Being someone who cares is such a fucking liability these days. Turns out most people don’t give a shit and also think you’re weird for doing so.

«in a series of deleted X posts, Grok boasted that Musk had the “potential to drink piss better than any human in history,” that he was “the ultimate throat goat” whose “blowjob prowess edges out Trump’s,” and that he should have won a 2016 porn industry award instead of porn star Riley Reid.» […]

Toasters be all like, "Surprise! It's toast!" Every goddamn time.

A lesser known Mastodon pro tip: Want to mute a conversation, but the mute conversation button isn't appearing on the post? The only way you can mute a conversation is on a post you have made in the conversation. But the secret part - Say you want to mute it without actually participating in […]

"BBC presenters and journalists have been told they cannot quote a line removed from its prestigious annual lecture, in which a Dutch writer accused Donald Trump of being “the most openly corrupt president in American history”. This censorship of Rutger Bregman's Reith Lecture is just another […]

Yesterday I mentioned the tremendous amount of beepage going on outside my house just before 7 AM. They came back at approximately twenty passed 4 and were quite a bit more vocal about it this time. Here's a two-minute clip from that time, and an article explaining why THE protest happened […]

Yesterday I mentioned the tremendous amount of beepage going on outside my house just before 7 AM. They came back at approximately twenty passed 4 and were quite a bit more vocal about it this time. Here's a two-minute clip from that time, and an article explaining why THE protest happened […]

Android supporting AirDrop natively is a 🤯 https://blog.google/products/android/quick-share-airdrop/

heartbreaking: your mutual that posts tons of great memes never uses alt text so you can't boost them

Serious post, please boost... On #internationalmensday here's your periodic reminder, fellow AMAB prostate carrying people who are over 50: Go see your doctor. Don't put it off. Ask for a DRE or a PSA test. Yes, DRE means a finger up your bum, get over it. They probably won't find anything […]

> Microsoft: "We offer GREAT backwards compatibility! The best in the business!" > Also Microsoft: "Man, doing things the old way is so hard. What if we had a clean break with the past?!?!" > Microsoft, some time later: "Man, making a clean break from the past is so hard. Let's just ship what […]

So I grew up next to #Chernobyl and this is, well, TERRIFYING. A story for y’all: I’m from a city called Zhytomyr, 2 hours west of Kyiv in the North of #ukraine. We were downwind of the Chernobyl #nuclear power plant when the 1986 disaster happened. I wasn’t born for another 12 years, but my […]

The next time someone tells you that America isn’t a sick & racist country, just remind them that this nation is willing to accept treason, rape, and child abuse from a white president but not healthcare from a Black one.

@prism Make this a bat file on your path, start with image first, then audiofile, and you'll get audiofile.mp4 as an output. @ffmpeg -threads 3 -hwaccel auto -r 1 -loop 1 -i %1 -i %2 -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -x264opts opencl -vf scale=1280:720 -c:v libx264 -tune stillimage -c:a copy […]

From 1988. https://archive.org/details/crash-magazine-57?view=theater#page/n67

Here's the most efficient way I've found to make a video from an image plus audio file. -Get ffmpeg: Open the run box with windows+r, type "winget install ffmpeg" and press enter. ffmpeg will install itself. * Open the folder on your PC where your image and audio files are stored. Press […]

The World Bank’s latest data shows a quiet global triumph: 93% of people aged 15 to 24 can now read and write, up from 87% in 2000. In many regions, including East Asia, Latin America, and Central Europe, youth literacy has reached or neared universal levels, marking one of the most successful […]

The thing about JAWS vs NVDA is that it doesn't matter if @freedomscientific packs it with objectively better features. NVDA is free, easy to use (within the context of desktop screen readers), and it's good enough for the vast majority of screen reader users. Want to browse the web? Want to […]

Here's an update to take into account some accessibility-breaking changes they introduced: https://onj.me/media/Updated_Suno_Tutorial.mp3

FFmpeg is set to receive $100,000 from FLOSS/fund, a program launched by Indian stockbroking firm Zerodha to give back to the ecosystem that made its success possible. The team noted that, while welcome, this funding "does not solve the funding problems behind FFmpeg and Open Source in general." […]

"More than £100m was spent last year by local authorities and the government on failed efforts to block support for children and young people with special educational needs in England... The enormous cost in legal fees and staff resources came after councils won just 136 out of more than 10,000 […]

typst, an open-source document typesetting system that seems to be growing in popularity, now generates accessible, tagged PDFs by default! https://typst.app/blog/2025/typst-0.14/

The entire #whitehouse #eastwing is demolished as #trump moves forward with his #ballroom, AP photos show. The East Wing, where #firstladies created #history, planned state dinners & promoted causes, is now history itself. The 2-story structure of drawing rooms & offices, including workspace […]

When someone says of Trump's fascist moves, "It is a shocking situation to be in that I don’t think anybody anticipated a year ago,” I want to scream in frustration. THIS WAS PREDICTABLE IN EVERY WAY. HE BRAGGED ABOUT WHAT HE WOULD DO […]

Shout out to people who love ebooks but hate Amazon: Bookshop.org has started doing eBooks! They have an app! They have classics for free! They have daily 99p deals! Much excite! #books #bookstodon

My favourite proposed solutions to tech problems are those that go way over the top. For example: Problem: I want to toggle effects for multiple selected tracks in REAPER. Proposed solution: Disable the effects engine entirely by using REAPER's recovery mode.

Now free for all to read... Imagine a family living in 1980s Bulgaria. They're the Petrovi family: father Plamen, mother Elena, and son Boyan. I say "imagine", for the Petrovis aren't real; they're a fictional family created to illustrate life in 1980s Sofia, the Bulgarian capital - and they […]

I am being slightly disingenuous here. Some of the many advantages of LLMs over SO is that the LLM is friendly and fast. That's why Kids Today™ prefer Discord to forums. Someone replies immediately. You don't have to wait for an answer and check back. LLMs are rarely rude. It can be […]

Everyone knows the weekends are the best time to push important updates, right? From Jeep Wrangler forum: Did anyone else have a loss of drive power after today's OTA Uconnect update? On my drive home I abruptly had absolutely no acceleration, the gear […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

With great power comes great electricity bill

Help end pavement parking in England. Living Streets are running a campaign to end pavement parking in England and are asking for help. They're looking for people to contribute examples of particularly problematic pavement parking in their local area. The map will be open until 22nd Nov […]

Reminder that it doesn't matter which Mastodon server you join, as long as you: Don't join one that's too big; Don't join one that's too small; Don't join one using server software your client doesn't support; Don't join any of the hundreds of servers that are widely blocked by admins […]

Hey fediverse, today is the World Sight Day! How about, as a small gift for the blind and visually impaired folks on here, we step up our alt text game! Visit https://alttexthalloffame.org to learn why this is important. #alttext #imagedescriptions #accessibility #worldsightday

ICE has been paying private security for 24/7 guards to watch a guy with no record whose leg they fucked up so badly he has been in a hospital for over a month, and we wonder why people were handing Tom Homan bags of cash. Via @kyledcheney.bsky.social storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

*resisting the urge to Argue With People Saying Shitty Things To Me On The Internet* 😖 DO NOT ENGAGE. DO NOT ENGAGE. DO NOT ENGAGE. Remember that if I push back, they’ll push harder . . . if they don’t know what they’re talking about, they don’t want to know . . . if I ignore them, their […]

This is standing ovation stuff by @sundress. Not a single word wasted, and so many quotable bits. A threat model for #accessibility on the web: https://alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-threat-model-for-accessibility-on-the-web/

Things I had not expected to see today: Deutsche Bank making a numbers based argument that "AI" is a bubble and won't last https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deutsche-bank-grim-warning-ai-industry

Several years ago Jim Browning infiltrated a scammer's computer, told her what her real name was, and called himself 'Ghost'. This spooked her so much, but she was morbidly curious, so she began to ask him about her colleagues in the scam call center. At one time she said 'Who is in my back, who […]

Project I'm vaguely thinking of building: getthing. A GUI where you paste a URL, and it sends the link to yt-dlp, or fanficfare, or ARIA2c, or spotdl, or streamlink, based on the website and what supports it, and then just saves the thing. Because I often have things I want, and I don't like […]

The older I get, the more I understand why roosters just scream to start their day.

Numerologists take note: tomorrow, 27th September 2025, is a square date in both US and Everywhere Else notation. 5205² = 27092025 and 3045² = 9272025 This is the last time this will happen for a thousand years! (from @EdPeggJr on math-fun)

It is WILD that we now live in a time where my job as an astrophysics professor has gone from "learn cool things about space" to "try to get someone to hold billionaires accountable for dropping shit on us from orbit"

Forgive me for sounding like an extremist, but if the purpose of society isn't to house, feed, and care for its members, what the fuck is the purpose?

We all know that many news sites have paywalls. It is, after all, some or a big part of how they've chosen to fund their news gathering. There are lots of ways around paywalls or to access individual stories behind one: e.g., archive.is or archive.today lets you search a news article link to see […]

Customers of Adobe Analytics started reporting on Sept. 17 seeing data in their customer tracking portals that belonged to other organizations. A number of people on a Slack channel for Adobe Analytics users said their accounts were populated with data that […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...