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Wrt what I posted yesterday, I downloaded the GNOME OS live ISO, started it in a vm, and pressed alt+super+S. Orca started. So far, so good. But now I have to get through gnome-initial-setup, and I have to select a time zone, and, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to get a selection to stick so that the Next button is no longer grayed out. Fml.
Edit: I think I'm hitting gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-i…

Timezone selection page can not be accessible in the current UI layout (#226) · Issues · GNOME / gnome-initial-setup · GitLab

Because of how the timezone selection page works now - the selection is confirmed on the map widget or by automatic selection (which obviously does not work), it...
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RE: floss.social/@IzzyOnDroid/1155…

As it worked so well last time, may we ask you again? Some entries are still open, some new ones were added. And to help you find apps you might be interested in verifying, their names (or what they do) are/is now highlighted in bold letters.

Still walking the entire repo, app by app, so the list might grow a bit more. And every little hint you can give, is valuable and helping us. So thanks to all who did – plus in advance to those who will! 🤗

#IzzyOnDroid #serviceToot :boost_love:

IzzyOnDroid ✅

2025-11-09 13:02:33

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Dear #IzzyOnDroid community, we need your help for keeping our repo as useful as possible. No tech knowledge needed for this one, so anybody who's got an #Android device and some spare time can jump in here:

codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/Every…

Are you using any of those apps, or would be willing to install one (or more) of them to see if they are still useful? Please then report there, or here to this #serviceToot – so we can get that issue solved 🙏

Thank you all in advance!

:boost_love:



metadata reorg subtask: deciding about miscellaneous dormant apps

This is a spin-off from #10 where I'd like some input from the team, concerning how to handle the following unmaintained apps: * [x] [`com.projects.musicplayer`](https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.projects.
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#serviceToot #izzyondroid

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@AccessOn I have just listened to the reading of the letter sent by the NFB to Vispero.
I would like to highly congratulate Mr Riccobono, not only for communicating the serious concerns of blind people worldwide regarding Vispero, but also for what I consider to be one of the most excellent pieces of communication I have ever listened to. I am completely behind the NFB's stance which has been taken and I agree with every word.
@Access On

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GrapheneOS Based On AOSP QPR1 Initial Port Completed
Yesterday (2025-11-11), the most recent major quarterly release of Android (Android 16 QPR1) was pushed to the Android Open Source Project after being delayed since 2025-09-03. We've completed our initial port of all our changes to it and are building an experimental release now.

GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)

GrapheneOS (GrapheneOS Mastodon)
#grapheneos
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Joe Brockmeier (jzb)

Like I said a few weeks ago -- petitioning Google, Apple, or any BigCo to "please, please, please let us get what we want" instead of what benefits the BigCos first is a losing strategy.

Their interests are simply too divergent from ours. The bigger they get, the less incentive they have to do what users consider the right thing, and the harder it is to have any leverage with them as a customer.

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Google cancels plans to require Android application certification outside of the Play Store

Only a few months ago, Google announced it was going to require that all Android applications - even those installed outside of the Play Store - had to be verified. This led to a massive backlash, and it seems our protests and complaints have had effect:

osnews.com/story/143786/google…

#Android

Google cancels plans to require Android application certification outside of the Play Store – OSnews

www.osnews.com
#android

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Dnes jsem se dozvěděl, že v minulém roce nám EU směrnicí 2024/1438 vrátila "jahodovou marmeládu":

> Členské státy však mohou s ohledem na výrazy běžně používané spotřebiteli povolit, aby se na jejich území používal výraz ‚marmeláda‘ pro název výrobku ‚džem‘, s výjimkou džemu z citrusových plodů.

A MÉDIA O TOM MLČÍ! 😀

eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten…

L_202401438CS.000101.fmx.xml

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Friend: How many domains do you have registered?
Me: Don't ask.
Friend: Come on. What's the big secret between friends?
Me: Hmm, maybe 100. IDK.
Friend: Oh, I see. And what do you do with them? Do you have apps or websites?
Me: Oh yeah, I have 4 websites and 2 apps.
Friend: You must be making lots of money, then? Are you loaded?
Me: Zero paying users. It's the cost of being an 'idea person' & mu way of dealing unresolved issues in my life.
Friend: Yeah, right.
Me: 😭😭😭

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Okay, super weird, unanticipated episode in which, as a Blind person, I sift through old photos using AI, and post some on social media because I can't sleep. This gem is from a visit to Rome we took around 10 years ago. Luckily we were with sighted friends because the vending machine was stuck on the outside of a wall directly onto the sidewalk at a height where our canes would have gone right under it. Gosh, the things you can buy in vending machines, I had no idea!
AI, A man is using a large vending machine with a bright, circular display that has the Durex brand visible on it. The vending machine is on the side of a street or closed shop. The man is holding a white cane, and a woman standing behind him is also holding a white cane, indicating they may be visually impaired. The scene is dimly lit, with the vending machine illuminated in contrast to the dark surroundings.

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V roce 2018, to je ta první fotka, jsem navštěvovala na University of Washington v Seattlu kurz African Literatures. Moje dosavadní čtenářská zkušenost s africkými autory nebyla rozsáhlá, chtěla jsem se něco dozvědět. Tohle jsem říkala, když se nás ptali, co si od kurzu slibujeme, a pak že doma studuju překladatelství a že kdybych tady objevila něco zajímavýho, třeba se mi to jednou podaří zprostředkovat českým čtenářům. Jakože někdy v daleké budoucnosti. Mokrej sen.

Zajímavýho jsem toho teda objevila spoustu: Chimamandu Ngozi Adichie (samozřejmě), Tayeba Saliha, Ferdinanda Oyona a taky NoViolet Bulawayo, zimbabwskou spisovatelku, jejíž styl mi byl milej, jen co jsem rozečetla její debut. We Need New Names je román o emigraci a vykořenění, ale i o vystřízlivění z představ o domovině. Jazyk je tam skoro postava, hutná síla hýbající s osudy imigrantů, kteří v angličtině zaujímají nejrůznější strategie sebevyjádření ve snaze nějak přežít. NoViolet má dar imitace a ironie, takže kromě toho, že se jí daří ilustrovat takový to bolestný rozplývání člověka, co se postupně vzdává svých autentických výrazových prostředků, je to zároveň fakt sranda číst.

V roce 2022 vydala NoViolet svůj další román, Glory, a já šla hned po něm. Na rozdíl od její první knihy je o návratech: na celospolečenské úrovni o cyklických návratech Zimbabwe do stále stejných politických pořádků, na osobní úrovni o návratu jedné ženy domů, k mámě, a o konfrontaci s genocidou poznamenanou minulostí její rodiny. NoViolet celou problematiku nahlíží orwellovskou, farmazvířáckou optikou, a dojem absurdity dotahuje zase jazykem, protože to prostě umí. Mluvící jména, slovní hříčky, parodie, idiolekty, veršovánky. Překladatelská žeň.

Tak jsem ji přeložila. Ti, kdo se doopravdy vyznají, vědí, že vyšla před pár týdny v Odeonu a mám z ní hroznou radost. Čtěte, máte-li náladu na soudružská jednání, náboženská vytržení, jedno či dvě hoře oře a návrat Destiny k sobě samé. Měli byste se smát a měli byste brečet a všichni bychom si pak měli někde sednout a probrat to, protože o čem by to pak asi jinak celý bylo.

Děkuju Jindřichu Jůzlovi za vstřícnost, Anežce Dudkové za přepečlivou, bystrou a vtipnou redakci jako vždycky a Danulce za všechny chvíle, kdy mě nechala na Slavných časech pracovat! ❤️

#kniha #preklad #odeon #slavnecasy #novioletbulawayo

#preklad #kniha #odeon #slavnecasy #novioletbulawayo

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LibreOffice 25.8.3 is now available! All users are recommended to update, to get the latest bugfixes and compatibility improvements: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #openSource #freesoftware
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Announcement of LibreOffice 25.8.3 - The Document Foundation Blog

Berlin, 13 November 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.3, the third minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity in office environments, for Windows, MacOS and Linux, is now available at www.libreoffice.org/download.
Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource

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🦀 I've improved the implementation behind all the string formatting macros in Rust: println!(), panic!(), format!(), write!(), log::info!(), and so on. (That is, everything based on format_args!().) They will compile a bit faster, use a bit less memory while compiling, result in smaller binaries, and produce more efficient code! 🎉

'Hello world' compiles 3% faster and a few bigger projects like Ripgrep and Cargo compile 1.5% to 2% faster. And those binaries are roughly 2% smaller. 🎊

This change will be available in Rust Nightly tomorrow, and should ship as part of Rust 1.93.0 in January.

#rustlang

The source of the standard Rust Hello World program with the generated assembly before and after the change. The before version has 11 instructions and stores 56 bytes on the stack. The after version has 3 instructions and stores no data on the stack.
#RustLang

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Übrigens, wenn ich einen Kompetenzaufbau fordere, dann meine ich damit sowas wie einen Zwang. Einen Zwang zur Kompetenz. Einen Zwang zu, damit automatisch einhergehenden, qualitativ guten Ergebnissen.

Die „Ich will das aber nicht weil ich dadurch in meiner Freiheit eingeschränkt werde. Ich — als alter weißer cis-Mann“-Zeiten sind vorbei.

Und ja, das gehört beides zu ein und demselben Statement.

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if you are not happy on your FIPS system with modern #curl treatment of TLSv1.3, why not simply refrain from using curl?

Or take an older version and maintain it yourself.💁🏻‍♂️

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1934…


openssl: respect system crypto policy for TLS max version by jacekmigacz · Pull Request #19342 · curl/curl

When no explicit --tls-max option is provided, curl should respect OpenSSL's system-wide crypto policy configuration instead of overriding it. Previously, curl called SSL_CTX_set_max_proto_vers...
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#curl

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10 Jahre ist der islamistische Terrorangriff auf das bataclan her, und damals hätte ich nicht gedacht, daß ein paar Jahre später (große) Teile der Musik-Szene und viel zu viele irgendwie Linke so eine Scheiße als "legitimen Widerstand" ansehen und bejubeln.
Und ja, es ist völlig egal, welche Spielart des Islamismus ihr da feiert, ob Daesh, Al-Qaida, Hamas oder wie auch immer sie sich sonst noch nennen.
#bataclan #Paris #13nov
#paris #bataclan #13nov
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Calishat

'You hear it over and over: “I had <a big number> of followers on Twitter and now I have <a less-big number> on Mastodon, but I get so much more conversation and interaction when I post here.”'

This is so true. I have less than half the followers here than I did on Twit and the interactions are 100x better.

It's better for my mental health too; I posted shit and nobody cared. I thought it was me. But y'all care at least a little bit!

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💫 And in more recruitment news - we also have an open (PT) position for a research software engineer at the @tibosl @tibhannover, focusing on helping us orchestrate and deliver research data management services to our project partners.

🔗 Full infos here: tib.eu/en/tib/careers-and-appr…

📅 Deadline: Nov. 29.

📢 Please share widely in your networks: We offer a genuinely open, collaborative and flexible work environment, join the dream team and help us build better data services for GLAMs and open science institutes!

#openscience #opensource #softwareengineer #researchdatamanagement

Research Software Engineer (m/f/d)

Job advertisement No. 57/2025; application deadline: 29.11.2025
www.tib.eu
#opensource #openscience #softwareengineer #researchdatamanagement @TIB @TIB Open Science Lab (OSL)
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It is so funny when people claim Linux authority by saying, “I’ve been using Linux since the 2000s…”

Sit down. My first distro was Slackware on a 200Mhz Pentium MMX. And back then, window managers were the hotness, not desktop environments. Back in my day, we fiddled with Xeyes in IceWM—and we liked it.

But none of that vintage cred actually matters, because Linux never wins people over with nostalgia. It wins people over when it finally does the thing they care about.

I abandoned Linux in the early 2010s for the same reason most people did: it didn’t have the apps or the games I needed. The OS was fine. The software ecosystem wasn’t.

What brought me back? Gaming. Not philosophy, not ideology, not a love of fiddling with config files.

Gaming forced Linux to solve real, modern problems—drivers, performance, Vulkan, translation layers, graphics pipelines. And once those problems got solved, the benefits spilled into everything else: creative apps, productivity apps, niche tools, Windows compatibility layers that actually work.

This is what people still don’t get: regular users don’t care about Wayland vs Xorg, package formats, compositor drama, or kernel minutiae. They care about whether the apps they need will run with minimal friction.

An operating system succeeds when it disappears into the background and lets people use their software. For the first time, Linux is genuinely doing that—and that’s why the momentum is finally real.

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