Exciting day for the #Fediverse! This morning at #UN #OpenSource Week, @haubles announced that @Mastodon has been named as a Digital Public Good for its work to empower communities, protect privacy, and foster authentic connections.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/06/…

#Mastodon #DPG #DigitalPublicGoods #UnitedNations #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS

🌍📄 Docs, l’éditeur de texte libre et collaboratif de La Suite numérique, a été reconnu "bien public numérique" (Digital Public Good) par la Digital Public Goods Alliance ce matin à l’ONU lors de la semaine Open Source des Nations Unies.

🔗 digitalpublicgoods.net/r/docs-…

Ce label marque une étape importante pour cette solution issue du partenariat franco-allemand-néerlandais 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇳🇱

#LogicielsLibres #OpenSource #DigitalPublicGoods #ONU #Europe #Docs #SouverainetéNumérique

cc @numerique_gouv

In 1988, IBM tried to seize the whole PC market back and make it proprietary again.

This seemed to be the end for the PC open platform. Consensus was that you couldn't win against IBM.

Luckily for history, Compaq, and founding CEO Rod Canion, decided to try.

Read my latest #history longform on the fight for the soul of the PC. And how Compaq won. #technology

every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-ma…

The Man Who Beat IBM

Compaq’s Rod Canion broke Big Blue’s hold on the PC market—and changed computing forever

^every.to

The more you know.

#memes #humour #AI

I can't believe that the UK would even contemplate deporting an 8 year old and an 12 year old to Brazil alone. This is the letter the home office sent the 11 year old:

“I am satisfied that there are no serious or compelling reasons to grant you settlement. I am satisfied that you could return to Brazil and continue your education in Brazil where you would have the option to attend an English-speaking school.

Whilst this may involve a degree of disruption in family life this is considered to be proportionate to the legitimate aim of maintaining effective immigration control.”

I'm ashamed at the actions of this country.

#UkPolitics #Shameful #Children #Immigration

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…

UK Home Office tells parents their children should return to Brazil alone

While Ana Luiza Cabral Gouveia and Hugo Barbosa can remain, letter says sons, 11 and eight, must go back to Brazil

^{Diane Taylor (The Guardian)}

Ooo lookie, accessibility is not planned. Lol. As usual. Cause foss is just a toy that no one actually depends on.

github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral…

#accessibility #foss #RemoteDesktop #Mesh

Accessibility with screen readers

We're trying MeshCentral out at work, and as one of the blind staff members who have access, I'd like to ask for some fixes to accessibility issues: When accessing a PC through the Terminal, I cann...

^{prater-devin (GitHub)}

If you’ve paid attention to my ramblings over the last decade-plus, then you’ve heard me to talk about selfish accessibility.

It’s nice to see others embrace it.

“Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs”
nolanlawson.com/2025/06/16/sel…

#accessibility #a11y

Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs

All web developers know, at some level, that accessibility is important. But when push comes to shove, it can be hard to prioritize it above a bazillion other concerns when you’re trying to c…

^{Read the Tea Leaves}

🔐 "Fixing Desktop Keyrings"
with Dhanuka Warusadura at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 12:30 CEST 📍 Brescia
🧩 GNOME 49 plans to replace gnome-keyring with a new D-Bus Secret Service. Here’s what’s changing.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#GNOME #Security #Keyring #OpenSource

🍜 "State of libsoup"
with Patrick Griffis at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 12:30 CEST 📍 Brescia
🔧 From 3.0 to what’s next—Patrick gives an update on GNOME’s HTTP library libsoup.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#GNOME #libsoup #Networking #OpenSource

We could just ... not give police tear gas. That is a decision we could make. A state or city could make that decision, and remove it from inventory.

Maybe police do not actually need area-denial weaponry present at every public gathering. Maybe "people are throwing bottles at us, therefore tear gas" need not be the standard playbook.

The medical research on the _safety_ of CS gas suggests a spectrum from "unknown" to "probably dangerous, particularly the way it actually used": propublica.org/article/tear-ga… med.umn.edu/news/u-m-study-sho…

I had less luck finding studies about its _effectiveness_ of CS gas for the presumed goals of police forces: officer safety and encouraging compliance with dispersal order. I found a lot of quotes from police along the lines of "well, the only alternative is bashing people with batons" One study of the introduction of CS spray in UK police forces (for personal protection, not crowd control) did not find a clear win: doi.org/10.1108/13639510010343…

Anecdotally, we might look at the current situation at LA, or that a few years ago in Minneapolis, and note that CS gas was not effective in reducing crowd antagonism, even if it does move people from one place to another.

Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On — Especially During the Coronavirus Pandemic

In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surfaces, and can cause long-term lung damage.

^ProPublica

We did it! 🥳🎉

Thanks to you, we achieved all the objectives of the crowdfunding campaign for the #PeerTube mobile app!

Thank you so much for your support during the campaign! 🥰

To mark the occasion, we've written a final article: joinpeertube.org/news/crowdfun…

The application crowdfunding was a success! | JoinPeerTube

We did it! Thanks to your support, we achieved all three of our fundraising goals for developing features in the PeerTube application! We now have the...

^JoinPeerTube

#EOSAcademy hosted a session on
#OpenSource Skills in the #AI Era – Perspectives from the European Open Source Academy at #UNOpenSourceWeek

The panel was moderated by @nicholas gates ( @OpenForumEurope ) with excellent insights from : David Cuartielles ( Malmo University), @Amandine ( @matrix ), Sachiko Muto (RISE, OpenForum Europe), Walid Mathlouthi ( International Telecommunication Union), Joshua Tan (Metagov).

Read more about the Academy: lnkd.in/eFG3ZQwk

There's this whole article about KiCad being broken on Wayland... but apparently it's all just a distro packaging problem???

kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-a…

The article doesn't mention XWayland at all, but KiCad works perfectly under XWayland as far as I can tell, and that is the default on at least Fedora! wxwidgets (the toolkit KiCad uses) is still flaky under native Wayland apparently, but it is perfectly okay to keep using XWayland for now, and you should! Apps and toolkits should not switch the default backend to Wayland until all major regressions are fixed, that's kind the whole reason why XWayland exists!

Here's a thread on the story: forum.kicad.info/t/not-the-sel…

If you are on a distro that enables KiCad Wayland support by default and you experience the issues in that blog post, you don't need to (and probably should not) switch to an X11 session. Just launch KiCad as GDK_BACKEND=x11 kicad and it should run under XWayland just as well as it does under X11 sessions.

Some distros are dropping support for the legacy Xorg server and X11-native sessions, but nobody is dropping support for X11 apps and XWayland, and nobody should be concerned about running apps in X11 mode for as long as it's needed!

Edit: If you're on GNOME with fractional scaling and XWayland apps are blurry, apparently there's a secret toggle to fix that these days.

KiCad and Wayland Support

The KiCad development team frequently receives questions about our support for Wayland. Given that Fedora and Ubuntu are both planning to drop X11 support from their main desktop environments in the near future, we want to provide clear, transparent …

^{The KiCad editors (KiCad EDA)}

🎉 I'm happy for Peertube! The campaign has ended and they have reached their final goal: support.joinpeertube.org/en/

#krita #peertube

🌿 New Group for Disabled Christians! ✝️♿

I'm excited to announce the launch of Imago Dei Disability Fellowship, a GroupMe community for Christians with all kinds of disabilities to connect, support one another, and advocate for accessibility and justice, all grounded in biblical truth.

This group is rooted in a conservative Christian worldview, including traditional beliefs about Scripture, gender, and identity. If you're looking for a space to talk about faith, disability, and advocacy without woke ideology—this is for you.

👉 Join here

Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.

— Romans 12:4-5 (NLT)

All are welcome who seek to follow Christ and live out the truth that we are made in the image of God. 💜

#DisabilityCommunity #DisabledAndChristian #ImagoDei #FaithAndDisability #DisabilityJustice #ChristianFellowship #MultipleDisabilities #AccessibilityMatters #BiblicalWorldview #DisabilityAdvocacy #ChristianCommunity #Christian #Christians #faith
@christians @disability@a.gup.pe @disability@beehaw.org @mastoblind @main @actuallyautistic @chronicillness @spoonies

GroupMe - Join the group for Imago Dei Disability Fellowship

A Christ-centered space for disabled believers to connect, support one another, and advocate for accessibility and justice, grounded in Scripture and the truth that we are all made in the image of God.

^GroupMe

Gajim's website gajim.org just got a fresh new look! 😎

Check it out at gajim.org/

#gajim #xmpp #chat

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Od minuleho ctvrtka si delam reflexi prace s juniornimi vyvojari vs Codex. Nakousli jsme to s kolegou z Kalkulacky.

Rok pracuju s juniornim vyvojarem (placenym) a mesic s Codexem.

TL;DR: Codex mi dokaze juniora nejenom kompletne nahradit, ale za soucasne VC dumpingove ceny je 36x efektivnejsi.

Vsechno delam komentari v kodu, prompt je jenom "najdi koment TODO: Agent - neco a udelej ho." Muj Linear je vyhledavani TODO: v codebase.

*Cenova kalkulace nize

#it #junior #vyvoj #ai #codex

"Free Software is free as in freedom, open source is free as in labour."

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2…

socket.dev/blog/libxml2-mainta…

Triaging security issues reported by third parties (#913) · Issues · GNOME / libxml2 · GitLab

I have to spend several hours each week dealing with security issues reported by third parties. Most of these issues aren't critical but it's still a lot of...

^GitLab

This team picture was taken 7 years ago and the world looked much brighter back then.

Yet, we at Tuta will keep fighting for your right to privacy. Encryption must stay strong - for journalists, dissidents, businesses, and for YOU!

Read Hanna's comment on how Signalgate 2.0 proves that backdoors must never be allowed:
👉 tuta.com/blog/opinion-signalga…