A new service is currently causing a stir: “Open RSS”. It was launched to make the web more accessible. The service lets you subscribe to RSS feeds even for websites that don’t offer them by default. The service is operated by a nonprofit organization funded by donations. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.
The handbook “Make it Yourself” provides instructions for building more than 1,000 projects. It follows the principles of open source: the designs are shared so people can learn from them and develop them further. All of this is released under a public-domain license that promotes free access and sharing. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.
James Bickerton writes in “Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia” for newsweek.com Elon Musk has urged his followers not to donate to Wikipedia, which he branded “Wokepedia,” until “they restore balance to their editing authority.” Even though Wikipedia’s structures could certainly be improved, it remains one of the best sources of information on the Internet. If you can, you should donate. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...
You can’t trust the stars on GitHub — I just learned that. Like on other social networks, stars can be bought on GitHub. This creates the misleading impression that a piece of software is especially popular and trustworthy. Unfortunately, this tactic appears to be frequently used to spread malware. The Rise of Fake GitHub Stars: A Growing Security Threat for cyberinsider.com ...
Penpot has recently attracted a lot of attention, especially in the open-source community. Rather than relying on the common open-core model, an eigenständiges Geschäftsmodell was developed for the open-source application: the so-called Open Nitrate Model. At first glance the concept looks like a mix of open-core and free-code approaches, though the exact distinction and how it works aren’t entirely clear to me yet. ...