Image encoding × FOSS desktop nerds, I have a question…
The current format for dynamic/dark-style wallpapers in GNOME is not great. I don’t think anyone—including distros, designers, & maintainers—likes how it works: it’s a legacy system of GSettings keys and an XML format that sets those keys but is not biderectional; choosing that XML file in Settings sets the individual GSettings manually, making it hard to show the pair of wallpapers as selected.
„Promocja oprogramowania open source powinna być w takim samym stopniu częścią usług publicznych, jak transport publiczny czy wodociągi. Jest dobrem wspólnym, z którego w równym stopniu czerpią administracja, biznes i społeczeństwo obywatelskie.”
In this week's #Linux and #OpenSOurce News video, we have the Linux Kernel 6.4, coming with big improvements to AMD power management and performance and Apple M2 support, we have news about the #FOSS driver for #NVIDIA GPUs, and we have some dev work to make gaming on #Wayland better on GNOME:
I’m going to try to not focus on Linux accessibility anymore. Mainly because Microsoft hasn’t made the majority of blind people mad enough to switch to something else, yet. Sure, we now have the brand new context menu in Windows 11 that hides a lot of stuff like 7Zip under a “show more” item, along with all the other paper cuts Windows 11 brings, but blind people are not gonna switch on mass to Linux unless Microsoft just totally drops the ball and does something awful like making the start menu just not even work with a screen reader, or Linux communities and foundations actively seek us out and listen to us, and disregard people that would hinder such outreach and communication. And we know that’s gonna take a year or 10 to even begin to start to commence to make plans on making plans on making plans on happening.
Of course, by then we’ll probably all be on Mac computers, or using a rented Mac from some Apple Vision headset with some kind of typing method where anything we rest our hands on becomes the keyboard, or Braille keyboard. Assuming Apple fixes the HID Braille display issue present in current betas and doesn’t have those wires hanging out at release, causing people to throw their iPhones out the window and buy a Pixel, and then get so angry that they chew up their Pixels in rage and go back to the Blind Shell phone forevermore, and buy old PC’s to run Windows XP on and communicate through IRC and read Gemini capsules instead of websites with a custom-made ascii graphics blocker.
Bloody hell, someone just made a €1,024 donation to Small Technology Foundation.
Umm, thank you, whomever you are, we really appreciate it :)
(And thank you to everyone who supports us with a monthly patronage and with one-off donations. It may not pay the rent but it does help us to keep existing and continue working on realising the Small Web with Kitten¹ and Domain².)
The GitHub repo for PeerTuber, the upcoming opensource mobile app for #PeerTube is now live. There's still a bit of housekeeping to do, but this is where you'll find the project: https://github.com/PeerTuber/PeerTuber
Does anyone know of any simple #selfhosted file drop software?
Not to be confused with file transfer such as transfer.sh. I want anyone to be able to upload files but only authorised users should be able to download them, not even the person who uploaded the files.
I love that a multi-billion-dollar corporation like RedHat/IBM can ship an operating system with a broken screen reader in 2024 (it’s not just them, it’s true for basically every major Linux distribution today) and, when you point it out, the response is “it’s no one’s fault… it’s all free labour… it’s FOSS, man”. And then: oh, and this charity is paying for one person to work on accessibility support to be implemented now… Anyone else see how fucked up that is?
Hey #FOSS people, I am looking for a #selfhosted solution that will analyse the photos from my smartphone, guess what's on them and allow searching by thing or place. You know, something that iPhotos does on an iPhone. Any suggestions?
Because of the recent events on #Habitica I've created a #Liberapay page to get some support to fix what will happen on August 8th.
My plan is to create an advanced chat for the uotpify.org community (~5,000 people) and to keep providing high quality challenges on Habitica. More information on the Liberapay page: https://liberapay.com/utopify.org
This will be a lot of work and I hope for some #support
I provide challenges for about 6 years on Habitica for free, but it took a lot of time to write programs automating a lot of work (anti-cheat), scanning the chat for challenge participants, processing challenge data and creating high score lists, announcing new challenges, winners of challenges, etc. Now, that chats and guilds will be removed on Habitica, there will be even more work and the motivation is not really high, if a company destroys it within a week what you built up over several years.
Liberapay was the only solution I found, which is #foss and fits the values for what utopify stands for. If you know others/better, please name them.
I appreciate every Cent and thank you for your support 🙏
My problem with money donations are always, that not trustworthy companies have to be used. Currently I use #paypal, but #stripe is supported by Liberapay, too.
Is it necessary to have a Stripe account or is PayPal enough? Because reading the privacy policy of them makes me a little bit dizzy and if it can be avoided, I really want to avoid it. But if people will say, they want to donate, but only with Stripe, I would create a Stripe account.
Super hot take here. The fact that on some platforms, we have to convert EPUB books for them to be accessible to us in a convenient, easy way is just fucking sad! Like I'm reading on this list for Linux users how people are just converting EPUB's to txt cause fucking a11y is just super easy and simple and after all it's just text /s. Yeah that's why we need fucking OCR to read screenshots of text right? Like fuck! I'm super glad we have two good enough EPUB readers currently being maintained--please remember the currently part--on Windows. Bookworm works with almost any standard EPUB book, and Thorium works even with EPUB's that were made for Kindle devices and I think it's the only one that shows descriptions of images, but I could be wrong. Bookworm was made for the blind, by the blind, and Thorium was seemingly made for the education market so tries super, super hard to be accessible. Mac has Voice Dream Reader, and the Books app if you want to be frustrated with pages repeating themselves at the end of chapters, and Linux has ... EBook-speaker, which is useless for Braille readers or people who want to read with their screen reader. Maybe there's a Firefox addon, or maybe some book reader in Elementary OS or one of the more friendly distros that's accessible. Lol or maybe Epy is still the best option, even now for braille. And no one knows about that. I doubt even the maintainer knows how useful it has been for blind Linux users. And that sucks, so much. Cause everyone is, and will, recommend Calibre, and that's barely accessible as a book manager on Windows, let alone Linux. Reading books though? Nope. Especially with Braille. And y'all wonder why we love our phones or glorified MP3 players that cost $400 or so? Because they work, practically all the time, and with practically any EPUB. Jesus tell me the new Sense Player and Stream support EPUB.
I just tried to use #LibreOffice#Draw to draw some arrows and boxes onto JPEG images for emphasizing stuff.
The UX is really bad for somebody not working with Draw all the time.
Whatever I do, instead of drawing onto the image, the image gets selected instead.
Could not find any layer-sidebar.
Could not scale text without starting the "Character ..." menu, modifying font size blindly + confirming just to see its effect and then start all over.
I must be honest #NixOS is slowly growing on me. But it will take me at least a year to fully grasp it n feel comfortable with it the way I do with #Arch. As a result will not be my daily until then.. #Linux#OpenSource#FOSS
Local send is great, but usually my phone is just on data, so id rather not have to turn it on to send files. running a custom rom so no google local share or whatever. thanks :)
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Something like localsend but without needing to be on the same network?
Local send is great, but usually my phone is just on data, so id rather not have to turn it on to send files. running a custom rom so no google local share or whatever. thanks :)