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Free Software and Openwashing by Microsoft OSI
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[Old] Ubuntubuzz ☛ Disks - An Intro to Ubuntu Default Disk Utility Application
Disks, or GNOME Disk Utility, is the Ubuntu default disk storage management application. Its purpose is to manage everything about hard disk drives and other storage on your Ubuntu computer -- including optical discs (CDs, DVDs) and USB flash drives. That means you can alter the filesystem inside that disk (create, remove, resize, and rename it), format the disk (to MBR or GPT), make a backup, as well as write an ISO image to that disk, and do other useful things such as benchmarks and more configurations.
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Protesilaos Stavrou ☛ Emacs live extracting the Modus themes core at 2026-10-17 14:30 Europe/Athens
About a year ago I turned them into a framework that theme developers can rely on. Lots of themes have been built on top of Modus since then.
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Protesilaos Stavrou ☛ I will participate in EmacsConf 2026
This year I will join EmacsConf 2026 for a panel discussion. The details are not available yet, though I expect them to be made public in the coming days. You will be able to find them here: https://emacsconf.org/2026/talks/community/. Follow the links on that page to also learn about the full programme of the conference.
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Protesilaos Stavrou ☛ Emacs: all my packages have an AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md to restrict use
I do not want to merge changes that can jeopardise the legal standing of my code base and, more generally, choose to remain aligned with what the Emacs developers are doing.
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XDA ☛ That anime girl you keep seeing on Linux sites is a tiny proof-of-work puzzle, and it's keeping volunteer projects online
When I first started using Fedora, I wanted to grab all the third-party software for my OS from RPM Fusion. When I visited the website, I was greeted not with the RPM Fusion main page, but with what looked like an anime girl in a detective getup looking pensively at me. Before I could comprehend what I was looking at, the anime girl pointed me forward, and the website loaded.
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Openwashing
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Open Source Initiative ☛ Announcing the 2027 State of Open Source Survey [Ed: OpenLogic is a Microsoft front]
The OSI has teamed up again with Perforce Zend and OpenLogic, as well as the Eclipse Foundation, for the 2027 State of Open Source Survey.
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Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)
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Codeberg ☛ Migrate your site to the new git-pages backed Codeberg Pages now. We're sunsetting Codeberg Pages v2
For many years, Codeberg Pages v2, our in-house solution, served as a way for hosting project pages through your_codeberg_username.codeberg.page or custom domains. This project has been unmaintained for a longer time now, and we already have git-pages as a replacement to power Codeberg Pages. A lot of users already migrated - and now it is time for you to also make the switch, if you have not done already.
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