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FastWeather, a basic app for getting weather, is joining my list of software projects. Download the executable and run it. You'll start with a default set of cities so you can experience the program but either delete those or run with the --reset option to start fresh. Details and the app are linked off of www.theideaplace.net/projects. The user guide is at github.com/kellylford/FastWeat….

FastWeather/USER_GUIDE.md at main · kellylford/FastWeather

A simple app for getting weather details. Contribute to kellylford/FastWeather development by creating an account on GitHub.
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@clv0 @DavidGoldfield The program now has a units tab under configuration where you can change the measure used for temperature, wind and precipitation. The Configure button has also been moved to the main screen and can be accessed with Alt+c. Alt+n will put focus in the edit box for adding a new city. Grab the newest executable from the same locations. I didn't change the version number.
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We are trying something new at Igalia: a video show called "Hackers Assemble" where we chat about all the inner workings of computing, from the kernel to the browser.

For the first episode, I met with André Almeida to talk about case insensitive filesystems on Linux. Check it out: youtube.com/watch?v=bJI8rWproH…


Case insensitive filesystems on Linux - Hackers Assemble Episode 1

André Almeida joins us to tell us about the work he has recently done to improve support of case insensitive filesystems on Linux.This is the first episode o...
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Joseph Humfrey

@matt hmm that’s an interesting question and I’m afraid not one that we’ve really considered. Currently the game isn’t really set up to be possible to play that way. It could be conceivably made to work but would probably require some significant rearchitecting. I’ll have a think, but I’m afraid it seems unlikely for the initial release, sorry!
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Niesamowita historia, jak możemy zostać “wyłączeni” z systemu. Amerykańskie sankcje blokują życie sieciowe i finansowe sędziego Międzynarodowego Trybunału Karnego, który wydał nakaz aresztowania Netanyahu.

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La vie de Nicolas Guillou, juge français de la CPI sous sanctions des Etats-Unis : « Vous êtes interdit bancaire sur une bonne partie de la planète »

Six juges et trois procureurs de la Cour pénale internationale ont été placés sous sanctions par l’administration Trump. Dans un entretien au « Monde », le magistrat raconte le poids de ces mesures sur son travail et son quotidien.
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"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.

Le Monde has a long article (lemonde.fr/international/artic…) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.

Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.

He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.

That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund

and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.

Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations."

Arnaud Bertrand na platformie X: "In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe. Le Monde has a long article (https://lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-juge-francais-de-la-cpi-sanctionne-par-les-etats-unis-face-aux-attaques-les-magistrats-de-la-cour-tiendront_6654016_3210.html) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza. Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction. He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands. That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are: - punishing a European citizen - for doing his job in Europe - applying laws Europe officially supports - at an institution based in Europe - that Europe helped create and fund [...]"

La vie de Nicolas Guillou, juge français de la CPI sous sanctions des Etats-Unis : « Vous êtes interdit bancaire sur une bonne partie de la planète »

Six juges et trois procureurs de la Cour pénale internationale ont été placés sous sanctions par l’administration Trump. Dans un entretien au « Monde », le magistrat raconte le poids de ces mesures sur son travail et son quotidien.
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I would like to clarify that while a ceasefire has been announced, what we have on the ground is only a temporary mitigation of hostilities; the war is still ongoing. The Israeli army hasn't withdrawn, and we're still subjected to gunfire and shelling periodically.

The situation is extremely difficult… food is scarce, there are no jobs, no source of income, and people are living on aid. I was surprised to see that donations have stopped, even though we are still in dire need.

#Gaza #Palestine

Mohammed Shobair. 23 years old, from Gaza
#palestine #Gaza
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Mohammed Shobair 🍉 from Gaza

Please, if you can, share our situation with your followers and friends. Perhaps we can amplify our voices and find support to help us survive.

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#Gaza #FreeGaza #Palestine #FreePalestine #StopGenocide #CeasefireNow #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #GazaMutualAid #DontForgetUs #StopIsrael #Boycott #Donate #Support #PrayForGaza


No shelter, no safety - Help Mohammed survive genocide in Gaza

My name is Thomas and I live in France and in the UK. I'm hosting Mohammed's campaign because Palestinians cannot host their own campaigns. If you've got any questions or if you'd like any proofs, I'm happy to provide you with these.
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#MutualAid #palestine #donate #support #boycott #MutualAidRequest #Gaza #ceasefirenow #freepalestine #StopGenocide #freegaza #stopisrael #prayforgaza #gazamutualaid #DontForgetUs

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I didn't even know Microsoft owned Zork. But, I'm glad they've open-sourced it. opensource.microsoft.com/blog/…

Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source

Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.
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Actually @zarfeblong blogged about this two years ago: blog.zarfhome.com/2023/10/micr…

Microsoft consumes Activision; and a plea

The gavel has fallen; the cup has been stomped; pick your metaphor. Microsoft has succeeded in its almost-two-year quest to gobble up Activision. The peculiar side effect in my corner of the world is that Microsoft now owns the dusty remains ...
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Zach Bennoui

@vol4life8657 @NicksWorld @LeonianUniverse Exactly. I'm all for blind people leading blindness specific companies and organizations, but I think it's just as important to have the right people working there. The two aren't mutually exclusive, you can have a sighted person who really cares and knows a lot about AT, just as you can have someone who is blind know next to nothing about the subject and be unwilling to learn. When you say stuff like "we should just ban all cited people from leadership positions at blindest specific companies" all you're doing is perpetuating a stereotype. That's not helpful.
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👐BREAKING: Google made Quick Share compatible with AirDrop WITHOUT Apple's help!

Google's statement heavily implies this.

We don't know how Google did it, but Apple was seemingly NOT involved in making Quick Share work with AirDrop.

More details👇

🔗androidauthority.com/quick-sha…

Google made Quick Share compatible with AirDrop without Apple's help

Google just announced that Android's Quick Share is now compatible with AirDrop on iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks, but Apple didn't help.
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Small change, huge improvement. They replaced and moved this single streetlamp on one of main #Prague #bike ways A22. Originally there used to be the old lamp with bulky base placed almost in the middle of the road. It used to be very uncomfortable and sometimes dangerous place as it is just behind a turn and two cyclists couldn't pass each other here. Now it's fixed. 👏🚲
Narrow bikeway next to a road with a streetlamp on the side
Point on the map
#Prague #bike

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If the Canadian government wanted to do something nice for me, the absolute best single thing they could do for me¹ is cap UPS's import/brokerage fees at the amount I would have had to pay in self clearance. Or at self clearance levels plus ten percent.

Or just fucking make self clearance possible in downtown Toronto without spending $10 and two hours to take the train to Pearson. Please. I am dying

¹ I mean short of something really expensive like OHIP covering medication.

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@sclower The preview doesn't show anything either, and ironically they picked the episode Holoship which starts with the crew watching a movie. The BBC did this in a really cool way with Faulty Towers where they had one of the characters occasionally interject with descriptive commentary while staying in-character. Could have been fun to see how something like that could have worked with red dwarf
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Soooo viele Daten, so viele Behörden, so viele Websites…

warum also nicht 'ne kleine Pest sein und Behinderten beim Melden von Barrieren helfen, indem man das alles massiv vereinfacht und dann noch mit Profis drüberschaut? Und alles das öffentlich zugänglich, damit sich nie wieder jemand rausreden kann? Könnte ja Behörden überlasten und Durchsetzungsstellen was zu tun geben.

2026. #sneakpeek

Ein Screenshot eines Online-Tools, mit dem man Barrieren melden können soll. In diesem Beispiel eine Barriere bei „Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe“, deren Beschreibung und Informationen direkt aus einem Prüfgutachten übernommen wurden.
#sneakpeek
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Thunderbird Pro is getting closer to its Early Bird release! Find out what that means and what it includes in our latest update.

#Thunderbird #ThunderbirdPro #Thundermail #OpenSource

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Thunderbird Pro November 2025 Update - The Thunderbird Blog

Our team remains hard at work on Thunderbird Pro! Get the latest developments on Thundermail, Appointment, and Send, and our Early Bird plan.
Ryan Sipes (The Thunderbird Blog)
#opensource #thunderbird #thunderbirdpro #thundermail

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Reversing the Reversal?: Government Puts Privacy Invasive Lawful Access Back on the Agenda
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Reversing the Reversal?: Government Puts Privacy Invasive Lawful Access Back on the Agenda - Michael Geist

Last month, the government seemingly reversed course on its lawful access plans to grant law enforcement powers to demand warrantless access to personal information from any provider of a service in Canada.
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Never do this. NEVER

Remember the pain of being held back by 2.6.32 ??

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Ubuntu Pro now supports LTS releases for up to 15 years through the Legacy add-on. More security, more stability, and greater control over upgrade timelines for enterprises. […]

Ubuntu Pro now supports LTS releases for up to 15 years through the Legacy add-on. More security, more stability, and greater control over upgrade timelines for enterprises.
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Phantasm

I don't think glibc maintainers care about compatibility considering their constant ABI breakage. New features? Maybe. But as I've said, this might stop some developers from trying out the new shiny things which I consider a good thing. Or if they want to use it, hide it behind #ifdef and supply an alternative. What this does isn't hold back improvement, it forces writing portable code again which everybody forgot in the last 5-10 years. And I'm getting tired of having to package some random new library from a year ago whose version must be from the last 3 months and the Python version must be _latest_ for a piece of software to even consider building itself. Examples: HomeAssistant, Gitea and much more.

This is also mostly a non-issue for open source software where you can always patch it to work on older libc, or make multiple packages if you are the developer. The developer might not want to do it, but maybe the distro maintainers want to which is also fine. And pre-built binaries without source will always suffer since glibc ABI compatibility barely exists.

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Finally, NVAccess has agreed to separate links from the adjacent non-link text and display them on separate lines as a toggleable option. It’s still unclear when this will be implemented, but it's a good step forward in my opinion. I opened this issue in April 2020, and many users really want it.
Their comment states:
"We appreciate the constructive community feedback. We've triaged this issue, meaning we would accept this feature as a toggleable option."
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@NVAccess

Issue displaying text after links when the Screen Layout mode is turned off

Steps to reproduce: First and foremost, make sure the Screen Layout mode is turned off. It can be done via Insert+V when placed on a webpage. The issue can be duplicated everywhere but, as an examp...
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Amir has moved

@Dennislong82 With all respect, complaining will get us nowhere. Yes this should have been implemented earlier, and yes I don't know if this will be done soon. But such is the status of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver on the Mac. Personally I'm not willing to even touch VoiceOver on the Mac given its horrible issues and limitations. If you feel Apple will deliver something more efficient compared with NVDA and JAWS - something which they have consistently failed to provide, go for it.
@NVAccess
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Kaveinthran

@Dennislong82
I agree on this, working directly on the issues, debating constructively which should happen with what kind of priorities, bringing up feature request to ad-on authors if the core hesitates, learning to write our own code is a better anger channeling rather than making statements that go nowhere. The complexity underlying open source software is beyond explanation, this is not a hobbiest project that can make everything a reality for sure.
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Kaveinthran

@Dennislong82 the project is too large, too complex and too much is happening around it. You can get overwhelm quicly if you look at the issues filed daily. Adding to that, donations, priorities, availability of people to code with their own experience and ability make this a more complex endeavor. The least that we can do is learn how this project work and happen in day to day bases.
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Kaveinthran

@Dennislong82 one thing that is less discussed here sadly is the philosophy behind jaws and NVDA. jaws wants to be more than a screen reader, it appears to solve even access issues, that needed to be solvedd by the software /website coders. NvDA underlying philosophy since its inception, at least from what I know is very different. Why we want things to be same for every screen reader? it don't have to be same to win the users.
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Kaveinthran

@Dennislong82 The philosophy for Jaws definitely works for its commercial appeal. Nvda, on the other hand, has not been vocal about their financial or man power difficulty, has they? do we really know what it takes to run or develop opensource software this big or are we too occupied with our own smaller worldview. There has been many commercial #screenReaders but till now, only one #openSource screen reader? why is that? #nvdasr
#opensource #nvdasr #screenreaders @Dennis long
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Kaveinthran

@Dennislong82 I am old enough to remember sometime in 2010 or 2011 nvda posted a blog post saying that their future is unsure and they need a donation to sustain them after the July of that year. I couldn't find the blog post verbatim, but you can look at this, nvaccess.org/post/a-more-certa…

NV Access | A more certain future for free screen reader NVDA

www.nvaccess.org
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@Dennislong82
here's extract
"Jamie and Mick, the core developers of NVDA, are essentially paid minimum wage for their experience, knowledge and skills, which they are prepared to accept because they love the fact that they are making a positive contribution to the blind community and the accessibility industry more generally. Despite their willingness to carry on, however, there will be no money to pay them after July 2011 unless we receive some financial assistance." #nvdasr
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Kaveinthran

@Dennislong82 One reason that I can think of why they're not adding this or any other toggle options is that the settings would get too large and complicated, as I said, the philosophy underlying two screen readers are different and understandable. The larger the project, the harder and more complicated than it to maintain, it's an infinite testing mechanisms to toggle or not to toggle and how things change when some things got added in the future. (1/2)
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@kaveinthran Still bad argument IMO. If a feature is worth adding, it should be added with all of the complications involved. And NVAccess has already done more complicated things which might not end up to be that useful. Just look at their Image describer in 64-Bit alphas. A lot of efforts and development time for a local AI interpreter which is the worst and the least accurate AI describer I've ever seen in an accessibility-oriented product. That effort could have gone into making Outlook, MS Word, or web/ HTML verbosity better.
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Kaveinthran

@Dennislong82 I guess the current team at least are hesitating to venture on the speech refactoring or verbosity part, a bit slower than once excitement.
In the other world, say, firefox, or linux, people make thousands of forks and distros, I wish more of that happens in the screen reader world. Forks of #nvdaSR would allow different design philosophies to flourish together.
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Jamie Teh

@kaveinthran This isn't even a question of design philosophy, so a fork wouldn't help that. This is ultimately about what a very small team of developers has the capacity to handle. The fact that this (and other issues) have been triaged means that pull requests would be accepted for them, so I don't see how a fork would change anything here. @amir @Dennislong82
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Mental note of an idea before I forget and never tell anyone: @thunderbird should adopt and dig in deep on being the best in class mobile and desktop client for #DeltaChat in addition to being an email and RSS reader. Compete on simplicity and features against closed, commercial Messangers, not just corporate email. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

cc: @delta

#deltachat @Delta Chat (39c3) @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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Delta Chat (39c3)

you are 6 years late :) We already invited the Thunderbird core team for two days of discussing joint futures in 2019. For several reasons (pandemic disruption among them) they didn't follow up much. Maybe they also believed, like many others, that instant messaging via email can not work? In any case, they recently integrated a Matrix client, but TB's chat interface remains very bare bone. Should they revise their approach, we'd be happy to collaborate.
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