The Linux Experiment made a video in which he says that he has lost trust in Mozilla and is therefore abandoning Firefox and Thunderbird (or any other Mozilla product). This is a legitimate take, which I can't argue with. You do you. However, I find that the arguments
If I asked you to think about a web browser, how would you visualize it? For most people, the answer would be simple: you would imagine a window with a stacked layout composed of an array of tabs, a text box to search the web or input a URL, a
Four days ago, Tuta, the providers of an end-to-end encrypted email service, published a blogpost titled: "France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. We must stop them now!". According to them, this French law would allow the government - amongst other things -
Two days ago, Mozilla introduced new terms of use and an updated privacy notice for Firefox. This is the reaction. What the general public took out of the new terms is, well, we should probably switch to another browser. I spent yesterday reading tweets and private messages all saying something
This is Puter, and it's an implementation of a full desktop within a browser. You might not be sold on this idea yet. Though I'll go through this in more detail later on, I will immediately: this includes a file manager, a picture editing application, a
Open source is ubiquitous, and it's a fundamental part of our lives. We may use it every single day, but how often do we ask ourselves exactly what it means, and it entails for a piece of software to be open source? I bet, quite rarely. Indeed, defining
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Let's start with some brief context. The Matrix Foundation is a community interest company founded in early 2019 that acts as a neutral custodian of the Matrix decentralized communication system. This is distinct from Element, a for-profit company that builds "flagship products and services" built with
Hi, You can now select whether you want weekly or daily e-mails, or neither. (The setting does not have any effect right now, you get weekly regardless, but we're working on it!). By default, you're all subscribed to weekly, but you can change that from your
For most of us who used smartphones for any length of time before switching to Linux, learning how to download a lot of graphical applications on a Linux distro was quite a smooth process: just open the app icon that looks like an App Store, and what you see is
Let's start with Bottles, and then ease to OBS. Bottles is an application that allows you to run Windows software. It relies on Wine, thus the name, and it makes it easy to create environments with specific Windows prefixes, settings, and dependencies. It lets you select various components
Two years ago I was contacted by a company called MALIBAL. They were interested in a sponsorship, where I would simply put their link in the video description and get money for it. I did a quick background check, and they seemed like a proper Linux hardware manufacturing company. I
Let's take a step back. I decided to begin this story in 2019, during the Linux Security Summit. Developers Alex Gaynor and Geoffrey Thomas decided to hold a talk called Writing Linux Kernel Modules in Safe Rust. In it, they made the case for adopting Rust in the
Hi, I have decided to send you a weekly digest instead of emailing you for each article we publish (i.e., once a day). There will soon be a setting to customize whether you want weekly or daily emails (or none at all), but you'll have to bear
Just a few years ago, Kdenlive - KDE's video editing program - launched a fundraiser. It wasn't just any fundraiser – but rather, one where the explained it detail exactly why they needed the money, and what they were going to do with them. Very quickly, they
Hi, and welcome back to the never-ending journey of finding Niccolò's perfect laptop. Sadly, I have not found it yet. But I have something that gets close to show you. This is the Lenovo Duet 5. It's out of stock, so don't rush to
I hadn't talked about this yet, but there has been work going on behind the scenes to completely revamp the KDE theming system. In this article I will cover how this new amazing setup works, and it does already work(-ish), plus what the future of KDE styles
As you might have heard, Framework, the company behind highly-repairable and Linux-compatible laptops, has just made a new motherboard available for its main product, the Framework Laptop 13. Up to now, nothing crazy or out of the ordinary - Framework maintains their laptops well-supported and has a long history of
Just one hour ago - at the time of writing this, at least - news broke that China has announced retaliation against President Trump's imposed tariffs by launching an antitrust investigation on Google. The exact quote of the China government - according to, uh, Google Translate - is
