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YouTube-DL repository taken down from GitHub by RIAA due to DMCA request (github.com)
DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest is Hurting Open Source (blog.domenic.me)
Typst 0.14: Now accessible (typst.app)
How do you talk to "I have nothing to hide" people?
Good morning, Today I've got into one-of-many arguments about widely considered privacy and trading it for convenience and comfort (it didn't even got into praising "safety" as a tradeoff). In most cases I talk about this with IT oriented people or at least those with some regular "computer liter...
Nix 2.0 released (nixos.org)
Nix isn't commonly known or mentioned on Lobsters, but I thought it would be nice to inform you there's a 2.0 release available with many new features or improvements (merge of `nix-*` commands into single `nix` binary, security improvements, cleaning old/redundant features to simplify the whole con...
Jakub Konka hired full time by Zig Software Foundation (ziglang.org)
It is your moral obligation to use Firefox (2019) (0x46.net)
Into the Void – Void Linux description and review from maintainer's POV (michaelwashere.net)
* Void Linux website : http://voidlinux.eu * GitHub group (contains `xbps`, `void-packages` and so on): http://github.com/voidlinux
What's your braindump/second-brain workflow and which devices do you use for it?
I think it's definitely worth asking here, especially when there was quite a lot submissions about [Org Mode](https://orgmode.org), [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md), [Logseq](https://logseq.com), [Notion](https://notion.so), [nb](https://github.com/xwmx/nb) and many personal hand-crafted tools. Bu...
uMatrix development has ended (ghacks.net)
Linus Torvalds marks floppy disk controller driver as orphaned in main Linux kernel source tree (github.com)
Do you know any good TUI libraries comparable to GUI alternatives?
This might seem at first like a stackoverflow post or anything else, but I think the topic is not very explored and quite suits the site. I've got my inspiration from quite a few discussions on IRC, including `#lobsters`. And I'm also at a process of designing some elaborate cross-platform TUI ap...
What should I do after getting my (first) own new Macbook?
I've just received a new 2020 MacBook Pro 13" (i7/32/1TB) couple of days ago and had a moment to sit with it during the weekend. To clarify, I previously had few PPC/G4 machines, and some kind of Air for a couple of days at work to do some video editing work for bunch of screencasts. Oh, and we used...
Custom-made UEFI bootkit found lurking in the wild (arstechnica.com)
systemd-homed service merged (systemd.io)
Original story link: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Systemd-Homed-Merged Talk: https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/ASG2019/talk/VSQRXA/
FEX-Emu – A fast linux usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator (fex-emu.org)
Colour Maximite 2 (geoffg.net)
White walled garden (blog.royalsloth.eu)
Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you (2013) (coding2learn.org)
LoveDOS – a reimplementation of LÖVE 2D game engine API for MS-DOS (2017) (github.com)
How to make compressed file quines, step by step (blog.matthewbarber.io)