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April 1st, 2025, would go down as a dark day in the history of software freedom. The infamous leader, pioneer of the software freedom movement, Mr. Richard Stallman, sees no point in fighting for software freedom anymore and has endorsed Microsoft Windows, a non-free, user-subjugating operating system. Reasons not to
Linux
Important projects for getting Windows applications up and running on Linux Let's find out why we need another game launcher for Linux and why famous developers invest their time to create it. The first question from newcomers will probably be "What does the word UMU even mean?
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Proofs - this is not clickbait When you open the "Introducing GNOME 47" page on GNOME official website (Wayback Machine) you will see this image at the top: All is well, let's check the image metadata with curl and grep: $ curl --output - https://foundation.gnome.
AI
Deepseek is undoubtedly a revolution in AI. It has created a storm on the AI market and has driven down the product prices of OpenAI, Google and Facebook products. It's super cool technology, but today we want to look at it from a different angle - Chinese propaganda,
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TLDR; First learn to pay your talented programmers the minimum hourly wage of a developed country - then expect them to work 70-90 hours a week. If they want to. There are calls from CEOs of various fields and backgrounds for young people to work up to 90 hours a
Opensource
Introduction Ventoy is a great tool for teaching your flash drive how to multiboot, developed by Hailong Sun aka longpanda. Just install it on your flash drive, download any popular Linux or even Windows image (.iso, .wim, .img, .vhd(x), or .efi are supported) and voila - the image is
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Introduction In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Aria2 to handle multiple downloads with many files over different protocols. Aria2 is a command-line tool that can be controlled via JSON-RPC and XML-RPC interfaces, and supports the following protocols: * HTTP/HTTPS * FTP * SFTP * Metalink and BitTorrent with Fast, DHT,
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Winter is already coming with cold, snow or rain and other problems for people. But there's no reason to give up - great things like Black Friday and Christmas are waiting for us! Yes, shopping can't solve all problems and it can even be addictive because
Many years ago, smart homes were common and popular only in science fiction movies or books, but thanks to advances in technology and electronics, it is now available to everyone and won't be a black hole in your pocket anymore. The tech giants like Apple or Samsung started
The Internet is very important these days and can't be underestimated. Not just for shiny pictures on Instagram, but for work, education, dating, news, daily chats with friends and family, and many other things. So choosing a good and reliable ISP (Internet Service Provider) is also important -
This device was created in late 2021 by Linksys (a company owned by Taiwanese giant Foxconn - the note about free Taiwan was earned) and Fortinet, a cybersecurity company based in sunny California. This company provides services and sells devices such as firewalls, wireless access points, intrusion detection systems and
As you can see, this blog is mostly dedicated to Linux and FOSS reviews, tips, ticks and hacks, but Apple sowtware can also be called *nix, at least kind of. So we decided to jump in and figure out what really happened at the September event, what's amazing
The network is a critical point of failure for almost all modern infrastructure. All of them are connected to the Internet, except perhaps military systems. This allows you to easily scale high load by adding more servers and work on tasks in parallel or distribute a portion of it to
Why terminal is not legacy and command line skills still matter Many new people in tech think that the terminal is something old-fashioned from the 70s or 80s and should be replaced by a UI with a bunch of flashy buttons. Reality is different, as it often happens. Console is
Introduction COSMIC is a Linux desktop environment developed by System76, a company known for its high-performance laptops and desktops with Linux preinstalled and the Intel® Management Engine disabled. They started by customizing Ubuntu releases and later added many unique features, making the project self-sustaining. COSMIC is a significant update to
In young and old age, in rich and poor parts of our life, on successes and on failures we need compass and guidance what to do next and how to escape the mistakes. The books can provide all this, and more - they have been doing it for centuries. Why
This post idea was born in last several public and personal discussions with highlighting a lof of technical, political, personal and religious aspects. Both programming languages got success in last decade, but released in different times: Go in 2009 and Rust in 2015. Some people think that Go and Rust
When I first switched from Windows to GNU/Linux, I learned about the free software movement and Tor. I wanted to learn a lot from videos of talks and presentations. One fine day I saw a video of Jacob Appelbaum with Roger Dingledine. It was just amazing, as I had
One day I was walking near the bus station and saw several young women. They were of different ages, in their 20s, 30s, and older, but one detail was the same: a bag in one hand and a smartphone in the other. Smartphones - tech upgrade or mental downgrade? Many