I can't believe that the UK would even contemplate deporting an 8 year old and an 12 year old to Brazil alone. This is the letter the home office sent the 11 year old:

“I am satisfied that there are no serious or compelling reasons to grant you settlement. I am satisfied that you could return to Brazil and continue your education in Brazil where you would have the option to attend an English-speaking school.

Whilst this may involve a degree of disruption in family life this is considered to be proportionate to the legitimate aim of maintaining effective immigration control.”


I'm ashamed at the actions of this country.

#UkPolitics #Shameful #Children #Immigration

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…

Ooo lookie, accessibility is not planned. Lol. As usual. Cause foss is just a toy that no one actually depends on.

github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral…

#accessibility #foss #RemoteDesktop #Mesh

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If you’ve paid attention to my ramblings over the last decade-plus, then you’ve heard me to talk about selfish accessibility.

It’s nice to see others embrace it.

“Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs”
nolanlawson.com/2025/06/16/sel…

#accessibility #a11y

🔐 "Fixing Desktop Keyrings"
with Dhanuka Warusadura at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 12:30 CEST 📍 Brescia
🧩 GNOME 49 plans to replace gnome-keyring with a new D-Bus Secret Service. Here’s what’s changing.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#GNOME #Security #Keyring #OpenSource

🍜 "State of libsoup"
with Patrick Griffis at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 12:30 CEST 📍 Brescia
🔧 From 3.0 to what’s next—Patrick gives an update on GNOME’s HTTP library libsoup.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#GNOME #libsoup #Networking #OpenSource

“Big Brother Tactics”: Why Bill C-2’s New Warrantless Disclosure Demand Powers Extend Far Beyond Internet and Telecom Providers
michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/big-br…

We could just ... not give police tear gas. That is a decision we could make. A state or city could make that decision, and remove it from inventory.

Maybe police do not actually need area-denial weaponry present at every public gathering. Maybe "people are throwing bottles at us, therefore tear gas" need not be the standard playbook.

The medical research on the _safety_ of CS gas suggests a spectrum from "unknown" to "probably dangerous, particularly the way it actually used": propublica.org/article/tear-ga… med.umn.edu/news/u-m-study-sho…

I had less luck finding studies about its _effectiveness_ of CS gas for the presumed goals of police forces: officer safety and encouraging compliance with dispersal order. I found a lot of quotes from police along the lines of "well, the only alternative is bashing people with batons" One study of the introduction of CS spray in UK police forces (for personal protection, not crowd control) did not find a clear win: doi.org/10.1108/13639510010343…

Anecdotally, we might look at the current situation at LA, or that a few years ago in Minneapolis, and note that CS gas was not effective in reducing crowd antagonism, even if it does move people from one place to another.

We did it! 🥳🎉

Thanks to you, we achieved all the objectives of the crowdfunding campaign for the #PeerTube mobile app!

Thank you so much for your support during the campaign! 🥰

To mark the occasion, we've written a final article: joinpeertube.org/news/crowdfun…

in reply to iNecas

In Gulliver's Travels, the Laputans had a machine called The Engine that put words together randomly, with scribes writing down any meaningful phrases that happened to be formed.

"Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences; whereas, by his contrivance, the most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.”

The Wikipedia page for The Engine currently says "See also Large Language Model".

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#EOSAcademy hosted a session on
#OpenSource Skills in the #AI Era – Perspectives from the European Open Source Academy at #UNOpenSourceWeek

The panel was moderated by @nicholas gates ( @OpenForumEurope ) with excellent insights from : David Cuartielles ( Malmo University), @Amandine ( @matrix ), Sachiko Muto (RISE, OpenForum Europe), Walid Mathlouthi ( International Telecommunication Union), Joshua Tan (Metagov).

Read more about the Academy: lnkd.in/eFG3ZQwk

There's this whole article about KiCad being broken on Wayland... but apparently it's all just a distro packaging problem???

kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-a…

The article doesn't mention XWayland at all, but KiCad works perfectly under XWayland as far as I can tell, and that is the default on at least Fedora! wxwidgets (the toolkit KiCad uses) is still flaky under native Wayland apparently, but it is perfectly okay to keep using XWayland for now, and you should! Apps and toolkits should not switch the default backend to Wayland until all major regressions are fixed, that's kind the whole reason why XWayland exists!

Here's a thread on the story: forum.kicad.info/t/not-the-sel…

If you are on a distro that enables KiCad Wayland support by default and you experience the issues in that blog post, you don't need to (and probably should not) switch to an X11 session. Just launch KiCad as GDK_BACKEND=x11 kicad and it should run under XWayland just as well as it does under X11 sessions.

Some distros are dropping support for the legacy Xorg server and X11-native sessions, but nobody is dropping support for X11 apps and XWayland, and nobody should be concerned about running apps in X11 mode for as long as it's needed!

Edit: If you're on GNOME with fractional scaling and XWayland apps are blurry, apparently there's a secret toggle to fix that these days.

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🌿 New Group for Disabled Christians! ✝️♿

I'm excited to announce the launch of Imago Dei Disability Fellowship, a GroupMe community for Christians with all kinds of disabilities to connect, support one another, and advocate for accessibility and justice, all grounded in biblical truth.

This group is rooted in a conservative Christian worldview, including traditional beliefs about Scripture, gender, and identity. If you're looking for a space to talk about faith, disability, and advocacy without woke ideology—this is for you.

👉 Join here

Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.


— Romans 12:4-5 (NLT)

All are welcome who seek to follow Christ and live out the truth that we are made in the image of God. 💜

#DisabilityCommunity #DisabledAndChristian #ImagoDei #FaithAndDisability #DisabilityJustice #ChristianFellowship #MultipleDisabilities #AccessibilityMatters #BiblicalWorldview #DisabilityAdvocacy #ChristianCommunity #Christian #Christians #faith
@christians @disability@a.gup.pe @disability@beehaw.org @mastoblind @main @actuallyautistic @chronicillness @spoonies

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Od minuleho ctvrtka si delam reflexi prace s juniornimi vyvojari vs Codex. Nakousli jsme to s kolegou z Kalkulacky.

Rok pracuju s juniornim vyvojarem (placenym) a mesic s Codexem.

TL;DR: Codex mi dokaze juniora nejenom kompletne nahradit, ale za soucasne VC dumpingove ceny je 36x efektivnejsi.

Vsechno delam komentari v kodu, prompt je jenom "najdi koment TODO: Agent - neco a udelej ho." Muj Linear je vyhledavani TODO: v codebase.

*Cenova kalkulace nize

#it #junior #vyvoj #ai #codex

in reply to Martin Wenisch

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U juniora i Codexu mam za sebou dost ukolu na normalizaci. 1 normo-ukol je priblizne 4h casu => 1068 Kc.

Codex me stoji ve VC cenach 5219 Kc mesicne.

S Codexem jsem odbavil 175 produkcnich normo-ukolu => 1 ukol ~ 30 Kc.

Kdybych mel stejnou mesicni davku odbavit juniory stali by me 186900 Kc.

Jedina vyhoda juniornich vyvojaru je preciznost. Vsechno ostatni bere Codex. Coz je dost smutne a jestli AI vyrazne nezdrazi, tak to bude budouci trh dost bolet.

#it #junior #vyvoj #ai #codex

in reply to Tomáš Znamenáček

@zoul Diky za otazku, mel jsem ji pripravenou.

Neni. Je to presne naopak, Codex je v tomhle smyslu "investice".

Ja platim fixne aktualni MDM (striktne). Pokud bych mel juniora brat jako investici, tak by se za fixni plat musel v case zlepsovat a zaroven byt s tou MDM dlouhodobe spokojeny. A dlouhodobe je v horizontu let => musel byt pro me pracovat 2-3 roky vyrazne pod trzni cenou. To se nestane.

Naopak cenova valka AI a jeho postupne zlepsovani de opacnym smerem (AI mi zustane a bude lepsi).

in reply to Martin Wenisch

@zoul Já se v těch nástrojích moc nevyznám, ale je už nějaký, který by svým vlastníkům generoval zisk nebo se tomu alespoň nevzdaloval? Zatím mám pocit, že do AI jen bohatí lijou peníze a doufají / věří, že se jim to jednou vrátí. Ale pokud ztráta časem exponenciálně roste (jak jsem někde četl ohledně Open AI) a prodává se za dumpingové ceny, tak bych asi úplně cenovou válku neočekával, spíš “konsolidaci” a výhledově zdražení.
in reply to Marek Demčák

@marekzprahy @zoul Na urovni organizace ne, ale na urovni produktu uz to tak byt muze.

OpenAI ma pro nejnovejsi modely drahe API, ale zaroven je prodava vyrazne pod cenou v ChatGPT produktu.

Claude Code je asi prvni, kde verim, ze ops celeho toho ekosystemu je v plusu.

AI Studio od Googlu, jeho casti, kde se plati per-1m tokenu taky.

Pro ne je to spis testovani, jak vysoko s cenou muzou jit a taky tim davaji "prilezitost" jinym startupum (a jejich VCs) ziskat uzivatele dumpnutim ceny API.

in reply to Tomáš Znamenáček

@zoul Presne tak. Co vacsina ludi ignoruje ze ak toto zacnu robit vsetci, o par rokov nebudu ziadni seniori, a tie tvoje TODO commenty tam nebude mat kto davat.

A co sa tyka ceny, tie LLM tooly pojdu nevyhnutne cenovo hore. Momentalne je v USA obrovska "AI" bublina ktora zerie miliony dolarov denne od investorov, a "AI" firmy sa zufalo snazia najst nejaky udrzatelny revenue stream predtym nez investori stratia trpezlivost. Zatial bezvysledne.

in reply to ticho

@ticho @zoul Ano, tohle je obrovske riziko a duvod, proc jsem psal, ze to bude pro budouci trh tragedie.

Ale je strasne odvazne predikovat, ze ta bublina praskne. Signaly jsou na obe strany:

Pro prasknuti:
- Realna cena Claude Code (za podobnou praci ~$2k) => jenom 4x levnejsi.

Proti prasknuti:
- Demokratizace LLM za nulovou marzi => provider bude vlastnit elektrarnu a prodavat elektrinu v podobe AI.
- Zlepseni efektivity (viz treba Bottlecap AI).

Neni to cernobile.

"Free Software is free as in freedom, open source is free as in labour."

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2…

socket.dev/blog/libxml2-mainta…

We've come a long, long way... (Top screenshot is StarOffice from the mid-'90s, and bottom is LibreOffice today.) Learn more about the software's roots, with Stefan Soyka: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware

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This team picture was taken 7 years ago and the world looked much brighter back then.

Yet, we at Tuta will keep fighting for your right to privacy. Encryption must stay strong - for journalists, dissidents, businesses, and for YOU!

Read Hanna's comment on how Signalgate 2.0 proves that backdoors must never be allowed:
👉 tuta.com/blog/opinion-signalga…

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#AudioMo 18:

This is a silly sequence thing I did in the early morning hours of October 11, 2015, using an Arturia Microbrute and a Korg ARP Odyssey, both analog sequencers, in combination with a Digitech Studio Quad IV processor. I made a very basic sequence using the Microbrute's onboard step sequencer, connected the CV pitch and gate outputs from the Microbrute to the Odyssey, turned on the sequencer, then just played with a bunch of sliders and knobs, including filters, envelopes, effects sends, panning and tempo, all while this simple sequence that really seems to enjoy moving around in fourths continues.

It's nothing that was ever meant to be anything real. Just me messing around on a boring Sunday morning.

For the past five days, we've had to go to the bomb shelter several times a day to protect ourselves from Iranian missiles. This morning, they sent 20 missiles closer to our apartment than any of the previous attacks. One of the Missiles landed in the next town and created a great big hole.

This is what it sounded like from our kitchen window.

The recording Starts with the air raid sirens, and then just before they finish at about 90 seconds, you start to hear the interceptions.

Krásné dobré ráno mastodonní děckapecka! 🙋‍♀️🐶🐈
Mně dneska začíná volno! S Otcem rodu vyrážíme na Šumavu. Potomci zůstávají doma. Archibaldík taky. Zkouška pro nás oba. 😂 Lednice je plná k prasknutí. Špajz taky. Navařeno jest. Nádrž u náhradního vozidla plná. Tousty na cestu v procesu. Bez těch by to Otec rodu nedal. 😁
Nebojte, mě se nezbavíte. Pokud bude signál, já přijdu! 😁😁😁
Vy zůstaňte na svých přijímačích a nezlobte tady! 😊
#dobre_rano
#dobréRáno

Pilot compiling with #poudriere for #FreeBSD #ports went well! It did seem a bit complicated to configure at first but sing ports made easy with #poudriere and #jail. It was so simple and straightforward to actually run #poudriere that I secretly thought it took out all the fun of seeing scrolling screens of compling! #BSD #Unix #UseBSD #RunBSD #FOSS

I have followed this guy on YouTube who reviews restaurants and public transit in LA for the past year or so and today he uploaded food reviews at the LA protests and it's fantastic. You can see quiet, chill citizens marching for better treatment then masked marines looking like stormtroopers deployed for no good reason. youtube.com/watch?v=lpeG4S6a7k…

a friend of mine who was already having a hard time just had a hit and run that is making things even harder for her, and may finally break her financially without some help.

please consider donating if you are able, any little bit helps:

gofund.me/8b0af8bf

#MutualAid

Well, the time is almost upon us, well me and my captain anyway. The big bike ride is on Saturday... 4 more sleeps as they say. Just 4 more days of fundraising and then it's 130 KM of hopefully not too hot cycling. For everyone who have donated, thank you so much, it meanhs a lot for not only me, but for the organizations that will receive the funds. And thank you so much for cheering me on virtually on Saturday. I'll see if I can do a few live audio or videos on here. Have to figure out how: raceroster.com/events/2025/916…
in reply to NV Access

That's rather interesting and odd. I've tried a private browsing window and it was still showing 2024.4.2, then I tried a regular window, and only after CTRL+F5 the issue was resolved, though multiple people are noticing the same thing. Originally it was reported by a few users on the audiogames forum and I wanted to check if you can do something on your end, something seems to be cached that shouldn't be.