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Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/2f72237a4230410a888acbfce3dc0864/lessons-learned-from-15-years-of-sumatrapdf-an-open-source-windows-app.html?

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A security vulnerability was discovered in Ubuntu's Snapcraft: https://blog.ret2.io/2021/08/04/snapcraft-injection/

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This is a little bit outside our scope, but did you know that your printer prints tracking dots to everything you print? Check this out if you are interested in your privacy. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170607-why-printers-add-secret-tracking-dots https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots

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Element raises $30M to boost Matrix https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/27/element-raises-30-m-to-boost-matrix

Audacity Developers Apologize, Revise Controversial Privacy Policy https://fosspost.org/audacity-developers-apologize-revise-controversial-privacy-policy/

Germany’s national healthcare system adopts Matrix! https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/21/germanys-national-healthcare-system-adopts-matrix

The same company which bought Audacity and tried to secretly insert telemetry, is now threatening a software developer over copyright issues with a tool he developed to download music scores from MuseScore.com: https://musescore.com/theotherjthistle/removing-all-of-my-scores-from-musescore See the (edited) discussion at: https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issuecomment-882450335

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Firefox May Have Lost Up to 12% Of Its Users So Far In 2021 https://fosspost.org/firefox-may-have-lost-12-percent-of-users/