Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Digital Sovereignty Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 06, 2026

• Six Colors ☛ Secretive helps you keep your SSH keys secret, keep them safe

  In the meantime, I’ve recently turned to Secretive, an open-source tool by Max Goedjen and others that allows you to store your SSH keys inside your Mac’s Secure Enclave. Doing so means that your keys can’t be exported and are protected by the same level of security as your system’s most sensitive data. In addition to ECDSA-256 keys, running Secretive on macOS Tahoe and later lets you create post-quantum keys using the MLDSA-65 and MLDSA-87 algorithms. If you don’t know what any of that means, don’t worry about it—you’re fine.

• Arjen Wiersma ☛ Introducing Comicstash — Arjen Wiersma

  I started working on comicstash over a year ago. At first I worked on a Ruby on Rails web application. I modeled my database schema, and created several integrations with online resources such as Metron to pull in comic metadata. It looked great: [...]

• Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers

  • Zach Manson ☛ notes: sort by rarity

    The last few months I've been trying to RSS-ify my life as much as possible. I hit a roadblock when I tried to have news websites mixed in with social networks. News sites are hyper-posters -- ABC News posts 40 times a day. There's no chance of seeing my friends buried under all of that.

• Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)

  • James Cherti ☛ Reliably detecting programming languages in the WordPress 'Syntax-highlighting Code Block' Plugin (Elisp, for example)

    For users of the "Syntax-highlighting Code Block (with Server-side Rendering)" WordPress plugin, server-side rendering provides excellent frontend performance. However, depending on your WordPress website, certain programming languages, such as Lisp and Elisp, may fail to auto-detect reliably.

• Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty

  • Michael Geist ☛ What If the U.S. Demanded This? The Cloud Provider Conditions Behind Canada’s EU Digital Pivot

    Given concerns about what the U.S. envisioned for “digital trade alignment,” consider the possibility that the package required Canada to keep its cloud market open to U.S. companies, gave them equivalent access to government procurement, and restricted the implementation of a “Buy Canadian” approach to sovereign cloud. The U.S. would also set the standard for Canadian privacy law, Canadian law enforcement and security agencies would not wield powers over cloud providers that conflict with U.S. rules on government access to data, and the U.S. could suspend or revoke the deal if it concluded that Canada no longer met its standards.

  • Namespace secures €37 million to scale coding, build and test infrastructure across Mac, Windows and Linux

    Zurich-based Namespace, a developer platform that offers fast coding, build, and test environments across Mac, Windows, and Linux, today announced its €37 million ($42 million) Series B to accelerate product development and expand its data centers