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🆕 blog! “I'm never going back to Matrix”

I should love Matrix. It is a decentralised, privacy preserving, multi-platform chat tool. Goodbye Slack and your ridiculous free limits. Adiós Discord and your weird gamification. Suck it IRC with your obscure syntax and faint stench of BO. WhatsApp and Telegram can stick their heads in a bucket of lukewarm sick and sing sea …

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/im-ne…
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#foss #Matrix #OpenSource #rant

#foss #matrix #opensource #rant

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Something to always be aware of: Many wheelchair users can stand and move around for brief periods of time. Not all wheelchair users are paralysed. Reasons for wheelchair use are numerous and varied.

Some wheelchair users choose not to stand in public because chances are they will be chastised and harassed if they do. With more awareness and understanding this risk can hopefully diminish over time.

For example, if a wheelchair user is able to retrieve their own wheelchair from the boot/trunk of their car, this does not mean they are ”faking”, and accusing them of this is ableist in itself.

”Ambulatory wheelchair user” is something you can search for to learn more, as many are sharing their experiences online, like Lauren:

rareyouthrevolution.com/post/t…

#accessibility #wheelchair #ambulatory

#Accessibility #wheelchair #ambulatory

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Sometimes, discharging capacitors in audio interfaces make fun noises.
This was recorded from my Allscan.info ANR-100, which is a box that you substitute for a radio when using Allstarlink if you just want a local speaker and microphone. Essentially, this is a CM-119 sound fob, a mic preamp, an audio amplifier and a compressor thrown together in a project box.

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In case anyone was wondering:

That’s utter bullshit.

Recently @sarahtaber debunked the hogwash about farmer suicides in the US. She has also written about the poor-mouthing of objectively wealthy “family” farmers. defenseofliberty.social/@Malco…


Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance@defenseofliberty.social)

Attached: 1 video #Trump: "I speak to farmers, I say 'Would you like to live in my penthouse in #Manhattan?' 'No sir, I want this farm.' And what happens is, we were losing a lot of people to suicide.
Defense of Liberty Foundation
@Sarah Taber

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yo, I cannot get Espeakup nor speechd-up to work on Pi5 reliably, kind of a sad day. Tried to set alsa to use my USB alsa card2 2, but no luck either. I even did running Pulse as a system service, no luck there either. Ugh. Linux, you foil me again. ChatGPT is claiming: "On modern Pi OS, the boot console is driven by the VC4 DRM‑framebuffer (fb0) rather than the old text VT. With the move to full KMS in Bullseye (Debian 11, October 30, 2021) and the removal of both legacy and fake-KMS stacks in Bookworm (Debian 12, mid‑2023), the screen is driven through the DRM/KMS pipeline—bypassing fbcon and leaving espeakup without any text to speak. "
Of course, this turned out to be false, and I got it working. Using Libao to route Also to Pulse, and ensuring the module loads early was key.
"printf 'speakup\nspeakup_soft\n' | sudo tee /etc/modules-load.d/speakup.conf"
sudo update-initramfs -u # if you use an initramfs
This forces the kernel to register /dev/softsynth at boot, ahead of any daemons Also edit or create /etc/libao.conf, adding "default_driver=pulse to it.
By default, espeakup uses ALSA directly. To switch it to libao, add the --use-libao flag in its systemd unit
"
[Service]ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/bin/espeakup --use-libao --default-voice=en-us+f2" - do a sudo systemctl daemon-reload after and you're good!
I tried both speechd-up and BrLTTY with the Speech-D module - felt simpler, but neither would speak through Pulse, despite Orca working per-user, so there's that.
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Tamas G

@xogium ahahaha, it's going to get even more fun when we throw pipewire into the mix, now some will only speak legacy Alsa, some Pulse, at least the Jack would be shared as common I think between pipewire / Pulse interfaces so perhaps it won't break Pulse apps as bad, but the low-level Alsa will still be there for legacy for quite awhile. Pulse's socket-based approach is a bit of its downfall too, since sockets can't be shared and Pulse takes device exclusivity. Haven't messed around with Pipewire to see if that bit has improved.
@Casey Reeves

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We're growing our community team! Thunderbird has been so lucky to have a community that's helped us survive and now thrive, and we want a team that can help everyone who contributes to Thunderbird thrive just as much. Meet the members of the team and learn what they have planned!

#Thunderbird #Community #OpenSource

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/07/w…


Welcoming New Faces to the Thunderbird Community Team - The Thunderbird Blog

Thunderbird is all about community, and we're growing a community team to better support it. Get to know the team and our road ahead!
Michael Ellis (The Thunderbird Blog)
#opensource #thunderbird #community

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Almost two years since I had my piano tuned, so thought it was time to rectify that. Here I'm playing a little melodic thing I came up with on-the-spot.
The lid is open and the hammers are exposed.
youtube.com/shorts/7IyH21VF-rg

Playing my piano just after it's been freshly tuned

It's been almost two years since my piano was last tuned, so I thought it was time to rectify this.Thanks to the amazing Paul from 'To The Tune Of Pianos' fo...
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Who Says You Can’t Have Privacy and Security in an Operating System?

Meet PureOS — The OS That Respects You

Supported on Purism’s Librem 5 and Liberty Phone, PureOS gives you the power to break free from the eye of Big Tech.

✅ No targeted ads
✅ No trackers
✅ No foreign or domestic surveillance
✅ No addictive tech

Just freedom, transparency, security, and full control over your device—the way it should be.

Read more at Purism: puri.sm/posts/what-is-pureos-a…


What Is PureOS? A Beginner’s Guide for iOS, Android, and Windows Users – 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.
Purism SPC

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"I did not come here seeking wealth or running from poverty. In fact, I had a stable life back in my country, Yemen. I had a job, a house, a car, and everything I needed to live with dignity. What forced me to leave was not economic hardship, but persecution & fear for my safety & the safety of my family.

We refugees are not here to take advantage of the system. We are here to rebuild our lives, to work & to contribute"
Asylum seeker in the Epping Hotel.

#AsylumSeekers

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…


‘Every human being deserves dignity’: asylum seeker in Essex hotel calls for understanding

Man housed at hotel targeted in protests writes letter urging people not to resort to harmful stereotypes
Ben Quinn (The Guardian)
#asylumseekers

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The Epstein scandal, long exploited by Trump and his allies to rally MAGA anger, is now backfiring as the public realizes it was a smokescreen for deeper abuses. As the GOP’s efforts to weaponize the case falter, the rage now turns on Trump for his failure to deliver. slate.com/news-and-p...

The Deep Irony of the Epstein ...


The Deep Irony of the Epstein Scandal Finally Coming Home to Roost

It’s tempting to dismiss the developments in the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files as the ultimate theater of schadenfreude.
Dahlia Lithwick (Slate)

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discord.gg/kyjfet2hpT

If people want to do something about the itch.io thing, a number of us engineers, artists, and community members are gathering together to plan for and build a real alternative that's genuinely resistant to this kind of censorship in a way centralized platforms with singular payment processor relationships simply can't be

Join us! We need all the help we can get.

Join the Conjured Ink Discord Server!

Check out the Conjured Ink community on Discord - hang out with 222 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
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Kkti. 🙄🤦‍♂️

Aplikace pro Android se dočkala vlny kritiky po zjištění, že je v plánu použít Google Play Integrity API, které by vyžadovalo stáhnutí přímo z Google Play (a tudíž vyžadovalo účet u Google), ale také neumožňovalo použití alternativních operačních systémů typu LineageOS, GrapheneOS a dalších.


#EU #Regulace

Lupa.cz

Aplikace Evropské unie na ověřování věku má na Androidu být jen přes Google

Evropská unie pokračuje v implementaci aplikací na ověřování věku uživatelů v rámci regulací a zákonů Digital Services Act (DSA) a EU Digital Wallet…
Redakce (Internet Info, s.r.o.)
#EU #Regulace
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Ozzelot

Tak tomu skoro bývalo. Byli uživatelé obyčejných MT a uživatelé kapesních počítačů, co náhodou uměly telefonovat, ať na nich běžel Symbian, PalmOS, Windows Mobile nebo v drobné míře Linux. Pak si holt někdo řek, že všechno a všichni budou konvergovat, aniž by k tomu většina lidí měla řádný důvod, a nakonec... jsme tu.
@martin
@Martin Kostera
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Rory D.

"But Google Search was so goddamned magic – before they cynically destroyed it [...] The collapse of Google into a giant pile of shit is like giving every web user a traumatic brain injury."

I sometimes wonder if the reason many people are so amazed by AI is because they forgot how drop-dead good Google search used to be. And it's only been a few years since it was well and truly enshittified.

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Native Schannel TLS stack of #Windows was so unreliable it got axed from #curl:
* Never worked reliably under real‑world loads.
* Quirky, cumbersome API/architecture that broke integrations.
* Zero developer interest—nobody tested or maintained it.
* Pure maintenance drag with no real benefit.

So #Microsoft again shipped a built‑in that nobody uses, and projects ditch it entirely in favor of better third‑party alternatives.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/29…


Carving out msh3

I hope that by now most readers of my blog have understood that curl, and libcurl specifically, is an architecture with a transfer core with a set of different backends plugged in. Backends powered by different third party libraries.
daniel.haxx.se
#Windows #microsoft #curl

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Hi to all #history readers and lovers. I am developing a daily history puzzle with all of my heart. You have to guess a year with the help of 4 historical events. Afterwards you get interesting links to these events.

I would be glad if you check it out. It is called #PastPuzzle - Thank you! :)

pastpuzzle.de/

past puzzle

Errate mithilfe von 4 historischen Ereignissen das gesuchte Jahr. Ein von Wordle und Geschichten aus der Geschichte inspiriertes Spiel.
www.pastpuzzle.de
#history #pastpuzzle
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Tom Seidel

@pvagner There is one puzzle a day. If you become a supporter you can play multiple puzzles a day.

You can find more about this here: pastpuzzle.de/#/support

I saw that you are relying on a screen reader. In case you find pitfalls, just message me about it. I try my best, but at the moment I can barely navigate with a screen reader, haha.

past puzzle

Errate mithilfe von 4 historischen Ereignissen das gesuchte Jahr. Ein von Wordle und Geschichten aus der Geschichte inspiriertes Spiel.
www.pastpuzzle.de
@Peter Vágner

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The opposite of AI slop reports is a detailed, well written and qualified report that takes many hours of mind-wrestling until we know what to do about it.

Like this: hackerone.com/reports/3261310


curl disclosed on HackerOne: OpenSSL HTTP/3 bogus CURLINFO_TLS_SSL_PTR

## Summary: `curl_easy_getinfo` `CURLINFO_TLS_SSL_PTR` appears to return invalid `SSL` connection pointer for OpenSSL HTTP/3 connections. Using this `SSL` connection results in a crash, and...
HackerOne

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Please boost for reach, for any OnePlus users or staff:

I wrote a review of my OnePlus 13 on OnePlus' community site. If you're a member there, please like it to show support for the accessibility issues I brought up. I'd really like to get these fixed, since this is a powerful phone that's got Google's TalkBack, not Samsung's moldy fork, and is great overall, besides the accessibility issues. I'd love to be able to recommend this phone as an all-around great phone for blind people.

@accessibleandroid

community.oneplus.com/thread/1… [A review of the OnePlus 13, from a blind person's perspective]

#android #OnePlus #OnePlus13 #blind #accessibility #Braille


OnePlus Community

Introducing our new OnePlus Community experience, with a completely revamped structure, built from the ground-up.
community.oneplus.com
#Accessibility #android #blind #braille #oneplus #oneplus13 @Accessible Android

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