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I received my first donation on my open-source side project
I decided to build an extension for VSCode. That would add handy buttons for many common commands like save file, format file, show opened files etc.
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Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code
It takes the most exquisite measurements you can imagine, recording the changes in current associated with different bits of DNA.
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Flatpak Is Not the Future
Deploying apps for the Linux desktop is hard. A major problem has historically been library compatibility. Different Linux distributions, and even different versions of the same distribution, have had incompatible libraries. Unfortunately, there hasn’t always been a culture of backwards compatibility on the Linux…
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K-9 Mail is looking for funding
K-9 Mail is looking to raise money to fund development.
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Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software
Posted by Dan Lorenc, Infrastructure Security Team Memory-safety vulnerabilities have dominated the security field for years and often lead ...
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0 A.D. Alpha 24: Xšayāršā
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of 0 A.D. Alpha 24: “Xšayāršā” (pronounced: Khsha-ya-ṛsha), …
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Asahi Linux for M1 Macs Progress October-November 2021
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Blender 3.x roadmap
Ton Roosendaal shares on what's next after Blender 3.0 and beyond.
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How We Ported Linux to the M1
Virtual iOS, Android, and Arm devices to speed up security testing, research, and DevSecOps for security teams, mobile pentesters, and software developers.
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Open-sourcing the MuJoCo physics simulator for robotics
When you walk, your feet make contact with the ground. When you write, your fingers make contact with the pen. Physical contacts are what makes interaction with the world possible. Yet, for such a common occurrence, contact is a surprisingly complex phenomenon. Taking place at microscopic scales at the interface of…
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NixOS on Framework Laptop
The time has come to replace the work laptop (thanks, Mozilla!). Here is an adventure of setting up NixOS on a Framework laptop. I’m writing this on it right...
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Software Freedom Conservancy files GPL lawsuit against Vizio
The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
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Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks
We’re releasing Triton 1.0, an open-source Python-like programming language which enables researchers with no CUDA experience to write highly efficient GPU code—most of the time on par with what an expert would be able to produce.
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Thunderbird 91.0
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!
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My simple GitHub project went viral
I made a simple project which got spread in various tech communities and social media. Github featured it in 'Trending repositories of day' section
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Google Summer of Code in 2022 – No longer limited to students
Over the course of GSoC’s 17 years, open source has grown and evolved, and we’ve realized that the program needs to evolve as well. With that in mind,
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Pwned passwords, open source in the .NET foundation and working with the FBI
I've got 2 massive things to announce today that have been a long time in the works and by pure coincidence, have aligned such that I can share them together here today. One you would have been waiting for and one totally out of left field. Both these announcements
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Pulumi 3.0
Announcing Pulumi 3.0, the next major version of the Pulumi open source project.
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The modern packager’s security nightmare
One of the most important tasks of the distribution packager is to ensure that the software shipped to our users is free of security vulnerabilities. While finding and fixing the vulnerable code is…
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NixOS 21.05
This section lists the release notes for each stable version of NixOS and current unstable revision.
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ScummVM 2.5 “Twenty years ago today”
Twenty years ago today, on Tue Oct 9 16:30:12 2001, Ludvig Strigeus pushed the initial revision of the ScummVM code, which was version 0.0.1 of the project. Time flew quickly and, fast-forward to the present day, we are proudly releasing ScummVM 2.5…
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The Search for a Free/Open Source Mobile Operating System
For the last few weeks, I've been running CalyxOS . It is the latest in Free/Open Source mobile phone operating systems that I've used. This post is a summary of my experience using FLOSS mobile OSes and what my experience can tell us not only about phones, but Free/Open Source OSes in general.
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WordPress 18
Today marks eighteen years since the very first release of WordPress. I consider myself so lucky to have co-founded the project alongside Mike Little. Who could have imagined that our nights and we…