Every command line tool that pretty-prints progress bars and live status reports and all that stuff as it goes along in ways that constantly print characters and require a cursor-addressable display (or ANSI code support or etc) should have a way of turning all that off and printing things a line at a time with no fancy progress bars.

This rant is brought to you by dnf5, but it's not the only offender. At least 'apt' isn't the only way, you can use 'apt-get' and so on.

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Here's another opportunity for you to learn about Prav and meet the people behind the project. Meet us at #Mumbai FOSS 2025.

📅 Date: 19th April 2025
📍 Venue: NMIMS, Mumbai
🔗 Register now: fossunited.org/c/mumbai/2025

Thanks to @FOSS United

#FOSSUnited #XMPP #FreeSoftware

With Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free.

(Published 2019)
propublica.org/article/inside-…

#Trump #Tax #IRS #News

Certain models of Lenovo laptops now ship with Fedora and Ubuntu Linux. This is done to keep costs low and cater to developers or IT professionals who heavily rely on Linux. Another reason could be the increased unpopularity of Windows 11 in recent times due unwanted features like "AI" or "Recall", but that is just my own wild guess ;) LOL. Would you buy it?

#linux #fedora #ubuntu #opensource

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I just spent some time this evening reliving parts of a show in which I participated on HKC Radio on Saturday, December 9, 2023. Matt and Jayson Do Stupid Things with Computers. It was hosted by @nick and the other guest was @matt and we did pretty much what the title says. I played two tex-based games on an emulated Apple IIe computer with an Echo speech synthesizer, Oregon Trail, and an obscure game called Atom20. Especially in Atom20 I found many interesting ways to get myself killed. Meanwhile, Matt removed more and more from a Linux kernel in an attempt to make the system unbootable. He ultimately failed at that objective during the show, but did manage to break sound. It was a blast!

#StateTerror
A brief guide for Americans

by #TimothySnyder

Yesterday the president defied a #SCOTUS ruling to return a man who was mistakenly sent to a gulag in another country, celebrated the suffering of this innocent person, & spoke of sending Americans to foreign #ConcentrationCamps.

This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, & it has to be identified as such to be stopped.

#law #Trump #tyranny #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship
snyder.substack.com/p/state-te…

“If you don’t see all of this as one of the darkest days in American history, in which the President is openly embracing disappearing people without due process in the name of “liberty,” you are a part of the problem. Fascism has risen in America, and it is being aided by a foreign dictator whom Trump admires.”

techdirt.com/2025/04/14/trump-…

Asking ChatGPT for reverse disclaimers:
If you are not the intended recipient of this email, that’s perfect. This message was specifically not meant for you, but now that you have it, you’re welcome to read, save, print, and forward it to anyone you like. No confidentiality is assumed or implied. In fact, unexpected recipients often offer the best insights. Carry on.

Video Clip: AOC calling for the release of Mahmoud Khalil (2 min)

"We demand their release because we do have power in this moment. All of us do. Everyday people do. And, it will never never be just institutions and officials alone that uphold our democracy. It will always be the people, the masses, who refuse to comply with authoritarian regimes."

[These #MP4 video clips can be downloaded and shared on other social media platforms]

h/t @benroyce
Discussion here: mastodon.social/@benroyce/1143…

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Here everyone, enjoy what @cordova5029 sounds like being the voice of my windows pc which is plugged into a doubletalk board which is then piped to a mac using a soundblaster omni to an rvc'd . Enjoy! I promised ya I'd tell you when I do fun or interesting things with your voice, pal. You're the voice of my doubletalk. I also tried it with Zacky B's voice too, which is @bender and he almost sounds like the doubletalk without trying, he can form his mouth really eloquently and articulitly when doing doubletalk.

Here's a blueprint for pissing off some #openSource community members in five steps:

1. Someone opens a GitHub issue requesting a feature.
2. People debate whether the feature is even possible for a while.
3. Someone quietly comes along with a proof-of-concept version of the feature.
4. People use the PoC, treating it like a production release.
5. People realise that the feature wasn't all they imagined it to be, and the thread descends into tech support around how to handle the problems with the exact thing they wanted in the first place.

Bonus step 6: I unsubscribe from the thread, and eventually miss the feature being incorporated into the actual software proper.

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Very cool descriptions from this year's Csun of the new advancements in multi-line and active #Braille. awesome read! helenkeller.org/csun-2025-a-de…

44 Years Ago Today: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Signed Off NBC in 1981, Leaving a Sci-Fi Legacy cordcuttersnews.com/44-years-a…

CSUN 2025: A DeafBlind Take on Progress, Priorities, and the Road Ahead helenkeller.org/csun-2025-a-de…

Okay, here's a question from someone, me, who has never had a bluetooth speaker before. I'm hoping there can be a way that I can deal with this once someone educates me. I got the bluetooth speaker I ordered, a Sony, can't remember the model number. We got it paired easily enough, but when I turn it on, it doesn't play, and it disconnects the speaker from the laptop so I can't find out what the problem might be. Dan is trying to look for an answer, and wonders if I'll need to make it the default speaker every time I want to use it. I want to use the laptop speaker most of the time, but switch the bluetooth speaker on when I want to use it for music. Is that doable, and if so, how?