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Did Automattic commit open source theft?
The maker of WordPress took 2M customers from its biggest rival: has a red line been crossed?
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 221 posts.
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Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations
Spliit has grown to 152k visitors, with community donations helping cover its hosting costs. Explore its usage trends, funding, and the contributors driving its development.
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ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives
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FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects
We are excited to announce the launch of a dedicated fund aimed at providing financial assistance to Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS/FLOSS) projects globally, with an annual commitment of $1 million. I will use the FOSS acronym in this post hereafter.
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Introducing Our New Name
After more than a year of public and internal discussions, we're ready to announce our new name!
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Inkscape 1.4
After months of waiting, we are finally ready to unbox the latest version of Inkscape... meet 1.4, the Geek edition, where accessibility and customization reign. Inkscape project developers, most of them volunteer contributors from countries around the world, have been plugging away behind the scenes on new features…
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FLUX is fast and it's open source
FLUX is now much faster on Replicate, and we’ve made our optimizations open-source so you can see exactly how they work and build upon them.
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(Re)Using rustc components in gccrs
In order to speed up development, as well as make sure gccrs exposes the exact same behavior as rustc in critical compiler passes, we decided last year to start reusing components and crates from the official Rust compiler where possible. These components range from external crates used for certain nightly options to…
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300k USD Donation Pledged by Mitchell Hashimoto
The donation is structured in two 150k USD payments, one due right away, the second one year from now.
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Pledging $300k to the Zig Software Foundation
The ZSF has posted their own announcement which clearly explains their mission and specifically what the money will be used for. Instead, I want to talk more broadly about why we've decided to support ZSF.
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FFmpeg 7.1 release: a tons of codecs
I'm the president of VideoLAN, one of the lead developers of VLC and a maintainer of open source multimedia projects. I created several startups, was the CTO of scale-ups, and advised startups and VCs.
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Things I've learned serving on the board of the Python Software Foundation
Two years ago I was elected to the board of directors for the Python Software Foundation—the PSF. I recently returned from the annual PSF board retreat (this one was in …
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PeerTube 6.3
This is the last minor release before v7, but it's packed with interesting new features! Let's have a look :) Separate audio and video streams for mor...
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Factor 0.100 Now Available
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” — Kierkegaard
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Why Oxide Chose Illumos
Servers in the Oxide Rack will form the backbone of both the compute and storage services available to customers. The rack will be composed of a variety of hardware and software components, some of which represent resource-constrained or inflexible environments; e.g., the Service Processor (SP) or Hardware Root Of…
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The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out
We’ve just published builds of the first release candidate for FreeCAD 1.0. You can download them here. So far, we’ve enjoyed the contributions of users who are happy to be living on the edge with …
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Building a browser using Servo as a web engine
Let's build another web browser based on Servo!
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Yaak is now open source
Finally, an open-source API Client that is an alternative to Postman or Insomnia!
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Please stop inventing new software licences (2020)
A few weeks ago, I received an unsolicited email inviting me to try out an exciting new "quantum resistant" cryptography app called Cyph. Because I hate myself, I signed up. Of particular interest to me was the fact that the homepage loudly proclaimed that it was "Open Source" - and had a public GitHub repo. That was…
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ATProto for distributed system engineers
In this article we're going to explore atproto from the perspective of distributed backend engineering.
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Openly Licensed Streetview with Panoramax
A video of Panoramax in action. Starting out with a map view which has small orange lines for where images are available. Then going into the actual 360 degree images and moving around. Above: a video showcasing the panoramax viewer, with a map to see where (most[1]) images are, and...
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Cracking an old ZIP file to help open source the ANC's "Vula" secret crypto code
It's not often that you find yourself staring at code that few people have ever seen, code that was an important part in bringing down the a...
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2M users but no money in the bank
2M users. No money in the bank. Erik's leaving. Exercism Teams. A new coding fundamentals platforms. There's a lot of news...
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Porting systemd to musl Libc-powered Linux
I have completed an initial new port of systemd to musl. This patch set does not share much in common with the existing OpenEmbedded patchset. I wanted to make a fully updated patch series targetin…
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Writing a book in the age of open source
The power of engineering applied to writing
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Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian
Around a decade ago, I was happy to learn about bcache – a Linux block cache system that implements tiered storage (like a pool of hard disks with SSDs for cache) on Linux. At that stage, ZFS on Linux was nowhere close to where it is today, so any progress on gaining more ZFS features in general Linux systems was very…