The Document Foundation has formally revived LibreOffice Online, reversing its 2022 decision that had frozen the project and moved it to the “attic.” The Board has rescinded the previous votes, reopened the repository, and invited the community to resume development under upstream stewardship.

It’s worth noting that the whole thing is still a long way from being a ready-to-use product, with the code requiring further work, review, and modernization before it is production-ready.

For those unfamiliar with LibreOffice Online, it’s the web-based version of LibreOffice. In other words, instead of installing the desktop application, users access the office suite through a web browser, with LibreOffice Online rendering documents on a server and streaming the interface to the browser.

Following various Intel open-source projects recently being archived with Intel formally discontinuing their development, another wave of Intel open-source projects were formally sunset on Monday.

This latest round of Intel open-source projects being archived were focused on various codebases targeting Google's Go programming language. These Intel Go projects weren't exactly popular or widely-used as far as I know so not necessarily a big impact besides those programmers that are fans of the Go system programming language as an alternative to the likes of C or Rust.

The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has released Azul, a malware analysis platform built for reverse engineers and incident responders. It is the first public release of the tool, which is now on v9.0.0.

ASD is Australia's signals intelligence agency, which operates under the Department of Defence. Its Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) handles national cybersecurity guidance and incident response.

Keep in mind that Azul is not a triage tool and does not identify whether a file is malicious. Samples should first be flagged using a tool like the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security's AssemblyLine before being fed into Azul.

Does a license like this exist?

Source: Mastodon.

GitHub Repo.

Heron is a Jetpack Compose adaptive, reactive and offline-first Bluesky client.

You can get an IDE to USB bridge from all the usual sources, but you may find those fail on the older drives in your collection– apparently they require drives using logical block addressing, which did not become standard until the mid-1990s. Some while some older drives got in on the LBA game early, you were more likely to see Cylinder-Head-Sector (CHS) addressing. That’s why [JJ Dasher], a.k.a [redruM0381] created ATABoy, an open-source IDE bridge that can handle the oldest drives that fit on the bus.

The heart of the build is an RP2350, which serves as both IDE and USB host controller. To computer, after a little bit of setup, the drive attached to ATABoy shows up as a regular USB mass storage device. A little bit of setup is to be expected with drives of this vintage, you may remember. Luckily [JJ] included a handy BIOS-themed configuration utility that can be accessed through any serial console. He says you’ll usually be able to get away with “Auto Detect & Set Geometry,” but if you need to plug in the CHS values yourself, well, it’ll feel just like old times. Seeing is believing, so check it out in the demo video embedded below.

There are a whole lot of different keyboard solutions on Android, and let's be honest: a lot of the offerings aren't great. While many of them have strengths, I initially struggled in my de-googling of my life to find a keyboard that had everything I wanted with regards to layout, swipe typing, and voice input. What follows is the best method I've been able to come up with (credit to the cowboy-hatted individual who clued in me into FUTO voice).

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/36734274

Direct link to the funding campaign to help accelerate the development of Discord-like features, such as servers with rooms/spaces, as well as drop-in voice channels.

It's quite an impressive little app capable of:

• Excellent text chats with file upload support, including solid optional encryption (OMEMO, based on Signal's encryption but modified to be compatible with federation)
• Group voice/video calls with screensharing (just implemented, must use a chromium based browser to screenshare an app's audio at the moment)
• A neat integrated blogging feature for communities & individuals
• a fun built-in paint program to easily annotate documents or draw stuff into the chat
• Full working and proven federation thanks to the XMPP back-end, which allows it to scale up reliably and easily self-host (XMPP is very lightweight).
• Uses the AGPL license, ensuring that corpos won't be able to take it over. It'll be community-owned forever.

In message-mode, it looks fairly similar to Discord:

The dev also posted a preview of what the new spaces feature looks like in the development branch:

Unlike Signal, Movim doesn't require a phone number email to create an account. And since it runs right in the browser, it's extremely quick to sign up and give it a test to see if it can meet your needs.

And if a Discord-alternative built on a truly open and federated protocol is something you want, consider throwing the dev a donation, or contributing with code (if you have the skills and time) or helping improve the documentation! :D

To stay updated on its progress, the !xmpp@slrpnk.net community pretty reliably posts news about it.

The PostgreSQL project has been chugging along for decades; in that time, it has become a thriving open-source project, and its participants have learned a thing or two about what works in attracting new contributors. At FOSDEM 2026, PostgreSQL contributor Claire Giordano shared some of the lessons learned and where the project is still struggling. The lessons might be of interest to others who are thinking about how their own projects can evolve.

Giordano said that her first open-source project was while working at Sun Microsystems; she worked on the effort to release Solaris as open-source software, "which was quite a wild ride". From there, she joined Citus Data, which provided an extension for PostgreSQL to add distributed-database features; that company was acquired by Microsoft in 2019. She said she now heads Microsoft's open-source community initiatives around PostgreSQL and that the talk is based on her upstream work with that project; as one might expect, though, she noted that the talk would represent her views and not those of her employer.

We’ve been searching for a memory-safe programming language to replace C++ in Ladybird for a while now. We previously explored Swift, but the C++ interop never quite got there, and platform support outside the Apple ecosystem was limited. Rust is a different story. The ecosystem is far more mature for systems programming, and many of our contributors already know the language. Going forward, we are rewriting parts of Ladybird in Rust.

Porting LibJS

I used Claude Code and Codex for the translation. This was human-directed, not autonomous code generation. I decided what to port, in what order, and what the Rust code should look like. It was hundreds of small prompts, steering the agents where things needed to go. After the initial translation, I ran multiple passes of adversarial review, asking different models to analyze the code for mistakes and bad patterns.

Setting up Sunshine and Moonlight for high performance game streaming on Linux

After a long period of controversy that went against the principles of openness and left the open source community surprised, MinIO has effectively come to an end.

Its GitHub repository is now archived and read-only, which officially ends active open-source development of this widely used S3-compatible object storage server.

In the end, what many expected has happened. Community developers have created an independent fork to keep the open version of the software alive. It is available on GitHub under Pigsty’s account, which is an open-source platform for automated PostgreSQL deployment and operations.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/942502

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Transmission 4.1.1, an open-source cross-platform BitTorrent client, is now available on multiple platforms. This bugfix update addresses over 20 issues reported since version 4.1 was released three weeks ago. These include:

• Fixing incorrect free space reporting to RPC clients querying available disk space
• Restoring proper display and persistence of torrent queue positions between sessions
• Resolving crashes triggered by pausing torrents while editing tracker lists
• Fixing an arm32 crash by switching CRC32 libraries to Mark Adler’s crcany
• Hardening .torrent parsing to exit early when encountering invalid “pieces” sizes
• Reverting an RPC change that returned floating-point values for speed limits and broke third-party integrations
• Requiring UTF-8 filenames in .torrent files, in line with the BitTorrent specification
• Addressing a potential file descriptor leak when launching scripts on POSIX systems

The closed-source chat platform Discord announced on February 9 that it would soon require some users to verify their ages in order to access some content — although the company quickly added that the "vast majority" of users would not have to. That reassurance has to contend with the fact that the UK and other countries are implementing increasingly strict age requirements for social media. Discord's age verification would be done with an AI age-judging model or with a government photo ID. A surprising number of open-source projects use Discord for support or project communications, and some of those projects are now looking for open-source alternatives. Mastodon, for example, has moved discussion to Zulip. There are some alternatives out there, all with their own pros and cons, that communities may want to consider if they want to switch away from Discord.

Supercell Wx is a free, open source application to visualize live and archive NEXRAD Level 2 and Level 3 data, and severe weather alerts. It displays continuously updating weather data on top of a responsive map, providing the capability to monitor weather events using reflectivity, velocity, and other products. I use the AppImage.

https://github.com/dpaulat/supercell-wx

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/55631988

Recently I started doing translation suggestions for co-maps, and I felt like this was a good way to contribute to OSS (since I don't have much money lying around).

Are there any other projects that you know of that want/require translations to Pt-Br?

I can confirm it works. I used docker compose. Fully open-source, including the android & iOS app (in beta)

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