Free Software Leftovers
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System76 ☛ Pioneering Japan's self-driving cars on open source software
Thelio Astra is set to accelerate Tier IV towards autonomous self-driving.
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Raku
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Rakulang ☛ Rakudo Weekly 2024.44 Issues Fallen
Elizabeth Mattijsen has looked on all outstanding Rakudo issues, closed quite a few of them and then blogged about it in Raku Fall Issue Cleanup (going from 1312 to 778 open issues). Quite an impressive feat, if I say so myself :-).
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Education
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RIPE ☛ RIPE 89 Daily Meeting Blog
RIPE 89 is the fourth time that a RIPE Meeting is being held in beautiful Prague, resplendent in its autumnal colours. You can view the slides, you can watch the recordings, but if you're wondering what's really happening at RIPE 89, read the daily meeting blog!
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PowerDNS ☛ FOSDEM 2025 DNS Developer Room Call for Participation
After several earlier successful and packed DNS devrooms, we are happy to announce another half-day DNS devroom at FOSDEM 2025.
As with the previous events, we hope to host talks anywhere from hardcore protocol stuff, to practical sessions for programmers that are not directly involved with DNS but may have to deal with DNS in their day to day coding or system administrators responsible for DNS infrastructure.
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Bert Hubert ☛ Life Long Learning: Dealing With New Things
On the 22nd of October, I presented at the annual conference of my beloved NLNOG, the community of Dutch network operators. NLNOG is a national treasure, an international treasure even, since we do everything in English.
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RIPE ☛ Join the DNS Hackathon 2025
Netnod, DNS-OARC and the RIPE NCC invite you to join us for our second joint DNS Hackathon in Stockholm. The event takes place from 15 - 16 March 2025, the weekend before NETNOD meeting.
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[Old] FOSDEM ☛ FOSDEM 2025 - FOSDEM 2025 call for stands
FOSDEM 2025 will take place at the ULB on the 1st and 2nd of February 2025. As has become traditional, we offer free and open source projects a stand to display their work "in real life" to the audience.
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Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
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Document Foundation ☛ FOSDEM 2025: LibreOffice Technology DevRoom Call for Papers
FOSDEM 2025 will be only in person, taking place on Saturday, February 1, and Sunday, February 2. LibreOffice Technology DevRoom is scheduled for the morning of Saturday, February 1, from 10AM to 2PM.
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Document Foundation ☛ Community Member Monday: Ritobroto Mukherjee
Tell us a bit about yourself! I live in Delhi, India, where I’m working my way towards a bachelor’s degree in IT with a focus on network security at Netaji Subhas University of Technology. My journey into programming began with QBASIC in school, sparking a love for coding.
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Databases
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Martijn Braam ☛ Building a timeseries database for fun
Something like having a daily total of a measurement as a bar graph to have some long-term history with keeping the bars aligned to the day boundary instead of 24 hour offsets based on my current time. Or being able to actually query the data from a single month to get a total instead of querying chunks of 30.5 days.
But most importantly, writing software is fun and I want to write something that does this for me. Not everything has to scale to every usecase from a single raspberry pi to a list of fortune 500 company logos on your homepage.
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SQLite ☛ Database Remote-Copy Tool For SQLite
1. The database files must both be in WAL mode, and must have the same page-size.
2. While sqlite3_rsync is running, REPLICA is read-only. Queries can be run against REPLICA while this utility is running, just not write transactions.
3. Only a single database is synchronized for each invocation of this utility. It is not (yet) possible to synchronize many different databases using wildcards, as it is with standard "rsync".
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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University of Toronto ☛ The question of whether to still allow HTTP/1.0 requests or block them
The pragmatic answer starts with the observation that HTTP/1.1 is now 25 years old, and any software that is talking HTTPS to you is demonstrably able to deal with standards that are more recent than that (generally much more recent, as sites require TLS 1.2 or better). And as a practical matter, pure HTTP/1.0 clients can't talk to many websites because such websites are name-based virtual hosts where the web server software absolutely requires a HTTP Host header before it will serve the website to you. If you leave out the Host header, at best you will get some random default site, perhaps a stub site.
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