salith @salith@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
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Wanna know what being #disabled is like? Companies making wheelchairs that don't meet minimum durability standards, getting away with it, and charging for constant repairs in a planned obsolescence model while we suffer.
“Independent testing has shown that manual wheelchairs and power wheelchairs commonly do not pass minimum durability standards outlined by ANSI/RESNA (RESNA is the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America, which creates minimum standards for mobility devices for ANSI, or the American National Standards Institute). One of the big takeaways that was neutral to manufacturers is that, for the 10 most frequently prescribed wheelchair models in the sample, repairs exceeded 50 percent across all of them.”
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Just learned what the user interfaces in the SpaceX capsules run.
The capsules that provide life support for people traveling into space and have to be absolute reliable.
The user interface that controls an explosion.
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It runs some home-compiled version of Chromium and the UI is written in JavaScript.
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I see a lot of talk about the benefits of uBlock Origin, but I feel a piece of advice gets overlooked. It's definitely worth enabling the Javascript blocking feature too - it defeats the majority of paywall nagging and other popups. Looks like this in the settings:
Big sale on #halflife games on Steam :)
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I have to tell him that, because he refused to give his CC info to the "subscription cancellation" phone number he called (fake tech support scammers) *after* he let them into his PC, they nuked his files and programs on top of locking out his account with the password hint "call".
Please stress to them that if they let someone they don't know and you haven't vetted connect to their PC, it's already game over.
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Folks, if you have any computer-illiterate friends and relatives you're on good terms with, please educate them about fake invoice emails.
The owner of one of my tech support patients tried to reverse a (nonexistent) $400 support subscription charge by calling the 1-800 number on a (fake) Geek Squad invoice.
And that was not a conversation I wanted to have with my brother... talks about mum's request for a DNR request or not, which we all have to agree to since we both have powers of attorney or whatever it's called.
Obviously honouring her wishes, but it's not easy to talk or think about it :(
Not to mention my mobility issues make it very hard to get to and from (and walk around within) the hospital she's in (Northern General for those who know that place)
Feeling pretty useless with my mum in hospital and I can't do much for her.
Even being in the hospital is hard as there's so much background noise that it triggers my tinnitus to no end, and since she can barely breathe/speak, I can barely understand anything she says :(
They say she's on the mend, but what I saw of her today makes me fearful of how bad she must have been yesterday.
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Having a union in this moment allowed us to bring Epic Games to the table and negotiate over the terms of severance. We successfully challenged the status quo and demanded a more just and fair agreement for our laid-off comrades. We are hopeful that it will allow those workers more security in these frustrating times.
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passwords when you don’t enforce changing them every 2 months: Viy$Ehi8sy3&2WQ
passwords when you enforce changing them regularly: password01!? password02!? password03!? password04!? password05!?
Yep, Robocop Rogue City is using a Temporal Anti-Aliasing solution on anything with transparency or reflectivity... and without it, those aspects get checkerboard rendered instead (so half resolution which has 'gaps').
So I either have to accept that Unreal 5 games are just going to have ghosting and not play them, or allow it to checkerboard render in a crappy way by injecting instructions.
Guess Unreal 5 engine games are not being made for me.
Concerned the place I just had dinner at was burning logs with mushrooms on them... getting some allergy symptoms like tightened throat :(
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Meta, YouTube face criminal spying complaints in Ireland
Tracking code and ad-block blocking breaks Euro computer law, privacy advocate claims Exclusive Facebook-owner Meta and Google's YouTube now face criminal complaints in Ireland for alleged unlawful surveillance of EU citizens via tracking scripts.…
#RSS #theregister #IT
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/11/meta_youtube_criminal_charges/
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Dishonest 'choice' by Facebook to force users to choose between free use (with a privacy invasion) or pay for privacy.
Why untruthful? First, Facebook says that that I am now using Facebook for free with 'personalized' ads, but that is not true.
Joined Aug 2018
