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Category: Blog

Best Smartphone Cameras in September: Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi, OnePlus: XDA Developers tests

2021-09-09 Danie

For many the camera is their deciding factor of the choice of phone (yes most others tend to stick to a brand). It often just comes down to Samsung vs Apple, so this is interesting […]

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If you use an Android phone and Linux, you really need to consider using KDE Connect for excellent integration

2021-09-09 Danie

This guide explains what is KDE Connect and its features, how to install KDE connect in various Linux platforms and Android and finally how to sync Android phone with Linux desktop using KDE connect in […]

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Facebook and Ray-Ban’s smart glasses leak before launch – Who is going to trust Facebook though?

2021-09-09 Danie

Facebook has had a string of disasters around trust with user privacy (just think of Cambridge Analytica and WhatsApp metadata). Their philosophy has been shown to be: Cross the line as quietly as you can, […]

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European Commission Report Declares Open Source Software and Hardware to be a ‘Public Good’

2021-09-09 Danie

“The objective of the study was to investigate and quantify the economic impact of OSS and OSH [Open Source Software and Open Source Hardware] on the European economy,” the study’s authors, working for the Directorate-General […]

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3 years, 17 alphas, 2 betas, and over 7,500 commits later, OpenSSL version 3 is here – But it’s not fully backward compatible

2021-09-08 Danie

"OpenSSL 3.0 is a major release and not fully backwards compatible with the previous release," explained Matt Caswell of the OpenSSL Management Committee. FIPS-validated cryptographic algorithms are important to have for users seeking US government […]

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Project

2021-09-08 Danie

OpenProject, MyCollab and ProjectLibre are covered in the article. There are actually many others too, but one of these three should do the trick. One of them is web based, which allows easy access by […]

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Whoop’s new fitness tracker is better thanks to a battery breakthrough – Sila Nanotechnologies’ silicon anode has finally arrived

2021-09-08 Danie

Fitness company Whoop has a new tracker that squishes five LEDs, four photodiodes, a pulse oximeter, skin temperature sensor, and more into a package that is 33 percent smaller than its predecessor — all while […]

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Garuda Linux is a rolling release distro based on Arch Linux with BTRFS as the default filesystem, with easy rollbacks from GRUB

2021-09-08 Danie

Having spent two days exploring the wonderful features of the BTRFS file system (copy-on-write, fast auto snapshots, rollbacks, RAID across different sized drives, etc) and having converted my /home partition to BTRFS, I was exploring […]

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ChangeDetection.io – Self-hosted open source web page monitoring, notification and change detection

2021-09-08 Danie

Know when web pages change! Stay on top of new information! Live your data-life pro-actively instead of re-actively, do not rely on manipulative social media for consuming important information. Maybe you need to be notified […]

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Meet the Self-Hosters – Tired of Big Tech monopolies, a community of hobbyists is taking their digital lives off the cloud and onto DIY hardware that they control

2021-09-07 Danie

It’s no secret that a small handful of enormous companies dominate the internet as we know it. But the internet didn’t always have services with a billion users and quasi-monopolistic control over search or shopping. […]

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