@robpike@hachyderm.io2025-05-26 08:19:44
Mission Impossible: Final Trainwreck. Need help here. Should I..
@robpike@hachyderm.io2025-05-26 08:19:44
@andycarolan@social.lol2025-06-26 15:34:36
Are you a creator who maintains retainers with any of your clients? Just curious.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-06-24 16:59:34
I used the acronym "LLMs" after the word "AI" in a school parents' meeting today and only one other parent ( my husband) knew what it was.
Is it just a bit of jargon? Completely unknown? Or am I out of touch?
@egallager@social.treehouse.systems2025-06-22 17:00:47
#MastodonPoll: best response to "Iran can never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon"? (pick one)
1. "That's why we should have stuck with the JCPOA, which Obama negotiated and Trump blew up. Bombing Iran makes them more likely to seek a nuclear weapon." (redirect)
2. "Actually, they can and should be allowed and even encouraged to have a nuclear weapon." (contradict)
3. "Who are we to allow or disallow Iran from seeking a nuclear weapon?" (disclaim responsibility)
4. "Iran wouldn't have been able to complete a nuclear weapon anyways." (argue mootness)
5. "Do you remember nothing from the run-up to the Iraq War?" (appeal to history)
@pre@boing.world2025-06-26 17:04:54
Content warning: UKPol, Palestine Action, Email to my MP
Dear Emily Thornberry,
I don't usually bother to write to you on most issues because I figure there is pretty much no point communicating with a whipped MP in a safe seat under first past the post. Such an MP has no reason to listen to their constituents at all, and is entirely a tool of the party leadership.
I make an exception today since I hear your government is about to classify Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Despite them being peaceful, non-violent, and dedicated entirely to preventing the greater crime of the ongoing genocide of Gazan Palestinians.
This is obviously a gross overreaction and a completely unjustifiable act designed not to prevent domestic terrorism but to cover up British forces and UK government involvement and collaboration with the genocide in Gaza.
If we are taking suggestions for groups to ban as terrorists even though they aren't terrorists, I would like to suggest the Labour Party! The party has helped facilitate a genocide abroad, and continues to supply the perpetrators with arms and intelligence to aid their actions.
I don't expect you to take that suggestion seriously, but maybe Reform will take it seriously when they get elected in a few years and I suggest it again to them. After all, a precedent will have been set that groups which aren't terrorists can be banned under anti-terror legislation anyway. Democracy will have already been eroded.
I was ready to be disappointed by this Labour government, but I confess that the level of gut-wrenching visceral disgust I am experiencing at them surpassed all my wildest expectations. Taking money from the disabled to buy new war-planes from a fascist US president while abetting a genocide in Gaza makes me wonder if Reform wouldn't be better in the end anyway. At least they might do electoral reform and nationalize the water companies.
Labour's only hope, the country's only hope, is to remove Starmer. I wish you had won that leadership election instead of him.
Anyway, as I say, I don't expect it to make any difference at all because under this election system even MPs in safe seats are nothing but tools of the party leadership and the party leadership seems determined. But I thought I'd let you know that I see you. I see what you are doing.
I support Palestine Action more than I support this government. Let me know where I should hand myself in for my "crime".
Yours sincerely,
Adam
@deabigt@universeodon.com2025-06-21 22:14:30
How do you think the Israel / Iran war ends?
@losttourist@social.chatty.monster2025-06-20 18:29:55
Will the next #TOTP be any better?
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-06-23 17:42:52
Sheri Byrne-Haber points out that some disability-related orgs use overlays and as a result you should probably not trust those orgs:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sheribyrnehaber_access…
@smurthys@hachyderm.io2025-06-25 10:51:18
Poor example to introduce the `disabled` HTML attribute:
Lesson: Don't use the same/similar name as the concept being introduced.
```html
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="ch-box" value="disabled" disabled />
disabled
</label>
```
#writing #scholarship #examples #technicalWriting
@pdmckone@mstdn.ca2025-05-21 12:57:57
What enables the grift of AI is the output routines that print "Here's what I found" rather than "This is a statistically-generated response to your input."
https://mstdn.ca/@ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social/114541390873399798
@deepthoughts10@infosec.exchange2025-06-23 01:45:36
Please raise your hand if you've disabled PowerShell 2.0 on your Windows systems. What? Didn't know that was a thing you should do? PowerShell 2.0 does not have any of the modern logging and security features that newer versions like v5.1 or 7.x have. But if you don't remove or disable the old 2.0 version, it can be used and abused by malware, info stealers, ransomware operators, etc. Here's an article that provides you with several ways to remove it from you systems (while k…
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-06-13 22:49:36
This Thursday the moving truck arrives and the following Tuesday we move into our new home. Therefore, it's time for a new alias, and this poll offers some possible alternatives. Please boost for maximum meaningless results.
Some background:
- we are moving to the Barrie area.
- officially, within the Town of Innisfil
- easy walking distance to Belle Aire Beach
- within Innisfil, we are in the community of Belle Ewart
Disclaimer - I am not legally bound by the results of this survey.
@gwire@mastodon.social2025-06-20 11:20:46
My personal rule is: if an app ever sends a notification to serve the app's business need, rather than conveying timely information, notifications get disabled.
I think I've disabled all news notifications as they just can't stop pushing celebrity nonsense.
https…
@dankeck@a11y.social2025-05-15 17:11:28
A commitment to disabled users deserves more than one day a year.
Subscribe to the Accessibility Weekly email newsletter! Every Monday you'll learn the latest scuttlebutt from expert disabled users and digital accessibility professionals.
https://a11yweekly.com
@servelan@newsie.social2025-06-07 02:58:37
Supreme Court to hear Alabama appeal in push to execute intellectually disabled man | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/supreme-court-execute-intellectually-disabled-joseph-clifton-smith-b2765542.html
@freeminded@tooting.ch2025-06-22 15:05:15
If your 5 year old girl wants to shave her head, would you let her?
#parenting
@jevinskie@mastodon.social2025-05-07 17:39:05
I found this today when messing around with lifting-bits/sleigh build options and got a build error. Very interesting! Dynamic p-code shenanigans!
“TLDR: there is a (undocumented and disabled by default) feature in the Ghidra decompiler that lets you create your own decompiler passes, using a custom DSL. I leverage it to write a deobfuscation rule for a simple obfuscation technique.”
Thanks you @…
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-06-20 13:59:07
I was hit with paywall the first time I look at the Forbes Accessibility 100. Now that I can (archive link: https://archive.is/G0ZCD), I was trying to find a breakdown of disabled folks (to start).
It seems Angela Young has already pegged it as low:
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-06-12 17:44:39
Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) claims it paralyzed the operations of Orion Telecom, one of the largest internet providers in Russia’s Siberian region, on Russia Day.
https://tvpworld.com/87242100/ukrainian-hackers-cripple-siberia…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-09 09:45:42
Alibaba, Tencent, and other Chinese AI companies temporarily disabled chatbot functions like image recognition during China's annual college entrance exams (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2025-06-14 20:37:24
Did my first #AmateurRadio bike race support today as a family activity. My oldest and I ran separate ham SAG vehicles, and my wife ran net control some of the time.
I had borrowed a mobile U/VHF rig from my club so that we could have one rig in each vehicle, but then my coax was apparently damaged for the antenna in the other car which disabled its mobile rig, so "bring your …
@egallager@social.treehouse.systems2025-05-31 19:28:35
#MastodonPoll: Who gave Elon Musk his black eye?
1. "little X" (as Elon claimed)
2. Stephen Miller (as is popularly assumed)
3. Scott Bessent (as Bannon claimed)
4. Elon himself
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza2025-06-16 18:55:47
Hey media companies... I have auto play turned off for a reason! Please stop with your games with scripts and making them auto play.
Two options -
1. You don't turn them off I nuke your bookmark (Looking at you ABC news) and I will look at news elsewhere.
2. You respect my settings and auto play is disabled and I keep visiting now and then.
Any bets they choose option 1.
@dankeck@a11y.social2025-04-07 00:54:07
What are your favorite "accessibility red flags"?
In other words, when you first access a website, device, service, physical space, etc., what is something that immediately warns you, this won't go well for some disabled people?
I'd love to hear various perspectives, so please boost if you're willing.
#Disabled
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-06-20 15:57:21
Yeah, this is not surprising…
“Airlines and Trump Administration Backpedal on Protections for Travelers With Wheelchairs”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/travel/wheelchair-flights-delta-united-american.html
Archive: …
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-06-06 16:38:05
Our hotel wifi keeps glitching. I'm guessing that there's a captive portal or something that is disabled, but the device randomly wants to send people to that network. Sometimes you'll have a 10.0.x.x IP address and everything will be fine, but other times you connect and you'll get a 192.168.1.x IP address and can't even reach the gateway (192.168.1.250). So on two different laptops, I've had to disable dhcp and hardcode 10.0.x.x IP addresses in order to get working …
@blaise@mastodon.cloud2025-05-15 19:56:50
Brain-dead mother. Brain-damaged fetus. No hope for either. So torture their family by keeping both alive until the at-least horribly disabled baby can be delivered and then suffer for months or years with their brain damage. This is what "pro-life" means...
https://www.newsweek.co…
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2025-06-11 21:54:13
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-06-07 23:41:49
@JorgeStolfi@mas.to2025-05-04 13:30:56
This YouTube video deserves a prize for the most inadequate title and thumbnail of the year. And comments are disabled, so I cannot even warn them about that...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FrHGAd_yto
@giopan@social.linux.pizza2025-05-15 10:05:27
@StutteringLabUW@fediscience.org2025-04-28 06:56:05
Scientists who review manuscripts for journals, question for you! Journal B invites a reviewer who has already recommended rejection when the manuscript was being considered by Journal A. In terms of the ethical thing to do when this #reviewer is invited to review the same #manuscript for Journal B.....
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-06-06 11:12:07
Right-wing (people's) hypocrisy
Isn't it interesting how someone first criticizes someone (I didn't listen to their conversation enough to know who was it about) using Polish insults for left-wing people, adding "nothing is sacred to them", and then buys a ticket to a train that's financed from the budget, and on top of that benefits from discount for disabled people and their guardians (both being left-wing inventions).
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-05-29 11:24:45
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-05-03 14:19:35
masks at protests / demographics
Interestingly, at the May Day gathering I was the only one in a mask.
Thinking about the contrast with the trans protest the other week, where "good" (fitted not floppy) masks were dotted about throughout the crowd, and felt normalised.
Today's march was a less crowded event than the trans protest, so pretty low-risk for covid transmission anyway. But then when we got to the mini-fair after the march, indoors at the Friends' Meeting House, I didn't see anyone masking indoors either.
I wonder about the demographics of that difference. Seems like there's a traditional union/Labour left who share the mainstream denial of present-day covid, and a statistically more disabled & marginalised cohort where trans awareness and disability/illness awareness overlap.
#masks #CovidIsntOver
@Duckbill4994@social.linux.pizza2025-06-04 05:47:06
Goodmorning! Today I will be working with #kasten backup and creating some #kanister #blueprints
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@theadhocracy@indieweb.social2025-06-03 09:20:13
If I ever create a microblogging platform, I'd call it "The Void".
Posts would be "shouts". Comments would be permanently disabled. Likes would just add an ever increasing number of eyes around the edge, staring at what you wrote from every angle 👀
@SilviaMarton@tooting.ch2025-06-11 06:51:51
Ich: Schreibe Email.
Empfänger: Ruft an.
Ich: Geh nicht ran.
Empfänger: Ruft wieder und wieder an.
Na, warum glaubt der, hab ich ein Mail geschrieben? Ja. Eben.
Was kommt als nächstes:
@pre@boing.world2025-05-27 19:06:58
Content warning: re: Doctor Who - Wish World
A wish granting god baby, granting Conrad's wishes in service of the Rani, turns London into a misogynist utopia and The Doctor into a good husband and insurance worker.
Hard to say why misogynists are so keen on the American 50s. Perhaps because it was before blacks had the vote and women could do banking.
And if anyone doubts this ridiculous tale, their table stops working and their family might call the doubt police, so they soon learn not to. All very oppressive and subversive.
Ruby manages to doubt anyway. And all the disabled people who simply never enter into Conrad's mind. Nice touch that. Great scene in the tent city filled with the dispossessed. They don't seem to have actually done anything so far but maybe they'll get more useful in part two.
Conrad is on TV telling a story about a man named Doctor Who.
Giant dinosaur skeletons walk the city, stepping over sky scrapers, and a bone palace towers above the city. Because I guess Conrad wishes for it to be so in order to give the Rani somewhere to live.
The palace is beautiful and Gothic.
But doubt is seeping in. Rogue is back, on the TV in hell, telling the Doctor that tables don't work like that. So he investigates. Gets himself reported to the doubt police who take him and Belinda to the bone palace.
The Rani's split from Miss Flood gives the pair of them a good chemistry. Queen and her maid of honour. Seems like Mrs Flood is likely to be the Rani's downfall. She doesn't like being told to make a sandwich.
A lot of exposition going on, but they at least put a hat on it: "Isn't just exposition, I need you to doubt"
So that's the reason for the strange wishes: To make the doctor have doubts so severe that the reality collapses, and Rani can rescue Omega. Omega is the dude in a Mask from the first 3 doctors episode, who gave the timelords time travel and got trapped in the underworld in the process. Timelords forgot him and never mounted a rescue, but presumably Rani is now hoping he'll bring back Galifrey.
And with London collapsing into the underworld and the doctor falling from the sky, we get the episode break and have to wait until next week.
That's not a cliff hanger, that an already-falling-from-the-cliff hanger.
Poppy really is his daughter he's shouting as he falls. And you know what that means?
🤨🤔
Back in Space Babies, the worst episode of the Nchuti seasons, that space baby asked if he was her parents and he said he wished that he was their parents.
That wish has been granted somehow?
Is this space baby Susan's mother? They have very different skin tones, but that doesn't matter much in a regenerating species.
Never have found out much about The Doctor's child. When he traveled with his granddaughter everyone assumed he'd met his own kid, the grandchild's parent.
But that doesn't have to be true for a time traveler. Maybe he met the granddaughter before he met his own kid, and maybe his own kid was just wished into his family line 60 years later (or billions of years in his timeline I guess).
Pretty fun episode but not sure it makes much sense. Why doesn't the Rani just wish for Omega to be back instead of all this doubt and underworld bollocks?
Last one next week. Super long episode. Hope it's all cleared up. Good chance we'll meet Susan again I think. And maybe see Omega's mask once more.
@arXiv_astrophIM_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-05-30 07:28:53
Applying the Principles of Universal Design to Make Astronomy More Accessible
Amanda Quirk, Tom Rice
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23498 https://
