This is a bit genuine red meat and perhaps a little sensitive for some people but it does raise a point that deserves discussion. A shorthand for that point is the title of today’s post. A more descriptive way of describing it is, “Is the FSF’s demand for purity actually harming the users they’re striving to protect?”
We rarely, if ever, make responses to blog posts or articles. In fact, there is only one instance that I can think of when we did so. So then, somewhat uncharacteristically, this is a response post to Martijn Braam’s blog in which he explains why he left the PINE64 community. Let’s get one thing out of the way first…
My feelings about OpenBSD and NixOS, trying to figure out where each is the best
LocalStack 1.0 is generally available with 80+ AWS services, the AWS Server Framework, parity testing, reworked Cloud Pods, Extensions, and IAM enforcement.
The ultra-secure embedded Ubuntu introduces support for real-time compute in robotics and industrial applications. 15 June 2022: Canonical today announced that Ubuntu Core 22, the fully containerised Ubuntu 22.04 LTS variant optimised for IoT and edge devices, is now generally available for download from…
Clear upgrades, incidents, CVEs, and tickets with infra agents grounded in production. They run in your environment, and every change lands as a PR you review.
New SBCL versions are usually released at the end of each month: check the Sourceforge File List to see the current version. The new features of all SBCL releases are listed below.
For downloading the new release and to see a more detailed list of important changes, please head over to GitHub . If you already have restic (0.9.4 or later), you can use the self-update command to automatically download and verify the new release.
I’m not a POWER (or recently: Power) expert, only an enthusiastic user and advocate. Still, in the past couple of weeks a number of people from around the world asked my opinion how the POWER architecture could be kept relevant. This blog is really just an opinion, as I do not have the financial means to go ahead. It…
Webzine created by volunteers who are passionate about the OpenBSD project development.
How LocalStack's AWS Server Framework and snapshot testing framework keep its AWS emulation in parity with changes to AWS APIs.
UPDATE Feb 17, 2023: David Thompson presented a walk-trough about how he implemented the Networked Garden game at DecentSocial 2023
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New SBCL versions are usually released at the end of each month: check the Sourceforge File List to see the current version. The new features of all SBCL releases are listed below.
Thank you everyone for your comments and considerations over the past couple of days regarding our announcement on October 25, 2022. We know the Gitea community is involved and passionate about our shared project and that’s why we’ve been taking the time to listen to your feedbac
Recently [the Python Package Index](https://pypi.org/) announced that they will be implementing new account-security policies, and hoo boy are some people …
This release should put us at about half way through the planned work for the networking focus set of releases (0.6.x), a scope roughly defined by the article on A12: Advancing network transparency…
Wasmer attempted to register the WebAssembly trademark. ## We shouldn't have done that. We're sorry. We won't do it again. _Update: post edited on Feb...
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