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LibreOffice 25.8 is our new major release – but we're maintaining the previous branch for a few more months. And today we're releasing #LibreOffice 25.2.6: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 25.2.6 - The Document Foundation Blog

Berlin, 8 September 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.2.6, the sixth maintenance release of the LibreOffice 25.2 family, available for download at www.libreoffice.org/download [1]. LibreOffice 25.2.
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Changes in September temperatures in the #Arctic by decade. The largest warming is co-located with areas of melting sea ice, such as the along the Eurasian coast.

Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds.f17050d7

Four polar stereographic maps showing Arctic near-surface air temperature anomalies for the month of September in 1985-1994, 1995-2004, 2005-2014, and 2015-2024. Most all areas are observing long-term warming, which is largest at the edges of the Arctic Ocean on the Atlantic and Pacific facing marginal seas.

ERA5 monthly averaged data on single levels from 1940 to present

ERA5 is the fifth generation ECMWF reanalysis for the global climate and weather for the past 8 decades. Data is available from 1940 onwards. ERA5 replaces the ERA-Interim reanalysis.
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For your next coffee break listen : @bagder Keynote from #OpenSourceSummit hosted by The Linux Foundation is now available!

Listen to his key note now : youtube.com/watch?v=YEBBPj7pIK…

What will you gain from the keynote speech :

🔹insight into the growing challenges for Open Source maintainers, including lack of funding, questions of sustainability and AI race

🔹how can these challenges can be tackled while developing Open Source solutions

Keynote: Giants, Standing on the Shoulders Of - Daniel Stenberg, Founder of the Curl Project

Don't miss out! Join us at the next Open Source Summit in Amsterdam, Netherland (August 25-29); or Seoul, South Korea (November 4-5). Join us at the premier ...
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Hi everyone,

The NVDA 2025.3 Release Candidate is now available for testing. We encourage all users to download this RC and provide feedback. Unless any critical bugs are found, this will be identical to the final 2025.3 release.

This release includes improvements to Remote Access, SAPI5 voices, braille and the Add-on Store.

Full details and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-3r…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Update #NewVersion #PreRelease #FOSS #Update #News #Accessibility

NVDA logo and text in white on purple with grey sunbursts around the edge.

NV Access | NVDA 2025.3rc1 available for testing

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For number lovers: during the past 31 days, the #IzzyOnDroid repo saw almost 800,000 APK downloads – which roughly corresponds to 18 APKs/minute, or 1 APK every 3 seconds. And that's only from our main server, not counting the mirrors (coming soon™).

Detail lovers can head over to stats.izzyondroid.org/ and dig in 😉

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📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 8. September, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten. Das Gehäuse ist türkis und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte.

Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung

Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.
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My keynote from Open Source Summit Europe 2025 is now up. 13 pretty packed minutes.

youtu.be/YEBBPj7pIKo?si=DBxSCF…


Keynote: Giants, Standing on the Shoulders Of - Daniel Stenberg, Founder of the Curl Project

Don't miss out! Join us at the next Open Source Summit in Amsterdam, Netherland (August 25-29); or Seoul, South Korea (November 4-5). Join us at the premier ...
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Working on a way to have #curl -w able to output the contents of all headers with a set name even from a redirect-"chain":

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1849…


write-out: make %header{} able to output *all* occurances of a header by bagder · Pull Request #18491 · curl/curl

By appending :all:[separator] to the header name. The [separator] string is output between each header value if there are more than one to output. Test 764 verifies Idea-by: kapsiR on github Ref: #...
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Contact with Europeans in the 19th century first provided the Yapese at Palau with iron tools, that made the cutting and shaping of the stones much easier. Not much later, the Yapese made deals with Europeans to use their ships to transport the stones back to Yap. These arrangements enabled the manufacture of much larger and heavier rai stones, up to 4 meters in diameter, as well of a larger number of them. However, these "modern" stones were less valuable than more ancient ones.


Even stone money suffers from inflation.

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former Micronesian currency of Yap Islands and Palau Islands; national symbol the the Federated States of Micronedia

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That paired with this would be perfect for me

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MokerLink Store - MokerLink 4-Port 2.5G Web Managed PoE Switch with 2-Port 10G SFP+

4 x 2.5G Ethernet Ports, compliant IEEE802.3bz (2.5G) standard, support 10/100/1000M/2.5G adaptive. 2 x 10G SFP Port(compatible 1G/2.5G Module, not include SFP Module). 45Gbps backplane bandwidth, Port 1-4 support IEEE 802.
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This is local Amsterdam news (in Dutch) about the library putting on a display of books banned from American schools and libraries, in little stars-and-stripes coffins. They say it’s because whatever nonsense America gets up to, the Dutch need to be ready to guard against it being pushed here a few years later. at5.nl/nieuws/234309/wat-je-in…

#uspol #censorship #bannedbooks


Wat je in Florida niet mag lezen, wordt nu tentoongesteld in de OBA

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in anticipation of another bike trip, i've constructed porteur bag #2, refined and refreshed.

- first bag i've made with a liner! (robic nylon)
- structured like a big tote bag but with a zipper and a square footprint
- two wire gate clips to make attachment / straps experiments easier
- same ecopak material as my frame bag
- cordura on the bottom for durability

overall: an improvement, attachment to the rack is simpler and faster. could be slightly taller, and maybe all ecopak

side view of the new bag
3/4 view of the new bag
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“Unlike a typical mesh, which stores per-vertex 3D positions, a mescher stores per-vertex 2D screen-space positions and a per-edge depth difference. Whereas differences in depth across edges must sum up to zero as we travel around a standard mesh, this is not necessarily the case for a mescher. It is a mathematical way of describing the perceptual impossibility.” anadodik.github.io/publication…
Rendered computer images of three impossible tori

Meschers: Geometry Processing of Impossible Objects

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Thank you to everyone who attended the World Blindness Summit & WBU General Assembly last week in São Paulo, Brazil. It was an honour for NV Access to attend, and to have NV Access General Manager, James Boreham and NV Access director Emma Bennison present. It was an informative and uplifting week and a chance to meet many new people and hear people's hopes for the future!

#WBUSummit #WBU25 #Blindness #Blind #Accessibility #NVDA #NVAccess #NVDAsr #Brazil #SaoPaulo

Photo of presenters and moderators for the session: "Digital Access for All – Creating Inclusive Information Spaces". From left to right, Octavio Carreno and Mariana Pinheiro, Marc Workman, Flavio Correia, Simone Freire, James Boreham, and Emma Bennison. All are standing side by side, smiling, in front of the World Blindness Summit backdrop in São Paulo.
Image of the rear part of the room which is quite full with 8 rows of people seated and clapping during the "Digital Access for All – Creating Inclusive Information Spaces"
#Accessibility #blind #nvdasr #brazil #blindness #nvda #nvaccess #wbusummit #wbu25 #saopaulo

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For anyone who thinks Wayland compositors are being overly restrictive by not allowing applications to set absolute positions for their windows, as I did, there are good reasons for this restriction. canonical-mir.readthedocs-host…

Window positions under Wayland

Preamble: Design is all about balance, and the design of graphical user interfaces has a lot of interests to be balanced. In the context of Wayland, the principle interested parties are the designe...
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Bug Hunter (1990) is one of those rare puzzle platformers written exclusively for the Acorn 32-bit machines.

Whenever I stumble on an Archimedes title, I perk up. These machines—descendants of Acorn’s BBC line—were the first computers powered by ARM CPUs. Think about that: ARM, the chipset now running your phone, your tablet, your Nintendo Switch, even your M-series Mac.

Back in 1990, ARM wasn’t about pocket gadgets. It was pitched as the next big leap in desktop computing. Only problem was the Acorn Archimedes barely left the UK, and outside of classrooms, almost nobody touched one.

That’s a shame, because games like Bug Hunter show what these machines could do. The hero is Hysteron Proteron—a bioengineered soldier gone wrong. A lab mix-up left him a spineless bug-eyed creature who can’t actually fight. So the army threw him on pest control duty.

His gimmick: suckered feet that let him scuttle along floors, ceilings, and walls, and the ability to pick up objects and drop them on unsuspecting insects. Kill them all, move to the next room, repeat. Simple, but clever.

Graphically, it’s impressive for 1990. Crisp sprites, fluid enough movement, and backgrounds that look every bit as solid as what you’d see on the Amiga or Genesis. The SNES wasn’t even out yet, and here’s Acorn pushing visuals in that league.

Sound, though, is the usual British compromise: no music, just effects. Still, compared to the PC speaker squawks of DOS games, those crunchy bug-splat noises were fine.

What makes Bug Hunter stand out isn’t just the gameplay—it’s the personality. One room even has a parody movie poster on the wall: Schwarzenegger in Decorator, with the tagline “They picked the wrong man…” It’s little details like that which make it feel less like a generic extermination game and more like someone’s sly passion project. Which it was.

Ian Richardson, a solo dev at the time, built this thing himself. He’d later go on to Gremlin and Ocean before becoming a respected figure in UK game development. He passed away in 2021, but Bug Hunter remains a testament to his early craft.

The sequel, Bug Hunter in Space, came out the same year, expanding the concept to alien ships and teleports. And Bug Hunter & Moon Dash was even sold together on a single disk, though everyone agrees Moon Dash was the weaker half. Bug Hunter’s the one people remember—the one schoolkids used to sneak onto Archimedes machines in British classrooms.

So if you ever find an Acorn 32-bit, don’t pass this up. Bug Hunter is charming, tough, and a reminder that the ARM revolution didn’t start with iPhones. It started with a bug-eyed mutant wandering the walls on a forgotten British computer.

@videogames

Retro video game screenshot from Bug Hunter. The scene shows a green-walled room with red brick borders. At the top, the title “BUG HUNTER” is displayed in bold red and white text, alongside the player’s score of 652. On the left, there’s a brown shelf stacked with random objects like a beach ball, bottles, and food. Below the shelf, a spiky black creature waits on the floor. A conveyor belt runs across the room, carrying a large insect. Two hanging fluorescent lights dangle from chains above. The back wall features two posters: one blue sign reads “Archimedes — more power to your fingertips,” while another is a parody movie poster showing a muscular figure with sunglasses and a paint roller, with the caption “SCHWARZENEGGER: They picked the wrong man… DECORATOR.”
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FYI trichloroethylene causes Parkinson's

Dry cleaning chemicals hang around - on your clothes | Environmental Working Group ewg.org/news-insights/news/dry…

Dry cleaning chemicals hang around - on your clothes

If you've ever dry cleaned your clothes (you have, right?), you've likely wondered how the "dry" part happens. And it may even have crossed your mind that it's a chemical process. Of course you'd be right.
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For anyone interested in that AudioScreen add-on we just shared, the link posted by the vOICe was not the right one to download it, you need to follow that one through another post to it, or go direct to: github.com/nvaccess/audioScree…

This is a great example of an add-on where the original author didn't have capacity to continue developing it, and has passed it on to someone else. This is a healthy part of our ecosystem and one which should be encouraged.


GitHub - nvaccess/audioScreen: An NVDA add-on that allows you to "feel" images with your ears, while moving your finger around a touch screen on Windows 8 and above.

An NVDA add-on that allows you to "feel" images with your ears, while moving your finger around a touch screen on Windows 8 and above. - nvaccess/audioScreen
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@GamingWithEars @vick21 @alexhall You can explore an image on a touch screen and get audible feedback (pitch) of it. On the GitHub page - github.com/nvaccess/audioScree… - there is a link to an audio demonstration by Mick Curran "where he demonstrates the various modes, and uses it to explore a map of Australia, a rainbow, the earth from space, a cartoon house, and a sun set."

GitHub - nvaccess/audioScreen: An NVDA add-on that allows you to "feel" images with your ears, while moving your finger around a touch screen on Windows 8 and above.

An NVDA add-on that allows you to "feel" images with your ears, while moving your finger around a touch screen on Windows 8 and above. - nvaccess/audioScreen
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@kev Thanks Kevan! We did write some tips on filing issues with GitHub here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

Also, have you tried our new "form" based template? The same questions, but in edit boxes you can tab between.

You can find the test templates here: github.com/nvaccess/nvda-issue…

Please note, these are currently only for testing - we are not monitoring issues submitted using those forms.

Once you test the form, please head to this discussion to leave feedback: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/discu…


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GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.
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If you use Claude Coe, you may be interested in the project I have been contributing the #accessibility features to. It's called Opcode. It's basically a GUI version of the Claude Code CLI.
Check out my branch at github.com/vick08/opcode.
There is an outstanding PR against the main repo, but I am not sure when the author decides to incorporate my changes. There are other 40 PRs in the queue! :)
Enjoy!

GitHub - vick08/opcode: A powerful GUI app and Toolkit for Claude Code - Create custom agents, manage interactive Claude Code sessions, run secure background agents, and more.

A powerful GUI app and Toolkit for Claude Code - Create custom agents, manage interactive Claude Code sessions, run secure background agents, and more. - vick08/opcode
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Ubuntu mod team takes anti-queer "Don't say gay" stance.

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Finally got around to writing up a review of the ecowitt weather gateway/station/sensors I got.

Overall it's quite nice and I am happy with it.

scrye.com/blogs/nirik//posts/2…

#HomeAssistant

A home assistant history of a rain rate sensor from a ecowitt weather station. It shows that at about midnight on saturday it rained really really hard for a few minutes.

ecowitt weather station review (GW2001)

I picked up some ecowitt devices recently and thought I would share a review. We live in a pretty rural area with no official weather stations around. The ones that are nearest are in somewhat differe
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Jiří Eischmann

I upload data from our station to Windy.com. One of the benefits is that I can compare the actual data with values forecast by different models and get some sense of what is the best model for our location.
As you can see the wind direction is pretty much random.
By weather measurement standards the temperature sensor should be 2 meters above a grass surface, wind sensors should be 10 meters above the ground. So with all-in-one stations, which is what I have now, you have to decide between one or the other when it comes to accuracy.
A screenhot of Windy.com showing measurements from a personal weather station compared to weather models.

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Quick Tip:
If you are being harassed on this, or any other instance, you have several options of dealing with it. You may block the account yourself, or if you feel this is a greater threat that the community should deal with, you may block and report the post and/or follower via the Mastodon web interface.
As an example on this instance, you would log into the web interface with your email address and passwored used when you signed up at:
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Then, navigate to the offending post or follower,and then you would click the button labeled more, with an elipsis under the post.
This will open a submenu with all the functions to manage what happens to the post or follower. For screen reader users, Mastodon has unhelpfully located this submenu at the bottom of the page, and focus is not automatically set there, so unless or until you realized this, you might think the more... button was doing nothing. It actually is, you just need to navigate to the bottom of the page after you've pressed it. Two of these options in the submenu that comes up are block and report.
Once you click on report, you will get a form to fill out, to let the moderators know about the situation. Additionally, you will have options to report to all remote instances mentioned within any posts marked for the report.
Once the report form is submitted, the moderators of your instance will immediately receive it, and will act on it as soon as possible.
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Some place where you may feel free to socialize, and not be labeled by the instance.
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Earlier this year, someone bought me some gorgeous bath bombs from Lush, and having decided to by myself some more, I've discovered that in January they renamed three of their bath bombs to "Diversity", "Equity", and "Inclusion", in protest against Trump's Executive Order.

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LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics | Vegetarian & Cruelty Free | LUSH

Inventors of the bath bomb and the home of bath art. We're here to create a cosmetics revolution and leave the world lusher than we found it.
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