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Firefox hacks for everyone: From cozy gamers to minimalists and beyond

Wed, 08/07/2024 - 22:20
Firefox users, we’ve got tips for you. The Mozilla team has gathered some of our favorite tricks to help you get the most out of your browser – from customizing the look of Firefox and managing tabs, to watching videos on the sly and staying cozy while gaming. Let’s dive in.
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En Croissant - GUI chess toolkit

Wed, 08/07/2024 - 22:20
En Croissant is a cross-platform chess GUI that’s billed as powerful, customizable and easy to use.
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KDE Plasma 6.1.4 Desktop Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes

Wed, 08/07/2024 - 22:20
The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.1.4 as the fourth stable update in the latest KDE Plasma 6.1 series of this modern and beloved desktop environment for GNU/Linux systems.
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Setup A Secure Simple HTTP Server with HTTPS, Authentication, and More

Wed, 08/07/2024 - 22:20
In this detailed tutorial, we will discuss Simple HTTP Server's key features, installation steps, and practical usage with an example in Debian Linux.
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Aura 4.0 Arch’s Package Manager Released, Transitions from Haskell to Rust

Wed, 08/07/2024 - 22:20
Aura 4.0 is here! Now Rust-based, the Arch Linux package manager offers a 4x smaller binary and doesn't require sudo.
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Trying Out The Ubuntu "-O3" Optimized Build For Greater Performance

Wed, 08/07/2024 - 22:20
Canonical engineers on Friday announced they are evaluating "-O3" compiler optimized package builds for Ubuntu Linux. As part of this evaluation of using GCC's -O3 compiler optimization level rather than -O2 when compiling Ubuntu packages, experimental Ubuntu desktop and server ISOs are available for testing with this change.
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How to create backups with Rsnapshot on Linux

Tue, 08/06/2024 - 22:20
Rsnapshot is a free and open source utility which works as a wrapper around Rsync to perform incremental snapshots of local or remote systems via SSH. Hard links are used to save space when backing up unchanged files, to preserve space while still displaying complete filesystems to the user. In this tutorial, we learn how to install and configure Rsnapshot on some of the most used Linux distributions.
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9 Best Free and Open Source Terminal Emoji Tools

Tue, 08/06/2024 - 22:20
An emoji is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. We recommend terminal based emoji tools.
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Germany to Fund Open Source Software Maintainers Through New Fellowship Program

Tue, 08/06/2024 - 22:20
If you’re of the ilk to complain about governments giving money away and what that means for taxpayers, the Germans — or at least their government — are doing this because it will be good for the economy, meaning they think it’ll make folks better able to pay their taxes rather just empty their pockets for the taxman. This is also why they’ve already spending a substantial amount of money to help fund over 40 FOSS projects.
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Chrome Web Store warns end is nigh for uBlock Origin

Tue, 08/06/2024 - 22:20
Back in June, Google's Chrome Web Store began alerting users of uBlock Origin who had developer-oriented versions of Chrome that the popular ad-filtering extension could soon stop working.
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Asus N97T-IM-A Fanless Thin Mini-ITX with Intel N97 Processor and Dual GbE Ports

Tue, 08/06/2024 - 22:20
Asus recently featured the N97T-IM-A, a high-performance motherboard with a Thin Mini-ITX form factor designed for a wide range of embedded and industrial applications. This motherboard integrates the Intel N97 Processor and offers extensive expansion and serial ports, providing versatility and robust performance.
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Google Chrome Will Soon Disable Extensions like uBlock Origin: Here's What You Can Do!

Tue, 08/06/2024 - 22:20
Love it or hate it, Google Chrome is the most used web browser in the world, be it desktop or mobile. For users on desktop, they have the added benefit of having support for extensions to further extend what Chrome can do for them.
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How to Use Run0 in Linux

Tue, 08/06/2024 - 22:20
Run0 is a powerful privilege escalation app similar to sudo and doas. Learn how to use Run0 to run as root and make shells in Linux today.
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Check If You Are Using SystemD or Not on Linux

Tue, 08/06/2024 - 22:20
This article will show you three methods for determining whether your Linux system is using systemd or another init system.
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How to Install and Configure HAProxy on Ubuntu

Tue, 08/06/2024 - 22:20
Learn a step-by-step guide to installing and configuring a HAProxy reverse proxy program on Ubuntu to load balance your high-traffic web server.
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Keep Track on Your Internet Speed with MySpeed, Here’s How

Tue, 08/06/2024 - 22:20
MySpeed, a self-hosted app, monitors your internet speed with automated tests. Supports Grafana, Prometheus, and multi-server options.
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Raspberry Pi Driver Updated With Vulkan 1.3 Support

Tue, 08/06/2024 - 22:20
The Broadcom V3DV driver living within the Mesa code-base that provides Vulkan API support most notably for Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single board computers now advertises Vulkan 1.3!..
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12 Best Free and Open Source GUI Emoji Pickers

Tue, 08/06/2024 - 22:20
An emoji is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. The main function of emoji is to provide emotional cues otherwise missing from typed conversation.
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Mozilla Firefox 129 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Tue, 08/06/2024 - 22:20
The Mozilla Firefox 129 open-source, free, and cross-platform web browser is now available for download ahead of its official release on August 6th, 2024, so it’s time to look at the new features and improvements.
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GNOME Now Has an Official Extension for Legacy Tray Icons

Tue, 08/06/2024 - 22:20
As part of every GNOME release (spanning GNOME Shell, Mutter, core apps, etc) is an official set of GNOME Shell extensions. This is non-default package is “a collection of extensions providing additional and optional functionality to GNOME Shell” that are developed and maintained by GNOME developers.
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