Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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Lee Yingtong Li ☛ GIMP 3.0 plug-in for exporting JBIG2-encoded PDF files
JBIG2 is an efficient image compression format for bi-level (bi-tonal) images, which is supported by the PDF file format and common PDF viewers, but which lacks widely available tooling for its generation. GIMP is an open-source image editing suite, which has the capacity to output multipage PDF files, but does not support exporting in the JBIG2 format. jbig2enc is an open-source encoder for JBIG2 images; however, as a command-line tool it is somewhat cumbersome to integrate into a standard document-editing workflow.
GIMP has recently released version 3.0 RC1, finalising the 3.0 version of its plugin API. In view of this, I present file-jbig2pdf, a GIMP 3.0 plugin for exporting JBIG2-encoded PDF files, with support for multipage PDFs.
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Andrew Hutchings ☛ Joining wolfSSL - LinuxJedi's /dev/null
wolfSSL is probably the most versatile open source encryption library in existence. It is designed to run on very lightweight embedded platforms all the way to big iron servers, with the ability to use math and cryptographic accelerations where available. Even a port for the 68000 CPUs used in Commodore Amigas available.
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SaaS/Back End/Databases
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Dan Langille ☛ Loading up an old copy of a PostgreSQL database, zfs snapshots, and sanoid snapshot management
Sometimes you want to go back to a known good state. And you want to do it quickly, without waiting around. In my case, that’s going to be a zfs snapshot.
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Licensing / Legal
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The Register UK ☛ Bitwarden switches password manager and SDK to GPL3
Fear not, FOSS fans. Bitwarden isn't going proprietary after all. The company has changed its license terms once again – but this time, it has switched the license of its software development kit from its own homegrown one to version three of the GPL instead.
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Deccan Chronicle ☛ Social media platforms warned on live court videos
The Telangana High Court cautioned social media platforms, individuals, video-makers, media agencies and the general public against unauthorised use or sharing of live-streamed videos of court proceedings.
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