Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 04, 2025

• Ruben Schade ☛ ImageMagick accepts percentages

  ImageMagick is perhaps best known as an indispensible graphics library for writing software, such as with PerlMagick. But I also use their shell tools extensively for batch processing images at work, and even for this blog.

  For decades now I’ve used it like this: [...]

• Events

  • GNU ☛ health @ Savannah: One Health Conference 2025 - Rome

    Dear all

    Luis Falcón, author of GNU Health and president of GNU Solidario, will be a keynote speaker at the 4th One-Health conference, that will take place in Rome, Italy September 30 – October 2, 2025. Those of you who know the mission of GNU Solidario will understand the relevance of this congress in our society, our planet and humanity.

    Among other things, Luis will talk about the importance of GNU Health, the Global Exposome project and Open Science to achieve social justice, and why is crucial to immediately move away from the ruthless anthropocentrism and start respecting other species and nature is the morally right thing to do, but the only key if we want to survive as a species. Looking forward to meeting you in Rome!

• Web Browsers/Web Servers

  • Jim Nielsen ☛ A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known

    I’ve written previously about reloading a document using only HTML but that got me thinking: What are all the values you can put in an anchor tag’s href attribute?

    Well, I looked around. I found some things I already knew about, e.g.

  • Yury Molodtsov ☛ I Can't Stop Using Dia Browser

    Unlike Arc, Dia simply feels like a more polished Chrome. A much better Chrome. Frankly, that just shows how little Google cares about its products and their UX. A team of 120 employees has managed to build an alternative UI that is a joy to use. Dia doesn’t have many advanced features yet, such as Tab Groups or PWA support, but everything included already feels better. And Chrome’s tab groups have always been quite rough and inferior to Safari’s anyway. Plus, with the recent update, Dia again possesses my favorite Arc’s feature in vertical tabs.

    What really separates Dia is the AI. The browser is built around it. And I can definitely see why the team went this way. Once you start using it, it’s really difficult to go back. And I imagine the overall familiarity makes it easy for most people to switch from Chrome.

• Licensing / Legal

  • Introducing pkgctl license

    In Arch Linux, as part of RFC40, we have recently decided to license all Arch GNU/Linux package sources as 0BSD. Our package sources didn't have any license previously. RFC40 only specified that we do want to license our package sources but it didn't specify how to ensure this. As such, in RFC52 we decided we want to use REUSE to achieve that.

• Standards/Consortia

  • SANS ☛ Legacy May Kill, (Sun, Aug 3rd)

    Just saw something that I thought was long gone. The username "pop3user" is showing up in our telnet/ssh logs.