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This month in Servo: tabbed browsing, Windows buffs, devtools, and more
Flexbox and WebXR are now enabled by default.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 221 posts.
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Elasticsearch is open source, again
Elastic announces the return of open source licensing for Elasticsearch and Kibana, adding AGPL as an option alongside existing licenses. This change reinforces our long-standing commitment to open so...
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KDE Asking for Donations
Why do we ask for donations so often? Because it’s important! As KDE becomes more successful and an increasing number of people use our software, our costs grow as well: Web and server hostin…
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The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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COSMIC Alpha Released
How to install, first impressions, and what makes it ready.
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Sovereign Tech Fund to Invest €686k in FreeBSD Infrastructure Modernization
Investment to accelerate zero trust builds, SBOM, security tooling, and developer experience Boulder, CO - August 26, 2024—The FreeBSD Foundation, dedicated to advancing the open source FreeBSD operating system and supporting the community, announced that Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has agreed to invest…
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Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor
A rundown of my experience finding and fixing a bug in the Chromium/Google Chrome browser - specifically in the devtools. It includes details about the bug itself as well as notes about what it was like working on the Chromium project as a first-time contributor.
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How de-Googled is Lineage OS?
Lineage OS is based on the Android Open-Source Project, whose primary maintainer is Google. To what extent can it be considered Google-free?
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Hardware Virtualization
Project overview QEMU is a virtual machine which allows running an operating system inside of another. While there already is a Haiku port, it currently does not support any acceleration system through native virtualization (through Intel VT-x and …
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pg_duckdb: Splicing Duck and Elephant DNA
Introducing the DuckDB + Postgres Extension: You can have your analytics and transact them too with pg_duckdb by DuckDB Labs, MotherDuck, Hydra, Neon and Microsoft. | Reading time: 8 min read
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CockroachDB license change
What you need to know about the changes that happened to CockroachDB Enterprise this past November.
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An open-source flow battery kit
Kirk Smith’s personal blog
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The new PostgreSQL 17 make dist
When the PostgreSQL project makes a release, the primary artifact of that is the publication of a source code tarball. That represents the output of all the work that went into the creation of the PostgreSQL software up to the point of the release. The source tarball is then used downstream by packagers to make binary…
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Why we picked AGPL
ParadeDB has been licensed under AGPL from day one. Here's our thought process and case study on why we picked AGPL.
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OpenStreetMap Is Turning 20
OpenStreetMap at 20
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Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out
We are excited to share that vertical tabs and a new sidebar experience are now available in Nightly 131. This update has been highly anticipated and requested by the community, ...
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Open source tools to query OpenStreetMap
Exploring different ways to make sense of OpenStreetMap data.
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You can contribute to KDE with non-C++ code
Lots of underrated areas to work on
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Towards userspaceification of POSIX – part I: signal handling and IO
The Redox official website
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Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters
Flux, the largest SOTA open source text-to-image model to date, developed by Black Forest Labs—the original team behind Stable Diffusion is now available on fal. Flux pushes the boundaries of creativity and performance with an impressive 12B parameters, delivering aesthetics reminiscent of Midjourney. To play around…
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This month in Servo: console logging, parallel tables, OpenXR, and more
Servo’s unique parallel layout engine just got even better.
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Our audit of Homebrew
This is a joint post with the Homebrew maintainers; read their announcement here! Last summer, we performed an audit of Homebrew. Our audit’s scope included Homebrew/brew itself (home of the brew CLI), and three adjacent repositories responsible for various security-relevant aspects of Homebrew’s operation…
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Amazon's exabyte-scale migration from Apache Spark to Ray on EC2
Large-scale, distributed compute framework migrations are not for the faint of heart. There are backwards-compatibility constraints to maintain, performance expectations to meet, scalability limits to overcome, and the omnipresent risk of introducing breaking changes to production. This all becomes especially…
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Zulip 9.0: Organized chat for distributed teams
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 9.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes! Zulip is an open-source team chat application designed for seamless remote and hybrid work. With conversations organized by topic, Zulip is ideal for both live and asynchronous communication. …
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Open source AI is the path forward
Mark Zuckerberg outlines why he believes open source AI is good for developers, Meta and the world.
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NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules
With the R515 driver, NVIDIA released a set of Linux GPU kernel modules in May 2022 as open source with dual GPL and MIT licensing. The initial release targeted datacenter compute GPUs…
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The Open Collaboration Tools
Weʼre unveiling a new open source project designed to connect with others and live-share your code in real-time collaboration sessions. Extensibility and openness are built into its core.
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AuraFlow v0.1: a open source alternative to Stable Diffusion 3
Open-source AI is in jeopardy. As community interest in AI models skyrocketed over the past year, we noticed that development of new open-source foundational models came to a halt. Some even boldly announced that open-source AI is dead. Not so fast! We are excited to present you
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Plausible Community Edition
We’re introducing the “free as in beer”, self-hosted and AGPL-licensed Plausible Community Edition (CE).