Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 13, 2026

• Undeadly ☛ OpenSSH 10.5 released

  In another move that signals a new OpenBSD release is in the works, the OpenSSH project has released without fanfare its new version, OpenSSH 10.5.

  The release notes read, [...]

• Kyle Reddoch ☛ RipFoundry for Linux Rips DVDs for Jellyfin

  RipFoundry is my Ubuntu and Debian workflow for preserving DVD remuxes, creating optional playback versions, and safely transferring verified movies into Jellyfin.

• Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers

  • Mozilla

    • Make Use Of ☛ The Linux community's favorite browser just exposed a security flaw

      Thankfully, Mozilla says access to the private GitHub repository was restricted to a small number of people within the company, all of whom were already authorized to access the key. Its review of the available audit records found no evidence that an unauthorized party accessed the key while it was present in the repository.

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

  • WordPress ☛ WordPress 7.0.4 Release

    WordPress 7.0.4 is now available WordPress 7.0.4 is now available which features a security fix. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can update to WordPress 7.0.4 by downloading it from WordPress.org, or visiting your site’s Dashboard → Updates and clicking Update Now.

• Education

  • Flamed Fury ☛ HTML Day 2026

    I went in with a plan. At the recent Homebrew Website Club I talked about a question we hear all the time at the 32-Bit Cafe: “What should I put on my website? I don’t know what to put on my website.” These web surfers have the HTML and CSS basics down. Their homepages are full of badges, blinkies and custom cursors. What they don’t have is content. After thirty seconds of surfing I know nothing about the person behind the site.

  • SoCal Linux Expo ☛ Call for Presentations | SCALE

    We are proud to announce the 24th Annual Southern California Linux Expo – SCaLE 24x – to be held April 1-4, 2027 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California, near Los Angeles.

• GNU Projects

  • GNU ☛ wdiff @ Savannah: wdiff-1.2.3 released [stable]

    
    

    This is to announce wdiff-1.2.3, a stable release.
    There have been 29 commits by 2 people in the 637 weeks since 1.2.2.
    

• Licensing / Legal

  • Ruben Schade ☛ On the BSDs being “corporate friendly”

    The BSDs are corporate friendly in the way bananas are friendly to people named Jeff. Aka, they’re friendly to everyone. Well, unless your name is Jeff and you’re allergic to bananas, which would suck.

• Openness/Sharing/Collaboration

  • Open Access/Content

    • Ruben Schade ☛ Why WCAG 2.x guidelines feel inadequate

      But that leads to two questions. First, is a word with five letters. And second, are there any industry attempts to improve readability for all parties involved, not just weirdos like me? The answer is yes, kind of. Though based on my own lived experience, attempts to codify a set of accessibility standards around colour and contrast have proved lacklustre in practice. For example: [...]

• Standards/Consortia

  • Jussi Pakkanen ☛ Digitizing super 8 film yourself

    In our previous post we looked at fixing a super 8 film projector. While watching filme with a real projector has its own charm, it is inconvenient to say the least. First of all you make the entire room properly dark or you can't see anything. This is regardless of the fact that the projector bulb is consuming 100 watts of power to show the image. Even if you manage not to burn the film merely running it through the projector causes wear, scratches and tearing. While film typically ages very well, eventually it will turn into magenta goop or gets eaten by vinegar syndrome. Thus you'd really want to convert all these films into high quality digital files.