Libervia CLI Tip 11:
Libervia automatically caches pubsub nodes you are subscribed to.
You can control it with the `li pubsub cache` commands.
The search capabilities are really powerful, with full-text search and many filters.
You can find items across profiles, within a time frame, or on any field of parsed data.
You can show whole items or specific data (e.g., title/author/tags of forum posts within a time frame).
I've reached 60 subscribers on my YouTube channel‼️✨ 🕺💥📈
It's a weirdly satisfying number, and I can't explain why, and I am glad it's just for fun and not about numbers and $$hit.
(Please don't unsubscribe just to spite me, let me have this one 😄)
On this day twenty-five years ago, the first ever CVE was reported against #curl:
@aetios yeah, we have a total of 169 of them listed on the curl website right now. At least one more comes on November 5...
Security is hard!
Getting stressed out by the world unravelling around you? Has the doomscrolling raised your blood pressure?
Here: Have seven minutes and twenty-five seconds of contemplative bliss, gratis.
youtube.com/watch?v=-Zn79JZr5n…
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Tórshavn - Čeští fotbaloví reprezentanti v předposledním z osmi utkání kvalifikace mistrovství světa utrpěli na Faerských ostrovech šokující porážku 1:2.ČTK
@dhamlinmusic @zersiax @fireborn Used Linux, Fedora, for just about a year. If you're fine with Firefox and Chrome, Chrome being buggy sometimes, and Thunderbird, Pidgin, Audacious, Audacity, Emacs with Emacspeak, VS Code, stuff like that, you're good. Oh and LibreOffice for basic formatting and such. You'll be getting a pretty stable screen reader, with no official addon support. A small community of blind users, but a large community of people who can give you commands to run to get just about anything textual or automation-wise. You can even remap modifier keys on your keyboard. The biggest draw is the command line/Terminal, which works very well with Orca/Speakup. Orca in the GUI terminal emulator, Speakup in the console.
The biggest downside is that not many blind developers develop for Linux, and you may need to use the web version of some stuff like Zoom. Also the only accessible audio editor is Audacity, so no Reaper even if it is available for Linux. It's honestly shaping up to be a great home for anyone that doesn't need blind-specific software or games, and even games are pretty well handled by Audiogame Manager and such. But no Paperback, no Bookworm (blindpandas book reader), no Tweesecake, none of that nice stuff. And no Orca scripts, no built-in OCR or AI, none of that. For OCR, you'll need to track down OCR Desktop.
As far as Elementary, I tried it a year or so ago, didn't like something about it, maybe something to do with Alt-tab, and went back to Fedora because it's much more up-to-date.
A few tips:
* Choose a distro that has up-to-date Orca, ATSPI and such. Don't fight your distro just to have updated AT, unless you know about Backports and other Debian stuff.
* Join the Orca mailing list. [1]. The Orca maintainer, and ATSPI maintainer are both there, and listen. For work I needed to navigate by tabs on a page, so the Orca dev made tab groups lists, and tabs list items.
* Read Orca's documentation,
[2]For any Linux distro, Desktop Environment, or app maintainers reading this: If you want your distro to be accessible, ethical, for everyone, ETC., don't wait for blind users to come to you, join the Orca mailing list and ask for feedback. You'll get plenty as long as we know our feedback isn't going into a nebulous triaging system never to be noticed by anyone with the power and care to change things.
[1] Orca list: freelists.org/list/orca
[2] Orca Documentation: help.gnome.org/users/orca/stab…
NVDA 2025.3.1 Release Candidate is now available for testing.
This is a patch release to fix a security issue & a bug.
- Fixed a vulnerability which could prevent access to secure screens via Remote Access.
- Remote Access now returns control to the local computer if it locks while controlling the remote computer.
#NVDA #NVDAsr #PreRelease #News #NewVersion #Update #ScreenReader #Security
Everyday I find more ways that the web has enshittified.... To people doing websites: each time you decide to make a popover that is not related to what you user is doing you should how much you hate your users.
@artin Interesting! I'd never heard the term "Blind Typing" myself - we've all just been happily using our own names for it :) I wonder what others call it?
Ok, Wikipedia is often good for this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_ty…
The only other term they add for it is "Touch Keyboarding".
I did get excited when I saw: "Dactylographer" redirects here
But then... they don't mention that term anywhere else & Google tells me it is "analysis of fingerprints for identification purposes".... Odd....
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
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Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.
propublica.org/article/educati…
#News #Education #Public #Schools #Teaching #Family #Children
For various reasons, finding gainful employment as a disabled person tends to be difficult for most people, so I wanted to write down my experiences.Mike Gorse (Chronicles from an unstable era)
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Debian will likely ship a GRUB with proper SBAT lines — maybe in the next point release or Debian 14.
Until then, every new laptop with the updated dbx revocations and stricter SBAT enforcement will reject Debian’s signed GRUB unless you set previous policy. This is making me very sad. Linux gets me, yet again.
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Free online tool to recognize text in documents via OCR. Creates searchable PDF files. Many options. Without installation. Without registration.PDF24 Tools
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xAI to Raise $20 Billion After Nvidia and Others Boost Round
> Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is raising more financing than initially planned, tapping backers including Nvidia Corp. to lift its ongoing funding round to $20 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
archive.is/2025.10.08-081137/b…
raymondpert.wordpress.com/2025…
#ElonMusk #NVDA #sticks #Nvidia #xAI #finance
This asset-backed financing model could serve as a template for other tech firms looking to manage high debt exposure while building expensive AI infrastructure. Published: October 8, 2025 Elo…raymondpert
In many countries there are laws against dumping. So why do we allow all this AI crap to be sold under cost? Why are Governments complicit of this ecocide?
(rhetorical questions)
If every country starts requiring that people provide official ID in order to "verify their age" to use social media, there will be no way to use any social media without associating the account with a legal identity.
This is horrible for democracy,
and should terrify everyone.
It doesn't matter if platforms use third-parties or not. It doesn't matter if they use some special encrypted code, the result is the same. This gatekeeps open discussions and government criticisms free from reprisals.
This is bad.
This is China "free-speech" bad.
This is not true, there are cryptographic protocols that let you verify some assertion about your identity without revealing anything else about yourself.
The simplest, low-tech solution would be to require a single-use scratch card to sign up for any website. Stores could then be required to verify ID before such a scratchcard could be sold, just like they do now for alcohol and cigarettes.
I submitted my #kqueue support for sound(4) on #FreeBSD. I hope we will polish it soon enough. reviews.freebsd.org/D53029
cc @JdeBP
@feld
Back when OSS was designed, keeping an output buffer filled to avoid stuttering or reading from a microscope input source before the ring buffer looped and you lost samples was hard. You basically wanted to read or write whenever you had cycles because otherwise you couldn’t keep up.
Since then, computers have become a lot faster and now sound is a very low data rate device. Rather than hammering the sound device as often as you can, you want to be told the microphone buffer has passed some watermark level (so you can process a reasonable number of samples at once) or the sound output buffer is below a watermark level (so you can give it a few ms more samples to write for interactive things, or a few seconds for things like music playback).
Things like music are great for this because you can decode a few tens of second and then sleep in a kevent loop just passing a new chunk to the device whenever it has a decent amount of space.
@feld @david_chisnall
More generally: #kqueue still has several ragged edges, compared to poll/select.
tty0.social/@JdeBP/11457405478…
tty0.social/@JdeBP/11457514245…
Every little helps in order to fill in all of these gaps.
@meka@bsd.network It is always welcome to see more kevent(), if only because it lets other people share my pain, in the hope that that increases the push for kevent() to be fully completed and as good as select().tty0.social
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