Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Openwashing
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Joel Chrono ☛ Managing my storage with gdu and czkawka
Of course that stuff like neovim or bat are my most used tools in general, but one category of tool that I have used consistently over the years has been that of disk usage management.
My go to on the terminal is gdu, a disk usage analyzer similar to ncdu, which usually comes by default in some distros.
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CNX Software ☛ The OpenVoiceOS Foundation aims to enable open-source privacy and customization for voice assistants
The OpenVoiceOS Foundation, or OVOS Foundation for shorts, is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing open-source voice assistant technology and offers an open-source privacy-focus alternative to voice assistant by large companies like Amazon, Google, and Apple. One of the founders, Peter Steenbergen (j1nx), explained to us it all started when he read an article on CNX Software about Mycroft Mark II voice assistant hardware in 2018.
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Applications
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SANS ☛ Wireshark 4.4.4 Released, (Sun, Feb 23rd)
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Linuxiac ☛ PhotoPrism AI-Powered Photos App Released Its First 2025 Update
The first PhotoPrism update for 2025 brings a sleek UI, hybrid photo-video viewer, and 3D Earth view for Places—plus some usability and performance enhancements.
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Linuxiac ☛ Docker Hub Drops Pull Consumption Fees
Docker Hub remains free of pull consumption charges, with improved pull limits and delayed storage fees to support developers.
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Openwashing
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Unicorn Media ☛ Is OSAID to Blame for OSI’s Latest Election Misstep?
Inquiring minds want to know if a potential candidate's opposition to OSI's Open Source Hey Hi (AI) Definition is the reason it pulled a previously unknown time zone rule out of a magic hat to deny his nomination.
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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Unmitigated Risk ☛ How Organizational Inertia Externalizes Risk in the WebPKI
I’ve been involved in the Web PKI since the mid-‘90s, when SSL certificates carried five- or ten-year lifetimes—long-lasting credentials for an [Internet] still a wild west. Issuance was manual, threats were sparse, and long validity fit that quieter era. Thirty years later, we’ve fought our way to a 398-day maximum lifetime—today’s standard as of 2025—thanks in part to Apple’s bold 2020 move to enforce 398-day certificates in Safari, dragging resistant CAs into a shared ballot after years of clinging to the status quo. Yet some certificate authorities, certificate consumers, and industry holdouts still resist shorter lifetimes and tighter data reuse policies, offloading breaches, increased risk, and eroded trust onto users, businesses, and the web’s backbone. This 15-year struggle got us to 398; now it’s time to push past it.
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The New Stack ☛ Curl's Daniel Stenberg on Securing 180,000 Lines of C Code
In his talk for this year’s annual open source conference FOSDEM, Curl creator Daniel Stenberg promised to show his audience “Things to do in order to sleep well while having your C code in 20 billion installations.”
Stenberg believes 20 billion is actually a low estimate for the number of Curl installations in the world,
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Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)
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Sean Voisen ☛ New site, new domain, same me
About a month and a half ago I embarked on a project to both redesign my personal website and migrate my site generator from Jekyll to Eleventy. I’m happy to share that the first phase of this project is now complete: I now have a new, very minimalist site running on Eleventy on a completely new domain: seanvoisen.com. (If you’re reading this post via RSS take a moment to visit the new site on the web.)
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