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Mathieu Aumont ☛ Garage a fast and minimal S3 server for home.
In the last decade, Amazon has established S3 - Simple Storage Service - as the de facto standard for object storage. Even other hyperscaler competitors are simply copying or ensuring that their object protocols are compatible with AWS S3. Few months ago I’ve discovered garage , this is a pretty nice alternative to the most famous Minio to create a S3 servers at home.
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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PC World ☛ Arc's sister browser Dia launches paid plan for unlimited AI access
The Browser Company is best known for its Arc browser, which aims to both innovate and simplify, with a keen focus on usability. But they also have a second browser called Dia in the works, which is being built from the ground up with AI features—and that one seems to be their project of choice, as Arc is no longer in active development.
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Rodrigo Ghedin ☛ Web browsers with AI assistants built-in are coming
This doesn’t mean I’ll resist browsers powered by AI assistants to the end. At some point, given the intensity with which companies in the sector are investing in the technology, something like this will probably appear in my browser, in all of them.
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SaaS/Back End/Databases
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PostgreSQL ☛ PGDay UK 2025: Check out the schedule and register now!
The schedule for PGDay UK 2025 has now been published at https://pgday.uk/events/pgdayuk2025/schedule/
Join us on the 9th September 2025 at our fantastic venue in central London for a day of talks on the world’s most advanced Open Source database, PostgreSQL. We have a fantastic lineup of speakers including PostgreSQL project founder and Core Team member, Bruce Momjian, as well as other long term contributors such as Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek and Jimmy Angelakos.
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Education
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Distro Watch ☛ A beginner's guide to Linux and DistroWatch
Hello and welcome to DistroWatch! Chances are if you are reading this page then you might be wondering a few things. You might be asking yourself: What is a distro? Why are we watching them? What is this "Linux" thing I keep hearing about? This section of the website is intended to answer those questions and explain what is it we are doing here and why we feel it is important. We will also share some Linux-related resources and explain how to get started using Linux.
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Licensing / Legal
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The Drone Girl ☛ FAA’s proposed BVLOS drone rule — good or bad?
Three days after the FAA unveiled its long-awaited proposed rule to enable routine Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone operations, industry stakeholders are offering both praise and caution. The proposed BVLOS drone rule, published on August 5, outlines a national regulatory framework that replaces case-by-case waivers with a structured, scalable approach.
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Kyle E Mitchell ☛ A Published Legal Form Under Restrictive Copyright License
A non-profit international trade group called Access 4 Learning publishes a form contract for school districts and service providers like e-learning platforms. The form adds terms to their existing contracts to comply with student privacy laws. The title page of the version I reviewed, Version 2.1, has these notices: [...]
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Programming/Development
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Rust
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KDAB ☛ Using the Qt Logger in Rust with CXX-Qt
In CXX-Qt 0.8.0, Rust applications now have a way to forward structured log events from the tracing crate to the Qt logging system. This enables unified logging output across Rust and Qt, enabling consistent formatting, better filtering, and easier integration with tools like GammaRay. By leveraging qt_message_output and QMessageLogContext, developers can bridge Rust's log metadata with Qt's categorized logging infrastructure.
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