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Undeadly ☛ rpki-client 9.6 released
The OpenBSD project has announced the release of version 9.6 of rpki-client: [...]
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Noë Flatreaud ☛ Stop using shady apps for media conversion
Why bothering with such bad websites, when you have a simpler, better solution.
FFmpeg is a comprehensive multimedia framework that can decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter, and play almost anything that anyone has created. It supports a wide range of audio and video formats, making it the overall best tool for media conversion.
It's framework is free, open-source, and widely used in both professional and personal settings.
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Mitchell Hashimoto ☛ Libghostty Is Coming
The first libghostty library will be libghostty-vt: a zero-dependency library that provides an API for parsing terminal sequences and maintaining terminal state, extracted directly from Ghostty's real-world proven core. It doesn't even require libc!
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Unicorn Media ☛ If Open Source Stops Being Global, It Stops Being Open
Europe wants to buy European, America wants to deregulate the world, China hacks the commons. But code knows no borders… unless we let it.
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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cURL ☛ curl - Commercial Support
We offer full commercial support on curl done by the masters of curl. We can handle [...]
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Linuxiac ☛ Varnish Cache 8.0 Arrives in the Middle of a Heated Rebranding Controversy
Varnish Cache 8.0 should have been a straightforward release for one of the web’s most widely used and respected HTTP accelerators, which became a critical part of the web’s infrastructure, used by large organizations (I’ll just mention Reddit, Wikipedia, Facebook, The New York Times, etc.), e-commerce platforms, and CDNs to speed up content delivery.
Sadly, it has been dominated by a bitter debate: the project will no longer be called Varnish Cache, but Vinyl Cache.
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Mozilla
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Firefox Nightly: Firefox 144 Highlights: Faster Add-ons, Smarter DevTools, and Tab Group Boosts – These Weeks in Firefox, Issue 189
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Tor ☛ New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 15.0a3 | The Tor Project
Tor Browser 15.0a3 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.
This version includes important security updates to Firefox.
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Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
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Document Foundation ☛ LibreOffice-focused talks at the Open Source Conference 2025 Luxembourg
The Open Source Conference 2025 will take place the 1st of October 2025 in Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, following a very successful first edition in 2024 in combination with the LibreOffice Conference.
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Document Foundation ☛ Community Member Monday: Devansh Varshney
Today we’re talking to Devansh Varshney, who added histogram chart support to LibreOffice and is working on improvements to the Basic IDE… Tell us a bit about yourself!
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GNU Projects
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GNU ☛ parallel @ Savannah: GNU Parallel 20250922 ('Iryna Zarutska') released [stable]
GNU Parallel 20250922 ('Iryna Zarutska') has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4 GNU parallel is awesome. Use it more often in your scripts!
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Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
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Open Data
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Mauricio “Pachá” Vargas S ☛ Open Trade Statistics v6.0 is publicly available!
Back in 2017, I needed to download tradedatasets and realised that obtaining access to UN Comtrade in Latin America was particularly hard because local universities lacked institutional access to those.
I mentioned this to colleagues at PUC Chile and decided to email the United Nations to ask for permission to get the data with a 48 hrs access so that I could download it and reshare the datasets. They agreed that I could share a derived dataset with cleaning/transforming steps but not reshare the raw data, and I did that. I cleaned the dataset as much as I could and used mirrored flows for consistency (i.e., importer-based figures are more reliable).
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Open Access/Content
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Society for Scholarly Publishing ☛ Guest Post - Building Sustainable Infrastructure for OA Book Metrics
The scholarly publishing community has achieved something remarkable over the past decade: the creation of functional, open-source technology for open access book metrics. What began as scattered discussions about the intractability of tracking OA ebook usage has evolved into multiple complementary projects that have collectively laid the groundwork for a comprehensive technical infrastructure for collecting and sharing usage data that can support the needs of publishers, authors, libraries, and other stakeholders in the scholarly communication system. Not surprisingly, the challenge that lies ahead is achieving long-term sustainability as these projects attempt to launch as viable services in today’s environment of diminished funding opportunities.
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