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How to Install Seafile Self-Hosted Cloud Storage on Debian 12

Seafile is an open-source file-hosting system written in the Django web framework. This article will guide you through installing Seafile on a Debian ...
Arvid L (Howtoforge)

I've been recently tinkering with #Python to build myself a better RSS feed experience with Youtube and GitHub feeds.

hamatti.org/posts/i-built-cust…

#blogging


I built a custom RSS hydrator for better GitHub and Youtube feeds

Youtube and GitHub RSS/Atom feeds didn’t quite offer the experience I wanted so I built a web service that takes in a feed, hydrates its contents with more useful stuff and outputs a new feed.
Juha-Matti Santala
#python #blogging

in Mac OS 15.1, I was casually reading system information app with VoiceOver. I navigated into the hardware overview text area, then back to the list, and chose "software." here's where things got strange. Arrowing around in the text area would read me the hardware overview in one single chunk, but listening to it upon focus read the new content. So I ask: What the heck is going on with VoiceOver?
What would cause the virtual buffer and focused content to go out of sync like this?
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Q&A with scientists Charley Kline and Bill Duvall, who sent the first Arpanet message in 1969, on what the internet has become, lessons from Arpanet, and more (Scott Nover/BBC)

bbc.com/future/article/2024102…
techmeme.com/241030/p8#a241030…


'We were just trying to get it to work': The failure that started the internet

On 29 October 1969, two scientists established a connection between computers some 350 miles away and started typing a message. Halfway through, it crashed.
Scott Nover (BBC)

The drawback of leaving the Fascist Bird shite is that "brands" haven't migrated.

So I can't ask a car maker why their service (repairs) is worse than MAGA-Mobile which is a landmark in shittiness.

in reply to Hubert Figuière

Hubert Figuière
Hubert Figuière
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FWIW it has been a month and a half and Nissan still doesn't have the replacement bumper.

(my *brand new* car was rear ended in its parking spot, 20m DOWN from the kerb)

Thinking getting a Nissan?

Hahahahaha! #WhatsApp survey question I just received asks:

'How visually appealing is WhatsApp’s design (that is, the way the app looks) to you?'

#whatsapp
in reply to Rebecca

Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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These days apps are far more complex than they were in 2010, so if you don't explore by touch and at least try to know where common things are, you're going to have a very slow time indeed.
in reply to Andre Louis

Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Yep, sometimes, explore by touch is the only thing that would adiquately work in some apps, if VO loses focus or reaches some kind of boundary that doesn't exist, but it decided to do so. Same thing used to happen with talkback and other readers. It's good to know both. Speaking of using that, how would you teach someone the concept of explore by touch? I honestly can't explain it well I suppose, but I am trying to help someone from around here. What do you compare it vs swiping, for example? To me it's just like drawing on your screen, but drawing lines. also I am one of the people who uses explore by touch a lot, and also manages to guess half of the things on the screen if apps are well-made.
in reply to Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺

Rebecca
Rebecca
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@tardis @jscholes Have they used tactile maps? If so you could say it's a little bit like exploring a tactile map but it's just your phone screen. I know speed dots have shut down but when I had them they really helped me orient to my phone at first.
@James Scholes @Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
in reply to Rebecca

Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Oh, these never shipped here, well, yeah I tried that approach but I guess they didn't get it, so I tried drawing. It's a person who likes working on a computer, so.
in reply to Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺

James Scholes
James Scholes
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@tardis The majority of physical surfaces a blind person will encounter don't support sequential swiping. Explore by touch has to be the default for restaurant tables, kitchen counters, a new computer, etc. So I don't think you need a fancy explanation for how to find stuff on a screen; they can just be explored like those other things. I'm no teacher though so what do I know. @FreakyFwoof @silverleaf57
@Rebecca @Andre Louis @Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
in reply to James Scholes

Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Yeah, trust me, neither am I. But at least I am getting paid. and I better be. I spent three hours trying to make this guy learn how to use iPhone, because he wanted an iPhone. And I could've done something else with my time, too. Plus, he insisted on paying, so, well, I don't deny.
in reply to Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺

Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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the three hours were spent trying to disable subscriptions he subscribed to. Because Apple is, well, Apple, and the appstore isn't translated in my language. and then trying to disable the personal data thing icon. and it turns out it needed screen recognition, but I can do it with VO turned off, so go turn on that, swipe a thousand times through settings. and someone setup the iPhone by transfering from android, so now, it's a mess. Even the apps went to transfer. also, Apple photos sucks now. No idea what they did to it, but unless you use explore by touch, you screwed, unless you have like, two photos, but I have at least a few hundred even with the recent cleanup. So, yep, explore by touch in my opinion must be taught to people, the earlier the better. also, it's just easier. Haha.

Whenever companies “overinvest and underperform,” for some reason the people that have to go are never the execs who made these strategic mistakes.

Save the bachelor study Celtic Languages and Culture at Utrecht University from extinction!

Dear Fedi, we need your help!

On Monday, the University of Utrecht announced that they would shut down six bachelor studies, including the 'bachelor of arts' ("BA") Celtic Languages and Culture.
Current students will be able to finish their study, but from 2026 on no new students are to be accepted.

This was shocking news to receive.
We will not go down without a fight, though! :drgn_knife_angry:
We started a petition to stop it! (see the end of the toot if you want to skip all about why it is bad to loose Celtic in Utrecht.)

The Celtic BA at Utrecht University is unique in the Netherlands, and rare worldwide. Moreover, being able to study Celtic here in the Netherlands, away from the political context you have when you study it in Ireland, for example, allows us to bring new insights, because we can see it all from a slightly different perspective, which is very valuable for the whole field of Celtic studies.
It should be no wonder then, that the department of Celtic studies at Utrecht University is internationally respected.
The Celtic department also delivers important contributions to the field of Celtic studies that are much-needed worldwide.
Therefore, it would be disastrous to lose this beautiful and culturally important bachelor, that celebrated its centenerary just last year!

Hence, I emplore you all to sign this petition to save Celtic!
chng.it/tBwmVpYqMF

It is also possible to write a letter or email wherein you write why it is so important to keep the Celtic bachelor, to the Rector Magnificus of Utrecht University, who has to vote together with the 'rectores' of all other Dutch universities about the dissolution of the Celtic bachelor.
If you decide to write a letter or email, the staff of the Celtic department would love to receive a copy.

Written letters can be directed to:
Professor dr. Henk Kummeling
Universiteit Utrecht
Bestuursgebouw
Heidelberglaan 8
3584 CS Utrecht
The Netherlands

Emails can be directed to:
h.kummeling@uu.nl

You can send the Celtic staff a copy by:
Adding their email address in the BCC, or emailing a scan of your letter:
keltischezomer@uu.nl

Alternatively, you can send a physical copy to @drnike, Aaron Griffith, or Natalia Petrovskaia, at
Trans 10
3512JK Utrecht
The Netherlands

There exists an example draft for letters, if you would like to see that, please ask me!

#CelticStudies


Red de Opleiding Keltisch/Save the Bachelor Celtic!

Nike Stam (Change.org)
#celticstudies @Dr Nike
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I wanted to watch something else after Downton Abbey. So I' begun Upstairs Downstairs. It's good so far.
in reply to Brian Hartgen

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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My wife and I started watching Upstairs, Downstairs but we stopped sometime during either season 1 or season 2. It was a great show and I enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed Downton. I really should rewatch it and keep going as I liked the characters. The episodes on Amazon Prime didn't have audio description, although the newer series from around 2010 does have it.
in reply to David Goldfield

Brian Hartgen
Brian Hartgen
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@DavidGoldfield Hi David, you are right. We have both versions. Lulu has watched it lots of times. The 70's drama doesn't have AD, but like all the 70's dramas we have, there is plenty of dialog, more than enough to follow it.
@David Goldfield

New game added to the Accessible Android apps directory: BitLife accessible accessibleandroid.com/app/bitl… #Android #Game

BitLife - Accessible Android

One of the few, if not the only, Life Simulator app accessible to the blind and visually impaired. How will you live your life? Will you become famous? Commit
Accessible Android
#android #game

Part of the ADHD tax is, for example, when I change the tyre that was
flat this morning, replace it with the spare tyre, and since I already put the supermarket bags in the car I start thinking of the route - whether to go to the store first or the tyre shop first - so I forget to make sure I have the fucking security lock nut with me - and so I eventually arrive to the tyre shop and discover I don't have it.
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

Federico Mena Quintero
Federico Mena Quintero
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So I go back home, park the car, retrace my steps to see if the nut is somewhere on the street, but of course it is a lost cause. So I unload the groceries and have a quick lunch and in a few minutes I'll go to the tyre shop again and tell them to please break the goddamned security bolts and replace them because I'm that doofus that lost the nut.

Also, fuck cars.

@freedomscientific It's been a while since I've used Face in View but when I try to adjust Face in View settings from Settings Center using the default profile, it indicates
Only available when Freedom Scientific Kernel Camera driver is installed.
When I attempt to enable it from the layered keystrokes insert+space, F O JAWS announces
Unable to initialize any camera. Face in View will now close.

This is the case with JAWS 2025 and 2024.
What do I need to get Face in View working?
I couldn't find an article mentioning this in your knowledge base.

@Freedom Scientific
in reply to David Goldfield

Jessica Dail
Jessica Dail
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I just tried on my end & it worked. I'm now running #jaws2025. Is it possible either, A: your laptop doesn't have a camera or B: the camera quit working? That would be my guess anyway.
#jaws2025
in reply to Jessica Dail

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@KE8UPE Laptop definitely has a camera. However, I did wonder if it had malfunctioned so that's my next step.
@Jessica Dail
in reply to David Goldfield

Jessica Dail
Jessica Dail
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Is the camera internal or external? If external, try to unplug it & plug it back in. You may also want to try plugging into a different usb port, if possible.
in reply to Jessica Dail

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@KE8UPE Fixed it. Camera Privacy Settings were off. Enabled them as well as the toggle to allow desktop apps to access the camera.
@Jessica Dail
in reply to David Goldfield

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@KE8UPE Well, while Face in View itself seems to be working, I still am not able to adjust Face in View settings from Settings Center with default.jcf opened. It still says
Only available when Freedom Scientific Kernel Camera driver is installed.
I'll continue to investigate but would welcome suggestions.
@Jessica Dail
in reply to David Goldfield

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@KE8UPE Yes, it's a camera issue as I get an error from Zoom when I try to start video in my meeting. I will troubleshoot.
@Jessica Dail

CLIMATE PROTESTORS NEED TO STOP BLOCKING ROADS!!
this is a photography taken in Alfafar, Valencia, Spain, after huge rainfalls leading to massive floods.
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So apparently Google is now generating over 25% of their new code via AI. Given Google's downward quality trajectory, that explains a lot.
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in reply to Lauren Weinstein

Charlie Stross
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Google is roughly 28 years old. A founder/executive at the start who was then aged 30 is now pushing 60. Insofar as corporate culture is set from the top down, Google is now running on the fumes of the original vision. It's no accident that the life expectancy of a successful corporation is only half that of a human organism ...
in reply to Charlie Stross

Lauren Weinstein
Lauren Weinstein
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Yep. Years ago I publicly predicted that Google would follow the usual arc (DEC, HP, Bell Labs, etc.) -- and that really the only question was how fast it would happen. Sundar really sped up the process.

The fact that I can just...decide not to go to a class and no one really cares is still so foreign to me. Even more foreign, though, is having a social life that actually makes me want to ditch class. College is a weird place.
in reply to Quin

Matt Campbell
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It took me until my senior year of college to even try skipping class once, and I did that because of weather. More precisely, I skipped two of the classes I had that day because they were in different buildings than the one where most of my classes were at that point. And I knew I wouldn't miss anything at all by skipping those two classes.
in reply to Matt Campbell

Quin
Quin
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@matt That's a very fair reason as far as I'm concerned. The digital age is nice, I knew I wouldn't be missing anything because she posted an announcement on D2L telling us what we'd be doing that day, went on and read the posted notes in 5-10 minutes, and that was that.
@Matt Campbell

got laid off in the big dropbox layoffs today.

if anybody is looking for a staff-level engineer who loves mentoring and who is an expert in web security, email security, TLS/PKI, key and secrets management, and general defense security stuff, please feel free to hit me up.

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The late, great Teri Garr put her foot down on #StarTrek when creator Gene Roddenberry let his sexist tendencies get the best of him. slashfilm.com/1700446/teri-gar…

Terri Garr Stood Up To Gene Roddenberry's Sexism During Star Trek

The late, great Teri Garr put her foot down on Star Trek when creator Gene Roddenberry let his sexist tendencies get the best of him.
Jeremy Smith (SlashFilm)
#startrek

Received my yearly rejection from @Rustnationuk yesterday. This time I was sure my talk will get shortlisted since IMO it's a very interesting topic but I guess it's not as interesting as other submissions. 🤷‍♂️

Before you ask, my submission was titled "Profiler-drive optimizations: how I optimized away 94% CPU from zbus".

@Rust Nation UK

PSA

Thanks to the GNOME Infrastructure team's ongoing improvements, the GJS API Docs (gjs-docs.gnome.org) are being migrated to new infrastructure.

There may be some slight downtime, but it will be back up very shortly! Sorry for any inconvenience!

#GNOME #GJS #GNOMEShell #GNOMEExtensions

#gnome #GNOMEShell #gnomeextensions #gjs
in reply to Andy Holmes

Andy Holmes
Andy Holmes
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And we're back!

Enjoy the improved infrastructure and speed!

Fighting Fascism. #vote #DemocracyIsOnTheBallot

BREAKING

Former Republican California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed Vice President Harris

#ArnoldSchwarzenegger #Trump #politics #electionday #elections2024

Former Republican California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed Vice President Harris: “A candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors… We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that.He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger… I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz. Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us."
#Trump #politics #vote #democracyisontheballot #arnoldschwarzenegger #electionday #Elections2024

Is there a good source of free/paid generic HTML/CSS themes for tasks like apps/blogs that aren't tied to a given SSG/framework?

Specifically, if I as a blind person want to put together a decent-looking prototype for something in whatever framework I happen to be working with, I'd like to grab something with a simple set of pages/stylesheets and carve them up for whatever templating engine that framework uses. I know these sometimes exist for individual setups like Hugo, but it's harder to work backwards from a framework-specific theme to something more generic. Should also be friendly for editing by hand since the first thing I'll do is separate the layout from the content.

I think I'd prefer Bootstrap for CSS, or something a bit less semantically dense than Tailwind, which always sounds like alphabet soup to me.

in reply to Nolan Darilek

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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Have you checked out simplecss.org/

I haven't used it yet, but my understanding is it tries to do as much as possible using just standard HTML elements, not classes.


Simple.css Framework

A CSS framework that makes semantic HTML look good.
Simple.css

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Nolan Darilek
Nolan Darilek
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I have not, will have to check it out. I like that Bootstrap's JS plugins for more advanced widgets generally do the right thing for accessibility, and that it looks decent. If this ticks both boxes then I may give it a shot. Thanks for the pointer!

In #CzechRepublic there is a traffic rule that cars have to keep 1.5m distance from a #cyclist. Nobody gives a shit. And even worse, cars often push cyclists out of the road. It's hard to find a day when I didn't have to do emergency braking like on the video...
#czechrepublic #cyclist
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Jiří Eischmann
Jiří Eischmann
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Interesting. I cycle around #Brno quite a lot and my experience is almost completely positive. I cannot recall a situation when a car driver endangered me. Most also try to keep a 1-1.5m distance if possible.
My worst experiences with aggression on roads are from Prague.
#brno
in reply to Štěpán Škorpil

Pavel Vraj 🇨🇿🇺🇦🇪🇺
Pavel Vraj 🇨🇿🇺🇦🇪🇺
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send it to Police. There's the car identification plate clearly readable on the video.

Víte co to je #jokgu? Je to sport příbuzný s #nohejbal, který vznikl paralelně v Jižní Korei. Hraje se 4v4 s menším míčem a nesmí se hrát za sítí ani blokovat. Další porovnaní a reportáž z návštěvy českých hráčů u Jihokorejců najdete tady:

youtu.be/nFFTKXX7TYc


JOKGU FESTIVAL 2024

Dokument z Jižný Korey z ČESKÉ TELEVIZE
YouTube
#nohejbal #jokgu

So many companies implementing PassKey so wrong that it’s mind boggling. What’s so hard to just ask for PassKey and not use it as a second factor?

It is a secure token, it doesn’t really need entering username+password and PassKey. I’ve even seen PassKey + TOTP on top (PayPal).

I am almost wondering that it is not incompetence but the corporate minds want the PassKeys to go away by making them hard to use.

Exploring Samsung Galaxy AI’s Live Translate: In-Call Translation Put to the Test accessibleandroid.com/explorin… #Samsung #AI

Exploring Samsung Galaxy AI's Live Translate: In-Call Translation Put to the Test - Accessible Android

This is the AI Era. Companies are racing to incorporate as many AI features as possible into their devices. While some features may seem like gimmicks, others
Salih Kunduz (Accessible Android)
#AI #samsung

Actually don't even get me started on "transandrophobia."

I have entire _rants_ about the latter part of that word.

in reply to Hrefna (DHC)

Hrefna (DHC)
Hrefna (DHC)
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Part two: some of the people who were responsible for popularizing the term originally were, uh.

Let's call them hellishly problematic and leave it at that?

Which is one thing, but then that legacy lives on in how the term gets used today.

Because, much like with MRAs, there are real things to talk about but I almost _never_ see the advocacy in those contexts. Rather it is almost always "time to talk about how trans women are terrible."

5/

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Hrefna (DHC)
Hrefna (DHC)
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Much like how MRAs could talk about, say, circumcision or toxic masculinity but they usually end up spending their energy going after women and/or feminists, usually when I see "transandrophobia" (or transmisandry) it is going to be followed by talking, not about the medical establishment going after trans men, it's going to be followed by talking about "bæddelism" (in this, the year 2024) or—at best—how trans women "get to be loud and proud but not us."

6/

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ACL Awards Four Assistive Technology Alternative Financing Program Grants | ACL Administration for Community Living acl.gov/news-and-events/announ…

Webinar, November 14 at 10am ET: User Centered Testing with User Journeys tpgi.com/webinar-user-centered…

Webinar, November 14 at 10am ET: User Centered Testing with User Journeys - TPGi

Join TPGi's Charlie Pike for a webinar about developing and harnessing user journeys to connect directly with users.
Charlie Pike (TPGi)

MacOS 15.1 brings a nice handful of bug fixes to Apple’s audio system, which will benefit users of all of our products. See this post for full details, then update your Mac to 15.1.

weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2024/10…

MacOS 15.1 promotional image

Update to MacOS 15.1 for Helpful Audio Bug Fixes

We recommend updating your Mac to MacOS 15.1 as soon as you can.
weblog.rogueamoeba.com

Webinar, November 6 at 12pm ET: Catching up with ADA Title II Regulations for Web Content and Mobile App Accessibility tpgi.com/webinar-catching-up-w…

Webinar, November 12 at 12pm ET: Catching Up with ADA Title II Regulations for Web Content and Mobile App Accessibility - TPGi

Join TPGi's David Sloan for a webinar and learn more about ADA Title II and what it means for your organization.
David Sloan (TPGi)

Apple Introduces Redesigned Mac Mini, Updates iMac and Mac Accessories applevis.com/blog/apple-introd…

Apple Introduces Redesigned Mac Mini, Updates iMac and Mac Accessories | AppleVis

Apple this week updated several of its Mac product lines, as well as the Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad accessories. These Macs have been updated with variants of the M4 chip, the same chip that was introduced with the 2024 iPad Pro.
applevis.com

Increasing Electronic Possibilities: Connectivity on the Monarch aph.org/increasing-electronic-…

Increasing Electronic Possibilities: Connectivity on the Monarch

Technology bridges the gap between access and learning. Without screen readers on computers, applications like Google Chrome and Microsoft Word...
Devon Price (American Printing House)

I am told that this solution is currently only for low vision users at this time. I have not investigated this.

Delta introduces flight map for flyers with visual impairment: Travel Weekly travelweekly.com/Travel-News/A…

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Is it considerate or is it passive aggressive to reply with alt text when the original poster neither wrote any nor asked for any?

[boost if you're so inclined]

  • considerate (0 votes)
  • passive aggressive (0 votes)
  • some other thing (0 votes)
Poll end: 1 day ago

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We just got back from a great #LibreOffice Conference 2024 – but we're already thinking ahead to next year's event! You can host it in your location: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Group photo from LibreOffice Conference 2024

Host the LibreOffice Conference 2025! - The Document Foundation Blog

LibreOffice Conference 2024 (Luxembourg) group photo Once a year, the LibreOffice community gathers for a global community event: the LibreOffice Conference.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice

@Codeberg @fdroidorg

So you say that it is now safe to trigger an #app #update on #codeberg and fetching the source code won't fail anymore at #frdoid ?

Just about to publish a new version of #imagepipe .

#codeberg #app #update #imagepipe #frdoid @F-Droid @Codeberg.org

Awesome, @thunderbird finally got it out the door! blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/t…
#Android #OpenSource

Thunderbird for Android 8.0 Takes Flight - The Thunderbird Blog

Thunderbird for Android takes flight today! Find out what's new in the first stable release, where to download it, and how to get started!
Philipp Kewisch (The Thunderbird Blog)
#android #opensource @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

Acabo de hacer el examen del curso básico de derecho social europeo y tengo un 10. Que gusto. Aún valgo para estudiar y todo.

phoronix covers my work on OpenPaX, a patch to restore userspace W^X and some other common sense functionality from PaX: phoronix.com/news/Edera-OpenPa…

this patch is the cornerstone of the new “alpine hardened” project, which is intended to produce a spin of alpine which is similar to the old grsecurity days of alpine.


OpenPaX Announced As "Open-Source Alternative To GrSecurity" With Free Kernel Patch

Enterprise security firm Edera today is announcing OpenPaX that they promoted in their advance press notice as a 'new open-source alternative to GrSecurity.
www.phoronix.com

Devastating scenes of piled-up cars in #Valencia, #Spain today after yesterday’s historic flooding. A year’s worth of rain fell in a few hours with a peak of 500mm.

#weather #wx #ClimateChange

#climatechange #weather #spain #valencia #wx
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