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Sponsoring Open Source Developers
We are pleased to announce today that Cognitect and Nubank will be sponsoring dozens of contributors to the Clojure ecosystem with regular monthly support.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 301 posts.
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The Sourcehut Project Hub
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.
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Buttplug (Sex Toy Control Library) Hits v1 Milestone
After 3.5 years of development, Buttplug, the open source intimate haptics controls library created and maintained by Nonpolynomial, has finally arrived at its v1 release. Fitting that it’s also the first real blog post on the new Nonpolynomial Blog! For the project, this is actually a contraction rather than an…
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Sourcehut's Second Year in Alpha
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.
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The ProtonMail Android app is now open source
Our Proton Mail Android app is open source. We are committed to transparency and contributing to the open source and privacy tech community.
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GitHub has completed its acquisition of NPM
With the npm acquisition complete, we’re ready to start the next chapter of npm and support the JavaScript community in a new way.
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Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation
Nearform is an independent team of engineers, designers and strategists. We build digital capability and software solutions for ambitious enterprises seeking sustained business impact. We love what we do.
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RStudio becomes a public benefit corporation
We started the RStudio project because we were excited and inspired by R. The creators of R provided a flexible and powerful foundation for statistical computing; then made it free and open so that it could be improved collaboratively and its benefits could be shared by the widest possible audience.
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Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat apps
The website of Jae.
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Gimp 2.10.20
“GIMP 2.10.20 comes with new features as well as important bugfixes.”
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Open Source does not mean “Includes Free Support”
We need to talk.
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Xfce switches to GitLab
Starting today, May 1, we’re switching from our cgit/gitolite setup to GitLab. Our old server, git.xfce.org, is now a ready-only in-sync mirror (so you can still pull code). Our new server is gitlab.xfce.org.
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Diagram Maker: Open sourcing IoT visualization
Today we are announcing Diagram Maker, an open source graphical user interface library for IoT application developers. With Diagram Maker, IoT application developers can define their own user interface and user experience, or suppress it completely and build their own custom behavior using Diagram Maker APIs. In this…
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Thunderbird’s New Home
As of today, the Thunderbird project will be operating from a new wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, MZLA Technologies Corporation. This move has been in the works for a while as Thunderbird has grown in donations, staff, and aspirations. This will not impact Thunderbird’s day-to-day activities or…
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PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available
We are pleased to announce that the KDE Community Edition (CE) PinePhone is now available for pre-order. This edition of the PinePhone ships with a tailored build of Plasma Mobile built upon Manjaro Linux, and it is the culmination of ongoing efforts to bring the popular Plasma desktop environment to the smartphone.
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Krita, OpenGL and Qt
Adrian Page first coded an OpenGL-based canvas implementation for Krita in 2005 . That was back in the Qt3 days. OpenGL was fairly simple back then, but we had to duplicate all our canvas handling code, once implemented in OpenGL, once implemented with QPainter.
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My experience with NixOS
In a nutshell, NixOS is a operating system based on Linux that provides a declarative package and configuration management.
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Why we’re changing to the AGPL license
We’re changing our license as we’ve become aware that there are risks associated with permissive open source licenses that corporations that don’t care about open source are happy to take advantage of.
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GitLab 13.0
GitLab release announcements and feature highlights.
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What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and why do we care if they are open source?
Note: This post originally appeared as an update in the crowdfunding campaign for Precursor.
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Mastodon 3.2
The new Mastodon release brings you a much better audio player and improved support for different audio and video formats, as well as some additional security mechanisms. The audio player has been completely reworked to have a more eye-catching design. It will extract album art from the uploaded audio file…
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Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
Dear digiKam fans and users, we are proud to announce digiKam 7.0.0.
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Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression
As announced on the mailing list , on Friday, Dec 27 2019, our package compression scheme has changed from xz (.pkg.tar.xz) to zstd (.pkg.tar.zst) .
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Dino: An open-source application for XMPP messaging
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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Libtorrent adds support for the WebTorrent protocol
Feross Aboukhadijeh is a computer security researcher, teacher, web developer, designer, long distance runner, gamer, music lover, and builder of websites that (sometimes) go viral.
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CouchDB 3.0
Dear community, Apache CouchDB® 3.0.0 has been released and is available for download. Apache CouchDB® lets you access your data where you need it. The Couch Replication Protocol is implemented in …
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Announcing The Zig Software Foundation
In the United States, people look at you funny if you tell them you are starting a non-profit.
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Welcome Yari: MDN Web Docs has a new platform
After several intense months of work on such a significant change, the MDN Web Docs’ new platform (codenamed Yari) is finally launched!