It’s incredible how often sighted people offering completely unsolicited help lead me astray. Took my daughter to a ballet lesson this morning and looked up a coffee shop to wait for her in. I’m walking up the block where I know the shop is, and smell coffee, so I turn to see if I can find the door. Right then, a sighted person stops me asking if I need help. I say I’m looking for the coffee shop on this block, and he says I’m close, but a couple doors away. So I think maybe the smell isn’t coming directly from the door and he must see what I’m talking about, right? Right??? He knows better because he can see, of course. He takes me to the door he thinks is what I’m looking for, and we say goodbye. I go inside, and immediately smell food, not coffee, and hear way too much silverware clinking on plates for a coffee shop. A woman greets me, and I say “I’m looking for the coffee shop on this block. I’m not there, am I?” “No, this is a diner,” she says. So I go back outside, walk back to where I was before, smell the coffee again, and walk right through the shop’s door no problem.
Thank God. Children were not designed to be raised under big mother. If they never have independence, they will never develop normally we have a chance to develop normally
“Well, sir, my client says he wasn’t having any fun, and that you just kept chasing him and chasing him around this mulberry bush, and that’s when—out of self-defense—he decided to pop you one.”
The U.S. Mail Carrier Dog Costume is an officially licensed Halloween costume for your pet! The package includes the cap, shirt with attached arms, box.
I'm trying to connect Gnome Online Accounts to my Nextcloud server running at home via a Wireguard VPN. I'm using a self-signed TLS cert since I obviously can't get a CA cert for a made-up Wireguard TLD.
Gnome Online Accounts, unfortunately, refuses to connect to a server using self-signed certs and I can't find a way around it. This may be a bug, and if so, I'll file a report. The cert works fine in the browser and the nextcloud client.
No, this is all new to me. I've discovered that I can create my own CA. That means that I won't have to manage the key using PKI one every client. (Not that there will be many of those, but still.)
In a nutshell, aside from the warranty disclaimer:
- You have to retain the copyright notice and license in any source distribution. - You don't get to claim you wrote the original. ("The origin must not be misrepresented".) - You don't get to claim I wrote your additions. ("Altered versions must be clearly marked as such.").
This license has less restrictions than the Artistic one, which as others have pointed out doesn't disallow forking either.
In particular, the Artistic license at least stipulates that someone make a token effort to contribute their changes back to the original which this license does not.
I find these issues weird, I compare regenerative braking to engine braking, there are differences, but if you're used to the latter, the former is fairly easy to get used to.
One-pedal driving involves using the accelerator to brake as well as to go. Chinese officials are concerned about the technology's safety implications.
I don't think one-pedal driving is a good idea, but I also don't think the way we currently do two (or three) pedals is a good idea either.
Switching between pedals that do opposite things always comes at a risk of getting confused or physically blocked and pressing down on the wrong pedal.
And pedals are risky anyway due to the risk of something sliding underneath the pedal.
We could put all the controls in the steering bar ... twist throttle and brake levers, maybe.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued an order late Friday pausing the requirement to distribute full SNAP payments until an appeals court rules on whether to issue a more lasting pause.
Sweden has helped fund 400 drones for Ukraine's strike campaign on Russian oil refineries
Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Nov. 6 that #Sweden has helped #Ukraine produce 400 long-range #drones, which are then often used to hit targets such as #oil #refineries deep inside #Russia.
Ukraine and Sweden are strengthening cooperation in the development of innovative #defense #technologies,
Denys Shmyhal's announcement comes as Ukraine aims to strike deeper into Russian territory in an attempt to disrupt its logistics and grind down its war machine from a distance.
Full sanctions exemption: #US allows Hungary to buy Russian energy following Orban–Trump talks in Washington
The U.S. granted #Hungary an #exemption from #sanctions imposed on #Russian #oil and #gas use following a meeting between Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor #Orban and U.S. President Donald #Trump
"We have received a full sanctions exemption for the Turk Stream and Druzhba pipelines," Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said. Reuters reported that the exemption was granted for one year.
#AI #soldiers: How #deepfakes are manipulating Ukraine’s mobilization narrative
#Fake profiles on TikTok, X, and other platforms are spreading #AI-generated videos subtitled in multiple languages. The clips, viewed millions of times, depict alleged "forced mobilization" of 22- and 23-year-old #Ukrainian men supposedly being sent to the front.
Experts say the campaign marks a new stage in the #Kremlin's #information #warfare — one designed to erode trust in #Ukraine's leadership, sow panic, and weaken Western support.
Editor's note: This article was published as part of the Fighting Against Conspiracy and Trolls (FACT) project, an independent, non-partisan hub launched in mid-2025 under the umbrella of the EU Digital Media Observatory (EDMO).
Just to experiment I exported this artwork as a WebP in the “best” lossy quality setting at the same resolution as a JPEG XL and a JPEG both at 85 quality, and HOLY FUCKING SHIT WEBP RUINED IT.
Like, not even minor nitpicky things, the colors are significantly distorted (like, why did it even do that? It was authored in 8-bit sRGB, and all have embedded color profiles). And what it does to high-color-contrast, non-cardinally-aligned edges is even worse than JPEG. Further proving my point that using a video codec (which are notoriously evil to animation) for still images that are often not camera images (which WebP admittedly does okay with) is the worst technical decision that could possibly be made.
Is there something like Glaze that can be overlaid onto an image such that it will become a basilisk if ever converted to a WebP?
VPN company CyberGhost just sent Cloudflare a bogus DMCA takedown demand, claiming that our article about their last bogus copyright takedown demand, somehow violates their copyright. I’m not sure …
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Thank God. Children were not designed to be raised under big mother. If they never have independence, they will never develop normally we have a chance to develop normally