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Micropackages and Open Source Trust Scaling
Some thoughts about why npm style micro-packages are a huge liability for everybody and what we could do to make them work.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,682 posts.
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Kik, left-pad, and npm
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog
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D'Oh My Zsh – How I unexpectedly built a monster of an open source project
Story of how I unexpectedly built a monster of an open source project
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Package managers should be immutable, distributed and decentralized
I just came across an interesting post via Hacker News , from an author of several hundred NPM packages (some of which quite popular) that just removed all of his packages from NPM.
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Curl is 18 years old tomorrow
Another notch on the wall as we've reached the esteemed age of 18 years in the cURL project. 9 releases were shipped since our last birthday and we managed to fix no less than a total of 457 bugs in that time. On this single day in history... 20,000 persons will be visiting the web … Continue reading curl is 18 years…
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FreeBSD – a lesson in poor defaults
This page lists some of the changes I make to a vanilla install of FreeBSD for security hardening. Some changes to increase network performance or make things a bit more sane are also included. It only covers basic changes that a sysadmin can make to a running system.
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Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Darknet: C and CUDA open source neural network framework
Darknet is an open source neural network framework written in C and CUDA. It is fast, easy to install, and supports CPU and GPU computation. You can find the source on GitHub or you can read more about what Darknet can do right here:
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LXD 2.0: Introduction to LXD
Stéphane Graber's website -
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BMW and the GPL
I accidentally caused a little brouhaha last week - for which I would like to apologise. In my blog post about BMW's unencrypted software updates, I said: Judging from the files, it would appear that the infotainment system is made by Magneti Marelli with components by Wind River, AutoSAR, and Nvidia Tegra. Looking at…
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Google joins Open Compute Project to drive standards in IT infrastructure
We’re excited to announce that we're joining the Open Compute Project (OCP) to help drive standardization in IT infrastructure. More specifically, Google will contribute a new rack specification that includes 48V power distribution and a new form factor to allow OCP racks to fit into our data centers.
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Let’s Encrypt client will transition to a new name and a new home at EFF
Update: Added clarification that only the Let’s Encrypt client software is changing its name and host. The Let’s Encrypt certificate authority and associated services are not changing names or relocating. Over the next few months the Let’s Encrypt client software will transition to a new name, soon to be announced…
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Microsoft Joins the Eclipse Foundation
At Microsoft, our developer mission is to deliver experiences that empower any developer, building any application, on any OS. And this mission requires
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Big News for ZFS on Linux
Canonical announced a few weeks ago that ZFS will be included in the next release of Ubuntu Linux, on by default and fully supported. And it’s no exaggeration…
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Some radical thoughts about Sci-Hub
Radical, as I like to remind folks, means to get to the root of an issue (same derivation as radish). So when I say I am offering some radical thoughts about Sci-Hub and the controversy it has generated, I mean that I hope to use the discussion to ask some very basic, “at the roots,” … Continue reading Some radical…
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MAME is now Free and Open Source Software
After 19 years, MAME is now available under an OSI-compliant and FSF-approved license! Many thanks to all of the contributors who helped this to go as smoothly as possible!
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ReactOS was selected for Google Summer of Code 2016
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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The Linux Kernel, CDDL and Related Issues
The Software Freedom Law Center provides legal representation and other law related services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software.
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Report from the VMware GPL court hearing
Today, I took some time off to attend the court hearing in the GPL violation/infringement case that Christoph Hellwig has brought against VMware. I am not in any way legally involved in the lawsuit.
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Why We Chose Kubernetes
A couple of months ago I set out to investigate some orchestration tools for Docker containers. I.e. something that would help us schedule Docker containers onto nodes in a cluster and make sure that our services stays up in case of various failures. But let’s start at the beginning, why would we need this in the…
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Copyleft Compliance Projects
The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
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GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux
This post discusses an atypical GPL violation. Unlike most GPL violations Conservancy faces, in this case, a third-party entity holds a magic wand that can instantly resolve the situation. Oracle is the primary copyright holder of ZFS, and, despite nearly eight years (going back to the days of Sun's control of the…
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Godot game engine reaches 2.0
Godot 2.0 is out! This release is special because our team has grown a lot. We have more regular contributors, a documentation team, a bug triage team and a much larger community! Godot keeps growing and becoming more and more awesome.
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GitHub lock-in?
There has been a lot of noise recently on how GitHub is bad, and how developers should stop using it.
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An introduction to IPFS
By Dr. Christian Lundkvist and John Lilic