EverydayMoggie

drahardja, 11 days ago to random

If you use Bartender and haven’t received the update with the new code signing certificate, DISABLE UPDATES NOW.

If you updated to anything beyond version 5.0.52, TURN OFF PRIVACY PERMISSIONS TO THE APP and delete it.

Remember, Bartender needs permission to record your screen to work. This can get bad. https://sfba.social/@drahardja/112561678013832666

Andres4NY, 17 days ago to cycling

I'm not on Xitter any more, but someone else (on IRC, lol) posted this. #BikeTooter #Wildfires #CarsAreDumb

I think the original article is from 2017.

RickiTarr, 17 days ago to random

This was a fun one, so let's do it again. What is something you've learned that seems unlikely, even though you know it's true? Here's one I think about a lot:

Sight, while being something something many people are born with, is not an innate ability, but something we learn to do. People who were born blind or were blind for a long time, who get sight, have to learn to see.

joy, 19 days ago to SF

Hey #SFBA folks, a quick request… I’m starting to look at housing in the city #SF, and if you have any leads (even if it’s an “I love my neighborhood because…” type of comment) that would be great. 🥰

I don’t need a roommate, but I do need a place that accepts cats and has in unit laundry (which apparently is a very limiting factor). Not sure where to start my search other than the usual online portals.

RickiTarr, 19 days ago to random

How much alone time vs socializing do you need?

For me there are a few people who are usually equalizing, and I can just be around them, so I won't count that. But generally, I find about 3 times a week, I'm game for socializing. A day in between to rest is usually nice, but the larger the gathering or if we go somewhere particularly noisy or I'm meeting new people that involves more effort, and my social battery empties sooner. I'm very curious where everyone else falls on this!

capntransit, 21 days ago to random

Anniversary blog post from May 25, 2011: Whenever I hear people claim that Uber and Lyft "destroyed" New York City's taxi system, my mind boggles at how completely ignorant or how deep in denial they must be. This post was part of a series where I described how fantastically shitty the taxi system was in 2011:

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-york-yellow-cabs-in-practice.html

cabel, 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago) to random

I just really hope Apple is preparing a metric hectare of reassurances if (big if!) they’re about to announce a deep partnership with OpenAI.

Like, reassurances about the environmental impact (all that work down the drain?), about the training data sources, about general ethics, about the cringy move-fast-and-break-things startup-bro vibes that they will then inherit onto their brand, etc…

Andres4NY, 27 days ago to cycling

I'm thinking.. time to retire this one?

#BikeTooter #RimBrakes

Same thing, but a different part of the rim (and slightly brighter lighting). Again, the rim in this spot is worn down about 1mm.

anirvan, 28 days ago to random

On the 277th Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour (https://www.BerkeleySouthAsian.org/) last weekend, we visited the UC Berkeley Palestine encampment.

Halfway through a story about Indian student protestors in 1975, we stopped to point out the Palestine encampment behind us, and then welcomed our special guests: three students and faculty members active around the encampment. (1/4)

capntransit, 30 days ago (edited 30 days ago) to random

I'm already not boosting any quote boosts. I just blocked someone who used quote boost to call someone else out - something I was told not to worry about on Mastodon.

drahardja, 1 month ago to random

Thanks, Yelp Ask The Community.

drahardja, 1 month ago to SanJose

The slowly deflating #CommercialRealEstate bubble continues. People are just not that interested to go back to the office.

This building in a suburban #SanJose office park was occupied by Nio, the Chinese carmaker, who did not renew their lease in October 2023. Without a new tenant, the building went into foreclosure with $25M of outstanding debt.

#cbre #returnToOffice #remoteWork #flexibleWork

“Big San Jose office building is seized by lender as market wobbles”

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/05/13/san-jose-property-real-estate-office-build-economy-loan-foreclose-tech/

Unpaywalled: https://archive.ph/88aEk

EverydayMoggie, 1 month ago to random

It is very weird to think that actuaries might be the ones to shake our large institutions out of their complacency on climate change.

"The people who control the world's money rely on financial risk assessors to give them accurate data about future scenarios that could adversely affect their vast portfolios. The message coming from those risk assessors right now is...your money is in grave danger if the world does not act urgently to mitigate the worst consequences of our rapidly warming climate. Now a new report sets the challenge out in painful detail."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A8YIc6Ru6g

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 1 month ago to Victoria

Victoria: Hundreds of patients died after catching COVID in Victorian hospitals, new data shows

Almost 1 in 10 patients who caught COVID in hospital died.

Documents obtained by ABC News under Freedom of Information laws reveal at least 6,212 patients caught COVID in hospital in 24 months — 3,890 in 2022 and 2,322 in 2023. Of those, 586 died — almost 6 per week, on average — with men dying at a higher rate than women (11 per cent vs 8 per cent).

#COVID19 #Victoria @auscovid19

Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-06/hundreds-died-catching-covid-victoria-hospitals-testing-masking/103784896?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=twitter

RickiTarr, 1 month ago to random

Awww this takes me back! What has been the most important in your life?

notjustbikes, 1 month ago to random

So, I'm on this Shinkansen train in Japan ...

Seating area of car 2 on the Hello Kitty Shinkansen
Pink and white Shinkansen train

RickiTarr, 1 month ago to random

I'm not saying anyone should do this, but if you were looking to get revenge on a colonizer, this would be a really good time to take over Britain.

compost, 1 month ago to climate

Feeling miserable because of allergies.

I was not always suffering from those issues as I grew up on a farm and used to help with the hay work in the summer.

So the fact that I am now experiencing hayfever symptoms is the consequence of #ClimateChange.

Despite taking a powerful allergy medicine it is still not safe to go outside for me.

This is why when we talk to you so often about the #climate on this account, it is not because we are being greenwashed.

It is because it is affecting my health and our #gardens in a significant way.

It is also why those who would like to deny the climate issues are very unwelcome on this community, I could not give less of a damn about their opinions.

drahardja, 1 month ago to random

The slow collapse of downtown commercial real estate is continuing. I suspect news like this, and stories about the decline of retail around downtowns that depend on daily commuter traffic will come in at faster and faster rates.

Workers are not returning to the office to work. #RemoteWork and #flexibleWork are showing to be a perfectly viable solution that is more friendly to workers. Even with hybrid work, the volume of people commuting is far lower than it used to be.

#CBRE is slowly declining to a new, lower-value equilibrium.

“Once-hot tech office in SF's SoMa sells for a fourth of its 2019 price”

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/410-townsend-sale-downtown-sf-price-19408862.php

drahardja, 6 months ago to ai

I’m more certain than ever that the first quarter of 2024 will see a grand reckoning for companies that have bet big on #AI. As I said before, I predict a lot of CFOs getting sticker shock at their compute bills, and we will see pivots and downscaling of expectations across the industry. By the middle of the year, there will likely be a general cool-down as users and investors come to grips with what “AI” can realistically do at reasonable cost (hint: not as much as the hype claims). Strategically deploying smaller models will become quite attractive, rather than monolithic solutions.

I also think 2024 is the year of the legal reckoning for the industry. Creators whose work have been used for training (i.e. plagiarized) will likely make big inroads into establishing legal frameworks for compensation, and some models will become poisoned because they were trained with unvetted data. Hopefully this also means that model-makers who have been meticulous about their training data’s providence will reap rewards.

markwyner, 1 year ago (edited 2 months ago) to accessibility

Every hashtag on every post on every platform should ALWAYS be pascal case (a.k.a. camel case). I made this to illustrate how screenreaders read hashtags depending on whether they are lowercase or pascal case.

It’s a small thing that all of us can do to build a more inclusive, accessible internet for all. Please take the time to use pascal case.

Read more:
https://markwyner.medium.com/hashtag-accessibility-by-everyone-for-everyone-298667b2d891

#Accessibility #WebAccessibility #Usability #Readability #Hashtags #SocialNetworking #Blogging #UX