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Spraying the ICE agents with paint using a repurposed fire extinguisher appears to be a turning point in this confrontation in Tucson today. A similar tactic worked well against around thirty cops at a Montreal protest in November 2024, blinding at least one and forcing their whole unit to retreat down an alley.

For no reason at all, we want to share this how-to guide for filling fire extinguishers with paint. Only open on Tor Browser! While the guide uses a large model, we understand there are methods for smaller, more portable extinguishers too.

mtlcounterinfo.org/how-to-fill…

How to: fill fire extinguishers with paint

Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info Fire extinguishers filled with paint have been useful to anarchists in Montreal fighting gentrification, surveillance, and most recently, colonial advertising. 1.
Montréal Counter-information
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The Amber Trust launches new Music Teacher Directory soundwithoutsight.org/the-ambe…

The Amber Trust launches new Music Teacher Directory - Sound Without Sight

We are very excited to see this launched. A collaboration between The Amber Trust and RNIB, the directory was developed in response to community feedback that said it can be difficult to find a music teacher who is confident in supporting blind or pa…
Jay Pocknell (Sound Without Sight)

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Disney & NBCUniversal Sue AI Startup Midjourney for Copyright Infringement cordcuttersnews.com/disney-nbc…

Disney & NBCUniversal Sue AI Startup Midjourney for Copyright Infringement | Cord Cutters News

In a bold move signaling Hollywood’s growing concerns over artificial intelligence, Disney and NBCUniversal have filed a lawsuit against Midjourney, a generative AI startup, accusing it of widespread copyright infringement.
Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)

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Case for Vision: The Next Leap Forward in Hands-Free Accessibility — Now on Kickstarter Through July 10, 2025 drkirkadams.com/case-for-visio…

Case for Vision: The Next Leap Forward in Hands-Free Accessibility — Now on Kickstarter Through July 10, 2025 - Dr. Kirk Adams

Join Dr. Kirk Adams and discover how Case for Vision is transforming accessibility with a hands-free magnifier for iPhone and Android.
Dr. Kirk Adams

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Championing Accessibility: Technical and Non-Technical Tips equalentry.com/championing-acc…

Championing Accessibility: Technical and Non-Technical Tips - Equal Entry

This article is based on a talk given by Kai Wong and Asha Sachdeva at A11yNYC. They delivered an engaging and insightful talk on championing digital accessibility, emphasizing that anyone can drive change.
Equal Entry

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Soon, you'll be able to buy music on the Fediverse.

Bandwagon, the music-sharing platform built on Emissary, has seen a lot of success over the past few months. The site has grown to a catalogue of over 300 different musicians, spanning a wide range of different sounds and genres. After refining search and discovery features, project lead Ben Pate has decided to focus on introducing a payment system for music sales.

wedistribute.org/2025/06/bandw…

#fediverse #music


Bandwagon is Bringing Music Sales to the Fediverse

Sean Tilley (We Distribute)
#fediverse #music

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In-Process is out, featuring the latest on NVDA 2025.1, the recent NV Access strategy session, and Should you use Screen Layout? (H/T to @jscholes for your recent poll)

Check it all out here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blog #News #newsletter #Software #PreRelease #FOSS #OpenSource

NV Access | In-Process 12th June 2025

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#foss #opensource #blog #software #screenreader #nvdasr #News #newsletter #nvda #prerelease @James Scholes

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Sean Randall

@BTyson it can certainly impact speed of browsing. if you're using something like a neural voice, for example, sending a massive string with a single line of 20 horizontal links has a significant speech output delay when compared with browse mode off.
No worse than reading a whole paragraph further down the page, of course, but perhaps more common, depending on the sorts of sites one browses.
@Brandon Tyson

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We have a new update for Victor Reader Stream three.
Here is Mathieu's mesage from the Stream List.
Hello everyone!

I am really happy to announce today the release of version 1.5 of the Stream 3 software.

With the help of our wonderful development team here at HumanWare and our great beta testers, we have today a release that has both new and returning features,
as well as bugfixes, that will please you.

I've attached the full release notes for the version to this message, but here are the highlights:

Ability to rename notes
Upped the limit to 24 hours on recorded notes in mp3 and flac format - wav remains 8h due to file size
Bookshare API 2.0 support (reading list support and human narrated books)
Bookmark alerts are back
Audio/text switching for books that have both
Browse beyond the first 100 results in Internet Radio searches (ooTunes)
Volume warning happens less often (every 20 hours of use, suspended on shutdown or suspend)
Bluetooth volume controls now enabled (play/pause will NOT work for now)

Rachel and myself will be hosting a webinar tomorrow (Thursday June 12th at 11am Eastern) to discuss and demonstrate some of the new features. Join us
by registering at:
humanware.zoom.us/webinar/regi…

Our website will be updated with the release notes, updated user guide and links to manually download the version later today.

Thank you all, looking forward to hearing your feedback!

Mathieu Paquette
Product Manager
HumanWare


Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Stream 3 version 1.5 release!. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Rachel Ramos and Mathieu Paquette discuss the new features in version 1.5 of the Stream 3. Come have a chat and ask questions!
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#STM strike leads to record numbers on Montréal's bike paths... ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/mo… #veloMTL #MTLpoli #polMTL

Montreal transit strike leads to record numbers on city bike paths

The head of a cycling advocacy group says Montreal’s public transit strike has spurred record numbers on the city’s bike paths.
The Canadian Press (CTVNews)
#polmtl #mtlpoli #stm #velomtl

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🪫Yikes: Google will soon nerf the Pixel 6a’s battery due to an overheating issue

The 6a's battery capacity & charging performance will soon be reduced due to a "potential overheating issue."

Right after the Pixel 4a battery fiasco...more info 👇

🔗 androidauthority.com/pixel-6a-…


Warning: Google will soon nerf the Pixel 6a’s battery due to an overheating issue - Android Authority

If you have a Pixel 6a, be warned: You may need to replace the battery as Google is warning of a potential battery overheating issue.
Mishaal Rahman (Android Authority)

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But, they were evil. Even if you happen to be descended from them. They did a definitively evil thing, and it was a defining choice of their lives. Everyone knew that the war was about continuing and entrenching slavery. More than any modern war, it was feasible for conscripts to escape service, either by paying or by running west.

I guarantee that every person reading this has some evil ancestor.

Get over yourself, JD.

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feld

it's just deliberate rewriting of history to ignore that so many in the south refused to join the Confederacy

"In fact, one quarter of the entire U.S. Army during the Civil War was made up of Unionist southerners and those from the border states. Forty percent of West Pointers from Virginia stuck to their oaths. Unionists dominated the mountainous areas of the South, sending soldiers north, helping escapees from Confederate prisons, and raiding Confederate supply lines. One entire section of Virginia remained loyal – we know this today as the state of West Virginia."

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Very important news from #Wordpress: “Our goal for this year is to finalize the full ActivityPub experience — so that WordPress can be used as a first-class citizen of the Fediverse. This means enabling not only publishing to the network, but also following, reading, interacting, and moderating — all in a seamless way that feels natural for WordPress users.” activitypub.blog/2025/06/11/ou…

cc: @fediversenews


Our 2025 Roadmap: Building the Future of WordPress Federation

We’re excited to share this roadmap — there’s a lot happening with the ActivityPub plugin, and we can’t wait to show you what’s coming next. We often refer to this roadmap in GitHub issues and disc…
ActivityPub for WordPress
#wordpress @Fediverse News

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I was wondering why GNOME's i10n platform is called "Damned Lies"?

I searched and I only found a link to "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" article on Wikipedia. After understanding the context a bit, I wasn't sure about the link between this and the localisation web app, so I asked in the @gnome I18n room on Matrix, and Alexandre generously explained it. Since there was no online explanation, I wrote a post about it on my blog. Hope it helps.

blogs.gnome.org/alirezash/2025…

@afranke
#GNOME #I10n

Grayscale portrait of Mark Twain on a blue background with the quote "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" overlaid in bold text.

Why GNOME’s Translation Platform Is Called “Damned Lies”

Damned Lies is the name of GNOME’s web application for managing localization (l10n) across its projects. But why is it named like this? Damned Lies about GNOME On the About page of GNOME’s...
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#gnome #i10n @GNOME @Alexandre Franke

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Apparently, a MAGA idiot has forked XFree, and the first thing has been to add a anti-DEI statement in the new README:
github.com/X11Libre/xserver/co…

He’s known to have been kicked by Linus Torvalds for spreading antivax theories in the kernel ML:
theregister.com/2021/06/11/lin…

And sadly, there seems to be quite a few idiots supporting him:
github.com/X11Libre/xserver/is…

I guess true MAGA people should stick to #XLibre from now on. 🙃


Linus Torvalds tells kernel list poster to 'SHUT THE HELL UP' for saying COVID-19 vaccines create 'new humanoid race'

: 'Any Linux discussion list isn't going to have your idiotic drivel pass uncontested from me'
Simon Sharwood (The Register)
#xlibre
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Service resumes after REM halted for ‘equipment breakdown’

ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/re…

Private operation of transit will make things better they said. Also they must have exclusive routes otherwise they can't make a profit they said.


Service resumes after REM halted for ‘equipment breakdown’

The Réseau express métropolitain is back up and running after a malfunction between Gare Centrale in downtown Montreal and the Panama station in Brossard on the South Shore.
Rachel Lau (CTVNews)

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Dear developers of #Android #apps which are listed at #IzzyOnDroid and have been confirmed as #reproducibleBuilds by one (or more) of our builders:

I've been told by a dev:

> There are only 3 things devs want. Stickers, badges and a good dev environment (and I'm not sure the last one is important)

So there you go if you want to show the RB status of your app:

shields.rbtlog.dev/

:awesome:

rbtlog shields

shields.rbtlog.dev
#android #apps #reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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IzzyOnDroid ✅

Btw: kudos for this go to @bg443 – who runs an independent builder (i.e. Ben is not a member of IzzyOnDroid himself, but his builder covers several of our apps. So it's verifying our builders are telling the truth, so to say).

So while IoD takes the APKs directly from the devs, our builders verify they were indeed built from the source code the devs claim to – while independents like Ben verify we're not "cheating". The winners are YOU :awesome:

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid

#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid @bg443

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So the xlibre fork appears to be arguing over whether it should be explicitly "anti-DEI" is just for the "unix way". Which reminded me of this classic from daniels over a decade ago: youtu.be/RIctzAQOe44?t=1665.

The Real Story Behind Wayland and X - Daniel Stone (linux.conf.au 2013)

Please note, that I don't own this video. At the time servers hosting original file were overloaded so I re-uploaded for user's convenience.Original file was...
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