GNOME 49 has been officially released! Head over to the release notes to discover all the new features and enhancements:
Many thanks to our community for your work over the past 6 months. You're amazing!
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Discover what's new in GNOME, the distraction-free computing platform.GNOME Release Notes
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An unusual drop on Steam today: a traditional text parser adventure game. I haven't seen one land on Steam in a while.
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#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #steam
Embark on a journey into the heart of an old-school text adventure game that beckons you into a world veiled in shadow and mystique. Here, your wits are your greatest weapon, and your keyboard, the tool to wield it.store.steampowered.com
@matt Narrator in Windows gets confused. I think some screen readers should be able to handle it but I'm not going to be able to test until next week.
I'll probably get a full review up at some point
Welp, just got laid off this morning. Anybody hiring remote DevOps/infrastructure engineers?
In 2025 we already have more PRs merged than in the whole of 2024!
2024 PRs: 1,771
2025 PRs: 1,983*
*At the last count of the data this month.
Hey, lately, I've been generally unmotivated to contribute to free and open-source projects because I can't sustain myself long-term. I can't find any local or online job that allows me to make a positive impact and not feel depressed. I am not receiving a sufficient number of donations either.
I would really appreciate some donations. Your support would enable me to continue working on accessibility throughout @gnome and writing educational and informative articles.
You can donate to me via: Liberapay (preferred), Ko-fi, and GitHub Sponsors.
Boosts welcome and very much appreciated.
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Mahjongg was accepted into Circle! 🀄🀄🀄
It's one the historical GNOME games, but thanks to Mat's modernization work over the past few cycles it looks very fresh and clean nowadays. Welcome :)
Match tiles and clear the board – Single-player tile-matching game, commonly known as Mahjong solitaire. Tiles are stacked on the board at the start of the game. The goal is to remove all the tiles in as little time...apps.gnome.org
Welcome to the age verification era! 🔞 🔍
Here's why you should be concerned
❌ Risks your privacy & security
❌ Threatens anonymity & freedom of speech
❌ It's often ineffective
We explore in today's article 👉 tuta.com/blog/age-verification…
#onlinesafetyact #ageverification #surveillance
Age verification laws like the UK’s Online Safety Act are meant to protect children from harmful content, but they also increase the risks of surveillance and an internet that’s not anonymous.Tuta
Does age verification really have to rely on face scans, document uploads, or other invasive methods? 🔍 Isn't there a way to do it that respects user privacy? 🛡️
I have an idea that - while it would need some adjustments - seems reasonable to me, especially when we're talking about such a sensitive topic. In my country, Poland, ID cards have an NFC chip 📲 that contains encrypted data, including the date of birth. Access to this data requires a PIN 🔐 that is set at the government office.
Wouldn't it be possible to create an app that reads this data from the ID when first launched, and then requires the PIN each time to decrypt the date of birth? The app could communicate with the browser locally and simply send a yes or no answer ✅❌ about whether the user meets the required age - without revealing any personal data.
Of course I know not every country has such ID cards, but if they truly care about protecting children 👶, they should first make sure to create proper, secure solutions - ones that respect human rights 🧭 and don't violate citizens' privacy.
That's my opinion - but I'm open to other perspectives if there's something wrong with this approach 💬
#Privacy #Freedom #AgeVerification #OnlineSafetyAct #Surveillance #HumanRights
A stunning example of volcanic lightning, created when colliding particles of volcanic ash generate massive amounts of static electricity, captured by photographer Sergio Tapiro.
Sergio's website: galeria.sergiotapiro.com
Compra fotos, decora tu casa con naturaleza y volcanes del fotógrafo Sergio Tapiro, uno de los mejores fotógrafos mexicanos. Encuentra fotos de autor, arte, impresiones y fotografías para adornar tu oficina, hotel o empresa.Sergio Tapiro Fotos de volcanes y Naturaleza | Prints
It's official - `django.tasks` exists! Coming soon to @django 6.0. 585 days later, the first step (of many) in Django's background tasks journey is finally complete! 🥳
theorangeone.net/posts/django-…
As of today (well, technically yesterday), django.tasks is officially released upon the world! Mostly. Note that django.tasks and django-tasks are in fact different, albeit by a single character. Take care when reading.TheOrangeOne
Thoughts on Drew DeVault's take on the latest npm malware? drewdevault.com/2025/09/17/202…
I use npm some, and cargo a lot more. I'm eager to learn my lesson and change course. But I'm not in a position to make any significant change alone.
The "trusted publisher" system used by PyPI would make some of the ways this worm spread more difficult: docs.pypi.org/trusted-publishe…
There is no authentication token on my machine that would allow publishing to all PyPI packages I own. Instead I've indicated that releases will be made by a particular CI workflow running on Github. That workflow can prove it's identity to the package registry and publish the package.
There's still the possibility that a dependency could infect the builds uploaded to PyPI, but it won't be able to infect all of the author's packages in one step.
As for the argument that distro packaging solves the problem, I'm not totally convinced on that. It can help, but I've seen enough cases where the distro packager just trusts changes from the upstream. We got awfully close to the xz backdoor being widely deployed.
Type: Feature Request Add Dynamic HTML Chat View to Replace Accessible View for Screen Reader Users Subtitle Eliminate the static Accessible View in favor of an integrated, scrollable, copyable cha...accesswatch (GitHub)
Da ich das selbst über Mastodon überhaupt mitbekommen und frech angefragt habe ... hab ich nun auch total schöne Sticker bekommen. Die werde ich jetzt erstmal unter meinen Mitmenschen die #conversations im Einsatz haben verteilen. Ganz herzlichen Dank dafür!
Und weil es sowieso immer vor hatte, hab ich jetzt direkt eine Spende via #liberapay an liberapay.com/iNPUTmice/ vorgenommen. Danke für dieses tolle Stück Software.
Hi, I’m Daniel 🤝 I’ve been a freelance software developer for 15+ years. My main interests are in open standards and communication protocols (Instant Messaging, E-mail, …Liberapay
Heute ist wieder OSM-AT-Online-Stammtisch!
Egal ob Profi oder Einsteiger – alle sind herzlich willkommen. Wir tauschen uns aus über Projekte, Tools und alles rund um OpenStreetMap.
Infos & Anmeldung: osmcal.org/event/3440/ (Anmeldung hilfreich, aber nicht notwendig – einfach vorbeischauen geht auch!)
Wir treffen uns online zum Austausch rund um OpenStreetMap. Alle sind herzlich willkommen – egal ob du schon lange mappst, gerade erst anfängst oder einfach nur Fragen zu OSM hast.OpenStreetMap Calendar
A video mocking Donald #Trump and his relationship with the late paedophile Jeffrey #Epstein is being projected on to the side of Windsor Castle, including Photographs of Virginia Giuffre, Epstein and Ghislaine #Maxwell and a handwritten note of Trump to Epstein. 👇🏻
Brits are the best! 🧡
(Source: Skynews)
Opet jsem mel prilezitost plne se ponorit do meho oblibeneho fetishe. Sledovat bohate lidi naprosto odtrzene od reality s neprekonatelnou touhou svetu neco sdelit.
Dnesni tema je myslenka genocidy jako hnaciho motoru transformace spolecnosti z nejchudsi zeme sveta s autoritarskou vladou jednoho muze na ... wait for it ... nejchudsi zemi sveta s autoritarskou vladou jednoho muze a kvotami na zeny v parlamentu.
#dnes #mi #to #asi #cele #doklaplo
Na komentare se tesim.
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Dnes mi to asi celé doklaplo. Ve Rwandě. Jsem tu na skok na expedici našeho think tanku Solvo, sbíráme materiál společně s profesorem Miroslav Barta. Zkoumáme tu totiž společnost, kterou řídí ženy. Mají 60 % křesel v parlamentu.Ivana Tykač (www.linkedin.com)
Echobox player is an elegant, privacy‑minded audio player built for everyday listening. It respects your library, keeps folders as folders, and adds smart features that make long‑form audio a joy—chapters, effects, transcripts, and more—without gett…App Store
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Companies around the world use LibreOffice to reduce costs, improve their privacy, and free themselves from dependence on single vendors.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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Time to drop support for Kerberos5 FTP in #curl
github.com/curl/curl/pull/1857…
It was accidentally broken in commit 0f4c439, shipped since 8.8.0 (May 2024) and yet not a single person has noticed or reported, indicating that we might as well drop support for FTP Kerberos. Krb...GitHub
Me: Oh, huh, that sounds kind of cool tho
Also me: Have I ever used it? Uh…
Also also me: have I ever done a damned thing to maintain it? Uh….
Me: yeah I’ll hush now
Update cacert.pem using latest from https://curl.se/docs/caextract.htmlGitHub
The Mozilla CA bundle extracted and converted to PEM. This repository functions as a backup to the automated service on the curl web site. - update: the 2025-09-09 change · bagder/ca-bundle@6598d7fGitHub
"Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.
But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
Dune 1965
We are excited to bring you the latest in multiline Braille displays. Dot Pad X is a braille display that can display both braille and graphics on its display. It's designed to work with your screen reader including JAWS, VoiceOver, and NVDA.A. T. Guys
Renewing your passport abroad can be a daunting task, but with the right guidance, it's achievable in just 40 days.Instagram
"Screen readers do not need to be saved by AI"
TetraLogical's @craigabbott has written a post on his own blog exploring why we shouldn’t expect screen readers to be augmented with AI to fix problems with bad content.
The real problem is producing inaccessible content from the start, such as misusing emojis, poor descriptions, or unclear writing.
craigabbott.co.uk/blog/screen-…
#Accessibility #ScreenReaders #InclusiveDesign
Why LLMs should not be integrated with screen readersCraig Abbott (craigabbott.co.uk)
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@glyph You're definitely right about Apple. I'm much more sympathetic toward NV Access, because they're a tiny non-profit working on an open-source project. And if I remember correctly, NVDA only gained an internal TTS API rich enough to support sound effects synchronized to individual words in like 2019 or 2020. (I had written that feature in 2003, for the purpose of indicating links with a tone, but I can understand having different priorities.)
@glyph The company that I _really_ think we shouldn't carry any water for is Vispero, the current owner of JAWS. Clearly at this point the company is mainly trying to squeeze more money out of what IMO can justifiably be described as the WinZip of screen readers. I make that comparison deliberately; WinZip was at one point owned by the same private equity group that invested in Vispero. And both products now have high-quality free counterparts.
Got (essentially) all my cinematography videos up on my PeerTube! If you want to subscribe to see my videos over there, that would be awesome!
Waiting until THIS week to patch all the potholes that have existed since the March/April thaw!
Montréal ‘patches’ potholes ahead of weekend marathon... just to make sure people don't break legs and sue the city, I guess, eh.
ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/mo…
City spokesperson Philippe Sabourin says roads have already been patched to ensure the Marathon Beneva de Montréal unfolds safely.Anastasia Dextrene (CTVNews)
This week's bumper In-Process is out! Featuring:
- NVDA 2025.3 Released
- Using Chromium with the mouse issue
- We've been to WBU AND Something Digital
- and using Single Letter Navigation with web apps.
All that and more at: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…
And don't forget to subscribe to receive future posts by email: nvaccess.org/newsletter
#NVDA #NVDAsr #News #Blog #Newsletter #NewVersion #Chrome #Chromium #WBU #WBU25 #SomethingDigital #Tips #FOSS
Speed up your daily routine with these simple Windows 11 shortcuts.Nelson Aguilar (CNET)
Should we drain the Everglades?
rabbitcavern.substack.com/p/sh…
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fuck no, for the same reason we shouldn't have drained the marshes in Wisconsin: you're going to permanently destroy a habitat, and you're likely going to end up with a problem like "help help, the peat is constantly on fire and we can't stop it"
Billionaires should not exist.
leravi.org/mark-zuckerberg-gai…
Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth soared by an eye-popping $85 billion in 2024, yet in a surprising turn, a school he founded for struggling children is nowNicolas Menier (Caring Minds United)
The movie "Hackers" was released 30 years ago today. It still stands as my favorite hacker movie. What is your favorite "Hackers" movie quote?
Here are some reasons why it remains my favorite:
- The hacker handles suggested by Joey were aliases of real hackers (at the time)
- The books passed around at the club were all real
- The soundtrack
- The Emanuel Goldstein reference (And many other references to hacker people)
- The Ginsberg quote is relevant to Hacker culture
literally the dumbest thing I've ever read
youtube.com/watch?v=-uxF4KNdTj…
#curl
Please stop.https://hackerone.com/reports/3340109🏫 MY COURSESSign-up for my FREE 3-Day C Course: https://lowlevel.academy🧙♂️ HACK YOUR CAREERWanna learn t...YouTube
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in reply to GNOME • • •Itching to try GNOME 49 today? Developers and curious testers can try GNOME OS in a virtual machine or bare metal:
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Just remember that GNOME OS itself is considered pre-release software; bad things may happen if you use it in production. Happy testing!
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in reply to GNOME • • •To anybody who uses gnome today: I haven't used gnome in a few years. I stopped because it didn't have a system tray for things like steam, discord, teams, docker, podman, etc...
I had to use an extension to get one there but it broke after every update.
Is a system tray (or something like it) built in yet? Where do the icons for those background apps sit? Are they forced into the space of the dock with the other apps? Or is there another approach that doesn't break after every update?