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I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as training for Copilot
I do not agree with GitHub's unauthorized and unlicensed use of copyrighted source code as training data for their ML-powered GitHub Copilot product. This product injects source code derived from copyrighted sources into the software of their customers without informing them of the license of the original source code…
Teaching open-source software in North Korea
In 2016, I went to North Korea to teach a class of masters students how to contribute to open source software . Here’s an image from one of my lectures:
Canonical Offering Blender Support
Blender's ecosystem gets a boost. Independent Blender LTS support and services for enterprises are available via Canonical now.
Librem 5 Evergreen vs. PinePhone (Part 2)
It’s been about half a year since I wrote my original post comparing the Librem 5 and Pinephone. The original post saw some controversy as well as quite a bit of attention on Hacker News . Surprisingly, for a market dominated by new tech every year, there remains quite a bit of interest in these two devices.
Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1
The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) is pleased to announce the availability of the Rocky Linux 8.4 Release Candidate for: ...
Open Source OpenGL ES 3.1 on Mali GPUs with Panfrost
Panfrost, the open source driver for Arm Mali, now supports OpenGL ES 3.1 on both Midgard (Mali T760 and newer) and Bifrost (Mali G31, G52, G72) GPUs,
Goodbye Freenode
For the last month or so, the IRC world has been embroiled in drama over the new ownership of Freenode. For me, it culminated yesterday when I was banned from Freenode.
Guix: Unifying provisioning, deployment, and management in the age of containers
This talk will reflect on what GNU Guix has to offer to users and how it compares to other approaches—from CONDA and pip to Flatpak and Docker. Guix is not only a transactional package manager and declarative GNU/Linux distribution: it’s also an environment manager, a container provisioning tool, and more. We will…
Toward Vagrant 3.0
In order to support its growing ecosystem and community as we move toward the 3.0 release, we are making changes to Vagrant that will maintain its Ruby-based features while being ported to Go.
Sequoia 1.3
Sequoia is a modular OpenPGP implementation in Rust.
Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
I received an official response from Replit and my open-source project will be back up soon; please see the bottom of the blog post for an update. The rest of the content here will remain as a historical artifact.
Notepad++ v8 release
Download Notepad++ source code of current version and/or check sha-256 digests for binary packages on GitHub
FreeBSD from a NetBSD developer’s perspective
I’ve been a NetBSD developer for three years and it’s been my primary operating system for a long time too - on everything: routers, laptops, Raspberry Pis, PowerPC mac minis, Vortex86 embedded boards, and servers.
A new ProtoBuf generator for Go
Although the main interface between applications and a Vitess database is through the MySQL protocol, Vitess is a large and complex distributed system, and all the communication between the different services in a Vitess cluster is performed through GRPC .
NixOS 21.05
This section lists the release notes for each stable version of NixOS and current unstable revision.
Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained
Existing instances will remain online indefinitely, but customers should expect very limited support after August 31, 2021.
Pwned passwords, open source in the .NET foundation and working with the FBI
I've got 2 massive things to announce today that have been a long time in the works and by pure coincidence, have aligned such that I can share them together here today. One you would have been waiting for and one totally out of left field. Both these announcements
WordPress 18
Today marks eighteen years since the very first release of WordPress. I consider myself so lucky to have co-founded the project alongside Mike Little. Who could have imagined that our nights and we…
Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere I can
And why you should too!
An open letter from Atheme's developers and community
An open letter from Atheme’s developers and community
Gentoo Freenode channels have been hijacked
News and information from Gentoo Linux
Monetizing open-source is problematic
Blog posts and Musings from Marak