Digitization of books in libre formats non-profit, community archiving of all data (websites, books, games, software, audio, video, audio, obscure/ideas, …) Archival of source code and documentation (wiki) of old Unixes (AT&T, early BSD, …) online museum dedicated to the preservation and sharing of vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software Collection of software source code (automatic copies of github) Mostly open-hardware, or failing that with enough open-documentation for multiple supporting sofware to exist Open-hardware laptop and accessories which are open-hardware/specification enough to have been adopted by 9front, as well as Amiga-related addon cards. Mostly ARM hardware but also a 6502 board, vast majority is Open-Hardware devboards, laptop/tablet, phone, soldering iron, … ARM routers & Boards/Modules Experiment to create an open-source GPU Wherein Mozilla works hands-in-hands with bloody Facebook/Meta to track people Google FLoC-style around the web so Manipulators for Hire (Advertisers) can still have their metrics. "In addition to the payment, Oracle has agreed to stop tracking users in various ways. Privacy advocates applauded the settlement." "TL;DR: After noticing an annoying warning, I went on an absurd yak shave, and discovered that because of a tiny handful of Python packages built with an appealing-sounding but dangerous compiler option, more than 2,500 Python packages—some with more than a million downloads per month—could end up causing any program that uses them to compute incorrect numerical results." But also "Unbeknownst to me, even with --dry-run pip will execute arbitrary code found in the package's setup.py. In fact, merely asking pip to download a package can execute arbitrary code (see pip issues 7325 and 1884 for more details)!" Demonstration of a cache-based attack of ASLR, browser JavaScript and Native Code Linux kernel feature that mitigates the Meltdown security vulnerability (affecting mainly Intel's x86 CPUs)[4] and improves kernel hardening against attempts to bypass kernel address space layout randomization (KASLR). Writeup by the security issue finder on CVE-2024-23832 fixed in Mastodon 4.2.5 (2024-02-01) Technical explainations on CVE-2024-23832 fixed in Mastodon 4.2.5 (2024-02-01), TL;DR: There was no Containment of the provided URL serving as an "id" against the message own "id", Mastodon would just trust whatever was in the message. "On 5 Nov 2003, an attempt to insert a very cleverly crafted backdoor into Linux was averted." Where tukaani's xz/lzma-utils 5.6.0/5.6.1 got a backdoor added by the author in the signed tarballs. Own note: And there is an example of why as package maintainers we should diff the tarballs they're vouching to users rather than rely entirely on git, although in that one it's at the end of ./configure which is nearly unreadable m4/autotools soup. TL;DR: GNU tar tries to resolve + call rsh(1) when a colon is present in a path Infection via Netbeans project files Analysis of the Lion Worm from 2001 TL;DR: Certain companies recruit app developers to create botnets by injecting “network sharing” SDKs into their apps. These botnets then use the network bandwidth of unsuspecting users of said apps to crawl the web, brute-force mail servers and other nasty things. Slice-of-life about Rain, a high-school transgirl and her friends comic about a comic-artist transgirl Comic about magic (surpernatural, myths, transformations/identity, …) Nordic Historical webcomic Webcomic about a non-binary deafie Comic strips about deaf-life including sign language and silly adventures Magic webcomic? slice-of-life webcomic with adults and sentient robots Pirate Adventure webcomic, same author as Validation, non-binary main character Comics of setz, has two comics about Finland in World War II in a mostly peaceful slice-of-life storytelling. Crossover of Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Peter-pan, Marry Poppins. Re-illustrated by Sarah Andersen High-Quality Open-Source WebComic about a young witch in a fantasy world surrealist post-apocaliptic cyberpunk webcomic inspired by OpenBSD, 9Front, Linux, … somewhat serialized short stories from analognowhere Digital Book stores. All of them DRM-Free. Digital and Physical releases of Japanese Mangas and Novels translated into English Translatetd self-published(Doujinshi) Japanese Manga, mostly erotica but an all-ages section is available. With English, Français, Español, ภาษาไทย sections All-ages section of Idori Comics Digital (DRM-Free) manga releases in high-quality PDF and CBZ format. Digital (DRM-Free) and Physical releases, founded in 1989. All of them are DRM-Free, some are under a Libre License, some allow/require to pay the artists. Warning (2022-12-20): Proprietary web frontend that includes tracking (Google Tag Manager and HotJar), use third-party software like youtube-dlp MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public. Royalty-Free (CC-BY-3.0) Music by Kevin MacLeod Punk artisan label created in 1995 Japanese (DRM-Free) digital music store and online magazine Website providing information around denpa (litt. psycho-electric) music collection-in-progress of online stores offering music in high quality, accessible, and permanently ownable formats Parle aussi de Resistance.tk/Pirate-Punk/… ainsi que InfoLibertaire All of them are DRM-Free href="https://www.cinemutins.com/"> VOD en location (streaming) et achat (téléchargement) de films par la coopérative Les Mutins de Pangée All of them DRM-Free, AFAIK none are under a Libre-License yet. Future-fantasy world in which you follow huntresses and hunters protecting the world from Monsters. It's quite inspired by anime and games. Holo No Graffiti: Short comedy shows featuring hololive members (japanese audio, english subs) Saga audio en mode jeu de role, avec des chansons Independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content Search all 130+ GiB of source code within Debian And other collections of links/websites (quite like this document) "The Homebrew Computers Website is open to any computer project featuring a home-built CPU." JSON Activity Streams 1.0 + Atom Activity Streams 1.0 HTML conventions so machines can extract data from regular markup, effectively adding more semantics The rel=vcs-* microformat allows a page to indicate the location of a Version Control System repository related to that page. Archive of content related to ActivityPub computer architectures and semiconductor logic engineering, covering historical and contemporary electronic systems, technologies, and related topics mirabilos' comment to alpine on how to manage PS1 in distributions while keeping compatibility STOP TELLING PEOPLE TO LOOK AT PROPRIETARY CODE. "A domain devoted (primarily) to multimedia technology" Their wiki contains a lot of detailed information about codecs Book on how to use Wayland by Drew (sircmpwn) DeVault, author of wlroots and Sway "[…] repository of information for repairing devices with common problems and solutions." Open-Source community dedicated to providing support for Allwinner-based devices latency, throughput, and port usage data for most instructions on many recent x86 microarchitectures Manned.org aims to index all manual pages from a variety of systems, both old and new, and provides a convenient interface for looking up and viewing the various versions of each man page. Documentation of each step taken by live-bootstrap to build a system like GNU Guix from only source code Explains at length both sampling rate (nyquist-shannon) and bit depth (dynamic range). "This page collects resources about implementing regular expression search efficiently." Most notably the article series on how RE2 was implemented and how Google CodeSearch works. portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship Fork of Plan 9, a Unix successor by Bell Labs Binary-compatible libre reimplementation of BeOS, the operating system for the NeXT workstations From-scratch small but quite featureful Operating System LLVM+musl small Linux-based Operating System Operating System Development Wiki, mostly x86-PC based Debian/Ubuntu images for ARM computers Libre Microkernel-based Operating System, inspired by (SE)L4 and written mostly in Hare Community maintained repository for Ubuntu/Debian based on the makedeb (Arch makepkg-like) tool A minimalist OS, written in ANSI C and mostly Linux 2.0 ABI compatible. Used by live-bootstrap as it's first actual kernel. 6KB of binary seed, plus custom programming language able to bootstrap TCC (aka TinyCC) Dictionnaire de Langue des Signes Française / French Sign Language dictionary Own summary: Huge techno-solutionism happens and proves to be braindead by not even learning/studying how sign language works in the first place and do the equivalent of speech recognition that works against spelling rather than actual words. More details and explainations about the legendary "more magic" switch Note: Check the comments, there's followups inside them as well as interesting comments from other people like David A. Moon. Latin error message given after bootup on a MULTICS machine aka Floor tiles vs. Mainframe A 2ch story from 2004, posted in the middle of a thread called "Post About Strange Occurrences Around You: Thread 26." The poster was anonymous at first, but started attaching their name later. Or how creating an NPM package depending on everything gets you in trouble from both NPM and for some reason GitHub (don't rely on NPM and GitHub, reason n+1) (JavaScript required) In-browser parody of Windows 9x with a collection of fun utilities and easter eggs (JavaScript required, requires autoplay for sound effects) "Windows Crazy Error but without touhou" or "Windows93.net but it's only errors" As niconiconi put it "Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard? But sometimes the problem is the chair." Running GTA: Vice City on a TP-Link TL-WDR4900 wireless router The Lingua::Romana::Perligata makes it makes it possible to write Perl programs in Latin. Demo of a program that displays fairly decent full-motion video on a 1981 IBM PC (4.77 Mhz, CGA), including audio Video games, mostly Libre/Open-Source or DRM-Free Free / Libre games forum and chat community Package recipes for proprietary DRM-Free games based on your system package manager (apt/dpkg, AUR, …) Gouvernement et Ministères, Services publiques, … Vérifiez les informations légales publiques des entreprises, associations et services publics en France Inclut les numéros d'urgence (samu, pompiers, sourd·e·s/malentendant·e·s, …) Fournit notamment la liste des noms de domaines en .fr et les nouveaux enregistrements des derniers jours Site simple et rapide uniquement dédié à l'achat de billets de train (TER, TGV, …). Basically innovation theft and monopoly reinforcements via State-provided violence. Within a few days we heard back from the (understandably unhappy) site owner, who explained that they were in fact the copyright holder. The takedown notification was issued by an agency working on his behalf, and their bot had mistakenly targeted the original author’s site. For the Fairphone 2 but probably useful for others Profile of ActivityPub used by Pleroma et al. Federation of Non-Profit Internet Service Providers The "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers" model, or "CADT" for short Well known as "Moving the mouse no longer involves JavaScript" Aka post-2000 kids have become so dependent on search features and smartphones, they can't use an actual computer with a tree-based filesystem This guide lists any suppliers of digital media provide files free of DRM and do not require the use of proprietary software. Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) "How the EU determines if a non-EU country has an adequate level of data protection." Which includes a list of the countries recognised so far. «Transfert fut, [de 1999] jusqu’en mai 2002, l’un des principaux médias francophones consacrés à l’impact des nouvelles technologies.» A compilation of 285+ sites with dumb password rules In October 1966, Ceaușescu banned abortion and contraception and brought in one of the world's harshest anti-abortion laws, leading to a large spike in the number of Romanian infants abandoned to the country's orphanages. User testing sometimes has surprising results Allows to filter OpenStreetMap data via the Overpass Query Language, including a wizard for simpler usage. Source Code at https://github.com/tyrasd/overpass-turbo Wherein Mozilla knew what they should have done for the Fediverse back in 2010 but only did something so half-assed that it's unusable in practice. "In 2002 I asked a number of developers/Unix people for screenshots of their desktops. I recently republished them, and, seeing the interest this generated, I thought it’d be fun to ask the same people* again 13 years later. To my delight I managed to reach many of them." The Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) provides key building blocks for software to support the world's languages, with the largest and most extensive standard repository of locale data available. Chacun aura sans doute sa définition, mais je vous propose la mienne : un riche, c’est quelqu’un qui n’a pas besoin de travailler pour vivre Wherein humans are consistently worse at solving captchas than machine-learning bots Article explaining how you could still improve source-map@0.6.0 very signicantly even compared to right after it's usage of Rust "A silly emotional rant about the state of devops tooling/the infrastructure sector in 2018. #noyaml.com" (Article from 2013) Wherein automatic decoding of HTTP request bodies combined with YAML full-automatic footgun of representing native objects allowed to get full code execution in Rails applications. 2023-10-08: Finally closed after 21 years Spoiler: Windows users fail at reporting bugs It removes ads, videos, and suggested content, leaving you with a clean page that doesn't slow down your device or use up your data. psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener Where in 2015 it was discovered that Xerox WorkCentre photocopiers were replacing numbers in documents due to lossy pattern-based image compression. The Order echoes SFC arguments in court that the claim is not preempted by copyright law and that consumers like SFC have standing to enforce the GPL as third-party beneficiaries to the GPL — without any action by copyright holders of copylefted code. For context: This domain was registered for fun This is 100 percent true, but don’t be worried: they use the group as an email list Wherein someone gets roasted for negging (manipulation technique). Poul-Henning Kamp, of FreeBSD and Varnish, explaining how binary-heaps do not work well on modern machines with Virtual Memory, and describing how to do it better with B-heaps Une petite note: L'article parle de possession quand il s'agit de titres de propriété (et non de possession pour parler de propriété d'usage comme la location). "Dedicated to real-world action on ending the practice of publishers destroying videogames they have sold to customers" notably The Crew from Ubisoft "Nous, qui faisons des solutions numériques, nous n'avons pas compris que parfois, le papier fonctionne mieux que le numérique." Very much a list of shame, except for the continuation forks Where they changed Voyager 1 memory layout to account for a portion of memory being corrupted "an assembler according to a new principle" most notably ability to re-assemble from disassembler output including on x86 Weather forecast website which works in all browsers and with a public API, hosted by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and NRK. Essentially a graph of the amount of Firefox users Comprehensive report detailing Richard Stallman's political program in defense of sexual violence, allegations of misconduct, and the misconduct of the Free Software Foundation "This is the Apocalypse on Pattern Matching, generally having to do with what we call “regular expressions”, which are only marginally related to real regular expressions." […] "Regex culture has gone wrong in a variety of ways[…]" "Quelques annonceurs n'ont pas aimé la couverture de "Libération" sur Bernard Arnault, à tel point que certaines ont annulé des campagnes. Ces défections pourraient coûter 700.000 euros au quotidien dirigé par Nicolas Demorand." Un joli example de pourquoi un média se doit d'être financé par son lectorat (et donc indépendant). Includes testimony of early European internet (EUnet)