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Cameras and Open Source Smartphones: It’s Complicated
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,682 posts.
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FOSDEM 2022 will be online
FOSDEM 2022 will take place on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 February 2022. It will be an online event.
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Iroh-blobs
Learn about the new features in the new blobs API
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Getting a scientific prize for open-source software
Note An important acknowledgement for a different view of doing science: open, collaborative, and more than a proof of concept. A few days ago, Loïc Estève, Alexandre Gramfort, Olivier Grisel,...
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Mapillary in the OpenStreetMap iD Editor
As we have written in an earlier blog post, we have been working with the OpenStreetMap iD editor developers to integrate Mapillary as a source for editing OpenStreetMap.
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Precursor’s Custom PCBs
While the last few updates about Precursor have focused on evidence-based trust and security, this update is more about the process of making Precursor itself. There is an essential link between evidence-based trust and understanding the manufacturing process: to convince yourself that something has been constructed…
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Removing everything from GitHub
Github recently drafted an update to their Terms Of Service. The new TOS is potentially very bad for copylefted Free Software. It potentially neuters it entirely, so GPL licensed software hosted on Github has an implicit BSD-like license. I'll leave the full analysis to the lawyers, but see Thorsten's analysis .
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Microsoft makes AI tool for better search available as an open source project
Only a few years ago, web search was simple. Users typed a few words and waded through pages of results.
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Eclipse ThreadX
TL;DR – Get Engaged! Contact us to learn how to become part of the Eclipse ThreadX Interest Group Contribute to the project and join the ThreadX developer mailing list Stay connected by joini…
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Wayland in 2021
Running Wayland on Linux in 2021
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OpenBSD Desktop
I am a minimalist, and I tend to always keep it as small as I can, so I try to use all I have in base (if it fits), plus of course some other tools needed.
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Fedora 29
[This message comes directly from the desk of the Fedora Project Leader. — Ed.] In just one week, it will be fifteen years since we announced the release of Fedora Core 1. Now, we’re announcing the release of Fedora 29 — now not just “core”, but Workstation, Server, Atomic Host, a whole collection of desktop Spins […]
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Pumpkin OS: x64 port/re-implementation of PalmOS
Pumpkin is the name I have given to my port of PalmOS running on the x86 architecture. Please refer to this article for basic information on this project. Also look for other articles in the PalmOS…
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Qubes-Lite with KVM and Wayland
I've been running QubesOS as my main desktop since 2015. It provides good security, by running applications in different Xen VMs. However, it is also …
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Threema Goes Open Source
Threema Goes Open Source, Welcomes New Partner
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What does Overture Map mean for the future of OpenStreetMap?
Personal blog of Andriy Holovin. A little about everything.
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Announcing Docker Machine Beta
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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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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Open Sourcing Our SDKs
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NVK is now ready for prime time
As of today, NVK is now a conformant Vulkan 1.3 implementation on Turing (RTX 2000 and GTX 1600 series), Ampere (RTX 3000 series), and Ada (RTX 4000 series) GPUs.
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Stellarium 0.19
The major changes of this version: 5 new sky cultures Refactoring the code: many improvements and fixes Added many DSO textures Many improvements for Scripti...
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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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Announcing DatHTTPD
Serve sites over Dat and HTTPS, with automatic certificate provision.
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RubyGems.org gem replacement security vulnerability and mitigation
Summary RubyGems.org contained a bug that could allow an attacker to replace some .gem files on our servers with a different file that they supplied. We deployed a partial fix on April 2nd and a co...
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A Comment on Mozilla's Policy Changes
A short commentary on Mozilla's policy changes and how they affect the user community.