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For your next coffee break listen : @bagder Keynote from #OpenSourceSummit hosted by The Linux Foundation is now available!

Listen to his key note now : youtube.com/watch?v=YEBBPj7pIK…

What will you gain from the keynote speech :

🔹insight into the growing challenges for Open Source maintainers, including lack of funding, questions of sustainability and AI race

🔹how can these challenges can be tackled while developing Open Source solutions

Keynote: Giants, Standing on the Shoulders Of - Daniel Stenberg, Founder of the Curl Project

Don't miss out! Join us at the next Open Source Summit in Amsterdam, Netherland (August 25-29); or Seoul, South Korea (November 4-5). Join us at the premier ...
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Hi everyone,

The NVDA 2025.3 Release Candidate is now available for testing. We encourage all users to download this RC and provide feedback. Unless any critical bugs are found, this will be identical to the final 2025.3 release.

This release includes improvements to Remote Access, SAPI5 voices, braille and the Add-on Store.

Full details and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-3r…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Update #NewVersion #PreRelease #FOSS #Update #News #Accessibility

NVDA logo and text in white on purple with grey sunbursts around the edge.

NV Access | NVDA 2025.3rc1 available for testing

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#Accessibility #foss #screenreader #nvdasr #News #update #nvda #newversion #prerelease

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For number lovers: during the past 31 days, the #IzzyOnDroid repo saw almost 800,000 APK downloads – which roughly corresponds to 18 APKs/minute, or 1 APK every 3 seconds. And that's only from our main server, not counting the mirrors (coming soon™).

Detail lovers can head over to stats.izzyondroid.org/ and dig in 😉

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#izzyondroid

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📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 8. September, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten. Das Gehäuse ist türkis und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte.

Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung

Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.
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#blind #inklusion #make

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I’ve gotta be real with you, @Tutanota: I love your work and your company, but you need to add Web Key Directory compatibility.

At this point, PGP/WKD support for a privacy-focused email provider has to be as fundamental as supporting TLS. Proton does not own PGP.

I simply cannot in good conscience recommend Tuta over Proton to people generally speaking, knowing that Proton users benefit from E2EE when they email me on my self-hosted email servers, as well as when they email plenty of other providers (Posteo, Mailbox.org). And that is a shame, because trust me I would love to be able to point anywhere other than Proton when I’m asked this.

Keep your superior encryption for intra-Tuta emails, absolutely. Give it a different UI indicator so people know the difference, I don’t care. At the end of the day, not at least silently supporting in the background the only decentralized email encryption method we have is antithetical to what email is all about: interoperability.

People have been asking you about PGP for 8+ years, I know Autocrypt used to be on your roadmap and now it seemingly no longer is.

There is a clear winner now, and it’s WKD.

@Tuta

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Flights booked for #MatrixConf 2025! 🎉 Can't wait to see everyone in Strasbourg this October.

Tickets are still on sale, but space is limited so don't delay: conference.matrix.org/

#Matrix


The Matrix Conference

Come along to see the latest and greatest progress in the Matrix world! From huge government deployments to the latest innovations, hang out with your peers to share the best learning, insights, projects and tips!
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#matrix #matrixconf

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My keynote from Open Source Summit Europe 2025 is now up. 13 pretty packed minutes.

youtu.be/YEBBPj7pIKo?si=DBxSCF…


Keynote: Giants, Standing on the Shoulders Of - Daniel Stenberg, Founder of the Curl Project

Don't miss out! Join us at the next Open Source Summit in Amsterdam, Netherland (August 25-29); or Seoul, South Korea (November 4-5). Join us at the premier ...
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Working on a way to have #curl -w able to output the contents of all headers with a set name even from a redirect-"chain":

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1849…


write-out: make %header{} able to output *all* occurances of a header by bagder · Pull Request #18491 · curl/curl

By appending :all:[separator] to the header name. The [separator] string is output between each header value if there are more than one to output. Test 764 verifies Idea-by: kapsiR on github Ref: #...
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Contact with Europeans in the 19th century first provided the Yapese at Palau with iron tools, that made the cutting and shaping of the stones much easier. Not much later, the Yapese made deals with Europeans to use their ships to transport the stones back to Yap. These arrangements enabled the manufacture of much larger and heavier rai stones, up to 4 meters in diameter, as well of a larger number of them. However, these "modern" stones were less valuable than more ancient ones.


Even stone money suffers from inflation.

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former Micronesian currency of Yap Islands and Palau Islands; national symbol the the Federated States of Micronedia

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feld

That paired with this would be perfect for me

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MokerLink Store - MokerLink 4-Port 2.5G Web Managed PoE Switch with 2-Port 10G SFP+

4 x 2.5G Ethernet Ports, compliant IEEE802.3bz (2.5G) standard, support 10/100/1000M/2.5G adaptive. 2 x 10G SFP Port(compatible 1G/2.5G Module, not include SFP Module). 45Gbps backplane bandwidth, Port 1-4 support IEEE 802.
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So, if I write you a document before a meeting, you use AI to summarize that document, and then during that meeting you rely incorrect or partial information, not only you wasted everybody's time, but you also made it clear that you don't think I'm capable of relying information synthetically, moreover you're clearly stating that you're not intelligent enough to read a simple document.

Using AI makes you "look" fast and productive, but in reality it paints you as cheap and lazy

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Aleca

Also, with the most recent "optimized" models is estimated that to generate a small image (how small, who knows), it consumes an average of 0.25 kWh.

So if only one person generates 6 images it's the equivalent of keeping your electric heater running full power for 1hr.

Your silly memes built on stolen art are helping boiling the ocean.

But hey...now you can see what a gorilla wearing an iron man suite looks like, because your imagination is stunted.

Congrats, I guess

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Supporting Indonesians monetarily, video contains fatal injury

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Questioning whether or not I've overreacted as the post *is* in the Introductions subforum, I read every single introductory post on the Ubuntu Discourse made in 2025. Every one was focused on the person's technical and professional backgrounds and what skills they want to learn or tech topics they're interested in.

One guy mentioned off-hand about being busy moving around the country with his wife and kids. Another guy is 75 and mentioned in a reply to someone inquiring about his early career that women did the punch cards and men did the programming when he started. Those were the only two other semi-questionable comments if you want to really be pedantic.

Not a single mention of personal life details like this in any other post.

Read the room.

(also revealing your name and birth date like that is a bit of an opsec issue this guy should be coached on... honestly where is the mod at on this, they should really be censoring that in his post)

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hey, do you folks have recommendations for an USB fingerprint reader that works reliably with Fedora (or ideas how I could get mine to work)?

Mine (a "Benss" branded Elan 04f3:0c3d) is supposed to work, but I can't get it to verify prints - Apparently fprintd really doesn't handle "tap to scan" readers well, like the one I've got.

I've tried tapping, swiping, in every direction, I'm running out of ideas

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This is local Amsterdam news (in Dutch) about the library putting on a display of books banned from American schools and libraries, in little stars-and-stripes coffins. They say it’s because whatever nonsense America gets up to, the Dutch need to be ready to guard against it being pushed here a few years later. at5.nl/nieuws/234309/wat-je-in…

#uspol #censorship #bannedbooks


Wat je in Florida niet mag lezen, wordt nu tentoongesteld in de OBA

www.at5.nl
#censorship #uspol #bannedbooks

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in anticipation of another bike trip, i've constructed porteur bag #2, refined and refreshed.

- first bag i've made with a liner! (robic nylon)
- structured like a big tote bag but with a zipper and a square footprint
- two wire gate clips to make attachment / straps experiments easier
- same ecopak material as my frame bag
- cordura on the bottom for durability

overall: an improvement, attachment to the rack is simpler and faster. could be slightly taller, and maybe all ecopak

side view of the new bag
3/4 view of the new bag
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“Unlike a typical mesh, which stores per-vertex 3D positions, a mescher stores per-vertex 2D screen-space positions and a per-edge depth difference. Whereas differences in depth across edges must sum up to zero as we travel around a standard mesh, this is not necessarily the case for a mescher. It is a mathematical way of describing the perceptual impossibility.” anadodik.github.io/publication…
Rendered computer images of three impossible tori

Meschers: Geometry Processing of Impossible Objects

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Thank you to everyone who attended the World Blindness Summit & WBU General Assembly last week in São Paulo, Brazil. It was an honour for NV Access to attend, and to have NV Access General Manager, James Boreham and NV Access director Emma Bennison present. It was an informative and uplifting week and a chance to meet many new people and hear people's hopes for the future!

#WBUSummit #WBU25 #Blindness #Blind #Accessibility #NVDA #NVAccess #NVDAsr #Brazil #SaoPaulo

Photo of presenters and moderators for the session: "Digital Access for All – Creating Inclusive Information Spaces". From left to right, Octavio Carreno and Mariana Pinheiro, Marc Workman, Flavio Correia, Simone Freire, James Boreham, and Emma Bennison. All are standing side by side, smiling, in front of the World Blindness Summit backdrop in São Paulo.
Image of the rear part of the room which is quite full with 8 rows of people seated and clapping during the "Digital Access for All – Creating Inclusive Information Spaces"
#Accessibility #blind #nvdasr #brazil #blindness #nvda #nvaccess #wbusummit #wbu25 #saopaulo

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For anyone who thinks Wayland compositors are being overly restrictive by not allowing applications to set absolute positions for their windows, as I did, there are good reasons for this restriction. canonical-mir.readthedocs-host…

Window positions under Wayland

Preamble: Design is all about balance, and the design of graphical user interfaces has a lot of interests to be balanced. In the context of Wayland, the principle interested parties are the designe...
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Bug Hunter (1990) is one of those rare puzzle platformers written exclusively for the Acorn 32-bit machines.

Whenever I stumble on an Archimedes title, I perk up. These machines—descendants of Acorn’s BBC line—were the first computers powered by ARM CPUs. Think about that: ARM, the chipset now running your phone, your tablet, your Nintendo Switch, even your M-series Mac.

Back in 1990, ARM wasn’t about pocket gadgets. It was pitched as the next big leap in desktop computing. Only problem was the Acorn Archimedes barely left the UK, and outside of classrooms, almost nobody touched one.

That’s a shame, because games like Bug Hunter show what these machines could do. The hero is Hysteron Proteron—a bioengineered soldier gone wrong. A lab mix-up left him a spineless bug-eyed creature who can’t actually fight. So the army threw him on pest control duty.

His gimmick: suckered feet that let him scuttle along floors, ceilings, and walls, and the ability to pick up objects and drop them on unsuspecting insects. Kill them all, move to the next room, repeat. Simple, but clever.

Graphically, it’s impressive for 1990. Crisp sprites, fluid enough movement, and backgrounds that look every bit as solid as what you’d see on the Amiga or Genesis. The SNES wasn’t even out yet, and here’s Acorn pushing visuals in that league.

Sound, though, is the usual British compromise: no music, just effects. Still, compared to the PC speaker squawks of DOS games, those crunchy bug-splat noises were fine.

What makes Bug Hunter stand out isn’t just the gameplay—it’s the personality. One room even has a parody movie poster on the wall: Schwarzenegger in Decorator, with the tagline “They picked the wrong man…” It’s little details like that which make it feel less like a generic extermination game and more like someone’s sly passion project. Which it was.

Ian Richardson, a solo dev at the time, built this thing himself. He’d later go on to Gremlin and Ocean before becoming a respected figure in UK game development. He passed away in 2021, but Bug Hunter remains a testament to his early craft.

The sequel, Bug Hunter in Space, came out the same year, expanding the concept to alien ships and teleports. And Bug Hunter & Moon Dash was even sold together on a single disk, though everyone agrees Moon Dash was the weaker half. Bug Hunter’s the one people remember—the one schoolkids used to sneak onto Archimedes machines in British classrooms.

So if you ever find an Acorn 32-bit, don’t pass this up. Bug Hunter is charming, tough, and a reminder that the ARM revolution didn’t start with iPhones. It started with a bug-eyed mutant wandering the walls on a forgotten British computer.

@videogames

Retro video game screenshot from Bug Hunter. The scene shows a green-walled room with red brick borders. At the top, the title “BUG HUNTER” is displayed in bold red and white text, alongside the player’s score of 652. On the left, there’s a brown shelf stacked with random objects like a beach ball, bottles, and food. Below the shelf, a spiky black creature waits on the floor. A conveyor belt runs across the room, carrying a large insect. Two hanging fluorescent lights dangle from chains above. The back wall features two posters: one blue sign reads “Archimedes — more power to your fingertips,” while another is a parody movie poster showing a muscular figure with sunglasses and a paint roller, with the caption “SCHWARZENEGGER: They picked the wrong man… DECORATOR.”
@Video Games

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FYI trichloroethylene causes Parkinson's

Dry cleaning chemicals hang around - on your clothes | Environmental Working Group ewg.org/news-insights/news/dry…

Dry cleaning chemicals hang around - on your clothes

If you've ever dry cleaned your clothes (you have, right?), you've likely wondered how the "dry" part happens. And it may even have crossed your mind that it's a chemical process. Of course you'd be right.
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Question for fellow #NVDA users: why has the Office Desk addon been discontinued? I saw the message from the addon itself and read the homepage. It says it has been discontinued and that I should uninstall it, but it doesn't give a reason for it. I'd understand if it said something like, "The features in this addon have been merged into the core," or something like that, but it doesn't. #Accessibility #Blind #ScreenReader
#Accessibility #blind #screenreader #nvda
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NV Access

Please see this notice in the NVDA user group: groups.google.com/a/nvaccess.o…

"As of Sept 1, Joseph Lee (me) no longer maintains the add-on (Office Desk add-on is end of life). This add-on hasn’t been updated in some time, and as part of winding down NVDA work, I’m letting this add-on go. Therefore, when installing Office Desk 25.09, an “end of life” dialog will be presented, advising you to uninstall the add-on. I asked the add-ons community to maintain this add-on should they wish to do so"

Office Desk 25.09 (IMPORTANT: add-on end of life)

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I don't have any specific info, but I expect the issues which would need to be overcome would include licensing, and also if the voices require internet access to work, responsiveness. It is one thing to throw a page of text at a synthesizer, have it take a couple of seconds to process that online and return it and then read it out - but if it did that every time you press right arrow to move by one character, that would be quite frustrating for users
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