> Be GNOME foundation
> Huge potential, clout, possibilities to take Linux to the next level with proper planning and community organising
> kick out board member for trying to actually improve things and ruin his reputation on the way
> huge shitshow
> executive director fails to secure enough funding to even pay her own salary and leaves
> eventually find someone new to be ED
> also kick him out after 4 months for trying to actually change things for the better

i think something needs to be done about the 20+ year GNOME veterans on the board who aren't willing to adopt change

i'm not a foundation member and don't plan to be, but i do care about the future of GNOME and despite the best efforts of many wonderful people it's not looking good rn

The simple solution to crashing birth rates is to tax billionaires and make basic living affordable. It's not that difficult, but the rich are more worried about their own bank balance than they are about birth rates. As usual they want to blame everyone but themselves for the problems they create.

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in reply to Andre Louis

Playing Hootananny's Brixton one night, I had my keyboard on my back and that stage is extremely high off the ground. A couple more steps forward and I'd have fallen off and probably broken some part of me. Next thing I know the percussionist grabs me from behind and says, 'Mate, you blind or summink? Few more steps forward we wouldn't have a keys player at all. Watch where you're going!'
Perfect delivery, everyone bust out laughing.
That's the way a response should be done.
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I recently talked with a guy who builds software for small & medium sized German insurance firms and he says almost all of their clients are working on removing US services from their tech stack due to perceiving them as highly risky. This includes cloud services, office tools, AI tools, etc. So far he said the switch is a mixed bag with some successes and some blunders, but the push is very clear.

Highly anecdotal stuff, but maybe this cut is deeper than I expected.

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hypnosis question

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No, skoro bych řekl, že na té radikalizaci něco bude... #greendeal novinky.cz/clanek/ekonomika-po…
in reply to Václav Pašek

V jiných zemích to řeší tak, že ty vybrané peníze dají těm nejzranitelnějším, aby to na ně nemělo takový dopad. Samoživitelka na vesnici, která potřebuje auto, aby odvezla děti do školy a dostala se do práce, dostane příspěvek, který ji ty zvýšené náklady pokryje. Platí se to právě z těch vybraných povolenek. Proč o něčem takovém nemluví naše vláda a lidi slyší jen o těch zvýšených nákladech?
in reply to Petr Ferschmann

@fersman Jo, tohle je samozřejmě naprd, ale s tím si musí poradit. Nemají mluvit o ničem jiném než o tom, jak pracují na tom, aby to ty zranitelné nezasáhlo. Pokud se nechají vtáhnout do debaty o tom, jestli to ještě nejde zrušit, nebo jestli ty povolenky spekulativně nevyletí nahoru apod., tak se to rozmělní a média si z toho vytáhnou, co potřebují.

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So there's a decades-old mechanism (and actual standard) how programs lock serial ports on unix-like systems in /var/lock. it's used in practice even in 2025 and #systemd >= 258 simply breaks it with "we don't care". I am not a systemd opponent, but that kind of behaviour [without a prior community-wide discussion or providing patches for known-affected projects and a grace period] is just alienating users and developers github.com/systemd/systemd/iss… bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep… #systemd #debian
in reply to Petar

Ясно. Не беше много трудно да разбера, че това дето ми пратиха на СМС изобщо не беше Спиди. Така си личеше, обаче ако не бях видяла номера им, сигурно щях да кликна върху линкчето, което и без това не водеше към спиди. Оттървах се за малко! :)

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Ежегодно напомняне, че можете да изслушате (или изтеглите с JDownloader и изслушате без реклами, нямам възражения) цялата ми новела „Вазев, 1887“ на линка по-долу. Има си дори деления за глави:

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Will browsers and screen readers respect the #html lang attribute #WordPress allows us to set on paragraphs?

TL;DR; most browsers "read aloud" feature ignores element specific lang attribute, but dedicated screen readers like #NVDA and Apple #VoiceOver do fairly well!

I've installed the 20 most spoken languages in #europe on my PC and virtual Mac.

Blog post is in the making, so feel free to ask questions and send me on even more side quests 😁

Teaser at oldrup.dk/en/teaser-testing-th…

in reply to Bjarne Oldrup

Glad NVDA is working well switching languages in your tests! With the languages - note that NVDA uses Windows OneCore by default. It will happily switch languages AS LONG AS you have the voice pack for the new language installed in Windows. This post is old but should cover the process: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

With eSpeak-NG, a popular synthesizer which we bundle with NVDA, it includes over 120 languages built in, from memory. And if using other synthesizers like Eloquence YMMV

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4. Finally, I stopped using NVDA alphas as the new ones have broken compatibility with many add-ons like MS Word Text Editor, ColumnsReview, BrowserNav, CloudVision, etc. I'm now with 2025.3 betas.
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Spustili jsme hlasování o přednáškách na letošní konferenci #LinuxDays Máme přihlášenou zhruba stovku témat, teď je na vás, abyste vybrali, co vás zajímá. Hlasovat můžete do neděle 7. září, pak se vrhneme na sestavování programu.

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