This Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we have something special to share! @github made a movie about our founders Mick & Jamie & the story of not only NVDA, but also OSARA. Two life-changing open-source projects. Both actively providing access & employment to blind people around the world.

Read the article here: https://github.com/readme/featured/nvda-coding-accessibility-software-blind

Watch the video (with AD) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-y3yomLLSk

#GAAD #NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #Employment #Empowering #ScreenReader #FOSS #OpenSource

NVDA 2024.2 beta 1 is now available for testing from: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-2beta1/

For anyone who is interested in trying out what NVDA has to offer before release, we welcome your feedback.

Highlights
- Sound Split
- New Synth Settings ring & quick navigation commands
- New braille features & fixes, including "Display speech output".
- Updated eSpeak, adding new language Tigrinya.

There are many minor bug fixes for applications

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Beta #News #Accessibility #A11y #FOSS

Who controls the tech stack❓

When choosing a secure solution for your data, this one of the most important questions❗

Here's why: ➡️ https://tuta.com/blog/what-is-a-tech-stack

#security #technology #opensource #foss

The lead designer at my company finally decided to give @penpot a fair test over the weekend. This morning he sheepishly confessed that he loves it!

We may finally kill the cluttered list of tools that each team has chosen over the years – #AdobeXD, #Figma, #Axure, #Sketch – giving us a shared library of assets and true collaboration.

#FOSS

Máte někdo nějaký tipy na #android appky a hry do "dětskýho telefonu" (+-6 let)?

Zbyl nám po Lence starej telefon, tak ho budeme používat jako občasnej "tablet" na hraní.

Primárně #FOSS, ale nebránim se ničemu :)

Lässt sich der #Kate#Editor unter #Gnome dazu bewegen, für die Verzeichnis und Dateiauswahl die nativen Gnome-Dialoge zu benutzen?

#Workflow#Benutzerfreundlichkeit#Interface#OpenSource#FOSS

One of my daily-driven laptops is getting a new #Linux system installed. I'm not sure whether I should stay in my familiar, cosy vanilla @gnome world – including my personal customisations, or whether I should finally seriously consider running the equally interesting #KDE for a longer term.

(No, other desktop environments are not really an option at this point)

#gnome #kooldesktop #desktopenvironment #foss #opensource #poll #umfrage

• Stay GNOME, my Friend! (57%, 19 votes)
• Go KDE, Mate! (42%, 14 votes)

Uso #Thunderbird praticamente da sempre, e negli anni ho donato varie volte

Ma negli ultimi anni devo dire il lavoro che è stato fatto per migliorarlo è senza eguali: merita solo premi ed elogi immensi!

(specialmente l'arrivo di TB sul mobile con #K9)

Per questo ho donato di nuovo oggi una somma maggiore

Chiunque usi Thunderbird e ami il #FOSS, consideri la possibilità di donare per il progetto e renderlo sempre migliore oltre che #LIBERO

https://www.thunderbird.net/it/thunderbird/115.0/spring24/

Thunderbird esiste grazie a te!

^Thunderbird

After more annoyances that Gnome/RedHat is pulling lately ( https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/issues/288 ), I just donated to #Linux #Mint, instead of my original intention, #Gnome.

The Gnome Project is a wall-garden, but not of the Apple kind. It's a club of mostly #Redhat programmers & a few select others, and either you're in it, or you're not. Your user needs, your bug reports, your patches, all end up on /dev/null. They listen to no one. Never have, never will.

So, my money went to a fork.

#opensource #foss

Symbolic icons only have the `-symbolic` suffix, breaking compatibility with FDO-compatible apps (#288) · Issues · GNOME / adwaita-icon-theme · GitLab

[Here I use the copy icon as an example, but the issue affects everything] The Adwaita icon theme has an icon-named edit-copy-symbolic for its copy...

^GitLab

I've been using #LibreOffice for many years. Only when I'm forced I use another office suite, and that did not happen in the last 2.5 years.

I highly recommend LibreOffice!

#FOSS #opensource #DigitalSovereignty

Linux screenshot staple Neofetch is no longer in development but plenty of alternatives exist
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/neofetch-system-info-tool-is-dead

#linux #foss #opensource

Neofetch Development Ends as GitHub Project Archived

It seems that the popular command-line system info tool Neofetch is dead, Jim. The Github repo for the project was archived by its main developer last week and is now read-only, a sure sign that [&...

^{Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)}

pawn shop

#unix_surrealism #technomage #penguin #linux #openbsd #runbsd #9front #plan9 #glenda #comic #fediart #mastoart #foss #art

Introducing the nominees for our first ever Governing Board elections 🎉 We are grateful to everyone who has raised their hands, and are positively overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and vision expressed by our nominees: https://matrix.org/governing-board/elections/2024/

Get to know the candidates, and get ready: voting begins on May 18th.

#Matrix #OpenSource #FOSS #Governance

Governing Board Elections 2024

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^matrix.org

Christian Hergert just published a massive PDF document named "Builder, A Developers Notebook", where he documents over the technical details of GNOME Builder.

Document: https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/builder-a-developers-notebook/-/raw/main/builder-a-developers-notebook.pdf?ref_type=heads

Article: https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2024/04/24/collaborating-on-builder/

#GNOME #GNOMEBuilder #GTK #IDE #Development #OpenSource #FOSS #Flatpak

WTF? Is #Tenacity on the #Flatpak store #MALWARE? Apparently it was running in the bg AS IF it was an invincible #Gnome extension so SystemMonitor/htop would NOT see it as a process. But #MissionCenter (also from flatpak store) saw it as it is: an app running on startup! Killing it killed Gnome session! It was also spiking wifi, and was leaking the Gnome gjs service from 4MB RAM to 120MB. Uninstalling fixed the prob

Third party flatpak/snaps should be vetted.

#security #opensource #linux #foss

This week's In-Process is out! Featuring the latest on NVDA 2024.1, add-on updates, the Microsoft FOSS Fund, Philanthropy Australia awards, an Interview with our GTO Gerald, and more! All available now at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-22nd-april-2024/

#NVDA #NVDAsr #News #Newsletter #Blog #Awards #Interview #FOSS #Community

We now understand why permissive #licensing is bad for #FOSS.

#Redis taught us why #GPL is important and #MIT, #Apache, #BSD etc allow corporations to enclose and steal our contributions.

#Israel's use of #Lavender for targeting in #Gaza, which may also use the code we donated to the commons, shows that we need to be more restrictive if we want to avoid assisting war crimes and probable #genocide.

I hope some lawyers are on this, and will help us add exclusions to protect from such use.

It's pretty unsavory how everybody talks about #MarketPlaces when it comes to platforms for distributing apps. I guess because of #DMA. But it's important to take a step back once in a while and appreciate that like many other #FOSS platforms #FDroid is not a maket place, it's a #commons.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons

shared resources

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

Today more companies are announcing their support of the Valkey community (the group that includes committed developers previously working on the OSS version of the core Redis engine): Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, Chainguard, Heroku, Huawei, Percona, and Verizon.

#OSSummit #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OSS #Redis #Valkey #Community #LinuxFoundation

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/valkey-community-announces-release-candidate-amid-growing-support-for-open-source-data-store

Valkey Community Announces Release Candidate Amid Growing Support for Open Source Data Store

Valkey community welcomes new partners, including Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, Chainguard, Heroku, Huawei, Percona, and Verizon.

^{The Linux Foundation}

Now on stage for the morning #OSSummit keynotes, core team member Madelyn Olson to speak about the new Valkey community effort.

The walk-on music: "We are never ever getting back together" by Taylor Swift. 🤣

Love it!

#OSSummit #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OSS #Redis #Valkey #Community #LinuxFoundation

they forgot the last step

credit: https://twitter.com/crackticker/status/1778852314935140370/#ultramarinelinux #foss #linux #trans #fedora