And now that focus have added HID toggles and stuff, it's awesome. MacOs looks so much like a freakin phone now, kind of. IF you're on an iPhone, switching won't even be hard, except the shortcuts. You can assign so many more things in VO now that didn't work before. Now, if they fix a few annoying bugs, it'll be great, but they haven't yet.
@tardis What about Braille tables, input, output, quick switching? Can I customize a Braille table to add characters? Can I do basic stuff like reversing pan buttons, make cursor steady, make Braille cursor follow system cursor and vice versa, make language profiles in speech and Braille?
I don't think you can customise braille tables, because libloui and apple's braille tables, but libloui is for example broken for bulgarian, so is apple's and we have written feedback, I just guess a lot of users have to do that. But you don't need language profiles, because you can switch with just cmd vo shift between tables. Mac has two rotor-like things. One is like the one on the phone, the other one has voices, braille tables, rate, volume, pitch, etc. So I have three or so braille tables. And yeah, I think you can reverse assign your panning keys, or change the auto advance speed, assign keys on the display to do that, etc. Maybe there's a way to customise liblouis tables, but I am not sure, maybe there isn't. I haven't looked extensively into that.
Oh yeah, I can make cursors non-blinking, I can tell the status cells to screw off, I can make underlines, italics, whatever the heck I want to do with the thing. The only thing I can't do, is update the focus via mac, but that's an fs issue, not my issue. I have windows for that. IT actually fell into a bootloop, and I had to flash its firmware twice, it sucked.
Blah, that sucks. Well, we had a teacher who used to upload cut out windows. Where's narrator? Oh, we don't know. Yeah, re-install windows, ask five different people to help you. Nope, no way.
I started writing an article about how you can sneak in #accessibility fixes (as a developer or designer) without telling your boss.
Do you have any stories you would like to share that I could use for the article?
I did it by silently adding landmark elements and a skip link, updating global focus styles so that they're consistent and accessible and other evil shenanigans. 😈
I used to add some ARIA here and there wherever I could, but to be honest, when I tried to change JavaScript to make a proper keyboard interaction, I failed miserably every time. Maybe because I don't like frontend development, to put it mildly (I'm a backender by flesh and soul). Nowadays I'd ask an LLM for help of course, but it was before AI.
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