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Public trust demands open-source voting systems
On its website , Liberty Vote says, "We are turning the page and beginning the vital work of restoring faith in American elections."
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Could the XZ backdoor been detected with better Git/Deb packaging practices?
The discovery of a backdoor in XZ Utils in the spring of 2024 shocked the open source community, raising critical questions about software supply chain security. This post explores whether better Debian packaging practices could have detected this threat, offering a guide to auditing packages and suggesting future…
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Forgejo v13.0 Is Available
Forgejo v13.0 was released on 16 October 2025. You will find a short selection of the changes it introduces below and a complete list in the release notes .
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Pwning the Nix ecosystem
ptrpaws's blog on reverse engineering, programming, vr finds and miscellaneous stuff.
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Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files
Project documentation: pdfly.readthedocs.io pdfly is the youngest project of the py-pdf organization. It has been created by Martin Thoma in 2022. It's simply a CLI tool to manipulate PDF files, written in Python and based on the fpdf2 & pypdf libraries. I'm a maintainer of the project 🙂 What can …
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Free software hasn't won
This is a translated version of a talk I gave at P.I.W.O in June, with cleanups and adjustments for the blog form.
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An initial investigation into WDDM on ReactOS
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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Why it took 4 years to get a lock files specification
(This is the blog post version of my keynote from EuroPython 2025 in Prague, Czechia.) We now have a lock file format specification. That might not sound like a big deal, but for me it took 4 years of active work to get us that specification. Part education, part therapy,
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Tangled, a Git collaboration platform built on atproto
A Git collaboration platform, built on AT Protocol
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Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund
Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit…
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The React Foundation
Meta open-sourced React over a decade ago to help developers build better user experiences. Since then, React has grown into one of the world’s most popular open source projects, powering over 50 m…
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My first contribution to Linux
I upstreamed my first kernel patch, and it was easier than I thought it would be.
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Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run – Now Open Source
Atuin Desktop looks like a doc, but runs like your terminal. Script blocks, embedded terminals, database clients and prometheus charts - all in one place.
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Heavy codes of conduct are unnecessary for open source projects
The debate surrounding the Codes of Conduct (CoC) adopted by Open Source projects may be reaching a turning point. In September 2025, a controversy erupted over the governance of RubyGems, a corner…
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F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree
For the past 15 years, F-Droid has provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world to find and install free and open source apps. When co...
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This month in Servo: variable fonts, network tools, SVG
Servo’s biggest month by far, with everything from IndexedDB improvements to favicons in servoshell.
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Bundler Belongs to the Ruby Community
I’ve spent 15 years of my life working on Bundler. When I introduce myself, people say “oh, the Bundler guy?”, and I am forced to agree. I didn’t come up with the original idea for Bundler (that was Yehuda). I also didn’t work on the first six months worth of prototypes. That was all Carl and Yehuda together, back…
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Traefik's 10-year anniversary
10 years ago, I made a small reverse proxy project public. Fast forward to today and Traefik has 3.4B downloads and 56k GitHub stars. See how it unfolded.
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Podman Desktop celebrates 3M downloads
We reached 3,000,000 Downloads of Podman Desktop. Let's celebrate.
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Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover
Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.
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Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
We're excited to announce our support of two independent, open source projects: Ladybird, an ambitious project to build a completely independent browser from the ground up, and Omarchy, an opinionated Arch Linux setup for developers.
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A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy
What a week it's been as a Ruby Central Board Member.
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KDE is now my favorite desktop
From my last blog post , I am now using KDE as the desktop environment for my gaming rig. The reason is because I want a reasonably easy to use Linux desktop for when my wife needs to use the PC for something other than gaming, and this was the reason why my "traditional" Sway setup was a no-go.
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Pnpm has a new setting to stave off supply chain attacks
There have been several incidents recently where popular packages were successfully attacked. To reduce the risk of installing a compromised version, we are introducing a new setting that delays the installation of newly released dependencies. In most cases, such attacks are discovered quickly...
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