Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards
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It's FOSS ☛ FOSS Weekly #24.46: New OpenEuler Series, VLC Tips, Mozilla Woes, OpenCoder and More
There is a new tutorial series and you know what comes next? Hyprland.
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Chris Hannah ☛ No Time
I'm not sure if it will happen or how long any real improvement will take, but I think one first step has to be migrating this blog from Eleventy to something like Ghost.
The geek in me doesn't like the sound of that realisation. But with Eleventy, although I have total control of my site, how pages are built, the logic behind each template, and can also make changes to every minute detail, I don't find it that easy to just write a post.
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Pi My Life Up ☛ How to Install Jellyfin on Ubuntu
Jellyfin is one of the best free and open-source media servers you can install on Ubuntu and is one of the best alternatives to the Plex Media Server.
Like Plex, Jellyfin works on the same server and client model. You have a central place where you host Jellyfin and all of your media files, and the server streams these to any of your devices running the client. This allows you to have your very own media streaming service where you can retain full control over the media you want and keep your privacy.
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Linuxiac ☛ Linkwarden 2.8 Bookmark Manager: Custom Icons, Browser Sync, and More
Linkwarden, a self-hosted, open-source bookmark manager designed to help users collect, organize, and preserve webpages, just dropped its latest version, 2.8, packed with new features.
One of the most notable is the ability to set a custom preview image for each link. This means you can make your saved links visually distinctive, adding a layer of personalization that makes navigating through your content more engaging.
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Rajeesh K Nambiar: Metafont, MetaPost and Malayalam font
At the International TeX Users Group Conference 2023 (TUG23) in Bonn, Germany, I presented a talk about using Metafont (and its extension Metapost) to develop traditional orthography Malayalam fonts, on behalf of C.V. Radhakrishnan and K.H. Hussain, who were the co-developers and authors. And I forgot to post about it afterwards — as always, life gets in between.
In early 2022, CVR started toying with Metafont to create a few complicated letters of Malayalam script and he showed us a wonderful demonstration that piqued many of our interest. With the same code base, by adjusting the parameters, different variations of the glyphs can be generated, as seen in a screenshot of that demonstration: 16 variations of the same character ഴ generated from same Metafont source.
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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Mozilla
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Tech Central (South Africa) ☛ Bookmarks | Firefox at 20 - does Mozilla's browser still matter?
These are the articles, videos and more that caught the attention of TechCentral’s editorial team in the past 24 hours.
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Programming/Development
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Collabora ☛ Hello, MediaTek Genio!
Today, we are delighted to announce a growing collaboration with MediaTek which will enable Collabora to introduce, improve, and maintain MediaTek's IoT Edge Hey Hi (AI) Genio platforms upstream.
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Productivity Software/LibreOffice
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Document Foundation ☛ LibreOffice and Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2024: The results
This year, LibreOffice was once again a mentoring organization in the Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program focused on bringing more developers into free and open source software development. Seven projects were finished successfully, plus one project mentored under 'Linux' Foundation.
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Licensing / Legal
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Kyle E Mitchell ☛ Open Source When We Say So
The Open Source Initiative’s recently announced “Open Source AI Definition” surprised me in a way I expect many readers could miss: they’re defining “open” not just in terms of what bits we can get and what we’re allowed to do with them, but also partly in terms of OSI’s own institutional blessing. It isn’t just a definition of what “open source AI” is or ought to be, but implicitly also a process for bestowing that status or withholding it. A process in which OSI assigns itself the sole indispensable, gate-keeping role.
They’re planting a flag, not just playing lexicographer. I suspect that’s what they mean to do. I’m less sure they meant to actually say so.
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Creative Commons ☛ Top Questions about Open Culture Answered in Five Short Videos
Autumn Landscape by Magnus Ecknell is marked with CC0 1.0. We are excited to share a new video series titled Open Culture Capsules. In this multi-series video collection, we address some of the most frequently asked questions about our work in Creative Commons’ (CC) Open Culture Program.
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Education
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Creative Commons ☛ Meet the Recipients of the Fall 2024 CC Certificate Scholarship
We are pleased to announce our scholarship recipients for our Fall 2024 Creative Commons Certificate courses.
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Robert Haas ☛ PostgreSQL Hacking Workshop - December 2024
We're only going to be having two sessions this month rather than the usual three. There are two reasons for that. First, many people will be taking substantial time off for Christmas, or just to use up their vacation time at the end of the year, so I thought that we might get lower attendance, especially if the sessions start to creep into the second half of the month. Second, I've been scheduling the third session at 0300 UTC in attempt to cover all time zones, but that slot has proved to be considerably less popular than the other two. It does have one huge fan (hi Paul, and sorry!) but it seems like most attendees are from Europe, western Asia, or the eastern United States. I do plan to experiment a bit more with the scheduling in future months; for example, I might schedule two sessions that are more or less "guaranteed" and then one or two extras that are dependent on signups. But for this month, we're just going to have two.
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Python and Qt
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Qt ☛ MinGW and Side-by-Side Manifests
Qt Creator 14 has removed support for its Python 2 pretty printers.
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Qt ☛ Qt Creator 15 RC released
We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 15 RC!
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Standards/Consortia
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Daniel Stenberg ☛ Workshop season six, episode three
One positive thing among many others at this version of the HTTP Workshop (day one, day two) is the fact that there have been several new faces showing up here. People who have not previously attended any HTTP Workshops. Getting fresh blood into the mix is great. A chance to maybe lower the average age of the attendees also feels welcome.
This half day was the final session for this time. Three topics were dealt with.
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Cory Dransfeldt ☛ Organizing and archiving music
Every time I purchase digital music it gets downloaded and archived the exact same way.
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Caleb Hearth ☛ Send a From Header When You Crawl
Sending a From header is part of building a polite crawler, along with respecting Robots.txt and sending a unique User-Agent. The From header simply contains an email address that can be used by the site’s owner to reach out if your bot is creating any issues for them.
RFC 9110 which describes HTTP Semantics says that a From header SHOULD be sent for robotic user-agents. MDN says that the From header “must” be sent in that circumstance, but doesn’t have a citation for a spec that defines that.
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