Mastodawn

Today I have contacted https://www.actionforme.org.uk to see if they can offer any advice on the appeal process or any of the PIP application.

Tried to book an appointment with the GP but their IT systems are down, which is great.

Looked at starting the tribunal appeal process with DWP and they ask if I have a representative, I don't even know who that would be, maybe my carer/partner?

Asking for help is exhausting, it really is.

#mecfs #PIP

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ohmrun 2d ago

If you write an installer system whose main job is to say "none of my business, govner", pack up and fuck off cos you're not doing your job.

@airtower You really are a nice and kind person for not publicly shaming the responsible person. I truly like and respect that about you.

But I am not that nice and kind and I do believe in… publicly crediting people for their work in cases like this 😈:

It was this commit, where this kind of stuff was added for the first time, submitted by a Donald Stufft⟨donald@stufft.io⟩, a software dev in Philadelphia who seems to be a major contributor to Pypi and a bunch of other projects; “crates” is one of the orgs that he lists on his github and who still seems to list Xitter has his main account (@ dstufft).

Maybe it’s time to ask him for what the fuck he was thinking there…

(And before anyone says anything: No, this isn’t doxxing, all of this information is publicly available in the git-history, his github-profile and his own website to which he links from his github. I didn’t even have to throw his name into a search engine!)

#pip #python

Switch to a JSON user-agent with more information · pypa/pip@6cbc08d

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vulgalour - Free Range Queer 3d ago

The PIP mandatory appeal was finally decided upon today. They awarded me 0 points again.

I have to take this to independent tribunal. I have to go through all this a third time and wait another 3-6 months for a decision.

I'm working as hard as the ME will let me and it's not enough. I can't get out of debt. I don't know what to do.

I don't know what to do.

#mecfs #PIP #disability #help

The Mirror: News, Sport, Celebrity & Entertainment 3d ago

Ex-benefits assessor explains the DWP PIP assessment 'chair test'

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/ex-benefits-assessor-explains-dwp-36567815

jaimedavid327 4d ago

The Absurd Wall Around Picture‑in‑Picture for Music on YouTube

There is something uniquely frustrating about running headfirst into a limitation that feels completely artificial. Not a technical constraint. Not a hardware shortcoming. Not even a genuine legal impossibility. Just a wall, quietly erected, that exists because someone decided it should. YouTube’s refusal to allow music content to run in Picture‑in‑Picture mode on iPhone and iPad is one of those walls. It stands there, immovable, while everything around it suggests that it should not […]

https://jaimedavid.blog/2026/01/17/00/01/40/analysis/jaimedavid327/9061/the-absurd-wall-around-picture-in-picture-for-music-on-youtube/

The Mirror: News, Sport, Celebrity & Entertainment 4d ago

DWP PIP recipients must report these changes or payments may stop

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/dwp-pip-recipients-must-report-36561755

Eric Jelli 4d ago

Last week I was a little annoyed about missing Microsoft C++ Build Tools #MSVC on a system without admin rights. I needed a compiler for building the #python C++ extension I developed a while ago. Annoyed not because I could not ask someone to install it for me, but annoyed because of the lack of compiler choices in this particular case. I have to use the MSVC instead of let's say #g++ which I could easily install via the #MinGW-w64 #conda package myself.

I found out that I can tell #setuptools (the backend build system) via #pip config settings to use a different compiler during build: