news
Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards
-
It's FOSS ☛ FOSS Weekly #25.46: sudo-rs Issues, Kaspersky on Linux, Flathub Troubles, Homelab Starter and More GNU/Linux Stuff
News has a new address.
-
Fernando Borretti ☛ Agda on NixOS
To install Agda and its standard library, add this to your config: [...]
-
[Repeat] Homebrew ☛ 5.0.0 — Homebrew
Today, I’d like to announce Homebrew 5.0.0. The most significant changes since 4.6.0 are download concurrency by default, official support for Linux ARM64/AArch64, timescales for deprecating macOS Intel and removing macOS Gatekeeper bypass behaviours.
Major changes and deprecations since 4.6.0: [...]
-
SaaS/Back End/Databases
-
Dan Langille ☛ PostgreSQL: MD5 password support is deprecated – updating the user passwords
Eight years ago, PostgreSQL introduced scram-sha-256 hashes for passwords.
Eleven months ago, MD5 was deprecated.
Yesterday, I got caught up with all this.
-
-
Licensing
-
Joel Dueck ☛ How I license
The license allows you to do anything that would otherwise infringe my copyright or patent claims. It’s similar to the MIT or BSD-style licenses, just with an added “email Joel and say hi” requirement — which, by the way, doesn’t apply to end users, or to people distributing unmodified copies.
Now, does the thing I just described technically meet “open source” criteria promoted by Debian, OSI or others? I think so, but I’m not going to fuss about it. This question is really a proxy for another question: namely, “will my preferred group accept this license as open source” — a social question, mainly, not a technical or legal one.
-
-
Standards/Consortia
-
Jussi Pakkanen ☛ Creating valid PDF/A-4 with CapyPDF
PDF/A is a specific version of PDF designed for long term archival of electronic data. The idea being that PDF/A files are both self contained and fully specified, so they can be opened in the future without any loss of fidelity.
-
Kev Quirk ☛ Email Is Amazing, but People Try Their Best to Ruin It
Alex’s blog is a one that I only discovered a couple days ago when he emailed me about my previous post. We ended up having a good old natter about all kinds of things.
As is par for the course, I checked out his blog, quickly found we have a lot in common, and our love of email is one of them.
-