Privacy and Hugo Themes

After creating the privacy page (Impressum), I did take a closer look at the generated HTML code to confirm I didn’t miss to state things there.

I thought, given Hugo generates plain static HTML pages, I would be on the safe side.

But unfortunately, the theme I use includes some external resources, like the Google web fonts…

I now patched that out in my fork of the theme and provide local copies on my own server.

The One Password Tip Everyone Needs to Know

There's also KeePass, a completely free, open-source password manager that requires a little more work on your part. Unlike the commercial password managers, KeePass doesn't sync your passwords across your various devices over the internet. You have to do that yourself over your local home network.

Are there viable alternatives to Facebook and Twitter?

There's growing interest in social networks that prioritize user control. Two of the popular ones are Mastodon and Diaspora.

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The thinking goes that the reason so many of us who hate social networks are still stuck using them is because it’s simply where everyone else is (which is certainly the case with me).

If only everyone would make a mass migration to some other kind of service altogether, then perhaps we could finally regain some control over our data without stepping out of our social lives. But are there actual alternatives available?

Spoiler alert: Indeed there are, so let’s take a look at them and what kind of benefits they might offer over the usual suspects. Do these alternatives protect user privacy and data, and are they user-friendly enough for everyone to use or just techy pipe dreams?

Confluent's Kafka distro adds dev, management and hybrid cloud capabilities

At today's Kafka Summit event in New York City, Confluent, the company founded by Apache Kafka's creators, will announce a new version of its distribution: Confluent Platform 5.2. The new release offers numerous features for developers, administrators and any customer that wants to handle streaming data processing across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.

Where is Confluent going?

Like MongoDB, Redis, and others, Confluent could become a victim of its own success.

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A couple years back, we looked at how Kafka emerged as the big data firehose. Fast forward to the present, and now, even AWS has gotten into the act, introducing its own managed Kafka service to go up against its own Kinesis. As with its recent introduction of DocumentDB and managed Kubernetes services, AWS is not sentimental about protecting its own proprietary offerings when enough customers demand open source. Likewise, Google Cloud, which offers the Dataflow service for building distributed data pipelines, also has a partnership with Confluent for hosting its managed Kafka service.

Big on Data colleague Andrew Brust covered the latest Confluent 5.2 platform release yesterday, showing the latest release adding a number of developer goodies like making C++, Python, Go, and .NET the same first-class citizen status long enjoyed by Java.

Why open source is government's ready-made pilot project

By enabling developers to move quickly from problem to solution, open-source software gives agencies the agility they need for system modernization.

The ‘four commandments’ for choosing an [open] service provider

The service should be available from more than one provider

If a service is only available from a single provider, the market is monopolised and users are severely restricted in their freedom to choose a service based on trust. Even if a provider is deemed trustworthy today, this can change over time – the user must have other options to turn to if they feel they can no longer trust their current provider.

Not to mention the fact that an increase in the number of providers is associated with healthy market competition, thus better innovation and opportunities for economic growth.

SRT Alliance Announces the Addition of the SRT Low Latency Protocol to Open Broadcaster Software's OBS Studio

The SRT Alliance, supporting the SRT Open Source Project, announces that the SRT streaming protocol is being added to Open Broadcaster Software's OBS Studio – a free and open source software for video recording and live streaming widely adopted within the streaming industry.

SRT is an open-source protocol, developed by Haivision, which allows broadcasters and streamers to deliver high-quality, low-latency streams across the public internet. SRT is fast becoming the de facto low-latency video streaming standard in the broadcast and streaming industries.

StrongKey Secures Certification for Open-Source FIDO2 Server

Open-Source Server Goes Password Free [Ed:This is not really Open Source]

StrongKey announces that its open-source FIDO2 server has received FIDO2 interoperability certification from the FIDO Alliance...

Find Ethical Open-Source Alternatives To Almost Every App or Service With This List

We love the convenience and feature-rich nature of the apps and products big corporations can offer you, but we’re also proponents of personal autonomy and control over your online experience. However, it’s one thing to just turn your back on the big corporations; it’s another to do so mindfully and ethically.

Elastic Introduces Elastic Common Schema (ECS) to Enable Uniform Data Modeling

Elastic Maps expands horizon for geospatial analytics

Elastic is a search company — it is the creator of the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats and Logstash) — that is focused on making real time data usable at scale for search, logging, security and analytics use cases.

The company’s Elastic Maps provides a way for end users to explore and analyse ‘diverse’ enterprise data in the context of real world location/proximity.

Best open source software of 2019

Not all 'free' software is the same. A program's developer might have chosen to distribute it free of charge, but that doesn't necessarily mean you can edit it, or share it yourself.

The term ‘open source’ refers to software whose source code is freely available to download, edit, use and share, with no copyright restrictions. There are different open source licenses, which give users different degrees of freedom, but the main aim of open source is to encourage experimentation, collaboration and knowledge-sharing.

Belgian startup Osimis raises €2.3 million for its collaborative medical imaging software

Liège-based Osimis uses open source software to build innovative collaboration tools for medical imaging. Its newest solution, Lify, simplifies the exchange and consultation of medical imaging studies. The startup has just completed its third round of financing of €2.3 million to further the development of the Lily platform.

ONF Partnership Aims SDN at Optical Transport Networks

ONF Releases First Reference Designs

Today at the Open Networking Summit (San Jose Convention Center) the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced the public release of the first three Reference Designs (RD's): SEBA, Trellis and ODTN.

Open Networking Forum open for business with reference designs

Open Networking Summit North America—In a relatively short amount of time, the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) has pivoted from a new concept to having product categories for its service provider membership. 

At last year's Open Networking Summit, the ONF announced a new strategic plan in order to move open source, next-generation SDN solutions into production mode at a faster clip. ONF's efforts reached fruition today with the news that three of its reference designs—SEBA, Trellis and ODTN—are now publicly available.

ONF Releases Trio of Reference Designs With Buy-In From Operators, Vendors

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) this week released the first three reference designs to foster more open source solutions in operator network deployments. Two additional reference designs are still in development.

The reference designs offer a peek inside the brains of operators: showing what they’re thinking, why they’re assembling architecture the way they are, and how one assembles various pieces of technology into network solutions, Timon Sloane, VP of marketing and ecosystem at ONF, explained in an interview.

The reference designs  — SDN Enabled Broadband Access (SEBA), Trellis, and Open Disaggregated Transport Networking (ODTN) — now publicly available, were originally agreed upon by ONF’s operator members before feedback was gathered from a group of companies in the supply chain. The public specifications are intended to be used by network operators and vendors during the design and procurement of network transformation efforts.

“To get the operators to agree on a reference design is a big, big deal,” Sloane said. “Our feeling is we have critical mass.”

OpenLDAP™ for Windows®, Mac®, & Linux®

 

In general, the fact that OpenLDAP works better with Linux systems does make a lot of sense. Linux systems and the users who operate them generally focus on the more technical aspects of computing. So, when it comes to OpenLDAP, an authentication protocol most popular with technical applications and servers, it stands to reason that the two go together. Some of the typical use cases we see OpenLDAP leveraged in are data centers and cloud infrastructure services like those from AWS® and GCE. While OpenLDAP does a good job of supporting Linux systems, there are still a few challenges to be aware of when it comes to using it as your directory service.  

Learning Science for All

The collection of tools, software and content, including underlying source code, will be made open so that any postsecondary or K-12 institution may freely use it.

Co.Design This free AI reads X-rays as well as doctors

What happens when free, open-source software can diagnose us as well as doctors?

A New Open-Source App Helps Patient "See" His Heart on a Cell Phone

Winkler chose to publish Mixing Cup as an "open access app" so that patients and physicians everywhere could take advantage of the service quickly and easily.

Sidewalk Labs launches app to evaluate how people use public space

Sidewalk Labs has announced a prototype of a digital application that aims to make it easier for public space managers and community members to collect reliable, privacy-sensitive data on how people use public spaces.

Called CommonSpace, the app was developed in partnership with the non-profit Gehl Institute and a Canadian national charity, Park People.

Fashion firms urged to log global supply chains on new digital open-source map

Called the Open Apparel Registry (OAR), the tool maps garment facilities across the world by assigning a unique ID number to each location. The database of IDs will use an address-matching algorithm to tie each facility to its location, name and information about its suppliers and buyers.