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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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Protesilaos Stavrou ☛ Emacs live continuing ‘denote’ maintenance and refinements (2026-10-15 16:30 Europe/Athens)
In a couple of hours I will resume the work I am doing on my Emacs denote package. There are general refinements I wish to make, but also to continue iterating on the new denote-data-mode, which is an optional in-memory cache for Denote.
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SaaS/Back End/Databases
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PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL 19 RC 1 Released!
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first release candidate of PostgreSQL 19 is now available for download. As a release candidate, PostgreSQL 19 RC 1 will be mostly identical to the initial release of PostgreSQL 19, though some more fixes may be applied prior to the general availability of PostgreSQL 19.
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FSF / Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty
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It's FOSS ☛ Big Tech Funded a €115 Billion Warning Against Europe’s Digital Independence [Ed: CCIA]
Amazon, Google, and Meta funded the study through their lobby group CCIA Europe. The EU Commission's own estimate? €18 billion. Six times less.
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Licensing / Legal
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Daniel Stenberg ☛ OSI approved the curl license
Because of reasons we cannot recall anymore, I decided to ever so slightly edit the language in the MIT license text around that time. (I strongly discourage anyone else from doing this, and if my time machine was functional I would go back and correct this decision.)
The license text we then kept referring to and thinking about as an MIT license, was in fact not exactly MIT anymore. No one objected at the time. I can’t remember anyone really considering the implications at the time. Maybe because not that many people noticed or cared. It was in essence still the MIT license.
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