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The Fedora Linux 41 Beta is here!
As exciting as the new features are, please remember that this is primarily for testing. Help us make this release as smooth as possible by directing your feedback to the Fedora Quality Team (info in the article).
Please also help to circulate this in the accessibility community as we want to catch any bugs related to their needs as soon as possible.
Happy testing!
Monthly report: Arch Linux in August 2024
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Monthly report: Arch Linux in July 2024
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Monthly report: Arch Linux in June 2024
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Monthly report: Arch Linux in May 2024
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Monthly report: Arch Linux in April 2024
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Monthly report: Arch Linux in March 2024
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Monthly report: Arch Linux in February 2024
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GNOME 47 (codename “Denver”) is out today! I’ll be celebrating by upgrading my desktop to Fedora Silverblue 41 beta.
My favorite feature is definitely Accent Colors, but there is a lot of refinement and polish in this one. Check it out:
#GNOME #GNOME47 #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS
New blogpost: Thunderbird, Nextcloud, calendar invitations, and unwanted html email with non-working 'confirm acceptance' links
Last week, someone kindly flagged a problem with how I'd got calendar invitations set up, and it was annoying me.
So, over the weekend, I fixed it :)
Velocizziamo un po’ Thunderbird
#thunderbird #Linux #UnoLinux
Luca, in questo suo nuovo articolo, ci da alcuni consigli su come fare a velocizzare Thunderbird.
marcosbox.com/2024/09/17/veloc…
Linus Torvalds: Rust will go into Linux 6.1
At the Kernel Maintainers Summit, the question wasn't, "Would Rust make it into Linux?" Instead, it was, "What to do about its compilers?"
The Rust in Linux debate is over. The implementation has begun. In an email conversation, Linux's creator @torvalds told, "Unless something odd happens, it [Rust] will make it into 6.1."
🐧 zdnet.com/article/linus-torval…
#linux #rust #linustorvalds #rustlang #it #code #opensource #kernel #linuxkernel
Anyone knows why #gnome-software and #KDE #discover are so slow with #flatpak?
Like often when I'm downloading sth. I can't browse apps or they load for ages. Using the website works instantly.
It feels and is a lot more reliable to use flatpak from the terminal in my experience, I wonder why the #GUI stores have these problems.
Also often had long load times in those stores on #linux mobile.
Did you also experienced such issues? Are you a gnome/kde dev and know where it could come from?
Two years after @UniversalBlue started this cat showed up built #bazzite . Got trashed by know it all typical #linux users.
Tonight we celebrated his first patch that got accepted into the Linux kernel. Ignore the haters.
We make our own fate.
Утверждается, что plocate работает гораздо быстрее.
Когда-то я разбирался с устройством базы mlocate, да и смотрел код.
Тогда мне не захотелось ничего менять. Работает достаточно быстро, меня устраивает.
Но кому-то же оказалось не лень сделать ещё лучше, ещё быстрее. Молодцы. #Linux #mlocate #Arch #plocate
Speech to Text on Linux?!?!
I just found "Speech Note" when searching the Software app.
Installed it via flatpak.
flathub.org/apps/net.mkiol.Spe…
Used the "English (Vosk Large)" and "English (Vosk Small)" language model with very decent results. There are loads of models to choose from.
All processed locally. No network needed!
This is great!
#accessibility #SpeechToText #Linux #debian #flatpak #flathub #SpeechNote
#tech #technology #Linux #accessibility @mastoblind @main
David Airlie, Red Hat kernel maintainer, about the Rust-for-Linux drama: "if people start acting as active roadblocks to work, rather than sideline commentators who we can ignore, then I will ask Linus to step in and remove roadblocks"
Discussions: discu.eu/q/lwn.net/Articles/98…
#linux #programming #rustlang #unix
Okay, so I just have to rant about something that I think is going to hold the Linux Desktop back a bit, especially for blind users. That is config files. Specifically, editing some file that's got no kind of linter, or checker, to make sure that whatever the user put in it works and doesn't leave one without speech.
So, this is specifically about the Speech dispatcher, which is a package in Linux a bit like Microsoft's SAPI. Of course, there's that new one, Spiel, that's being worked on, but I've not tried it yet. So, you can run spd-conf to set up a config file, but a lot of folks tell me that, in order to increase the default speech rate for stuff like games that use speech-dispatcher, web apps that speak through speech-dispatcher, self-voicing apps, I'd have to edit the config file.
Now, that's not awful for me, I can do it. But there really, really needs to be a GUI for it. And if you ask *me* why I don't make it myself, I'll tell you that if it's so easy, you should have made it with the snap of *your* tallented fingers, instead of spending all that time being a reply-guy. Windows has a speech properties dialog. Mac has Spoken Content in System Settings. Linux should have something similar. And, if it turns out that there is and I just don't have the proper package installed, I'll gladly change my tune to "distros should have this installed by default."
I've also seen this in Emacs packages like Ellama, where you have to set up Emacs Lisp calls to the right function with the right parameters inside your usepackage block, and it's hard for me to figure out how to add the openAI-compatible service that I have to Ellama. And AI hasn't helped yet.
So, having things being customizable is amazing. It really is. There are so many keyboard configuration settings, for example, that I think blind people are going to love playing with. But goodness, there needs to be something to change your system TTS stuff, and hopefully one day we can have a command to turn on and off the screen, like the iOS screen curtain so we can maintain privacy.
#Linux #accessibility #blind #LinuxDesktop #foss #tts
#Linux #kernel patches to allow enabling #PREEMPT_RT (aka proper #realtime support) for x86, ARM64, and Risc-V were posted for review:
lore.kernel.org/lkml/202409061…
"The printk bits required for PREEMPT_RT are sitting in linux-next. This was the last known roadblock for PREEMPT_RT. The RT queue has additionally the "atomic console" for the 8250 UART which is not yet in linux-next.[…]"
See also these earlier other related toots:
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@mnnwvn Тогда процитирую :)
«Так, народ, нужна помощь с Арчем.
Я давно его не запускал, теперь не могу обновить.
sudo pacman -Syu предлагает заменить пару десятков пакетов на названия с цифрой 5 (я так понимаю, старая Qt), а некоторые заменить другими.
Я всё подтверждаю, потом оно пишет ошибки типа:
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing kactivities breaks dependency 'kactivities' required by telepathy-kde-integration-module
То есть там целое дерево зависимостей, которое не резолвится правильно, и не хочет обновляться.
Что делать? Переустанавливать с нуля?
Так, народ, нужна помощь с Арчем.
Я давно его не запускал, теперь не могу обновить.
sudo pacman -Syu предлагает заменить пару десятков пакетов на названия с цифрой 5 (я так понимаю, старая Qt), а некоторые заменить другими.
Я всё подтверждаю, потом оно пишет ошибки типа:
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing kactivities breaks dependency 'kactivities' required by telepathy-kde-integration-module
То есть там целое дерево зависимостей, которое не резолвится правильно, и не хочет обновляться.
Что делать? Переустанавливать с нуля?
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Oh, thank goodness not having a fully functional screen reader isn’t a blocker for Fedora 41. We wouldn’t want them to miss their 10th anniversary of shipping an operating system without a fully functional screen reader, after all.
ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-be…
#Fedora #RedHat #IBM #a11y #accessibility #screenReader #orca #linux #openSource #FOSS #ableism masto.ai/@phoronix/11307885166…
ATTENTION THAI/ENGLISH BILINGUALS AND TRANSLATORS
GNOME Shell's Thai translation is in a very sad state right now, with only ~46% of all strings translated. The worst part is, the first dialogue you see on your first login is not even translated!
BUT YOU CAN HELP!
1/n
#gnome #linux #opensource #translation #l10n #i18n #thai #ไทย
"Whaddyamean, you could remove the built-in spyware?
No no no, that's a bug, the removal option was not supposed to be available, let's fix that…"
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I do pity the general population who has to be subjected to that sort of built-in data collection, and all the security and privacy problems it entails. Too bad #Linux is not even a blip on the public consciousness & cultural upbringing.
This week in Plasma: inhibiting inhibitions and more!
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@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
#KDE #Plasma #KDEPlasma #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource
The Elder Scrolls Online now Steam Deck Playable, to be fully Verified in "a future update"
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THE USUAL MAGES
#unix_surrealism #technomage #dragonflybsd #freebsd #openbsd #9front #linux #comic #cirno #puffy #beastie #tux #fred
For those who use IBM TTS on Linux. Get the IBMTTS dictionaries, copy them to /var/opt/IBM/ibmtts/dict, change files like this, from Enu-main.dic to main.dct. And then it should work. Do change the rest of those files too. Root and abbreviantion. Oh yeah enu-abbr.dic should be abbreviation.dct. So: abbreviation.dct main.dct root.dct.
#linux #foss #accessibility #IBMTTS #blind
Looking for a #gnome #linux suggestion. I'm running #debian on my laptop with Gnome. I'm looking for how to configure a Gnome hot key to do something I'm used to doing.
On a Mac or on Windows, Alt-Tab cycles through open applications. This works the same on Gnome. On both Windows and Mac there's another key combination (Ctrl-Tab on Windows, I think; Cmd-~ on Mac) that will let you cycle through windows of the currently focused application. If I have 2 or 3 terminal windows open, I can press Cmd-~ to bring different ones in focus. These keystrokes don't seem to be working in Gnome. I can't find a key sequence to switch between VSCodium windows, or terminal windows, or Firefox windows.
What's the trick?