Did you notice Tuta's new colors? We've already heard great feedback, particularly about the blue dark theme. 💙 What are your thoughts about this update?!

✨ New color themes
✨ Apply dark mode to emails even if they contain colors
✨ Auto-save drafts

The last one is not visible, but super handy: Tuta now saves drafts automatically so if your device shuts down, your Tuta draft will not be lost! 🎉

My boss asked me "what new skills do you think web developers will need in two years", which gave me an opportunity to tell her about my recent efforts to learn urban foraging and how to identify edible plants in my neighborhood.

#WebDevelopment #UrbanForaging #ImpendingEconomicCollapse

🇩🇪Klare Ansage jetzt auch der Bundesjustizministerin: „Anlasslose #Chatkontrolle muss in einem Rechtsstaat tabu sein.“ Private Kommunikation dürfe nicht unter Generalverdacht stehen. "Solchen Vorschlägen wird Deutschland auf EU-Ebene nicht zustimmen." bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Zitate/DE/2…
in reply to Patrick Breyer

🇪🇺Germany's Minister of Justice today: "Suspicionless #ChatControl must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law." Private communication cannot be placed under general suspicion. "Germany will not agree to such proposals at the EU level." bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Zitate/DE/2…
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As an experiment, I am quite literally #vibeCoding an #accessibility mod for a game. I'm about 90% of the way there (AI is making a mess of things but even a broken clock is right twice a day), and so far, I have spent a grand total of six dollars, and maybe about a half an hour of work.
But sure, keep telling me making things #accessible is too expensive, takes too much time and doesn't need priority.
Want to force #developers to use #AI? Do me a favor, force them to use it for this as well while you're busy making their lives miserable :P #rant

"Google is supposed to begin distributing third-party app stores inside the Play Store and mirror Play Store content in other stores."

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1…

Should @fdroidorg be added to Google Play?

  • Yes, the world needs to know about F-Droid (51%, 140 votes)
  • No, it must stay in the free world (37%, 102 votes)
  • I don't care (11%, 31 votes)
273 voters. Poll end: in 2 days

in reply to Torsten Grote

Missing option, though that would probably be unrealistic: "Only if signed by F-Droid".

Why? When Google signs, it adds proprietary BLOBs to the APK as well (keyword: DEPENDENCY_INFO_BLOCK, FROSTING_BLOCK). So the APK as it would then be distributed via PlayStore would no longer be fully FOSS.

Why unrealistic? As for new apps, Google no longer accepts APKs signed by their devs.

in reply to LibreOffice

Yes yes. My bad. I'm running version 25.8.1.1. When I open a .csv file with LibreOffice Calc I see this Text Import window. The problem is that it doesn't fit to my screen size and for that reason the bottom buttons aren't visible.

#libreoffice #fedora #gnome #linux

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Heimdal support in #curl is now history: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1893…
#curl

So, exporting 73Kb ODS document (several sheets with one small table on each one of them) into XML in #LibreCalc results in 439Mb file.
#Vim basically dies on this file. #Emacs opens it instantly. I can even navigate it freely and syntax highlighting works. Although it doesn't help much.
Here's a catch:

me@desktop:~/temp$ wc -l file.xml
1 file.xml

It's a 439 Mb long line.
I have no idea what's wrong with LibreCalc.

Fedora & CentOS at LinuxDays 2025

Another edition of LinuxDays took place in Prague last weekend – the country’s largest Linux event drawing more than 1200 attendees and as every yearm we had a Fedora booth there – this time we also representing CentOS.

I was really glad that Tomáš Hrčka helped me staff the booth. I’m focused on the desktop part of Fedora and don’t follow the rest of the project in such detail. As a member […]

#centos #fedora #LinuxDays

enblog.eischmann.cz/2025/10/07…
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The Japanese Blind ICT Network (JBICT) is currently running their fifth annual survey on Assistive Technology usage preferences of users with visual impairments. As I discovered it only this year, naturally I read through the results of the 2024 edition with the help of Google Translate. Some interesting patterns: 1. The survey was distributed through many channels including mailing lists, Line chat groups (the leading instant messaging app in Japan(, X and, if I understand correctly, a local Braille magazine. Most respondents were in their 40's and 50's with a stark difference even towards respondents in their 30's and 20's. 2. PC Talker, the locally manufactured screen reader with some 30 years of history, is still the leader, however NVDA and Narrator are winning some ground too. Most respondents admit to using a combination of two or three screen readers, the most popular combo being PC Talker, NVDA and Narrator. Interestingly enough, the reason most given for sticking with their primary option is being used to it rather than added features or exemplary app support. 3. iPhone definitely dominates the market which cannot be said about the Mac. Two users are still running Raku F-03, an early smartphone manufactured by Fujitsu in the 00's with a screen reading capability, compatible with I-Mode, the predecessor of current Web but with many modern features we associate with smart technology such as video, payments etc. I might have gotten the model wrong in which case, my apologies. One of those users owns this phone alone while the other uses it in parallel with an iPhone. 4. The adoption of Word as a text editor is super marginal compared to some local options, many of which are linked so can be tested. Outlook is the second email client next to a local option. Browsing email from the provider's website is more popular than Thunderbird and Becky was used by just a couple users. 5. OCR and image recognition apps are used primarily on mobile devices for reading mail, product packaging and social media photos rather than books. The apps we all know like Seeing AI, Envision and Be My Eyes are far more popular than Japanese products. jbict.net/survey/at-survey-04 - I'd be happy about insights, feedback and corrections from Japanese users - I'm just a geek exploring whatever can be found with the means available to me. #Accessibility #A11y #Blind #Japan

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in reply to Jakob Rosin

@jakobrosin Some time ago I was exploring the different advent calendars on accessibility and web design that @aardrian keeps recommending each year and there was the Japanese one - interesting resource by the way. Anyway, the JBICT network was referenced there and I followed the link and that's how I found their podcast which mostly posts interviews with exhibitors at the annual show of blindness products in Tokyo. I subscribed and transcribed some of that with Whisper which is how I got the rough idea of the products like Braillememo. They posted an episode on the results of the survey last week and had a link in the show notes - I need to take a peek into the episode itself as it might provide more context. The Raku phone is something I learnt from somebody I met through the ICC camp when I was researching the accessibility of I-Mode.
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki @jakobrosin I guess you could have some degree of difference in one country or the other if, for instance, someone developed a suite of self-voiced apps that a lot of people have come to use over the years, or some other factor that affects the general usage pattern. I guess this would have been more of a wild ride in the 80's/90's where each country had three local screen readers for Dos and one or two odd hardware synths plus Apollo. Czech Republic is my favorite example of this - a dos-based notetaker with dialup support at the beginning of the 90's, the biggest blindness organisation hosts its own BBS, accessible public transit schedules on Dos, a Symbian app to support two or three blindness libraries by 2007...

In the end we decided on *not* a #curl security issue, but it's not an easy one to make:

hackerone.com/reports/3373640

#curl

Avis non-sollicité d'une personne noire sur le débat Bluesky VS Mastodon

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Does anyone know the origin of the phrase "Mother of all Demos" as applied to Douglas Engelbart's famous 1968 demo? Wikipedia doesn't say; it only mentions that the name was retroactive. I'm guessing the origin is Steven Levy's 1994 book _Insanely Great_. Rationale: Other authors write things like "known as" or "so-called" when mentioning that phrase, but Levy simply said "It was the mother of all demos." (I don't know about capitalization as I pulled that quote from the audiobook.)

The Rust Foundation is hiring a Rust Infrastructure Engineer!

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If you’re passionate about open source & infrastructure, we’d love to hear from you.
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Permanent closure of Montreal airport multi-level parking lot on Oct. 15

montreal.citynews.ca/2025/10/0…

Travelling my air is already terrible. But they make it even worst to get to the airport. There are very few options to get to the airport beside cars.

Couldn't they have waited for the REM to be in service?

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