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Lots of improvements are coming to #LibreOffice – such as better Natural Sort in Calc data ranges. Find out more in the development and QA blog report for November 2025: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #openSource #freesoftware
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QA/Dev Report: November 2025 - QA Community Blog

General Activities LibreOffice 25.8.3 was announced on November 13 Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the help on sort options and keyboard shortcuts, added help for field variable formats, the Slide Properties Sidebar deck, named Calc formulas and Arabic…
x1sc0 (QA Community Blog)
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #libreoffice

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A petition calling for the repeal of the UK's Online Safety Act has reached more than 550,000 signatures and will be debated this afternoon in the UK Parliament. Ahead of the debate, EFF, Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch, and Index on Censorship wrote to politicians urging them to listen to their constituents and repeal the legislation. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/eff-…

EFF, Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch, and Index on Censorship Call on UK Government to Repeal Online Safety Act

Ahead of today's Parliamentary petition debate on the Online Safety Act, EFF joined Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch, and Index on Censorship in sending a briefing to UK politicians urging them to listen to their constituents and repeal the legis…
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#Mixxx 2.5.4 Open-Source DJ App Released with Better Support for Korg KAOSS DJ, Numark NS6II, Traktor S4 MK3, Reloop Beatmix 2, and Pioneer DJ CDJ Controllers 9to5linux.com/mixxx-2-5-4-open…

@mixxx #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux

Screenshot of Mixxx showing the main window while mixing two audio tracks.

Mixxx 2.5.4 Open-Source DJ App Improves Support for Korg KAOSS DJ, Pioneer DJ CDJ - 9to5Linux

Mixxx 2.5.4 open-source virtual DJ software for performing live mixes is now available for download with various improvements and bug fixes.
Marcus Nestor (9to5Linux)
#FreeSoftware #linux #opensource #Mixxx @Mixxx DJ Software

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The new offline Ava HD voice available for Windows 11 insiders in the Narrator #screenreader is...wild. Who...what...why? She wants so badly to be my friend and I hate it! I just want her to read the things on the screen. Why is she so smiley and happy? To be fair, all of the other natural voices for Narrator are nearly perfect. If they were just a bit quicker, and had fewer weird pauses, and worked with NVDA, they could almost replace eloquence.
#screenreader

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Another take that I have seen way too much, in response to this and other violent attacks against Jews, is almost too awful for me to summarize. It is the idea that the attack could be justified if the victims were all “Zionists.”All these people, sitting with their phones or computers, fantasizing over which Jews they will spare in the selection, and which of us they will slaughter. They most likely have “anti-fascist” in their bio, but they are Nazis in their souls, salivating over Nazi daydreams as their hobby.

#Antisemitism #Australia #Nazis

#australia #antisemitism #nazis

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Apple Music on Windows is infuriating. This morning it decided that it just can't load my library. At all. Ever. No music for my workday today, I guess. Yes I know, self-hosted music libraries. But I have neither the time 'nor the money to find, sort, manage, and back-up all the music I'm interested in. And even if I did, they'd be music ripped from used CD's from the thrift store, so the artist wouldn't get any money anyway. Plus I do enjoy discovering new music. And none of the internet radio stations I know of quite meet my taste, and they don't offer a no repeat workday anyway. Plus the only one that comes close has ads and no way to pay to remove them.

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Adam MacLeod

The Renphro line of scales seems to do the trick for me. Amazon has them for $30 or something like that. The app is accessible, although the controls will appear is simply text, so you won't know you can double-tap on something until you try. But if it is tappable, it does engage, and all the information is readable. The model I got has four electrode pads that send very small currents of electricity through your feet to measure 13 characteristics of your physiology, including body fat, body water, estimated calories, estimated metabolic age, and up to 13 body measurements. oh yes, of course, it does body weight too. LOL. If you have any metallic implants within your body, or any electronic devices that regulate you in any way, pacemaker being the most obvious example, it is recommended that you either not use a scale with electrodes, or where insulating footware when weighing. I hope this helps.

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🚨 #Microsoft 365 price shock: From July 2026, prices rise by up to 16.7%.

Now is the best time to break free from vendor lock-in.

What are your favorite #MS365 alternatives? 🔓🇪🇺

➡️ tuta.com/blog/microsoft-365-pr…

#DigitalSovereignty #deMicrosoft #OneClickAway

#deMicrosoft your life: Image with lots of logos to replace Microsoft apps and tools.

Microsoft 365 price shock: Better quit vendor lock-in now! | Tuta

Starting July 2026, Microsoft plans a huge price hike for Microsoft 365 of up to 16.7%. Time to look for replacements.
Tuta
#microsoft #digitalsovereignty #MS365 #demicrosoft #oneclickaway

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Looking for a multi--in-one USB-C docking thing for my Macbook Pro. I want Ethernet (faster than 1 GBPS prefered), power delivery, USB A and C ports.
Seems pretty hard to find things that aren't triple display whatevers. I want zero displays. Certainly don't care about three of them.

So far, I've only found one that has 2.5 GBE, but it also has no USB type A ports, which I still need.

I've also found some expensive Thunderbolt docks (OWC) that have 2.5 GBE, but they're not bus powered.

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This week's Minoan Tarot cards. This deck is my creation, made the old-fashioned way, with ink on paper, and available at bookstores everywhere. Many more card images at minoantarot.com/

Three of Rhytons: Celebrate your connection with others as you support each other and lift each other up. Loving, trusting relationships are vital to mental and emotional health.

Maid of Labryses: Stay curious! Keep exploring new ideas. Stretch your mind, and don't give up when there's a puzzle to be solved.

#Minoan #Tarot #divination #cartomancy

Two Minoan Tarot cards side by side on a bright orange background. Both cards have intricate, detailed borders. The Three of Rhytons, on the left, is painted in shades of blue and tan. It shows a table filled with two large pitchers and many small cups. Above the table, a hand holds a third pitcher, pouring wine into a cup held by another hand. The Maid of Labryses, on the right, is painted in shades of gold, cream, and tan. It shows a Minoan girl facing left, climbing up a rocky hillside as she holds a large labrys in both hands.

The Minoan Tarot by Laura Perry

The Minoan Tarot by Laura Perry: The world of ancient Minoan Crete meets modern Tarot in this colorful deck with artwork created entirely by hand.
minoantarot
#tarot #minoan #Divination #cartomancy

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Working on documenting the AT-SPI xml spec and realizing that the C library's documentation for character offsets and ranges is not at all clear in terms of how multi-byte characters should be handled. For instance, the documentation for atspi_text_get_character_count only states that it "gets the character count of an AccessibleText object." Ugh. Need to get this fixed.
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Patrick Morris Miller

The mirror version is also true: when a person who's done bad things dies, the time to talk about those bad things is *right then, while their body is still warm*.

(Also before, while they're doing it, and long after, when they're history and it's hard to get people to care. But the bastards who say THIS IS NOT THE TIME THINK OF THEIR FAMILY are denying the victims their voice right when it will be heard the loudest. And to hell with those bastards.)

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iRobot apparently just declared bankruptcy, so if you have an internet connected one and want to retain control if the cloud platform vanishes, take a look at github.com/koalazak/dorita980#… and stash that information somewhere safe (and note that it changes if you ever factory reset the device, so try not to do that)

GitHub - koalazak/dorita980: Unofficial iRobot Roomba and Braava (i7/i7+, 980, 960, 900, e5, 690, 675, m6, etc) node.js library (SDK) to control your robot

Unofficial iRobot Roomba and Braava (i7/i7+, 980, 960, 900, e5, 690, 675, m6, etc) node.js library (SDK) to control your robot - koalazak/dorita980
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"Can #curl avoid to be in a future funnily named exploit that shakes the world?"

I blogged this eleven years ago and the story remains almost identical today...

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2014/12/15…


Can curl avoid to be in a future funnily named exploit that shakes the world?

During this year we've seen heartbleed and shellshock strike (and a  few more big flaws that I'll skip for now).
daniel.haxx.se
#curl

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RE: fosstodon.org/@arcanechat/1157…

#ArcaneChat doesn't have delivery receipts, only read receipts, the only automatic responses the app does in your behalf is to handle invite links, for that to be abused you first have to share your invite link with a malicious contact, you can get in contact with random/public entity via their invite link and be safe, as long as it is not you the one sharing your invite link!

In #Signal / #WhatsApp as soon as you contact someone or they guess your number you are vulnerable

ArcaneChat

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"Tool allows stealthy tracking of #Signal and #WhatsApp users through delivery receipts"

cyberinsider.com/tool-allows-s…

Another privacy vulnerability caused by the dependency on phone numbers.

In #ArcaneChat (and other #chatmail clients like #DeltaChat) you don't need a phone number (or any private data at all!) to register, so such attacks are simply impossible, keep your family safe, join arcanechat.me



Tool allows stealthy tracking of Signal and WhatsApp users through delivery receipts

A new tool named Device Activity Tracker exposes a privacy flaw in WhatsApp and Signal that lets attackers covertly monitor user activity.
Alex Lekander (CyberInsider)

#signal #whatsapp #arcanechat
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ArcaneChat

even then most people will not do it, and as said in the previous post, even without phone number discovery, once you get in contact with someone then they can track you in Signal/WhatsApp, imagine you used the app to contact or give feedback to some goverment institution, from that point on they can use this exploit on you, that is not the case with ArcaneChat
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Johan Van de Wauw

There are some confusing bits in the interface if all devrooms start sending mails at the same time (which is happening now). I can see the mail in the outbox, someone might have missed pressing send. I'll poke them.

In general, some devrooms edit rejection mails (which is a good thing), which may also cause them to be sent a bit later than in the interface shows.

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Boy Tailscale is just fire for a little network/homelab newbie like me. Being able to connect to my routers interface or any other device in the network at home through a raspberry pi acting as subnetrouter, being able to send wake on lan packets from anywhere through a little docker container that's just sitting there that I can access from anywhere. Being able to use it as reverse proxy to let a vps securely connect to these services and even expose them to the outside, or just routing all the traffic through an exit node somewhere. Love it. It makes life so much more easy.
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