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FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
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LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.
on Sat, 3PM
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The most communist FOSS company
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Let's immediately acknowledge that the title is lighthearted, and that "communist company" is an oxymoron. The better choice would've been, "which is the most worker-owned, egalitarian, power-structures-free cooperative?", which SEO experts told me was too long of a title. With that said, let me...
on Thu, 1PM
From thelibre.news
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I believe that Ladybird has more funding and better support for the web, but Servo wins in performance. Though, they're hard to compare directly!
on Tue, 3PM
From thelibre.news
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If you are keen on personal privacy, you might have come across Brave Browser. Brave is a Chromium-based browser that promises to deliver privacy with built-in ad-blocking and content-blocking protection. It also offers several quality-of-life features and services, like a VPN and Tor access. I...
on Mar 24
From thelibre.news
Why I recommend against Bluesky
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Have you ever heard of the term federation-washing?
on Mar 19
From thelibre.news
This Linux laptop maker called me a Zombie
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Two years ago I was contacted by a company called MALIBAL. They were interested in a sponsorship, where I would simply put their link in the video description and get money for it. I did a quick background check, and they seemed like a proper Linux hardware manufacturing company. I
on Mar 3
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Mozilla has better lawyers than PR
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Two days ago, Mozilla introduced new terms of use and an updated privacy notice for Firefox. This is the reaction. What the general public took out of the new terms is, well, we should probably switch to another browser. I spent yesterday reading tweets and private messages all saying something
on Feb 28
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Rise and Fall of Open Source Projects
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Sometimes it's … worrying how easy it is for Open Source projects to fall. Even those that are apparently solid, with a stable income and lots of users. You probably heard of the Simple Mobile Tools suite: they provide applications with million of downloads, they were able to sponsor financially other
on Feb 21
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Would you pay for Free Software?
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For most of us who used smartphones for any length of time before switching to Linux, learning how to download a lot of graphical applications on a Linux distro was quite a smooth process: just open the app icon that looks like an App Store, and what you see is
on Feb 20
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Hyprland Banned from FreeDesktop: Why.
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Hello, and welcome to yet another episode of: angry rants that will make me no friends whatsoever. Today we'll talk about the Hyprland's project and how the developer's account has been removed from the FreeDesktop gitlab instance and related IRC channels. The reason behind it is quite complex, and it
on Feb 12