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oof: trying to install @thunderbird from flathub on arm64 tries to pull in the GNOME 3.28 (!!) platform because it's not the "Built 9 days ago" you see on the web page – that's built from a script with hardcoded x86_64 stuff >_< and, uh, non-ESR is default now but it's still ESR-only on flathub!

Thunderbird Desktop Release Channel Will Become Default in March 2025 - The Thunderbird Blog

Starting in March 2025, the Thunderbird Desktop Release Channel will become the default download, and introduce updates on a monthly cadence.
Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
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Welcome Bartosz Ruszczak as #curl commit author 1379: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1761…

ftp: Fix prequotes for a directory in URL by Bartek14 · Pull Request #17616 · curl/curl

Allow prequotes to be sent after curl has changed the working directory, just before the listing command if the URL is a directory. FTP state machine is updated with the new FTP_LIST_PREQUOTE state...
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Ubuntu Server discusses dropping wget in favor of #curl in 2026: discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-…

Ubuntu Server Seed Changes for 25.10

What follows is a public spec related to the Ubuntu Server seeds. It does not contain specific definitions about seeds, how they relate to the ISOs, nor a long history. It is an implementation spec to show changes planned for 25.10.
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#curl

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I thought it would be great to have #PiHole, but accessible from anywhere. And then I came across #AdGuard Home and deployed on my public server. It's open source, all the data stays on the server, it just downloads the filter updates. It has a nice dashboard and from our network it's as fast as #Cloudflare or Google #DNS.

I think I'll give it a shot. 👍

A screenshot of the AdGuard Home dashboard with focus on the number of DNS queries and blocked queries.
#cloudflare #dns #pihole #adguard

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Did you miss part or all of our June webinar? Did you listen to it and loved it so much that you want to replay it? Either way, we have you covered. 😀
The recording of our June webinar is now available to download from our Web site. We did a brief demo of some of the newer streamlined menus, provided information about our next contest (more on that in a follow-up message) and took your questions. You can find the recording at
blazietech.com/

Blazie Technologies | Discover BT Speak's New Features | Join Our Community

Discover BT Speak, the world's first pocket computer for the Blind. Read, write, learn, play, listen, and connect online! Explore BT Speak's new applications and join our community. Blazie Technologies.
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Napsal jsem pro @ohlasy jednoduchého novinového LLM chatbota do Slacku, GPT 4.1 nad korpusem zhruba dvou tisíc našich článků (github.com/Ohlasy/boskobot). Říkal jsem si, že když bude vypadat užitečně, mohli bychom ho nabídnout veřejně našemu publiku. Zatím je s ním velká prča, ale na část běžných dotazů dobře pokrytých existujícími texty odpovídá velmi přesvědčivě špatně. Je možný, že dělám něco špatně já nebo že ta technologie dozraje, ale zatím je pro nás pro tenhle use case spíš nepoužitelná.

GitHub - Ohlasy/boskobot: Bot s vámi povídá o Boskovicích

Bot s vámi povídá o Boskovicích. Contribute to Ohlasy/boskobot development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Martin Wenisch

Ta technologie te nemuze pripravit o praci, protoze te zamestnava nekdo, kdo ji nepouziva a nerozumi. Ten pokrok je fakt rychlej a neni to ani tak o aplikacich, ale fakt podkladovych modelech a jejich cene. Je realna sance, ze se dostaneme do bodu, kde beznou koderskou praci udela kombinace pouceneho PM + AI nebo full-time clovek-vyvojar za srovnatelne naklady ve stejne kvalite.

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📨 The Future of Stalwart: Curious about our Webmail plans and what's next on our roadmap? Read our latest blog for all the exciting details at stalw.art/blog/roadmap #Email #Webmail #AutRustAutNihil

The Future of Stalwart: Webmail, Roadmap, and Beyond | Stalwart Labs

Since we officially started developing Stalwart on September 4th, 2021, we've come a long way in establishing a powerful and versatile open-source mail and collaboration server.
stalw.art
#email #webmail #autrustautnihil

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A new analysis of C-2 reports on how the bill proposes to expand the scope of law enforcement to access individuals’ online “subscriber information.”

Such information could be sought without a warrant, and law enforcement could compel even foreign telecoms to supply it.

Crawford Kilian writes.

thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/06/20…


What the ‘Strong Borders Act’ Gets Wrong | The Tyee

Credible critics call it a ‘chilling example of the dangers of unconditional information sharing.’
Crawford Kilian (The Tyee)

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Today saw the introduction of something ntruly worthy of celebration: a modern, 64bit, truly responsive formant-neural sapi voice for Windows. Today also saw the introduction of a recording that is based around the fact that that demo of the voice does actually downsample after a minute of audio. However, it does not do the impending craziness that I put it through before activating the license.

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Jack-Frostodon

@bermudianbrit @Scott @ToniBarth @FreakyFwoof Well, some crucial Eloquence license contracts are long dead, Given the amount of Code Factory products that have quietly dropped Eloquence. With that plus the pile inside of a pile inside of a pile of retrofit patches applied to the thing, it truly is only a matter of time until the thing dies for good. Dectalk's situation is too ambiguous to be an all-purpose solutions. Espeak's GPL-ness...
@Toni Barth @Scott @Matthew J @Andre Louis
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miki

@bermudianbrit @Scott @ToniBarth @FreakyFwoof Yeah, the situation around embeddable voices is really not that great. Cerrence Vocalizer is probably the best thing that exists right now. That or Acapela, which is getting out of the AT / on-device business AFAIK. SVox Pico is technically fully OSS and permissively licensed, but that's only the "inference" code. The voice preparation stuff is either provided as proprietary exes or missing entirely, the documentation around voice training is not that great either.
@Toni Barth @Scott @Matthew J @Andre Louis
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Jack-Frostodon

@miki @bermudianbrit @Scott @ToniBarth @FreakyFwoof No, Acapela still has Humanware. plus some AAC software, for now. Although the only one that's guaranteed on-device at this point is HW, as AAC software can go cloud-native if it wants to. And I"m pretty sure they're doing just enough to kee ptheir embedded library alive, and that's about it.
@miki @Toni Barth @Scott @Matthew J @Andre Louis
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Scott

@jcsteh @FreakyFwoof For long strings and some interruptions I can feel a difference between this and OneCore, with OneCore winning speed-wise. Not by a huge amount here, but it's a thing. Shorter strings like OSARA reports, moving around most dialogs etc, they feel super close on my machine. A lot faster than the neural stuff I've been using via... er... methods. For now that's the main thing. I can use one of these on stream and point people at a legit source if they like them/want to get them.
@Jamie Teh @Andre Louis
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Jamie Teh

@FreakyFwoof @Scott The thing that blows my mind is that NVDA's recent SAPI5 responsiveness improvements come down to only two things: switching to WASAPI (assuming SAPI5 didn't already use WASAPI itself); and stripping silence from the start of utterances. I'm guessing it's mostly the silence stripping that gives the responsiveness boost here. Which raises the question: why the hell do so many synths append useless silence to the start of utterances? That just seems like deliberate self-sabotage.
@Scott @Andre Louis
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Jamie Teh

@vick21 @FreakyFwoof @Scott Just tabbing around in the NVDA Voice settings dialog. It just felt sluggish to me in responsiveness compared to OneCore. Measuring scientifically would require all sorts of set-up I'm not quite willing to do right now. :) Obviously I'm not going to compare with eSpeak; that's an unfair comparison. Note that I have rate for both set fairly high.
@victor tsaran @Scott @Andre Louis

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"Learn Accessibility" is a course that takes you through the essentials for building accessible websites and web apps. Created for both beginners and advanced users, this course can be taken beginning to end, or used as a reference for specific topics.

web.dev/learn/accessibility/


Learn Accessibility  |  web.dev

An evergreen accessibility course and reference to level up your web development.
web.dev

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Nastal mimořádný okamžik tohoto roku. Poprvé mám týdenní dovolenou a ta začala dnes v 16:00 h. Juchuchu.
Mobilní číslo odpojeno, v Outlooku nastavena automatická odpověď....

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Ešče som sa neoženil

Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesEšče som sa neoženil · Hradišťan · Jiří PavlicaNejkrásnější Moravské Lidové Písně 1 - V Hodoníně Za Vojáčka℗ 19...
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Apple’s New Speech Frameworks Portend More Accessible Audio for Developers and users alike curbcuts.co/blog/2025-6-19-0ku…

Apple’s New Speech Frameworks Portend More Accessible Audio for Developers and users alike

John Voorhees wrote a piece for MacStories earlier this week which delves into a new class in Apple’s Speech APIs and compares it to OpenAI’s open source speech-to-text model called Whisper .
Steven Aquino (Curb Cuts)

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Google’s June Pixel Drop Includes Android 16 for Pixel Devices, Accessibility Improvements, More curbcuts.co/blog/2025-6-18-goo…

Google’s June Pixel Drop Includes Android 16 for Pixel Devices, Accessibility Improvements, More

Google last week released its Pixel Drop update for June. The monthly software upgrade includes, most notably, the official release of Android 16 for Pixel devices, VIP contacts, accessibility enhancements, and much more.
Steven Aquino (Curb Cuts)

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From Curiosity to Creation: The Story Behind Accessibility Nerd equalentry.com/ai-accessibilit…

From Curiosity to Creation: The Story Behind Accessibility Nerd - Equal Entry

Through his work, Cameron Cundiff develops tools to make digital spaces more inclusive. So, he created the Accessibility Nerd project to explore the intersection of technology, software engineering, and AI in accessibility.
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Our May Mobile Progress Report shows how we're:
*getting ready for JMAP in iOS
* planing early for TestFlight
* coordinating localization for both apps
* asking for feedback with the Android beta
* improving the account drawer and more

#Thunderbird #Email

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/06/t…


Thunderbird Mobile Progress Report: May 2025 - The Thunderbird Blog

In this month's update, we're discussing JMAP and TestFlight planning for iOS and beta and account drawer progress (and fixes) for Android.
Philipp Kewisch (The Thunderbird Blog)
#email #thunderbird
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@Lazarus Thanks for the nudge! It looks like we have this in our triage system and have some useful resources. Tracking this issue is probably the best way of getting updates, especially to find out when this gets added to the roadmap. While our 2025 roadmap has already been made, making the Android app able to be used by more people is still really high on our priority list!
@Rune Jensen ✅ 🇳🇴

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Meta glasses might be useful, but then Meta goes and reminds us all why they're such a terrible, untrustworthy, scummy company. This isn't even the first user privacy violation this year. theregister.com/2025/06/03/met…

Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul

: Zuckercorp and Yandex used localhost loophole to tie browser data to app users, say boffins
Thomas Claburn (The Register)
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André Polykanine

I'd still buy them as there is no viable alternative for blind people. I measn… I grew to have this colclusion that #Accessibility is the most important thing to me. I've been telling it to open-source warriors, against-Google, against-Microsoft, against-Meta varriors and so on: if you are abled, you have choice. I'm disabled, I need to work and live my life as fully as I can. So yeah, privacy and all this stuff is good, but to me accessibility is far more vital and important.
#Accessibility
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Alex Hall

@menelion I definitely get it. I'm not judging or condemning anyone for using Meta products. For some it's accessibility, for some it's the only way their friends and family communicate, for some it's for neighborhood watch groups or buying used products. It's sad that nearly all of us are involved with Meta in some way, but it's reality. Plenty of us have no choice.
@André Polykanine
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Georgiana Brummell

@menelion You can't call someone from them, but they can read text (either quickly/live or after scanning it/document mode), answer questions about it, read bar codes, and tell you what's around you. They can work with the ARx app, as well as Seeing AI, and another app for reading labels whose name I forget at the moment. The page can be found here. Note: I am not affiliated with them. I'm just a user of their product.

arx.vision/


ARxVision

The ARx AI Headset: An AI-powered talking camera for the blind and visually impaired. ARx connects to Android, translating the world into clear audio descriptions.
ARxVision
@André Polykanine

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Help me out here, I want to start a rumor that Asus' new 3000-watt power supply with the 240 volt plug for running four NVidia RTX5090s is a sign that in 2026 you'll only be able to play AAA games in Europe because the American power grid can't handle it.

videocardz.com/newz/asus-3000w…


ASUS 3000W PSU supports four RTX 5090s, features dual-color 12V-2x6 cable and gold-plated connector - VideoCardz.com

ASUS Pro WS 3000W supports four RTX 5090 cards at once ASUS Pro WS Platinum power supply is not designed for gamers. Officially, it is meant for “pros”, in fact, that’s exactly what the label on the PSU says.
VideoCardz.com

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An extremely expensive, extremely slow motion reenactment of the conclusion of War Games, with open software orgs migrating from one closed-source proprietary service to another over and over again instead of zero-player tic-tac-toe, and me hammering the table saying, come on, learn, god damn it, learn.

cncf.io/blog/2025/06/16/cncf-s…

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CNCF Slack Workspace Changes Coming on Friday, June 20 | CNCF

The CNCF Slack workspace will be converted from an enterprise plan to a free plan on Friday, June 20, 2025. This will have implications for how Slack works for…
Katie Greenly (CNCF)
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Dear Fedi friends, may I ask you a favor?

I would really appreciate it if you could boost this message. I have created a French version of my Fedi promo video - and a French landing page – that I hope can spread far and wide in the Francophone world:

news.elenarossini.com/fedivers…

Cette vidéo explique ce qu'est le fédivers en 4 minutes. N'hésitez pas à partager cette page avec vos amis et vos proches qui ne sont pas ici... J'espère que cette vidéo éveillera leur curiosité 💙🤍❤️

#TheFutureIsFederated


📺 Découvrez le fédivers : une nouvelle ère pour les réseaux sociaux

Découvrez un tout nouvel univers des réseaux sociaux, où la vie privée est respectée, les utilisateurs détiennent le pouvoir et les GAFAM n'ont pas leur mot à dire.
Elena Rossini
#thefutureisfederated
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