Enlarge (credit: James Brey / iStockPhoto / Getty Images ) The developer who sabotaged two of his own open source code libraries, causing disruptions for thousands of apps that used them, has a colorful past that includes embracing a QAnon theory involving Aaron Swartz, the well-known hacktivist and programmer that died by suicide in 2013. […]
Enlarge / Despite the encryption, Stingle Photos is a distinctly minimalist app which comes closer to the simple feel of an analog album than most of its competitors do. (credit: Kohei Hara / Getty Images ) With Google Photos killing off its Unlimited photo backup policy last November, the market for photo backup and sync […]
Enlarge / Familiar to many an at-home podcaster. (credit: Jim Salter) Over the fourth of July weekend, several open source news outlets began warning readers that the popular open source audio editing app Audacity is now “spyware. ” This would be very alarming if true—there aren’t any obvious successors or alternatives which meet the same […]
Freenode currently ranges between roughly 75,000 and 90,000 users—that’s a far cry from the 240,000 users fellow IRC network QuakeNet had back in 2005, but it’s still quite a lot of people. (credit: netsplit.de) Freenode has been the world’s largest IRC network since 2013, with roughly three times as many users as its closest competitor, IRCnet. […]
Enlarge / Ctrl IQ provided us with this diagram of its proposed technology stack. (Thankfully, spelling correction is not one of the core services Ctrl IQ offers.) (credit: Ctrl IQ) Gregory Kurtzer, co-founder of the now-defunct CentOS Linux distribution, has founded a new startup company called Ctrl IQ which will serve in part as a […]