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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Programming, and Standards
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Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
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Document Foundation ☛ LibreOffice case study: Flotte Karotte
Companies around the world use LibreOffice to reduce costs, improve their privacy, and free themselves from dependence on single vendors. Today we’re talking to Flotte Karotte, a German company with 50 employees that recently made a generous donation to support the LibreOffice project and community: What is Flotte Karotte?
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Programming/Development
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Drew DeVault ☛ A better future for JavaScript that won't happen
In the wake of the largest supply-chain attack in history, the JavaScript community could have a moment of reckoning and decide: never again. As the panic and shame subsides, after compromised developers finish re-provisioning their workstations and rotating their keys, the ecosystem might re-orient itself towards solving the fundamental flaws that allowed this to happen.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Hack to the Future — here's how you can write BASIC code on a modern-day PC
BASIC was the Python of its day and it inspired many bedroom coders to spend hours in their room, hacking around to make games and tools. Now you can do the same in the 21st century.
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Standards/Consortia
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Ruben Schade ☛ #SciArtSeptember: Vector
Today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt for visual artists was the word vector, which I’m shamelessly using as a writing prompt here instead.
Vector to me takes me in the direction of vector graphics, and my early adventures trying to write my own WMFs on Windows. That lead me to that infamous WMF payload attack, and security more broadly. Hey, that’s an attack vector!
Which, while we’re on the subject, let’s talk about gift cards.
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