today's leftovers
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Best Free and Open Source Software – November 2022 Updates - LinuxLinks
Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software. For November, we have updated a few existing articles and expanded our collection. Given the fallout of Twitter and the increasing popularity of Mastodon, we’ve recommended both the best text-based and graphical clients.
We’ve also published a few new articles in the fields of utilities, video, web apps, and graphics.
As always, we love receiving your suggestions for new articles or additional open source software to feature. Let us know in the Comments box below or drop us an email.
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Share Your Experience: The 2022 WordPress Survey is Open - WordPress News
Each year, members of the WordPress community (users, site builders, extenders, and contributors) provide valuable feedback through an annual survey. Key takeaways and trends that emerge from this survey often find their way into the annual State of the Word address, are shared in the public project blogs, and can influence the direction and strategy for the WordPress project.
Simply put: this survey helps those who build WordPress understand more about how the software is used, and by whom. The survey also helps leaders in the WordPress open source project learn more about our contributors’ experiences.
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Paul Wise: FLOSS Activities November 2022
This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
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Post-mortem: Downtime on November 30, 2022 - Open Build Service
After yesterday’s deployment, we faced a downtime on our reference server. We want to share with you a detailed explanation of what happened.
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JRG Systems - Migrating to Vultr from Oracle Cloud
After a bit of “soul searching” and annoyances from Oracle Cloud that began to pile up (the traffic management layer is very Oracle-ish), I migrated away from the free tier of Oracle Cloud’s offering to a small VM from Vultr. This time I installed OpenBSD.
Running a small webserver with OpenBSD is a breeze! I always knew this in an abstract sense but never deployed one myself. Basically, all it took was spinning up the instance on vultr.com, installing a couple packages, setting up the webserver httpd in base, and using acme-client (also in base) to pull down a certificate for the website.
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Lilbits: Kindle Scribe reviews, the NUC Pro’s new look, and Linux graphics on Apple Silicon
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GoToSocial on OpenBSD, a Fediverse adventure
In early 2019, I got fed up with Twitter Ads and recommendations etc. So I started looking for alternatives and read about Mastodon. As I was especially looking for OpenBSD news, tricks etc, I finally landed on bsd.network. It turned out to be a really nice place to hang out ; and not BSD-centric at all. People there are great. And MastoAdmins are kind and caring people.
A couple of years later, I decided that I would host my own instance on the Fediverse. And the journey began.
There were no particular reasons to host my on instance server. And as one say: only because you can does not mean you should. But this is how I learn things.
So I created a bunch of accounts in various Fediverse instances using Mastodon, Friendica, PixelFed, Misskey, GNUsocial, Pleroma. I also installed Honk and GoToSocial. Then I started testing how they all worked together. And I finally decided to go with GoToSocial .
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KDE e.V. board sprint, Berlin | [bobulate]
In two weeks, the board of KDE e.V. – and take note that photo of me is before 3 years of COVID-hair – will convene in Berlin for one of our board sprints.
The board meets weekly online, using the Big Blue Button infrastructure that KDE has for meetings, online get-togethers, virtual sprints and hybrid conferences. In an hour or two we get through the week’s “needs doing now” and “approve this request from the membership or community” items. But some things are not very well suited for online discussion. Sometimes we need to physically sign papers (Germany, old-fashioned, etc.). And of course, drinking tea together is what really makes a team.