After over 20 years of only buying HP printers (because they work well in Linux) I finally got fed up by their anti-customer policies, their hard push against third parties, their heavily-overpriced, privacy violating ink cartridges and the planned obsolescence.

While not perfect, most certainly a lot better, so I ordered a Brother MFC-J5740DW. Reviews are pretty good, it does duplex, scan to cifs and works with Linux. Looking forward to it, shall write a small "review" in some days..

JEWS, PLEASE READ THIS
NON-JEWS, PLEASE READ THIS!

Harvard experts warn Diaspora Jews are suffering from ‘traumatic invalidation’ after Oct. 7

"They call it traumatic invalidation, a condition first studied a decade ago for victims of other traumas such as sexual assault who are told it's their fault or they should get over it. For Jews, the same label should apply, the authors found, because it involves what they describe as a stunning mix of silence, denial, blame, gaslighting, whataboutism, and exclusion, such as documenting many cases of Jews being told their grief does not matter because of what's happening in Gaza"

youtube.com/watch?v=JX4dFaIEEw…

Transcript here:

thecjn.ca/news/harvard-experts…

#Podcast #Antisemitism #MentalHealth #Jews #Abuse

Harvard experts warn Diaspora Jews are suffering from 'traumatic invalidation' after Oct. 7

The two therapists' worrying study was published in an academic publication in May 2025.

^{North Star (The Canadian Jewish News)}

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Ik zat vanochtend net een halve poging te doen om dochterlief naar Linux te helpen. Haar leptop is stuk dus dit is een mooi moment voor verandering.

Maar eigenlijk weet ik niks van Linux. Net zo min als de dochter heb ik veel zin in systeembeheren.

Ik zou wel tips willen welke tweedehands laptop geschikt zou zijn voor een verse Linux-installatie waar een eh, normaal mens ook mee kan werken.

#linux

Question: Are there freely available #GeoJSON files out there for the boundaries of the provinces/states of various Central European nations?

I need them individually, i.e. one for "Bavaria" one for "Tyrol", and so forth.

Canada needs a real environmentalist party not just "conservatives who recycle" with a green label.

#cdnpoli

A new version of MapComplete is out on mapcomplete.org

It has:
- a brand new theme was created by @RLin about infrastructure. If you like power lines, pipelines, street cabinets, then this map will be for you: mapcomplete.org/infrastructure
- More support for offline use (and even more is in the pipeline)
- various bugfixes

MapComplete - editable, thematic maps with OpenStreetMap

MapComplete is a platform to visualize OpenStreetMap on a specific topic and to easily contribute data back to it.

^{mapcomplete.org}

1 October @oscl examines open source and data as the foundation for Digital Sovereignty. A great opportunity to engage with the open source community in Luxembourg!

Register here: conference.opensource.lu/

View the agenda here: conference.opensource.lu/agend…

Goodbye Stranger.

RIP

Can you guess Hanna’s feelings about AI in email? 🤯 What are your thoughts on this?

#ai #rant #artificialintelligence #email #privacy #chatgpt

Changes in September temperatures in the #Arctic by decade. The largest warming is co-located with areas of melting sea ice, such as the along the Eurasian coast.

Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds.f17050d7

The other day me and @gregkh shot down a draft proposal to add a new role in the CVE ecosystem (SADP: "supplier ADP") that would append data to CVEs with details about dependencies and how they are or are not vulnerable to each particular CVE.

Imagine the amount of dependencies that use curl or the Linux kernel etc. These sweet innocent proposal makers thought in the terms of 5-10 dependencies per CVE. Not tens or hundreds of thousands which is far from unthinkable.

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

Gästinlägg av Oskar Edbro på Kryptera.se! Inlägget handlar om en ny CVE-tagg. Läs mer här:

kryptera.se/mindre-brus-i-cve-…

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

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 😉