Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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flak is activated
ActivityPub August rolls on. Now with more (some) ActivityPub support in flak.
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Mozilla Bricking Firefox ESR Deliberately. This Code Breaks Tor Browser Too.
What seems to have happened is that they patched support for ffmpeg 4 out of Firefox and BACKPORTED it to 102 ESR for no reason, meanwhile they also didn’t add support for ffmpeg 6.
(Even though ffmpeg 4 is a currently supported stable branch upstream.)
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New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 13.0a3 (Android, Windows, macOS, Linux)
Tor Browser 13.0a3 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.
This release updates Firefox to 115.2.0esr, including bug fixes, stability improvements and important security updates. Android-specific security updates from Firefox 117 are not yet available, but will be part of the next alpha release scheduled in two weeks.
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Office 365 and Google Docs Are Not the Solution to IBM Deleting LibreOffice From Red Hat and Fedora.
It’s amazingly worse than a non-Free set of binaries on your computer. It’s even worse than non-Free binaries with “product activation”. If you told me 20 years ago that there was going to be something worse than proprietary binaries with a leash, I would have not believed it. But it’s here.