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As you may know, as of the time this text is being written youtube-dl’s repository at GitHub is blocked due to a DMCA takedown letter received by GitHub on behalf of the RIAA. While I cannot comment on the current maintainers' plans or ongoing discussions, in light of the claims made in that letter I thought it would…
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PostgreSQL 9.6, the latest version of the world's leading open source database, was released today by the PostgreSQL Global Development …
SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment
Updates to the Bear license
VideoLAN announces dav2d, an open source AV2 decoder — continuing the work started with dav1d for AV1.
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
Historically, the code for Chrome for iOS was kept separate from the rest of the Chromium project due to the additional complexity required...
A consistent developer workflow to build, deploy, and release applications across any platform.
For the first time ever, NumPy—a core project for the Python scientific computing stack—has received grant funding. The proposal, “Improving NumPy for Better Data Science” will receive $645,020 from the Moore Foundation over 2 years, with the funding going to UC Berkeley Institute for Data Science. The principal…
Open Source software runs the Internet, and by extension the economy. This is an undisputed fact about reality in 2021. And yet, the role of Open Source maintainer has failed to mature from a hobby into a proper profession.
It’s finally here, and it’s the biggest update to the platform yet
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
The ZSF has posted their own announcement which clearly explains their mission and specifically what the money will be used for. Instead, I want to talk more broadly about why we've decided to support ZSF.
Filing taxes in America sucks. Your options are to do it by hand, pay someone like Intuit, or if you are below a certain income threshold get some tax software for free. The kicker is that free tax software is from Intuit who will try very hard to make sure that you either don’t find it in the first place, or try to…
Vital personal and business information flows over the Internet more frequently than ever, and we don’t always know when it’s happening. It’s clear at this point that encrypting is something all of us should be doing. Then why don’t we use TLS (the successor to SSL) everywhere? Every browser in every device supports…
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
Less than two years after my presentation titled “Open source for the government”, and almost exactly one year after I became advisor to…
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...
A historic first for the animation industry!
It’s simple: free software projects should not use Discord. (This goes equally for any sort of public interest group.) Here’s why. TL;DR: Standardizing on…
171 words every programmer should understand
Luanti has been removed from Google Play due to a DMCA notice from Tracer.AI. We have filed a counter-notice, but this isn't the first time.
