The gov really thinks they can save these companies when the crash happens by taking a stake in them assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/1…
RT: assortedflotsam.com/users/News…

Si quelqu'un veut voir et/ou caresser des animaux (chèvres et boucs, brebis, ânes, poneys) à #Strasbourg, — une excellente thérapie, à mon avis, — je vous recommande le parc animalier Friedel à Illkirch-Graffenstaden, non loin du terminus du tram A du même nom. illkirch.eu/culture-sports-et-…

Message de chez Bluesky :

"La petite sœur d'une copine doit rendre son mémoire dans 15j et elle vient de commencer car TDAH non-diag et peur d'échouer donc self-sabotage donc svp remplissez son questionnaire pour qu'elle ait des datas rapidement à pouvoir analyser 🥲"

C'est un sondage sur les biais de genre.

forms.office.com/e/wAR9MqGFVL

(en plus, c'est pas très long).

EDIT : Je sais pas si j'aurais un retour mais la personne vous remercie pour vos participations, en tout cas.

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#freecadfriday my printer is currently printing the 5th of 6 segments that make up the Reed/beater of my loom. The segments were designed in @FreeCAD to slot together. One end segment, and one mid segment. So 2 ends, and 4 mids needed for my loom. More or less mids can be printed depending on size needed.
The Reed is 1mm pitch ribs and gaps. (I tried 0.5mm but it failed. The ribs stuck together in places). Hopefully 1mm will still give a nice weave. :v
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I enjoyed this talk by @Felienne and recommend it: "Programming for All: A Feminist Case for Language Design"
youtube.com/watch?v=kbTQlQWAHe… (h/t @joshuagrochow)

The talk covers a lot of ground and this is not at all the most important part, but she calls for study of why people like languages, with the specific example of Rust. I often cite this interaction as representative of an all-too-rare ethos that prioritizes human surfaces of the language ecosystem. Not as an afterthought, but as a major consideration in feature design and stabilization.

This interaction is between the author of the Rustonomicon and a Rust compiler team member focusing on quality of error messages, who often consults the community about quality/verbosity/ambiguity tradeoffs. The latter's bio reads: "We spent decades trying to invent a sufficiently smart compiler when we should have been inventing a sufficiently empathetic one."

has anyone seen a man page with a nice approach to providing a summary for a command with a lot of command line options, like this?

having something like [-0468openrsyncPRSTWVabcdefghiklmnopqrtuvxyz] always feels silly (it's almost the whole alphabet!) but I don't see an obvious better way to do it

(I don't mean to pick on openrsync here, this is an extremely common thing)

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 11 updated and 2 added apps:

* Hacker's Diet Offline: track your weight and excercise and get a weighted moving average of your weight's change over time 🛡️
* Media Collection: helps you easily catalog and manage your personal blu-ray and dvd collection, including movies and TV series 🛡️

RB status: 696 apps (53.5%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:

AT-SPI has had a long-standing bug where, under X11, it might do the wrong thing in set-ups with multiple keyboard layouts. I could never figure out what should be done about it (someone who knows X11 better than I do might have had better luck).
And someone appears to have used AI to help make a patch. I have to say that I'm impressed; I wouldn't have thought this possible. gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/at-spi2…
in reply to Mike Gorse

Update: Ended up backing out all of the AI-generated code. It was barking up the wrong tree and caused a couple of regressions. But it helped me in terms of figuring out how to think about the problem. Ended up finding a blog post that led me to a fix that was simple but not at all intuitive to me. I want to email the author of the post to thank him for writing it--I feel like I don't remember to thank people enough.

Tonight at 4:30 pm I’ll be streaming a new branching interactive fiction game set in occupied Netherlands during World War II and is inspired by real events. It should be completely accessible and below is the steam link and Twitch is RossMinor!

store.steampowered.com/app/384… sist_Collaborate__a_World_War_2_ChoiceBased_Story/

#Blind #Accessibility #Gamedev

The UK's national drought group is falling ridiculously short when recommending to delete old emails. How about

- stop building any new data centers, progressively tax on their size and resource consumption, no free riding

- legislatively focus on software to become more resource efficient (hint: AI hurts not helps with that)

In any case, #chatmail relays unconditionally remove emails, no user action needed. Everything interesting happens on end devices see en.reset.org/decentralised-eff…

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IMPORTANT UPDATE:

🇨🇿 Czech Republic is now OPPOSED to Chat Control, as announced by Prime Minister Petr Fiala:

"On behalf of myself and the entire TOTAL coalition, I want to say clearly: we will not allow the monitoring of citizens' private correspondence. We do not agree that any emails or messages on platforms such as WhatsApp or Messenger can be monitored. Protecting our children is important, but we have to do it differently."

This now leaves eight undecided member states.

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prevent minor abuse, better ideas than chatcontrol

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"Trump is trying to normalize the militarization of our country. This is where it starts, not where it will end. Trump is dropping the pretense of abiding by the rule of law. ...

This manner of operation makes it clear that it’s not about democracy and the American people; it’s about Trump and protecting Trump."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #fascism #military
/1

joycevance.substack.com/p/only…

in reply to William Lindsey

"There is no emergency in Chicago that calls for armed military intervention. ...

Donald Trump wants to use the military to occupy a U.S. city, punish his dissidents, and score political points. If this were happening in any other country, we would have no trouble calling it what it is: a dangerous power grab.”

#Trump #fascism #military
/7

in reply to William Lindsey

"They would rather send the military against Americans than stand with Ukraine against Putin. They would rather attack disabled people and marginalized communities than confront real problems facing Americans that require difficult solutions. When you go on offense against Trump and MAGA, they quickly play the role of victim and show what sociopaths they are."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #fascism #military
/7

meidasplus.com/p/our-punches-a…

Great presentation today at #OSSummit Europe today by @zendis

So encouraging to see #Germany's leadership on deploying #OpenSource #SoverignDigital #government

Looking at how to manage both the technology but also the change. Amazing to see France & Holland also collaborating on this project!

Google won't allow you to install Android apps whose developers' identity Google hasn't verified. Starting in 2026 in some countries and in 2027 everywhere: androidauthority.com/android-d…
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Google asks what we think of their plans to block Android app installs outside of Google Play (unless the developers let Google verify their identity and pay a fee).

Want to tell them your opinion, just submit this form:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

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And for developers who who will not go that road (I guess most of the FOSS devs who have their apps explicitly NOT on PlayStore), there's this library: github.com/woheller69/FreeDroi… to let the folks using their apps know (and hopefully raise more noise).

(I haven't seen it in action yet, but the idea seems sound)

I hope the @EUCommission will take action against Google's abuse of power there, though I wonder if they'd do so in time…

The slides from my keynote yesterday at the Open Source Summit Europe: slideshare.net/slideshow/giant…

"giants, standing on the shoulders of"

While waiting for the video to become available. I have no idea when that will happen.