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> Personally a lot of this a11y stuff is complicated and confusing to me. I am trying my best to be a responsible dev, but it feels overwhelming sometimes.

If you just go down the checklist and do what you can, you'll be way ahead of most websites: https://webaim.org/standards/wcag/checklist

Microsoft also has a great interactive test that can probe your website for you and highlight issues: https://accessibilityinsights.io/

I think similar but less powerful checks are also built into some IDEs (Jetbrains) and linters (Eslint).

Edit: I am a sighted user with color vision. I can't promise these fixes are enough to make your site super accessible, but it's a lot better than nothing!
Economists first underestimated inflation, then consumers and the labor market
> I think the bigger issue here is companies (ab)using social media for their services. How did anyone ever think this was a viable customer service solution? It's publicly visible

You seem to think this was the only option for support. Instead, you are arguing for them shutting down an avenue of support that people used and liked. It would be like saying "Good thing they shut down phone support!"

You also seem to think that all support happened in public rather than just the initial contact. It was an easy entry way into getting support.

And it wasn't companies "abusing" Twitter. Rather, it was companies adopting to users using Twitter as a way to get support. If you don't see that, I don't know what to say.
It's all political. No need to be astonished from now on.
The incident last month where that woman got dragged and pinned by the Cruise vehicle was pretty disconcerting. The initial collision wasn't the fault of the cruise vehicle (another vehicle hit her pushing her into the cruise vehicle and fled the scene), but the cruise vehicle then proceeded to try to "pull over" and just dragged this woman and rolled over her leg. Weird situation but definitely something made much much worse by not having a person in the loop once the incident occurred.
This!

A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.
I am very interested! Thank you for finding those.
This sounds similar to a shockingly large number of linkedin posts I've seen recently. That certainly has transformed in to quite a different "social network" than I remember it being.
We -- in the US -- could cut our traffic-related death rate in half (or more!) by just doing whatever it is that most European countries [UK, German, Sweden, etc] do different from us.

No advanced robotics necessary.
Currently, the human driver responsible for the incident is still at large

I welcome our robot overlords.
My gut reaction is similar to yours, but then I've lost a couple pocket-knives over the decades when I accidentally had it in my day pack that gets used in the outdoors as well as for flights.

I wonder if there are folks out there who would be just as shocked at the idea of not knowing where my knife was, because of more strict rules in their home jurisdiction...?
You can take personal accountability for driving collective change, which is what is required here. 23andMe's business practices should not be legal, they are recklessly endangering the lives of people who have never used their service or agreed to their terms, and the only thing I can see that can stop them is legislation.
Don't forget K8s

Wiki calls it a "Numerical contractions" which is a type of "Numeronym".

So, basically a number of removed letters instead of an apostrophe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym
They will continue to roll out in business-friendly less-regulated states
What if we do both? Cars should be safe everywhere, and cities should be very pedestrian and bike friendly.

Cars also don't only exist in dense cities. They're even used, among other things, to get people into and out of those cities
The article clearly calls for legislative action, which isn't personal.
The sanctions are against Hamas and Hesbola not the Palestinians.
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You could make the same argument about landlords, but we still tax the value of a building.
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I'll resist - and so we have balance.
If inflation keeps up we'll be billionaires soon
Or replace the battery. I had one of the affected phones and it performed exactly the same with a new battery as it had with the original one during the first couple of years.
Besides what the other user pointed out, there are tens of millions of people driving an hour or more every day just to get to work, and that time sink might feel a bit more bearable if you could relax and do whatever you wanted during that time rather than focus on all the obstacles around you. I don't know that the state of self-driving vehicles will be quite there in my lifetime, but some time in the future they will be, if we keep making progress on them.

You might like driving. For many, driving is stressful.

This is besides the point someone else brought up about how notoriously bad at driving humans can be, and the capacity for how much safer an automated car could be when the tech is matured.

Public transit like efficient railroad infrastructure across the US would be even nicer, but I've about given up on that for the USA. They're doing self driving cars because we sunk too much money in roadway infrastructure (sunk cost fallacy.)
Spamgourmet (https://www.spamgourmet.com, https://github.com/spamgourmet/spamgourmet), free, has always worked well for me though these days I tend to just use the disposable addresses built in to Fastmail. Addy.io, (https://addy.io/), free/paid, is a newer offering with some nifty features like automatic PGP encryption.
Couldn't agree more than costs can add up quickly!

Have you looked into an IMS (incident management solution) like Transposit? (I work for them) It's an "end to end" platform meaning it includes everything from when an incident is created, through investigation and remediation, to closing the ticket and creating a post incident review doc.

We are listening to teams who are saying it's getting expensive and have recently released a dynamic on-call structure so it's in the same platform and only paying for users that are actually being paged within that month while having your whole team available if needed.

Feel free to check us out if you're looking to reduce overall cost- Transposit.com
As someone who isn't very familiar with how the clinical phase process works, is it fair to say that before Phase 3 clinical trials, companies can cherry pick patients that look like they will respond well to the treatment? and then Phase 3 is more general?
I find it interesting how no one in the new world had the wheel. Technically the Mayans had a wheel, but used it for... calendars?

see also:

http://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/197303/why.they.lost.th...
I was in SF last month and saw a Cruise car get stuck in an intersection on Divisadero. I have no idea what it was trying to originally do, but it kept just going back and forwards perpendicular to the incoming traffic. After about 5-10 mins of that, it looked like someone took remote control and got it out of the intersection.
It's likely KLM probably didn't think integrating Twitter with its customer support platform is worth the $40000[1] per month Musk was asking for.

1. Off the top of my head. May have been $50000 or in that ballpark. He seemed to overestimate the value of Twitter to corporates and transport agencies, and that the flow of value was in both directions. It's insane to think a quasi-governmental agency would spend tens of thousands to tell Twitter users the train or bus will be late; then again he probably doesn't know how much a banana costs, to steal from the Arrested Development trope.
Their business practice of getting hacked?
Appreciated but what we need is the oral history of Jack Dorsey in this time period to understand if this was the only problem he was considering working on. As I say, even if that were true, the problem != the idea. The problem is a starting point for potentially many ideas.
> So many businesses and ideas grew up around Twitter’s flexibility and relative openness. Many of those ideas don’t work at all in a monetized model

Don't work at all, or don't work for free?
Thanks for providing a nice list of security drawbacks for Linux phones. Nice to have them all gathered in one place :)

However, I did not buy my Librem 5 to get a phone with feature parity with Android or iOS, I wanted a hackable phone that behaves more like my other devices running Linux and to support a future where users have the option to control and inspect their phones.

I'm following Fedoras efforts of making an immutable base system for the Librem 5 with great interest. I believe their approach will address at least some of your security concerns.
We were sold self-driving cars as safer than humans.
I hope I can sign up for 'clone monitoring'
It's not the most exciting thing out there, but the hours are good and the pay covers the bills. In these times it's also rather safe place to be.

It could be more interesting, but then again, it's just work.
Better railroads would be a far better solution. But I think getting there will take a lot of convincing in America. So much money has gone into road infrastructure that I have to imagine there's a lot of sunk cost fallacy at play.
probably just a spam filter, just like many people use Twilio, Twilio probably uses the same filter

Instagram's translation service had an issue with this the other day too

good news: this is a great way to get customer support, especially if you sprinkle a little shame and assumption of malice onto it
Daniel Ek: I couldn't launch Spotify today because Apple is a barrier
It's also assuming that only government entities could afford to build a cluster that could crack this kind of encryption.

Criminal enterprises don't need to run mass surveillance, but they may well find it worth paying to crack encryption for very specific targets.
The problem starts when people do neither: only superficial test suites, not running a few test cases locally, and only start using the debugger when they need help from other people with neither the time nor patience to just stare at the code and argue about things without actually trying to get answers. For example, by provoking the problem and turning on the freaking debugger.

I fear half of my team can't run the application locally. To be honest, there are lots of moving parts in the codebase, but it's not only that.
43k deaths per year due to human drivers. DMV should stop sticking their heads in the sand. https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/state....
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Where's my million?
That’s great to hear. I hope my tone wasn’t misunderstood. I think the initiative is wonderful. I was mainly commenting on the state of open source funding generally. IMO what Sentry is doing doesn’t deserve criticism. Keep doing what you’re doing!
Apple can’t do AI/machine learning if their lives depended on it. This is a friendly reminder that it took Apple until the year 2023 to have a functioning autocorrect on the iPhone keyboard.
Since you didn’t provide any examples, I don’t know what you’re referring to but never saw anything characterizable as propaganda in favor of vaccination.
Is that why the EU is trying to break my encryption, scan my devices for CSAM, and grab all its visitors' biometric data? To "protect my privacy"?

This narrative needs to end. The EU does not care about privacy. They care about making headlines about sticking it to foreign companies.
In business, you may find that the two are synonymous with each other when you want to make an attractive platform.
Javascript adopting the class keyword was really bad. What a bizarre language which added something as syntactic sugar in the language but it's a paradigm.
I wonder if there is a fork available of normal Thunderbird. I don't understand this. Why destroy a perfectly working application?
> "The AV braked aggressively before impact and because it detected a collision, it attempted to pull over to avoid further safety issues," Cruise added. "When the AV tried to pull over, it continued before coming to a final stop, pulling the pedestrian forward. Our thoughts continue to be with the victim as we hope for a rapid and complete recovery."

This looks like Cruise's fault, dragging a pedestrian while pulling over for "safety"?
Though maybe good to have a system where a human remote driver takes over in cases where it's confused?
You share a lot of DNA with your parents, and your children. If one of them used 23AndMe, now a par of your DNA is with them.
Correct

I'm not sure an appeal to not comment because it's irrelevant because it happened 5 years ago makes sense

This is a site that provides a place to discuss news.

It was posted here today.
Did they change their policy on not making chips not available for purchase from manufacturers?
Do you think the potential future where humans are freed from doing anything for their transportation (no driving, no pedaling, no steering, no danger, no waiting in traffic, etc) is worth some short term pain while we develop the tech? Was the pain and suffering during the industrial revolution days that have led to our current high tech world worth it? (I'm not just asking this rhetorically, I'm really interested in what you or somebody who agrees with you thinks about these things).

Alternatively if you reject the premise of those questions that this is a necessary phase to pass through to get to the other side, what do you think the impact on progress would be if no "real world" training opportunities were allowed for these companies? Do you think they'd be hampered and progress would take longer, and what would the impact of that be?
Corporations were on the Internet before the 90s, so I'm going to assume by "commercial Internet" he means "consumer Internet" (e.g., AOL).

I doubt the consumer Internet could have happened before PCs became widespread in the 80s and early 90s, so it's misleading to attribute the delay solely or primarily to regulatory shenanigans by AT&T.
Reading this, it rather seems like the AV wasn't at fault in the accident itself and handled itself well. However, after coming to a complete stop, while the pedestrian was still on the ground in front of it, it then started again and drove into the pedestrian and continued for another 20 feet pushing the pedestrian along (and presumably under) the car. They say it did this to leave the car in a safe place, but this differs drastically from a normal driver who'd get out and look round the vehicle before moving it anywhere.

I'd say the initial hit probably did a chunk of damage to the pedestrian, but quite likely not fatal unless their head hit the ground. But then being driven over and dragged 20 feet is going to be pretty scary and in all likelihood cause more serious injuries than the initial impact.
Was Steve Jobs or Elon any different with the people under them? Even John Carmack used to put his desk in the hallway during Quake's development so he could see who's coming and going and at what time.

People here romanticize too much over successful founders or visionary coders while forgetting that they were also flawed people in their own human ways and would have probably hated working under them to the core.
well thats the problem. Palestine shouldn't be included in that list! its complicit in erasing the voice of an entire people
"A dark colored Nissan Sentra was stopped in the adjacent lane to the left of the AV. When the light turned green, the Nissan Sentra and the AV entered the intersection. Against a red light, a pedestrian entered the crosswalk on the opposite side of Market Street across from the vehicles, passed completely through the AV’s lane of travel, then stopped mid-crosswalk in front of the Nissan Sentra. The Nissan Sentra then tragically struck and propelled the pedestrian into the path of the AV."

So there was this woman crossing a crosswalk in front of these two cars when she shouldn't have. I guess I don't understand why neither car stopped in front of the crosswalk when they saw this woman in the middle of the crosswalk (illegally).

IMO it was a bit aggressive for Cruise to have seen this woman jaywalking and still crossed the crosswalk after detecting that the woman had just passed the car but still in the middle of the crosswalk.
Amen.

Really wish there was a way for tech (especially new AI tech) to wholesale abandon the city. Even just move south to the actual Silicon Valley. The city picking winners and losers like this is untenable
Are these [fill-in-the-blank] rights campaigns all about awareness, or is there concrete laws supporters wanted enacted or changed?

The gays rights movement was able to make a lot of progress by having a clear-cut case where marriage and its benefits where legal for mixed-sex couples and illegal for same-sex couples. They were being denied something that many others enjoyed. Do women in Iceland have a different pay-scale than men? Are traditionally male house-chores like yardwork paid, while house cleaning is not?
- No more traffic

- No more car insurance

- Cheap transportation to work/school

- Less deaths on the road

There is plenty to gain from having true driverless vehicles accessible to the public.
> without getting assaulted or robbed.

I think is the qualifier the other user put in to disqualify public transit. But yes, ideally.
What?! Is it safe to enable all autocorrect features on the iPhone?

I had to turn off half of them to stop it writing random stuff for me
That's not how access to email content should work at any organization, and I can personally tell you that responsible government organizations don't give it to entry level employees.

Discovery and FOIA-equivalent requests that I've seen at the SLTT level were handled with the care that is expected for potentially sensitive communications. I'm sure smaller orgs can't do it as well, but Seattle is probably going to have some money for this stuff.
Some stunning scenery too; I was there in April. Can be very very cold/windy though; pack accordingly.
The phenomenon of viewing public transit as somewhere that you'll be assaulted or robbed is an incredible indictment of the US. I don't know how true it is though.
the Cruise dragged her 20 feet and rolled over her leg though. Obviously this is mainly the other drivers fault, but self driving cars need to be able to react properly to unexpected scenarios. A reasonable human driver would not have continued driving with a person trapped under the car.
A good book is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echoes_of_Life
If your favorite hobby is sitting by yourself, strapped to a chair, sure, you get your time back. But the reason I'm allergic to commuting is that I prefer to spend time with my family.
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I would hope that in 15-20 years autologous therapy technologies will have matured and cost per-patient will be driven down significantly.
OpenBSD's IPv6 mbufs remote kernel buffer overflow (2007)
From my perspective as a person who lives in San Francisco and also drives a LOT (10-20k miles per year, and many small drives within the city): Cruise cars do not perform acceptably.

They manage to avoid collisions by driving extremely conservatively, but the way they traverse, say, a left turn against traffic is absurd. They slow everyone down, including emergency vehicles and public transit, by performing far below the level of most Human drives.

They don't work in the rain, they can't handle construction, they block garages and driveways.

Waymo vehicles are objectively far better. They drive like Humans do. Still some issued with weather and construction, but they work well alongside busses, trucks, and private cars without slowing anyone down.
> Diversified away from ad revenue.

He was forced to due to ad revenue plummeting as a reaction to his own actions and policies.

>Introduced breaking changes to accustom the user base to faster development.

What does faster development have to do with breaking almost a decade's worth of UX and muscular memory? You can ship _bad_ changes quickly. I lost track of the amount of times I tapped Reply instead of Retweet after they shifted all buttons right when they introduced viewcounts.

> Shrunk a bloated team to die-hards via whaling-and-culling.

I'd argue there's a reasonable middle ground between "a bloated team" and "just the die-hards".

> largely solved the content moderation problem via Community Notes.

Community notes existed before Musk, and their role is to dispute a claim or provide context. They don't moderate content in any way.
I'm not expecting sense in technical matters (or any other matters for that matter) from head-in-the-clouds bureaucrats.

The real blame should go to the browser makers and standards bodies. It's their job to save people from this idiocy or otherwise the politicians just screw things up for everybody. Figure out a way to get browsers to have a sane default on handling cookies at the browser level without having to fill in a stupid form on every single page.
yeah, they seem to be pretty clearly saying Cruise tried to cover something up here. i'd love to know more about that.
Big Tech is term for big tech companies. Meta, Alphabet, MS, Apple and few more, the companies that have monopolized large sections of the Internet/Mobile and tech in general and are using that power + money to expand further into related/unrelated areas.
Look at the likes of Dave Plummer or pre-Fog Creek Joel Spolsky for real world examples. Neither were particularly early, not particularly senior, started on bottom rungs, both of their Microsoft tenures basically amounted to a solid career as a developer and both seem to have made out well from it.
It wasn’t common, but they did it a few times. Here’s one example: https://time.com/5026886/twitter-verification-policy-richard...
That's infuriating. But I'm saddened to tell you things are not much better in the world of Android.

I frequently use timers to make sure I don't overcook the spaghetti or beans ("Ok Google, set a timer for X minutes"), and it works about 80% of the time, only to betray you with direst consequence.

And it's not that it's just not hearing me; it'll register the instruction and show confirmation on the screen, but then no timer actually starts.
if people weren't VC brained they would realize that the way to prevent traffic deaths isn't to build fancy self driving cars, it's to invest in safer, more pedestrian friendly infrastructure and use the boring technology that already exists to get people where they want to go. the future is on buses and trains and bikes and pedestrian friendly 15 minute communities
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Business practices of not caring about securing the populations genetic information with even basic measures such as enforced two factor authentication and compromising the lives of many innocent non-customers through a basic low-skill attack like credential stuffing.

I would straight up say they need to be regulated as a healthcare provider and be subject to the security provisions of HIPAA. That would be a start.
Any major examples? I've heard a lot about animal trials succeeding and then the human trials failing, but would love to read into it if you have any sources.