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Cycles X
Celebrating 10 years of the Cycles render engine, and sharing what is next.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 463 posts.
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ACM Transitions to Full Open Access
Open Access Publication & ACM
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Flatpak Is Not the Future
Deploying apps for the Linux desktop is hard. A major problem has historically been library compatibility. Different Linux distributions, and even different versions of the same distribution, have had incompatible libraries. Unfortunately, there hasn’t always been a culture of backwards compatibility on the Linux…
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Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software
Posted by Dan Lorenc, Infrastructure Security Team Memory-safety vulnerabilities have dominated the security field for years and often lead ...
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Asahi Linux for M1 Macs Progress October-November 2021
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Mozilla Awards Over Half a Million to Open Source Projects
At Mozilla we were born out of, and remain a part of, the open source and free software movement. Through the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program, w
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IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view
Several people have opined on the recent announcement of Red Hat to change their terms of sales for their software. Here are some thoughts from Jon "maddog" Hall on it.
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The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad
Real-time collaborative editing where authorship is the default, your server is the only server, and you decide what AI (if any) ever touches your text.
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K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models
Explore K2 Horizon, IFM’s open-source fleet of six frontier AI models for reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, edge devices, and enterprise deployment.
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Let’s Encrypt client will transition to a new name and a new home at EFF
Update: Added clarification that only the Let’s Encrypt client software is changing its name and host. The Let’s Encrypt certificate authority and associated services are not changing names or relocating. Over the next few months the Let’s Encrypt client software will transition to a new name, soon to be announced…
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Progress update from the Librem 5 hardware department
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Richard Stallman answers Reddit's top 25 questions.
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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NetBSD fully reproducible builds
I have been working on and off for almost a year trying to get reproducible builds (the same source tree always builds an identical cdrom) on NetBSD. I did not think at the time it would take as long or be so difficult, so I did not keep a log of all the changes I needed to make. I was also not the only one working on…
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FFmpeg and a thousand fixes
Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind, Information Security Engineers At Google, security is a top priority - not only for our ow...
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Court Ruling shows the GPL is both copyright license and contractual agreement
For Immediate Release — IRVINE, CA, USA — Software Freedom Conservancy announces it has succeeded in federal court with its motion to have its lawsuit against Vizio, Inc. remanded back to Superior Court in Orange County, California. Vizio, Inc. previously filed a request to “remove” the case from California State…
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The new 501(c)(3) and the future of free software in the US
Note: I'm a software developer, not a lawyer. I suspect I'm not the only coder whose eyes roll to the back of their head when legal or tax matters are discussed. However, if you're involved in the free software movement—especially in the United States—you may want to read through this, as long as it may...
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Firefox 22 released
Check out "Whats New" and "Known Issues" for this version of Firefox below. As always, youre encouraged to tell us what you think , or file a bug in Bugzilla .We'd also like extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to Firefox 22!
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The New Godot Development Fund
We are excited to introduce a major improvement in terms of funding the development efforts of the Godot Engine.
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Lyra V2 – a better, faster, and more versatile speech codec
We are now releasing Lyra V2, with a new architecture with a wider platform support, provides scalable bitrate capabilities, has better performance.
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Welcoming Rocket.Chat to Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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OpenBSD: Why and How (2016)
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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TimescaleDB 2.0 released, now distributed multi-node
Fully managed PostgreSQL from the creators of TimescaleDB. 99.9% uptime SLA, 10,000+ IOPS, columnar compression up to 95%, and built-in search. Try it free.
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FreeBSD – a lesson in poor defaults
This page lists some of the changes I make to a vanilla install of FreeBSD for security hardening. Some changes to increase network performance or make things a bit more sane are also included. It only covers basic changes that a sysadmin can make to a running system.
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How Not to Support Desktop GNU+Linux, Zoom Edition
<small>Pssst! Formatting messed up? Add ".md" to the url ✨ If you're stuck using Zoom, jump on [one](https://community.zoom.com/t5/Meet...
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GCC 7 Release Series – Changes, New Features, and Fixes
This page is a brief summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 7. For more information, see the Porting to GCC 7 page and the full GCC documentation .