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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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Protesilaos Stavrou ☛ Emacs: I am experimenting with a Denote cache
Isee 724 on the denote.git issue tracker prompted me to start an experiment for an optional, in-memory cache for Denote. The cache can help speed up all sorts of operations.
The goal is to explore what can be done and whether it makes sense to have that as a feature that users can enable, either directly in denote.el or as a separate package.
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Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
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Document Foundation ☛ Welcome Tamás Zolnai, new LibreOffice Online developer
Tell us a bit about yourself! I’m a software engineer from Hungary. I’ve been working in software engineering for more than a decade, with a background in both computer science and psychology.
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Education
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Jumping Rivers ☛ Autumn 2026 Data Science Training Courses
There are ten public training courses left in 2026, running through October and November. If you’ve been meaning to learn Python, build your first Shiny app, or get to grips with machine learning in R, there’s still time to do it before the end of the year.
All courses run online and are delivered live by data scientists and engineers who work on client projects. Every participant gets course notes and scripts, live demonstrations, and hands-on exercises throughout.
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FSF / Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty
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The New Stack ☛ Avoiding vendor lock-in through an open-source approach: a developer’s perspective
Every infrastructure team makes decisions that are difficult to reverse. Most of the time, that works out. Sometimes it does not.
Vendor lock-in usually begins as a reasonable choice, made under time or budget pressure, that solves a real problem at the time. A managed service ships faster or a deployment model fits better in that moment, but eventually a difficult constraint appears.
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