Very important news from #Wordpress: “Our goal for this year is to finalize the full ActivityPub experience — so that WordPress can be used as a first-class citizen of the Fediverse. This means enabling not only publishing to the network, but also following, reading, interacting, and moderating — all in a seamless way that feels natural for WordPress users.” activitypub.blog/2025/06/11/ou…
We’re excited to share this roadmap — there’s a lot happening with the ActivityPub plugin, and we can’t wait to show you what’s coming next. We often refer to this roadmap in GitHub issues and disc…
I was wondering why GNOME's i10n platform is called "Damned Lies"?
I searched and I only found a link to "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" article on Wikipedia. After understanding the context a bit, I wasn't sure about the link between this and the localisation web app, so I asked in the @gnome I18n room on Matrix, and Alexandre generously explained it. Since there was no online explanation, I wrote a post about it on my blog. Hope it helps.
Damned Lies is the name of GNOME’s web application for managing localization (l10n) across its projects. But why is it named like this? Damned Lies about GNOME On the About page of GNOME’s...
The Réseau express métropolitain is back up and running after a malfunction between Gare Centrale in downtown Montreal and the Panama station in Brossard on the South Shore.
Btw: kudos for this go to @bg443 – who runs an independent builder (i.e. Ben is not a member of IzzyOnDroid himself, but his builder covers several of our apps. So it's verifying our builders are telling the truth, so to say).
So while IoD takes the APKs directly from the devs, our builders verify they were indeed built from the source code the devs claim to – while independents like Ben verify we're not "cheating". The winners are YOU
So the xlibre fork appears to be arguing over whether it should be explicitly "anti-DEI" is just for the "unix way". Which reminded me of this classic from daniels over a decade ago: youtu.be/RIctzAQOe44?t=1665.
Please note, that I don't own this video. At the time servers hosting original file were overloaded so I re-uploaded for user's convenience.Original file was...
We have added many updates to the BT Speak users’ manual. This third edition reflects the BT Speak’s new streamlined menus but also includes many other additions, including more on using the editor and the file browser. The manual is included in the latest BT Speak update under Options, Help, Guides and Tutorials, the Users’ Manual. Like the previous editions, it provides extensive heading navigation, allowing you to easily move across chapters and subsections. The manual is also available as a markdown file on our Web site’s Guides and Media page. blazietech.com/guides-and-medi… #BTSpeak DG
"The director of a new organization founded to advance the priorities of #US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. #Kennedy Jr. has extensively promoted the “#Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” a famous #antisemitic forgery.
Leland Lehrman, who last month was named executive director of the #MAHAInstitute, also believes #Israel may have been behind the 9/11 terror attacks, and has inveighed against “high-level #Jewish Illuminists, or Lucifer worshipers.”
Social justice watchdog group finds that anti-vaxxer Leland Lehrman also believes Israel may have been behind 9/11, has said that Jewish Americans are disloyal to the US
NPR - National Park Service being instructed to post signage at all sites across the country by June 13, asking visitors to offer feedback on any information that they feel portrays American history and landscapes in a negative light. npr.org/2025/06/10/nx-s1-54297…
For over forty years the United States has had regulations that say new buildings must be accessible to people with disabilities if the building is built by an organization that receives federal funds.
You may think that digital accessibility is unrelated, but I assure you that every successful effort to chip away at rights and protections will be followed by another.
Don’t wait until it affects you personally. Speak up. This is low-risk, so do it while you can.
CNBC -All members of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board have resigned over what they say is meddling by the Trump administration in their authority to award scholarships. cnbc.com/2025/06/11/trump-fulb…
The Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board said State Department officials denied awards for a "substantial number" of people for the upcoming academic year.
Rolling Stone - Brian Wilson, who as leader of the Beach Boys and a founder of California rock invented a massively successful pop sound full of harmonies and sunshine, has died at the age of 82. rollingstone.com/music/music-n…
Good tutorial in French explaining the features and benefits of Hetzner's Storage Share service, a cloud storage solution that integrates with Nextcloud, a popular open-source file management platform.
From just €4.29 per month, you can get your own Nextcloud instance as an alternative to Google, Microsoft, etc. It comes with 1 TB of storage, unlimited users and is hosted in Europe.
It's not free, but neither are the US competitors — it's actually cheaper than Google One (10€) or Microsoft 365 (13€).
You don't need any IT skills to install it; just create an account, pay and start using it. 🙂
You can do it only for yourself or offer storage to family, friends and your community too.
Hetzner a révisé récemment les tarifs de ses services de stockage en ligne. Nous nous sommes penchés sur Storage Share qui, en plus d’un prix agressif, fournit une instance NextCloud.
this week I found out that when you start the Debian Linux instaler with speech, and it detects multiple soundcards, it cycles between them and you can press enter to choose the one that actually works. Most installers just pick a random soundcard and send speech through it. Maybe it picks the internal speakers, maybe it picks the digital output that has nothing hooked up to it. If you can't hear your machine, you'll have no idea the installer started, and good luck switching soundcards after that. As far as I know, the Windows installer certainly doesn't have a soundcard selection for narrator. This would never be a problem with Debian installations because it will just keep cycling through the soundcards until the speech becomes audible. I know we all love to hate on Linux accessibility, but sometimes the thought that goes into the design of the simplest things is really quite impressive. This is also very on-brand for Linux and I'm definitely here for it. At the time when this happened, I was on a call with Aira and had forgotten to turn up my speakers, so I know the machine displays a "Press enter to select device 1", "Press enter to select device 2..." prommpt, but I can't 100% confirm that the speech follows along. It seems like a safe assumption though, and at some point I'll do a proper test with multiple outputs and make a recording.
@vick21 When the installer first starts, you have to press s (and I think enter). That enables speech during the rest of the installation. Other than that, no.
Yep. I discovered that a few years ago. Also discovered, very much by accident, that it will automatically detect a Braille display, because I just happened to have one plugged in, and was very surprised to see it start displaying things.
@BorrisInABox I learned this from someone else who learned it by accident. Even though Narrator has support for Braille now, it sure doesn't work on the install and setup screens. So Linux wins again.
Things go from bad to worse for Elmo, the incels' favourite crush.
"French Tesla customers file lawsuit over brand becoming 'extreme-right' symbol. A group of Tesla customers in France are demanding that their lease contracts be terminated and legal costs be reimbursed over the "direct and concrete" damage suffered from the brand's association with Elon Musk's activities in the Trump administration and his support for far-right parties in Europe."
A group of Tesla customers in France are demanding that their lease contracts be terminated and legal costs be reimbursed over the "direct and concrete" damage suffered from the brand's association with Elon Musk's activities in the Trump administrat…
It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies. The above is an excerpt of the README. Due to DEI being a wide arrangement of definitions, practices and policies: could you ou...
In May, we began preparing to port to Android 16 despite our most active senior developer responsible for leading OS development being unavailable (https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114359660453627718).
Předchozí toot, na který byla moje odpověď původně psána, mi zmizel pod rukama - její rychlé zjevení je způsobeno copypastem. Vlákno od GOS jsem četl už předtím. Srovnání užitečnosti Googlu a kurev je triviální, pokud si laskavý čtenář chce udělat důkaz, činí tak na vlastní náklady.
Já si sem a tam vzpomenu na tuhle starou zkušenost RNDr. Olšáka. Ten člověk má mnoho svých výstředností, ale můžeme říct, že tohle trefil. petr.olsak.net/zkusenost-gog.h…
@m4iler Jo, přesně – ať se to radši všechno pořádně vyladí. Jen mě teda trochu děsí, že chtějí vlastní zařízení. To by pro mě byla asi konečná… ale to je zatím hudba budoucnosti.
All the years I’ve spent playing casual #rpg mobile games, and I still haven’t managed to train autocorrect that spell books are a thing. When do I get personalized #ai again?
@RegGuy As far as I know they aren’t a thing. Though my next campaign is absolutely going to contain smell books now. A swell smell hell well spell book?
The Man in #Seat61 seems like a relic from a forgotten age of the #Internet.
Seat61.com is a genuinely useful website created by just one guy, a train travel enthusiast who has curated a vast array of information that will help anyone who would like to travel in #Europe by #train
He is not trying to sell you anything and there are no adverts (apart from a few affiliate ids).
His website has won various "best travel website" awards. Notably the last one was in 2012.
'It's terrifying': The Everest climbs putting Sherpas in danger
by Tulsi Rauniyar
"Long portrayed as "superhuman" guides and porters, Sherpas face many dangers in the mountains and are beginning to tell their side of the story. Are there ways to make their work safer?"
youtube.com/watch?v=baR4logaaO… Jimmy Kimmel Tells the Truth About What’s REALLY Happening in LA. I've never heard him so angry before. He's not doing comedy: he's doing truth.
Jimmy talks about what’s actually happening in Los Angeles right now for those who believe the city is some kind of totalitarian hellscape, protesters voicin...
Doma nastalo nasrání, páneček naznal ze je jaro a čas odchlupit 😇 To dilema...Voda ve vaně, šampon... Fuuuuuj. Ale zase 20 minut nepřetržitého drbání ÚPLNĚ VŠUDE... Aaaaach... Musel jsem vytáhnout těžký kalibr, SEDITA piškotky ❤️
The Document Foundation and LibreOffice support the international campaign @endof10 https://endof10.org/ The countdown has begun. On 14 October 2025, Microsoft will end support for Windows 10.
Absolutely! Looking forward to leading on a campaign around this here at the #UniversityOfYork with the newly renamed FOSS society.
We're a Google university (which I don't love) but it does mean that most people rely almost exclusively on their browser. Hoping to get the university sustainability and comms teams involved so we can show people that, contrary to what Microsoft tells them, they don't need to bin their laptop just yet! 💻
Updates on our progress @yordevs (Haven't sorted the rebranding yet 😔)
As a long time user of the LibreOffice Suite. I can say with enthusiasm that it is so MUCH better, faster, compatible, feature complete and end user friendly that there isn't any real reason to use anything else. I was a former Microsoft Retailer and Certified for all of their products, including their servers. Office just became so cumbersome, and then with their subscription model, an ongoing and costly expense.I switched and never looked back.
@vol4life8657 Well, it's been worked on for years: libreoffice.org/get-help/acces… – And last year TDF took on a full-time accessibility developer. But is there something specific you want?
The June 2025 update for the BT Speak is now available for all BT Speak owners. We have a new, streamlined menu system along with improvements to Braille support and other enhancements. Read the details here. blazietech.com/june-2025-updat… #BTSpeak
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