James Ross @twpol@mastodon.online

Hmm Taiwan decided to drop Zero-COVID in May, let's check in on them to see how that's working out?

Oh...shit😬

(If we'd done the same on the Mainland there would have been a *minimum* of 500,000 dead since May based on those numbers)

But the economy!

Oh...

Yet another very clever idea for storing map tiles in space efficient ways! 🤔👍🏻
https://protomaps.com/blog/pmtiles-v3-hilbert-tile-ids/

RT @bdon@twitter.com

New Hilbert-based tile addressing and 75000x compression in PMTiles v3

https://protomaps.com/blog/pmtiles-v3-hilbert-tile-ids/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/bdon/status/1557149763400699905

i've known more people to get covid this year than during the entire span of time since the pandemic began and yet the CDC and society in general are just giving up and declaring it over

the CDC: we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas guess you'll die

Your password must contain at least one lowercase letter, one uppercase letter, one forgotten rune, and one unspeakable horror

"Learning to code, an app I'm using threw this out"

submitted by Re-tiredMillennial
https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/wkt8zi/learning_to_code_an_app_im_using_threw_this_out/

So, let's give Linux another try. I usually didn't have any issues with Ubuntu Mate. In fact, it was the distro where accessibility worked best right out of the box. I'm happy to announce that they've seen the way, and now it just doesn't. Took me forever to actually get the screen reader to talk. The standard keystroke of Super+S (or super+alt+s) didn't work. I knew ctrl alt T opened a terminal, hoped it still did, and tried to launch Orca from there. Welp, it kinda did. It says frame over and over, I very rarely get told what the focus is actually on, and yeah... let's try something else, since the installer window just straight up does not read at all. I really don't know what's up here, this is a big regression. This used to work just fine. Which makes me question if this is me doing something wrong or if it's actually broken.

Spelling the name of every operating system like Pop!_OS

Mac!_OS
Windows!_11
Arch!_Linux

RT @jessejanderson@twitter.com

ADHD is forgetting unfinished projects exist until the next time you see them, and forgetting bills and paperwork exist until the next time you see them, and forgetting friends exist until the next time you see them.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jessejanderson/status/1557586541114826752

what in the actual fuck is the chrome rendering engine

A friend of ours has put up this site for collecting anonymized personal stories about #COVID-19 -- please feel free to reshare/boost!

https://cantlivewithcovid.com/

wow remember when resting was restful

If you're screening your follow requests, it's probably not a good idea to reject or block someone just because their profile picture is empty.

There are many blind people on the Fediverse who don't use profile pictures. For example, the writer Robert Kingett at @blindscribe doesn't use one.

The most reliable way to screen accounts on here is just to read what they have posted, as this better reflects what kind of account they are.

#Fediverse #FollowRequest #FollowRequests