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We're very happy to use a free and open source, decentralized tool for chat - @matrix has been a great resource! Fedora contributors can easily connect with each other or outside communities with a single account.

All users who make a Fedora Account are able generate a related Matrix account from fedora.im.

Learn more about Matrix and how Fedora uses it! fedoramagazine.org/fedora-chat…

#Matrix #Element #Fedora #OpenSource


Fedora Chat: Your Gateway to Matrix - Fedora Magazine

What is Matrix and how to get connected to the Fedora Community via Fedora Chat, the Fedora Project homeservers.
David Cantrell (Fedora Project)
#matrix #element #opensource #fedora @The Matrix.org Foundation

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Welcome Jiwoo Park as #curl commit author 1262: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1339…

url: fix use of an uninitialized variable by jimmy-park · Pull Request #13399 · curl/curl

The following bug is detected by UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer on Apple Clang. /Users/jimmy.park/Repos/curl_client/build/.cache/curl/760adaf446db44888b0a6d906e318c6147c808ba/lib/url.c:810:10: runtime ...
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We just released a new update for the BT Speak. In less than a month we added over 25 new features, fixes and improvements. The newest update includes an appointment calendar, a voice notes recorder, a media player, first letter navigation in the file browser to quickly locate a file, just to name a few things which have been added. Read more about what we've added here.
blazietech.com/software-update…
DG

Software Updates | Blazie Technologies

Get the latest information on BT Speak software updates
Blazie Technologies

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Purism invented true convergence years ahead of Apple, Google, or Microsoft—and those companies still have not accomplished it. puri.sm/posts/purism-different…
#convergence #librem5 #Purism

Purism Differentiator Series, Part 11: Convergence – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism SPC
#librem5 #purism #convergence

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Wow, this morning I kindly asked Blazie Tech to see if they could update their site with the changelog of what's new in our last BTSpeak update, well now it's here! Check it out! I'm excited just how much got added in 3-weeks, staggering development! You can find them at blazietech.com/software-update…

Software Updates | Blazie Technologies

Get the latest information on BT Speak software updates
Blazie Technologies
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Purism Differentiator Series, Part 9: Quality of Product

It is not just important to deliver products that respect people and their rights to privacy, security, and individual freedoms, it is important to make sure those products are of high quality and long lasting.

We iterate our hardware versions and new products with a care for quality and component selection that we believe will make our customers proud to use and show off.

Read full story here: puri.sm/posts/purism-different…


Purism Differentiator Series, Part 9: Quality of Product – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism SPC

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Internet-Dienste, die Anonymität und Verschlüsselung anbieten, sollen als erste eine Chatkontrolle durchführen. Das geht aus Dokumenten der belgischen Ratspräsidentschaft hervor, die wir veröffentlichen. Bürgerrechtsorganisationen aus ganz Europa fordern die Ablehnung des Vorschlags.

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Chatkontrolle: Verschlüsselte Dienste sollen als erstes durchleuchtet werden

netzpolitik.org

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OK, I updated Brailab, and it still works with NVDA 2024, very shocking. If you want to try an old retro Hungarian speech synthesizer made in the 90s that uses a direct ROM dump of the hardware, that most likely won't exist in a few years, have at it. eurpod.com/brailab2024.nvda-ad… (Also, does it win the "smallest speech synthesizer award for only being 60 KB?)
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Oooh. Voxin does indeed work on the BTSpeak, so now I have vocalizer voices for desktop mode. Probably the quickest to set-up, untar the archive, run the install script, and 2 minutes later Samantha Compact was talking on it normally. While Eloquence (IBMTTS) is no longer supported through Voxin in V3.4, only for legacy x86_64, Vocalizer does work on ARMV64 Linux. The price? A bit outrageous at EUR22 or more per each voice. oralux.org/voice.php

Voxin: Add items

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🇩🇪 Neuer #Leak zur #Chatkontrolle: Jetzt sollen ausgerechnet datenschutzfreundliche und verschlüsselte Messenger- und Chatdienste mit einer Verpflichtung zur #Chatkontrolle bestraft werden. Aus den sichersten sollen also die überwachtesten Dienste werden!

Alle Infos von #Piraten-Spitzenkandidatin Anja Hirschel und mir: patrick-breyer.de/leak-datensc…

Auf dem Bild ist Europaabgeordneter Patrick Breyer mit dem Zitat „Alles, was das Internet und digitale Kommunikation ausmacht und moderne Lebensrealität” ist, ist für die EU-Innenminister ein zu bekämpfendes ,Risiko'" zu sehen.

Leak: Datenschutzfreundliche und verschlüsselte Messengerdienste sollen mit Chatkontrolle bestraft werden

Ein gestern vom Nachrichtenportal netzpolitik.org geleaktes Dokument enthüllt erstmals, wann Messenger- und Chatdiensten nach dem Vorschlag des EU-Ratsvorsitzes ein „hohes Risiko“ bescheinigt werden soll, was den Weg für ihre Verpflichtung zur Chatko…
Patrick Breyer
#piraten #Chatkontrolle #leak

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Come and meet the 41 projects which will receive funding in the latest round of the #NGI0 Entrust and NGI0 Core programs.

We want to thank all the people/teams/communities behind these free and open source projects for their important contribution to a trustworthy, resilient, open internet.

If you want to properly meet each project, come over to nlnet.nl/news/2024/20240417-an… and we'll give you a proper introduction.
Or, for a quick hello, see the list below.
#NextGenerationInternet #opensource

NLnet; 41 new projects awarded

nlnet.nl
#opensource #ngi0 #nextgenerationinternet

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The more I do see the BTSpeak and use it though, the more I understand that it's not just a Raspberry Pi 4. A lot of critiques will say (myself included) that they aren't paying much to produce them, but it does look like the keypad is custom-made for the units with BRLTTY driving that keypad for the experience. Even that alone takes time and R&D to do, so having worked in corporate environments I get the cost and pricing in this regard more and more the deeper I do explore it.

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Tamas G

a lot more goes into this than just a Pi-4. To those critiquing who say, "I could just buy my own Pi4 and do the same things!" you could, but that's if you're technical. The appeal for many folks this has is having that hardware and the R&D for that hardware in one package. Maybe producing them is a few hundred dollars of the cost, but also needing to do this in bulk, injection-mold cases, assemble carrier board +RPI units into the casing, verify hardware units work, pre-program info... A lot.
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Tamas G

And while it's true that they are using an open-source board to drive their project and not contributing this back to the community (yet) is a bit of a sore spot for me, but it's also something that could in theory change once they have finished building the system in the product and then over-time open-sourced parts they've built in terms of scripts publicly. Who knows, let's not judge the food before the water for it has even boiled.
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Tamas G

and really the more I read about the CM4, it's not unreasonable for them to use it in this industrial way. Nothing in utilizing a CM4 says that you then also need to make other aspects of the hardware open-source, like board/ modifications for modules you've added. As an example, they use the wm8960 with the CM4 (waveshare.com/wm8960-audio-hat…), a keypad which drives its own signaling for the 9-key input, battery, and more. It's a lot of small pieces put together into one product

WM8960 Audio HAT for Raspberry Pi, Hi-Fi, Stereo CODEC, Play/Record

www.waveshare.com
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Drew Mochak

I don't mind that they are using an RPi board, I just wish it was the 5! I know there will always be new versions but these things always feel obsolescent before they're even available.

At the same time, no one complained about the board of the BNS feeling "old," you just wanted it to do more stuff. So I recognize that this too is more of a hobbyist complaint than an actual negative for the device.

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Tamas G

@objectinspace yeah, I wish the CM5 board were released already - sadly there's a delay between the foundation releasing the general-purpose board and then the 32 SKUs or more for the embedded, custom CM4. They could have gone with a slightly higher CM4 with 8 GB ram, but my guess is they expected people to not need that much for a good Linux desktop experience, which isn't wrong either. In theory you could send in units though and get them upgraded with a CM5 swap.
@Drew Mochak
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Drew Mochak

That's true they could swap out the boards, I hadn't thought of that. If they were willing to do that, that would increase the lifespan of the device quite a bit! They might want to prefer to make a new device though. But that's when I think they would lose people, I can get on the $200 yearly upgrade train but not the $4k-every-two-years-for-a-new-thing train. Hopefully they understand that.
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Tamas G

@chrisn @ppatel @objectinspace yeah, that's not an invalid point. I think you could install a smaller passive heatsink that's low-profile and on the CPU, that could help it some but the case may not leave much room for it either right now, I haven't tried. The heat transfers through to the bottom but has not gotten uncomfortably warm for me, just quite toasty during heavy compile operations
@Drew Mochak @Chris Nestrud @Pratik Patel
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the esoteric programmer

it's not about the board for me, not at all. The problem is that they're using gpl software, and presumably slightly modifying it to fit their needs. They use mate in desktop mode, they use nano and maybe a gui editor soon, they use brltty, lots and lots of other foss components. Not open sourcing their work on those is a gpl violation if what I think is happening actually does happen, and even if not, it's kinda keeping the status quo and reinforcing the stereotype that assistive technology is expensive because governments and businesses have deep pockets, and it's not actually about the people, while not giving any of it back to the community, at least to the contributors on the backs of which they built their platform. I do like what I heard from the device, I like what's happening if taken in isolation, I just hope there's gonna be a gradual open sourcing of some of the components, especially those which touch gpl code. I'm mostly glad people are making stuff with linux, the OS everyone thought very hostile for blind and VI people, and that more people are discovering and may get some interest in it as time passes.
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Tamas G

@esoteric_programmer +100 to this! I didn't deeply explore all the modifications, It makes sense that Dave Mielky leads a lot of the developments for it since he's the now-maintainer of BRLTTY as well, so a lot of what drives the underpinnings was done with collaboration of the developer directly. I also get that some of the applications are getting built by other developers, even if these are Python scripts with bash TUI underpinnings that are simpler, Blazie has rights to.
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Tamas G

@esoteric_programmer ah yeah, just to them in general, since those pieces of code were contractually developed for the product and constitute its user interface. I'd also be curious as to what extent they had to modify some of those other open-source tools and whether those changes could have potential to be used outside of their product environment (which could add a wrinkle to contributing them back if they are there to accommodate more than just BRLTTY)
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the esoteric programmer

yeah, no one says anything about their own components developed for them, they can open source that...or not, what matters is they should at least follow the gpl and contribute back whatever they modified that's covered by the gpl, doesn't matter the kind of patch and the reason for it. Offtopic for a sec, but does the unit still heat up if you make it go to sleep? if so, I'm assuming the command that's being ran for making it do so is systemctl suspend, isn't it? and when you shut it down with the button, it does a systemctl hybernate, right? if not, in the first case it won't suspend properly, and in the second, without hybernation, it's an actual cold boot every time, which is gonna make the unit turn on as slow as my computer, which is not acceptable for a note taker imo. There are ways to do it without the systemctl commands, but those are the most recommended, universally supported and portable across architectures.
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Tamas G

@esoteric_programmer yeah, technically it looks like the Power button itself sends a command and executes it through BRLTTY to also lock the rest of the keypad buttons. It's not even S3-sleep though or anything right now, just a keypad lock with background operations continuing or idling at 600 mHZ, whereas holding it down just does a full system shutdown, so your cold boot theory isn't wrong - it's awake in 25 seconds or so in that instance, which is OK but not great.
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Today I have found out when enabling subtitles on #youtube the area where the subtitle track is playing is no longer configured as so called live region so youtube subtitles are no longer read automatically with a #screenReader if it's running. I've also looked at #invidious which has aria-live set to off. This is unfortunate as I was expecting this to just work. It can be tested on this video if you like youtu.be/watch?v=3i7gkN-1sAI yewtu.be/watch?v=3i7gkN-1sAI
#youtube #screenreader #invidious

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"[Trump] sat in front of the jury and showed contempt for the entire process and contempt for the jury, which dovetailed nicely that the other side was trying to prove: This is a bad guy who doesn't respect anything."

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I'm giving my talk today at #OSSummit about my work on a new accessibility stack for GNOME and other free desktop environments: sched.co/1aBO1

Modernizing Accessibility for Desktop Linux - Matt Campbell, GNOME Foundation

The desktop Linux ecosystem has changed dramatically since accessibility was first implemented in GNOME over 20 years ago, and even since the accessibility stack was migrated to D-Bus roughly 15 years ago.
sched.co
#OSSummit

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Today more companies are announcing their support of the Valkey community (the group that includes committed developers previously working on the OSS version of the core Redis engine): Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, Chainguard, Heroku, Huawei, Percona, and Verizon.

#OSSummit #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OSS #Redis #Valkey #Community #LinuxFoundation

linuxfoundation.org/press/valk…


Valkey Community Announces Release Candidate Amid Growing Support for Open Source Data Store

Valkey community welcomes new partners, including Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, Chainguard, Heroku, Huawei, Percona, and Verizon.
The Linux Foundation
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #oss #community #OSSummit #redis #valkey #linuxfoundation
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Matt "msw" Wilson

Now on stage for the morning #OSSummit keynotes, core team member Madelyn Olson to speak about the new Valkey community effort.

The walk-on music: "We are never ever getting back together" by Taylor Swift. 🤣

Love it!

#OSSummit #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OSS #Redis #Valkey #Community #LinuxFoundation

#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #oss #community #OSSummit #redis #valkey #linuxfoundation
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In 1988 me and my friend wrote a game on the #C64: "Horror Drive". Today, 36 years later, this site is updated to mention it: gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/horr…

Horror Drive (C64) - 1988 Horizon - GTW64

Horror Drive is a really neat and promising 2 player split screen racer, with a top down viewpoint. Sort of like Rally Speedway, but with far smoother
Games That Weren't
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Google is crushing Tuta via search results.

Intentional or not, as a gatekeeper #Google must offer fair competition for our private email service Tuta Mail - a direct competitor to #Gmail.

Google must stop its abuse of power which is in violation of the EU #DMA.

👉 tuta.com/blog/google-search-pr…

A Mastodon post where a user tested this issue for themselves only to find that Google is not listing Tuta normally.

Google Search Is A Problem: How Google Is Crushing Tuta.

Google stopped showing our website in its search results, possibly in violation of the DMA.
Tutanota
#google #dma #GMail

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NVDA and its oddities. Should newly added features be pulled to avoid issues which they might most likely generate, issues which won't probably be fixed in a timely manner? Remember the link destination feature and the saga surrounding it not working with all link types? Now unmuting other apps with newly added NVDA commands, in alpha, does not work as expected. I don't think useful features like this should be pulled, but take a look and decide for yourself: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…
@NVAccess

Unmuting other apps does not work as expected · Issue #16402 · nvaccess/nvda

Steps to reproduce: Launch NVDA and an audio stream in the background, e.g. youtube playing music in a browser Press NVDA+alt+delete to mute all apps except NVDA. As expected, Youtube is muted. Exi...
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NV Access

Thanks to everyone for contributing and picking up issues like this. Whether something like this gets pulled, or fix, probably firstly depends on whether it can likely be fixed before the next release and if not, how detrimental the problem will be to users, particularly against the experience in the last stable release. I am fairly sure these kinds of issues and dilemmas are things which affect almost all software, and we do absolutely encourage feedback one way or the other on it.
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