So one need to have 100K to run for NDP leadership. That's a mighty gatekeeping which mean that no just anyone (competent) can run for it.
That mean if you run, you are beholden to a financier. If that's not corruption then WTF that is?
Do they have a minimal number of Rolexes required too?
(don't point at other parties, it is the exact same shit, but they all currently have a leader, even incompetent ones)
I'm looking for an intersection that might not exist, but if it does I'd be excited.
I already know:
- People study interventions for ecological thinking: e.g., increasing climate awareness, increasing climate action
- People do work on climate-aware computing, green software
Does anyone do both?
Question for my #blind followers: Would you be interested in buying, and if so, how much would you be willing to pay, for a screenless Linux-based computer with Braille keyboard and TTS output, like the BT Speak (blazietech.com/bt-speak-pro), but with these distinguishing features:
- Actually open-source software
- RK3588 SoC (4 performance cores, 4 low-power cores)
- Faster and more robust software updates
- Option to boot from SD card (full-sized), for fearless OS tinkering
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Welcome to Blazie Technologies, maker of BT Speak and BT Braille accessible computersBlazie Technologies
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Alfabet Braille'a, syntezator mowy, elektroniczny analizator obrazu i inne urządzenia pomocne niewidomymNr odcinka : 253Nr odcinka dostępnego: 134Data premie...YouTube
this isn't totally in my field of knowledge, e.g. I use USB headset and nodm as my display manager, but it looks mostly fine. If it works, and you have sound on boot, this may not be helpful.
I noticed that you enable the user services for pipewire:
sudo -u "$TUSER" systemctl --user enable --now pipewire.service pipewire-pulse.service wireplumber.service || truesudo loginctl enable-linger "$TUSER"
ah, argh. you wanna know today? Upgrading pipewire from 1.2.X to 1.4.X for the LEAudio Bluetooth bits I wanted. Well well. Turns out, the Stormux script sets WirePlumber 0.4-style Lua tweaks. On WirePlumber 0.5 those are ignored, so BlueZ endpoints don’t come up until your full user session finishes and policy loads. O, M, G. Also disable seat monitoring so WirePlumber registers BlueZ endpoints without a logged-in seat. (This is the key for pre-login use.) But it's really not about the shared pulse socket. You would just need to move your “no suspend” ALSA tweak to wireplumber.conf.d rules. Oh, and the Bluetooth tweak. so:
"cat > "$xdgPath/wireplumber/bluetooth.conf.d/50-autoconnect.conf" <<'EOF'
# WirePlumber 0.5
bluez5.auto-connect = [ a2dp_sink hfp_hf hsp_hs ]
bluez5.default.profile = "a2dp-sink"
EOF
# Allow BT endpoints without a logged-in seat (pre-login audio)
cat > "$xdgPath/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf.d/10-disable-seat-monitoring.conf" <<'EOF'
wireplumber.profiles = {
main = {
monitor.bluez.seat-monitoring = disabled
}
}
EOF
cat > "$xdgPath/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf.d/50-fenrir-no-suspend.conf" <<'EOF'
monitor.alsa.rules = [
{
matches = [ { node.name = "~alsa_output.*" } ]
actions = { update-props = { session.suspend-timeout-seconds = 0 } }
}
{
matches = [ { node.name = "~alsa_input.*" } ]
actions = { update-props = { session.suspend-timeout-seconds = 0 } }
}
]
EOF"
“There is indeed such a thing as a dumb question, and learning to ask the right questions may be the most valuable fruit of a good education.
Many essays on ChatGPT pose various questions to the software, but I want to pose one to the engineers developing these Large Language Models (LLMs) and to the enthusiastic adopters of this technology: What is the problem for which LLMs are the solution?”
Really great 2023 article by Jeffrey Bilbro
plough.com/en/topics/life/tech…
Jeffrey Bilbro discusses the trade-offs of using technology to eliminate human intellectual and creative effort.Plough
A team snap (minus a few) from our town hall. It's amazing to see how much we've achieved and what's to come!
& a BIG thank you from us to you.
Our mission wouldn't be possible without your support ❤️
@modulux According to this blog post from May this year, it should be possible in theory.
build GTK with the -Daccesskit=enabled build option, and set
GTK_A11Y=accesskit
blogs.gnome.org/gtk/2025/05/12…
I recently saw somebody ask Is Fedora accessible now ? To which I want to say: yes! But this question does not really have a simple yes-or-no answer. There is lots of nuance to it. A better...mclasen (GTK Development Blog)
"Accessible recruitment is more than a policy - it’s a way to ensure that every candidate can perform at their best, and each role is filled by the person
most capable of doing it."
tetralogical.com/blog/2025/08/…
#accessible #recruitment #accessibility #a11y
Accessible recruitment is more than a policy - it’s a way to ensure that every candidate can perform at their best, and each role is filled by the person most capable of doing it.TetraLogical
Séisme en Afghanistan: les secouristes ont aidé les hommes... mais pas les femmes
slate.fr/monde/tremblement-ter…
Les normes culturelles afghanes, qui interdisent tout contact physique entre les hommes et les femmes qui n'appartiennent pas à la même famille, ont poussé les secouristes majoritairement masculins à ne pas venir en aide aux femmes.
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Les normes culturelles afghanes, qui interdisent tout contact physique entre les hommes et les femmes qui n'appartiennent pas à la même famille, ont…Elena Gillet (Slate.fr)
Jeden z umelcu si na Unreleased hodil lekce kytary. Bez meho pricineni. Coz me tesi zaprve proto, ze nase samoobsluha funguje a za druhe, ze ten nastroj lidi vyuzivaji kreativne.
Sem se kouknul borcovi na IG a tam toto. Jako wtf.
Lekce tu:
unreleased.art/forgetbrennan
IG tu:
instagram.com/forgetbrennan/
Tenhle tyden se stavil u nas ve studiu, tak z toho bude i nejaky pekny content ne-jenom-lekci.
Discover a world of progressions, tutorials and resources to elevate you on your guitar journey below.unreleased.art
Loudly shouting at #Microsoft to stop forcing "AI" on #GitHub users might lead to some sort of success. Until the next shiny thing comes along.
I took stock, understood what is really happening, that you are accepting to be locked in to a walled garden that you do not control.
So I silently packed up my stuff a while ago and moved to a place and community that accepts, respects and defends my freedom. My repos have moved to #codeberg, I am running my own #forgejo instance and build runners.
@sesivany I think the main problem is that it is not easy to get code into GitHub, or actually any Git hosting platform/software, unless you have an account there.
The first thing I'd do is build bridges between the platforms to make it easy to pull code from any git hosting to any other git hosting.
⚡️Стаканы из «Вкусно — и точка» лопаются при мытье даже от лёгкого нажима
Тян рассказала, что её стакан лопнул прямо в руке — пришлось накладывать швы, и теперь две недели она не сможет пользоваться правой рукой.
В комментариях люди пишут, что с ними случилось то же самое.
Looking to leave GitHub?
Try Codeberg — it's Git, but based in Germany (Europe), without all of Microsoft's nonsense. They're also on the Fediverse: @Codeberg.
But wait — it gets better!
Codeberg is open source, and you can even host your own instance. The software is called Forgejo, built by the same folks behind Codeberg, and they're on the Fediverse too: @forgejo.
#GitHub #GitLab #Git #FOSS #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #Microsoft
Massive Angriffe auf Ukraine - Regierungsgebäude in Kiew brennt
Nach schweren Angriffen ist eines der wichtigsten Regierungsgebäude in Kiew in Brand geraten. Noch ist unklar, ob der Kreml gezielt den Sitz des Ministerkabinetts ins Visier genommen hat. Mindestens drei Menschen wurden getötet.
⛏️ Včera byl v Sokolově Den horníků.
Na kolotočích narváno už od pátku, všichni statečně bojují s drahotou – trdelník za 150, klobása za 200 a pivko za kilo 🍺.
Horníci pochodují v uniformě, mezi tím projede dodávka ANO s heslem, že „bude líp“ asi s Vildumetzovou nebo s kým 🤷
A večer hulákání pod okny až do půlnoci.
A fakt si nedovedu představit, jak by to vypadalo, kdyby nebyla ta „Fialova drahota“… 😅
it is interesting after one and half year of everyday beer drinking take a break.. I like it #dobréRáno
edit: prečo anglicky, radšej bez komentára 😄
edit1: actually I read a book before sleep!
#audiopub Just gained a big update! We finally now have a notifications system, so you’ll know imediately when something’s happening on audios you're interested in! You automatically get notifications for events related to your own uploads, but if there is an audio by someone else you're interested in, click the follow notifications button for that audio.
Notification badges will appear in the title and the notifications link if you have unread notifications. It will automatically update as you get more notifications, without the need to refresh the page! So if you just keep the site open you could just glance at it every now and then and stay completely up to date. Go check it out, and enjoy the peace of mind of not having to chase down your own comment threads anymore ❤️
Tech accessibility question: do you know of a resource to help an adult use an ipad and browse the Internet safely for the very first time? Something pitched at an absolute first time computer toucher, like we used to see all the time in the 80s: instructions that assume you have never seen a home use computer before.
This person has had almost no exposure to any kind of computer, not even an ATM or a smart phone (think long term incarcerated, but not). They have never been on the Internet.
They need to use the basic functionality of a new ipad and generally stay safe online. They need to learn this very fast because they need to do urgent practical things online. They live overseas.
Edit: they are not able to leave their house at the moment. So a visit to a local library is not possible, but we're exploring local library resources.
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Re: last boost (mindly.social/@Tamasg/11515970…), yes, it's a rant, but I'm amplifying it because if desktop Linux is going to be reliably accessible to blind people, there needs to be a solution to the kinds of problems reported in this post. To all of my followers from the free desktop community, please don't be defensive in your replies. This is an experience that a user had. We should figure out what to do about it.
This Linux "what session owns what process" crap is, I swear, its biggest downfall. Oh, lightDM now owns your pipewire server socket because it started it first? Oh! No Orca for you then, sorry, it can't be started on a Bluetooth device, because then that Pipewire session grabbed the BlueZ service and poof it's now the one connecting to your headphones and its audio socket. Fuck Linux. Fuck it with a big, giant, wide, sharp cactus today.
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- Hopefully better power management because of the RK3588's low-power cores (the Pi CM4 uses only performance cores)
- More seamless combination of traditional and GUI modes, e.g. shared clipboard, through a custom Wayland-based shell
This isn't related to my company Pneuma Solutions, just personal daydreaming about a project I want to do sometime. And I don't have time to actually start on it in earnest yet. So just gauging interest.
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