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Mullvad Privacy Companion is now open source
Mullvad Privacy Companion, a free Firefox extension helping to improve your online privacy – is now open source.
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Mozilla Thunderbird Beta now supports Matrix chat
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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User beware: Modified AGPLv3 removes freedoms, adds legal headaches
Courts interpret the meaning of legal agreements and, no matter how skilled the drafter, the outcome may be unexpected. This is one reason why the license review process is so rigorous. An OSI-appr…
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OpenMW becomes a general-purpose engine for isometric RPGs
OpenMW has been in development for well over a decade now, and it has become a viable way to play Morrowind on almost every platform imaginable. As a consequence, we have discussed possible future …
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Mastodon 3.5
A brand new explore page, post editing, and new moderation features are just some of the additions in this new release of Mastodon!
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Zulip 5.0: Threaded open-source team chat
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 5.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes! Zulip is an open-source team collaboration tool with unique topic-based threading that is ideal for both live and asynchronous conversations. Fortune 500 companies, leading open-source projects, …
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MirageOS 4.0 – Self-managed internet infrastructure with unikernels
Read the post on "Announcing MirageOS 4.0.0" from our blog.
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Restic 0.13.0
For downloading the new release and to see a more detailed list of important changes, please head over to GitHub . If you already have restic (0.9.4 or later), you can use the self-update command to automatically download and verify the new release.
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Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source
There is a new development that directly impacts the open source community, and it warrants a new commentary. Angry maintainers have started adding code to a small number of open source repositorie…
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How to write a Vulkan driver in 2022
An incredible amount has changed in Mesa and in the Vulkan ecosystems since we wrote the first Vulkan driver in Mesa for Intel hardware back in 2015. Here's a look at the latest Mesa utilities, helpers & best practices for writing Vulkan drivers.
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KeePassXC 2.7.0
KeePassXC Password Manager
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Wasmer and Trademarks
Wasmer attempted to register the WebAssembly trademark. ## We shouldn't have done that. We're sorry. We won't do it again. _Update: post edited on Feb...
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Asahi Linux alpha release
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Mozilla and Open Web Docs Working Together on MDN
With the upcoming launch of MDN Plus, we believe it’s a good time to talk about how our two organizations work together.
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Court finds calling stuff open source when it's not is false advertising
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently affirmed a lower court decision concluding what we’ve always known: that it’s false advertising to claim that software is “open source” when i…
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NPM package compromised by author: erases files on RU / BY computers on install
Vue.js users using the dependency “node-ipc” are experiencing a supply chain attack protesting the invasion of Ukraine, from a package named “peacenotwar”.
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Arti – An implementation of Tor in Rust
Arti 0.1.0 is released, and available for download.
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Blender 3.1
Blender Foundation and the online developers community are proud to present Blender 3.1, a solid update to an already outstanding release.
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PipeWire: A year in review and a look ahead
The PipeWire project made major strides over the past few years, bringing shiny new features, and paving the way for new possibilities in the Linux multimedia scene.
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No user accounts, by design
Ethics has been central to the F-Droid community from the beginning, with a focus on free software, privacy and user control. A key part of F-Droid’s design ...
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GitHub’s database of security advisories is now open source
Anyone can now provide additional information and context to further the community’s understanding and awareness of security advisories.
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Decentralizing Distribution
Guardian Project has been awarded a grant from the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) to work on decentralizing veracity and distribution (...
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GStreamer 1.20: Embedded and WebRTC lead the way
At the forefront of contributors for this latest release, our team's work focused on two areas in which we believe GStreamer shines the brightest: embedded systems, and network streaming, in particular WebRTC.
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Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringement lawsuit
We’re pleased to share that Elastic and Amazon have resolved the trademark infringement lawsuit related to the term Elasticsearch. Now the only Elasticsearch service on AWS and the AWS Marketplace is ...
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FPGA Interchange format to enable interoperable FPGA tooling
FPGA toolchains are not trivial, but roughly speaking, you can divide the process of “compiling” FPGA-targeted code in a Hardware Description Language