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Threadbare, the game we've been working on at @EndlessAccess is now available for Linux on Flathub. It's early days, so please bear that in mind!

(If you install it via desktop mode on your Steam Deck, it looks terrible because it's being downscaled from 1920×1080. I don't recommend that right now. Desktop/laptop only for now!)

flathub.org/apps/org.endlessac…


Install Threadbare on Linux | Flathub

Rebuild an unraveling world
Flathub
@Endless Access

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Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Punching Nazis Since The 30's shirt.
Look, violence is never the answer. Unless you encounter a Nazi whose face has inexplicably gone unpunched. Then it's the answer.
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A tshirt with Indiana Jones punching a Nazi that says "Punching Nazis since the 30's".

Punching Nazis Since 36 Unisex Triblend Tee

Make a statement with every punch—this bold design celebrates knocking out hate, one fist at a time. Wear it proudly and let the world know that intolerance gets no free passes. Our fitted Unisex Tri-Blend Tees are made with a soft tri-blend fabric.
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Montréal records 2nd heat-related death since Sunday, plus three confirmed heat strokes recorded in hospitals.

But, this is fine.

#climatechange #heatwave #polMTL #MTLpoli #polQC #QCpoli #cdnpoli #polcan #heatstroke #deathbyheat

ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/mo…

Montreal records 2nd heat-related death since Sunday

Public health officials in Montreal confirmed a second person has died as a result of the extreme heat that has gripped the city over the past several days.
Joe Lofaro (CTVNews)
#climatechange #heatwave #cdnpoli #polqc #polmtl #qcpoli #polcan #mtlpoli #heatstroke #deathbyheat

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apps.gnome.org/PikaBackup/ looks like a good backup application with good UX and also uses Borg behind the scenes, a good sign

Pika Backup – Apps for GNOME

Keep your data safe – Doing backups the easy way. Plugin your USB drive and let the Pika do the rest for you. Create backups locally and remotelySet a schedule for regular backupsSave time and disk space becau...
apps.gnome.org

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No sé si conocíais esto, pero yo hoy he descubierto que existe una fundación, llamada Anisfield-Wolf, que desde 1935 concede un premio anual en Estados Unidos a libros de ficción, poesía y no ficción que contribuyan a la comprensión del racismo y a la defensa de la diversidad humana.

Su lista de premiados es una buena lista de recomendaciones de lectura, os la dejo por aquí 🥰

anisfield-wolf.org/winners/

#recomendacionesdejanadelbosco #TIL


Winners

Recognizing books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and human diversity.
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
#til #recomendacionesdejanadelbosco
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Sound cues are important. A huge frustration I have is my fridge having only one touch button that cycles through 3 options and the same sound for each one. I never know which setting it's on-- cubed ice? water? crushed? Just ONE difference would be super helpful.
nimerblogs.blogspot.com/2025/0…

#Accessibility #A11y

The Symphony and the Static: When Sound Design Makes or Breaks the Experience

Nimer's blog
nimerblogs.blogspot.com
#a11y #Accessibility

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The Wednesday Other People's Music teaser is here! As always, just the first line of each of the week's reviews, along with a link to the full review, a music embed, & social links. If you want to skip the tease and just read this week's full coverage, use the link below!

etherdiver.com/2025/08/08/opm-…

#musodon #MusicDiscovery #OtherPeoplesMusic #OPM #music

OPM: Future Folk – Ether Diver

www.etherdiver.com
#music #musodon #opm #musicdiscovery #otherpeoplesmusic

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Yeah… delete your old emails to save water while the OpenAIs of the world consume gazillions of liters in their quest to commit copyright fraud on an industrial level.

Once again “saving the climate” is pushed onto the mostly powerless individual giving corporations a blank check to strip-mine earth’s resources.

404media.co/uk-asks-people-to-…


UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought

As Britain experiences one of its worst droughts in decades, its leaders suggest people get rid of old data to reduce stress on data centers.
Matthew Gault (404 Media)

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That time I questioned the CEO of #AirCanada on the CUPE Unpaid Work Won’t Fly Campaign! It’s about Values— The Carney Government shows a clear lack of values by ignoring workers’ rights. Flight attendants work unpaid on average one week each month due to a loophole in the labour code. This is wrong! They could easily fix this by reintroducing my Bill C-415 from the last parliament. It’s time they supported workers not just talk about it. #fediverse #canpoli #cdnpoli #flightattendant
#fediverse #canpoli #cdnpoli #aircanada #flightattendant

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here's a few settings you may wish to consider for your firefox's about:config page.
browser.ml.chat.enabled = false<br>browser.ml.chat.shortcuts = false<br>browser.ml.chat.shortcuts.custom = false<br>browser.ml.chat.sidebar = false<br>browser.ml.enable = false<br>extensions.ml.enabled = false<br>

if your firefox is recent enough, you might want these to disable AI tab groups too (thanks @ilmari!)
browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled = false<br>browser.tabs.groups.smart.optin = false<br>browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled = false<br>
@ilmari
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The ability to switch between NVDA profiles with different keystrokes and to tweak output settings for each one individually is just fantastic. Whenever I mess something up on my main audio interface, I can get things working again in moments by switching to my "rescue" profile (that's just what I call it) which is hard routed to always use my laptop speakers. Highly recommend this for anyone who plays around with virtual mixers, audio cables, etc. It did save my ass more times than I can count!

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It felt very weird to be on a plane that had a server with Nginx and Drupal installed on it. According to http headers at least, and those rarely lie. Definitely not a ground link, you aren't getting 5ms pings over satellite.

Their IFE system appears to serve MP3s ripped straight from iTunes (no DRM), with album metadata and such left intact. Is this legal? God only knows.

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It's concerning to me that arguably *the* way to get Linux apps, Flathub, has all of its packaging data hosted on GitHub, with seemingly no plans to move away from it. With the direction GitHub is going, I am worried that Flathub will want to move and it'll be too late to do it cleanly.

#Flatpak #Flathub #Linux

#linux #Flatpak #flathub

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Great post by Dries dri.es/funding-open-source-lik…

It is high time that #OpenSource is recognized for what it is, critical digital infrastructure!

I was happy to be able to contribute a small amount to this post.


Funding Open Source like public infrastructure

To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution.
Dries Buytaert
#opensource
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ekes

I fear that comes up against the buffers of present party politics.

Even situations like LocaGov Drupal that wouldn't exist witout Central Government funding. After they want it to "stand on it's own feet'.

Present political drift seems to be investment payments might be ok, but 'subsidy' (ongoing payments) bad. What is defined as (essential) infrastructure that needs subsidy is getting wittled away all the time.

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ekes

it's a subsidy, though not usually called it. It's a subsidy as it is for rail infrastructure. Even the subsidies for roads, beloved of the right, now see: charging, tolls, privitization & generally trying to reduce direct gov costs. Even if less quick than it's been done to rail.
Which is why I wondered about running up against the buffers of present politics.
But maybe it's the rallying cry that will motivate people to change governments.
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ekes

If I dig harder into the LocalGov Drupal example. The ongoing development is supported by local government - directly, through time and involvement; and indirectly through contracted agencies. But I think the success of that is because of quite some individuals, the way those organisations work together and not any concrete political direction.
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There y'all go. Since a few asked for it, and I realized none of my code shared similarities in design or philosophy to the BTSpeak's tool, I released my Radio-browser Python CLI tool here: github.com/tgeczy/radio-browse…
- useful on Raspberry Pi or other Linux distributions where just having a simple radio station player is what's missing. Can't say it'll get any mooer fancy than this, but we'll see! Took like 5 or 6 days to write it up in the end, wasn't just going to throw it all to AI to write without thorough supervision and fixing bugs, errors.

GitHub - tgeczy/radio-browser-whiptail-cli: A Cli package for the public Radio browser API, built to be lightweight , accessible and easy to use from the ground up.

A Cli package for the public Radio browser API, built to be lightweight , accessible and easy to use from the ground up. - GitHub - tgeczy/radio-browser-whiptail-cli: A Cli package for the public ...
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NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2025.2 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version.

Full info & Download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-2/

This release includes improvements in Windows 11, browse mode, and Microsoft Word. Plus improved Braille display support, updated LibLouis and eSpeak-NG & more!

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #A11y #News #Update

Close-up photograph of NVDA logo in notification area.

NV Access | NVDA 2025.2 Released

www.nvaccess.org
#a11y #Accessibility #screenreader #nvdasr #News #update #nvda
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Alexis

I decided to update on a portable coppy. I'm still uncertain about doing my main on this dell, as last time i updated, this coppy i have installed went bad, and speech no longer output. Requiring a family member to help me reinstall. It's not NVDA's fault, it's something to do with my sound driver. My sound driver is Wav Max audio, whitch is notorious for memory leaks. Portable coppies seem to do the best after updates, when it comes to this little computer.
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Alexis

my version of the driver is 5 years old. The computer itself was made back in 2017, and back then, the driver was Notorious for having memory leak issues, as well as audio device issues. I did attempt to disable it, and that has fixed the issue someone. However, that doesn't stop it from having a fun time every once in awhile. They did fix it recently, however, my computer cannot get the updates for the driver.
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Andre Louis

Here's a free tip, which I hope may help in future. It's odd, but works.
I recently installed something that broke sound devices, so NVDA went to nowhere.
Thing is, I *always* have it connected to a remote server, so I just opened up the non-official NVDA Remote app on iPhone, connected to my PC and let my phone do the talking. I didn't need to connect a keyboard to the phone of course, since I was still at the physical machine, but just used it to reset my sound devices and get things going again.
If you set it up so that your machine connects with your custom key to a server of some kind, and you have either another computer, or your phone to-hand, you *should* be able to bring speech back without help in-future.
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