166 points by walterbell 31 days ago | 22 comments
The two types of open source(filiph.net) The software world tends to view open source as some kind of a boolean flag. A library either is open source or it isn’t. Is that piece of code open source? Yes? Ok.
Avoid MinIO: update stripping community edition of UI features(reddit.com) I noticed today that my MinIO docker image had been updated and the UI was stripped down to just an object browser. After some digging I found this disgusting PR that removes away all the features in the UI. 110k lines effectively removed and most features including admin functions gone. The discussion around this PR is locked and one of the developers points users to their commercial product instead.
LumoSQL(lumosql.org) LumoSQL is a modification (not a fork) of the SQLite embedded data storage library, which is among the most-deployed software. We are currently in Phase II of the project.
Creating Debian packages from upstream Git(optimizedbyotto.com) In this post, I demonstrate the optimal workflow for creating new Debian packages in 2025, preserving the upstream git history. The motivation for this is to lower the barrier for sharing improvements to and from upstream, and to improve software provenance and supply-chain security by making it easy to inspect every change at any level using standard git tooling.
I think it's time to give Nix a chance(maych.in) The modern developer tooling ecosystem has exploded with choices, leading to frustrating scenarios where some piece of code builds perfectly on someone’s system, runs flawlessly in production, but mysteriously fails to build for you and you have absolutely no idea why.
TeleMessage Explorer: a new open source research tool(micahflee.com) I've spent the last week or two writing code to make sense of the massive hack of data from TeleMessage, the comically insecure company that makes a modified Signal app that Trump's former national security advisor Mike Waltz was caught using. I've decided to publish my code as open source in the hopes that other journalists will use it to find revelations in this dataset.
10 points by todsacerdoti 32 days ago | 0 comments
MinIO developers introduce update stripping community edition of UI features(reddit.com) I noticed today that my MinIO docker image had been updated and the UI was stripped down to just an object browser. After some digging I found this disgusting PR that removes away all the features in the UI. 110k lines effectively removed and most features including admin functions gone. The discussion around this PR is locked and one of the developers points users to their commercial product instead.