08 May 2023

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News

OBS 29.1 Released https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/29.1.0
World Password Day https://nationaltoday.com/world-password-day/
Forty years ago, Richard Stallman announced the plan to develop the GNU operating system, which would be entirely composed of free software. The existence of a free operating system would enable people to operate their computers in freedom, throwing off the power of the developers of nonfree software. https://www.gnu.org/gnu40/

Repositories and projects

Example of how beautiful the AwesomeWM can be if setup properly https://github.com/worron/awesome-config
FreshRSS - is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator. https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS
Mundana - Medium stylized Jekyll theme https://github.com/wowthemesnet/mundana-theme-jekyll

How-to’s and guides

MacOS Internals https://gist.github.com/kconner/cff08fe3e0bb857ea33b47d965b3e19f
Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/build-your-own-private-wireguard-vpn-pivpn
Update millions of records in Rails https://blog.eq8.eu/til/update-millions-of-records-in-rails.html

Weekly Linux Desktop

Nautilus (Gnome Files) - if you thinking of Finder in MacOS but never knew that its possible on Linux Desktop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Files
Stellarium - is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. https://stellarium.org/
KeePassXC - Feature-rich password manager https://keepassxc.org/

Mentions and utils

Previously mentioned ls, now mention cat

The very first version was written by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and the current one is written by Torbjorn Granlund

https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/cat.c

/* The official name of this program (e.g., no 'g' prefix).  */
#define PROGRAM_NAME "cat"

#define AUTHORS \
  proper_name ("Torbjorn Granlund"), \
  proper_name ("Richard M. Stallman")

Torbjorn Granlund