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Thirty Years of FreeBSD

On my long journey of computers with UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems, FreeBSD is the one constant over time. Today FreeBSD is celebrating 30 years. You can scroll through the 30 Year Timeline to get…

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F-Droid Board of Directors

I joined the F-Droid Board of Directors. There is an official press release on the site. I helped form and joined the Board because we need to promote free as a freedom software, open source…

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Passkeys and Tech Duopoly

Passkeys are vendor lock in and tries to turn a few big tech companies into critical infrastructure. I started to write this post in October 2022 when there was a huge push about the coming…

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$67,000 to Support F-Droid

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F-Droid is looking to have their first full-time, paid contributor. They need to raise $67,000 to cover the $1,275 per week needed to fund Licaon Kter. Read all about it. https://f-droid.org/2022/04/25/from-user-to-contributor-and-beyond.html F-Droid is a free…

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