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Xfce is great
A post from David Gerard reminded me why I still use Xfce almost everywhere.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,681 posts.
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Gentoo Linux 2025 Review
News and information from Gentoo Linux
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State of the Fin 2026-01-06
Happy New Year and welcome to the State of the Fin!
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KDE onboarding is good now
And my history with KDE
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ACM Is Now Open Access
As of January 1, 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, discoverable, and reusable.
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Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame
One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games
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A faster heart for F-Droid
Donations are a key part of what keeps F-Droid independent and reliable and our latest hardware update is a direct result of your support. Thanks to donation...
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No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
Mozilla's pivot to AI first browsing raises fundamental questions about what a browser should be.
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Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers
A summary of the techniques in place to protect my git forge
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Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud
Thoughts, stories and ideas about of a code poet, bit juggler & logic wizard.
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Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment
An important message on Pop!_OS, Linux, and one downright fantastic community.
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Factor 0.101 now available
“Keep thy airspeed up, lest the earth come from below and smite thee.” - William Kershner
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'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay
DHH's Fizzy license blocks competing SaaS offerings, so it is source available, not Open Source, which has a specific shared meaning; the real issue is sustainability.
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PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance
PeerTube is a tool for hosting, managing, and sharing videos or live streams.
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Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
Anthropic is donating the Model Context Protocol to the Linux Foundation's new Agentic AI Foundation, co-founded with Block and OpenAI.
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Linux Instal Fest Belgrade
Linux Install Fest will be held on December 9, 2025 in the JAG3 classroom of the Faculty of Mathematics, at Jagićeva 5, Belgrade . Entry to the classroom is possible from 6 pm to 9 pm.
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Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
Synadia and TigerBeetle have together pledged $512,000 to the Zig Software Foundation over the next two years in support of the language, leadership, and communities building the future of simpler systems software.
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The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X
The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X. The platform never aligned with our values and no longer serves as a space for communication....
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Ghostty is now non-profit
Ghostty is now fiscally sponsored by Hack Club , a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit.
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A Love Letter to FreeBSD
I’m still the new person here, learning your ways, stumbling over the occasional quirk, smiling when I find the small touches that make you different. You remind me of what computing felt like before the noise. Before hype cycles and performance theatre. Before every tool needed a plugin system and a logo. You are…
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NixOS 25.11 released
Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.
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GitHub to Codeberg: my experience
In which I talk about the process involved in switching forges, and how well that went.
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Migrating Dillo from GitHub
I would like to migrate the Dillo project away from GitHub into a new home which is more friendly to be used with Dillo and solves some of its problems. This page summarizes the current situation with GitHub and why I decided to move away from it into a self-hosted server with multiple mirrors in other forges.
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Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground
zigtools: We make free and open-source tools for the @ziglang community.
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Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted)
I maintain a sorta-popular open source package, and I want to prevent big corporations and "bad guys" from using it. I want feedback on how to do this.
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The current state of the theory that GPL propagates to AI models
When GitHub Copilot was launched in 2021, the fact that its training data included a vast amount of Open Source code publicly available on GitHub attracted significant attention, sparking lively de…