Canadians in wildfire ravaged areas can’t swap important and potentially life saving news stories on Facebook as a result of the country’s recently passed news link law.
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Much like Linux had trouble gaining users back in the day because the general public didn’t know about it, independent online radio stations like The Barrel of Rock are having trouble finding an audience because potential listeners can’t wade through t…
While content moderation on Mastodon is far from perfect, it may be miles ahead of what’s in second place.
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At least 30 WordPress plugins are actively being exploited by a pair of similar trojans that put a backdoor on websites and redirect traffic to malware infected sites.
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This look at the open source Brave Browser is the first of five articles that FOSS Force will be running in January that will look at five web browsers that are alternatives to the dominate browsers, Google Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. Next wee…
This in-depth history of the internet explains the origins of Linux and some of its most popular distributions.
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Today we increasingly saw the importance of privacy and security in computing. This includes our browsing activity, which now needs protection even more than before. This tutorial will help you enable DNS over TLS (DoT) on Ubuntu using Quad9 serv…
I have not blogged since a long time mainly because I was a bit busy authoring a book Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner’s Guide for Packt Publications. The book is an introductory guide to Squid (especially the new features in Squid-3 series) covering both the basic aspects as well as the in dept details for …
This is a guest post by Gaganpreet Arora AKA bitgeek. My Facebook app list was cluttered with useless apps accumulated over the time I had joined Facebook. The worst thing is that Facebook does not allow you to remove multiple apps in one go. You have to select one, confirm on “Are you sure?” first …
Well, OpenSource is more or less about software source code and technology specific but OpenSource.Com scales beyond software and technology and provides a platform to discuss/learn/get involved/share. From the website, What problems can we solve? How would it affect the way we learn? Work? Run our governments? We want to shine a light on the …