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Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
Behold: the Guru of GNU ! (Photo by Habib Mhenni, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.) True enlightment only comes from a truly free computi...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 248 posts.
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NLnet announces funding for 67 more open-source projects
We are happy to announce that 67 new projects have been awarded grants today as part of the Next Generation Internet intiative, across three different funds: NGI Zero Commons Fund , NGI TALER and NGI Fediversity . We congratulate the developers and engineers involved with these projects, and thank them for their…
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Roku LT Operating System open source distribution
Roku provides the simplest way to stream entertainment to your TV. On your terms. With thousands of available channels to choose from.
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Alpine Linux 3.24.0 Released
Alpine Linux
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Guix for Development
This wonderful article by Marius Bakke (thanks for using Haunt btw!) about guix shell hit the orange website front page recently. I left a comment to the effect of “hell yeah I use it for all my projects!” and someone asked me for an example of what I do. I sent them some links but I thought hey, this could be a blog…
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What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical
In this blog I will look at some of the drivers for the growth of RISC-V, its value proposition and explain why supporting RISC-V is important to Canonical. […]
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Welcome to the Strip Mining Era of OSS Security
In 2026, LLM-powered code scanners are uncovering security vulnerabilities in open source projects at 10x the historical rate. Here's what OSS maintainers and users need to do about it.
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OpenTitan Shipping in Production
Google has worked with the open source communities to build OpenTitan, the first open source silicon Root of Trust (RoT).
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The Document Foundation ejects its core developers
Update 2026-04-07 Update: 2026-04-11 Update: 2026-04-17 Let’s kick the developers out! In the ongoing saga of The Document Foundation (TDF), their Membership Committee has decided to eject from membership all Collabora staff and partners. That includes over thirty people who have contributed faithfully to LibreOffice…
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NixOS 26.05
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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Burnout is real for open source maintainers
Lodash creator John-David Dalton reflects on the project’s growth, the pressures of maintaining software used across the world, and the personal journey that led to stepping back and eventually rebuilding a sustainable path forward.
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This Month in Ladybird – October 2026
CSS animations and hover that keep working while JavaScript is busy, a JavaScript JIT, a new WebAssembly engine, and a redesigned UI.
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Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate
An essential part of being able to say "I told you so" is in fact having told you so. Well, here we are. For those living under a rock (lucky
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The circus freaks of open source
The masterwork of Terry A. Davis is his eclectic operating system, TempleOS, which he worked on until his tragic death in 2018. In terms of technical excellence, TempleOS rates well in some respects and poorly in others. For example, it earns the achievement, coveted in OS dev circles, of being self-hosted. 1 TempleOS…
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Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
Today we present Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring, our anniversary release. Discover all the new features and get started with the new Nextcloud Hub.
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Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter
Pooya Esfandiar's Home Page
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California's Digital Age Assurance Act, and FOSS
These solely represent my own interpretation and opinions. Some parts might be wrong — actually — some parts will be wrong. Please tell me somewhere.
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Publishing Schematics Before “Open Source” Was a Word
The Akihabara institution that every Japanese maker knows — run on cash, instinct, and one founder’s restless curiosity
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PicoPCMCIA – a PCMCIA development board for retro-computing enthusiasts
This is a PCMCIA development board for retro-computing enthusiasts who want to experiment with audio, networking, and expansion on vintage laptops and mobile devices. While ISA users have enjoyed projects like PicoGUS and PicoMEM, PCMCIA users have long been limited to scarce legacy cards with narrow functionality …
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GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation
I am not a lawyer. This is provided solely for the purposes of general information and does not constitute legal advice, guidance, or counsel. No attorney-client relationship is established by the provision of this information, and no reliance should be placed on this information in lieu of seeking professional legal…
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Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter
Adventures in programming, hardware, DSP, and chiptune
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FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us
Our long-term payment provider Nexi has terminated our contract without prior notice. As a result, our supporters’ recurring credit card and direct debit d...
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The importance of communities around software
I've done a lot of activism for software freedom, over the years. At first it was purely for software freedom and related topics, (such as security, autonomy and privacy) but eventually this has evolved into something more holistic. I believe that the software I use should be held to higher ethical standards than only…
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