Congratulations to the winners of our Summer of GNOME OS challenge 🎉🎉
1. Ada Magicat (40 points)
2. Ignacy Kuchciński (37 points)
3. Forteller (26 points)
This was very much an experiment, but everyone I talked to said it was surprisingly smooth, and they'll continue to daily drive GNOME OS.
Thanks to everyone who participated, it was a lot of fun! And thanks even more to the GNOME OS team for getting us this far, especially @Valentin, Abderrahim, @alatiera, @AdrianVovk, and @jjardon!
New blog post!
I released libadwaita 1.8: nyaa.place/blog/libadwaita-1-8…
Another six months have passed, and with that comes another libadwaita release to go with GNOME 49.nyaa.place
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#216 Growing Community
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…
Updates on what happens across the GNOME project from week to weekthisweek.gnome.org
I did it. My Z-Wave controller passthrough into a FreeBSD jail with a stable device name is working, and my Home Assistant VM can talk to that.
blog.feld.me/posts/2025/09/pas…
I have a HomeAssistant VM running under Bhyve in FreeBSD and I'd like to begin deploying Z-Wave devices instead of these terrible WiFi-basedblog.feld.me
Hello @GrapheneOS screen-reader users and other #a11y friends,
There was an interesting debate going on at the end of may where screen reader users were asking for #tts engine included with GrapheneOS base system.
grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…
I understand this is very unlikely to change in the near future as I am not aware of a TTS system that is open-source and modern enough to be included.
@Accessible Android has a list of TTS engines sorted by language at this page: accessibleandroid.com/list-of-…
Except of eSpeak-ng and RHVoice there is another opensource app called SherpaTTS that can use Piper TTS and Coqui based voices at: github.com/woheller69/ttsEngin…
Including eSpeak-ng, RHVoice, SherpaTTS and the list of TTS engines mentioned by accessible android, is there a viable TTS engine or at least one that is close enough to be viable to get included in the foreseable future?
Another approach I have been thinking about is to add / inject the TTS app or any other app I'd like as a part of the install process. It turns out I am not the only one speculating about that idea and it's not practical and feasible either as it's also breaking the security model.
It's been discussed recently at: discuss.grapheneos.org/d/25899…
Another way on how to install an app on an android device would be using adb install from a computer. I am not definatelly sure on this but GrapheneOS does not allow enabling ADB on production builds. In order to instal a TTS app over ADB we'd need to find a way on how to install GrapheneOS with ADB preenabled on first run. This is a huge security hole as well.
There might be a way to build my own flavour of GrapheneOS, but that's too involved, I'd need very powerfull machine for the actual build process and I would again compromise security by either disabling or handling future updates on my own building each new release on my own.
So given the current state I am afraid we screen reader users are out of luck and there is no way to get this thing running on my own with no help from someone else.
The end result is that I'll either get security or I can look elsewhere to get accessibility.
Please am I getting it right or might I have overlooked something that might help me to install GrapheneOS on my own?
Thanks for reading to the end
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One of our full time developers is actively working on building our own text-to-speech and speech-to-text integration. It's where all of their effort is currently going. None of the available apps are suitable for inclusion. None are modern enough aside from Sherpa and it has issues including high latency making it unsuitable for use with TalkBack. Our own implementation is going to be significantly better.
ADB works fine on GrapheneOS but you'd have to enable it.
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@GrapheneOS Thanks for the positive info and nice sounding prompt reply.
Now I need to make up my mind if I should find someone else who will install current release for me and install TTS or use something else I can tinker with such as lineage in the mean time.
Huge thanks
What is there apart from #SherpaTTS that is fast and supports many languages?
What components do you want to replace? My only issue currently is the need for multilingual models (german-english) as otherwise it is unusable for me.
I have asked a friend and @GrapheneOS community chat members for the help with initial setup and now I am fully configured with RHVoice as my current TTS of choice.
Except of one GPS navigation app I am used to everything is working fine for me including proprietary stuff for my work like Microsoft Teams, banking apps including Poštová banka, George and Revolut and the other apps I like such as Bitwarden as a password manager, Arcanechat, Conversations, ElementX, FairEmail, Open Key Chain for chatting and emailing, Antennapod, BubbleUPNP, Foobar 2000, Kore, Voice, NewPipe, ytdlnis for podcasts, music, audiobooks and videos, , Catima for lojalty cards and tickets, some other apps. For downloading apps I am mainly using F-droid and Aurora store. I am not signed into the google account but I am using play services for push notifications and other compatibility reasons for apps which need it.
Thanks for everything you are doing, it's fantastic and I like it verry much.
All location-based apps should work, but some may expect network location to be available which it isn't by default. You can enable Network location and Wi-Fi scanning in Settings > Location > Location services if you want network location without needing to use Google Play for location. See grapheneos.org/features#networ….
If you installed apps before sandboxed Google Play and they depend on it, you may need to reinstall the apps depending on it so they detect it properly.
Overview of GrapheneOS features differentiating it from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).GrapheneOS
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Toronto to Quebec City high-speed rail construction could begin in four years
ctvnews.ca/canada/article/high…
Never a priority. Not even shocked a second by this.
The federal government wants construction on a planned high-speed rail line between Toronto and Quebec City to begin within four years.The Canadian Press (CTVNews)
> LeBlanc said it would have taken eight years to begin construction of the rail project, without the assistance of the major projects office, though it’s unclear where that number comes from.
It came out of his ass. Our out of a chatbot from the office of the minister of cheatbots..
François Legault has had SEVEN F*CKING YEARS and has done NOTHING about Québec bureaucracy.
In fact, he's only added to the provincial burdens w/ shitastic legislation and laws.
WORST. PREMIER. EVER.
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 13 updated and 1 added apps:
* PhotoSphereGallery: Gallery and viewer for spherical photos (360°) 🛡️
2 #Magisk modules have been updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#Catima 2.38.0 is out!
github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…
This release adds support for .pkpasses, removes the Stocard importer (as Stocard no longer exists) and removes images from the widget below Android 12L.
Do note that the widget change is not what we want. If anyone understands this crash and has a fix, I'd love to hear it, so we can support images on all Android versions: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…
Coming soon to an app store near you.
#IzzyOnDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay
Thanks for the new widget! Great! But there is a problem: if the cards have no pictures, everything works. If you add a picture to at least one card, the application closes with an error and the wi...TheLastProject (GitHub)
Please note that the #FDroid release is sadly still delayed due to gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issu….
There is also F-Droid's request to Google on issuetracker.google.com/issues….
I'm watching the F-Droid issue and it looks like Google may release a new version of aapt2 that can run on the older hardware of the F-Droid buildserver but that doesn't seem to have happened yet. Hopefully this changes in the near future.
Affected apps under this label: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/?label_name%5B%5D=AGP-8.12.0 Between 8.12.0-alpha07 and 8.12.0-alpha08, aapt2 started to want a CPU that supports BMI1, CPUID, SSE4_1, SSSE3 ...GitLab
I've played this game before, eh. It will never happen... *sad panda face*
railwaygazette.com/high-speed/… #cdnpoli #ALTO
CANADA: The Alto high speed rail project is to benefit from a Major Projects Office which the government has established to identify projects that are in the national interest and streamline their assessment and approval to accelerate development.Railway Gazette International
It's the second time in four years the DOJ has targeted Uber for its treatment of passengers with disabilities.Omar Gallaga (CNET)
An uncertain future looms over Nova Launcher, a name synonymous with Android customization and a vital tool for many users, including those with visualSalih Kunduz (Accessible Android)
Once again a fucking reminder to stop doing stupid shit like using local timezones for your logs. Don't trust people who do this.
2025-08-29 06:28:12.038 GMT [220328] LOG: invalid value for parameter "log_timezone": "US/Pacific"
Přijďte na konferenci #LinuxDays na moji přednášku "Partybox / barevná hudba na routeru #Turris Omnia". Bude to pořádná diskotéka! 👯 🤩
Samozřejmě vřele doporučuji i další přednášky v tracku CZ.NIC (místnost 111), přednášku "Turris - něco se chystá!" od @michal v místnosti 155 a také tu spoustu ostatních skvělých přednášek, které na konferenci budou.
#konference #LinuxDays2025 @linuxdays @turris
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I know it’s just a social media post, but I stand with my colleagues and the students at America’s HBCUs.
It’s a short hop from radical anti-intellectualism to outright racism, and we’ve experienced these headwinds before.
But the work to build America’s pluralist democracy will not be halted by this kind of cowardice.
The state of #InstantMessaging in 2025: I have one virtual workspace dedicated solely to #IM clients. They occupy 820 MB of memory, which is actually an improvement since the last time I checked.
But I still miss the days when all I needed was #Pidgin.
The results of a 2 day hackathon (1 hour of demos!), an official Matrix server for the European Commission, and the Trust & Safety Working Group in Motion.
That and much more happened This Week In Matrix
matrix.org/blog/2025/09/12/thi…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
Very cool. I hope this means that the @EUCommission will be setting an example.
ec.social-network.europa.eu/@E…
Attached: 1 image We have made Microsoft’s commitments on Teams legally binding under EU antitrust rules. Microsoft will unbundle Teams at lower prices, boost interoperability and data portability.European Commission on Mastodon
While we're talking about Albert Einstein and how people have tried to erase his 20+ year civil rights protest work from history:
The FBI didn't like MLK jr. They called him "the most dangerous negro." Because he was influential, brought people together, and was vocally against anti-Black racism.
The FBI file on MLK Jr was 240,000 pages long. They accused him of being a communist spy, because he said things like, "racism is bad," and "too much wealth inequality is bad for society."
The FBI had a file on Malcolm X too. 9,000 pages long. Same reason.
The FBI had a surveillance file on Albert Einstein too. 1,400 pages.🤷🏿♂️
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When Einstein was in NJ teaching at Princeton, a racist person wouldn't let Black Opera Singer Marian Anderson stay in their hotel. So Einstein said, "Stay with me."
Paul Robeson and other Black civil rights leaders wrote a letter condemning lynching. Einstein hand delivered it to President Truman.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=puOIdh94…
For more great educational video clips, go to http://splash.abc.net.au/YouTube
The FBI had 240,000 pages of surveillance reports on MLK Jr.
9,000 pages on Malcolm X.
1,400 pages on Albert Einstein.
Yes, they considered MLK Jr to be much more dangerous than Malcolm X. They literally called him "The Most Dangerous Negro."
Because what they fear most is the end of racism.
If you're curious, no Einstein and Paul Robeson were not successful in getting that anti-lynching legislation passed.
There have been at least 200 attempts to get that anti-lynching legislation passed in US history.
The US did eventually pass anti-lynching legislation... in 2022. 🤦🏿♂️
CBS is still reporting this, WSJ is pushing back now lol
You can't fit that shit on a bullet casing. It's not a tank shell lmao
These past two days have been incredibly hard for me.Taylor Arndt (Taylor’s Substack)
In light of the recent NPM compromise, I wanted to warn others who might receive similar messages. Immediately after publishing a new version of https://crates.io/crates/zerofs, I received the foll...GitHub
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Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.blog.rust-lang.org
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Friday.
The time is fast approaching when our living room will become a total and utter chaotic mess. The builder has confirmed a start date for the chimney removal.
I've just booked a Bulky waste collection from the council: one of our 2 sofas is in no condition to continue living, so they're taking it away next Friday.
It amused me greatly that I am now on step 6 of a 5-step process, with an accompanying progress bar at 120%. Obviously whoever designed the web interface didn't account for the thank you page post-booking.
Gotta love a fencepost problem.
Card provider was really slow, too. Made the flow feel like something from the 90's.
Nicely done, MHDC good to see our money being spent well.
I can't grumble really, they're very good as local authorities go.
with regards me telling y'all our local council were good at what they do, I got a phone call pretty much immediately after booking my bulky waste collection on Friday.
I had 'Somehow managed' to book a collection on a day of the week they don't collect. Nobody's ever done it before. 'Friday's are absolutely not an option in the calendar on the booking page'.
The issue is, of course, accessibility-related. The input type of a date that has native keyboard accessibility and the selectable calendar of dates they want you to choose (with a mouse, naturally), hold only the most tenuous of connections, and only one of them seems to be working in the reality they expect.
Hey ho.
There's an active phishing campaign happening against crates.io. rustfoundation.dev is not the foundation's or the project's domain. We're looking at our options for takedowns.
bsky.app/profile/burntsushi.ne…
github.com/rust-lang/crates.io…
In light of the recent NPM compromise, I wanted to warn others who might receive similar messages. Immediately after publishing a new version of https://crates.io/crates/zerofs, I received the foll...GitHub
Would it be a Matrix event without one of our State of The Union keynotes?
Don't miss your chance to come at the Matrix Conference and listen to our Guardian Matthew paint the picture of the Matrix landscape!
Come along to see the latest and greatest progress in the Matrix world! From huge government deployments to the latest innovations, hang out with your peers to share the best learning, insights, projects and tips!conference.matrix.org
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Schonmal von den #LUKI's gehört?
Sympatische Leute!
Sie treffen sich dieses WE im #Linux #Hotel
#LUKI25
Eindrücke vom verg. Jahr gibt's hier:
luki.org/2025/01/software-tech…
Wie wird es dieses Jahr @luki@kirche.social ?
Es ist eine illustre Gesellschaft, die sich am Abend des 20. September 2024 auf Schloss Herborn versammelt Nach und nach gewährt man an der Pforte Einlass: Einem konsequenten Softwareentwickler, der die Firma verlässt, weil man von FOSS in die Abhäng…LUKi e.V.
From now on, translate.mapcomplete.org supports logging in with #OpenStreetMap (with the source code repository as intermediate step).
This means one less account to manage!
Thanks to all the translators for providing translations. And of course, feel free to join the #translation effort to get #MapComplete into your language.
We're building smart glasses with accessibility at its core.Designed to make lives easier for people who rely on assistive tech.Pre-order the Ally Solos Glas...YouTube
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Me waiting for the EuroBSDcon 2025 and their load of FreeBSD presenters with their MacBook Pro Apple Silicon and Windows 11 ThinkPad :)
McKusick himself runs a Mac:
youtube.com/watch?v=MfIrVtRvB4…
@chesheer
Gunion: a new GEOM utility in the FreeBSD Kernel - Marshall Kirk McKusick - EuroBSDcon2023
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I've met Kirk, I've been to the conferences. It's been a few years now but recent reports have been that many more devs are running Thinkpads and Framework laptops.