Another interesting Computer Says Maybe podcast — Is Computer Science Made for Dudes? w/ Felienne Hermans — how are we excluding folks?
➡️ symfony.com/blog/kicking-off-t…
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#Mastobada vent
Pocahontas – L'air du vent
🎶 Entends-tu chanter les esprits de la montagne ?
Peux-tu peindre en mille couleurs l'air du vent ?
Peux-tu peindre en mille couleurs l'air du vent ? 🎶
Pocahontas, une légende indienne - L'air du vent I Disney
Découvrez la chanson "L'air du vent" extraite du film Disney Pocahontas !Ouvrez la description pour voir les paroles.Toutes les musiques de #Pocahontas :http...YouTube
Being a blind student isn't easy.
Making a difference for kids in school, enables them to make a difference as adults in their community. Does your school have a student who could benefit from a screen reader? And a budget which could benefit from it being FREE? We have the solution!
And if you can help us, it would make a huge difference too!
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Support #Donation #MakeADifference #MakingADifference #Blindness
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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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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.
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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Diving into Plasma Bigscreen | espidev
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…
G Suite (now Workspace) has another price hike. Time to choose an alternative and stop feeding AI with your data! | Tuta
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's Digital Accessibility Laws and Overview • DigitalA11Y
India is one of the fastest growing and emerging markets for innovating, building, and nurturing digital technology. Many organizations hire computerMonika Prasad (DigitalA11Y)
Overcast Update Adds Double Tap on Apple Watch
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)
Apple, Columbia University Researchers discuss Accessibility-Minded ‘SceneScout’ Project
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)
Lieutenant Leslie Was the Redshirt that Survived Star Trek: The Original Series (Sort of) - Cult Sci Fi and Fantasy
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)
iOS26 Empowers Blind Users-The Accessibility Revolution to Know
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)
iOS26 Empowers Blind Users-The Accessibility Revolution to Know
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)
Narrator Update Brings AI-Driven Image Descriptions. - Centre For Accessibility Australia
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?“
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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
'Humiliating and traumatizing': Czech musician set to perform in Kent detained, sent home
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.
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An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too)
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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The real housing crisis • Oregon Capital Chronicle
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…
Frustration in Sheffield as rail electrification project paused
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?
GitHub - android-rcs/rcsjta: RCS-e stack for Android with GSMA API
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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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.
An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too)
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.
Expert Generalists
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)
Until you’ve been taught, it’s hard to understand what you’re missing.
Double Tap: Where blind people talk tech! dltap.com/46rVTpe
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Why JAWS Still Dominates the Workplace
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Youenn Gwernig – E kreiz an noz
🎶 E kreiz an noz me glev an avel
O vlejal war lein an ti
E kreiz an noz me glev an avel
O vlejal war lein an ti 🎶
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(Version de Perynn)
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(Version d'origine)
Youenn Gwernig - E kreiz an noz
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Serge Gainsbourg – Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais.
Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais.
Tes sanglots longs n'y pourront rien changer.
Comme dit si bien Verlaine : « Au vent mauvais »,
Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais.
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Serge Gainsbourg - Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais
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Louise Attaque – J't'emmène au vent
🎶 Allez viens, j't'emmène au vent
Je t'emmène au-dessus des gens
Et je voudrais que tu te rappelles
Notre amour est éternel
Et pas artificiel 🎶
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Louise Attaque - J't'emmène au vent (Clip Officiel remasterisé)
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Traditionnel – Le Corsaire le Grand Coureur
🎶 Il eut fallu voir le coq, et sa cuiserie et son croc
Il s'est mis dans la chaudière, comme un vilain pot-au-feu
Il est parti vent arrière, a péri au feu de Dieu .
Allons les gars, gai, gai
Allons les gars, gaiement !
Allons les gars, gai, gai
Allons les gars, gaiement ! 🎶
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Le corsaire le grand coureur
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Gilles Servat – La maison d'Irlande
🎶 C’était une chouette maison où j’entendais, la nuit,
Les camions fous du vent rugir au-d’ssus d’mon lit
Et l’lendemain, je regardais la cavalerie charger
Crinières blanches à l’assaut des rochers 🎶
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Gilles Servat - La Maison d'Irlande
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Miossec – Brest
🎶 Est-ce que désormais tu me détestes
D'avoir pu un jour quitter Brest
La rade, le port, ce qu'il en reste
Le vent dans l'avenue Jean Jaurès 🎶
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MIOSSEC - Brest [CLIP OFFICIEL]
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Loreena McKennitt – The Highwayman
🎶 The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon the cloudy seas
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor
And the highwayman came riding
Riding, riding
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door 🎶
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The Highwayman by Loreena McKennitt
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Warren G feat. Sissel – Prince Igor (The Rapsody)
🎶 Улетай на крыльях ветра
Ты в край родной, родная песня наша
Туда, где мы тебя свободно пели
Где было так привольно нам с тобою 🎶
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The Rapsody Feat. Warren G & Sissel – Prince Igor (official video) HQ uncensored
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Fatal Picards – Noir(s)
🎶 Elle est pour toi cette chansonnette
Toi l'anarchiste sans dieu, ni maître
Qui a rangé son drapeau noir
Faute de vent, faute de grand soir 🎶
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Les Fatals Picards - Noir(s)
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IAM – WW
🎶 Ils ont pas l’air d’aimer ces airs, qu’on chante à la lune
Alors on s’étale, via les ondes partout où y a du bitume
Invasion des neurones, une phrase par catapulte
Lourd à la pesée, et à chaque fois l’impact est rude
On chevauche à cru, comme ces fiers mongols fils du vent
Pas pour la réput', un éphémère vit plus longtemps 🎶
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Extrait vidéo "IAM" Pyramides (W.W)
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IAM – Intro "Pharaon reviens" (ou plutôt : Ministère égyptien de la culture et de l'orientation nationale – Son et lumière "Ici est né l'histoire" narré par Georges Delerue)
🎙️ Vous êtes à un instant ou le rideau de la nuit va s'entrouvrir sur la scène où s'est jouée le drame d'une civilisation
Les personnages sont en place
Depuis l'aube de l'histoire
Entêtés contre le sable et le vent
Et la voix du désert a traversé les siècles 🎙️
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IAM - intro & outro
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Tri Yann - Le Renard
🎶 La voile claque au vent, Le Renard glapit dans le champ
Toile rouge au vent, vent de l'ouragan, vent de guerre, loi des géants
La Loire roule sang, Le Renard mort à belles dents
Boit le rouge sang, le sang des Normands, que la brume noie dans le temps 🎶
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Le renard
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Louis Capart – Marie-Jeanne-Gabrielle
🎶 Marie-Jeanne-Gabrielle
Entre la mer et le ciel
Battu par tous les vents
Au raz de l’océan
Ton pays
S'est endormi
Sur de belles légendes
Illuminant son histoire
Gravées dans la mémoire
Des femmes qui attendent
Les marins d’île de Sein 🎶
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Marie-Jeanne-Gabrielle
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Tri Yann – Korydwen et le Rouge de Kenholl
🎶 De la fraîche fontaine au troisième des cavaliers, Korydwen dans sa bouche de l’ève claire a versé.
- Tu es jeune et tes yeux sont de jade émaillé, de quel pays viens-tu sur ta pourpre haquenée?
- D’où je viens sept moulins tournent dans les vents salés, qui font ma barbe rose comme rose du rosier.
On me nomme Le Rouge à Kenholl où je suis né. Au Pardon de Sainte Anne, je m’en viens pour te mener! 🎶
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Tri Yann - Korydwen et Le Rouge de Kenholl
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Nai Br.XX & Celeina Ann —Someday I'll Find My Way Home (#CaroleAndTuesday OST)
🎶 Someday I'll find my way home
The trees and the wind will lead the way
All of these years on my own
They flew right by, so what can you say? 🎶
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Carole & Tuesday Someday I'll Find My Way Home song
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Tri Yann – Les Pailles d'or brisées
🎶 Mille neuf cent seize, mardi 15 février, et je suis sans nouvelles depuis le 20 janvier. Le temps me pèse et ta mère est alitée ; ton cousin Charles-Émile est à Nantes, blessé. Le vent t'emporte dans une boîte à biscuits du savon dentifrice et un gâteau de riz, des cigarettes et un peu de vrai café, mes pensées, mes "je t'aime" et des Pailles d'or brisées. 🎶
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Les pailles d'or brisées
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Tri Yann – Le soleil est noir
🎶 Battu de vent, flottant bastion
Battu devant, flots, tourbillons
Battu, battant sang pavillon
Soleil levant, noir sans rayons
Noirs l'eau, le feu, la terre
Noirs de feu les deux airs
Le vent, la brume aussi 🎶
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Le soleil est noir
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