With the current news of possibly dozens of AUR packages hosting a dangerous form of malware, we should probably once again, for yet more reasons, reconsider why so many people point newcomers to Arch-based distributions.
The amount of "just do this random AUR bro" is insane.
(EDIT: This is the mailing list post - lists.archlinux.org/archives/l…
More packages have been found since, and the story is unfolding.)
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Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.
THE PROBLEM
I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.
I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.
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Thank you @notnotrachit for sharing your experience of implementing notifications "the FOSS way" in this blog post!
dev.to/dilutewater/implementin…
The Beginning: Building My First "Real" App Recently, I embarked on building a...Rachit Khurana (DEV Community)
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there's a lot to like about Tiddlywiki but not if you want to use it in a way where you aren't just using some background html file sync between devices. If you want to access it *via a website*, every time you load it you're downloading a minimum of 2MB, much larger depending on how much data you have in there and possibly even file embeds (unless you use the File upload plugin thing and have it dump the files into S3/WebDav)
This sucks big time. If you have spotty data service you won't be able to open your "notes" reliably.
This is a huge red flag for me. If I only cared about using Tiddlywiki from one device it would be a pretty amazing solution though
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> WireGuard uses the system time as a reliable monotonic counter. If this jumps forward, a user might DoS their own keys, by making it impossible to later have a value larger, or an adversary controlling system time could store a handshake initiation for use later. If it jumps backwards, handshakes will similarly be impossible. Thus, the system time should not be under the control of a hostile adversary.
oh good i'll make sure to remind the adversaries to not touch my time source
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Does anyone know of any #FreeSoftware implementations of the #RCS encrypted messaging protocol? There is the nine year old
github.com/android-rcs/rcsjta I wonder if that is usable?
RCS-e stack for Android with GSMA API. Contribute to android-rcs/rcsjta development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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100K. One hundred thousand. That's a lot of #Catima users! And happy users, it seems, looking at that 4.5 star rating ❤️
Just, wow, I never expected my little hobby app to reach 100K active users, and that's just on #GooglePlay, still excluding other app stores like #IzzyOnDroid, #FDroid, direct downloads from #GitHub and sketchy app piracy sites (please don't use that last one, for your own safety 😅)!
Very cool :)
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Last month, I spent about a week working on Plasma Bigscreen, hoping to get it back in Plasma releases again!
Read about it on my blog: espi.dev/posts/2025/07/plasma-…
#kde
I have been a long time Plasma Mobile contributor, but I have always had a keen interest in having Linux on my TV! I have noticed that in the past few months, the Plasma Bigscreen project has had some interest from people wanting to contribute, but t…espi.dev
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Welcome to Linux Access This is your central hub for all things related to accessibility on Linux. Here you’ll find articles, tips, and resources written by the community to help make Linux more usable for everyone.Linux Access
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Tohle jsou pro Linux důležité milníky. Opravdu populární gaming youtubeři začínají zkoušet Bazzite (gaming Linux distro). Tenhle má přes 4M odběratelů.
Zrovna Bazzite má potenciál se stát standardem pro hraní. Už jen kvůli tomu, že člověk jde na jeho web, vybere výrobce GPU, vybere si GNOME nebo KDE a po instalaci hraje. Zkuste tohle s Windows.
This is the FIRST video I have ever made using Linux as a windows replacement for a gaming system and it was REALLY easy! I should have done this sooner! Che...YouTube
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Toto video je barvitým úvodem do sociální sítě Fediverse, natočené režisérkou a propagátorkou Fediverse Elenou Rossini. Objevte nový svět sociálních médií, kde je respektováno Vaše soukromí, klíčoví jsou uživatelé a velké technologické společnosti nemají žádný vliv.
Autor videa: Elena Rossini a tým
Produkce: Jan
Dabing: Zloběna
Časování audia: Schmaker
Skript: Jann
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As part of our volunteer-driven accessibility initiative in GNOME Calendar, and for the first time in the 10+ years of Calendar's existence, we finally completed and merged the first step needed to have a working calendar app for people who rely on keyboard navigation. This merge request in particular makes the event widgets focusable with navigation keys (arrow left/up/right/down) and activatable with space/enter. This will be available in GNOME 49.
Most of GNOME Calendar's layout and widgets consist of custom widgets and complex calculations, both independently and according to other factors (window size, height and width of each cell, number of events, positioning, etc.), so these widgets need to be minimal to have as little overhead as possible. This means that these widgets also need to have the necessary accessibility features reimplemented or even rethought, including and starting with the event widgets.
We also hope to get other parts of GNOME Calendar accessible before GNOME 49, but I can't promise anything at the moment. We did start working with making the month view accessible: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…
#GNOME #Calendar #GNOMECalendar #GTK4 #GTK #Libadwaita #Accessibility #a11y #Linux
This implements button functionality to make it able to focus and activate it. This also sets the appropriate accessibility role and labels/descriptions. Related:GitLab
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This goes without saying: If you have some money to spare, I would genuinely appreciate it. I am not getting paid a single dollar from the work I'm doing (I wish I did).
At the time of writing this post, the merge request for making the month view accessible is sitting at around 500 lines diff, but that diff will only get bigger and bigger. A good portion of that time is also spent with my eyes closed with a screen reader. It takes a lot of time and energy to understand how everything connects in GNOME Calendar and researching about accessibility in a calendar app.
- ko-fi.com/theevilskeleton
- github.com/sponsors/TheEvilSke…
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there’s a workshop starting at 9 on Sunday about application accessibility at GUADEC
events.gnome.org/event/259/con…
Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.GNOME Events (Indico)
In case anybody needs to configure ASCII Braille support on their Mac for some reason, here's how:
1. Go to Voice Over Utility -> menu -> File -> Export Preferences
2. A save dialog will appear, pick a location on disk somewhere and save the file.
3. Open the file you just saved in any text editor. TextEdit should be good enough.
4. Find the following line:
<key>SCRCUserDefaultsBrailleTableGuideItems</key>
Use your editor's find feature (usually command + f) to do this.
5. Below this line, you should have a line containing <array>, followed by a few lines beginning with <string>, followed by </array>
6. Somewhere inbetween the <array> and </array>, make a new blank line and insert the following text:
<string>com.apple.scrod.braille.table.liblouis.ascii</string>
7. Save the file.
8. In VO Utility, go to Menu -> File -> Import preferences.
9. Pick the file you just edited, agree to replace preferences.
10. Congratulations, ASCII Braille should now be in your Braille table list.
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Hey folks. I've noticed #DeltaChat hasn't got a page in #Wikipedia. Do you know sources which would prove its notability so we could create a page for it?
Boosts appreciated. If you don't know sources, someone else might.
#AskFedi #Email #IM #Messenger #chatmail #chatmailrelay #FOSS #opensource #tech #technology #software
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I released my first update version of Able Player today, along with the major update to the Able Player WordPress plugin. This isn't a particularlyJoe Dolson (Joe Dolson Web Accessibility)
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Actually when you open rename tool, it prefills it with pattern [Original file name] and extension is completely omitted from renaming.
We need to not omit extensions, add them as separate place holder [Originial file extension] and just prefill them when rename dialog opens as [Original file name][Originial file extension]
@gnome I just noticed the disability pride flag in the profile picture, I didn't expect it but I love it! Especially as I know it's important for many members of our community, like myself.
Despite the accessibility issues of our project and despite misinformed critics (I have no issue with informed critics), I know we are actively working on better accessibility, and that it's particularly implemented by disabled members of the GNOME community.
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#AudioMo 28:
When times were better, my partner and her family used to go to the Bronx zoo almost every weekend. I only did this a few times.
One such time, October 5, 2013, I recorded this from just outside the sea lion pool. ?Captured with a pair of Sound Professionals MS-BMC3 microphones on glasses and an Olympus LS14 recorder. The image is what I would consider quasi-binaural, best heard with headphones.
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I've just noticed piped.video can still be used for playing videos. It's just that the public instance at piped.video and some other instances require registration.
@Archos and friends, please have you explored ways to eventually host it at @Oscloud ?
I'd host it my-self but I don't have a spare machine at the location with suitable ipv6 range for being somewhat resilient to youtube throttling attempts.
Thanks for considering
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"ai"-generated image captions are fucking shit
masto.ai/@HourlyPornhubbedHeat…
this one hallucinates a cat, says the dog is standing, mistakes the pink blobs for balloons and hallucinates a yellow balloon, makes up trees that aren't there, and doesn't mention the main focus of the comic, which is the two animals flying through the air thanks to the bubble gum bubbles they're making!
but yeah no cool, really really great technology for disabled people: just lie to blind folks about what's in a picture! what could go wrong!
garbage garbage garbage, if you're pushing this shit technology instead of advocating for people to take a minute to write a decent alt text then fuck you
Attached: 1 image #Heathcliff #NSFW #bot #lewdMastodon
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as someone who ran a heathcliff edit account on twitter for years, hand-wrote alt text for four comics posts every day, and convinced several of the other folks in that community to do the same, the alternative is this. it is doing the work, writing the text.
and while i might agree with you that it’s better than nothing on a silly social media post, it’s real bad in my professional life where it just lies about financial numbers in a chart &c.
Hi, I will be one week in #Prague to learn #CzechLanguage in a language school. Does anybody like to meet and speak with me in Czech, so I can practise? In #Praha or later, when I travel for another week through #CzechRepublic.
I can offer Tandem in German or Farsi.
Please share, if you know peoble in Czech. #FediHelp
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Just so you know, #OsmAnd is celebrating its 15th anniversary with 50% off its plans, which you can now pay for directly without paying the 'app tax' to Google or Apple.
I highly recommend OsmAnd — it's a Swiss army knife for maps! Open source. Based on #OpenStreetMap.
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Transmitting data via ultrasound without any special equipment
halcy.de/blog/2025/06/27/trans…
#HackerNews #Transmitting #data #ultrasound #technology #innovation #special #equipment #hackernews
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#AudioMo day23:
Did you know that there is hidden morse code all throughout Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells' album?
Somehow, probably during the two-track mix-down stage of the album, the CW from a powerful, very low frequency transmitter about 37 miles north of the studio in which this album was recorded found it's way to tape. It's centered at 16 kHz, and so low in the mix that you can't actually hear it... at least, not without some help.
This is a very short, not particularly comprehensive demo using two different methods -- a pair of stock Reaper plugins and an SDR package to mostly isolate this morse transmission, which is heard throughout the entire album.
References:
Hidden Morse Code in Tubular Bells madpsy.uk/link-between-the-sou…
The Hidden Signal Inside A Platinum Selling Album - Tubular Bells youtube.com/watch?v=o3UJAfuvni…
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Buongiorno amici del Fediverso! Hello Fedi friends!
I hope you had a nice weekend.
I'm currently doing the sound mix of the Italian voice-over of my Fedi promo video.
I used to hate listening to recordings of my voice, but after endless hours of rewatching the English version and the French one, I'm now totally ok with that 😅
Routine reminder that on Friday I published the French VO of the Fedi video. It's here: news.elenarossini.com/fedivers…
Italian version coming shortly 🇮🇹
Découvrez un tout nouvel univers des réseaux sociaux, où la vie privée est respectée, les utilisateurs détiennent le pouvoir et les GAFAM n'ont pas leur mot à dire.Elena Rossini
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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
NV Access creates NVDA, the free open source Screen Reader that enables blind people to gain freedom, education & employment.GitHub
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Chancey Fleet and Marco Salsiccia walking through the streets of Amsterdam as blind travelers.marconius.com
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How a humanities background shaped the technical decisions behind the multilingual journey of Raccoon apps. Check out my blog post and stay tuned for updates!
livefasteattrashraccoon.github…
How a humanities background shaped the technical decisions behind Raccoon’s multilingual journeyLiveFastEatTrashRaccoon (Procyon Project Blog)
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in reply to UnifiedPush • • •Even as a non-developer, I found this well written article of great interest. It explained a few things about #UnifiedPush I wasn't aware of, and has given me better insight into how it functions.
It's clear now that there simply isn't any excuse for developers to use #FCM for notifications. I sincerely hope UnifiedPush will gain traction, not only amongst #FOSS developers, but the Android developer community at large.
It's perhaps worth noting that users of #Conversations (and its forks) already have a distributor included in their client, thus further lowering the bar of entry.
@notnotrachit @daniel @snikket_im
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