@sonny I'm not a programmer but a text-to-speak user, and please don't do whatever Apple is currently doing. To access TTS you have to go to Settings, then Accessibility, then Live Speech or Personal Voice instead of an icon on the desktop. 3 steps in real world application is not accessibility.
I am looking for a job. It's becoming a little urgent, so if anyone has any leads whatsoever, please send them my way.
I'm a malware guy: reversing, detection, Intel, anything really related to defending and proactive research. I can also do system administration duties when it comes to Linux. I am able to quickly pick up anything I don't already know.
"240 million PCs could end up in landfills when Windows 10 support ends"
Sure.
Or they could be repurposed with #Linux or Chrome OS Flex, or #FreeBSD, and we can stop being so freaking dramatic.
If you just browse, watch Netflix, shop, net banking, etc, Linux distributions like Mint or Ubuntu could save you money. It is an environment-friendly option.
@nixCraft These headlines drive me CRAZY! Chances are, in "developed" areas of the world, people have more compute power in their phones than they need, let alone a proper PC. Yet we sell people on owning MULTIPLE discrete computers.
Spot on. A system sold with Windows 10, not upgraded to Windows 11, should have NO issues running a Linux or Chrome build and last for YEARS to come.
@catavz A long, long time ago – a lot has changed since then. And many would argue that it didn't succeed for political reasons, rather than technical: https://itsfoss.com/munich-linux-failure/
So, this morning, after years and years of using the GUI in Linux, I gave up. The state of the GUI does nothing but deteriorate over time for accessibility, and it's exhausting. It's only getting worse. We're far, far away from what it used to be, years ago. Certainly, the QT framework has improved since 5 and now 6 came out, but GTK? Oh dear, oh dear... So, let's dive into it. #linux#xorg#wayland#a11y#accessibility#blind
When GTK 4 came out, on the other hand, things had shifted. No longer were the GTK people happy to provide accessibility for us. No longer did they care about it. Their grand plan was to remove accessibility from GTK altogether, claiming that it was up to the applications themselves to become accessible. It took several weeks, and even days during fosdem for them to recognize this wasn't the way forward, thanks to the orca developer and the Hypra folks, but they got the idea. Or did they?
@xogium the AFB (American Foundation for the Blind) was forced to withdraw support and funding for various projects that worked on GTK/gnome 2 blind accessibility by an AFB corporate donor, and forced to fire the AFB CTO who ran these programs, Janina Sajka. The corporate donor that did this? Microsoft.
🐧 I wrote a new blog entry listing all the changes I made to turn the Lenovo Yoga 370 into my mobile GNU/Linux digital painting device. It's long because it contains detailed instructions for beginners. I hope it is helpful.
@torbuntu It's not maintained by Krita team, and big libs and frameworks using it are not patched to fix specific issues. It's not as stable as the appimage...
@sonny the other items in the list are UI features, which are inseparable from the desktop environment. "VPN support" however implies the backend, which is not part of GNOME and which is anything but inseparable from GNOME
Fun and heart warming #Linux#kernel contrib from 4-year old about "s" letter feeling sad and lonely at the end of line, missing header hilight as the all other letters have. ❤️
🚨 ⚠️ 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)
The vulnerability may be present in Fedora 40 but it is not believed to be activated. Fedora 40 users are advised to use caution and update their systems soon when the rolled-back version is available, for more certainty.
More details available from Red Hat's blog on the vulnerability. A special, huge thank-you to our first responders and Fedora friends who have been working long hours to address this issue in top-priority. We couldn't do it without you all! 💪 (3/3)
I like #Nix, I do not like what has happened to it. #NixOS is an incredible technology and it deserves better. Nobody else has started the process so I guess I have to be the one to do it. We are forking. I would rather try and fail alongside all the people who love Nix but were pushed away from the project than give up.
@AngryAnt@jakehamilton Not so much an "anti company" thing, but more so protecting Nix (or possibly Aux here) from further shenanigans down the line. It should be a thing for the community, by the community. We are not here to cater to companies every desire. The whole point of the fork is that Nix is too conflicted with its ties to companies like Audril and Determinate Systems now. Hence the more formalizing idea of using a GPL/copyleft license for the fork.
But my open source is passion is more aligned with OSI than GNU. I personally prefer my work be as available as possible when I give it away.
I can respect the GNU principles (if not all their behaviour) and still prefer to align myself differently.
Unquestionably this stance is coloured by a background in small startup shops where repeatedly getting told your struggle needs to be harder because corpo gets old.
@nixCraft Ironically I basically just had this incident a few minutes ago. I knew I had to get up, but man was it a fight.
I've always found that "this incident will be reported" thing particularly funny though since I don't really maintain any multi-user systems, so it just means that it would be reported to... me... Plus I don't even have it configured to actually send a report, so I'd have to manually check the logs...
@davidrevoy cooool, j'avais pas vu passer cet article 🙂
Moi j'utilise les touches les plus à droite de mon mini clavier MIDI (bon du coup je les ai pas décorées vu que ça me sert aussi de vrai clavier de piano, mais bon), avec un script qui map le signal MIDI vers une combinaison de touches reconnue dans Inkscape (annuler, changer d'outil, etc.).
If Fedora 40 had a headlining change, it might be @kde Plasma 6. The KDE SIG have brought over all the hard work from that community to give you a solid desktop experience from day 1.
We're also pushing technology forward by making this release Wayland-only, though X11 apps will still work!
Plasma 6 is also available for our Kinoite users. :kinoite:
