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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 301 posts.
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Debian 10.3
[05 Dec 2020] Updated Debian 10: 10.7 released [26 Sep 2020] Updated Debian 10: 10.6 released [30 Aug 2020] DebConf20 online closes [01 Aug 2020] Updated Debian 10: 10.5 released [18 Jul 2020] Updated Debian 9: 9.13 released [09 Jul 2020] Debian 8 Long Term Support reaching end-of-life [16 Jun 2020] Ampere donates…
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Reviving Sandstorm
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
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Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure
Society runs on software but software building tools are buckling under the demand. In this report, Nadia Eghbal addresses the challenges.
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OpenSK: a fully open-source security key implementation
Posted by Elie Bursztein, Security & Anti-abuse Research Lead, and Jean-Michel Picod, Software Engineer, Google Today, FIDO security...
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Dino: An open-source application for XMPP messaging
A privacy-friendly messaging app for the desktop. It uses the XMPP protocol and provides a clean UI with modern features.
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RStudio becomes a public benefit corporation
We started the RStudio project because we were excited and inspired by R. The creators of R provided a flexible and powerful foundation for statistical computing; then made it free and open so that it could be improved collaboratively and its benefits could be shared by the widest possible audience.
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Godot 3.2
Godot contributors are thrilled and delighted to release our newest major update, Godot 3.2! It's the result of over 10 months of work by close to 450 contributors who authored more than 6000 commits! Godot 3.2 is a major improvement over our previous 3.1 installment, bringing dozens of major features and hundreds of…
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Thunderbird’s New Home
As of today, the Thunderbird project will be operating from a new wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, MZLA Technologies Corporation. This move has been in the works for a while as Thunderbird has grown in donations, staff, and aspirations. This will not impact Thunderbird’s day-to-day activities or…
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Why We Terminated Our Partnership with Microsoft
Aaron Stanard published a blog post about The Next Decade of .NET Open Source [http://www.aaronstannard.com/next-decade-dotnet/]. It's a good summary of recent conversations and there's a lot to agree with in the post. In particular, I agree strongly with this point: > If Autofac
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DebConf20: offer to speak in Palestine censored
If you reached this page via a link to debian.community , the page you requested no longer exists. Read on to find out why.
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GNU Recutils
Fred and George, Turtles in love There are hundreds of cool command line tools that have been made over the years built on the unix philosophy. Plain text is powerful, ubiquitous, and human-centric. It was also the only option for computing for quite a while. It’s no surprise that some of the most sophisticated tools…
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PinePhone Misconceptions
I take no pleasure in writing this blog post. In fact, even as I am writing these words I am internally torn on whether this is the right approach to addressing the problem on hand. Whether I’ve chosen the right approach remains to be seen, but regardless, I now feel it’s time to confront misconceptions about the…
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Browse good first issues to start contributing to open source
We've recently launched good first issues recommendations to help new contributors find easy gateways into open source projects. Read about the machine learning engine behind these recommendations.
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All ProtonVPN apps are now open source and audited
Users can have more trust in ProtonVPN because all our apps are open source and independently audited for security. Learn about Proton VPN’s open source apps.
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My FOSS Story
I’d like to break from my normal tradition of focusing almost strictly on technical content and share a bit of my own personal relationship with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). While everyone is different, my hope is that sharing my perspective will help build understanding, empathy and trust.
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Fedora CoreOS Out of Preview
Fedora CoreOS is a new Fedora Edition built specifically for running containerized workloads securely and at scale. It's now available for general use.
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What I think what we need to do to keep FreeBSD relevant (2019)
Since I participate in the FreeBSD project there are from time to time some voices which say FreeBSD is dead, Linux is the way to go. Most of the time those voices are trolls, or people which do not really know what FreeBSD has to offer. Sometimes those voices wear blinders, they only see their
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OpenWrt 19.07
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VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year anniversary jam happening now
Or possibly tomorrow is, depending on who you ask – technically, the game first went live at 3am GMT on the 11th January 2010, after a very, very long day of fixing every last bug I could, making last minute builds , and trying to slowly upload everything on an extremely unreliable internet connection that kept…
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The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub (2019)
How do early career researchers (ECRs) use Sci-Hub and why? In this post David Nicholas assesses early career researcher attitudes towards the journal pirating site, finding a strong preference for Sci-Hub amongst French ECRs. He raises the question, will Sci-Hub prove the ultimate disruptor and bring down the…
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Open Source, SaaS and Monetization
My thoughts on monetizing open source SaaS businesses from my experience at Sentry.
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Firefox 72.0
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019)
I worry that Git might be the last mass-market DVCS within my lifetime. Git effectively has a global monopoly on DVCSes, and I don't see how you replace such a thing.
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Always Review Your Dependencies, AGPL Edition
Before adding a dependency to one of my software projects, I do some basic vetting of the dependency. Among the things I check are:
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KeePassXC 2.5.2
KeePassXC Password Manager
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Bruce Perens: Invasion of the Ethical Licenses (2019)
About 23 years ago, I created the Debian Free Software Guidelines to help the Debian developers decide what software was permissible to include in Debian, which aspired to be 100% Free Software, and what should be consigned to a "non-free" repository upon which Debian would never depend. Nine months later, those…
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Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression
As announced on the mailing list , on Friday, Dec 27 2019, our package compression scheme has changed from xz (.pkg.tar.xz) to zstd (.pkg.tar.zst) .
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curl receives $10K USD donation
The largest ever single-shot monetary donation to the curl project just happened when indeed.com graciously boosted our economy with 10,000 USD. (It happened before the new year but as I was away then I haven't had the chance to blog about it until now.) curl remains a small project with no major financial backing…