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Rsync and outrage
I gave up blogging a long time ago (apart from an occasional thing about ArduPilot), I tend to just write code and hope people find it…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,681 posts.
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Roku LT Operating System open source distribution
Roku provides the simplest way to stream entertainment to your TV. On your terms. With thousands of available channels to choose from.
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Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release
When we first announced the transition to Plasma Wayland, one of Martin's slides from stated, "It's done when it's done!"
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GitHub and the crime against software
An investigation into collapse of Github and how the decay of our tech infrastructure is a crime against software. Detailed comparisons of Github, Gitlab, Codeberg, and more from a distributed systems and software performance expert.
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KDE at 30
KDE is an open community of friendly people who want to create a world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy.
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Dav2d
VideoLAN announces dav2d, an open source AV2 decoder — continuing the work started with dav1d for AV1.
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Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer
For the past few months, the 3D printing community has been poking at a very interesting question: what if a multi-material printer were not limited to the colors physically loaded on it? And we must say it right now: This is a...
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Building Pi with Pi
Learnings from post-AI Open Source and how we’re approaching this so far.
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Dumb ways for an open source project to die
How your dependencies became Bernies
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We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag
Is it the end of open source we know and love?
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The Zulip Foundation
Today marks a major transition for the Zulip open-source project and for Kandra Labs, the company behind it: I’m stepping back from full-time Zulip leadership to join Anthropic, alongside three senior team members, and we’re donating the company to a newly created, independent, nonprofit Zulip Foundation. …
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Welcome to the Strip Mining Era of OSS Security
In 2026, LLM-powered code scanners are uncovering security vulnerabilities in open source projects at 10x the historical rate. Here's what OSS maintainers and users need to do about it.
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Leaving GitHub for Forgejo
I host and maintain your WordPress site: one person for your server and your site, who you message on WhatsApp. From €39 per month excl. VAT, cancel monthly.
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Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
Last year I said I'd probably never recommend another Bambu Lab printer again. I still use my P1S, but after Bambu Lab started pushing their always-connected cloud solution as the new default: I blocked the printer from the Internet via my OPNsense Firewall I stopped updating the firmware I locked the printer into…
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Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot
Secure Boot protects a system from an attacker that compromises the boot flow. For example, without Secure Boot it is easy to replace the code that reads your disk encryption password and store it somewhere where the attacker can pick it up later. So ideally you want Secure Boot to be enabled to limit the code that…
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Forking the Web
This document contains a set of informal notes on how to build an alternative specification to the Web, in such a way that hopefully prevents many of its drawbacks while still preserves many of the good points. This document is not an specification, and is therefore subject to change over time.
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Going Full Time on Open Source
Why I left Figma to work full-time on open source, and how I plan to make the work sustainable.
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Write some software, give it away for free
This website which you're on right now is free (as in beer), free (as in freedom), open source software called Nonograph. It cost about $600 USD to release, mos...
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Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue
The trademark infringement issue has now been resolved. The author of the website and project in question has removed all uses of the Notepad++ trademark from his product, website, and related materials. The unauthorized references have been taken down, and the trademark infringement is no longer ongoing.
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Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac
Several users have recently reported a website pretending to offer an official macOS version of Notepad++: notepad-plus-plus-mac.org
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Open source does not imply open community
Open source software has existed long before the invention of the (D)VCS. The author likely hosted a barebones HTML webpage or a txt file describing the project. There definitely was an FTP server somewhere with tarballs. The author may have been reachable by email. If you were really lucky …
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Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement
5 projects are awarded a total of $31K
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This Month in Ladybird – April 2026
Inline PDF viewer powered by pdf.js, GTK4 frontend, browsing history, speculative HTML parsing, off-thread JS compilation, async DNS, CSS anchor positioning, and more.
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GCC 16 has been released
This page is a "brief" summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 16. You may also want to check out our Porting to GCC 16 page and the full GCC documentation .
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We need a federation of forges
Git is decentralized, but what of the rest?
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Soft launch of open-source code platform for government
Code.overheid.nl platform is now live, enabling government organisations to jointly develop and publish open-source software independently.
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HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle
Over the past week, I have been working on bringing HardenedBSD's code repositories on Radicle (as most/all of you already know by now.) We are now at the point where Radicle is usable for us. There are still some sharp edges and some things to work out, but the core functionality is working.