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PeerTube 6.3

This is the last minor release before v7, but it's packed with interesting new features! Let's have a look :) Separate audio and video streams for mor...

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Affordable Wheel Based Refreshable Braille Display

On HN [1] I came into contact with Mahmoud Al-Qudsi ( mqudsi@neosmart.net ) , who mentioned that he'd been working off-and-on on a braille reader that is both affordable and easy to manufacture. He sent me a some files and pointed to a patent [2] that he took out on a device that uses octagonal wheels with codes on…

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The Bevy Foundation

It is with excitement that I unveil to the world ... The Bevy Foundation is the next step in our journey to build a world class free and open source …

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Why Oxide Chose Illumos

Servers in the Oxide Rack will form the backbone of both the compute and storage services available to customers. The rack will be composed of a variety of hardware and software components, some of which represent resource-constrained or inflexible environments; e.g., the Service Processor (SP) or Hardware Root Of…

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25 Years of Krita

Halla Rempt Twenty-five years. A quarter century. That's how long we've been working on Krita. Well, what would become Krita. It started out as KImageShop, but that name was nuked by a now long-dead German lawyer. Then it was renamed to Krayon, and that name was also nuked. Then it was renamed to Krita, and that name…

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Debian Git Monorepo

Lars Wirzenius Consulting Ltd has created a Git repository with the source code of Debian 12 (bookworm), the main component. It's one repository for all the source code, as one commit. It's a monorepo .

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Firefox 125

NOTE: Due to a high-severity quality issue discovered shortly before release, the 125.0 release was skipped in favor of 125.0.1.

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The new PostgreSQL 17 make dist

When the PostgreSQL project makes a release, the primary artifact of that is the publication of a source code tarball. That represents the output of all the work that went into the creation of the PostgreSQL software up to the point of the release. The source tarball is then used downstream by packagers to make binary…

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Redict 7.3.0, a copyleft fork of Redis, is now available

The Redict community is pleased to announce the release of Redict 7.3.0, the first stable version of our copyleft fork of Redis® OSS 7.2.4.1 You can download the release on Codeberg, or download one of our official container images from registry.redict.io. We have written comprehensive documentation detailing our…