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A read-only text field is focusable. And confusing to users.
If you add `tabindex="-1"` and/or `pointer-events: none`, admit it’s wrong and make it plain text instead.
If you use it anyway, style it so it’s clear (good luck). Here are my shitty styles: https://adrianroselli.com/…

Under-Engineered Text Boxen
Others in this sorta-series: Under-Engineered Custom Radio Buttons and Checkboxen Under-Engineered Toggles Under-Engineered Toggles Too This is the latest, and not last, in my informal series of posts on under-engineered controls. Generally I am looking at the minimum amount of CSS necessary to style native HTML controls while also retaining…

Ultra-thin wireless retinal implant offers hope for safely restoring vision signals https://phys.org/news/2026-01-ultra-thin-wireless-retinal-implant.html Photovoltaic nanoassembly of nanowire arrays sensitized with colloidal nanocrystals for near-infrared retina …

Ultra-thin wireless retinal implant offers hope for safely restoring vision signals
An international research team led by Prof. Dr. Sedat Nizamoğlu from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koç University has developed a next-generation, safe, and wireless stimulation technology for retinal degenerative diseases that cause vision loss.

Pour résumer : la police belge dispose d’une importante stack logicielle propriétaire et vieillissante. Un projet de modernisation a été confié Š Sopra Steria, mais celui-ci n’a pas abouti, le système ne fonctionnant pas comme prévu. En revanche, une partie logicielle (Focus) développée en interne par une autre équipe a permis de limiter les dégâts et de maintenir certaines fonctionnalités opérationnelles.
#police

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@rationaldoge/115953632587673647
Police and military uniforms have converged on a “special forces” look. SNL mocked ICE for wearing camo: “Where did you think Minnesota is??” But that’s the •look•: camo, tactical gear. It is the look ICE officers crave: “This is so cool, like Call of Duty” one said. And now you can’t tell all the militaries and militarized police forces apart, to the point where they have to wear safety vests over camo. High-vis! Over camo! The irony.
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Denmark recommends routinely vaccinating all children against just 10 diseases.
In the U.S., the immunization schedule calls for routine universal vaccination against 16 diseases.
-- It was 17 diseases until last week, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially dropped the recommendation to vaccinate all newborns against hepatitis B.
But Denmark has created its immunization schedule in a very different context than that of the U.S., notes Dr. Sean O'L…

New York City has imposed a 15mph speed limit on ebikes.
I'm not worried though, because where I live I bike on a street with a 25mph speed limit and cars routinely go 30mph or faster.
I know this because I bike on the road at 25mph and cars go flying past me.
So if they don't enforce it for cars are they really gonna enforce it for bikes?

The great majority of people have to work in order to earn a livelihood, and a sizable proportion of them are productive workers. A huge number of workers are unproductive as well. They operate entirely with the circumstances and framework created by the capitalist system, such as shuffling invoices, contracts, credit slips, insurance policies, and so forth. Probably nine out of ten "workers" wouldn't have any work to do in a rational society -- one that would not require insur…

Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About #ProgrammingLanguages
https://spf13.com/p/the-hidden-conversation/

Since the Trump administration launched high-intensity immigration sweeps this year,
federal agents have routinely countered protestors using crowd control weapons
— rubber bullets, flash-bang grenades, tear gas and pepper balls.
They’ve fired on American citizens and noncitizens alike in ways that some experts say might be criminal.

Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear gas. Protestors trapped, struggling to breathe.

A flexible photoacoustic retinal prosthesis https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67518-6 "These findings demonstrate the potential of photoacoustic stimulation for high-acuity visual restoration in blind patients."; retinal implant