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Microsoft releases source for the version of the Linux kernel used in WSL2
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Blender is Free Software
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Introducing GitHub Package Registry
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Do you enjoy programming outside of work?
I have found this to be a semi controversial topic. Its almost becoming a required point for getting a new job to have open source work that you can show. Some people just enjoy working on...
I have found this to be a semi controversial topic. Its almost becoming a required point for getting a new job to have open source work that you can show. Some people just enjoy working on programming side projects and others don't want to do any more after they leave the office.
Whats your opinion on this? Do you work on any side projects? Do you think its reasonable for interviewers to look for open source work when hiring?
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Why OpenBSD Rocks
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Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary
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The coming firmware revolution
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The end of the Redis adventure
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osxfuse is no longer open source
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Go is Google's language, not ours
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GNU project announces Kind Communication Guidelines
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GnuPG can now be used to perform notarial acts in the state of Washington
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RISC-V only takes 12 years to achieve the milestone of 10 billion cores, 5 years faster than ARM
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Desed: a debugger for sed
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The culture war at the heart of open source
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Learna project reverts blacklisting in license
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EU Cyber Resilience Act: What does it mean for open source?
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Show Tildes: a little, portable, hackable graph-drawing tool
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Oildrop - A self-auditable userscript manager
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Pwned Passwords is now open-sourced via the .NET Foundation, and will be provided compromised passwords by the FBI
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I made a thing: Ode, an open source, self-hosted collaborative document editor
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New RISC-V CPU claims recordbreaking performance per watt
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Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed To Make Money
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The Tragedy of systemd
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Conway's Law and creating worlds that create worlds
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KeenWrite 2.0
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Feneas (a non profit provider of open source services), is having problems covering expenses and is at the risk of shutting down, so it is now having a fundraiser
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WhatsApp and the domestication of users
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Is there a website to propose/join open source groups?
I'm interested in working on an open source project from scratch with a group of like minded people and curious how to get something like that started. Does anyone know of any websites that...
I'm interested in working on an open source project from scratch with a group of like minded people and curious how to get something like that started. Does anyone know of any websites that facilitate that kind of thing? Like where people might propose an project and others can tentatively join?
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KeenWrite: A text editor
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Onivim 2: First round of MIT commits have been released
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Why We’re Relicensing CockroachDB
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GPL or Apache license for an upcoming PySide2 project?
Afternoon Folks, For my upcoming side project (for which PySide has been aptly chosen!), a desktop productivity app with features like milestone tracking, brainstorming, some motivational stuff,...
Afternoon Folks,
For my upcoming side project (for which
PySide
has been aptly chosen!), a desktop productivity app with features like milestone tracking, brainstorming, some motivational stuff, etc., I'm somewhat confused about the licensing part.I was decided on Apache 2.0 license so far as I like their focus on merit based process, plus they actually seem to create a ton of software as an organization, it's not just a license. I like the GPL philosophy too but I'm more of a utilitarian than philosopher and the GPL folks seem to be ever more preachy about Stallmanian ethics than about the technicality of coding programs and developing apps (where I'm more interested as a utilitarian/engineer).
But it seems I may have to bite this thing and go with GPL here considering that though PySide2 itself is LGPL, it turns out that some underlying core Qt components are indeed still GPL licensed, these are addons such as QtCharts which I'm definitely going to need for displaying charts in my GUI. Unless there is a way to use matplotlib effectively with PySide2 which I don't know about?
Being a utilitarian engineer, I'm a pragmatist too and in that sense, won't really mind whatever license is used in the end, as the end goal here is to create something useful for the human's desktop, not to get intertwined in open source licensing debates.
I have a slightly longer term vision with this project and all I want is that going forward, I shouldn't be restricted from using some useful component or tool or library just due to licensing issues. From that perspective, are permissive or copyleft licenses a better candidate to license your open source projects? And which one would you suggest?
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Open source recommendations for a photo/post voting site?
TLDR: I need a website that let's signed in users vote on each others photos, and stores that data on who voted for what in a database. Background I run a facebook group of about 2,000 members....
TLDR:
I need a website that let's signed in users vote on each others photos, and stores that data on who voted for what in a database.
Background
I run a facebook group of about 2,000 members. This group is designed for analog (any non-digital format) photographers to swap high quality artistic prints with each oter. The community was essentially dead and the admin wanted to throw in the towel so I took over. We've made progress, the group growth jumped by over 500% in the first month after I took over.
Right now trading prints doesn't work well. People make a post using the facebook selling format, and those who are interested comment with the image they'd like to trade for. The problem is that the posts get limited visibility due to facebook's algorithms, and stale posts hang around. All of this reduces over all activity, and the majority of posts don't end up in a trade.
My solution is to do a trade event with everyone participating at the same time. Since facebook doesn't lend itself to this I'd like to whip up a quick site for the event. My time is so limited these days I really don't have the capacity to build something from scratch, and the group certainly doesn't have any other developers to help out with it (it skews heavily on the older side).
I'd like to find an open source project that lets users sign in (sign in using facebook would be a bonus) and upload/vote on images. After the voting closes, I'll write code to pair everyone up in a way that optimizes for everyone getting to make a trade. If Alice votes for Bob's image, and Bob votes for Alice's image, they would get paired up to make the swap.
I feel okay writing the code to map out swaps, but I'm pretty terrible at web design and especially at front end design. I've looked across github, but I wanted to reach out and see if anyone could recommend something that I might of missed.
I don't expect to have 2,000 members participate, I think it may be as few as under 100, so hopefully I won't need to worry about scale.
Thanks in advance for the help!
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Alexandria Search is a open source ad free nonprofit web search engine
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Marginalia search (an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content) is now open source
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Purism (a creator of FOSS friendly hardware such as laptops and a smartphone) is seeking investment from individuals
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An interview with Linus Torvalds: Linux and Git
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OpenBSD 6.5 Is Released!
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Why open source projects don't charge (while keeping the code open)?
I'd gladly pay a reasonable price for professional packages/support for programs like Emacs/Melpa, Debian, and Xfce. As a user, I empathize with the complaints by developers that are constantly...
I'd gladly pay a reasonable price for professional packages/support for programs like Emacs/Melpa, Debian, and Xfce. As a user, I empathize with the complaints by developers that are constantly overworked. Even if this doesn't generate enough money to pay for everything, it might be enough to hire someone to handle the issues and communities, something that clearly drains their efforts, especially because programmers tend to prefer technical challenges rather than dealing with people.
I understand that many projects accept donations, but I think providing an actual reward (even if its something minimal, like an updated package instead of having to build it from source) might be a good way to get resources and avoid developer burndown.
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I made a thing: News Desk
I've only been seriously programming for about a year now (and mostly in R), but I've been digging into Python for the past few months. Mostly I use pandas/numpy/scipy/scikit-learn, etc. for data...
I've only been seriously programming for about a year now (and mostly in R), but I've been digging into Python for the past few months. Mostly I use pandas/numpy/scipy/scikit-learn, etc. for data analysis and some ML stuff, but in an effort to expand my skills I've also been playing around trying to build a few projects.
It's not much, but I built this: News Desk
Feedback is welcome. One bug that I'm aware of is that when you refresh the program, the
url_list
isn't cleared and the URLs from the refreshed articles are just appended to the list. So even though only 20 articles will show, you can select, for example, article 35.11 votes -
The SDL3 Audio Subsystem
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The Block Protocol
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Email client K-9 Mail will become Thunderbird for Android
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The Helios microkernel
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Introducing River, a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
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Announcing LittleJS - The tiny JavaScript game engine that can
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Help open-source contributors escape Afghanistan - Open Collective
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An update on the UMN affair
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