today's leftovers
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2023-09-11 [Older] Linux Weekly Roundup #252
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The 7 Best PDF-to-Word Converters for Linux [Ed: Well, better yet, convert to ODF, which is a Free and Open standard]
Have you ever felt the need to edit or customize your PDFs with the ease and familiarity of a Word document? If so, you can use PDF-to-Word converters that are designed to transform static PDF documents into editable Word files, suitable for Linux users of all levels of expertise.
Whether your goal is streamlined document collaboration, preservation of complex formatting, or user-friendly conversion, here are the best Linux-based PDF-to-Word converters.
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Beaver Notes: A Private Open-Source Note-Taking App
Are you looking for a privacy-focused, note-taking app?
Well, then, we stumbled upon just the right thing for you!
Beaver Notes is an open-source, cross-platform note-taking app that stores notes locally, foregoing any risk of data breaches and allowing for offline access to the stored notes.
I think it can make its way to our list of best note-taking apps for Linux soon.
Allow me to take you through this app; I also share my initial impressions below.
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On the importance of distfiles
I've been involved with the OpenBSD ports collection since 2015, and have accumulated some notes on the topic over the years. This is an attempt at doing a redacted version, mostly for my personal use.
It will come at no surprise that distfiles are at the core of the problem domain. The ports system fetches distribution files, most often tarballs, verifies their checksum and starts building programs. In order to be able to reliably build packages from the source tarballs, we need both availability and integrity.
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2023-09-12 [Older] Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, August 2023 (by Roberto C. Sánchez)
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Linux Foundation and Fujitsu Release New AI Technologies as Open Source Ahead of Europe Summit
The Linux Foundation approved the incubation of two new projects, “SapientML” and “Intersectional Fairness” on August 24 to encourage developers worldwide to further experiment and innovate with AI and machine learning technologies, with plans to host future activities like hackathons to engage and build a community to promote open source AI.
With these projects, Fujitsu and the Linux Foundation aim to further democratize AI to realize a world in which developers everywhere can easily and securely use the latest technologies on open platforms to create new applications and find innovative solutions to challenges facing business and society.