US court asks Signal to hand in user data, but Signal gave them basically no data in return, as it doesn't even have access to it: https://signal.org/bigbrother/central-california-grand-jury/
Signal Messenger
Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California
It’s the first half of 2021 – nearly five years since the “first half of 2016” – but in many ways not much has changed. The United Kingdom is still trying to figure out Brexit, another Justin Bieber song hit #1 on the charts (is it too late now to say sorry?)…
QEMU (an open source emulator) 6.0 was released: https://www.qemu.org/2021/04/30/qemu-6-0-0/
Here's an article on how to use it: https://fosspost.org/use-qemu-test-operating-systems-distributions/
Here's an article on how to use it: https://fosspost.org/use-qemu-test-operating-systems-distributions/
FOSS Post
Use QEMU To Run Operating Systems Virtually - FOSS Post
This tutorial explains how to install and use QEMU on your Linux distribution in order to run operating systems and distros easily on your machine.
Things to do after installing Fedora 34: https://fosspost.org/things-to-do-after-installing-fedora-34/
fosspost.org
Things To Do After Installing Fedora 34
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Nginx is now the most popular web server, overtaking Apache
https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/nginx_is_now_the_most_popular_web_server_overtaking_apache
https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/nginx_is_now_the_most_popular_web_server_overtaking_apache
Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board published a full detailed report about the University of Minnesota and all the patches they submitted to the kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/5/5/1244
#FP_Discussions: Have you ever succeeded in making someone else switch to Linux? What were the hardest things standing in the way?
China announces a similar initiative to Google Summer of Code called "2021 Summer of Open Source Promotion Plans" to help develop open source projects: https://summer.iscas.ac.cn/help/en
#FP_Discussions: Would you support such initiative?
#FP_Discussions: Would you support such initiative?
Python micro-framework Flask 2.0 was released: https://palletsprojects.com/blog/flask-2-0-released/
Pallets
New Major Versions Released! Flask 2.0, Werkzeug 2.0, Jinja 3.0, Click 8.0, ItsDangerous 2.0, and MarkupSafe 2.0
Audacity answers to criticism about adding telemetry to the program; Will drop all of it: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/889
GitHub
Actions we propose to take on PR #835 · audacity audacity · Discussion #889
Hi everyone, I’m going to describe the actions we propose to take to address the concerns raised about PR #835 (opt-in Telemetry using Google and Yandex as 3rd party hosts): We are dropping the tel...
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PipeWire: the new audio and video daemon in Fedora Linux 34
https://fedoramagazine.org/pipewire-the-new-audio-and-video-daemon-in-fedora-linux-34/
https://fedoramagazine.org/pipewire-the-new-audio-and-video-daemon-in-fedora-linux-34/
Fedora Magazine
PipeWire: the new audio and video daemon in Fedora Linux 34 - Fedora Magazine
Learn more about PipeWire—Fedora Linux's new default audio and video daemon—in this interview with it's creator Wim Taymans.
“I COULD REWRITE CURL”
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20/i-could-rewrite-curl/
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20/i-could-rewrite-curl/
Inkscape 1.1 released: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1
inkscape.org
Download Inkscape 1.1 | Inkscape
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OBS Studio 27 released with native Wayland support through Pipewire
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/27.0.0
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/27.0.0
GitHub
Release OBS Studio 27.0 · obsproject/obs-studio
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New Features and Additions
Added Undo/Redo [Programatic/Jim]
Added a new capture metho...
New Features and Additions
Added Undo/Redo [Programatic/Jim]
Added a new capture metho...