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A few weeks ago, @joshbressers managed to hook me up to his mic. And then couldn't manage to stop me.

He still managed to get an amazing podcast episode about what it is to be a hobbyist maintainer, why it matters to talk about it and how failing to understand this is why nearly all policies around FOSS fail to move the needle.

You can listen to it and then come tell me what you think

opensourcesecurity.io/2025/202…


Hobbyist Maintainers with Thomas DePierre

Thomas DePierre joins Open Source Security to discuss the central idea from his blog post, “You are all on the hobbyist maintainers turf now,” exploring the massive disconnect between the corporate world that consumes open source and the hobbyist com…
Josh Bressers (Open Source Security)
@Josh Bressers
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Thomas Depierre

@bagder I mean I think a huge part of the problem is that we focus on funding.

We should probably focus on understanding the things that could make it more sustainable and efficient to maintain this stuff on a hobbyist schedule.

Like. Can we stop talking about Rust memory safety and instead talk of the tooling Rust provide and how ergonomic it is.

That funding could go invest in tool for other ecosystem to reproduce that success...

@daniel:// stenberg://

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Purism- CNN Report

In a recent CNN report, skepticism surrounds the Trump Organization’s claim that its new “T1” smartphone is “Made in the USA.” Experts, including Todd Weaver, CEO of Purism, challenged the claim, citing striking similarities between the T1 and a low-cost Chinese phone, the Revvl 7 Pro 5G, made by Wingtech, a Chinese manufacturer.

Weaver emphasized the logistical and technical difficulty of building a phone in the U.S.

Learn more at Purism: puri.sm/posts/cnn-report-puris…


CNN Report: Purism is the Only Known U.S. Phone Manufacturer – 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.
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Un article de Pokaa sur le conseil municipal d'hier. Plus axé sur les importantes fermetures pour rénovation à #Strasbourg.
pokaa.fr/2025/06/24/rue-melani…

Rue Mélanie, grands chantiers et jumelage avec un camp palestinien : ce que Strasbourg a décidé hier

Alors que les températures grimpent à Strasbourg, l’atmosphère promet d’être étouffante, voire irrespirable, en conseil municipal.
Nicolas Kaspar (Pokaa)
#strasbourg

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Get cool #LibreOffice merchandise – and support our project and community! We've updated our Spreadshirt shop with new designs, and part of the sales go to @tdforg: shop.spreadshirt.de/documentfo… #foss #OpenSource
Image of T-shirts, hoodies, bags etc. with LibreOffice icons

LibreOffice Merchandising Shop - The Document Foundation

LibreOffice is a free private office suite backed by a non-profit (The Document Foundation)
LibreOffice Merchandising Shop - The Document Foundation
#foss #opensource #libreoffice @The Document Foundation

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For those interested in #Catholic theology, Catholic Answers is offering discounts this week on its MP3 downloads. 160 files are available for $1.00, $3.00 and $5.00. These files are free of DRM, allowing them to be played on any device or with any software which supports Mp3 files.
shop.catholic.com/mp3s/

Digital - eBooks, MP3s, Video - MP3s - Page 1 - Catholic Answers, Inc

shop.catholic.com
#catholic

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“Substack Did Not See That Coming • Buttondown”

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This neatly highlights my issue with pretty much all of the current crop of Software-as-a-Service platforms. Almost all of them are in a hole with no plan for getting out of it. When a "cloud" SaaS goes, you're sunk as an end user, and most of them are sinking


Substack Did Not See That Coming

Let’s set Substack’s “Nazi problem” aside for a moment. What if the bigger issue is being stranded on a collapsing platform... with a bunch of Nazis?...
AMC All the Time
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Baldur Bjarnason

This, ultimately, is why they’re all-in on “AI”, pushing chatbots and LLMs into every corner. “AI” is a hail Mary pass for the entire tech industry

Like I pointed out over two years ago softwarecrisis.dev/letters/ai-…


Generative AI is the tech industry's Hail Mary pass

How to make better software with systems-thinking
Out of the Software Crisis

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📱 Fairphone 6 leaked renders implicate its modular design for easy repairs • Android Central

｢ The device is set to launch on June 25 starting at €549, and the specifications of the upcoming Android handset include a 6.31-inch OLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate, along with Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 under the hood paired with 8GB of RAM and 256GB built-in storage, which is further expandable through microSD for up to 2TB ｣

androidcentral.com/phones/fair…

#fairphone #sustainability #righttorepair


Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable

The highly anticipated Fairphone 6's leaked renders suggest the company's commitment to repairability.
Vishnu Sarangapurkar (Android Central)
#sustainability #fairphone #righttorepair

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Momentka ze sudetske zoo. Maminka pronese k diteti:

"Podivej, gorila!"

Situaci plne rozumim. Taky jsem gorilu nikdy nevidel.

Doufam, ze tato neprijemna zivotni situace nebude mit negativni vliv na vyvoj ditete a ze se mu to nevymsti u statni maturity. Petici za zahajeni jednani o zapujceni goril do sudetske zoo muzete podepsat u vchodu vedle lednicky s pegasy.

V dalsim dile serialu momentek ze sudetske zoo se dozvite, jak po me pavian plastikovy hodil kamenem. Mrcha. Stay tuned!

#lbc #liberec #zoo #photo

Opice ve vybehu.
#photo #liberec #lbc #zoo

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Medida troglodita e trauliteira. Como é que alguém com um mestrado ou um doutoramento que queira trabalhar na União Europeia vai vir para Portugal depois desta medida quando quase todos os restantes países da UE impõem prazos menores e oferecem melhores condições de vida? Sinceramente, o governo deste país não quer transformar Portugal numa nação competitiva...

É só patetas neste governo? Não há sociólogos, nem economistas, nem antropólogos, nem especialistas em demografia que os possam ajudar a cometer menos disparates?

eco.sapo.pt/2025/06/23/governo…


Governo quer aumentar para até dez anos prazo para cidadania

Cidadãos de países da CPLP terão de estar há sete anos em Portugal para pedir a nacionalidade, enquanto os restantes precisarão de dez anos de residência. É ainda introduzido exame à língua e cultura.
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Vijf beklaagden vrijgesproken voor weerspannigheid tijdens manifestatie van "Code Rood" aan luchthaven van Deurne: "Geen bewijs"

Vijf beklaagden zijn dinsdag voor weerspannigheid tijdens een manifestatie van "Code Rood" eind 2023. De correctionele rechtbank van Antwerpen vond het voor drie van hen niet bewezen dat ze aanwezig waren. De twee anderen namen wel deel aan de actie, maar de rechtbank zag geen bewijs dat ze weerspannig waren geweest.
#news #vrtnws #vrt
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Vijf beklaagden vrijgesproken voor weerspannigheid tijdens manifestatie van "Code Rood" aan luchthaven van Deurne: "Geen bewijs" | VRT NWS: nieuws

VRT NWS
#News #VRT #vrtnws

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The NVDA bug which I reported over 5 years ago was finally fixed in the latest alpha, coming in 2025.2, Courtesy of @jcsteh
NVDA+Up fails to read or spell many controls and lines in Google Chrome: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…
@NVAccess

NVDA+Up fails to read or spell many controls and lines in Google Chrome

Insert+Up (NVDA+Up) is used in NVDA to report the current line under the application cursor. Pressing it twice will spell the current line. Pressing three times will spell the line using character ...
amirsol81 (GitHub)
@NV Access @Jamie Teh
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Jamie Teh

Honestly, I don't think Apple is any better than Microsoft at actually listening to user or developer feedback, at least not these days. And as someone who has worked with quite a lot of Windows appdevelopers, it is entirely possible to make progress with some of them given sufficient effort. People just try much harder with iOS developers because they have no other choice: it's just assumed that Apple won't fix anything app specific. In contrast, if users complain enough to Windows screen reader developers, they generally end up hacking around whatever episode of crap is thrown at them today. And so the pattern continues. I'm not saying screen reader developers shouldn't try to make things better if the situation is severe enough, even if that involves hacks. But my point is that users at least need to recognise the double standards they hold here and be mindful of that when ranting publicly about how the tiny 6 employee not-for-profit isn't fixing their bug when trillion dollar companies can't be bothered. @NVAccess
@NV Access

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NV Access

We do have a good relationship with Microsoft. No-one else does anything like their Disability Answer Desk - good luck getting that level of support, as an end user, from most tech companies (I had a question about my router & couldn't even write to Netgear because it's out of warranty!) DaD monitors the feedback hub for issues tagged as accessibility & they do try to get accessibility issues prioritised. Where it can be hard is Windows can have an 18 month lead time.
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NV Access

and yes, that's not to say there aren't longstanding Windows accessibility bugs :)

But where something IS a Windows issue, raising it with Microsoft should ALWAYS be the first action. Just as if something is a bug in Chrome, or Firefox, do definitely raise it with them in the first instance. If you raise it with us, that will be the first thing we do in any case, and indeed, the more people who raise an issue with them, the more likely they are to prioritise it.

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Amir has moved

Then why not utilize some of that relationship to fix many long-standing issues? Yes, their accessibility desk does help, but what we want is either less erratic implementations or decisions, or more responsiveness when it comes to taking care of odd bugs lurking around Windows, Office, etc. Can you engage them, based on our NVDA issues on Github, to fix glitches with, say, Modern Notepad? I've seen more responsiveness from Google on the Chrome side compared with Microsoft.
@jcsteh
@Jamie Teh
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NV Access

@we_are_spc It just about could be! And some of the things we do naturally uncover some of those - for instance, when we first wrote the training material in our shop, particularly the office modules, I'm pretty sure we documented things no-one had ever documented before as not working with the keyboard, or with a screen reader - and in some cases issues which needed to be fixed in NVDA instead.
@Scarlet Phoenix Collective

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WE HAVE ALMOST SAVED GAMING.
Or have we? Can we still save it?

All it would have taken was a million signatures from EU citizens.

Don't we have a million gamers in the EU who are eligible to vote?

Here's probably the last update from #StopKillingGames :

youtube.com/watch?v=HIfRLujXtU…

StopKillingGames.com

Have you signed yet?

#Gaming #Game #Games #Gamers #LinuxGaming #GamePreservation #GameEmulators #Lutris #Proton #Wine #Steam #Freedom #EU #Law #GameDev #GameDevelopment #Help #Activism


The end of Stop Killing Games

The full scoop on Stop Killing Games! Covers past, present, and future.Link to European Citizens' Initiative:https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/ho...
YouTube
#gaming #steam #law #EU #gamedev #game #games #help #activism #freedom #Wine #linuxgaming #proton #stopkillinggames #gamers #gamepreservation #gameemulators #lutris #gamedevelopment

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Hey all y'all need to stop using "guys" in mixed company.

- My trans girlfriend is not a guy.
- My cis girlfriend is not a guy.
- I'm not a guy (or a girl, but that's not relevant here).

Misgendering is misgendering—even if "everyone's doing it".

Patriarchy shouldn't be the default.

#FuckThePatriarchy #Feminist #LGBTQ+ #Rant

Drake Girl Meme format. Top panels: a pink-haired girl dismisses "you guys" with a hand gesture. Bottom panels: a pink-haired girl endorses "y'all" with a pointing gesture.
#feminist #LGBTQ #rant #fuckthepatriarchy

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I chatted with Philippe Ombredanne about Package URLs, or PURLs. He created them, so he knows a thing or two.

We do complain about CPE quite a bit :)

But it's a really hard problem. It feels like a package identifier should be easy, but it's way harder than you think it is. There's nobody better than Philippe to drop some knowledge.

opensourcesecurity.io/2025/202…

#PURL
#CVE
#SBOM


Package URLs with Philippe Ombredanne

I’m joined by Philippe Ombredanne, creator of the Package URL (PURL), to discuss the surprisingly complex and messy problem of simply identifying open source software packages.
Josh Bressers (Open Source Security)
#SBOM #cve #purl

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IETF just setup a new mailing list "Web-bot-auth": mailman3.ietf.org/mailman3/lis…

"Currently, wide practice is for Web sites to identify non-browser clients using IP addresses, the User-Agent header field, and/or reverse DNS. All of these techniques have limitations and deficiencies, and at the same time the need for stronger identity for bots is becoming stronger, as non-browser traffic on the Web grows in volume and importance."

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Robert Thau

I'm not enough of a cryptography nerd to evaluate the signed-HTTP-request proposal this is fronting for, but most "bot" usage that I'm aware of is sites making "API"s available over HTTP, of which I'm aware of many -- precisely none of which use User-Agent or reverse DNS to validate anything. IP block is sometimes used, but only as an extra sanity check on top of other authenticators.

The current ID at least mentions OAuth, but... solution looking for a problem?

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One of the many, many clear signs of entrenched societal sexism. Masculinity is seen as normative by both men and women.

(The test was designed to look for masculine overcompensation, so there wasn’t a clear “more feminine” path, but women did not seek to compensate when told their answers were “masculine”)

mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/1…

Jonathan (@jmcrookston@mastodon.social)

I can't get over this sentence no matter how often I read it. "Women showed no effects when told they were masculine; however, men given feedback suggesting they were feminine expressed more support for war, homophobic attitudes, and interest in pur…
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Doing a talk this Friday on energy efficient coding. I have a power meter connected to my desktop right now and wow just wow. Free company gift idea, give every developer such a real time meter. Opening open.spotify.com costs me 25W for example! NON-STOP! Talk details: joyofcoding.org/bert_hubert.ht…

Joy of Coding 2025 - June 27, 2025

A one-day conference that celebrates the art, craft, science but foremost the joy of software development
joyofcoding.org

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[Edit] The issue has been resolved with the latest app updates. getmona.app

[Original] PSA: Mona and Spring are currently crashing on launch with the iOS/iPadOS 26 beta 2. I’m aware of the problem and will begin investigating shortly. Appreciate your patience while I work on a fix.


‎Mona for Mastodon

‎Mona is a highly customizable Mastodon app with VoiceOver optimization and native design. Available now on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
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Are you a GitHub user who would like to support the great work NV Access does?

You can become a GitHub Sponsor!

Today, we'd like to give a shoutout to Nael-Accessvision, one of our GitHub sponsors.

You can sponsor NV Access here: github.com/sponsors/nvaccess

(Or through PayPal or bank transfer via the "Donate" link on our website)

*Donations in Australia are tax deductible*

#FOSS #FLOSS #Accessibility #NonProfit #NotForProfit #GoodCause #Donate #Donation

Screenshot snippets of GitHub sponsor button with red heart outline, Nael-Accessvision with "Sponsor" tag, GitHub logo and "Become a sponsor to NV Access with NV Access username and logo and text "At NV Access we believe that every Blind and Vision Impaired person deserves the right to freely & easily access a computer. We create the software which makes that possible: NVDA. " "Thank you" text in purple all on white background with shades of purple, orange and turquoise from corners with white sunbursts

Sponsor @nvaccess on GitHub Sponsors

NV Access creates NVDA, the free open source Screen Reader that enables blind people to gain freedom, education & employment.
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#Accessibility #foss #floss #nonprofit #donate #notforprofit #donation #GoodCause

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NV Access

@simon Good question - no, for someone who is already a donor via PayPal etc, there is no real reason to change. It was really just another option and when we first joined GitHub sponsors, I believe they had a promotions where they waived the fees for a year from memory. And, since we use GitHub for our code and issues ete, a lot of people who know and support us do already use that platform. We'll have to share the love around and post about a PayPal donor next time :)
@Simon Jaeger

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TRUMP OFFICIALS PLAN TO STRIP PROTECTIONS FROM NEARLY 59 MILLION ACRES OF NATIONAL FORESTS
AG Secretary Brooke Rollins said the admin would begin the process of rolling back protections for millions of roadless acres in the National Forest Systen. This would include about 30% of the land in the federal system, encompassing 92% of Alaska's #TongassNationalForest, one of the last remaining intact temperate rainforests in the world.

earthjustice.org/press/2025/to…

#EnvironmentalProtection

Tongass Defenders Blast the Trump Administration’s Rollback of Roadless Rule Protections on America’s Largest Forest - Earthjustice

Allowing logging and roadbuilding on now protected lands in the Tongass National Forest is a deeply unpopular action that poses grave harm to the forest
Earthjustice
#tongassnationalforest #environmentalprotection
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feld

I only recently learned that a Wisconsin Governor Phillip said "state forestry is not a good business proposition" and in 1915 the WI Supreme Court declared Wisconsin's State Forest Reserves unconstitutional

Voters passed a referendum in 1924 to amend the state constitution to apply state funds to be for acquisition, development and preservation of forest resources.

Maybe we can convince the public we should have a constitutional amendment protecting this ?

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Just someone trying to explain why you need their product.

Having seen the trends over the years, no one need FTTR, not even businesses. The reason is that gige is fine for 99.99% of needs. Most places don't have enough internet bandwidth where you could even use more than gige speeds (and there's not 2.5gbps and 5gbps) to do anything.

Yes, if you're doing >1gbps, fiber is significantly less power, but again, existing wire plant can likely do 5gbps over copper and still be fine for the rooms that need it.

> geeknews.chat/users/theregiste…

The Register (@theregister@geeknews.chat)

Huawei chair says the future of comms is fiber-to-the-room, which China has and the rest of us don’t Also points to important markets among the 300 million people who will soon work as delivery riders or influencers Huawei’s chairman Xu Zhijun – aka…
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Disabled people have fought for decades to get remote work accommodations.

They allow us to remain in the workforce longer.

They help us do our jobs while also taking care of our health.

The early days of Covid showed just how easily companies could make these accommodations happen, yet they were ripped away in favour of “back to normal”

The human rights tribunal of BC just found in favour of an immunocompromised employee! They ruled employers MUST accommodate remote work.

This is huge and precedent setting!

hcamag.com/ca/specialization/e…


Employer required to accommodate immunocompromised employees during communicable disease outbreaks

Measles outbreaks raise issue of accommodation similar to COVID-19
Emile Shen (HRD Canada)

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JOE ROGAN: “These ICE raids are fuckin’ nuts… if Trump had said we’re gonna go to Home Depot and arrest everyone, tackle people at construction sites, I don’t think anyone would’ve signed up for that… It’s crazy.” (PSA: You were warned, Joe. Yet you signed up for it.)
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Jargoggles

From They Thought They Were Free, a book about interviews conducted with German men shortly after the fall of Nazi Germany:

"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked — if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ‘43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ‘33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose."

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Retain Your Control and Customize Everything with Modular Software from Purism!

The Librem 5 & Liberty Phone aren’t just modular in hardware—they’re modular in software. From keyboards to the entire OS, YOU decide what runs on your device.

Learn More: puri.sm/posts/retain-your-cont…

Retain Your Control and Customize Everything with Modular Software – 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.
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