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Free Software, Education, and Standards
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Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
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Document Foundation ☛ LibreOffice Conference 2026 schedule is online!
The LibreOffice Conference 2026 will take place in Pordenone, Italy, from September 10 – 12.
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Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)
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[Old] Markus Eliasson ☛ Going with hugo - Markus Eliasson
With Hugo, the site is generated from Markdown to static HTML ridiculously fast (we're talking microseconds here). It has one dependency (hugo itself). It works on Windows as well as Mac. It uses Markdown.
And, the fact that it is implemented in go and open source does not hurt.
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Education
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Farid Zakaria ☛ DEFCON34 wrap-up
I recently came back from DEFCON34 and the nix.vegas community. The talks I gave are now online if you are interested in watching them. 🙌
Many thanks to all the organizers of DEFCON34 and nix.vegas. This is our, the Nix community and mine specifically, second year at DEFCON34 and it was a blast. To be honest, I barely interacted with the rest of DEFCON because I was so busy with the Nix community. The talks, the hallway conversations, and the in-chance encounters were all amazing.
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Standards/Consortia
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Maker compresses a 2.9MB song by 1000x and prints it on paper as eight QR codes — 21KB song is two minutes long, requires a neural network for playback
The open-source codec Meta released in 2022 converts a waveform into discrete tokens that a matching decoder turns back into audio.
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End-of-Life Protocol
The apartment wasn't just Jaeyun's home; it was Beauty's domain.
At 7:00 AM, a soft, ambient glow began to emanate from the baseboards, a gentle sunrise simulation that Jaeyun had never once configured himself. It was a default setting, a "Comfort Package" feature that had come with the initial lease. The light swelled in intensity in perfect sync with the gradual increase in volume of a wordless, synth-heavy track that filled the room, not from a speaker, but from the very chassis of the machine on his desk.
[...] anything but peaceful.
"Beauty," he said, his voice strained. "Search for "End-of-Life protocol."
The help page dissolved, replaced by a search results screen. The top result was another OmniCorp help page, this one titled "Understanding Your Device Lifecycle." Jaeyun clicked it, his finger tapping the screen with more force than necessary.
The page was a masterpiece of corporate obfuscation. It was filled with friendly diagrams and cheerful icons. A colorful circular graphic showed the "Journey of Your OmniCorp Device," with stages labeled "Activation," "Optimization," "Renewal," and "Transition." The "Transition" stage featured a peaceful-looking recycling symbol. Nowhere did the words "expiration" appear.
Jaeyun scrolled further. At the bottom of the page, in a font size that seemed deliberately designed to make you squint, was a small link: "Full Terms of Service (OmniCorp Complete Access v4.2)."
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