Also in the early afternoon, at 14:00 DebConf Time (12:00 UTC) two BoFs: the "Go Team BoF", then the "Salsa BoF" where you could meet Salsa admins in Grand Amphi, and in Petit Amphi the talk "Testing Debian on embedded systems using labgrid and gitlab-ci" followed at 15:00 by "What’s new in Apertis, a Debian derivative tailored for industrial embedded devices" debconf25.debconf.org/schedule… #debian #debconf25 #debianfrance #brest
Do you have ideas on what might make a more welcoming, exciting and rewarding community experience for Thunderbird users & developers?
We're gathering ideas on how to strengthen and improve the Thunderbird community. So, whether you are a long-time contributor or a curious newbie, we would love to hear your thoughts! Share your suggestions below and help shape the future of our community!
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@vartak This is on our roadmap, but we need the underlying work on our database to be done first! You can read how that work is going in the Thunderbird Monthly Development Digests at blog.thunderbird.net
I'm at #DebConf25 today and tomorrow (and Saturday morning too)! If you see me walking around in a blue @thunderbird hoodie feel free to come up for a chat! 🙂
LibreOffice 24.8 has now reached the end of life, so all users have to update their free office suite to the latest release Berlin, 17 July 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.2.
@eudaimon Line composers are used in programmes that are intended for printing on A4, Legal or Letter:
If the end of a line is reached and you continue typing, the now full line is finalised - and remains so if you do not change anything in it (or in an earlier line of the same paragraph).
Paragraph composers always look at entire paragraphs and adjust the lines they contain as evenly as possible:
Less saccade disruption, better reading rhythm, so more intense immersion. 😊
@khzimmer2 @eudaimon You could submit it as an enhancement request on bugs.documentfoundation.org – But of course, we're a volunteer-driven project with very limited resources. To get a new feature more quickly, you can consider helping our volunteers, or funding a developer. Thank you ☺️👍
I've been wondering for ages whether I should do it.
This would probably be preceded by a lengthy discussion, as the layouting would not only change, but also the good old "user experience":
If I stand with the cursor in the middle of a paragraph and change it, the cursor would 'jump' together with the text (which is wrapped in a flash as I type).
@ov_dragonman Hi! "Can't get to import properly" is quite broad. Please ask on ask.libreoffice.org with specific details about what's going wrong, error message(s) etc. and someone there should be able to help you 👍
LibreOffice 24.8 has now reached the end of life, so all users have to update their free office suite to the latest release Berlin, 17 July 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.2.
Signal est régulièrement désigné comme LA meilleure application de messagerie sécurisée.
Pour autant, cette supériorité universelle et présentée sans nuance relève d'un manque de finesse de l'analyse.
I once worked with a UI designer who insisted it was impossible to create a product that was both within the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and aesthetically pleasing. ‘It can be pretty…
We are a week away from GUADEC 2025, and I'll be there alongside other Igalians from various teams. We have presentations covering a diverse set of topics, but we also enjoy talking about what Igalia does, so feel free to have a chat with us.
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.
This year I have two presentations; the first one, on July 24, is a technical talk about the "GType Next" project that I blogged about in 2023. I'm going to present the work I've done (less than I'd like, more than I expected) on moving the GLib type system into the 21st century; why it matters for the long term viability of GNOME; and how that will affect writing libraries, bindings, and applications:
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.
The second one, on July 25, is a presentation on how to codify, document, and improve the technical governance of the GNOME project nearly 28 years after the fact:
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.
#DobréRanko všem... Dnes je to ve mlýně "na Komárka". Výjimečně trochu pozdní snídaně, pak na chvilku na rozvodnu, jen naložit pokud vše funguje jak má. No a vzhůru domů, do hor, abych jen vypral, zabalil stan a víkend zase u Sázavy, ale o hodně více po proudu, jdeme natahovat asi 150m plotu. A to bude závěr mého prvního týdne dovolené, 3 dny v práci, 1 den na kole, 1 den doma u pračky a za plotnou, 2 dny tahání plotu. A to bylo včera #55 ....
It's the third day of #DebConf25, in Méridienne you have the opportunity to "Meet the Technical Committee" as every year or watch them online debconf25.debconf.org/schedule… at 09:30 (07:30 UTC), then to take part in the Debian Python BoF at 10:30 DebConf Time #debian #debconf25 #debianfrance #brest
In-Process is now avaialble! A big one this week, which includes: - Official NVDA users email group - Using Google Groups - NVDA 2025.2 Beta now available! - Reporting issues with NVDA - Three quick tips from Noelia
@davetaylor2112 Really? If anything, I would have thought they show it's actually not so hard. I broke it down into key by key steps, and into specific tasks: Searching for an issue, creating an issue, and subscribing to an (already created) issue. Could GitHub make it easier to navigate? Sure, but I don't think the steps would be any shorter if I was describing how to navigate and post on Facebook or anywhere else :)
And right there, you're using another website that people find problematic, why do you think so many blind people used to use the mobile site And you don't even have to explain whatever those phrases were about statusses on FB or anything either. That sort of thing really confuses non techie people
@davetaylor2112 Ok well I wasn't trying to explain Facebook (and that's also one reason I've never attempted to write a guide to using Facebook - that and it changes every two weeks anyway). But really GitHub isn't so hard - not perfect by any means, but definitely useable. Of course, we don't have any more control over how GitHub works than how Facebook works, but if you have feedback on how it could be easier, we would definitely encourage you to raise them with Github themselves too
Thing is, it looks like its probably fine for devs and I think it's OK for techie types. It's not really meant for average end users, and yeah, I so agree with you about FB I really think I need per website settings in NVDA these days, I spend so much time flipping first letter nav or focus mode on and off!
@davetaylor2112 I believe we do have an issue requesting per-website settings. It would definitely be useful. In any case, you ARE still welcome to write to us if you do have a problem which may need an issue written up about it. If I can readily replicate it, I'll probably be willing to write it up for you. It's mostly where i can't replicate it or I'm not going to be able to answer any questions about it that I would be very keen for you to write it up (because you can test a fix etc)
To be fair, most of the issues I have are not with NVDA, especially now. Many of them are to do with websites, and often I don't understand why the issue is happening well enough to write it, and it's a website you have to actively have an account on to see the issue. Things like groups still being announced although I have them turned off, trying to get rid of the right verbosity so I can learlly hear a controlname without listening to all sorts of other stuff
The last heading, Three quick tips from Noelia, has an HTML list problem. The list which comes after this heading doesn't end properly, and the sentence "That’s all for this week" is wrongly listed as a list item belonging to "Press NVDA+b to read the controls available on the current Window"
@Piciok And that is because these fucking capitalists want to reduce costs. A;; people who even finished some translation studioes and philologies can clean their asses with their diplomas, if this trend continies.
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.
Watching on the partners @lemonzest TV here in England and stream has worked good today other then a small Youtube hickup but @pietrodc0 solved it properly
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.
That's also a good time to say thanks to @beeware, whose gbulb project provided async support for GTK for over a decade, and built up the experience that made PyGObject 3.50's async support possible.
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.
As someone who finds the general distaste for the recorder across the board to be very sad given what it's actually capable of if played well, I present this article. In praise of the humble recorder — a gateway instrument for millions of schoolchildren: npr.org/2025/07/16/nx-s1-54562…
@a11yMel All fair. But 1 leads to 2 which leads to 3. :) I think the same is likely true for any instrument. I grant, however, that recorder is often not taught with real enthusiasm or skill, which leads to poor playing that never really improves. I was lucky to have a classroom teacher who actually really loved it as an instrument and was quite passionate about teaching us to play it well and in harmony.
It was a gateway instrument for me, but not as a student. Last year, I was recommended a Youtube video about this topic. This made me research more, and soon I had an alto and a tenor. Finding which of these I wanted led the Youtube algorithm to start serving me tin whistle videos. Now I have four tin whistles and am waiting on a very expensive low F whistle to be made for me by hand. I also still have the recorders.
I was just given my late uncle's tenor recorder. I've played soprano since a child, so was surprised how difficult it is to get a good tone. I'm going to have to spend some serious time on it when it's no longer open windows season.
@sbourne Oo nice! Is it wood? I think wood instruments can take a while to wear back in after they haven't been used for a while, so it could be partially that too perhaps?
CNN - Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor in Manhattan and the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, has been fired from her job. Comey was a prosecutor in the case against Jeffrey Epstein and more recently against Sean “Diddy” Combs. cnn.com/2025/07/16/politics/ma…
Audio Hijack 4.5.2 fixed a handful of bugs, adds full support for recording from Zoho Meeting, and even handles some issues on a forthcoming MacOS version.
#EpsteinFiles #MAGA It's going to get much worse. MAGA are furious and in open revolt and not just about Epstein. They're not happy with the level and violence of the deportations and want more. They're demanding the public execution of 'deep state' criminals they were promised for 8 years.
Trump's Epstein strategy could pit him against loyal supporters
In defending how his administration is handling supposed files... he says "some stupid Republicans" fell for a hoax. bbc.com/news/articles/cjrlg94w…
Aquí comenzando mis nuevos #huaraches. Otra vez voy a cambiar el diseño. Está vez las cintas son más gruesas y voy a quitar una para quedarme con dos cruzadas nomás. Ya me duelen mis deditos de coser y ya rompí una aguja.
How Big Tech Exploits Apps to Circumvent Privacy Laws
Despite GDPR, CCPA, and CPRA, Big Tech continues to bypass data protection laws through a powerful loophole: mobile apps.
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Anyone experienced with doing really long and repetitive json with Json-GLib that can tell me if there's something obvious I'm missing about how to make this less unpleasant to work with? This seems like a fucking slog
@ebassi over in gnome-crosswords / libipuz land, we are waiting for summer of code to be over and things to settle down before starting to move libipuz's JSON code to Rust for this reason. I have a MR for one of the awkards structs there with a ton of fields, and it's so nice to see the code become basically declarative instead of "does this field exist? stringify it? pass it to json-glib?".
@federicomena the simplest way possible is to have a GObject class with its properties, and then use JSON-GLib to serialise/deserialise the properties, because that has some level of reflection; but if you have a dictionary it falls apart…
no problem, glad it worked out. If you have custom data, I also recommend registering (de)serialization functions to boxed types, or overriding the JsonSerializable interface
Apologies - I updated it almost immediately - I had it ready to go earlier in the week but was waiting for the beta which came out yesterday :) New link with correct date: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…
The ultimate guide to creating an accessible formula sheet for low vision and visual accessibility for math and statistics. Includes tips for CVI access too!
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Unfortunately, they seem to only be able to stably exist in low energy environments. Which sounds like a good fit for long term storage, but not so great for many-write environments.
DebConf25, the 26th DebConf, back in France, where the first Debconf took place in July 2000, is one of those with the largest number of attendees, nearly 470 from 50 countries reflecting the diversity of its community and its universal character. debconf25.debconf.org/register… #debian #debconf25 #brest
Do you think inviting Jeremy Bicha (offenderradar.com/offender-det…) to be a presenter at the conference was really a good decision on the project's part? What message does this send about Debian's values, and what does it say to the victims of sexual abuse?
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