Power vs. influence: What open source teaches that business school doesn't | We Love Open Source • All Things Open Open source leadership requires influence without power. Learn how contributing to projects builds essential management skills that traditional hierarchies can't teach.

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Linux to the rescue - Both.org Using Linux to repair Windows systems isn’t just a handy trick; it’s a valuable skill that can save you data, time, and frustration.

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Trump's Iran War: Anatomy of a Debacle | Common Dreams ​President Donald Trump’s persistent boasts about tactical victories against Iran’s military ignore the fundamental strategic fact that Trump has lost the Iran war.

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Gandhi Writes Letters to Hitler: “We Have Found in Non-Violence a Force Which Can Match the Most Violent Forces in the World” (1939/40) Image via Wikimedia Commons It must come up in every single argument, from sophisticated to sophomoric, about the practicability of non-violent pacifism. 'Look what Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. ...

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How we migrated a 20-year-old open source project to the Apache Software Foundation | We Love Open Source • All Things Open Apache Grails spent 20 years under single-org stewardship before joining the Apache Software Foundation. Here's the exact 18-month playbook we used to migrate, graduate, and modernize one of Java's mo...

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As Trump Threatens Iran, Veterans Arrested Protesting 'War Machine' at US Capitol | Common Dreams Veterans arrested protesting Trump's war on Iran.

As Trump Threatens Iran, Veterans Arrested Protesting 'War Machine' at US Capitol www.commondreams.org/news/veteran...

The hard part of LLMs isn’t the model. It’s everything around it  | We Love Open Source • All Things Open LLMs look reliable in demos. Production is a different story. This post breaks down what actually breaks at scale — latency, GPU utilization, cost, batching — and the optimizations that move the needl...

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Choosing your first Linux distribution - Both.org I have done a lot of distro hopping and continue to experiment with different Linux distributions. I started with Linux before Fedora or Ubuntu existed. The first distribution I really explored was Re...

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#Linux #MovingToLinux #GettingStarted #Fedora #LinuxMint #Both.org

Choosing your first Linux distribution - Both.org I have done a lot of distro hopping and continue to experiment with different Linux distributions. I started with Linux before Fedora or Ubuntu existed. The first distribution I really explored was Re...

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Give the People What They Want: Impeach Trump! | Common Dreams ​This drive for presidential accountability stems from the 15 months of Trump wrecking America, weakening America, endangering America and its people.

Give the People What They Want: Impeach Trump! www.commondreams.org/opinion/peop...

Iran Says It Won't Negotiate With 'Erratic' Trump After Genocidal Threat to 'Blow Up' Whole Country | Common Dreams “Our assessment is that Trump effectively lacks both a coherent plan and the capacity to secure even a temporary agreement,” an Iranian official said.

Iran Says It Won't Negotiate With 'Erratic' Trump After Genocidal Threat to 'Blow Up' Whole Country www.commondreams.org/news/iran-no...

I want to thank whoever told my mom that WTF means "wow that's fantastic."

Her texts are so much more fun now.

Replace Neofetch with your own Linux MOTD system | We Love Open Source • All Things Open Neofetch is abandoned, but you can build your own Linux MOTD system. Learn how to create an automated message of the day with Bash scripts, systemd services, and timers that displays system info on lo...

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Network Interface Card (NIC) name assignments - Both.org On each boot, Linux assigns each Network Interface Card (NIC) a name during the kernel initialization process. In the past these NIC names have been simply “ethX” where “X” is a number the was essenti...

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The Trump administration has abruptly canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic charities in Miami to shelter and care for migrant children who arrive in the United States without a parent.

From specialized coder to orchestra conductor: How AI changes developer roles | We Love Open Source • All Things Open Discover how quantized models let Raspberry Pis run 4 billion parameter models, why developers shift from specialized coders to orchestra conductors managing AI agents, and how vLLM powers AI.

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Fighting for peace is fucking for virginity.

Not to mention all the $$$ he's making from the military industrial complex.

Thanks to Trump's Iran War, Big Oil Raking in $30 Million Per Hour in Windfall Profits | Common Dreams President Trump's unprovoked war in Iran has been a goldmine for Big Oil, raking in $30 million per hour in windfall profits. Climate advocates call for a windfall profits tax to invest in renewable e...

Thanks to Trump's Iran War, Big Oil Raking in $30 Million Per Hour in Windfall Profits www.commondreams.org/news/iran-wa...

The Oil-igarchs won't allow that in the US.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

'Taxing Billionaires Is Not Radical': Mamdani Joins Top Economists to Denounce 'Rigged' US Tax System | Common Dreams ​​While most Americans are paying more in taxes this year, the wealthiest 1% are saving $9,000 on average thanks to Trump's tax cut legislation.

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Demystifying File Permissions in Linux - Both.org The first Linux CD I bought in the mid-1990s was Red Hat 5.0. It came with a book that claimed you could learn Linux in twenty-four hours—or maybe it was a week—but in any case, that seemed unrealisti...

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#Linux #Unix #Files #Permissions #Security #Both.org

People Would Stop Laughing If…. - Digby's Hullabaloo I became president, Trump thought "I'd be the most powerful man on the planet. I'd control the world's strongest military. I'd have parades to rival Vladimir's." How's that working out, Donny?        ...

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From Wayback to WordPress: Designing a recovery pipeline for archived sites  | We Love Open Source • All Things Open Recovering a WordPress site from the Wayback Machine is more than a download task. This recovery pipeline handles retry-safe retrieval, URL normalization, and WXR generation — turning archived snapsho...

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Demystifying File Permissions in Linux - Both.org The first Linux CD I bought in the mid-1990s was Red Hat 5.0. It came with a book that claimed you could learn Linux in twenty-four hours—or maybe it was a week—but in any case, that seemed unrealisti...

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Saudi Arabia pressures Trump to scale back war on Iran www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Nobody has seen the Zamboni driver, but I'm sure he'll resurface eventually! #pun #humor

Sade | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

👏 Congratulations to Sade Adu, the first British black woman to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. #MusicSky #Sade

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