Just had a go, and good, at least it still recognises straight maths and pulls up a calculator. Also when I typed in "days until 2027" I also got a sensible answer that didn't seem to trigger AI responses.
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Just had a go, and good, at least it still recognises straight maths and pulls up a calculator. Also when I typed in "days until 2027" I also got a sensible answer that didn't seem to trigger AI responses.
I actually did in the past use my address bar (which in chrome, and others, is basically embedded Google search) to do quick calculations while on the web - it saved me a few clicks that I otherwise would have needed to go open a calculator app. Does that still work, I wonder...
I did my own image search and ha! Yes that's funny - particularly when they're smiling! I only wish I could be as funny and charming as she is. Good woman.
Now I'm confused!!
Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future
Awesome :D they're so chunky and take up enough space up to my mud guards, that if I ride over leaves or even just pick up some grit after it's been raining, I get some fun grindy noises 😅
Whoopee! How were they to get on? I had my first puncture in 10 years with mine only recently :)
Finally put up my pictures by @salventius.bsky.social I got at @beyondtellerrand.com - I chose the colours and squidged them around, he turned them into Art! They deserve frames, but until I get around to sorting that out, I figured sticking them up is better than leaving them in the envelope!
Yeah intriguing. And you can't control where people find community. Some will find it online, some locally, some who find community have voices that ideally shouldn't find strength in community (the racist kind for example).. But we can't deny people the making of friends wherever they find them.
Ah! Certainly sounds like a good thing to study. I can understand some Dutch but reading it is a trial 😅
Oh no. @acuity.design have you a good link to an article for further reading on the term 'affinity bubble'?
Yeah. And as we globalise our social spheres, instead of being suspicious of those from another town, we find other ways to group people and call some "us" and the rest "them".
Oh this is good. I've also noticed that texts by AI always feel like puff pieces on the topic in question.
This is honestly fascinating - dissecting vibes into the incredibly concrete - and people should be using it as a discussion starter in writing classes
I mean that's the crux isn't it? Everyone's for rights, we want to know our rights, but we don't want rights for the people who we think shouldn't be here. They should be elsewhere, where they can... Enjoy fewer rights. Or something. Not in my back yard!!
But but but they're applying human rights to brown people!
I guess the problem is "wanting to sus your gender" Maaaybeee when in a group conversation, I may want to use pronouns in front of the referred-to person and I probably couldn't then stop myself giving someone a big up/down glance before asking their name so I don't need to use a pronoun at all 😅
so bear with me, they're not super recent) there's most of Rage Against the Machine's discography, American Idiot by Green Day, This Is America by Childish Gambino, Beyonce's Formation and Freedom... Don't think the young are not bothered. They're extremely bothered, but also held down.
Many of them are sliding into depression because they feel powerless. It's absolutely not that they can't be bothered. Anyway For What It's Worth wasn't written about Vietnam, but organically became a song that represented it. It's good and still gets used today. For more recent songs (I am 41
Gosh how I loved Tomorrow's World, especially in the first half of the 90s: https://youtu.be/XpZ5STahhPE It had a rebrand at some point after the mid-90s, it got new presenters and set and to me, it lost its futuristic sheen.
Awesome, glad to be of service!
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
You got me thinking of Maneater (Hall and Oates): Oh-oh, here he comes Watch out terfs, he's doing admin Oh-oh, here he comes He's a T-glooper Oh-oh, here he comes Watch out terfs, he's taking a stroll Oh-oh, here he comes He's a T-glooper
@katiefenn.bsky.social have you seen this?!
Consider me warned! Used to love all the Feels stuff. Black Mirror was amazing until one day it wasn't.
Well, yes. I can only handle guaranteed happy endings lately because ... *gestures*
Ah! Yes that's on my list for the days when I can stomach something that isn't a comedy. Thank you.
Now I'm curious, which film?
Not that I think any deaths are hilarious, mind
I hope you're right!
If he's dead what happens to the (admittedly bungled) negotiations with Putin? If he's dead will there be any change of tack on Israel/Gaza? I don't believe that anything would get better. He's a symptom, not a real leader. There'll be another in due course.
Ooh I had totally missed Mice, Camera, Action - that means there are two coming soon for us, woohoo!
Little peek at a watercolour illustration for our seventh #Adventuremice book - ‘Adventuremice: Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth’ - launching this October! ✍️
and switched to desktop mode so it's no longer m.facebook.com. I used the zoom to go up 250% - and it turns out FB is responsive, so now it looks like the mobile/app version again - AND messages are there. Then you can install the PWA! You're welcome. Now it is usable without installing the app 🎉
In case it's useful to anyone, I just found that I can force a web version of Facebook (I know, strong network effect sadly) on my phone to display well on a mobile screen AND let me open and respond to messages. I opened facebook.com in @vivaldi.com (hopefully this also works with other browsers),
Yeah that's tough - hot in summer, cold in winter
insulation makes it hard for the house to spill that heat again. We do unfortunately also notice how much moister the air feels in friend and family homes, when we visit the UK. It's surprisingly different.
Thanks for those! I moved to Germany a decade ago and now live in a house build in 2017 - where I'm the keeper of the boiler (heating & hot water) controls because I'm most keen to meddle with them 😅 We almost have the opposite problem - in summer we get too much sun through the windows and our
Yep! I guess to me, the boiler heats both - but I'm no plumber :) Also yeah, if you can avoid scalding hot radiators and still satisfactorily heat your home, winner.
Was about to say this! We don't keep our boiler at that temp the whole time - but twice a day it heats up to that and keeps it there for an hour, so it should kill all the germs then. It does cool off over the day, but slowly. We basically heat it just in time for showers/baths & washing-up!
Thiiiis. I found I was constantly being distracted - and had to think about the suggestions each time, only slowing me down. If I'm just trying to ignore it anyway, may as well turn it off.
Yep, makes total sense. Basically I have a new phone here, and I'm awaiting a protector and case in the post - lol - I want to start playing with it, but also don't want to introduce a load of dust before the protector arrives and invite bubbles. Or set up the under screen finger print thingy yet.
Also I get that's a tradeoff, either more chance of scratches but less likely to shatter on drops, or very scratch resistant but brittle.
Gotcha - that's more about resale value I guess, than anything else. Like scratches in car paintwork.
Now this is good feedback, haha! A fellow butterfingers!
Thank you!
Oh yes, I'm getting a case anyway as phones are far too slippery for me without 😅 The official ones cost a lot too.
Fair enough! I am a sometimes clumsy sort of person - I wonder mostly if the protector helps save cracks from a fall. Maybe they don't...
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I don't abuse my phones willingly. I am a bit clumsy, sadly. Butterfingers.
I never did use protectors. I smashed one small screen years ago, dropping it onto aeroplane apron asphalt, but I saw that as unsurprising. They've got harder since, but I was totally surprised by my once dropping a Pixel 4a flat on a wooden floor from only sofa arm height, and smashed its screen.
Do newest smartphones need screen protectors? Can I do away with having one? Do they affect in-display fingerprint sensors? Yeah, I may just have got hold of a Pixel 9a...
I'm intrigued, is this something already published or not yet?
Hiiiii btw 💜👋
... try to consider the site from a nonvisual stance, what gives it whimsy apart from the visuals? See if you can get hints of the intended vibe into the text content, or have some audio stuff going on, or add some interesting wording and personality into the alt texts of pictures.
Like everything, I reckon it depeeeends, hahah. Like, yes describing a bit of the graphic vibe is a good idea, I think. Maybe not everywhere all over the place - like you don't have to add it into the alt text every time it appears - an introductory hidden text maybe? But otherwise ...
Screen-reader users: If a website had a lot of graphical elements, e.g. torn paper scraps etc, to give a collagey-feel to it, would you prefer those graphical elements had alt text so you got the feel of the design, or hidden entirely from screen-readers so they didn't clutter up the content?
Wow, it worked - thanks to whoever used this :)
I thought it was an interesting point, too. At some point these big companies will be pressured by shareholders not to keep losing money on AI, surely?
A list of #accessibility features and assistive tech I use daily: • Page/browser Zoom & OS-level Zoom. • High Contrast Themes (in VSCode) • Reduce transparency (macOS) • Dark theme (macOS) • Larger cursor size (if you try this it becomes hard to go back to the OS's default size) • Eyeglasses 👓
This was the tip I needed!
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
What pasta shape best represents your code, and why?
It's almost like doing the easiest thing brings the least quality, who knew
"It turns out that I am not normal" ...we didn't need a therapist to tell us that ;) Love you Dave. Therapy is ace, speaking from experience. Hope you get some good feels out of the sessions <3
Indeed! But Will isn't "making fake fans", and Google isn't "inserting generated AI imagery" - that's a couple of things I've already seen written about this already this morning, hahah
Image alt: Political cartoon: Benjamin Netanyahu is standing on rubble strewn ground looking up with his hands out, saying "They were trying to shoot us!" Next to his feet on the ground lie two fallen helmeted bodies, wearing vests with "PRESS" on the back. Both have video cameras in their hands.
Having read the article, it sounds more like Will's team generated short clips from genuine photos, and then Google's sharpening/noise reduction made it look even worse.
Frankly, I don't what possessed me, but I decided to recreate 1970s cinema intermission screens as vector graphics with the rule that everything had to be 100% vector. No raster graphics, no photographs, no post-vector treatments. 1/2 #graphics #vectorgraphics #cinema #1970s #illustration
Lol... I always have the same somewhat sexual thought when people post that "X location, I am in you" thing. Is it on purpose?
Oh all sorts of things were recommended. Wanted me to see a nutritionist, but it's so hard to get appointments. We eat pretty well - going full no carb is something I try now and again but keep falling off the wagon. Low carb is possible, but from experience doesn't stop low sugar plunges either.
Yeah, that's not something I really want to make worse! As long as you always have something :)
Oh I'm glad it's helping! Yes I think different people do experience different signals. Sometimes totally valid, like in response to a big sugar crash and hypoglycaemia, the body of course signals FFS FEED ME! For me I wanted to quell the sugar crashes, not hide the hunger resulting from them.
That was my concern yes!
Would I have to get used to suddenly having more hunger again, after an unknown period of it being quelled? I dunno. Oof. I didn't like that it was brought up more than once, despite it really not fitting my situation, at least in my eyes. I needed access to more energy above all, not less. 3/3
my BMI was just over the minimum where they can start prescribing them. I'm like... If I'm already sometimes hypoglycemic, I'm not sure I want anything that's going to mess with my hunger signals, thanks. Also what happens when I dip below the BMI minimum, do I lose the prescription again? 2/3
It does feel like these drugs are closing in. I've been seeing an endocrinologist, I'm now taking Metformin off-label to help mild insulin resistance and postprandial hypoglycemia. I came in complaining about tiredness and struggling with weight gain. I was offered these GLP things because 1/3
✨ Big O ✨ Let me take you on a visual introduction to what big O notation is in my new blog post: samwho.dev/big-o. With big O notation you can better understand how algorithms will perform in practice, finding orders of magnitude improvements often with very simple changes to your code.
This thing? developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W... And yes I agree, the excited posts about a new feature come out months or even years before you can hope to use it in prod, by which time it gets forgotten.
I'm in a team currently building for in-company support teams - we know what systems and browsers they're using and that they're all expected to be up to date - so we're freeee to use everything newly available. It's awesome. :has(), light-dark(), nesting, whatever else I come across that's useful!
#CSS has evolved SO much in the past couple of years, and SO fast... I wonder: how many of the new features do you use in your day-to-day work? How many would you say you use out of 10?
Or this excellent one by @patrickbrosset.com: web-platform-dx.github.io/web-features...
The baseline stuff is useful - check webstatus.dev and filter on baseline status: widely or newly: webstatus.dev?q=baseline_s...
Oh my gosh, an A380 and an A318?
Here's the shorty Boing 747: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_...
You joke, but the A319 does look sort of cute and chodular next to an A320 And there's a mini 747 with a huge tail 😅
Jim BOOOOO
The #NoMouse Challenge is a global effort to raise awareness about accessible web design. Try using your website without a mouse. Use the keyboard instead. Is it possible to access all features and operate all buttons, sliders, and other controls? nomouse.org
Breakwind Lawl
Tailwind Extraction?
Now you're both really teasing!
Now I'm like, come ooonnnnnn let's go, now the other browsers need to catch up!
Ooooooooooo, you tease
Ooooh heading selector!
Ha! That's amazing.
And jars
Exciting times!
Wowoooooo! Congratulations!
That looks like a positive gif :)