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  • An issue that I ran into last week:

    A business sought me out because of an issue with a #WordPress site they were running. The server got overloaded and crashed every 3 hours for half an hour at a time and it was important to get to the bottom of this.

    The hints that I got were that the site had been migrated to a new server in order to isolate it and that the issue started when someone was hired to integrate certain accounting software with it. 🧵

    —@alda

  • In reply to @ppatel.

    @ppatel I hear you on that man. Getting tired of the same damn stuff every day.

  • In reply to @KaraLG84.

    @KaraLG84 @FreakyFwoof @frog67 Right now I'm using Vocalizer because I need Hebrew support, and I'm using Jaws because Outlook. Still keep NVDA around though and keep it updated. If Thunderbird gets it together I'll switch back and switch back to NVDA but I need some of the advanced Outlook stuff right now.

  • In reply to @alda.

    @alda I read this and I knew *exactly where it was going once you said "He modified the theme". God Don't do that kind of stuff for what's essentially plugin work, plus the obvious why are you doing that with index.php and some get parameters I want to boost this entire thread.

  • the eu is at war with meta over user privacy, and gruber has picked a side

    —@penllawen

  • There’s something very odd about gruber’s constant EU bashing for actually doing a good job at protecting its citizens. Meta is a privacy nightmare, the opposite of Apple, and all of the sudden now it’s cool to use their twitter clone and the EU is missing out?

    —@tclementdev

  • In reply to @ppatel.

    @ppatel Congratulations on your retirement.

  • Twitter: I follow news and political giants, but all I see are bad people and arguments
    Bluesky: I follow 10% of my old friends who were able to get out of twitter in time and sometimes it works
    Threads: I follow my friends but I can’t see them through the algorithm of businesses
    Mastodon: oh look a beekeeper in the Netherlands

    —@kittywifclaws

  • “Piracy can’t be stealing if paying for it isn’t owning”

    This is increasingly how it feels, when streaming shows disappear for tax reasons and things you “own” digitally become inaccessible.

    Thank you @Illuminatus for this quote.

    —@gamesbymanuel

  • In reply to @chris.

    @chris Yeah you definitely should.

  • So this TTS pronounces Bluesky as Blueskee, and I'm just going to start calling it Blueskee around Bluesky fans just to be annoying.

  • Threads, Twitter, and Bluesky: Our billionaire is better than your billionaire.

    Mastodon: You actually don’t need a billionaire at all.

    Threads, Twitter, and Bluesky: Hold on, we have to ask our billionaire if that’s true.

    —@lowqualityfacts

  • That feeling when a tech dude simultaneously comes out against any attempt to regulate how US tech cos handle privacy, and uses the word “library” as a pejorative.

    I mean… asshole jock vibes much?

    —@baldur

  • In reply to @frog67.

    @frog67 @FreakyFwoof I like this name.

  • @Tirial @stavvers Relativistic dickfarts will likely affect the launchperineum like a SpaceX superheavy test in a Texan nature reserve. Also, at relativistic speeds it’s going to compress the air in front of it so much in the first millimetre or two that it’ll induce fusion reactions between oxygen and nitrogen nuclei, never mind hydrogen (according to XKCD, who Know These Things).

    Could be new underwear time!

    —@cstross

  • In reply to @FreakyFwoof.

    @FreakyFwoof @frog67 Yeah there's enough of us to start a cult or something.

  • In reply to @jackiegardina.

    @jackiegardina I'm just waiting for the first motherfucker to try "I don't have to make my site accessible because muh expressiveness (TM)" Somebody's going to do it.

  • I have finally read Justice Sotomayor’s powerful dissent in 303 Creative. In the end, she reaches for our better angels. “But that does not mean that we are powerless in the fact of the decision. The meaning of our Constitution is found not in any law volume, but in the spirit of the people who live under it.”

    I do not have Justice Sotomayor’s optimism right now.

    #SCOTUS #equality #fedilaw #law #LGBTQ

    —@jackiegardina

  • New social corporate media apps will continue until morale improves

    —@esther

  • In reply to @frog67.

    @frog67 Yay pizza!