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A backdoor in xz (current versions are impacted) (lwn.net)

TL;DR: Update immediately, especially if SSH is enabled. xz versions 5.6.0 & 5.6.1 are impacted. The article contains links to each distro’s specific instructions of what to do....

Photopea offline (git.nixnet.services)

Treedome 0.4.5 is out: Encrypted, Local First, Note Taking App (codeberg.org)

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/12077965...

Tic Tac Toes v1.0.1 released: The classic game but harder (github.com)

Florp, the Firefox fork with an awful name, is fully source-available again (github.com)

The repository for the previously private submodule is still called Floorp-private-components, though it's public....

Floorp, a Firefox Fork with an awful name, has moved some components inside a private submodule. (github.com)

See also https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/floorp-going-closed-source/52783...

OpenCat: An open source quadruped robot pet framework (github.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/14224306

Does anyone know of a FOSS version of this (android keyboard with hexagonal keys?) (mashable.com)

cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/12627612...

Tic Tac Toes - A "three dimensional" Tic Tac Toe game I made (github.com)

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/27328794...

GPlates is a FOSS plate tectonics program with which you can manipulate reconstructions of geological and paleogeographic features through geological time developed by The University of Sydney (www.gplates.org)

cross-posted from: aussie.zone/post/8047076...

Retiring the Mozilla Location Service (github.com)

well that sucks a lot, a bunch of projects including microG have relied on it....

I've been playing xonotic and DAMN is it fun (xonotic.org)

I’m sure you all heard about it, i tried this open source (i think it’s open source) shooter game called xonotic and it is FUN as hell, it’s probably one of the best foss games i’ve ever played and i wanted to show this game off here...

New EU project NGI TALER will bring private and secure online payments to the Eurozone (taler.net)

Discord’s secret weapon against open source competitors (it’s PluralKit) (medium.com)

Why are FOSS platforms like Matrix having such a hard time getting users to migrate from Discord? Because of PluralKit.

My Love-Hate Relationship With Lemmy – Gavi's Blog (jewy.blog)

I made a blog post discussing my biggest issues with Lemmy and why I am kind of done with it as a software.

Suyu, a potential replacement for Yuzu (gitlab.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/12807782

Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects (drewdevault.com)

Ente - Open sourcing our server (ente.io)

OpenTalk - Videoconferencing secure and GDPR compliant (Jitsi alternative, written in Rust) (opentalk.eu)

gitlab.opencode.de/opentalk

Looking for a REALLY simple video editor for win10, nothing fancy please! [E: already solved. Amazing, thanks!] (kbin.social)

Windows Movie Maker used to be good enough, but for a while now it won't load mp4's anymore and I can't be bothered to try and fix it, and I'm really hating the online editors I've tried, so it's time to download some software!...

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