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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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Jamie Zawinski ☛ XScreenSaver 6.17
XScreenSaver 6.17 is out now for MacOS, iOS (eventually), Android and Unix. This is mostly a maintenance release, triggered by some onerous and stupid Apple changes.
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It's FOSS ☛ BentoPDF Handles PDFs Locally, So You Don’t Have to Upload Them to Websites
This open source, browser-based PDF toolkit is free to use and ships with a surprisingly long list of tools.
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Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)
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Jim Grey ☛ Good blogkeeping: New comment box
The comment system has received a major overhaul here. It offers greater ability to format your comments. But the biggest addition is for those of you who comment with your email and name every time: you can now elect to save that info so you don’t have to keep entering it. First you type your comment and then click the “Add your name” link.
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James Cherti ☛ When to disable WordPress Update Services such as Ping-o-Matic | James Cherti
In modern WordPress deployments, legacy Update Services like Ping-o-Matic are obsolete.
You can safely disable all configured ping endpoints because they provide no SEO benefit. Major search engines, such as Google and Bing, rely mainly on direct crawling, internal linking, and XML sitemaps (e.g., wp-sitemap.xml, sitemap.xml...) to discover content.
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Licensing / Legal
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Docker vs Podman: Benchmarks Are Close, but Licensing Is Not
Docker’s plan documentation makes Personal free for individual developers, includes commercial Docker Desktop use in Pro, and lists audit logs and role-based access control for Team plus SSO and other organization controls for Business. The paid plans therefore purchase Desktop rights and account features, not simply permission to run a Linux container. A team that uses those features would need to value their replacement as well as the subscription it might avoid.
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