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Bluesky, which runs on open source software and is based on an open protocol for social platforms, has lately seen it’s user base take a 10-fold increase as Brazil shutters TwitterX.

If you have to do research online you might want to bookmark this set of online tools that make exploring Mastodon’s federated world easy.

As you might expect from the folks at the eFoundation, the new Parental Controls do a better job of protecting child users than the controls that Google ships with Android.

Rather than handing more censorship powers to moderators, Bluesky devs are looking to make design changes to encourage its users to be civil.

Although Elastic plans to make Elasticsearch and Kabana open source again in the “upcoming weeks,” nothing is said about X-Pack, which will evidently continue to be only available under “fauxpen” licensing.

An article in which our reporter tries to get Leo, Brave's chatbot, to spill the beans on what's really happening at Brave Software.

Windows might not rule the day at Microsoft anymore, but it’s still a moneymaker and desktop Linux is still the competition.

On August 31, 2024 the Free Software Foundation will close its office for the last time as the organization goes all remote.

While Open Source Initiative continues its work developing an open-source AI definition, LF has taken AI-based Open Model Initiative under its wings.

How Nextcloud came to the aid of a popular open source project, in part by getting three other open source projects involved.

The lift and shift app, ELevate, for easily migrating away from no longer supported distros, adds Scientific Linux support as well as new features.

If you’re of the ilk to complain about governments giving money away and what that means for taxpayers, the Germans — or at least their government — are doing this because it will be good for the economy, meaning they think it’ll make folks better able to pay their taxes rather just empty their pockets for the taxman. This is also why they’ve already spending a substantial amount of money to help fund over 40 FOSS projects.

Alongside the notification that Polaris Catalog has been made open source, Dremio announced that it was sharing Project Nessie’s capabilities with Polaris.

The exodus, which was already being much discussed in online forums such as Reddit, began in 2023 when Oracle made a major change in the way it prices Java. Under the new scheme, business users are charged based on the company’s size — specifically, on the number of employees, which includes part-time workers and contractors.

But before we pop the cork on the champagne bottles and start the celebrations, perhaps we should consider that this good news for Linux might not be good news for those running BSD or one of the Unixes.

We’re probably not going to find a solution to mass data mining by advertisers and others as long as privacy issues are handled in a siloed manner by the individual platforms.

We can file this as a PR piece or a plug if we wish, Christine said. “I’m basically writing it because… well, you can color me impressed by an Enterprise Linux distribution that listens to its users and is quick to action. That’s a little old fashioned for the digital age, isn’t it?” We’re filing it as an interesting trip down the rabbit hole that’s Christine’s mind.

Bias’s job, if I’m reading the press release correctly, is to make sure that Mirantis keeps to the letter and spirit of open source. It says he’ll be responsible for “ensuring greater transparency in Mirantis’s open source engagement, and providing internal and external reporting to hold Mirantis accountable as a responsible open source citizen.”

After years of playing second fiddle to chilled air, it appears that direct-to-chip liquid cooling is finally going uptown.

It’s a “frankly outdated spaghetti-Western ‘romantic’ presentation of a living and vibrant community as dead and gone in order to build a technology company ‘for the greater good'” is how Adam Recvlohe, Holly Grimm, and Desiree Kane put it in a January 2023 article taking ASF to task.