Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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Matt Cool ☛ You Can Have an Open Source Personal Assistant in 2024
Open Source devs from around the globe are banding together and stepping in to solve the problems of gluing together this tech to give us the smart assistants that companies wont. Private, local, extensible helpers that can be fully customized to our needs.
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Hackaday ☛ FLOSS Weekly Episode 766: WebRTC — The Hack That Connects Everyone To Everything
This week Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch talk with Sean DuBois, WebRTC wizard, all about the crazy feats the Pion Go server is capable of, how WebRTC is about to change OBS, and what it looks like to build a successful Open Source Career.
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Polarhive ☛ Here’s a rant about—life, exams, FOSS stuff & the tangled mess that my uni courses have become
For the past four months or so — I’ve been juggling university coursework, restarting social-media (ahem Instagram); attending hackathons and meeting new people at college. I have not really managed my time well. I wanted to re-start my YouTube channel, manage my time better and was seeking to be more independent. I have really become self-aware of the choices I have borne.
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Taler ☛ New EU project NGI TALER will bring private and secure online payments to the Eurozone
NGI TALER is funded as a pilot under the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative within the European Commission's Horizon Europe research funding program. This project is based on the free software GNU Taler which has been developed by the GNU community and Taler Systems S.A., and which has received wide praise from financial experts including experts from several central banks - including the Swiss National Bank (SNB). The goal is to make GNU Taler available as payment system via two European banks - GLS Bank (Germany) and MagNet Bank (Hungary). NGI TALER's ambition is to reach the European market during the project period and have the payment mechanism accepted and widely adopted by the end of the project.
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BSD
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Nico Cartron ☛ In love with FreeBSD Jails
I have replaced a bunch of small bare-metal servers that were previously running Debian, and moved them to Jails.
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