Opinions Perhaps Mozilla Should Unfck Itself Before “Unfcking The Internet” The recent layoffs in August of more than 250 Mozilla employees, a quarter of its workforce, left the company shaking and the community worried about the future of the Firefox maker. The entire Servo team (A new browser engine in development since 2012), many developers working on MDN (Mozilla’s web development documentation portal) beside people […] October 12, 2020October 12, 2020
End Users 7 Nice Open Source CAD Programs & AutoCAD Alternatives Looking for an open source CAD program or AutoCAD alternative? You would be surprised that the market is so full of them in fact. The open source ecosystem is quite large and reaches many aspects of the modern daily life. From engineering to science and medical sectors… Open source is no longer just Linux and […] October 11, 2020October 13, 2020
Programs Encrypt Cloud Storage With Open Source Cryptomator Most users are probably using one of the famous cloud storage services such as Google Drive and Dropbox to store their files & data and sync it between devices. But did you know that you could also encrypt your cloud stroage folders for more security? Encrypting your files and folders is a good idea because: […] October 10, 2020October 10, 2020
Tutorials Easily Split PDFs to Smaller Chunks With Linux Command Line The Linux command line is quite magical in that it can do wonders in few lines of writing. Work which used to take hundreds of hours can be done easily using a one-line command or a Bash shell script. We would like to deal with PDFs today; As they are the default format for sharing […] October 5, 2020October 5, 2020
News Microsoft is Planning to Run Linux Programs on Windows You may have heard about a software named “Wine”, which is a program designed to run Windows applications & games on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Wine is quite marvelous because it helps Linux users run their Windows programs which they couldn’t find good alternatives to on Linux. It has been there for more […] September 27, 2020September 27, 2020
Education Fair Code vs Open Source, Which Wins The Future? Fair code is a new software development model which aims to replace the long-ruling open source model. Fair code authors argue that open source software lack a critical point in terms of commercial usage of the software, and hence, introduced their initiative to fix it. What is Fair Code? When developers release their software as […] September 20, 2020September 20, 2020
Lists 5 Linux VPN Providers To Secure your Connections With VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a communication tunnel between your devices and remote connection servers to bypass your local ISP censorship and local network monitoring. The working concept is that you redirect all your Internet traffic via these tunnels to access the Internet rather than directly using your ISP, and in this way, ISPs ability […] September 13, 2020September 16, 2020
Education Use Encryption on Linux To Harden Your Data Security Encryption is one of the most amazing technologies to secure data. It prevents any 3rd-party from accessing it without having the key that unlocks the encrypted data, and hence everybody can secure their files simply via encrypting it with good methods. Encryption is used everywhere; in HTTPS protocol to transfer secure data between your browser […] September 11, 2020September 11, 2020
Lists 7 Important Privacy-Preserving Extensions for Chromium-Based Browsers According to StatCounter, 70% of all desktop users worldwide use Google Chrome as their default Internet browser. A sad fact, as Chrome is a proprietary web browser that does not respect the user privacy by default. Chromium however, is %100 open source and licensed under the BSD license. Chrome extensions do work on Chromium. Still, […] September 1, 2020September 1, 2020
Programs Break Free from Google’s Tracking With Ungoogled-Chromium For those who don’t know, Google Chrome is built on the top of the Google Chromium browser, which is an open source browser released under BSD license having almost the same features as in Google Chrome. Google’s approach is to add new features and tests to Chromium gradually before they land in the closed-source Google […] August 30, 2020September 7, 2020
Tutorials Secure Your Online Accounts With 2FA And Open Source Two-Factor Authentication or Multiple Factor Authentication, is the process of using two or more ways of proving identity to online services rather than just using the password alone (password = 1 factor, password + mobile code = 2 factors… And so on). It is a security measure designed to prevent attackers from gaining access to […] August 29, 2020August 29, 2020
Lists 7 Privacy-Preserving Addons for Firefox You Should Have Firefox is such a great web browser to save privacy by default; It blocks trackers, 3rd-party cookies, fingerprint trackers and cryptomining scripts by default. But even with this, the browser is still in need of few extra addons to enhance users’ privacy. We’ll show them for you in less than 2 minutes to get you […] August 28, 2020August 29, 2020
Developers 10 Good Open Source Speech Recognition Systems [2020] A speech-to-text (STT) system is as its name implies; A way of transforming the spoken words via sound into textual files that can be used later for any purpose. Speech-to-text technology is extremely useful. It can be used for a lot of applications such as a automation of transcription, writing books/texts using your own sound […] August 23, 2020August 23, 2020
News Despite Efforts, Traditional Package Managers Still Dominate Linux Desktop Many app packages were introduced in the last few years to the Linux desktop, such as Snap and Flatpak. These app packages aimed to solved different issues; From dependency hell and up to providing isolation and easy deployment, but to what level did Linux users like these new solutions? Not much, it seems. How Many […] August 22, 2020August 22, 2020
