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"A certain danger lurks there": how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI 1 SorellaLaBefana Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 6271

"A really big deal"--Dolly is a free, open source, ChatGPT-style AI model - Ars Technica 0 BootinUp Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 3035

"Secret" Santa, two of them, actually, donate almost $1 Million to Free Software Foundation. Oh Ho Ho!!! 0 usonian Dec 25 Dec 25 2 356

# Explore pages at mastodon.social 2 BootinUp Nov 2022 Nov 2022 1 2771

$49 Android PC from Via 0 pokerfan May 2012 May 2012 3 2712

"Nature" to make all articles free to view... but not on Linux. 2 Recursion Dec 2014 Dec 2014 3 2591

'Anyone can do this': Sleuths publish a toolkit for post-publication review -- Retraction Watch 0 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 1496

**link update** Toonz Software Used by Studio Ghibli and ‘Futurama’ Being Made Free and Open Source 0 eShirl Mar 2016 Mar 2016 7 3942

101 Most Fun Open Source Games and Apps 0 Ohio Joe Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 2805

18F (xpost in GD) 1 tk2kewl Jun 2015 Jun 2015 0 2253

3-D-printed gun available for download after firing first shots 5 phantom power May 2013 May 2013 2 4014

3D printing software in Fedora 2 phantom power Apr 2013 Oct 2013 3 3198

7Zip RAR extractor is it safe? 6 brettdale Sep 2020 May 2021 0 9864

84-Year-Old Volunteer Rebuilds, Sends Linux Laptops to Africa 1 Recursion Jun 2015 Jun 2015 4 2468

9 free software copycats that work better than the real expensive programs 10 Jilly_in_VA Sep 2021 Dec 5 16 10932

A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools ++ 5 usonian Jan 2023 Jun 2023 6 7285

A few headaches in thinking about Kubuntu 9 truedelphi Apr 2014 Apr 2014 0 3902

A little old, but interesting (Ubuntu) 0 PowerToThePeople Oct 2013 Oct 2013 0 1950

A note to linux users about HeartBeat OpenSSL hole... 0 defacto7 Apr 2014 Apr 2014 3 1847

A Peek Inside Mr. Robot’s Toolbox 0 vinny9698 Jul 2016 Jul 2016 0 3730

A programmer explains why he's willing to quit rather than work with industry legend Richard Stallma 2 Eugene Oct 2019 Oct 2019 2 6282

A WordPress Photography question 0 RC Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 2015

Adobe Flash Player will not support Linux in future releases. 7 eppur_se_muova Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 3722

After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside 1 klook Sep 2018 Sep 2018 6 5693

Alpine Linux 3.1.0 released 0 Recursion Dec 2014 Dec 2014 1 1947

Am I the only one here using ubuntu 14.04.1 7 madokie Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 3301

Android forum? 5 sellitman Sep 2016 Nov 2018 1 3479

Another Linux User saying hi 7 ballreward Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 4137

Any suggestions for a free way to creat PDFs? 12 MaineDem Feb 2012 Mar 2012 0 5076

Any suggestions for FREE chess game software for Windows 10? Can play solo against computer. 5 Number9Dream Nov 2020 Jan 2022 0 11841

Open Source and Free Software Continued...

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Any suggestions on how to unfreeze my mouse. Yes, I still use one, it keeps freezing..sigh. 14 monmouth4 Sep 2020 Jan 2022 0 12083

Any vi/vim users? 2 Recursion May 2016 Jul 2016 0 2565

Anybody downloaded SteamOS yet? 1 Recursion Dec 2013 Dec 2013 0 1926

Anybody else using Musl libc? 1 Recursion Sep 2014 Mar 2015 0 2177

Anybody try Pardus Linux 2011? 2 hobbit709 Jan 2012 Feb 2012 0 2692

Anybody use Enlightenment? 2 Recursion Feb 2013 Feb 2013 0 2224

Anyone familiar with the audio editor/recorder application Audacity? 7 Syrinx Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 4442

Anyone here know of a good PDF creator/editor? 7 Hayabusa Dec 2012 Jan 2014 0 4064

Anyone know a computer forensics person to asks if someone wipes important info. off the internet 9 midnight Apr 2013 Apr 2013 0 3588

Anyone running Linux Mint (dual boot) on an iMac? 2 Quemado Jul 2019 Jul 2019 0 5927

App Lets You Peek Inside 80,000 Foods At Your Grocery Store 0 MindMover Nov 2014 Nov 2014 5 2109

Arch Linux now has package signing 0 toddaa Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2095

Are there any anti-virus programs on the net? I have windows defender running 12 Maraya1969 Jan 2013 Jan 2014 0 5893

Are there any printer manufacturers out there that don't force people to buy their toner via firmwar 4 47of74 Jul 2018 Jul 2018 2 28983

As Twitter flounders, Mastodon refreshes its official app for Android users - Techcrunch+ 0 BootinUp Jul 2023 Jul 2023 7 3592

AutoDesk Sketchbook is now FREE! 8 Atman May 2018 Jun 2020 6 9633

BBS/HTTPD/FTPD/IRCD/NNTPD/imapd/pop3d/smtpd and more 2 w0nderer Dec 2015 Dec 2015 0 2645

Been Through Distro Hop Hell 11 JackCoop Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 3805

Best anti virus for Pc 7 philipcorndive Aug 2022 Jul 2023 0 5659

Best Linux distro for laptops? 9 Aquavit Jun 2015 Jun 2015 0 5284

Book excerpt: "I learned the language of computer programming in my 50s - here's what I discovered" 6 Pluvious Sep 2024 Sep 2024 8 3400

boost and like syncing is coming to Mastodon 0 BootinUp May 2023 May 2023 3 3609

Browser upgrades continue apace - Firefox 89 4 bucolic_frolic Jun 2021 Jun 2021 2 7782

Burner App 0 Equinox Moon Jan 2017 Jan 2017 0 2615

Can any recommend an open-source Skype? 8 Ron Obvious Jul 2014 Feb 2016 0 4359

Can anybody explain why people like UEFI? 14 Recursion Mar 2013 Mar 2013 0 7089

can anyone recommend a good cloud service for PC to smartphone (DROID) 5 Soylent Brice Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 3517

Can anyone recommend a good RSS program? 8 muriel_volestrangler Mar 2013 Mar 2013 0 5354

Can I run flt sim2004 on Win10? (eom) 2 CanSocDem Mar 2016 Mar 2016 0 3062

Can someone please explain SELinux to these folks? 1 a2liberal Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 2865

Open Source and Free Software Continued...

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Canonical previews 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" -- overlay scrollbars are back 0 Recursion Oct 2015 Oct 2015 1 2117

Canonical shuts down Ubuntu One cloud service 3 Recursion Apr 2014 Apr 2014 1 2296

Change.org petition, ARM SoC changes for Linux 3.12 invite Torvalds’ fury 0 Recursion Sep 2013 Sep 2013 1 2125

Chromebook to the rescue - Linus Torvalds 7 RKP5637 May 2013 May 2013 1 4584

CHVote: an open-source electronic voting system from Switzerland 0 Recursion Dec 2016 Dec 2016 1 3558

Coming sometime (unknown) Gimp 3.2 2 usonian Nov 17 Nov 18 2 645

Coming Soon, GIMP 3.0 1 usonian Nov 2024 Nov 2024 7 2215

Communications of the ACM Relaunched as Open Access, Web-First Publication 0 usonian Mar 2024 Mar 2024 0 1957

Concerning online free storage.... 3 shraby May 2012 Jun 2012 0 2824

Cross Post - new open data portal for U.S. Treasury data 0 tk2kewl Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 3431

Curious Thunderbird "problem"... 4 TreasonousBastard Sep 2014 Oct 2014 0 2746

Cutting Edge Fedora Linux without reliance on Flatpaks - Ultramarine 43 KDE 2 LVZ Dec 5 Dec 5 5 834

Damn you Firefox! This is the third time... 11 TreasonousBastard Jan 2017 Apr 2024 0 10567

DARPA to release machine vision software tools as open source 0 phantom power Sep 2013 Sep 2013 4 3058

Database schema document creator 3 Ruby the Liberal Jun 2012 Jun 2012 0 4554

Debian 7 is released! Woo-hoo!!!! 16 Recursion May 2013 Jul 2013 2 7062

Debian bumps stable to 7.4, drops seamonkey support 0 Recursion Feb 2014 Feb 2014 0 2413

Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock 0 Recursion Jan 2016 Jan 2016 5 2726

Debian Testing Wheezy (Very Stable so far on my computer, default desktop Gnome 3) 2 ballreward Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 7015

Digsby platform to be open sourced 3 ChromeFoundry Jul 2012 Sep 2012 0 3315

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