2024-04-09 13:35:02
Last night I updated my post “ADA Web Site Compliance Still Not a Thing”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/03/ada-web-site-compliance-still-not-a-thing.html#Update09
Links to the DoJ release about making ADA apply to state &a…
Last night I updated my post “ADA Web Site Compliance Still Not a Thing”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/03/ada-web-site-compliance-still-not-a-thing.html#Update09
Links to the DoJ release about making ADA apply to state &a…
Hier jetzt sogar von mir mal eine dezidiert politische Content-Warnung. Entscheidet selbst, ob Ihr so jemanden ungefiltert sehen und hören wollt.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy (Channel 4) interviewt den Hamas-Repräsentanten im Iran und stellt dabei einige gute Fragen:
https://w…
The Liberal party does not have a ‘women problem’. Men are the problem | Amy Remeikis
they do: “The party’s women continue to wring their hands in their support group chat”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news
In London, Meta execs downplayed the negative impact of AI on elections, touted open-source AI, and confirmed Llama's next version will arrive by next month (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
ÖPNV-Not der NRW-Kommunen: Droht Kahlschlag bei Buslinien?
Erweist sich die Verkehrswende am Ende als „leeres Versprechen“? Die NRW-Städte sagen, wo im Netz sie als erstes sparen müssen.
https://www.waz.de/politik/article24228837
No, you’re not that good at detecting fake videos − 2 misinformation experts explain why and how you can develop the power to resist these deceptions https://theconversation.com/no-your…
Kristi Noem cuts her book tour short because of 'bad weather'... not the fury over revelations she shot and killed her puppy Cricket | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1
FM: Kosovo supports Ukraine despite Kyiv not recognizing its independence: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/08/fm-kosovo-supports.html
Screw days of Hallmark tokenism so people can contain their care for others within set times with societally-pressured token gestures - whether they can afford to pay for stuff or not, whether they've been subjected to abuse or not - and at the same time make those not participating feel like shit for not having certain people in their lives. Fuck all that, every little bit of it. I long ago rejected it and maintained, and in fact improved, genuine relationships with people who totally u…
BE NOT AFRAID 👁️🔥🔮
Narrated biblical comedy | Enoch, an incompetent angel is running a podcast. His job is to report on important and historical events for mortal prophets across spacetime. Come along on as he forgets primitive concepts like the linear progression of time, and tries to discover what it means to be ...
https://www.<…
"Perhaps most important, exploiting the advantage that #technology offers often creates requirements for additional personnel performing tasks that were not previously envisaged."
https://
Dolphins LT Terron Armstead not fretting offseason moves within AFC East: 'We have enough to beat anybody' https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-lt-terron-armstead-not-fretting-offseason-moves-within-af…
Steelers’ TJ Watt Absolutely 'Not A Top 5 Pass Rusher' According To Cowboys’ Micah Parsons https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/steelers_tj_watt_absolutely_not_a_top_5_pass_rusher…
Incel CS lecturer at Waterloo
"However, when a boy or a girl says that they are lonely and/or they have emotional and sexual needs and ask for help, those people usually will not care and will not even bother helping"
1. p sure you can lose your CS degree for using the "and/or" abomination.
2. You are CLEARLY not asking the right boys for help with your sexual needs.
3. Exactly what kind of help do you want? Have you considered a therapist?
#IncelShaming
Wieder einmal ein #Cyber Upsi bei #Microsoft: Sicherheitsforscher von #SOCRadar fanden einen frei zugänglichen
Millions of small coffee growers vs. central monitoring from 7000 km away: a classic #commons governance story?
https://www.theguardian.com/global-de…
This is our younger, more athletic, and not-so-bright cat, who not only has lovely eyes, but…
#caturday #photography
**1 of 2/ #internationalwomensday2024**
On this International Woman's Day, I would like to shout out into the void some thoughts about my wife of 35 years.
She is the type of woman who is not often recognized but should be; not appreciated enough when she gives everything to her all; not cheered enough when her efforts demand a standing ovation.
I know one…
Thus far, the Supreme Court’s rulings in both the 14th Amendment and presidential immunity case have helped to reinforce Trump’s narrative that these criminal indictments aren’t really about him, they are about his legions of MAGA followers.
In equating his problems with their problems, Trump has ample fodder
— bogus as it may be
— to once again argue that his legal troubles are not of his own doing, but rather, the work of political adversaries who have been conspiring to i…
Who comes up with names of floors on an elevator. There should not be a floor G for ground floor. 1 should not mean you are 1 story high. B should not mean bottom floor.
One thing that the fediverse does not currently provide is the avalanche of indonesian dick pics I was used to on X. Not saying I _miss_ it but it's been such a ritual each day that I kinda do.
Whoopi Goldberg: Abortion is 'not mentioned' in the Ten Commandments (Heather Hunter/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2958042/whoopi-goldberg-abortion-is-not-mentioned-in-the-ten-commandments/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240408/p76#a240408p76
Aliexpress is not the "Chinese Amazon", it is a jungle. It is ideal for making small purchases, ideal for finding bargains, ideal for finding curious gadgets... But not for anything serious.
I made a purchase of a mini pc at a ridiculous price, what did the seller do? Not send me the purchased product, cancel the order and raise the price.
Su puta madre!
This is how *my* day is going.
`One or more errors occured` great, thanks. *WHAT* errors? there's no explanatory popup, there's no log file, nothing.
This says:
`This is an edge case we couldn't be arsed to handle properly either because we are lazy developers or our product management doesn't give a shit. So fuck you Mr/Ms Customer.`
not even spelled correctly. Not a good sign from a translation tool.
🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
🫠 Never look at the sun without special eclipse glasses when any part of the disk of the sun is visible.
🚫 Not even for a second. Even if you’re in the “path of totality”. Even when it’s cloudy. Not with sunglasses. Not with DIY whatevers.
🌑 It’s safe to look without eclipse glasses during totality only (not at 99.9%), when all you can see is the Moon.
🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
While my UI for Godot on iPad is making a lot of progress, I have come to realize that getting assets into Godot or loading existing projects is an area I haven’t touched.
The iPad doesn’t make it easy to get files into it.
Just did a walkthrough - it is possible today to import files, but it is cumbersome - and this is not what I want people’s first impression to be.
And getting your project out is also not obvious.
What would people would like to see in terms of get…
Fat Princess: Piece of Cake: not what I was expecting
I read a recent email from Sony which told me that Fat Princess: Piece of Cake was closing down its servers at the start of next year. This was bad news, since Fat Princess is a game series I always liked the sound of, and I wanted to try it out - and a free version of the game is a good way to do so.
Raiders were reportedly a 'coin toss' away from not drafting Georgia star Brock Bowers https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_were_reportedly_a_coin_toss_away_from_not_draftin…
During the sad Hamburg–KŸbenhavn journey yesterday, a passenger in my compartment kept whining how “these trains are so old”, which is false, and was not the reason for the huge delay, 9.5 h.
These trains consist of used DB IC carriages, not new, but not old and crappy either. They are in good shape internally IMHO and run smoothly at 200 km/h. The trains are pulled by very new #DSB Vectron l…
Look at the state of this.
LARUS Ltd sitting on AFRINIC IP addresses but leasing them to a company in Hong Kong and then when they receive an abuse report for THEIR IP ADDRESSES they don't even handle it but say "contact our customer". That's not how this is supposed to work. It's not how any of this is supposed to work.
Absolute scum carpetbaggers.
I hope this is not seen as "over sharing" but it feels like I am getting a barrage of email from various worthy causes urgently needing more funds like right now for Important Issues.
While I am not impoverished there is now a significant tax payment I will have to make at the end of April - and that is pretty much all I will be able to fund. I won't be going into debt or having problems paying other bills, but there is just not any room for more donations.
Sorry.…
The COSTUMING tho.
Watch closely when you see it for the third or fourth time: Gurney Halleck’s boots are worn at the right angles for someone who always walks quietly. The details are absolutely outstanding and as a person who’s done a not-insubstantial amount of historical costuming creation and sewing, to not give this movie the Oscar next year for costume design would be just unforgivable.
Ran in the desert (New Mexico) last week a few times. Not too hot, but the wind and dry air we're, ah, different 😄 Not bad, but not ideal.
Glad to be back in Minnesota, the treadmill feels super easy this week so far. #running #runnersofmastodon
kwh, wealth, old age,
examining something reminds me diverse backgrounds can uncover weird discrepancies in averages of data, or in what you yourself consider "typical".
asked contact list about how much power they use.
one of them made an order of magnitude more kwh than the rest (they're also a c-level executive)
talked about how 3 fridges, a pool, and a hot-tub "stuff comes with age" (but also that they're "trying to be energy efficient")
I mean... not all of the old people on the list have big houses like that. I think that might just be an executive thing?
but it's also like...
I think comparison is a useful tool to realize some parts of our lives go unchallenged.
also, some mistakes in my methodology:
- heating/cooling in different regions vastly changes
- not including power usage from gas heaters vs all electric houses
- not controlling for heating/location
I actually don't think the point would be to get grumpy at them, but to understand that they had zero clue they were 10x energy users
Decided I wanted to extract the transcripts from videos of talks I’ve given, and used ChatGPT to write Python code (I‘m not a Python programmer) to read the YouTube API (which I’ve not used before). First thing I found is that OAuth is needed so that Google knows who you are. Then found that I can only read the transcript for videos I personally posted. So now ChatGPT is helping me write code to scrape the web page that I can see the Transcript on. No way I could have done this on my own.
Short blog post with a very short history of #datascience based on my hands-on Data Science Introduction --> https://medium.com/@f.huber/ver…
Good questions on AI from Verity Harding: 'We should be thinking: ‘What do we want and how do we use technology?’, not ‘What technology is coming that we just have to put up with’ ... Why aren’t we harnessing the incredible power of AI to help solve the climate crisis? Why do we act as if humanity is helpless to control something it’s actively inventing?'
History teaching is not popular at schools lately, some people even think it's not necessary. However understanding current events around Ukraine, in Russia, around Gaza, for all of that is knowledge of history a necessity otherwise you are totally ignorant and you can't understand current events.
#education
What is your oddest family story?
By which I mean a story which has been passed down in the family, but which may or may not have any relationship to the truth?
For me, it is that my grandfather claimed to have written the song Tea For Two, posted it to America to see if they’d like to pay for it and it was appropriated.
(Please note, I make no claim to the song Tea For Two in recounting this tale, and am confident its credited authors were not song snafflers)
Silly (or maybe not) question:
So what exactly is social media for?
For some, it is a way to sell ads into an addicted audience. But we are trying to get away from that with the #Fediverse. So if it's not that, what is it for, exactly?
And for you personally: if you didn't have social media, what exactly would you miss in your life? Which needs or wants do you have that w…
My adopters starved me, too. & despite the fact that I was CLEARLY malnourished, no one ever tried to help me. Why not? Because society has been taught to believe adopters are saviors & saints. But abusive adoptive parents are not uncommon. That “better life” trope needs to be yeeted into the sun—when you give up your child to #adoption , you’re abandoning them to an utter crapshoot, &…
I am not a lawyer, but "these women have become prejudiced against my client after interacting with him" is not the strongest defense I can imagine.
Normally, when I'm not feeling well, my cats become the best nurses. Not this time, because I'm sneezing so much that I terrify them.
Meta announces an update to its AI ad tools, which can now make full new images, not just backgrounds, and claims it's adding strong guardrails to prevent abuse (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/07/meta
Curious if there's a correlation here...
Do you self-identify as #ActuallyAutistic (even if not officially diagnosed) or neurotypical?
Do you enjoy the effects of (regardless of how often you use them) any psychoactive substances, including but not limited to alcohol?
I'm specifically asking about the recreational psychoactive aspect so drinking solely for the fl…
“.. a repeat of the can’t do attitude they turned to for decades when fighting fuel economy standards, then claiming the technology didn’t exist, it was too expensive, and consumers didn’t want it (they were wrong). Now the auto industry is dragging its feet once again, this time trying to use China’s progress on EVs as an excuse to slow down on U.S. standards. Really? When you’re falling behind, is slowing down really the right answer?”
I will not be boycotting Eurovision this year.
I think the song competition is at it's absolute best when warring nations are sending representatives to compete in a non-war situation.
I don't think Israel should be banned, but then I didn't think Russia should be banned either.
Warring nations encouraged to stop their bombing and killing for a minute and glam up for a camp song contest. That's the ideal to me.
Having said that. While I will not be boycotting it, I also as usual won't be watching it or taking part it any way, because it's really boring now Terry Wogan is dead.
@… @… @… Hard not to on one of these bikes!
[actually hard not to on any bike!]
Not your #MomentOfZen
For those not local to me in North Carolina, we’re presently experiencing a remarkable event. The cycle of two separate cicada broods, one emerging every 17 years, the other every 12 years, has converged. It’s awesome in every sense of the word.
Fact Check: White House Press Secretary Did NOT Answer Question On 'Ukrainian Manifestations Of Nazism' -- Altered Video: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/09/fact-check-white.html
Republican Voters Against Trump on X: "Marjorie Taylor Greene once again does Putin’s bidding: “This is a war on Christianity. The Ukrainian government is attacking Christians...Russia is not doing that. They are not attacking Christianity. As a matter of fact, they seem to be protecting it.” https://t.co/QEMYN1BLDn
The Stack Overflow / OpenAI news does not alarm me too much. There is *lots* of bad #accessibility information there. I did a talk on it.
Twice:
• https://adrianroselli.com/2017/09/slid
Falcons sign former second-round CB who has not played since 2021
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/falcons-sign-former-second-round-cb-who-has-not-play…
Incel CS lecturer at Waterloo
"2.5.1 BEHAVIOR OF GIRLS DIFFER BEFORE AND AFTER IMMIGRATION"
Girls, specifically. Not boys. Stinks of a misogyny problem.
"Before immigration in Iran, girls usually like and welcome marriage. … However, after
immigration to a western country such as Canada … [s]ome of them do not look for relationships for at least several years."
Definitely stinks of misogyny.
"The first possible reason is that some girls in Iran want to get out of their parents’ house so they gain more freedom in their own house living with their husband. However, when they immigrate to another country, they become independent and do not need to escape from their parents’ house; they are already in their own house with their freedom."
Ah. I found the misogyny, right behind the authoritarianism.
Whoopi Goldberg: Abortion is 'not mentioned' in the Ten Commandments (Heather Hunter/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2958042/whoopi-goldberg-abortion-is-not-mentioned-in-the-ten-commandments/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240408/p76#a240408p76
The Cowboys do take risks, just not the kind we want to see https://insidethestar.com/the-cowboys-do-take-risks-just-not-the-kind-we-want-to-see/
Meta announces an update to its AI ad tools, which can now make full new images, not just backgrounds, and claims it's adding strong guardrails to prevent abuse (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/07/meta
While my UI for Godot on iPad is making a lot of progress, I have come to realize that getting assets into Godot or loading existing projects is an area I haven’t touched.
The iPad doesn’t make it easy to get files into it.
Just did a walkthrough - it is possible today to import files, but it is cumbersome - and this is not what I want people’s first impression to be.
And getting your project out is also not obvious.
What would people would like to see in terms of get…
Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap: not being able to dig
I'm in the Fortress of Winds, and am stuck. I know what I need - something to suck up or dig through or otherwise destroy the big foamy blocks that are strewn across the level - but I've been everywhere I can get to in the dungeon, many times, and there remain a couple of rooms that I just can't access. This is most frustrating.
Decided I wanted to extract the transcripts from videos of talks I’ve given, and used ChatGPT to write Python code (I‘m not a Python programmer) to read the YouTube API (which I’ve not used before). First thing I found is that OAuth is needed so that Google knows who you are. Then found that I can only read the transcript for videos I personally posted. So now ChatGPT is helping me write code to scrape the web page that I can see the Transcript on. No way I could have done this on my own.
ROFL 🤣: OpenAI—which has scraped the internet and fed copyrighted works into its own products—has filed a copyright claim over the OpenAI logo being used on the ChatGPT subreddit
"It does not seem wise for OpenAI to start enforcing copyright claims."
https://www.4…
The Stack Overflow / OpenAI news does not alarm me too much. There is *lots* of bad #accessibility information there. I did a talk on it.
Twice:
• https://adrianroselli.com/2017/09/slid
In a letter to members, the National Music Publishers Association says it doesn't expect to renew its TikTok license when the deal expires on April 30 (Jem Aswad/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/nmpa-does-no…
If you want to learn and hear from First Nations women in this part of the world and how they're regaining their space, this is a great article about Nuu-cha-nulth women:
“Nuu-chah-nulth women are powerful, strong, and not afraid to take up the space meant for them. This is how Mariah Charleson (łučinƛcuta), a Hesquiaht member who was recently elected the nation’s chief councillor, describes the women of Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations.”
how do you look at what's important or not?
how do you look at whether you need help or not?
or whether you're on track?
Missing from progressive movements is a thread of understanding how justice and the anatomy of an apology fits into both individual and societal experiences of systemic oppression
Honestly, I think folks are just burned the fuck out and don't have bandwidth for that. I feel ya. But it's still important to bring that back into the picture when we can.
And important to consider the realism that sometimes we just need to give them some fucking cookies as a damned Pavlovian conditioning cycle. Not because we have to, not because we should, but because it fucking works.
Sometimes we have to do things not for our ideals but for our survival.
The Cowboys do take risks, just not the kind we want to see https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/the_cowboys_do_take_risks_just_not_the_kind_we_want_to_see/s1_17100_40076933
OpenAI probe: the board's decision to fire Altman was because of a "breakdown in trust", not concerns about product safety, the pace of development, or finances (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
NATO military chair: 'It's not too late for Ukraine,' Russia's progress limited: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/08/nato-military-chair.html
CeeDee Lamb not expected at Cowboys' voluntary offseason program, could hold out without extension, per report
https://www.cbssports.com/n…
Incel CS lecturer at Waterloo
$2.4.1 DIFFICULTIES OF HUNTING AT WORK"
I don't know what to say
"In academia, dating and romantic/sexual relationship between professors and students is controversial"
Yes. Yes it is.
"There is clearly a world-wide bias in judgmental decisions for accusing males, compared to females, in harassments. It may be because males usually ask out and show interest in females and females may take it as an offense."
Okay so has anyone explained to you the concept of power dynamics and unethical abuse of authority roles?
"A funny thing is that once, in a seminar for teaching assistants in the University of Waterloo, they told us that teaching
assistants should not date students. I asked about the case of John Nash. The professor answered me that they married
after the student graduated (which I think is not true). Then, I answered even if that is true, did they suddenly get
married without any dating? Of course, they dated before that, while she was a student! I think they themselves know
that this rule is nonfunctional because if the professor/instructor and the student are both single, they may like each
other or fall in love as they interact frequently in the school. This rule was even criticised in the American comedy show "Friends" (season 6, episode 18)."
Ok, there's a lot to unpack here, but the main bit is this: Do you understand that the sitcom "Friends" is not a good source for understanding ethics?
Micah Parsons is in Japan for a reason, and it's probably not what you think https://insidethestar.com/micah-parsons-is-in-japan-for-a-reason-and-its-probably-not-what-you-think/
The Question Is Not If Biden Should Step Aside. It's How. (Ross Douthat/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/10/opinion/joe-biden-convention-2024.html
Rise of the Tomb Raider: it’s not that lost
Well, Jonah didn't last long. Trinity had the atlas which meant they looked to see where the Divine Source was, and discovered it was under a glacier. A shootout saw Jonah badly injured, and Jacob demonstrated his marvellous healing skills. Turns out he's a bit special. This set up the thrilling climax of the game - our objective is in the Lost City; I'm going in through the secret entrance, and Trinity's going to try going……
UK's Cameron to warn that West has not learned lessons of Ukraine-Russia war: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/09/uks-cameron-to.html
Gemini on Android is more useful than regular Assistant thanks to Google services integration, but it's not good at picking up on context and can be frustrating (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24066399/google-gemini-voice-assist…
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try,” Mr Mattis wrote. “Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership.” (from 2020)
Jim Mattis described Trump as ‘a madman in a circular room screaming’, book reveals | The Independent
Bill Cowher turns 67: Five things you might not know about Steelers Hall of Fame coach
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bill-cowher…
When I say not to disable submit buttons, I don’t mean hide them completely, you chucklefucks.
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/02/dont-disable-form-controls.html
Micah Parsons is in Japan for a reason, and it’s probably not what you think https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/micah_parsons_is_in_japan_for_a_reason_and_its_probably_not_what_you_think/s1_17100_4…
Polish FM: 'NATO forces presence in Ukraine is not unthinkable': https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/08/polish-fm-nato.html
One NFL team called Bill Belichick about a possible job, but not as a head coach, per report
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/one-nfl
When I say not to disable submit buttons, I don’t mean hide them completely, you chucklefucks.
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/02/dont-disable-form-controls.html
US representatives not to attend Putin's inauguration: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/06/us-representatives-not.html
One NFL team called Bill Belichick about a possible job, but not as a head coach, per report
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/one-nfl
Incel CS lecturer at Waterloo
"When people have a pet such as a dog, cat, or a bird, they usually worry about the loneliness and sexual needs of the pet. They usually buy another pet from the opposite sex so that pet can mate and will not be lonely any more. "
People usually neuter their pets, so no. This is getting more unhinged by the section.
"They do this not only for pet but also for farm animals such as cows, sheep, and horses."
Hold on. You understand that farms seek breeding pairs, right? Farms aren't buying animals of opposite sexes so that the animals have companionship. How did you arrive at this nonsense? God Emperor of Dune levels of unhinged.
#IncelShaming
UFL coach accuses NFL teams of breaking this rule with standout UFL player: 'They're not supposed to do that'
https://www.cbssports.…
JAWS, NVDA, & VoiceOver have Braille viewers built in. These are no substitute for testing with Braille displays and users who use them.
But these viewers can surface stuff (like live region issues, emoji exposure, etc.) before you waste a tester’s or user’s time reporting problems.
https://
Mike Evans 'extremely confident' Baker Mayfield will re-sign with Buccaneers, but will 'make it work' if not
https://www.cbssports…
Mike Evans 'extremely confident' Baker Mayfield will re-sign with Buccaneers, but will 'make it work' if not
https://www.cbssports…