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Free Software Leftovers

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 02, 2023

Security Leftovers

Kubernetes and Clown-Native

Giving Voice to the Future: Support OpenVoiceOS in establishing a non-profit association.

↺ Giving Voice to the Future: Support OpenVoiceOS in establishing a non-profit association.

> OpenVoiceOS (OVOS) is a collective of programmers and hardware enthusiasts who produce an open-source voice assistant. We formed in 2019-2020 as an offshoot of the Mycroft community, bringing a handful of third-party projects under one roof. Our projects have been an extension of MycroftAI projects and core technologies itself, which slowly became independent of its parent.

> Over the years, We’ve been operating in a manner of an soft fork and a non entity for over two years without giving the arrangements much thought.

Nheko | Matrix Client written in Qt on openSUSE

↺ Nheko | Matrix Client written in Qt on openSUSE

> Matrix is a secure, decentralised, real-time, communication protocol that allows you to send messages and pictures free from the encumberments of a centralized authority. You can look at Matrix as an alternative to using Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, etc. Confusingly, Matrix is a protocol not a client.

EDB boasts ‘five nines’ uptime in new Postgres database version

↺ EDB boasts ‘five nines’ uptime in new Postgres database version

> EnterpriseDB Corp., which sells a commercial version of the popular open-source Postgres database management system, today announced version 5.0 of EDB Postgres Distributed with new high-availability features, easier installation and the ability to integrate with the Open Telemetry suite of observability tools.

Database Cryptography Fur the Rest of Us

↺ Database Cryptography Fur the Rest of Us

> An introduction to database cryptography.

FOSDEM 2023: An Open-Source Conference, Literally

↺ FOSDEM 2023: An Open-Source Conference, Literally

> Every year, on the first weekend of February, a certain Brussels university campus livens up. There, you will find enthusiasts of open-source software and hardware alike, arriving from different corners of the world to meet up, talk, and listen. The reason they all meet there is the conference called FOSDEM, a long-standing open-source software conference which has been happening in Belgium since 2000. I’d like to tell you about FOSDEM because, when it comes to conferences, FOSDEM is one of a kind.

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