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It's FOSS ☛ Open Source New Year Almanac: What Does 2026 Hold for You? 🗓️
Step into 2026 with your personalized open source forecast!
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Instant Messaging Freedom ☛ Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 5 (2.94.0) has been released!
We are ecstatic to announce that we have released the fifth experimental version of Pidgin 3.0!!! This is a pre-alpha release with an official version number of 2.94.0. We will continue releasing in this fashion until we are ready for 3.0.0 which will be the release we consider ready for end users.
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Productivity Software
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Ruben Schade ☛ Still (ab)using spreadsheets as a KB, for now?
Despite using this for tracking certain home projects, I had still convinced myself that important things should be in their own proper task management system. By “proper”, I mean one of the multitude of tools with icons containing a tick or checkbox of some sort that promise “enterprise” features on their home page. We use one of those “proper” tools at work for tracking tasks across teams, so I should use that at home too, right?
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Licensing / Legal
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[Old] Aethrvmn ☛ Amodei's goons are cowards
To that extent I tried to reach out to Dario’s legal team, to notify them of my license, so that they wouldn’t use my data to train their model (license details will be coming up).
Since I am just “a guy”, I decided that the best option was to reach out via LinkedIn to a member of their legal team. I found another “a guy”, and I had the following conversation
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