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Did everyone that works in website usability go on strike because I feel like literally every website now looks like this comic

"The extreme left pointed at some books and said: ‘It hurts my feelings.’ The right-wing realised later, being slower, that they could weaponise this: ‘This book hurts MY feelings.’ Soon the only safe books will be books like ‘Cooking With Lettuce’."

Margaret Atwood letting nobody off the hook, in conversation live at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, live-streamed to 45 local library branches in Denmark.

#Books #Atwood

“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” - Frederick Douglass, 1857

@SwiftOnSecurity We have a special channel you can’t use in Canada because of weather radars. But there are fun stories from when I was touring the world with the Wi-Fi folks working to get the 5GHz band opened up for unlicensed use. Some countries required a “study” and told us which “consultant” to hire and it was very clearly just paying a bribe. We paid no bribes and the citizens there got Wi-Fi eventually anyway.

Two students who discovered a novel proof of the Pythagorean theorem in 2022 have wowed the math community again with nine completely new solutions to the problem.

While still in high school, Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson from Louisiana used trigonometry to prove the 2,000-year-old Pythagorean theorem, which states that the sum of the squares of a right triangle's two shorter sides are equal to the square of the triangle's longest side (the hypotenuse).

Mathematicians had long thought that using trigonometry to prove the theorem was unworkable, given that the fundamental formulas for trigonometry are based on the assumption that the theorem is true.

Jackson and Johnson came up with their "impossible" proof in answer to a bonus question in a school math contest.
They presented their work at an American Mathematical Society meeting in 2023, but the proof hadn't been thoroughly scrutinized at that point.

Now, a new paper published Monday (Oct. 28) in the journal American Mathematical Monthly shows their solution held up to peer review.
Not only that, but the two students also outlined nine more proofs of the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry.
https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/high-school-students-who-came-up-with-impossible-proof-of-pythagorean-theorem-discover-9-more-solutions-to-the-problem

A story I like telling is how I ran the AV at a place and when I deployed adblock the detections fell off a cliff. I wish more people had this visceral "holy shit" moment. "It was this easy the whole time?" ~2012. I recently deployed uBlock Origin to an F500, on my insistence.

The CRA had *huge* data breaches and has not only covered it up, like this Fifth Estate investigation proves, but I am here to tell you that the innocent people, including my wife, who were victims of this fraud through no fault of their own, have been VILLIFIED by the CRA.

My wife *still* has problems dealing with her online CRA account since it was hacked during the pandemic. She is black-flagged.

Very glad the CBC dug into this!
@akurjata
#cra #CanPoli #CdnPoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-revenue-agency-taxpayer-accounts-hacked-1.7363440

Found this Canadian educational software mag from 1996. Very interesting to see the prices and ads!
Also tagging @vga256 😁)

Ongoing discussion, but it looks like Bitwarden may be starting to make moves towards no longer being open source:

https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/11611

Previous issues opened against the SDK have been met with replies that suggest they have no intention of reconsidering the licensing decision:

https://github.com/bitwarden/sdk/issues/898

From Facebook .....

I just learned the professional way to say "I told you so":

"This was identified early on as a likely outcome."

Put together some notes on the Gemini terms-of-service: it looks like their paid API tier doesn't train on your inputs to the model, but the free API tier does:

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/17/gemini-terms-of-service/

Data used to create fine-tuned models, even on the free tier (they have a free tier!) won't be used for training. I hadn't realized you could fine-tune a model there for free, that's pretty wild: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/model-tuning

On this day in 1893, silent superstar Lillian Gish was born in Springfield, Ohio. In 1988, I wrote to her asking if silent films had actual dialogue written out in the scripts or if there was just a general description of what was being said. This was her remarkable reply.

@StoliarSteve #Silentmovies #LillianGish #letters

Canadian Thanksgiving is this weekend.
It corresponds to the European harvest festival which has been ongoing since pagan times.

the end of the .io domain: https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain
unexpected consequences from territory changes…

I was confused why Google has to (further) open Android to other app stores while Apple can leave iOS totally closed. After reading 400 comments, I found one (and 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 one) that seemed to hint at why. Any lawyers know if this is correct?

Some of us are aware that -40° Celsius is also -40° Fahrenheit. It's the only point where the two scales agree.

But did you know there are palindrome temperatures and they're very useful also!

16° Celsius = 61° Fahrenheit
28° Celsius = 82° Fahrenheit

There’s nothing quite like tight kerning to make a design look dean and modem.

Always have a comma in your password, that way if it is part of a leak it will break the CSV file.

This is the UK Government "Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework" for Software Developer.

It is an attempt to define expectations for staff in different IT jobs and compares the same role at Junior, Senior, Lead levels.

https://ddat-capability-framework.service.gov.uk/role/software-developer

They have Data Engineer, Data Scientist and others, too.

Following up on #RSECon24. #SoftwareEngineering #DataScience #dataengineering

48 years ago, on Sept. 17, 1976, NASA rolled out its first space shuttle, named Enterprise, from its manufacturing plant in Palmdale, CA.

The shuttle was planned to be named the Constitution, but thanks to a massive write-in campaign by Star Trek fans, President Ford relented and advised NASA to change the name to Enterprise.

Star Trek creator Roddenberry and many of the show’s cast members attended the Shuttle rollout ceremony.

https://www.nasa.gov/history/45-years-ago-space-shuttle-enterprise-makes-its-public-debut/
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