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Open Source Security Foundation gains recognition... and funding?
8 years ago, Heartbleed was estimated to have cost at least 500 million USD. Since then, many more vulnerabilities were granted infamous names, including a few whose damages are estimated at th
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A Great Source of Developer Happiness Open to All
After many years contributing to open source projects, I can't say [https://www.techrepublic.com/article/what-makes-developers-happy-contributing-to-open-source/|results of SlashData's developer surve
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ASUS F2A85-M
Last month I bought my first desktop in a decade. Ordering and getting the parts from DirectCanada was already an experience. I expected some surprises as t
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Bugs
So after a long time, summer is back in Quebec... what we call summer anyway. With these high temperatures, bugs are back too. Yesterday I came back at 1 AM. With the street lamps, I noticed that - ob
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CVE-2024-3094: Just a number, but still just a number
Last week, CVE-2024-3094 was revealed. Thanks to relatively good fortune and a highly diligent engineer, this vulnerability assessed as 10.0 (critical)
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Epik
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FOSS Security, and Transparency at the Linux Foundation
In December, the Linux Foundation released a report on its 2020 FOSS Contributor Survey . The most important an
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Free software and integration: a long-term issue
More than a decade ago, Greg Kroah-Hartman started offering some Linux versions with significant support. Linux 2.6.32 was designated as a "long term" support release, even though the term was just ab
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Goodbye Flash, Hello Complete Freedom!
Although Debian has been my main home PC's OS for more than a decade, I've always used proprietary software on it. Usually various drivers or firmwares, and sometimes applications. But always, the 2 m
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Heartbleed no more - EU-FOSSA budget doubled
In early 2016, [/blogpost37-Issues-using-GNU-Linux-as-a-desktop-PC|I expressed some satisfaction and a touch of pride regarding the multi-million USD Core Infrastructure Initiative security effort
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Launches and updates
Around 1997, when I entered high school, I learned HTML (version 3!) and started LinkOPlaza, a website whose purpose was to share links to the webpages I liked. Although I found nice background pictur
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Linus Torvalds awarded the Millennium Technology Prize
So, for the first time, the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize was [http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/06/13/1314250/linus-torvalds-awarded-the-millenial-technology-pr
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Log4Shell and OpenSSF
Heartbleed was more than 7 years ago. This year, the new Heartbleed is Log4Shell , which is in no way less severe than Heartbleed. I lost several hours of work due to
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Modestly Moving Away from a Monstruously Mad Mozilla
In 2003, I was using Internet Explorer, Hotmail and Microsoft Windows when I discovered the Mozilla Suite. I could certainly count the number of open source applications I used on a single hand at tha
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Open Source Security Foundation
A couple of months ago, when writing about the end of EU-FOSSA 2 , I criticized its reactionary nature. Just like [http://www.philippeclout
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RxJS: unexpectedly reactive
I'm not the first one to observe that Reactive Extensions For JavaScript have quite a learning curve . It'
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Selected Select2? Better go with option #2
I haven't contributed much to Select2 , a JavaScript library to replace native HTML sel
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Spring Framework
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The demise of Mail User Agents and digital calendar applications… and email standards?
Once upon a time, back in the early days of the web, when CSS was still revolutionary, Netscape Navigator was succeeded by Netscape Communicator . This short-lived Internet suite
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The Hacktivist's ABCD
This week I witnessed an exchange on KDE's community mailing list. Someone made a reasonable request, quite decently formulated. Someone else, who visibly didn't appreciate that request, sent a reply
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Twitter's Bootstrap shall now bootstrap itself
Last Summer, as I was working on the Tiki project, which uses Twitter's Bootstrap framework a lot, I realized that Bootstrap is quite hard to discover organically and I decided to bite the bullet and
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