Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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FOSS Week in Review: Kali Cleans House, Kalendar Becomes Merkuro, Brave’s Unfree Assistant, & More…
Well, ya might have noticed that I somehow missed last week’s FWIR. Busy, busy, busy, which unfortunately means that forces other than FOSS Force are vying for my time. I’ll be writing about that next week…maybe. Look for it, it’ll be an interesting read if I do, a tale filled with cancer surgery (not me but in my home), followed by emergency brain surgery (also, not me but in my home), all in the midst of losing the home we’ve been renting for 30 years (just when rentals are either not available or priced so high that my retirement savings be gone in a few years).
Oy vey.
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Jean-François Fortin Tam: Why I picked the biggest furry elephant as my microblogging platform (and refuse to self-host a Mastodon server)
This article will require between 1 and 2 minutes of your attention if you read only the first half; obviously double that if you also feel like reading the second (more philosophical & strategic) half.
As you may know, in addition to this blog here, I have also been microblogging very actively for years (whether on Twitter or on LinkedIn), particularly the day-to-day / work-in-progress of my Free & Open Source software contributions across GNOME and the FreeDesktop, and that habit shall outlive Twitter’s 2022-2023 chaotic hostile takeover and sabotage by its new majority shareholder/owner. I have (reluctantly) found refuge in the shire that is the fediverse, a quirky platform filled with countless technical & usability challenges, but eh, what else have we got left? Tis the last bastion we have (we’ll see what happens when Meta/Facebook “enters the chat”, will it be like what happened with XMPP? 🤷)…
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What to expect from Open Source Summit Europe 2023 [Ed: Adrian Bridgwater still running ads/puff pieces for LF]
Just for a (welcome) change, the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team is not off to San Francisco, Las Vegas, Barcelona, Boston or London’s glittering ExCeL centre, this time it’s Bilbao.
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6 open source GRC tools compliance professionals should know
Organizations must meet a variety of regulatory compliance requirements today. Here's a look at six open source GRC tools and related resources that might help.
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Pinning your SQLite version across environments
The project I'm currently working on only has a single external dependency: SQLite, with full text search enabled. As a result, the application is extremely easy to package and run. However, I found out that ensuring that you have the exact same SQLite version and feature set in all your environments (development machines running macOS and linux, CI and production) is trickier than I expected.
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MariaDB's revenue grows as new CEO settles in, but bank loan discussions continue
MariaDB reported $13.0 million total revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2023 and annual recurring revenue of $55.0 million, an increase of 14 percent year-on-year. Operational losses narrowed to $12.2 million for the quarter, down from $13.1 million in the same period last year.
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Save the Date: November 2023 FreeBSD Vendor Summit
Mark your calendars! The November 2023 FreeBSD Vendor Summit will take place November 2-3, 2023 at the NetApp Campus in San Jose, CA. The Vendor Summit will feature a single track of talks on both days.
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CVE-2020-19909 is everything that is wrong with CVEs
The new CVE has an ID containing 2020 and that is weird. When you register a CVE you typically get it with the year you request it. Unless you get an ID for an old problem of the past. Is that what they did?
Sources seem to indicate that this was published just days ago.