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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 ? 🎶

youtu.be/OAhCfI5hLjU

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#Mastobada "vent"

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 🎶

youtube.com/watch?v=c57NcmiQlg…

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#Mastobada "vent"

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 🎶

youtube.com/watch?v=umJFJvKo2T…

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#Mastobada "vent"

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! 🎶

youtu.be/WRZLlI475IE

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#Mastobada "vent"

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. 🎶

youtube.com/watch?v=j61XAj6W4J…

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#Mastobada "vent"

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 🎶

youtu.be/4qgrS73KJMs

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!

nvaccess.org/

And if you can help us, it would make a huge difference too!

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#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Support #Donation #MakeADifference #MakingADifference #Blindness

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Hey everyone, #Linux Access appears to be live! This is a really fantastic resource for beginning Blind Linux users! linuxaccess.org/ #Accessibility #A11y

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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-…

#kde

#KDE

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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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Celeste Liddle | Kumanjayi Walker was killed by a racist cop. But our media and courts are more focused on white victims. The inquest into the killing of Kumanjayi Walker found the officer who shot him three times was racist. But the justice system and me

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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…

Apple, Columbia University Researchers discuss Accessibility-Minded ‘SceneScout’ Project curbcuts.co/blog/2025-7-8-appl…

Lieutenant Leslie Was the Redshirt that Survived Star Trek: The Original Series (Sort of) cult-scifi.com/lieutenant-lesl…

Narrator Update Brings AI-Driven Image Descriptions. accessibility.org.au/narrator-…

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Dear US friends. This is what we see from the other side of the Atlantic :( eu.beaconjournal.com/story/new…

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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

oregoncapitalchronicle.com/202…

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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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Aggiungere il repo di IzzyOnDroid su F-Droid per avere una maggiore varietà di applicazioni per il tuo Android...

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#android #fdroid #izzyondroid #opensource #toolperandroid

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…

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?

#E2EE #Android #messaging

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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.

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iirc the big vulnerabilities in these protocols were implementation problems (including downgrade dance). BEAST was one not mitigated that usually requires gigabytes of data to maybe break the cipher. I get the wide deprecation. It’s been painful over the decades to loose support for older protocols. I’ll know my stance probably long after it’s been removed. PCI-DSS has been aggressive about removal of TLS<1.2 yet it persists.

via @tbortels comes this excellent piece (unsurprisingly; Martin Fowler is always good) what articulates that I've been doing for the longest time now and puts a name to it. This article pairs well with David Epstein's book "Range". martinfowler.com/articles/expe…
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Mobility isn’t just instinct—it’s training. Knowing how to use a white cane, feel your shoreline, and rely on your ears and feet takes time and guidance.
Until you’ve been taught, it’s hard to understand what you’re missing.
Double Tap: Where blind people talk tech! dltap.com/46rVTpe
#BlindTech #DoubleTap #Mobility #Orientation #CaneSkills #DisabilitySupport