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Another #google app removed from my #android device. I am now trying the #FutoKeyboard instead of the #GBoard and it seems very promising for me.
Just one of many steps to become #degoogled.
keyboard.futo.org/

FUTO Keyboard

FUTO Keyboard is a modern, privacy-focused keyboard that runs fully offline. Enjoy swipe typing, autocorrect, predictive text, and more—no internet connection required.
keyboard.futo.org
#android #google #degoogled #futokeyboard #gboard

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"With huge waiting lists, public demand for allotments is clear. What’s needed now is political will, and an ability to reimagine cities not just as places to live and work, but as places to grow.

Because as Corbyn warned: once these spaces are lost, they’re rarely replaced"

#Allotments #Gardening #Nature #Food

Allotments are vanishing when the UK urgently needs more of them
theconversation.com/allotments…


Allotments are vanishing when the UK urgently needs more of them

In praise of digging for potatoes.
The Conversation
#food #nature #gardening #allotments
in reply to JuneSim63 💚

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GeofCox

There has always been a struggle over allotments. Surprisingly, perhaps, it was central to early trade unionism, as documented in Joseph Arch's autobiography 'From Ploughtail to Parliament'. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries landowners tried to stop workers having allotments, or even large gardens, because they would grow food - and any contribution to making workers less dependent on wage labour was fiercely resisted by their bosses.
in reply to GeofCox

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GeofCox

This is, incidentally, the main reason US corporations resist the introduction of a proper state health care system, even though it is clear that it would be cheaper than the insurances costs for them. They choose the more expensive option - lose money - but what they really want is workers totally dependent on their jobs.

It's also the reason they ignore the many proofs that a social safety net is cheaper than dealing with the problems arising from not having one - for example simply giving people homes is cheaper than dealing with homeless people in other ways - but it takes away the fear of losing your home,, and what bosses want most is dependent, compliant workers.

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🗳️ Volání z Českého lesa: Nevolte komunisty! Nevolte nikoho, kdo s nimi spolupracuje. Přinášejí zhoubu!

*Když kampaň, tak kampaň, hajzle.*
#KampanHajzle
#volby2025

forum24.cz/volani-z-ceskeho-le…

Volání z Českého lesa: Nevolte komunisty! Nevolte nikoho, kdo s nimi spolupracuje. Přinášejí zhoubu

KOMENTÁŘ / Jezdil jsem se ženou několik dní na kole po Českém lese. Častokrát jsem tam myslel na to, že podle šetření agentury STEM by osm procent lid...
Martin Fendrych (FORUM 24)
#kampanhajzle #volby2025
in reply to Archos

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ɔǝlɐɟnoZ

@archos @mireeek Pochazim z Liberce a v Ceskym Raji jsme byli kazdou chvili, tak znam Svijany jeste dobry, kdyz se dostaly nejdal do Turnova. Dokonce jsem je objednaval na motosrazy na Vidlaku, Nebaku i s pivovarskym vycepem. Pak se rozjeli do sveta, zacli to prodavat vsude mozne a kvalita sla dolu. Pak to nejak prodali nebo zrestituovali ci co a slo to do hajzlu. A zhruba v te dobe se zacali objevovat s stbakem v reklamach apod. Tim u mne skoncili definitivne. Dokonce tam za nima jezdil a nechal se fotit. Hnus.
@Archos @Miroslav Vrhel 👷

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The #XMPP Newsletter for July 2025 is out!

Read about the latest XMPP universe updates and updates on our #standards!

xmpp.org/2025/08/the-xmpp-news…

Enjoy reading! 📰 ☕ :xmpp:

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging

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XMPP

XMPP - The universal messaging standard
xmpp.org
#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #federation #chat #interoperability #decentralization #standards #messaging #rtc

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Over the last year, I overhauled the screen brightness handling in GNOME! This will become available in the upcoming 49 release, but you can already try it on GNOME OS.

blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/g…


GNOME 49 Backlight Changes

One of the things I’m working on at Red Hat is HDR support. HDR is inherently linked to luminance (brightness, but ignoring human perception) which makes it an important parameter for us that we would like to be in control of.
swick's blog

reshared this

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Po krátké e-mailové výměně s firmou #3Dstisk jsem dostal ve stylu "s dovolením kradu" možnost jejich videa ukrást na #VHSky

Takže chcete-li se někdo dívat, tak tady to máte hezky pěkně bez trackerů a reklam .. byť u nich na základě videa třeba nakonec stejně něco koupíte :D

Videa budou přibývat postupně, je to celkem časově náročný...

vhsky.cz/c/3dstisk/ #3Dtisk

#3dtisk #vhsky #3Dstisk

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Me and @alyssa6595 get married in 45 days, and we'd love to have you join us. We will be live streaming our wedding and you can RSVP to tune in. Our site also has a video guest book where we encourage you to record us a message, and a wedding registry if that is your thing. As I've said in previous posts, it is my goal to have all seven continents represented on our guest book, so if you know any penguins, let them know about the wedding. If you are a screen reader user, the Lovecast site can be navigated by tapping each heading such as Watch Live, Registry, and Guestbook. content will show up under the headings after they are invoked. Sorry about the rather lack luster accessibility, but this was beyond our control. Please share far and wide, and help us have an awesome wedding. event.lovecastapp.com/Liam-and…

Liam and Alyssa's Wedding - Lovecast

💍 RSVP to join us virtually on Monday, Sep 22nd 2025
Lovecast
@Alyssa Erven

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Good news in hard times.

"AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified"

Here's the best part.

"Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say." 👈

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#cheerful #good #nice #ai #ruin #copyright #llm #greed #robot


AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
#copyright #AI #robot #llm #nice #greed #cheerful #good #ruin

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Debianites attending the Bug Squashing Party near Leuven, Belgium, on the end of April have worked on 24 bugs! For more info, check decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/2025/… #debian #trixie #BSP

Report for Debian BSP near Leuven in April 2025

On 26th and 27th April we held a Debian bug-squashing party near Leuven, Belgium. Several longstanding and new Debian contributors gathered to work through some of the highest priority bugs affecting the upcoming release of Debian 13 “trixie”.
Ben Hutchings (Better living through software)
#debian #bsp #trixie

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Someday I want to implement a different kind of Rust UI toolkit. Rather than implement the whole stack, including widgets, text rendering, and 2D graphics rendering in pure, mostly cross-platform Rust, this would be a wrapper over classic platform-native widgets (yes, including Win32), like wxWidgets or SWT (the latter was better last time I checked, ~10 years ago). This Rust toolkit could have an API like Masonry (crates.io/crates/masonry), but it wouldn't render its own widgets like Masonry.
in reply to Matt Campbell

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Matt Campbell

Do any of my blind followers remember OtsJuke, now OtsAV? It's a program for automatically playing music with cross-fading, dynamic range compression, interspersed liners, etc., for DJs and radio stations. Some hobbyist blind Internet broadcasters used it in the early 2000s, when it was screen-reader-accessible (if only by accident) and not too expensive. It hasn't been accessible for a while now, but it always impressed me with how light and fast to start it was.
in reply to Matt Campbell

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Matt Campbell

Even the Ots installer was a custom application. In striking contrast to the InstallShield installers of the day, it started instantly, with an opening sound effect, plus a sound effect for each transition between screens. Then the application itself also started instantly, with an opening sound effect, even on my 1999 laptop (in the early 2000s).

My long-time ambition is to someday develop a desktop app like _that_. I've never yet had the freedom to do that on the job, and maybe I never will.

in reply to Matt Campbell

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Matt Campbell

I'm not ignorant of the downside of Ots's focus on optimization. In 2002, I stopped using OtsJuke because I wanted my music collection to be in Vorbis, but OtsJuke could only play MP3. Actually it played its own file format that IIUC was based on the MP3 encoding, but with a custom per-file header instead of per-frame headers. The cost of having that instant-starting self-contained executable was no plugin system.

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@trendless because COVID vaccines won't be paid by the federal government anymore, Québec will recommend 75+ instead of 60+ next year due to their cost/efficiency calculation. Too expensive! Younger people don't die enough!

We're all going to need so much more healthcare later...

lapresse.ca/actualites/sante/2…


COVID-19 | Des vaccins pour les 75 ans et plus, selon le Comité sur l’immunisation du Québec

Pour une première fois, le gouvernement québécois doit payer les vaccins contre la COVID-19 administrés lors de la campagne vaccinale automnale.
La Presse
@trendless

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TORSERV: Host a Static Website on the Dark Web in Under 1 Minute

"Hosting a Tor hidden service — also known as an onion site — typically requires in-depth technical skills and manual configuration. With TorServ, you can host a static website anonymously in seconds, without touching any config files."


This software deserves some attention. It could be useful for at-risk people who need to publish while protecting identity.

#TorServ #TOR #Onions #OnionNetwork #Privacy #Anonymity

@selfhosting@a.gup.pe
@infosec@a.gup.pe
@linux@a.gup.pe
@networks@a.gup.pe
@crypto@a.gup.pe
@darknet@a.gup.pe
@privacy@a.gup.pe
@infostorm@a.gup.pe

Two slices of red onion stacked one atop the other. The onion symbolizes TOR, The Onion Network, and its multiple layers of cryptographic obfuscation.
@selfhosting group @linux group @Infosec group @crypto group @networks group @privacy group @infostorm group @darknet group

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🆕 blog! “How long does it take to upgrade an eBook?”

The older I get, the more comfortable I become with complaining. Not merely moaning on social media, but writing a direct email to the perpetrator of some annoyance.

I'd purchased an eBook and was appalled by how crappy the accessibility was. If you don't know, modern ePub books are just HTML…

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/how-l…
⸻
#a11y #accessibility #books #ebook #ebooks

#a11y #Accessibility #books #eBooks #eBook
in reply to TheOldGuy

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Danny Boling ☮️

If you'll add this #AltText4You then I won't have to steal your meme to repost it 😉

Black text on a white background says:

"You say you're after criminals - yet you come without warrants.

You call us lazy - yet you arrest us at work.

You say we don't contribute - yet you track us through our taxes.

You call us illegal - yet you seize us at our hearings.

Maybe this isn't justice after all.
Maybe you're just white supremacists."

#alttext4you

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Now up on the OSHWA site! Our third Healthware Highlight exploring the ways that MakeGood INC is working with 3D printing and accessible design with folks with disabilities. They can do incredible things with the support of community and being engaged with person first design work! Check it out here: oshwa.org/announcements/health…
the open healthware logo stacked on the MakeGood logo

Healthware Highlight: MakeGood Inc

Open Source Hardware Association
oshwa.org

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Maybe... and I'm just throwing this out there... maybe, don't steal? #AI industry horrified to face largest #copyright #classaction ever certified: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… #AIBS

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
#copyright #AI #aibs #classaction

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New Job Alert: @tdforg is seeking a @libreoffice developer to improve the user interface of the popular open source office suite. Learn more on #OSJH
opensourcejobhub.com/job/26232…
#LibreOffice #developer #RemoteWork #OpenSource #career #jobs #FOSS #UI #macOS #TDF
LibreOffice / The Document Foundation logo

LibreOffice developer focusing on UI with initial emphasis on macOS, preferably full-time, remote (m/f/d) (Remote)

Love LibreOffice development? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice.
Open Source JobHub
#foss #opensource #libreoffice #ui #developer #jobs #MACOS #remotework #career #tdf #osjh @LibreOffice @The Document Foundation
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