@NVAccess it would be great to be able to run #NVDA on #Linux. As a developer this would help a lot to test pages for NVDA. I have tested with #wine to a small extent it works, so maybe is possible to make it work on wine.
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Just bought a #DELL 3190 laptop, new for $150 (11.6" screen, 64GB eMMC). It's fully supported on #Linux, and even if it has a Celeron N4120 CPU and only 4 GB of RAM, it'll work fine with #Mint, or #XFCE (and #Gnome/ #KDE if you don't mind some minor lag). Not opening too many browser tabs will ensure that the swap file won't get used too often.
If you're on a tight budget this is a good option, as it also has great battery life too at 10 hours with Linux.
Dnes si dovolím odkázať na veľmi vydarený český hlas pre hlasový výstup #TTS #RHVoice. Sám autor o tom píše tu: groups.io/g/Blind-android/mess… . O použití pre #Windows #Linux a #Android sa dočítate aj na jednoduchej komunitnej stránke hlas.ondrosik.sk/ . Gro používateľov sú ťažko zrakovo postihnutí používatelia, ktorí si bez kvalitného hlasového výstupu a čítača obrazovky nedokážu svoj digitálny život predstaviť, možno ale aj vám by sa mohol hodiť takýto hlas pre váš počítač či smartfón nezávislí od obrovských korporácií. Mohli by ste ho napr. použiť na čítanie kníh alebo počas navigácii cez GPS.
Another German administration is breaking Microsoft’s glass cage, and at a first read the scope of this initiative seems more ambitious than many I’ve witnessed in the past.
The announcement follows previously established plans to migrate the state government off Microsoft Office in favor of open source LibreOffice.
I hope that there’s a Web-based offering somewhere on the horizon. Fewer and fewer employees nowadays run Word/Excel directly on their machines. Most of them run Google Docs or use Microsoft’s office cloud. Giving them a stand-alone app which limits the possibilities for online collaboration may be met with resistance, especially now that many of them are already getting used to online AI assistants. I read that #NextCloud is involved - I hope there’s a plan to run #CollaboraOffice, which is more or less like running the LibreOffice engine as a service, #OnlyOffice or some equivalent alternative.
Due to the high hardware requirements of Windows 11, we would have a problem with older computers. With Linux we don’t have that
Very sensitive decision that will probably save taxpayers a lot of money. But it’d also be interested to know which #Linux distro has been selected. Hopefully the administration won’t repeat Munich’s past mistakes and it won’t try to build and maintain their own distro. Better get into talks with a popular distro (probably not Red Hat, but hey isn’t SuSE German?) and orchestrate a deal where the State funds its development, and in exchange it gets development support. It’s a win-win where a distro not managed by a giant like Red Hat or Canonical can get consistent direct funding from a public administration (that’s what many of us have been advocating for years anyway), and the local administration can enjoy the support of a well-documented distro like OpenSuSE, Mint, Pop_OS or Manjaro without having to reinvent the wheel and scramble for their own developers/packagers/maintainers, and minimizing the risk of going from one vendor lock-in (Microsoft) to another (IBM or Canonical).
The government will ditch Microsoft Sharepoint and Exchange/Outlook in favor of open source offerings Nextcloud and Open-Xchange, and Mozilla Thunderbird
Same issue as with LibreOffice: folks today are used to webmail and mobile apps. Thunderbird definitely fills the gap on the stand-alone side, especially now that it’s getting more love and support than before. But it still lacks an official mobile app - K-9 is almost there, but not nearly there yet. And it doesn’t solve the “I’m used to the GMail/Outlook interface and set all of my filters and do my advanced search from a webview” problem. There’s actually a big gap there. What’s a decent open webmail UI that can compete with GMail/Outlook nowadays? RoundCube feels ancient and it has barely changed in 15 years. SnappyMail is a bit better, and it’s what a use as a selected webmail client too, but it’s still lightyears behind GMail/Outlook. NextCloud Mail is slowly getting there, but it only integrates with a NextCloud solution. Let’s admit that there’s a gap that needs to be filled fast if we don’t want employees who have years of email muscle memory trained in specific environments to doom the project.
Schleswig-Holstein is also developing an open source directory service to replace Microsoft’s Active Directory and an open source telephony offering.
Please, don’t. Just don’t. A local administration, no matter how well-intentioned and initially well-funded, just won’t have the resources necessary to invent such big wheels. And, even if it somehow manages to bake something together, it’ll eventually be a patchy solution that they’ll have to maintain themselves for years to come, and that is unlikely to find adoption outside of its initial borders.
Invest into #OpenLDAP to fill the gaps left by ActiveDirectory on the LDAP side instead. That project needs a lot more love. And leverage WebDAV for almost everything else. If you are already planning to use NextCloud, it’ll already do a lot of the heavylifting for you on that side, without having to write new software or come up with new protocols.
Same for telephony. Looking into iPXE and other open implementations of the PXE and SIP protocols. Telephony protocols are hard and well-established, reinventing the wheel should be avoided at all costs.
I think there’s a lot of potential in initiatives like these, but only a clear definition of their scope and a clear plan of execution with continuous user feedback can help preventing something like the failure of the early Munich experiments.
Oh snap! Good news, Linux users: we're adding the Thunderbird Snap, previously maintained by the awesome Ubuntu desktop team, to our officially supported Linux packages! 📦 🐧
Learn all about why we made the change, what it means and what to expect, and where to report issues in our blog post.
To #Linux or to #GNU? Linux is a kernel, not an operating system. There are not many other OSes with a Linux kernel. GNU, Android and Musl distributions are the most common if not the only ones. The rest are derivations of them. For example µClibc is a GNU implementation.
Das Kabinett hat den Startschuss für den Umstieg auf freie Software gegeben - ein Gewinn für #IT-Sicherheit, #Datenschutz und die heimische Digitalwirtschaft.
Langfristiges Ziel ist die vollständige digitale Souveränität des Landes.
Question! Why should local governments use taxpayers’ money to buy proprietary, closed software from a single vendor? And what happens to citizens' data? A solution is to move to free and open source software like #Linux and #LibreOffice – which is exactly what Schleswig-Holstein is doing: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #privacy
Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in…
You can now chat about your own documents and data, use GPU acceleration, transcribe audio with Whisper, use your own LLMs, and a ton more integrations and new features.
A major update to the Nextcloud AI Assistant 2.0, plus the news we work with several big hosting providers like IONOS and OVHcloud to bring AI-as-a-Service options to you!
An incredibly technically complex #backdoor in xz (potentially also in libarchive and elsewhere) was just discovered. This backdoor has been quietly implemented over years, with the assistance of a wide array of subtly interconnected accounts:
Updates the vendored version of xz to be 5.6.1. Also updates the
vendor script to support the addition of SPDX-License-Identifier
headers into some files.
🚨 ⚠️ Emergency PSA: A critical security exploit was discovered in the xz package recently, used for compression and decompression on nearly all Linux distributions.
Rawhide users ARE impacted and should immediately STOP using Rawhide until the package update is fully rolled back. (1/3)
Red Hat Information Risk and Security and Red Hat Product Security learned that the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries contain malicious code that appears to be intended to allow unauthorized access.
You may have seen the “Verified” badge on apps from Flathub which shows that the developer has proven ownership of their app, e.g. via their website or code host.
With great adoption (nearly 1,000 verified apps!), we’re trying something out to help with transparency:
⚠️ Unverified
If you see this, it flags that the app has not been verified by its developer—it’s effectively a community-maintained package.
As of yesterday, I am officially maintaining the XDG Specifications (yes, yes, I make questionable choices ^^). This means, if there's anything I should have a look at, or if you want to propose any addition/change, you know who to ping now! (even better if a MR/patch is attached, of course) Thanks to everyone working on Freedesktop integration and projects, you rock! #xdg #freedesktop #linux
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Friends of energy efficiency - the Light Video 0.1.0 #Flathub update is out, build with #gtk4 4.14 and #GStreamer 1.24.1.
This should be the first app targeting the #linux / FDO desktop enabling Wayland video offloading (think zero-copy playback) by default. In many cases (actually more than I expected) this can improve battery lifetime - and on low-end devices even playback performance - significantly.
[ValdikSS]Возможно, вам это будет интересно. Я нашел эти ссылки в интернете.
В связи с намерениями правительства удалить всю информацию по обходу блокировок из российского сегмента интернета, кто-то, решил принять меры. 🙂
ОН, судя по всему считает, что статьи это важная часть культуры и нашего прошлого. Особенно, комментарии больших групп образованных людей на habrahabr.ru.
Этот человек, скорее всего считает важным сохранять и распространять полезную информацию. А так же, делиться мнениями других людей, т.к. это развивает и помогает обществу рости в лучшую сторону.
Не смотря на мои предположения, для меня остается загадкой мотивация этой неизвестной личности.
Но я разделяю некоторые идеи, в плане того, что знаниями нужно делиться.
Мне всегда становится грустно, когда я обнаруживаю умерший сайт, или удаленную страницу и потерянную информацию.
Поэтому, делюсь этими ссылками с вами. А вы, можете поделиться с другими. (будет что почитать, если интернет совсем кончится)
К тому же, 14 марта на хабре вышла статья "Надежный обход блокировок в 2024 протоколы, клиенты и настройка сервера от простого к сложному" под которой один человек предложил сохранить статьи по обходу блокировок. (эта статья сохранена в этом сборнике)
UPD1: "Статья уже была удалена. Но доступна если искать из другой страны."
UPD2: Сейчас, автор статей по "актуальному обходу блокировок MiraclePtr" - удален((
Учитывая времена, думаю стоит сохранить все локально, потому что не известно, какие именно категории данных будут удаляться в будущем. И нет надежды, что веб архив не будет заблокирован. Да и не понятно, как сильно все изменится со временем.
Судя по ссылкам в страницах, они были сохранены с середины марта 2024. Информация собрана по темам (список вверху) и все рассортировано по папкам.
Сохранены практически все страницы (за исключением откровенно рекламных статей).
Возможно вы встретите небольшое количество дублей, т.к. темы пересекаются. (так же, встречаются одинаковые статьи опубликованные в разное время, но имеющие разные комментарии)
Возможна какая-то информация вам будет не интересна.
Есть страницы с устаревшей информацией (с 2008 года). Они и комментарии из этих статей сохранены для истории.
В архиве есть index.html, через который можно искать статьи по ключевым словам через Ctrl+F. Так же, под этим сообщением есть скриншеты и видео о структуре.
Если у вас в закладках, есть страницы с инструкциями для построения защищенных сетей, или что-то, что вы считает полезными и это может быть потеряно, добавляйте ссылки под этим постом, с описанием. Может быть, ваша информация будет кому-то полезна.
Страницы были сохранены через невероятное дополнение: SingleFile
Если кто-то захочет оформить раздачу на rutracker, то этот человек очень поможет нашему большому обществу, когда страницы будут удалены с хабра (я считаю, это вопрос времени). Как это уже произошло со страницами сайта 4pda.to.
Хочу сказать спасибо MiraclePtr за чудесные статьи и отдельное спасибо UranusExplorer за простые инструкции. А так же, всему Хабр-сообществу, которое десятилетиями писало статьи и делилось своим мнением в комментариях.
Someone in the IT department of my bank (Komerční banka) is acting smarter than they should be. When I tried to log in to the Internet banking, I got a message saying that "OS Linux is no longer secure" and recommending that I use an up-to-date OS, e.g. Windows 11.
I've been working on a new app to use your #Linux phones and tablets as secondary wireless "side displays" (not mirrors). This is based on #GStreamer, x264, #Mutter APIs, and low-latency UDP streaming, and will be designed to work on both ARM and Intel, regardless of hardware acceleration support. (Testing on a #librem5)
This is still at an early stage, and will take some time to become usable. Thoughts and feedback?
It's no lie that the Linux desktop has been changing greatly. Through technological and social shifts, the desktop and community we know today is a far cry f...
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