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HDMI Light V2: Open-Hardware FPGA-Based Clone of Philips Ambilight (2014)
It’s been over a year since I created the first version of my Ambilight clone , but I finally found the time to return to it and add some new features. I was originally planning on adding colour correction (to correct for the purple wall behind my TV) and output delay (to get perfect synchronisation with the TV), but…
Mastodon’s 2 Year Anniversary
Mastodon was first announced to the public through Hacker News, a link aggregator site for programmers, on October 6, 2016. Now we’re celebrating the 2 year anniversary! 🎉
Thoughts on Microsoft Joining OIN's Patent Non-Aggression Pact
Folks lauded today that Microsoft has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN)'s limited patent non-aggression pact, suggesting that perhaps it will bring peace in our time regarding Microsoft's historical patent aggression. While today's announcement is a step forward, we call on Microsoft to make this just the…
Open-Source Machine Learning Repos to Inspire Your Next Project
In the last couple of years, machine learning has opened up new horizons in a wide range of industries, with advanced use cases emerging: Facebook’s facial recognition, Netflix’s recommended movies, PrismaAI’s image style transfer, Siri’s voice recognition, Google Allo’s natural… Continue reading 25 Open-Source…
AWS Service Operator for Kubernetes Now Available
NOTE: In mid-2019 we re-launched and intensified our efforts, deprecating and archiving the old code base of the AWS Service Operator and changing to a community-driven approach. We’re currently in the design phase and invite you to comment on the design issues and become a contributor to the new project, see details…
ARM releases free Cortex-M processor cores for FPGAs
Cambridge-based processor giant Arm has telegraphed increasing concern regarding the threat from free and open source silicon (FOSSi) cores, offering
Facebook launches PyTorch 1.0
Earlier this year, we shared a vision for making AI development faster and more interoperable. Today, during our first-ever PyTorch Developer Conference, we are announcing updates about the growing…
Haiku R1/beta1 has been released
After nearly 6 years since R1/alpha4, Haiku R1/beta1 has been released. See “Release Notes” for the (lengthy) release notes, “Press contact”, for press inquiries … and “Get Haiku!” to skip all that and just …
Krita 4.1.3 Released
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
Hands on with Linkerd 2.0
Linkerd 2.0 was recently announced as generally available (GA), signaling its readiness for production use. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to get Linkerd 2.0 up and running on your Kubernetes cluster in a matter seconds. But first, what is Linkerd and why should you care? Linkerd is a service sidecar…
First release candidate for TimescaleDB 1.0
Install TimescaleDB on Linux, macOS, Windows, Docker, Kubernetes, or from source
How Tutanota replaced Google’s FCM with their own notification system
As mentioned in This Week In F-Droid 17, Tutanota is now on F-Droid. In this special post Ivan from Tutanota, tells us the story. Hi, I’m Ivan and I am devel...
GIMP receives a $100K donation
Handshake and GNOME Foundation donated $100,000 to GIMP.
Mastodon 2.5 released
Mastodon 2.5 is the 100th released version of Mastodon since the project’s inception almost 2 years ago. It brings a variety of improvements to the software, the full list of which is available in the changelog. Public profile page The public areas of the web interface have been redesigned. The color scheme and design…
Firefox 62.0 Released
Thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
Progress update from the Librem 5 hardware department
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
UPDuino: a $9.99 FPGA
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