Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards
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Krita ☛ Krita Monthly Update - Edition 20 | Krita
The development team has declared a "Bug Hunt Month" running through November, and needs the community's help to decide what to do with each and every one of the hundreds of open bug reports on the bug tracker. Which reports are valid and need to be fixed? Which ones need more info or are already resolved?
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Chris ☛ Opening any CLI in Emacs
Some clis are not built on readline, and they are a pain to use. There’s no support for editing the input, and every keypress inserts characters – even backspace and arrow keys. Interaction with these clis might end up looking something like
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TecMint ☛ Jan: An Open Source ChatGPT-Alternative That Runs 100% Offline
While these services offer powerful features, they require an internet connection and often store your data on third-party servers, which leads to questions about how secure or private your data is when using these platforms.
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Linux Handbook ☛ LHB GNU/Linux Digest #24.20: New Course Launched, Shebang, Quotes, Crontab, Docker with GPU and More
Kubernetes Operator course is now available!
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Medevel ☛ Top 10 Open-Source Free Tools for Docker Volume Backup and Recovery
Think of Docker Volumes as special storage boxes that keep your important data safe and sound, even when your Docker containers take a break or need a fresh start. It's like having a secure storage unit that stays put while everything else moves around!
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Openwashing
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Open Source Initiative ☛ ClearlyDefined v2.0 adds support for LicenseRefs [Ed: OSI is no longer even hiding the fact that it is a Microsoft front group, run by Microsoft stuff to promote proprietary prisons]
We are excited to announce the release of ClearlyDefined v2.0 which adds over 2,000 new well-known licenses it can identify. You can see the complete list of new non-SPDX licenses in ScanCode LicenseDB.
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Standards/Web
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Cory Dransfeldt ☛ Social media's broken (and that's awesome)
Want to follow news? Pick up an RSS reader and skip algorithmic noise.
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Nicolas Magand ☛ Some thoughts on RSS and newsletters
When you're tired of all the advertising, surveillance, tracking, and invasive website modals and banners, you start appreciating how wonderful reading articles via RSS can be. Everything is preloaded, mostly text, and the layout is consistently usable across publications. The RSS reader app is by far my favourite way to read new articles.
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European Commission ☛ Digital product passport – rules for service providers
In the context of the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, the digital product passport (DPP) has been introduced as a tool to provide easy access to digital information on products’ sustainability, circularity and legal compliance.
The Commission intends to adopt a delegated act laying down rules on the operation of DPP service providers, an essential component of the wider DPP governance.
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Mozilla
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Mozilla ☛ A civic tech creative on modernizing government sites, MySpace coding and pre-internet memories [Ed: Mozilla writes "internet" with small i and doesn't seem to know much about the internet; It's also clear that Mozilla does not know the difference between the Web and the "internet"; Mozilla is a joke! Mozilla does not understand the Internet existed in the 1970s. But really, the simplest explanation is, Mozilla has been consumed by political movements.]
Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit the internet isn’t perfect, but we know the internet is pretty darn magical. The internet opens up doors and opportunities, allows for human connection, and lets everyone find where they belong — their corners of the internet. We all have an internet story worth sharing. In My Corner Of The Internet, we talk with people about the online spaces they can’t get enough of, the sites and forums that shaped them, and what reclaiming the internet really looks like.
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The Servo Blog: Behind the code: an interview with msub2
Behind the Code is a new series of interviews with the contributors who help propel Servo forward. Ever wondered why people choose to work on web browsers, or how they get started? We invite you to look beyond the project’s pull requests and issue reports, and get to know the humans who make it happen.
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Events
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Daniel Stenberg ☛ The 2024 Workshop, day two
The fun continues. See day one. In an office building close to the Waterloo station in London, around 40 persons again sat down at this giant table forming a big square that made it possible for us all to see each other. One by one there were brief presentations done with follow-up discussions.
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The people around the table represent Ericsson, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly, Mozilla, Varnish. Caddy, Nginx, Haproxy, Tomcat, Adobe and curl and probably a few more I forget now. One could say with some level of certainty that a large portion of every day HTTP traffic in the world is managed by things managed by people present here.
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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Ubuntu ☛ Join Canonical in Paris at Dell Technologies Forum
Dates Tuesday, 19 November
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