The Release Candidate (RC) of NVDA 2025.1.2 is now available for download and testing. This release includes a fix for a crash in certain Microsoft Word versions before version 16.0.18226 on opening.

Full info and download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1-…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Beta #NewVersion #PreRelease #MicrosoftOffice #Office #Microsoft

"Bill C-2 is not a border bill. It is a power grab and an attack on fundamental human rights and civil liberties."

thecanadianpressnews.ca/politi…

#BillC2 #ElbowsUp #Canada #CDNPoli

Hundreds of groups call on Ottawa to scrap border bill over privacy, rights concerns

OTTAWA - More than 300 civil society organizations are calling on the Liberal government to withdraw its new border bill, saying the legislation threatens liberties, refugee and migrant rights and

^{thecanadianpressnews.ca}

This is an appreciation thread for EuterPen, a multimodal music notation system by @Vincent_Cavez et al. It aims to support the non-linear process of exploration during composition.

It's the most sensitive and imaginative academic HCI design work I've seen in quite some time!

Sometimes sqlite really is shit

I have a lot of repos in my private gitea server because I mirror repos I care about accessing locally

well, it's come to the point where loading my dashboard after login takes somewhere between 4-8 seconds to render the page... the template it says renders in a dozen or so milliseconds, but the page portion is really high

so I enabled all the redis caching options.

It got better. 1.5 - 2 seconds now.

I just migrated the gitea database to my postgresql server

Now it loads in 25ms

Like holy shit batman, that's a world of difference

Looks like I picked the wrong week to start using Friendica.

Crashes across all interfaces, takes forever to load. Maybe, if you collapsed all comments by default, just maybe it wouldn't be crunching so hard. Bluesky integration fails completely. Oh well, seemed perfect for me, in the abstract. I learned quite a lot about the potential. Think I just need to make Mastodon my one stop-shop instead.

@helpers @admins

#Friendica #Fediverse

itslinuxfoss.com/install-dpkg-…
this is the worst article i have ever seen

Though the dpkg manager comes pre-installed on Ubuntu, it is ready to use, but if it is not installed, it can be installed from the default repository of Ubuntu.

no not really I mean, apt relies on dpkg to install packages if you don't have dpkg installed there is nothing that is going to be able to install dpkg. I mean dpkg literally ships as a .deb usually these systems are bootstrapped by debootstrap wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap you can't just install dpkg without dpkg (unless you have another package manager but ubuntu is famous for using well apt and dpkg)

How to Install dpkg on Ubuntu 22.04

To install the dpkg on Ubuntu 22.04, run the command “sudo apt install dpkg”. You can use the “-i”/“-r” options to install/remove packages using dpkg.

^{Saryia (Its Linux FOSS)}

“The ban is causing very significant harm to trans children and young people and, consequently, there can be no justification for it.”

I mean, any honest person who's even vaguely paid attention to such things could've told you that.
thepinknews.com/2025/06/19/pub…

Puberty blockers ban causing ‘extensive’ harm to trans youth, study shows

Trans youth are reportedly feeling more suicidal since the UK banned puberty blockers indefinitely, a study suggests.

^{Amelia Hansford (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)}

"On Saturday, June 14th, Arturo Gamboa was attending the "No Kings" protest in downtown Salt Lake City. He was there armed, within his legal rights, and peacefully protesting. During the event, the "peacekeepers" hired by Utah 50501 to control the crowds at the event opened fire on the crowd, shooting both Arturo and Arthur "Afa" Folasa Ah Loo who was tragically killed by the stray bullet.

Due to the tragic loss of life, Arturo was unjustly arrested and is currently being held by Salt Lake County sheriffs department. They are holding him regardless of the fact that his weapon was never fired, his gun barrel was never pointed anywhere but the ground, and the bullet that tragically caused the death of Ah Loo was fired from the gun held by hired "peacekeeper."

givebutter.com/gamboafundraise…

Happy Pride Month!

I’m a proud LGBTQ+ artist working in raku and traditional pottery — and I’d be so honored if you share my work.

This Pride, I’m reflecting on something personal: I never thought I’d make it to this age.

But I did.

And I’m still here.

Creating. Grateful.

Alive 💖

#pride #pottery #lgbtq

In a serious gain in efficiency, a Space X Starship prototype has exploded without actually being launched.
They're next plan is to see if they can produce an explosion during the assembly process.

youtube.com/watch?v=71AwkBt3_t…

#news #science #space #NASA #spacex

SpaceX Starship 36 Explodes During Flight 10 Testing at Starbase

While preparing for a 6-engine static fire test as part of its pre-flight test campaign, SpaceX's Ship 36 experienced an anomaly, resulting in destruction of...

^YouTube

This sounds like a joke, but I kid you not:

While the US military is rushing to The Middle East, Trump suddenly wants to wait two weeks before deciding what he wants to do in Iran.

US tax dollars are burning in the engines of the carrier strike groups, but as always Trump has no plan.

I think we have heard that “in two weeks” excuse 3 times with regards to Ukraine.

The US lost its leadership on January 20.

youtu.be/cJctcEmx-eY

Trump to allow 2 more weeks for diplomacy before deciding on US strike in Iran

President Donald Trump will decide whether to launch a US strike on Iran within the next two weeks, he said in a statement delivered by his press secretary d...

^YouTube

Enshittification comes for open source:
Slack is kicking two large open source groups, Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Kubernetes, off of their donated enterprise tier, giving them one week notice to migrate multiple years of data to a new platform before it's all deleted: cncf.io/blog/2025/06/16/cncf-s…

Instead of learning from this experience and not trusting the good will of profit-motivated closed source companies, it looks like both projects will be moving to ... Discord. Because "people know it." Will we never learn?

(Dropped Cory because he's probably getting tons of spam from this. Sorry!)

#enshittification

CNCF Slack Workspace Changes Coming on Friday, June 20 | CNCF

The CNCF Slack workspace will be converted from an enterprise plan to a free plan on Friday, June 20, 2025. This will have implications for how Slack works for…

^{Katie Greenly (CNCF)}

what strikes me about this is that all these guys are like, well he seemed normal to us

yes that's the problem

the normalization of extremism is exactly the problem

Childhood friend says Minnesota suspect had 'darkness inside of him' | AP News
apnews.com/article/minnesota-s…

32 years ago today, #FreeBSD was announced for the first time. I haven't tried this OS yet but I can assure you that I will because I want Quark, my OpenSource reverse proxy, to be supported on other Unix systems than Linux.

For this special occasion, I drew this little picture on #Krita 🙂

#FreeBSDday #Unix #Server