Sharing, Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Standards

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 25, 2025

• SaaS/Back End/Databases

  • Avinash Sajjanshetty ☛ SQLite (with WAL) doesn't do `fsync` on each commit under default settings

    but a fresh copy from homebrew behaved differently: [...]

• Education

  • OpenZFS ☛ OpenZFS Developer Summit 2025 - OpenZFS

    The thirteenth annual OpenZFS Developer Summit and second annual OpenZFS User Summit will take place in Portland, Oregon, USA October 25th through 28th, 2025.

  • FreeBSD ☛ November 2025 FreeBSD Vendor Summit

    Join us for the November 2025 FreeBSD Vendor Summit. The event will take place November 6-7, 2025. The Summit provides commercial FreeBSD users with the unique opportunity to meet face-to-face with developers and contributors to get features requested, problems solved, and needs met. It also opens up discussion on improving and enhancing the operating system.

  • Daniel Cantarín ☛ Symptoms of the cryptical agony of worker rights

    So much for “privacy”. So I scrolled a little to see who this people was –I’m no familiar with web3 organizations, I actively keep myself as far away from it as possible–, and I can see some old talks published. The first one is some gentleman exposing everyone he’s using Apple hardware to speak about privacy.

    This already looks like people talking about “privacy” but actually refering to “anonimity”, which is a form of “secrecy”. “Privacy” means a lot of things –as well as “freedom”–, and as usual bad actors turn those meanings to whatever they can use for their own benefit. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves with our prejudices: I’ll just register to see what happens. Surely this will not ask for data to track me, right?

• GNU Projects

  • GNU ☛ health @ Savannah: Luis Falcon receives the One World One Family Humanitarian award in healthcare

    Dr. Luis Falcón, author of GNU Health and founder of GNU Solidario, received the One World One Family Humanitarian award in the field of Healthcare from Sri Madhusudan Sai, founder of One World One Family mission.

    The award ceremony took place during the World Cultural Festival in Sathya Sai Grama, Muddenahalli, India, this Monday, August 17th.

  • GNU Health: Luis Falcon, author of GNU Health, receives the One World One Family Humanitarian award in the field of Healthcare

• Openness/Sharing/Collaboration

  • Open Data

    • Rlang ☛ Sliding Calculations of Risks of Federal Reserve Rate Cuts

      The rolling mean chart shows rate cuts came after the significant uptrend of unemployment, and we can not see such a that increasing recently.

• Standards/Consortia

  • Computers Are Bad ☛ 2025-08-25 teletext in north america

    I have an ongoing fascination with "interactive TV": a series of efforts, starting in the 1990s and continuing today, to drag the humble living room television into the world of the computer. One of the big appeals of interactive TV was adoption, the average household had a TV long before the average household had a computer. So, it seems like interactive TV services should have proliferated before personal computers, at least following the logic that many in the industry did at the time.