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The Linux Foundation's 'OpenTofu' Project Denies HashiCorp's Allegations of Code Theft (news.slashdot.org)

You Have Power: Making Truth Social Comply With The AGPL (boehs.org)

Defending Mastodon from Donald Trump’s social media

The State of Software Supply Chain Security in 2024 | JFrog (jfrog.com)

This blog post was posted two days before the discovery of the XZ utils backdoor. It shows the increasing popularity of Docker and NPM. Rust is not in this preview of their report, but all the crates used for compiling a Rust program bring in dependencies. Years ago, xkcd showed the problem already....

Syncthing v1.27.6 (github.com)

Syncthing release v1.27.6...

6 months review of the open-source Ploopy Headphones (youtu.be)

Major changes in Etherpad Lite releases (github.com)

Their project blog is dormant but these changes look like worth sharing....

FOSS Alternative to MakeMKV (www.reddit.com)

Looking for a FOSS way to backup my encrypted Blueray disks so I can stream them with Jellyfin and not worry about the disks getting scratched....

Rsync 3.3.0 released (www.mail-archive.com)

download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS

Snapdrop: local file sharing in your browser (snapdrop.net)

Inspired by Apple’s Airdrop

vaporise - an alternative to the common `rm`...written in Rust... (github.com)

“Anything that can be written in Rust will eventually be written in Rust”

Discord has shut down the Discord servers for the Nintendo Switch emulators Suyu and Sudachi (www.theverge.com)

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/17705824

Nextcloud Ups AI 'Assistant' to 2.0 and Backports It to Nextcloud Hub 7 - FOSS Force (fossforce.com)

OpenBSD 7.5: Best New Features (debugpointnews.com)

My approach to building an open-source data tool: Python vs JavaScript (dev.to)

Hi there 👋, I’m Gerard, founder of Latitude....

Redlib: Open-source, privacy-focused frontend for Reddit without Reddit's ads, trackers, and bloat. A fork of Libreddit. (safereddit.com)

The purpose of this post is not to endorse the use of Reddit (https://tosdr.org/en/service/194), but rather to inform users of a privacy-friendly approach in case they need to utilize the platform....

Insights from the InstallFest 2024 conference in Prague - The Document Foundation Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)

Music Recommendation

Does anyone know of a website that recommends music based off a chosen song, that is also open source?...

KStars 3.7.0 is Released (knro.blogspot.com)

KStars is a feature-rich free astronomy software that caters to a wide-variety of use cases. Whether you are a student, an educator, an amateur astronomer or an astronomy enthusiast, you will find tools in KStars that are useful to you.

What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you’d love alternatives for?