Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 01, 2025

• SaaS/Back End/Databases

  • Muxup ☛ Minipost: Benchmarking the Hetzner AX102 vs CCX53

    I recently had reason to do a quick comparison of the performance of the Hetzner AX102 dedicated server and the high-end 'dedicated' CCX53 VPS on Hetzner Cloud and thought I may as well write up the results for posterity. I'm incapable of starting a post without some kind of disclaimer so here comes the one for this post: naturally the two products have major differences in terms of flexibility (spin-up/down at will, vs pay a small setup fee and endure a wait time depending on hardware availability). So depending on your use case, your requirements with respect to that flexibility may override any cost differential.

• Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)

  • Terence Eden ☛ A big list of things I disable in WordPress

    There are many things I like about the WordPress blogging software, and many things I find irritating. The most annoying aspect is that WordPress insists that its way is the best and there shall be no deviance. That means a lot of forced cruft being injected into my site. Headers that bloat my page size, Gutenberg stuff I've no use for, and ridiculous editorial decisions.

    To double-down on the annoyance, there's no simple way to turn them off. In part, that is due to the "WordPress Philosophy": [...]

  • Matthew Weber ☛ Static Site Generators

    So, I use Hugo for this site. And I used 11ty for TLC for a long while before moving that to Hugo as well. I’m pretty good with Hugo but I will admit that they can be complicated to set up.

    But in his response to the article that Jan wrote, Kev says this: [...]

• Education

  • APNIC ☛ Bridging technical and institutional layers in Internet policy

    Attending APNIC 60 in Da Nang, Viet Nam, as part of the inaugural APNIC Policy Fellowship gave me a new perspective on how the Internet’s technical and policy worlds connect. Coming from an academic and research background rather than network operations, I joined the Fellowship to understand how Internet number resource (INR) policies are shaped, and how these decisions influence the broader Internet ecosystem.

  • Jacob Nowosad ☛ R for Geospatial Predictive Mapping: Takeaways from the Talk – Thinking in spatial patterns

    Geospatial predictive mapping is a common task across many domains, aiming to produce continuous surfaces from point observations and spatial predictors. There are many algorithms available to perform this task, ranging from simple interpolation methods to complex machine learning models, and a variety of R packages implement these methods. Thus, producing a map from points is easy, but understanding how reliable that map is is much harder.

• FSF / Software Freedom

  • Michael Gale ☛ The "does not use" page

    I guess this is the opposite of a uses page.

    This is a list of things I do not use, on principle1. I will talk about alternatives where it is of interest to do so or where elaborating might provide a little insight as to what went wrong - in my mind - for said product or service.

• Licensing / Legal

  • Evan Hahn ☛ Draft: Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted)

    Frustratingly, this was a semi-private draft that got posted to Hacker News before I could make edits. I’m leaving the post up as is because it’s already been discussed in this format. But it has a lot of issues.

    In short: I maintain a sorta-popular open source package, and I want to prevent big corporations and “bad guys” from using it. I want feedback on how to do this.