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this week I found out that when you start the Debian Linux instaler with speech, and it detects multiple soundcards, it cycles between them and you can press enter to choose the one that actually works. Most installers just pick a random soundcard and send speech through it. Maybe it picks the internal speakers, maybe it picks the digital output that has nothing hooked up to it. If you can't hear your machine, you'll have no idea the installer started, and good luck switching soundcards after that. As far as I know, the Windows installer certainly doesn't have a soundcard selection for narrator.
This would never be a problem with Debian installations because it will just keep cycling through the soundcards until the speech becomes audible. I know we all love to hate on Linux accessibility, but sometimes the thought that goes into the design of the simplest things is really quite impressive. This is also very on-brand for Linux and I'm definitely here for it.
At the time when this happened, I was on a call with Aira and had forgotten to turn up my speakers, so I know the machine displays a "Press enter to select device 1", "Press enter to select device 2..." prommpt, but I can't 100% confirm that the speech follows along. It seems like a safe assumption though, and at some point I'll do a proper test with multiple outputs and make a recording.
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Things go from bad to worse for Elmo, the incels' favourite crush.

"French Tesla customers file lawsuit over brand becoming 'extreme-right' symbol. A group of Tesla customers in France are demanding that their lease contracts be terminated and legal costs be reimbursed over the "direct and concrete" damage suffered from the brand's association with Elon Musk's activities in the Trump administration and his support for far-right parties in Europe."

france24.com/en/live-news/2025…

#Swastikars


French Tesla customers file lawsuit over brand becoming 'extreme-right' symbol

A group of Tesla customers in France are demanding that their lease contracts be terminated and legal costs be reimbursed over the "direct and concrete" damage suffered from the brand's association with Elon Musk's activities in the Trump administrat…
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Hmm tak zatím to na #android16 na #grapheneos nevypadá. Tak snad vše dopadne dobře.
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GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)

In May, we began preparing to port to Android 16 despite our most active senior developer responsible for leading OS development being unavailable (https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114359660453627718).
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#grapheneos #android16
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The Man in #Seat61 seems like a relic from a forgotten age of the #Internet.

Seat61.com is a genuinely useful website created by just one guy, a train travel enthusiast who has curated a vast array of information that will help anyone who would like to travel in #Europe by #train

He is not trying to sell you anything and there are no adverts (apart from a few affiliate ids).

His website has won various "best travel website" awards. Notably the last one was in 2012.

seat61.com/


The Man in Seat 61 - for train travel

How to travel by train in Europe & worldwide: Schedules, fares & how to buy tickets.
www.seat61.com
#europe #Internet #train #seat61

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'It's terrifying': The Everest climbs putting Sherpas in danger

by Tulsi Rauniyar

"Long portrayed as "superhuman" guides and porters, Sherpas face many dangers in the mountains and are beginning to tell their side of the story. Are there ways to make their work safer?"

bbc.com/future/article/2025053…

Books about Mount Everest at PG:

gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/2…

Everest and Changtse, 1921 by George Mallory

#mountaineering

Black and white photograph of Everest and Changtse "from page 219 of Howard-Bury, C. K. (1922). Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 (1 ed.). New York, Longman & Green. Howard-Bury (15 August 1881 – 20 September 1963)" - from Picyrl

'It's terrifying': The Everest climbs putting Sherpas in danger

Tulsi Rauniyar (BBC)
#mountaineering

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Jimmy Kimmel Tells the Truth About What’s REALLY Happening in LA. I've never heard him so angry before. He's not doing comedy: he's doing truth.

Jimmy Kimmel Tells the Truth About What’s REALLY Happening in LA

Jimmy talks about what’s actually happening in Los Angeles right now for those who believe the city is some kind of totalitarian hellscape, protesters voicin...
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🎟️EXTRA TICKETS RELEASED🎟️

You’re incredible! Tickets for DevConf.CZ have officially sold out — but no need to panic! 🙌

We’ve just released a limited batch of EXTRA TICKETS for those who missed out.

👉Act now to avoid disappointment: devconf.info/cz/#registration

#opensource #DevConf_CZ #community #DefineFuture

DevConf.CZ | Brno, Czechia

DevConf are free and open, annual, open-source community conferences for community contibutors, sponsored by Red Hat.
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The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it’s time to consider Linux and #LibreOffice: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… @Endof10 #foss #OpenSource
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The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog

The Document Foundation and LibreOffice support the international campaign @endof10 https://endof10.org/ The countdown has begun. On 14 October 2025, Microsoft will end support for Windows 10.
Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice @End Of 10 Campaign

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LibreOffice

@vol4life8657 Well, it's been worked on for years: libreoffice.org/get-help/acces… – And last year TDF took on a full-time accessibility developer. But is there something specific you want?

Accessibility | LibreOffice - Free and private office suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft

LibreOffice, Accessibility, ODF, Open Standards, interface
www.libreoffice.org
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Apple Shifts iPhone Production to India—But Purism Has Been Leading the Way for Over a Decade

Amid rising U.S.-China tensions, Apple is fast-tracking its move to shift iPhone production to India, aiming for a full transition by 2026.

puri.sm/posts/apple-moves-ipho…


Apple Moves iPhone Production to India—Purism Has Been Leading the Way for Years – 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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"Part of our task in the face of generative AI is to make an argument for the value of thinking – laboured, painful, frustrating thinking."

"[W]e also need to hold our institutions accountable. [...] university administrators are highly susceptible to the temptations of technology-driven downsizing, big tech donations, and the appearance of being on the cutting edge."

activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06/…


On Generative AI in the Classroom: Give Up, Give In, or Stand Up

Edward Dunsworth Two approaches dominate discussion about how professors should handle generative “artificial intelligence” in the classroom: give up or give in. Give up. Faced with a powerful new …
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Avoiding generative models is the rational and responsible thing to do – follow-up to “Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’”: baldurbjarnason.com/2025/follo…

Avoiding generative models is the rational and responsible thing to do – follow-up to “Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI...’”

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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⚠️ JAWS bug and no apparent support with NVDA when aria-label/labelledby used on table headers

#aria #html #a11y

github.com/FreedomScientific/s…


JAWS ignores aria-labelledby on TH · Issue #909 · FreedomScientific/standards-support

Summary Navigate to https://stackblitz.com/edit/stackblitz-starters-bsnuekeb?file=index.html or run locally. Tab to the two buttons in the table's
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Welcome Edwin Török as #curl commit author 1377: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1754…

openssl: enable readahead and increase read buffer size (improves download speed) by edwintorok · Pull Request #17548 · curl/curl

I ran strace on curl and noticed that it is doing a lot of very short reads, of exactly 5 bytes, followed by a larger read. strace Before recvfrom(4, "\27\3\3@\30", 5, 0, NULL, NULL) = 5 ...
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New app added to the Accessible Android apps directory: Anytime Podcast Player accessible accessibleandroid.com/app/anyt… @amugofjava #Android #App

Anytime Podcast Player - Accessible Android

Anytime is a free and open-source podcast player app. It is designed to be simple and easy to use, whilst including more modern features such as chapters,
Accessible Android
#android #app @Ben Hills
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Just a reminder that J.K.Rowling has said that any money she gets from the HP franchise she sees as support of her trans-phobia and she WILL funnel said funds towards further anti-trans and TERF activism.

Supporting the HP franchise in any way, whether watching movies, buying merch, or being part of the new HP TV Show is explicity enabling and endorsing anti-trans and TERF activism.
From: @xtaldave
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I feel slightly better about accidentally taking her out with my rucksack in Greenwich market now. "Katherine Parkinson accepts Harry Potter role..." https://www.thepinknews.
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📱 Switzerland is thinking about a drastic tightening of its surveillance law!

With the BÜPF revision, email providers could be forced to supply metadata to authorities in real time. Particularly affected: services that previously advertised strict data protection. End-to-end encryption remains protected, but your IP addresses, recipient data and locations would be monitored.

Learn more about this worrying development: mailbox.org/en/post/buepf-revi…

#DataProtection #Surveillance #Switzerland

A graphic showing the Swiss Federal Palace with Swiss flags, featuring the headline ‘Are we on the brink of digital X-ray surveillance?’ and a subheading about the BÜPF revision. A green button at the bottom reads ‘Read the blog now’.

BÜPF Revision: The Swiss Surveillance Law | mailbox.org

What does the planned tightening of Swiss surveillance legislation mean for email users? Read our blog now.
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#surveillance #DataProtection #switzerland

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It's really harder and harder to understand why is #GNOME alienating itself more and more form the rest of the community. Looks like we'll end up with GTK only for GNOME and GNOME only for #Linux and #systemd. I have no problems with systemd in particular, but making it a hard requirement is a limiting factor.

blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/202…

Introducing stronger dependencies on systemd

PSA for systemd-free distros about work they'll need to do to continue running GNOME
Adrian (Adrian's blog)
#linux #gnome #systemd
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Ivan Jelić

@ebassi I don't think anyone is surprised with systemd, I mean we are all using it, or majority at least. Although, I always thought of our ecosystem as one providing diversity and choice, not dominance. Maybe that's not viable down the line, and that's legit, you guys developing stuff know the best. If GNOME needs this kind of direction in order to be here, let it be. We'll see how that's gonna fly, though.
@Emmanuele Bassi

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After some deliberation I decided to move my development stack from Windows to Linux.

I've been using windows for over 20 years and always loved it's backwards compatibility and stuff, but recently it has become borderline unusable and gets in the way of my work.

It took me like a single day to configure everything and it just works, and also works better than Windows too! I posted a thread of my reasoning and experience on BS (sorry):

bsky.app/profile/sosowski.bsky…

#gamedev #indiedev #linux

#linux #gamedev #indiedev

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🎓 "Making a career out of FOSS Internships (GSoC/Outreachy)"
with Aryan Kaushik at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 12:05 CEST 📍 Brescia

💼 FOSS can lead to real careers. Aryan explains how GSoC & Outreachy changed lives—and why you should get involved too.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#OpenSource #GSoC #Outreachy #GNOME

The image shows graphically what's announced in the post. It contains the GNOME logo, the name of the speaker, the photo of the speaker and the title of the talk. It moreover contains a graphical rappresentation of the city of the conference, Brescia, and the dates of the conference.

GUADEC 2025

Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.
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#opensource #gnome #gsoc #outreachy #guadec2025

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Apparently, if you have facebook or Instagram installed on your *Android* phone, Meta was able to track your browsing habits and link them to your real identity even if you never logged in on the web, used incognito mode or a VPN.

zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-t…


“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.

You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.
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Prof. Sam Lawler

My takeaway: Satellite launches are undoing the recovery of the ozone layer that should be happening now that CFCs are banned. And this study doesn't even take into account metal deposition from reentries, which might be even worse!

When I teach climate change in my astro classes, I always give the recovery of the ozone layer as an example of how countries can work together to fix a giant problem (Montreal Protocol). I guess satellite companies are now destroying that too.

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Apparently, if you have facebook or Instagram installed on your phone, #Meta was able to track your browsing habits and link them to your real identity even if you never logged in on the web, used incognito mode or a VPN. I hope Meta gets hit with every fine in the book.

zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-t…


“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.

You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.
Jorge García Herrero (Zero Party Data)
#meta

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