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Fedora & CentOS at LinuxDays 2025

Another edition of LinuxDays took place in Prague last weekend – the country’s largest Linux event drawing more than 1200 attendees and as every yearm we had a Fedora booth there – this time we also representing CentOS.

I was really glad that Tomáš Hrčka helped me staff the booth. I’m focused on the desktop part of Fedora and don’t follow the rest of the project in such detail. As a member […]

#centos #fedora #LinuxDays

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Fedora & CentOS at LinuxDays 2025 – Brno Hat

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The Japanese Blind ICT Network (JBICT) is currently running their fifth annual survey on Assistive Technology usage preferences of users with visual impairments. As I discovered it only this year, naturally I read through the results of the 2024 edition with the help of Google Translate. Some interesting patterns: 1. The survey was distributed through many channels including mailing lists, Line chat groups (the leading instant messaging app in Japan(, X and, if I understand correctly, a local Braille magazine. Most respondents were in their 40's and 50's with a stark difference even towards respondents in their 30's and 20's. 2. PC Talker, the locally manufactured screen reader with some 30 years of history, is still the leader, however NVDA and Narrator are winning some ground too. Most respondents admit to using a combination of two or three screen readers, the most popular combo being PC Talker, NVDA and Narrator. Interestingly enough, the reason most given for sticking with their primary option is being used to it rather than added features or exemplary app support. 3. iPhone definitely dominates the market which cannot be said about the Mac. Two users are still running Raku F-03, an early smartphone manufactured by Fujitsu in the 00's with a screen reading capability, compatible with I-Mode, the predecessor of current Web but with many modern features we associate with smart technology such as video, payments etc. I might have gotten the model wrong in which case, my apologies. One of those users owns this phone alone while the other uses it in parallel with an iPhone. 4. The adoption of Word as a text editor is super marginal compared to some local options, many of which are linked so can be tested. Outlook is the second email client next to a local option. Browsing email from the provider's website is more popular than Thunderbird and Becky was used by just a couple users. 5. OCR and image recognition apps are used primarily on mobile devices for reading mail, product packaging and social media photos rather than books. The apps we all know like Seeing AI, Envision and Be My Eyes are far more popular than Japanese products. jbict.net/survey/at-survey-04 - I'd be happy about insights, feedback and corrections from Japanese users - I'm just a geek exploring whatever can be found with the means available to me. #Accessibility #A11y #Blind #Japan

第4回支援技術利用状況調査報告書

掲載：2025年3月9日 更新履歴 2025年5月21日 「Windowsで利用しているスクリーン・リーダーの数」の集計結果の表およびグラフ直後のコメントが誤っていたものを修正しました。 修正前：Windows用のスクリーン・リーダーを利用している210名のうち、128名（60.95パーセント）が複数のスクリーン・リーダーを併用していることが分かりました。 修正後：Windows用のスクリーン・リーダーを利用している199名のうち、137名（68.
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Paweł Masarczyk

@jakobrosin Some time ago I was exploring the different advent calendars on accessibility and web design that @aardrian keeps recommending each year and there was the Japanese one - interesting resource by the way. Anyway, the JBICT network was referenced there and I followed the link and that's how I found their podcast which mostly posts interviews with exhibitors at the annual show of blindness products in Tokyo. I subscribed and transcribed some of that with Whisper which is how I got the rough idea of the products like Braillememo. They posted an episode on the results of the survey last week and had a link in the show notes - I need to take a peek into the episode itself as it might provide more context. The Raku phone is something I learnt from somebody I met through the ICC camp when I was researching the accessibility of I-Mode.
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@miki @jakobrosin I guess you could have some degree of difference in one country or the other if, for instance, someone developed a suite of self-voiced apps that a lot of people have come to use over the years, or some other factor that affects the general usage pattern. I guess this would have been more of a wild ride in the 80's/90's where each country had three local screen readers for Dos and one or two odd hardware synths plus Apollo. Czech Republic is my favorite example of this - a dos-based notetaker with dialup support at the beginning of the 90's, the biggest blindness organisation hosts its own BBS, accessible public transit schedules on Dos, a Symbian app to support two or three blindness libraries by 2007...
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In the end we decided on *not* a #curl security issue, but it's not an easy one to make:

hackerone.com/reports/3373640


curl disclosed on HackerOne: OpenSSL backend: X509 peer certificate...

## Summary: In curl’s OpenSSL backend, `ossl_get_channel_binding` retains a new reference to the server’s X509 certificate via `SSL_get1_peer_certificate` and never releases it. When Negotiate...
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Avis non-sollicité d'une personne noire sur le débat Bluesky VS Mastodon

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Does anyone know the origin of the phrase "Mother of all Demos" as applied to Douglas Engelbart's famous 1968 demo? Wikipedia doesn't say; it only mentions that the name was retroactive. I'm guessing the origin is Steven Levy's 1994 book _Insanely Great_. Rationale: Other authors write things like "known as" or "so-called" when mentioning that phrase, but Levy simply said "It was the mother of all demos." (I don't know about capitalization as I pulled that quote from the audiobook.)

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The Rust Foundation is hiring a Rust Infrastructure Engineer!

Help scale & secure the systems that power Rust & support its global community.

If you’re passionate about open source & infrastructure, we’d love to hear from you.
Learn more and apply here by Oct 26: app.beapplied.com/apply/wus8sn…

The Rust Foundation is Hiring! Rust Infrastructure Engineer: Collaborate with the Rust community and Foundation team to sustain and grow the programming language as our new Rust Infrastructure Engineer. The person in this role will help shape infrastructure, improve systems, and keep Rust secure for developers everywhere. bit.ly/RF-infra-engineer

Rust Infrastructure Engineer

The Rust Foundation was formed in 2021 as an independent, non-profit organization to serve as a steward of the Rust programming language and its users, maintainers, and enterprise advocates.
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Permanent closure of Montreal airport multi-level parking lot on Oct. 15

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Travelling my air is already terrible. But they make it even worst to get to the airport. There are very few options to get to the airport beside cars.

Couldn't they have waited for the REM to be in service?


Permanent closure of Montreal airport multi-level parking lot on Oct. 15 - CityNews Montreal

Montreal-Trudeau Airport is set to permanently close its multi-level parking lot on Oct. 15 as part of its development plan to modernize the airport’s infrastructure.
Pamela Pagano (CityNews Montreal)
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"Israel trying to justify cold blooded murder"
- Aure

“Europe is absent from the peace plan for Gaza because it has shown tremendous weakness and has, in fact, become irrelevant…”

— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Europe’s absence from discussions about Gaza’s future.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Israel #gaza

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Erik van Straten

: undear mr. Netanyahu, *YOU* are the biggest terrorist.

The armed wing of Hamas are freedom fighters. Nobody but *YOU* turned them into temporary monsters on Oct. 7, 2023 - because *YOU * turned Gaza into a concentration camp decades before 2023.

YOU DON'T CARE SHIT ABOUT YOUR PEOPLE.

You WANTED the Oct 7, 2023, attack attack to happen, as an excuse to colonize greater Israel. Palestinians have the D-choice: Die or Disappear.

🚨 HOWEVER: You and your people have NO RIGHT WHATSOEVER on Palestinian soil.

Palestinians MAY even have been prepared to live together with you in Palestine, but YOU NEVER HAD ENOUGH. YOU kept stealing land and murderering Palestinians.

If you EVER had ANY right: YOU, and your fscking pathetic "democratic" voters, caused zero of it to remain.

ISRAELI's: GET LOST!

Maybe Musk can help you colonize Mars. Most Israeli's are inhumane (the rest can stay). Earth will be a better place when you, the *REAL* terrorists, are gone.

And when (not if) you go, please take Donald J. Trump with you.

#FrancescaAlbaneseIsRight #GoToMars #Gaza #Westbank #Genocide #EthnicCleansing #IsraelTerroristState #IsraelisATerroristState #Terrorists #IsraeliTerrorists #IsraeliDestructionForces #BobVylanIsRight

Mars in true color as captured by the Hope orbiter. Source: Wikipedia.org
#genocide #Gaza #terrorists #westbank #EthnicCleansing #francescaalbaneseisright #gotomars #IsraelTerroristState #IsraelIsAterroristState #israeliterrorists #israelidestructionforces #bobvylanisright

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Mr @samueloph posted two videos on #wcurl and #curl in Debian:

"wcurl - one year later - DebConf 25" youtube.com/watch?v=RvnDvic2ea…

Short presentation about what happened since wcurl’s creation in May 17 2024 and what will happen next.

"curl maintainers BoF - DebConf 25" youtube.com/watch?v=OhTjgU7LIO…

curl maintainers meet-up to discuss HTTP3, GnuTLS, wcurl and other things.


curl maintainers BoF - DebConf25

curl maintainers meet-up to discuss HTTP3, GnuTLS, wcurl and other things.Presenter:Samuel Henrique "samueloph" is a software developer focused on Debian, Li...
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Greta Thunberg could have, by now, carved out a very comfortable life for herself as a liberal grifter-celebrity offering platitudes about personal responsibility at Davos. Instead she connected the dots between ecocide, capital, and empire, aiming squarely at the heart of the beast. And now fresh out of captivity she downplays her own suffering to recenter the urgency of aid to the Palestinian people. No wonder she's hated by the fascist+lib coalition that rules this world.

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Everyone with an Arduino project has, starting as of NOW, six months to look for a replacement.

If you don't start right away, I can point out someone who will be in a lot of pain in a few months.

Believe me...

qualcomm.com/news/releases/202…

I know this will play merry hell with the 3d printer and mechanical keyboard scene. Innumerable hardware will die from this takeover.

#arduino #qualcomm


Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino—Accelerating Developers’ Access to its Leading Edge Computing and AI | Qualcomm

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Gajim 2.3.6 has been released! 🥳

This release brings small improvements and some bugfixes.

Thank you for all your contributions ❤️ Let us know what you think!

Support Gajim's development: liberapay.com/Gajim

#gajim #xmpp #chat

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Gajim 2.3.6

What’s New Gajim 2.3 comes with a new design featuring Adwaita, a user interface library which provides building blocks for modern adaptive applications.
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CryptPad, Element, Tuta, and 40 other EU tech companies have signed an open letter against the EU's Chat Control proposal

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Element signs Chat Control open letter

Element has joined other European organisations in an open letter to European leaders on the latest developments regarding Chat Control.
Denise Almeida (Element Blog)
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