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Reading recommendation: Best practices for inclusive CLIs by Seirdy 
Got me to rewrite the in-between warning on my ANSI Escape sequence cheatseet to a dedicated section explaining what to watch out for.
Best practices for inclusive CLIs
A response to some problematic CLI UX advice, with alternative recommendations for designing more accessible CLI utilities.Seirdy’s Home
Here's a neat exploration of the curb cut effect for accessibility in @gnome - using accessibility tools to aid in testing automation! Has pros and cons identified in the article, but interesting nonetheless.
➡️ fedoramagazine.org/automation-…
#Fedora #Gnome #accessibility #a11y #Linux #OpenSource
Automation through Accessibility - Fedora Magazine
Using Accessibility as an automation testing tool. Learn about DesktopQE's automation stack to test Desktop Applications.Michal Odehnal (Fedora Project)
FLAC is an audio format, data is compressed with no loss of information or quality.
FLAC is a format option for archiving audio collections such as CDs.
Ripping a CD to FLAC allows an exact copy of an audio CD to be created if the original is lost or damaged.
Supported devices: xiph.org/flac/links.html#hardw…
Supported software: xiph.org/flac/links.html#softw…
FLAC: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC
Website: xiph.org/flac
#FLAC #Audio #AudioCD #Archive #Linux #Backup #DataBackup
FLAC - What is FLAC?
A free, open source codec for lossless audio compression and decompressionxiph.org
they forgot the last step
credit: twitter.com/crackticker/status…#ultramarinelinux #foss #linux #trans #fedora
I made a free wallpaper of #Konqi :3
You can download the 4k .png file on my ko-fi shop uwu
ko-fi.com/s/fccbedf941
Hope I'll be able to do more :3
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Konqi Wallpaper 4K - DanCrescentWolf's Ko-fi Shop
4K wallpaper of Konqi, KDE's mascot uwu you'll receive a .png version tips are appreciated :PKo-fi
Retro; the customizable clock widget is now available on Flathub in v2
What's new:
• 24/12h support (follows GNOME Settings)
• Energy usage optimizations
• Better support for round clocks
• Controls moved out of the way
What do you think of the floating header bar?
flathub.org/apps/re.sonny.Retr…
#GNOME #GTK #CSS #Flathub #Flatpak #Linux
@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.
appdb.winehq.org/objectManager…
WineHQ - NVDA nvda_2023.2
Open Source Software for running Windows applications on other operating systems.appdb.winehq.org
Thanks to all you developers out there adding brand colors to your apps over the past months we're almost ready to launch featured banners ✨
If you're an app maintainer and haven't done this yet for your app, here are the docs: docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-…
To make it more interesting we're setting a deadline! We will be launching the new banners on April 20th, so for the possibility to be featured during the first week, update your apps today :)
#flathub #flatpak #gnome #kde #linux
#git #github #dotfiles #linux #configuration #guide
youtube.com/watch?v=e_miQ_jGcU…
Git Mastery Configuration (Dotfiles) & Advanced Subtrees Techniques 🌟
Welcome to another deep dive in our ongoing Git Mastery series! This episode, "Advanced Configuration (dotfiles) Management and Subtrees Techniques," guides ...YouTube
Want to build your own lock screen widget or quick setting in #phosh? @arunmani explains how that works in phosh.mobi/posts/custom-plugin… 🛠️
#phosh #gtk #LinuxMobile #linux #mobile
Build Your Own Quick-Setting or Lock-Screen Widget
Phosh has support for plugins which can be used to customize and extend certain aspects as per your liking without touching the internal source code. Currently Phosh supports plugins for lock-screen and quick-settings.Arun Mani J (phosh.mobi)
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.
#linuxmint #ubuntu #opensource #foss
Big kudos to the Schleswig-Holstein!
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.
Both the ArsTechnica article and the original announcement don’t include a few details to make better estimate on the possible success of this initiative though.
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.
arstechnica.com/information-te…
German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating
Schleswig-Holstein looks to succeed where Munich failed.Ars Technica
German state ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice
'Complete digital sovereignty' ... sounds familiarMatthew Connatser (The Register)
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.
blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/t…
#Thunderbird #Linux #Snap
ThunderSnap! Why We're Helping Maintain The Thunderbird Snap On Linux
In the spirit of free software, we want to support as many users as possible. That's why we're officially supporting the Thunderbird Snap.Heather Ellsworth (The Thunderbird Blog)
Schleswig-Holstein geht voran:
#LibreOffice statt M$ Office
#Linux statt Windows
#Thunderbird statt Outlook
#Nextcloud statt Sharepoint
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.
schleswig-holstein.de/DE/lande…
Wir ziehen den Hut und wünschen eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung!🎩
#OpenSource #DigitaleSouveränität
Einstieg in den Umstieg
Schleswig-Holstein setzt künftig auf einen digital souveränen IT-Arbeitsplatz in der Landesverwaltung – das hat das Kabinett nun beschlossen.schleswig-holstein.de
German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
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…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Have you seen @nextcloud AI Assistant 2.0?
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.
All #open-source 😀
Boosts appreciated 🙏
nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-r…
#AI #mastodon #Linux #Foss #OSS
Nextcloud releases Assistant 2.0 and pushes AI-as-a-Service - Nextcloud
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!Jos Poortvliet (Nextcloud)
Junction 1.8 is out ✨
Junction pops up automatically when you open a file or link to let you choose which app to open with.
flathub.org/apps/re.sonny.Junc…
The highlight of this version is better mobile and touch support 
📱
Plus, the app is now verified on Flathub and has a "High quality app data" rating.
#GNOME #GTK #Flatpak #Flathub #LinuxMobile #Linux
Witnessing @cas getting OnePlus 8 display working on Linux 📱
This is magic 🧙
#postmarketOS #Linux #hardwareEnablement #deGrowth
I am now a very responsible Linux app developer who verified their apps on @flathub 
#theFutureIsNow #betterLateThanNever
😎
#Flathub #Flatpak #Linux #development
boehs.org/node/everything-i-kn…
I have begun a post explaining this situation in a more detailed writeup. This is updating in realtime, and there is a lot still missing.
Everything I know about the XZ backdoor
Please note: This is being updated in real time. The intent is to make sense of lots of simultaneous discoveriesboehs.org
Unfolding now: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
- openwall.com/lists/oss-securit…
- github.com/tukaani-project/xz/…
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:
- github.com/tukaani-project/xz/…
- bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep…
- github.com/jamespfennell/xz/pu…
The timeline on this is going to take so long to unravel
feat: update vendored xz to 5.6.1 by jaredallard · Pull Request #2 · jamespfennell/xz
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.GitHub
🚨 ⚠️ 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)
Security Advisory: redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-secu…
#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #Security #Privacy
Urgent security alert for Fedora Linux 40 and Fedora Rawhide users
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., (Red Hat)
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
Am I late for the Xenia bandwagon? 
#furry #furryart #anthro #anthroart #linux #xenialinux #transrights #foss
Neue Matrix-Clients: Element-X und SchildiChat Next
Element X und SchildiChat Next bieten viele spannende Neuerungen!
GNOME Workbench
Die Workbench bietet ca. 100 Code-Beispiele für GNOME-Anwendungen. Die kleinen Apps sind vollständig und ausführbar.
Should there be a desktop font service for the libre desktop? barefootliam.blogspot.com/2024…
Thinking especially of graphic design and page layout uses.
#fonts #linux #gnome #kde #gimp #krita #inkscape #libreGraphics #scribus #openType
Fonts Across the Libre Desktop: Design and Graphics Focus
Today, each application, and each toolkit, offers font selection. But fonts have become gradualy more complex, and none of the interfaces se...barefootliam.blogspot.com
Check out the latest blog post on the #swiftlang website about the #adwaita for #swift package!
You can find the repo on GitHub: github.com/AparokshaUI/adwaita…
#linux #libadwaita #gnome #gtk
GitHub - AparokshaUI/adwaita-swift: A framework for creating user interfaces for GNOME with an API similar to SwiftUI
A framework for creating user interfaces for GNOME with an API similar to SwiftUI - AparokshaUI/adwaita-swiftGitHub
A new @DestinationLinux has hit the road! (363) 😎🐧▶️ tuxdigital.com/dl363
Check out #DestinationLinux 363: PipeWire Interview with Wim Taymans, Revolutionizing Audio & Video on Linux
#linux #podcasts #opensource #tech
363: PipeWire Interview with Wim Taymans, Revolutionizing Audio & Video on Linux - Destination Linux - TuxDigital
Download as MP3 On this week’s episode, we have a special guest joining us to discuss his work with making our lives better in Linux audio. Of course, this...TuxDigital