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The Unlicense is an inferior license wrapped in an atrocious name
Not only is it poorly drafted with better alternatives available, but “Unlicensed” means the precise opposite of “unlicensed”.
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No user accounts, by design
Ethics has been central to the F-Droid community from the beginning, with a focus on free software, privacy and user control. A key part of F-Droid’s design ...
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GitHub’s database of security advisories is now open source
Anyone can now provide additional information and context to further the community’s understanding and awareness of security advisories.
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Decentralizing Distribution
Guardian Project has been awarded a grant from the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) to work on decentralizing veracity and distribution (...
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Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team
I think I’ve come up with a novel hack for the challenge of getting your company to financially support the open source projects that it uses: reach out to the …
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Linux's GPLv2 licence is routinely violated (2015)
The Linux kernel is licenced under the GPLv2. There are several notable things about this:
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GStreamer 1.20: Embedded and WebRTC lead the way
At the forefront of contributors for this latest release, our team's work focused on two areas in which we believe GStreamer shines the brightest: embedded systems, and network streaming, in particular WebRTC.
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Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringement lawsuit
We’re pleased to share that Elastic and Amazon have resolved the trademark infringement lawsuit related to the term Elasticsearch. Now the only Elasticsearch service on AWS and the AWS Marketplace is ...
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FPGA Interchange format to enable interoperable FPGA tooling
FPGA toolchains are not trivial, but roughly speaking, you can divide the process of “compiling” FPGA-targeted code in a Hardware Description Language
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Dino 0.3: Video calls and conferences – encrypted and peer-to-peer
A privacy-friendly messaging app for the desktop. It uses the XMPP protocol and provides a clean UI with modern features.
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The complete idiot's guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro
Today I will show you how I installed the latest snapshot of OpenBSDon my Pinebook Pro with plenty of detail so that you can do it, too.I will include instru...
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Garage, our self-hosted distributed object storage solution
Deuxfleurs is a non-profit based in France that aims to defend and promote individual freedom and rights on the Internet. In their quest to build a d…
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On building 30k Debian packages
As part of my ongoing attempts to create some nice datasets for training large code models for C/C++ , I've recently been attempting to buil...
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Serenity OS: Interview
How would you build an operating system? My answer is I wouldn't. First off, I don't know how. And the second thing is it seems like to large of a task. It took thousands of developers to build Windows XP. But actually, it is possible to build an operating system from scratch. My guest is doing it. Andreas Kling…
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Wolvic, a new browser project picking up where Firefox Reality leaves off
Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit…
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Announcing GPT-NeoX-20B
Announcing GPT-NeoX-20B, a 20 billion parameter model trained in collaboration with CoreWeave.
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LibreOffice 7.3
In addition to the majority of code commits being focused on interoperability with Microsoft’s proprietary file formats, there is a wealth of new features targeted at users migrating from Office, to simplify the transition Berlin, February 2, 2022 – LibreOffice 7.3 Community, the new major release of the…
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Watchtower – Blender Studio
Today we are sharing Watchtower: an interactive film production management tool.
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SBCL: New in Version 2.2.1
New SBCL versions are usually released at the end of each month: check the Sourceforge File List to see the current version. The new features of all SBCL releases are listed below.
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One more small step toward the right to software repair
Our Motion to Remand in Vizio Lawsuit Shows How the Law Brings Software Freedom to All Users Yesterday afternoon, we filed a Motion for Remand in our lawsuit against Vizio for their flagrant GPL & LGPL violations, alleged with great detail in our complaint in California state court. Vizio's response to that complaint…
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An update on rust/coreutils
TLDR: we are making progress on the Rust implementation of the GNU coreutils. Well, it is an understatement to say my previous blog post interested many people. Many articles, blog posts and some …
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Writing an open source GPU driver without the hardware
Until now, no Valhall devices (Mali-G57, Mali-G78) ran mainline Linux - whilst this made driver development obviously difficult, there’s no better time to write drivers than before the devices even get into the hands of end users.
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