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Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination https://www.datagubbe.se/gnomefiles/

FreeBSD gets around 700K Euro in funding from the German Sovereign Tech Fund: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/sovereign-tech-fund-to-invest-e686400-in-freebsd-infrastructure-modernization/

A malicious plugin for the Pidgin program was up for two months before it was taken down. It contained a keylogger and took screenshots of affected users' screens. https://pidgin.im/posts/2024-08-malicious-plugin/

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LibreOffice 24.8 has been released: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/08/22/libreoffice-248/

Opinion: Mozilla has been suspiciously silent about Google and Manifest V3 This is their greatest marketing opportunity of the year, and they are yet to seize it. Why is that? Let's see. https://fosspost.org/mozilla-has-been-suspiciously-silent-about-google-and-manifest-v3

Google has removed the open-source map application "Organic Maps" from its Play Store for no reason. https://x.com/organicmapsapp/status/1824727403580596260 It is one of the open source maps applications that we talked about here: https://fosspost.org/android-open-source-google-maps-alternatives Edit: It has been returned now.

Deepin 23 has been released. https://www.deepin.org/en/deepin-v23-is-officially-released/

This is an important notice for laptop owners to care for an update that landed in the "power-profiles-daemon" package and which could downgrade performance compared to previous releases when the "balanced" power profile is used. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1erh1pf/powerprofilesdaemon_introduced_an_unconditional/

Ubuntu announces a shift in how they ship kernel versions in their distribution. They will now ship whatever latest stable kernel version available before shipping Ubuntu, ensuring users will always get the latest stable kernel in each new release: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/kernel-version-selection-for-ubuntu-releases/47007

You can use one of these programs to monitor your security camera for your house, dashcam or other places. 😎 https://fosspost.org/open-source-cctv-ip-camera-monitoring-software

Firefox 129 has been released. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/129.0/releasenotes/