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PureOS Crimson Progress Update

Since July 2024, we’ve built a strong foundation—now climbing the stack!

Recent Updates:

• Faster USB charging
• Speedier storage access

First alpha release coming soon. Learn More Features Here: puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-d…

PureOS Crimson Development Report: March 2025 – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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After i meditate outside and open my eyes fully, the plants and trees seem to radiate with a golden aura and the flora is a more vibrant green. I am so grateful for another day in this beautiful planet! 🙏🏼💚🌳✨🌿🌎

Wishing all a beautiful Friday and weekend. ❤️🤗🎉🌷😘

Photos of some branches on my plumeria showing flower buds coming out. 🥰

#meditation #oneness #awareness #gratitude #gaia

Plueria buds of future flowers on a branch.
Plumeria buds of flowers coming out between green leaves. The sky is blue with some white clouds.
#meditation #gratitude #awareness #oneness #gaia

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Thank you, Liev Schreiber, for embracing your trans daughter Kai. “This is actually a community of people who don’t have great resources, who don’t have access to help, who aren’t being protected and looked after by their families," Schreiber said. people.com/liev-schreib...

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Liev Schreiber Says Trans Daughter Kai Is a 'Fighter' Who Is 'as Feisty and Outspoken as They Come'

Liev Schreiber is opening up about parenting his transgender daughter, Kai. The family will soon appear at a benefit gala to support homeless LGBTQ+ youth.
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Fun project for friday evening. I am hosting some unmaintained web sites for a few friends and they help me to pay the hosting costs in return.
Now I have found out I need php 7.4 for some of these and it's not readily available so building php 7.4.33 on up to date arch linux.

I am afraid this will no longer be possible in the future. How do you deal with this? Can I run PHP in some kind of lightweight container?

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Nomination period is open for the Governing Board, new releases across the ecosystem, Conduit's new maintainer Matthias has released v0.10.0, and a fresh episode of Matrix Live. All that and more in This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/05/09/thi…

This Week in Matrix 2025-05-09

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Getting keyboard accessibility right is essential for building inclusive digital experiences, but it can be hard to know where to start.

In this Foundations post on Keyboard Accessibility, Accessibility Specialist Demelza Feltham breaks down the foundations of keyboard accessibility, offering practical tips and examples to help you design and build interfaces that work for everyone.

Read it on the TetraLogical blog at: tetralogical.com/blog/2025/05/…

The title Foundations: Keyboard accessibility is written across an orange background with the TetraLogical logo. Demelza Feltham's smiling face is shown in a headshot on the bottom right corner above her name

Foundations: Keyboard accessibility - TetraLogical

By prioritising semantic HTML and offering keyboard-friendly alternatives for complex interactions, you help create a more inclusive experience for people who use a keyboard.
TetraLogical

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What on earth, SoundCloud??

"In the absence of a separate agreement that states otherwise, You explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence or machine intelligence technologies or services as part of and for providing the services."

soundcloud.com/terms-of-use

via @sarahdal crispsandwi.ch/@sarahdal/11447…

#soundcloud #AI #copyright #musicians #AITraining

saraaaaargh (@sarahdal@crispsandwi.ch)

SoundCloud new T&Cs - your uploaded music will be used to train AI https://soundcloud.com/terms-of-use from https://bsky.app/profile/theflightmusic.bsky.social/post/3loqazjjayk2u
crispsandwi.ch 🥪🐘
#copyright #AI #musicians #AITraining #soundcloud @saraaaaargh

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So, I'm about to try Slint! Thanks to @JessDail for reminding me about it. Except this time I'm going to try it in a VM because I do not want a repeat of the Fedora incident from a week ago. Ugh.

slint.fr/en/home.html

#accessibility #slackware #slint #linux #foss #blind

About Slint

slint.fr
#Accessibility #linux #foss #blind #slackware #slint @Jessica Dail
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GNOME Welcomes Its Google Summer of Code 2025 Contributors!

We are happy to announce that five contributors are joining the GNOME community as part of GSoC 2025!

This year’s contributors will work on backend isolation in GNOME Papers, adding eBPF profiling to Sysprof, adding printing support in GNOME Crosswords, and Vala’s XML/JSON/YAML integration improvements. Let’s give them a warm welcome!

In the coming days, our new contributors will begin onboarding in our community channels and services. Stay tuned to Planet GNOME to read their introduction blog posts and learn more about their projects.

If you want to learn more about Google Summer of Code internships with GNOME, visit gsoc.gnome.org.

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GNOME GSoC

Participate in Google Summer of Code with GNOME
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New in Foobar2000 for Mac V2.25 preview: "Added keyboard shortcut mapping functionality."

Yeeees!!!! This is what I've been waiting for for ages. The Mac version received everything else I used, and behaves very similarly and runs just as quickly as the Windows version, but literal 0 support for hotkeys was a dealbreaker. It goes without saying that, like the Windows version you need to go in and set up the keys yourself and at least for this initial preview there is absolutely no default hotkeys defined where the Windows one at least has some menu items configured. It also currently doesn't support global shortcuts or hotkeys without a modifier so sadly still no space to play or pause for me. Even then this is a huge improvement and I can actually see myself using this as my default player now also on Mac. You can download from here

foobar2000.org/mac

CC @masonasons think you were also waiting for this.

foobar2000 for Mac

www.foobar2000.org

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Servo Report Week 17 & 18 2025

Highlights from last 2 weeks:

- servoshell: Make list of options in <select> prompt scrollable
- Initial support for marking custom protocol secure
- layout: Implement `justify-self` for block-level boxes
- Implement `ShadowRoot::setHTMLUnsafe`
- Start adding support for transforms in readable and writable streams
- Continued work on Trusted Types & DevTools improvements

1/2

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1 Meme sagt mehr als 1000 Worte. Oder, Conny?

Wir sind nächsten Freitag in Sachen Aufklärung über Open-Source-Software-Alternativen auf der Digitalen Woche Kiel unterwegs - von Office-Anwendungen über Clouddienste (Nextcloud) bis zum Betriebssystem (Linux).

Wir freuen uns über alle, die sich aufschlauen möchten oder noch weitere Tipps für #OSS-Tools in der Tasche haben.
👉🏼digitalhub.sh/de/termindetails…

Conni erklärt, warum Linux besser ist, als Fenster.

WhatsApp bis Outlook: Open-Source-Alternativen machen dich unabhängig – probier’s einfach aus - DigitalHub.SH

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#oss
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Did you see this? It's an artist's conception of how gravity from the tiny moon Daphnis creates ripples in Saturn's rings - created by Kevin Gill of NASA.

This image was pretty popular here, and elsewhere on the web - but people often don't come out and say from the start that it's not a photo. The actual photos are less beautiful but... hey, they're real! And the ripples look different in the photos. Let's take a look.

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Saturn's moon Daphnis in the Keeler gap in the A ring, as artistically depicted by Kevin Gill of NASA here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmgill/29111229131 The moon, sitting in the gap, creates lots of ripples in the inner part of the ring and a few in the outer part. Saturn can be seen below.
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This 2005 photo, taken by the Cassini probe, was the first time anyone actually saw Saturn's moon Daphnis! It's only 8 kilometers across.

This gap in Saturn's A ring was first discovered by Voyager, and it was named the Keeler Gap. It's 35 kilometers wide. I guess this gap let people guess the existence of a moon, and later the ripples in the A ring let people guess where the moon must be! I don't really know the history here.

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Daphnis is visible as a white speck between a more rippled ring to the left and a less rippled one to the right. From https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06237 "Cassini's confirmation that a small moon orbits within the Keeler gap in Saturn's rings is made all the more exciting by this image, in which the disk of the 7 kilometer-wide body (4-miles) is resolved for the first time. The new body, provisionally named S/2005 S1, was first seen in a time-lapse sequence of images taken on May 1, 2005, as Cassini began its climb to higher elevations in orbit around Saturn (see PIA06238 for the movie). This view was acquired one day after the discovery sequence of images and has allowed scientists to measure the moon's size and brightness. This image was obtained with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 2, 2005, at a distance of about 594,000 kilometers (369,000 miles) from Saturn. Cassini was about 525,000 kilometers (326,000 miles) above the ringplane when the image was taken. Resolution in the original image was 3 kilometers (2 miles) per pixel. The image has been magnified by a factor of two, and contrast has been enhanced, to aid visibility of the small moonlet."
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Open Document Format (ODF) is the standard format in #LibreOffice – but can also be used in many other office suites (including Microsoft's!) And now we're celebrating its 20th anniversary: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #openstandards
Image of first slide from presentation about the 20th anniversary of ODF, and the ODF Advocacy Project

ODF 20th Anniversary Video - The Document Foundation Blog

On May 1st, 2005, the Open Document Format (ODF) become an OASIS standard. One year after, it became an ISO/IEC standard.
Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice #openstandards

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Salt Typhoon cyberattacks exposed major flaws in U.S. telecom networks.

Unencrypted SMS, voice, even MFA = compromised..

At Purism, we build secure tech: Isolated baseband radios Post-Quantum Crypto Decentralized apps Private LTE

puri.sm/posts/why-the-salt-typ…


Why the Salt Typhoon Hacks Make Our Public Networks Vulnerable – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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#PSA Heads up: Soundcloud will use your content to train AI

ETA: Lovely news! The change to SoundCloud's terms of service happened in February 2024; they've been stealing your intellectual property for a whole-ass year.

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#ArtificialIntelligence #GenAI #SoundCloud

By uploading your content to the platform, you also grant a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid up, license to other users of the platform, and to operators and users of any other websites, apps and/or platforms to which your content has been share or embedded using the services ("linked services"), to use, copy, listen to offline, repost, transmit or otherwise distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, adapt, prepare derivative works of, complile, make available and otherwise communicate ot the public, your content utilizing the features of the platform from time to time, and within the parameters set by you using the services in the absence of a separate agreement that states otherwise. (underlined in red) You explicitly agree that your content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence or machine intelligence technologies (end underlined section) or services as part of and for providing the services. For the avoidance of doubt, neither soundcloud nor any third party is allowed to (i) use, copy or....

SoundCloud Quietly Forced Artists to Let AI Feast on Their Music

SoundCloud, a music-sharing platform loved by new and independent artists, updated its terms to allow it to use artists' work for AI training.
Maggie Harrison Dupré (Futurism)
#psa #artificialintelligence #genai #soundcloud
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.


(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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rook

Here’s a fun one… Microsoft added copilot features to sharepoint. The copilot system has its own set of access controls. The access controls let it see things that normal users might not be able to see. Normal users can then just ask copilot to tell them the contents of the files and pages that they can’t see themselves. Luckily, no business would ever put sensitive information in their sharepoint system, so this isn’t a realistic threat, haha.

Obviously Microsoft have significant resources to research and fix the security problems that LLM integration will bring with it. So much money. So many experts. Plenty of time to think about the issues since the first recall debacle.

And this is what they’ve accomplished.

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Exploiting Copilot AI for SharePoint | Pen Test Partners

TL;DR AI Assistants are becoming far more common Copilot for SharePoint is Microsoft’s answer to generative AI assistance on SharePoint Attackers will look to exploit anything they can get their hands on Your current controls and logging may be insuf…
Jack Barradell-Johns (Pen Test Partners)

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In de zoektocht naar het terugdringen van de (winter)sterfte onder honingbijen waagt het Belgische biotechbedrijf Apix Biosciences zijn kans met een stuifmeelvervanger.

Maar deze nieuwe technofix doet niets aan de kern van het probleem: “Bijen hebben nood aan meer onbespoten bloemen”.

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Honingbijen hebben geen vervangers maar meer stuifmeel nodig

De aandacht voor een nieuwe technofix leidt af van de ware oorzaken van bijensterfte.
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Coming to a future release of #LibreOffice: Spotlight commands in the Style Inspector. Learn more in the QA and development report for April: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #OpenSource
Screenshot of Style Inspector in the LibreOffice Writer Sidebar

QA/Dev Report: April 2025 - LibreOffice QA Blog

General Activities Olivier Hallot (TDF) fixed displaying help for a particular module from the command line, updated help after changes to object boundaries options, improved help on BASIC format codes and added type information to BASIC help pages, …
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#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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