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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
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Chuck Carroll ☛ The Anatomy of an SSH Config
This post isn't going to be the holy grail of SSH, just some of the fundamentals that I find interesting and have incorporated in my home network environment.
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Libre Arts ☛ Weekly recap — 14 September 2025
Week highlights: new releases of Gradia, RapidRAW, and displaycal; new features in GIMP, Krita, and Inkscape; Blender gets another major sponsor.
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Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)
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Jezper Lorné ☛ Goodbye Wordpress, hello Ghost (and ActivityPub)
I’ve been meaning to leave WordPress for years. It's such a capable platform, but also ridiculously overkill for my simple blog needs. I've been meaning to replace it with... something, for a long time. Something lighter, smaller, faster and preferably that ties well into federated social media. I’ve explored both WriteFreely and Micro.blog, but nothing stuck. But with Ghost 6, things changed.
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Standards/Consortia
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Linuxiac ☛ Next-Gen AV2 Video Codec Announced by AOMedia
It also supports a broader visual quality range, making it suitable for both low-bandwidth and high-end experiences. But what is more important is that, like AV1, AV2 will be available as a royalty-free, open standard, in contrast to proprietary codecs such as HEVC/H.265, which have faced criticism for complex and costly licensing.
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[Old] Teleport ☛ SFTP: a More Secure Successor to SCP
Copying files between computers is a common task, and there are a lot of protocols designed to do just that. But not all protocols are created equally. Many people use the popular OpenSSH scp command to transfer files, but few understand the risks surrounding it.
This blog post will attempt to explain what the SCP and SFTP protocols are, how they work, and why SFTP should be used wherever possible.
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