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And if you can help us, it would make a huge difference too!
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Welcome to Linux Access This is your central hub for all things related to accessibility on Linux. Here you’ll find articles, tips, and resources written by the community to help make Linux more usable for everyone.Linux Access
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Last month, I spent about a week working on Plasma Bigscreen, hoping to get it back in Plasma releases again!
Read about it on my blog: espi.dev/posts/2025/07/plasma-…
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I have been a long time Plasma Mobile contributor, but I have always had a keen interest in having Linux on my TV! I have noticed that in the past few months, the Plasma Bigscreen project has had some interest from people wanting to contribute, but t…espi.dev
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Come meet the Bookshare team at @nationsblind Convention! Visit Booth D14 and learn about our partnership with NFB. First time members can join Bookshare for 30% off our annual membership, and existing members can renew for 20% off. Sign up or renew today!
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100K. One hundred thousand. That's a lot of #Catima users! And happy users, it seems, looking at that 4.5 star rating ❤️
Just, wow, I never expected my little hobby app to reach 100K active users, and that's just on #GooglePlay, still excluding other app stores like #IzzyOnDroid, #FDroid, direct downloads from #GitHub and sketchy app piracy sites (please don't use that last one, for your own safety 😅)!
Very cool :)
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It's July already, time to check how many have achieved this #NewYearsResolution to #DeGoogle! 😀
And while G Suite (now Workspace) has another price hike, Tuta has the best discount ever. 🥳 Time to switch and stop feeding AI with your data!
👉 tuta.com/blog/google-gsuite-le…
Since summer 2022 G-Suit Google legacy users need to pay more and more. Meet a secure Workspace alternative to say: Goodbye Google. Hello Privacy!Tuta
India is one of the fastest growing and emerging markets for innovating, building, and nurturing digital technology. Many organizations hire computerMonika Prasad (DigitalA11Y)
Over the weekend, I came across this Mastodon post in which it was announced popular indie podcast client Overcast , version 2025.Steven Aquino (Curb Cuts)
Marcus Mendes reports for 9to5 Mac on a project from Apple and Columbia University aimed at using artificial intelligence to make navigation and street-crossing more accessible to the Blind and low vision.Steven Aquino (Curb Cuts)
Eddie Paskey played Lt. Leslie on Star Trek: TOS and he was a redshirt who did not die through the series (except once).John J. Joex (Cult Sci Fi and Fantasy)
Explore how iOS 26 is transforming independence for blind users. Discover VoiceOver, Siri, and Braille improvements in this essential guide.Jeff Singleton (Converge Accessibility LLC)
Explore how iOS 26 is transforming independence for blind users. Discover VoiceOver, Siri, and Braille improvements in this essential guide.Jeff Singleton (Converge Accessibility LLC)
Microsoft has released an update to its Narrator feature in Windows 11, which uses artificial intelligence to provide detailed descriptions of images, charts, and graphs.Laetitia Thompson (Centre For Accessibility Australia)
🔧 Jako správní admini #fediverse
🛠️ Dnes jsme upravili stránku O aplikaci na instancích:
🔗 mamutovo.cz/about
🔗 mastodon.arch-linux.cz/about
Přibyly užitečné informace o fungování, úrovních soukromí příspěvků a nově i video 🎥 „Co je Fediverse?“
Vítejte na mastodonní instanci Mamutovo! Instance Mamutovo byla vytvořena pro běžné uživatele, kteří touží po klidném prostředí, ve kterém mohou svobodně sdílet své myšlenky.Mastodon hosted on mamutovo.cz
A Czech musician and former Kent State student was scheduled to perform several U.S. concerts. Instead, he was detained in Detroit and denied entry., Akron Beacon Journal (Akron Beacon Journal)
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A few weeks ago I fixed a bug in #OpenZFS and I can't stop thinking about it.
despairlabs.com/blog/posts/202…
A couple of weeks ago I fixed a nasty bug in this function in OpenZFS:despair labs
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it seems crazy to me that we don't have tooling that can detect this. how is that even possible?
but also, even not knowing wtf the specifics were about this function it did stick out like a sore thumb that the function was called "vdev_raidz_asize_to_psize" and then never returned psize
on a side note, I began the article wondering if I needed to backport this patch to my kernel to avoid corruption and then was relieved to realize it's only going to affect raidz and I avoid raidz due to paranoia about resilvering times with giant HDDs and overall performance
Oregon's Housing Crisis is the fault of "Investors" driving up prices, not a shortage of housing:
From the OR Capital Chronicle:
There is no large crisis in the raw amount or supply of housing. The crisis lies in its price.
In this current decade, Oregon’s population increased only slightly, from about 4.2 million at the decade’s start, to about 4.3 million now, and there’s been no mass destruction of housing. . . .
Legislative Republicans this April complained that in the last three years only about 43,000 building permits for residences had been issued in the state, well below the governor’s plan for 108,000. But the state’s number of households rose by about the same amount during that time. The new construction that happened should, in theory, have been enough to keep up with it.
In 2023 (the most recent year available), Oregon had about 1.75 million “households” with the average household comprising 2.4 people, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
That same year, the Census counted in the state 1.88 million “housing units” — over 100,000 more housing units than the number of households — including “a house, an apartment, a group of rooms, or a single room occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.” It doesn’t include some other residential places, such as trailer and mobile home parks.
The upshot is that Oregon, like most states, has more residential units than households.
And there is no crisis for people of sufficient means. Anyone who can afford to plunk down a half-million or so (which includes many existing homeowners, in or out of state) will not have much trouble finding a house. People below that level, a large part of the population, may find that a house (or in some places apartment rentals, too) are simply out of reach.
The problem with Oregon’s housing crisis is affordability. The median house value in Oregon (which reflects purchase prices) as of May was $540,300, according to online real estate market platform Zillow. One home-buying calculator estimates that if a purchaser puts down 18% for the home — the median downpayment of home buyers in the U.S., according to the National Association of Realtors — they would need to have more than $97,000 saved, and earn more than $120,000 per year to afford their mortgage payments. That means fewer than a fifth of Oregon households could afford a median-priced house based on income. (Sales by owners of currently owned houses could expand that number.)
Despite the limited pool of buyers, prices have climbed and stayed high.
Why?
Oregon’s notably strict laws on land use are often mentioned as a cause of the problem. They may contribute to it, but many other states — such as next-door Idaho — have far fewer building restrictions but still have house pricing problems as bad, or worse, as Oregon’s.
High priced homes can be more profitable for builders and developers, so they build more of them.
But the key explanation for why so many more houses are purchased, compared to the number of local residents who can buy, seems to be that relatively wealthy investors — individuals and especially businesses — are buying large numbers of houses and apartments in Oregon, and around the country.
Many national studies have found as much.
Redfin News, which tracks home sales nationally, said last August that investor home buying has been rising steadily in recent years — about 3% annually — and bought one of every six U.S. homes that sold — purchasing $43 billion worth of properties — and one of every four low-priced homes that sold.
Redfin found that during the 2nd quarter of 2024 in Portland, 13% of homes sold (valued at $511,419,529) were bought by investors, an amount rising in recent years. Many homes are then flipped and resold for still higher prices. All of that activity places upward pressure on sales prices of other homes as well.
A variety of buyers have been among the mass purchasers. Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley has for several years focused on the role of hedge funds in home buys, and with U.S. Rep. Adam Smith, a Democrat from Washington, introduced in 2023 the End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act.
Merkley called hedgefunds, “a contributing factor that has made it more difficult for middle-class Americans to become homeowners and is contributing to America’s twin crises of housing unaffordability and wealth inequality.”
Others have disagreed about how large a role the finance organizations have played. But someone can afford to buy all those houses — in many cases well beyond the asking price — and less-wealthy wage earners cannot compete.
That would be a real and pertinent, albeit sensitive, topic for the new state agency to address. Until someone does, the housing shortage for most Oregonians will go on.
#Housing #Houselessness #Capitalism
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There is no large crisis in the raw amount or supply of housing in Oregon. The crisis lies in the sale price of that housing.Randy Stapilus (Oregon Capital Chronicle)
the only way local governments are going to be able to afford to keep operating is to raise property taxes like 200-300% (or possibly more depending on the situation) from where they are today, so at this point it doesn't really matter who we blame. The fact is, prices *must* come down sharply or nobody will even be able to afford their property taxes and insurance premiums even if they can afford the house.
Once we do that and the materials costs plummet as well things will start to come back into balance and we can have a sane economy again
And the best part is that when this happens, all those hedge funds are going to have their investments wiped out. They'll have no choice but to sell at a massive loss because they're gonna get margin called elsewhere and they'll need the liquidity ASAP. So this will just delete money from the economy at a rapid pace and help reverse a bunch of this inflation.
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It continues to shock me that India has a nearly fully electrified rail network and the UK, country that invented railways, has Les than 40% of its network electrified.
There are highly polluting diesel trains coming into city centres across the country. Ugh. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8j13e…
The scheme is being halted short of Sheffield on the route to London, Department for Transport says.Mick Lunney (BBC News)
Does anyone know of any #FreeSoftware implementations of the #RCS encrypted messaging protocol? There is the nine year old
github.com/android-rcs/rcsjta I wonder if that is usable?
RCS-e stack for Android with GSMA API. Contribute to android-rcs/rcsjta development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Privacy is Calling You, Will You Answer?—Looking for a smartphone and service that puts you in control of your data, privacy, and security?
Try the Librem 5 paired with Librem AweSIM, powered by PureOS—a fully open-source OS.
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Here's a neat analysis of a subtle OpenZFS bug by @robn.
despairlabs.com/blog/posts/202…
I love reading thoughtful analyses of bugs and the factors that produced them. Nowadays I usually arrive somewhat resigned, and expecting a "zeroth order" C bug -- something like bad pointering or failure to initialize a variable.
This is more of a "second order" C bug, and the author goes through the potential tradeoffs and rightfully points out that the answer is not "git gud." I'll put my thoughts on the bug in a reply so as not to spoil it for you.
Anyway, it's a good short read.
A couple of weeks ago I fixed a nasty bug in this function in OpenZFS:despair labs
Jeez, what a bug. C is so hostile to using things that may catch this.
Static analysis? Another thing to maintain in the CI.
Unit test for that function? Writing tests in C is a PITA... not the writing-the-test part, but getting it to compile and run without the rest of the code.
Time to deprecate TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in #curl ?
So what are you all using to interact with legacy systems then?
Should I add a mitmproxy to my default configuration for my debug box now that even curl drops support for this?
I can understand having to add a "--legacy-tls" option or something, but not having TLS 1.0 and 1.1 is going to be quite annoying ngl.
Being an Expert Generalist should be treated as a first-class skill, one that can be assessed and taught.martinfowler.com
yet they are never "qualified enough" for most job applications
(it's a hiring problem)
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Unknown parent • • •Nothing against Hugo as a platform, but as a hub for those new to the OS, readers aren't going to care either.
Hope it picks up momentum and becomes useful, though.