today's leftovers
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The Kubuntu Focus Team Announces kfocus-source [Ed: Do they understand that GitHub is proprietary software controlled by their main competition? GitHub business model: create a company that offers 'free' (at a LOSS) hosting to millions of developers, then hand over control to the company looking to squash them, violate the licence etc. The money or the "payday" comes from the betrayal and defection.]
The Kubuntu Focus team today announced the immediate availability of kfocus-source, a unified GitHub repository containing the Kubuntu Focus Suite. This software has always been published under the GPLv2 license, but now with kfocus-source, it’s easier to review and contribute within the standard GitHub interface.
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A dip in Alder Lake with an HP EliteBook is not refreshing • The Register
The HP, however, hated running Handbrake in an Ubuntu VM under VMware Workstation and crawled over the file conversion finish line after more than 30 minutes. The combination of VMware and Ubuntu has often proven problematic in my tests, so I shan't single out this machine for condemnation on its late arrival.
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Aiven Introduces an open source streaming ecosystem for Apache Kafka
Finland-based Aiven, an open source cloud data platform provider, has announced a complete open source streaming ecosystem for Apache Kafka, delivering a robust and fully open source real-time data ecosystem with the latest additions of its beta service of Aiven for Apache Flink, a stream processing framework, and Klaw, a data governance tool for Apache Kafka.
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FOSS Weekly #22.46: Coherent OS, Firefox ESR, AppImages and More
The highlight of this edition of FOSS Weekly is the interview with Vanilla OS creator. Would you like to read more such interactions? If yes, who should we interview next from the Linux world? I welcome your suggestion.
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Over a decade of anti-tracking work at Mozilla [Ed: No, Mozilla helps many companies, Google included, spy on Firefox users]
I joined the Firefox privacy and security team in 2016. For years, the privacy engineers here at Mozilla have known that online trackers use every identifier they can get to track and re-identify people all over the internet. Over the last six years, I’ve been able to contribute to Private Browsing, Tracking Protection, Containers, Monitor, Relay and other privacy features and products. In all that time, in the back of my mind, I always felt like we weren’t protecting all the major identifiers… yet. In October, we launched Firefox Relay phone masking, a major milestone in years of anti-tracking work by Mozillians past and present. Now, we can protect four major identifiers: cookies, IP addresses, email addresses and phone numbers.
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What’s up with SUMO - December 2022 – The Mozilla Support Blog
It’s been a while since our last monthly update. Ever since our internal dashboard was broken, we didn’t have an easy way to export the platform data. Now that we got access to our data back, let’s talk about what we’ve missed.
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Oregon Tech faculty turn to open source materials to save students more than $1.2 million in textbook costs
Oregon Tech faculty are partnering with Oregon Tech Library’s Open Educational Resources (OER) program to reduce student costs associated with textbook materials, and over the past three years have saved Oregon Tech students $1,216,866 in textbook costs.
According to University Librarian John Schoppert, OER are freely accessible, high-quality coursework materials made accessible to students to alleviate the high costs of mainstream publisher textbooks. OER describes openly licensed materials and resources for any user to use, remix, reuse, repurpose, and redistribute.
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Discover more YH4F projects and learn about the participants Héctor and Leonardo
Are you thinking about registering for the second edition of Youth Hacking 4 Freedom? But you are not yet sure? Two participants from the last edition, Héctor and Leonardo, talked with us about the projects they developed and their journey throughout the Free Software world! Discover their experiences during the first edition of YH4F.
While the second edition of the YH4F contest is now open for registration, the first edition of the Youth Hacking 4 Freedom contest has ended with 35 amazingly well done projects. There are no limits to the possibilities of projects that could be submitted and every technical idea is welcome. Among those great inspiring ones were Héctor's and Leonardo's projects: LibreHomework and Presents, respectively.
Leonardo is studying Computer Science Engineering in Milan. He has been an active member of the European Youth Parliament since 2019 and among his hobbies was already hacking, even before participating in the contest. Our second guest is Héctor, the youngest winner of the first edition of the Youth Hacking 4 Freedom contest. Héctor has always been interested in science and in understanding the world around him in greater detail. He has created LibreHomework out of the desire to help others with learning and organising their homework.
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QA/Dev Report: November 2022 - LibreOffice QA Blog