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What Copilot means for open source
Matthew Butterick
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 293 posts.
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Stockfish vs. ChessBase for GPLv3 violation: court hearing soon
Stockfish is a free, open-source, and cross-platform chess engine, trusted by grandmasters and leading chess platforms worldwide.
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Why is Apache clinging to OpenOffice?
Why is Apache clinging to OpenOffice? It's dead. Its last major release was version 4.1, from 2014! In contrast, LibreOffice's release schedule is robust: Timelines of major product releases. OpenOffice is light blue, LibreOffice is green. (source) In 2020, LibreOffice wrote a constructive letter, outlining a path for…
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One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding
I quit my job as an engineering manager at Oracle in early June 2021. I had a bit of savings and a few contract opportunities so I decided to see how far I could get building an app I've wanted for years as a manager. I have never built my own app before and I've never built a desktop app before.
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Don't be that open-source user, don't be me
Before I was a maintainer of open source software I was a user of open source software, and I sometimes behaved badly.
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Ubuntu Core 22 is now available – optimised for IoT and embedded devices
The ultra-secure embedded Ubuntu introduces support for real-time compute in robotics and industrial applications. 15 June 2022: Canonical today announced that Ubuntu Core 22, the fully containerised Ubuntu 22.04 LTS variant optimised for IoT and edge devices, is now generally available for download from…
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Grafana releases OnCall open source project
Grafana OnCall is now open source for self-managed and on-premises deployments.
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Plasma 5.25
Plasma 5.25 brings new features and concepts to the desktop environment.
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Making popular Ruby packages more secure
News and updates from the RubyGems team — releases, security advisories, and project announcements.
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Our plans for Thunderbird on Android
We're thrilled to announce our first steps on the road to delivering an outstanding Thunderbird on Android experience.
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PostmarketOS 22.06 released – now upgrades are possible
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
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Let's build a decentralized social network together with Logseq
Software engineer and writer exploring web development, productivity systems, AI, and creative projects. Sharing insights on building better tools and…
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OpenBSD folklore and share/misc/airport
OpenBSD's share/misc/airport file and a day trip to Lublin
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Blender 3.2
Blender Foundation and the online developers community are proud to present Blender 3.2!
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What FreeBSD can offer compared to other operating systems (2020)
I really wanted to make this article short … but I failed miserably. At least I tried to organize it well so one may get back to it after ‘some’ reading because its not a short le…
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In Defense of OpenStreetMap's Data Model
Who's the customer, anyway?
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Docker is dead? Podman – an alternative tool?
Sind Container-Images, Docker und Kubernetes keine Fremdwörter für Dich? Hast Du gehört, Docker sei tot? Dieser technische Blog Post hilft, Gerüchte aufzuklären.
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Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot
In January of 2019, Mozilla joined the University of Edinburgh, Charles University, University of Sheffield and University of Tartu as part of a project fu
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Welcoming Rocket.Chat to Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Home Assistant OS Release 8
Now using GRUB2 for UEFI-based systems, Home Assistant Yellow support, and support for UEFI-based AArch64 systems!
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How we put IPFS in Brave (2021)
This integration marks a major milestone for IPFS, and lays the groundwork for further experiments into improving the experience of interacting with the network via web browsers.
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Ghost 5.0
The next generation of powerful technology for independent publishers.
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Firefox appears to be flagged as suspicious by Cloudflare
Update: Cloudflare’s response indicates that this is a customer-specific rule and not a global policy. They did not mention what kind of rule is triggering this behavior though.
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OSI to the European Commission: make space for patent-free standards too
One of the biggest hidden challenges facing the software and technology world is the evolving conflict between old electronics vendors and the new software-defined universe. It’s arising because of…