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by fao_ 6y ago
Perhaps more technical than you intended, but for linux it interfaces to screen-readers via AT-SPI via DBus (Or you can use the older libatk -- iirc). Also as other people mentioned, high contrast, big text, and other specific display setti
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by fao_ 6y ago
> Like writing secure software, until this becomes a legal requirement no matter what For America it already is. The ADA covers software, too afaik
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by fao_ 6y ago
> Pure asafoetida is fine to use, it doesn't smell bad, it doesn't give you stomach problems. Interesting, because every single report I've heard on it has said the opposite! I don't distrust you, I'm now just wo
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by fao_ 6y ago
Again, this has no integration with accessibility software (AT-SPI/libatk), so please think twice about using it in production software.
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by fao_ 6y ago
I haven't found that to be the case when cooked. Commercial asafoetida is mixed with tumeric for colour, and rice flour to reduce it to edible porportions. Please don't use pure asafoetida, I don't know of anyone else that do
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by fao_ 6y ago
Pepper, Cumin, Coriander, Honey: All readily available. Lovage: Easy to get hold of if you're in Europe according to Wikipedia "its flavor and smell can be described as a mix of Celery and Parsley, but with a higher intensity of b
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by fao_ 6y ago
Surely this is more a deficit in your calendar software than it is anything else? Think of all of the work you could waste making new tooling, trying to replace something that already exists and serves the sole purpose of reminding you abou
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by fao_ 6y ago
I signed up for a Gab account purely out of curiosity. There was literally nothing but misogynistic, homophobic, racist, antisemitic trash content on the entire timeline. I'm honestly not sure what I expected to be honest. I signed in
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by fao_ 6y ago
It will show "deleted video". If you copy the link of that and search the unique portion, you will often find google or other sites referencing the name of it, which you can use to find a reuploaded version
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by fao_ 6y ago
> It is speculation on twitter No, all of the statements are there, they're first-hand accounts. The rest can easily be derived from given evidence. They state first that they talked to the reporter, who had a positive bent. They st
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by fao_ 6y ago
Interesting that you didn't bother looking for it. I'm not sure how you can "see" something if you don't look :) Anyway, the note is copied pretty much verbatim from the Rational Wiki page on him: https:/&#x2F
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by fao_ 6y ago
Interestingly enough, the blog author skips over the modern concept of Humanism as applied and mixed into Rationality. I was pleasantly surprised by the actions of the newspaper, New Humanist -- it is a Rationalist publication but mixes in
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by fao_ 6y ago
> Identity politics is used to get people to ignore class politics. It is driven primarily by the left-leaning political factions. That's amusing, because most of the people of colour I follow on the Fediverse give class-based inter
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by fao_ 6y ago
First thing is, I am not an American. I am a White Welsh person. That said, there is significant systemic inequality in western countries, that is often racially biased. This is what is meant by "intersectionality". The other resp
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by fao_ 6y ago
Indeed, however most people do not know this :)
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by fao_ 6y ago
It could be due to inflammation
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by fao_ 6y ago
> Through a simple accusation of racial bias, the author seeks to undermine the technical work that went into the development of the MP3 codec. I'm always surprised when pointing out that something has design limits, and often limit
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by fao_ 6y ago
Most of those were political decisions, not ones made by domain experts. First, the delay of listening to domain experts (In america, the firing of any teams and staff that were trained in dealing with a pandemic, for example), and the dela
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by fao_ 6y ago
> partly because of my own ignorance, I'm sure. But also partly because I have a BS detector and it goes off a lot. I'm not sure how accurate a bullshit detector can be if you know literally nothing about the field in question.
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by fao_ 6y ago
Uhhh, yes. But only in fields where they are not already an expert. What you're referring to is Nobel Prize disease, and that is essentially the implicit human assumption that when you become an expert at one thing, you're an expe
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by fao_ 6y ago
Exactly what I was talking about, thank you
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by fao_ 6y ago
No. As someone else mentioned, the kernel hardcodes /bin/sh as a last resort: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/dcc0b49040c70ad827a7f...
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by fao_ 6y ago
/bin/sh execution is supported at the kernel level iirc? Like, the minimum requirement for a linux distribution is /bin/sh, the rest of the system doesn't have to be there necessarily.
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by fao_ 6y ago
I've used arch for about 9 years and have only really had it break on me for a reason that was a) shitty hardware or b) a pre-planned breakage that was alerted to and a solution given via the news page. Maybe some other minor cases of
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by fao_ 6y ago
"I don’t know of another company with an invention track record as good as Amazon’s," - Jeff Bezos Excuse me? Maybe we should consider -- oh I don't know, Bell Telephone, which had Bell Laboratories? W
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by fao_ 6y ago
contribute one :)
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by fao_ 6y ago
The last time I tried to install gentoo the build system itself broke mid-install
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by fao_ 6y ago
I'm not really sure how a virus that can infect a server wouldn't also target linux desktop unless it's targeting SSH or Ampache or something. It would still have a chance at hitting poorly configured developer machines, and
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by fao_ 6y ago
For a long time I've figured that the Fermi Paradox is not much of a paradox. Open question: Are we likely to be able to detect the difference between large asteroids and a small swarm of habitable environments in a star. And the secon
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by fao_ 6y ago
> I guess it must have been "journalists" who didn't want to put in any time playing the game. I'm not really sure what you mean. I'm not even sure what the main article meant, because I could only find four main

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