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Firefox Is Going To Try And Ship With Wayland Enabled By Default (www.phoronix.com)

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/5946015...

Open Source Is Struggling And It’s Not Big Tech That Is To Blame (medium.com)

Free software in education will take a step back -- republicans are going after school board positions nationwide in the US (web.archive.org)

Since last year, republicans have launched a campaign to get conservatives on school boards. This is the political party in the US who favors privatization of everything. They are sympathetic to giant corporations and champion #citizensUnited (which elevates corporations above humans). #Ohio has a large number of extremists...

OpenELA - Community Repository for Enterprise Linux Sources (beehaw.org)

OpenELA is a non-profit trade association of open source Enterprise Linux distribution developers....

Sponsoring dependencies: The next step in open source sustainability [15 mins] (humanwhocodes.com)

AI summary...

Open Source does not win by being cheaper (github.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/6355296...

GIMP 2.10.36 Released with Support for ASE & ACB Palettes, New Gradient, and More - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)

Neovim is driving me crazy but I can't stop — gyydin (gyydin.mataroa.blog)

A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends (element.io)

What I Learned from Maintaining a Repo During Hacktoberfest and Merging 356 PRs (November 2, 2022) (www.freecodecamp.org)

Bcachefs (A Linux file system) has lost a major sponsor, and is looking for funding (www.patreon.com)

Major upgrades to Anki in v.23.10 - Includes support for FSRS and built in image occlusion (github.com)

For those that aren’t familiar, Anki is a very popular multi-device flashcard app with spaced repetition. It’s one of those FOSS apps that’s fairly popular even outside the tech/FOSS community, and it is used by a lot of (most?) med students, pre-med students, etc. It’s definitely the best flashcard software out there....

Grayjay - Revolutionizing the Way We Consume Videos (technomagnus.vercel.app)

Accessibility, what would the perfect blind Linux Desktop be like for you? - Feddit (feddit.de)

using discord is morally lazy (j3s.sh)

Grayjay is not Open Source (hiphish.github.io)

Today FUTO released an application called Grayjay for Android-based mobile phones. Louis Rossmann introduced the application in a video (YouTube link). Grayjay as an application is very promising, but there is one point I take issue with: Grayjay is not an Open Source application. In the video Louis explains his reason behind...

Call for Volunteers - Jellyfin (jellyfin.org)

Chat Control 2.0: EU governments set to approve the end of private messaging and secure encryption (www.patrick-breyer.de)

This would probably fit in better in the technology community and I’m pretty sure it has been shared already, so sorry for the duplicate, especially since it was already on the !privacyguides and and !europe communities....

The weights for Show-1 have been released (github.com)

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OpenHW Group (A non profit that develops open source hardware, including a Linux capable RISC-V core) Appoints new CEO, Reports exponential growth (www.openhwgroup.org)

[QubesOS] Disarm Shortcut for BusKill Hardware Dead Man Switch (www.buskill.in)

This article describes how to setup keyboard shortcuts in QubesOS so that you can temporarily disarm (pause) the BusKill laptop kill cord....

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