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
7 Best Open Source CAD Programs & AutoCAD Alternatives Table of Contents:Top Open Source CAD Programs1. LibreCAD2. FreeCAD3. QCAD4. BRL-CAD5. OpenSCAD6. Blender7. SolveSpaceWhich is the Best Open Source CAD Program?Conclusion 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 […] October 11, 2020August 23, 2023
Encrypt Cloud Storage With Open Source Cryptomator Table of Contents:Cryptomator FeaturesInstalling CryptomatorEncrypt Cloud Storage With CryptomatorConclusion 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 […] October 10, 2020October 10, 2020
How to Split PDF Files on Linux Table of Contents:Getting the Shell ScriptDividing the PDF File into Smaller ChunksOther PDF Manipulation PossibilitiesConclusion The Linux command line is quite magical in that it can do wonders in a 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. […] October 5, 2020February 10, 2024
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
Fair Code vs Open Source, Which Wins The Future? Table of Contents:What is Fair Code?Fair Code LicensesAnalysis on Fair Code And Its FutureWill Fair Code Replace Open Source?Conclusion 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 […] September 20, 2020May 11, 2021
The 5 Best Linux VPN Providers 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, 2020October 14, 2023
Linux Encryption to Harden Your Data Security Table of Contents:What’s The Relationship Between Encryption & Data Restoration?Linux Encryption SupportHow to Encrypt Files & Folders on LinuxConclusion 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 […] September 11, 2020April 20, 2023
7 Privacy Addons 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 user privacy by default. Chromium, however, is %100 open source and licensed under the BSD license. Chrome extensions do work on Chromium. Still, we […] September 1, 2020August 30, 2023
Break Free from Google’s Tracking With Ungoogled-Chromium Table of Contents:Installing Ungoogled-ChromiumOptional Features for Ungoogled-ChromiumSearch EngineExtensions Support from Chrome StoreOther FeaturesConclusion 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 […] August 30, 2020September 7, 2020
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, 2020March 22, 2024
7 Privacy Addons for Firefox 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 a few extra addons to enhance users’ privacy. We’ll show them for you in less than 2 minutes to get […] August 28, 2020August 30, 2023
Top 11 Open Source Speech Recognition/Speech-to-Text Systems Table of Contents:What is a Speech Recognition Library/System?What is an Open Source Speech Recognition Library?What are the Benefits of Using Open Source Speech Recognition?Top Open Source Speech Recognition Systems1. Project DeepSpeech2. Kaldi3. Julius4. Flashlight ASR (Formerly Wav2Letter++)5. PaddleSpeech (Formerly DeepSpeech2)6. OpenSeq2Seq7. Vosk8. Athena9. ESPnet10. Whisper11. StyleTTS2What is the Best Open Source Speech Recognition System?Conclusion A […] August 23, 2020March 21, 2024
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