The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced "Librephone," a new project aimed at achieving complete mobile phone freedom for users from Google and Apple. The initiative will work to reverse engineer obstacles until its goal of a fully free mobile phone environment is realized. Can they be successful where industry leaders like Ubuntu failed previously? https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project #linux #opensource

Microsoft suspended this GitHub user's account for making this PR request. The user lost access to private repos and source code. It's a good reminder that you must keep backups locally. A simple joke could turned into a disaster and you could lose access to all source code including private repos. Better, don't use their services.

Build your own minimal BSD UNIX system with smolBSD project which aims at creating a minimal NetBSD virtual machine that's able to boot and start a service in less than a second. Previous NetBSD installation is not required, using the provided tools the microvm can be created from any NetBSD, Linux, MacOS system and probably more. Give it a try. Home page

smolBSD — build your own minimal BSD system

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GitHub - NetBSDfr/smolBSD: smolBSD is a tiny BSD UNIX (NetBSD) system creation tool, primarily aimed at building modern, lightweight, fast micro VMs

smolBSD is a tiny BSD UNIX (NetBSD) system creation tool, primarily aimed at building modern, lightweight, fast micro VMs - NetBSDfr/smolBSD

udp2raw is a free software that set up a tunnel that converts UDP traffic into encrypted UDP, FakeTCP, or ICMP traffic using raw sockets, allowing you to bypass UDP firewalls or work around unstable UDP environments. This is useful when your ISP block WireGuard or OpenVPN or any other such tunnels using the DPI. This tool is useful for IT professionals and Linux/Unix sysadmins.

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GitHub - wangyu-/udp2raw: A Tunnel which Turns UDP Traffic into Encrypted UDP/FakeTCP/ICMP Traffic by using Raw Socket,helps you Bypass UDP FireWalls(or Unstable UDP Environment)

A Tunnel which Turns UDP Traffic into Encrypted UDP/FakeTCP/ICMP Traffic by using Raw Socket,helps you Bypass UDP FireWalls(or Unstable UDP Environ...

If you know more such tools/projects let me know below in the comment section.

According to multiple reports at X and other social: "The DigitalOcean documentation team was fantastic, but they were laid off just in time for the big LLM content scraping runs that would have catapulted their work into the AI zeitgeist." I guess Google AI summary killed it because no more traffic given to them. It is just matter of time before many communities will die off that depending upon Google search traffic. Source https://xcancel.com/QuinnyPig/status/1977852223951626372

Today, October 14, 2025, Windows 10 support ended for most users unless you are a business with an extended license (ESU) or located inside the EU with 1 year extension to get security patches. You have a plan for EOL, Right? Your choices are simple if you need Microsoft: Upgrade to Win11 😏 you can try installing Linux desktop provided that you no longer needed Windows specific apps or games or have a specific requirements that are not compatible with Linux, BSD or macOS. So choose wisely.

WireGuard FPGA (Hardware) implementation offers performance, latency, and power efficiency using a dedicated, parallel hardware logic which allows the cryptographic heavy lifting to be done directly in parallel hardware, removing the bottlenecks of a standard CPU based system for high throughput, low latency networking applications.

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GitHub - chili-chips-ba/wireguard-fpga: Full-throttle, wire-speed hardware implementation of Wireguard VPN, using low-cost Artix7 FPGA with opensource toolchain. If you seek security and privacy, nothing is private in our codebase. Our door is wide open for backdoor scrutiny, be it related to RTL, embedded, build, bitstream or any other aspect of design and delivery package. Bujrum!

Full-throttle, wire-speed hardware implementation of Wireguard VPN, using low-cost Artix7 FPGA with opensource toolchain. If you seek security and ...