Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 11, 2024

• Jack Baty ☛ Today's battle, Kirby vs Hugo

  [...] Now I'm mad at Kirby and back to eyeballing Hugo.

• Hackaday ☛ Open Source Needs A New Mission: Protecting Users

  [Bruce Perens] isn’t very happy with the current state of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), and an article by [Rupert Goodwins] expounds on this to explain Open Source’s need for a new mission in 2024, and beyond. He suggests a focus shift from software, to data.

• Education

  • Dan Lynch ☛ FLOSS WEEKLY Is Reborn

    You can find the show over at Hackaday and subscribe now to the new feed. It’s mostly an audio show again which if I’m honest I prefer, but there is live video of the recording you can interact with via the Hackaday Discord should you wish to. The live chat and listener interaction has always been important. I was on a show recently with Neil Gompa as our guest and it was great fun. Hopefully it’s good fun to listen to as well. Jonathan has really revitalised the show and he’s in the process of building up the listener base again. That’s partly why I wanted to write this post. To explain what happened and also highlight what is happening going forward. I will update the RSS feed which imports here on my site to the new Hackaday one. The many co-hosts you’re familiar with from FLOSS Weekly will still be on board and if you haven’t listened in a while I encourage you to give it a go. I’m really enjoying it as a listener, not just a co-host. It’s become a regular part of my weekly listening.

• PostgreSQL/Databases

  • PostgreSQL ☛ Benetl, a free ETL tool for PostgreSQL, out in version 5.8

    Dear all,

    Benetl, a free ETL tool for files working with PostgreSQL, version 5.8.0 is out.

    This version uses Java 17 and has been tested with PostgreSQL 16. This version brings great code improvements (code quality) and a better unit tests coverage (over 71% code coverage).

    Correcting a small problem in createFunctionIntervalDate database function.

  • Dan Slimmon ☛ Why transaction order matters, even if you’re only reading

    This last guarantee is one against serialization anomalies. A serialization anomaly is any sequence of events that produces a result that would be impossible if those transactions ran one-at-a-time (“in serial”). This guarantee is tricky to reason about, but the Postgres docs have a great example to demonstrate it.