A recente proposta de regulamento sobre proteção de dados pessoais no Brasil, que se insere dentro do contexto do Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente Digital (ECA Digital), tem levantado uma série de inquietações em relação ao futuro do sistema operacional Linux e à liberdade de software no país. Apesar das intenções da legislação serem centradas na proteção de dados de crianças e adolescentes, muitos especialistas e membros da comunidade open source têm expressado suas preocupações sobre a interpretação e aplicação das normas, especialmente se as diretrizes forem seguidas sem a devida consulta a todos os stakeholders do setor. O Linux, conhecido por sua flexibilidade e por ser a espinha dorsal de vários sistemas em ambientes críticos, corre o risco de ser afetado de forma desproporcional se as regulamentações não levarem em conta as particularidades dos softwares de código aberto.(…)

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“Have you ever wished your browser history was more than just a collection of URLs? As it is, the standard search history is kind of useless. Sure, you can see the title of the page you visited, maybe a bit of metadata, but not much more than that. For any actual functionality, like searching for a specific page you visited that you can’t quite remember the name of, your browser’s built-in history search falls flat on its face (like my six-month-old did as I was writing this sentence). That’s where Hister comes in. This open-source, self-hosted tool does more than just track your activity; it indexes every site you visit, capturing the contents of the page for easy search and retrieval later.”

I was a bit sceptical on first reading this, especially where browser extensions are involved, but it is an open source project, and there is this privacy statement in their documention: Hister clients only communicate with the designated server, and the server does not “phone home” or share any of your browsing history with anyone else. The source code is publicly accessible, so we can be audited by anyone who wants to check!

What is interesting is that many self-hosted server applications that do this sort of thing, have quite resource intensive browsers running, and are often fooled by anti-bot detection. Hister actually has your browser doing this so no wasted resources, and you have the full power of your main browser at hand.

The server needs to be available, but could also run on your own PC so no NAS etc setup needs to be run. However, the server side can also run in a docker container if you already have that setup. It can on something as light as a Raspberry Pi.

As far as I can see it is only saving the text of pages you visit, and not PDF or HTML archives of the pages, so again this side is extremely lightweight.

See https://www.xda-developers.com/hister-indexes-every-page-visit-search-full-text-browsing-history/ or https://hister.org.

“When “wiping a hard drive clean,” a quick format doesn’t actually erase anything at all. Instead, it just removes the drive’s file index. That leaves the underlying data sitting there until something overwrites it. That’s why recovery tools like Recuva and EaseUS can still dig up photos, documents, and entire folder structures long after you think they’re gone. Software tools like DBAN (Darik’s Boot and Nuke) and ShredOS solve that problem by overwriting every sector of the drive multiple times with different patterns over the course of multiple passes.”

DBAN bring back old memories from decades ago when I did IT field support. It was what we used to wipe all drives we had to remove from PCs before auctioning them off or otherwise disposing of them. I’d completely forgotten about it until now. I seem to think Norton Utilities also had a wipe disk program.

Good to see there is a modern equivalent out now.

See https://www.xda-developers.com/dban-is-a-relic-for-hdd-wiping-shredos-is-the-software-you-should-use or https://github.com/PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64

“Office EU is a cloud-based office suite built entirely on open-source software and hosted exclusively on European servers, has launched as a direct competitor to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Its pitch is straightforward: keep data in the EU, run on transparent open-source components and comply with EU law by design. The platform combines file storage, e-mail, calendar, document editing, chat and video conferencing in a single browser-based interface.”

It is really time that the Microslop monopoly was broken. It is not just about digital sovereignty, but also this belief that one must by MS Office to do documents. It is just not true, and so many non-profits and governments are spending a lot of money on what could have gone directly towards societal services.

But the big problem has been up to now you had to self-host or install something, and there were an array of free choices to choose from. Surprisingly, many users do not want choices and it paralyses them. Contrary to belief, the other party receiving your documents does not actually need the same brand of software to read your documents!

Ideally you’d want to also use a proper open standard document format like ODF, but you could also use the MS OOXML standard that MS Office uses.

Hopefully with such an enterprise effort behind Office EU, it will get traction. This is a cloud based solution which uses NextCloud in the background, and anyone can self-host NextCloud themselves too, so there is no vendor lock-in.

See https://techcentral.co.za/europe-is-building-an-alternative-to-microsoft-office/278843 or https://office.eu

Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform

Nvidia is planning to launch an open-source platform for AI agents, people familiar with the company’s plans tell WIRED.
The chipmaker has been pitching the product, referred to as NemoClaw, to enterprise software companies. The platform will allow these companies to dispatch AI agents to perform tasks for their own workforces. Companies will be able to access the platform regardless of whether…

Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform

Nvidia’s Open-Source AI Agent Engine Unveiled

Nvidia intends to unveil an open-access framework for AI agents, individuals acquainted with the firm’s intentions have informed WIRED.
The semiconductor manufacturer has been presenting this offering, dubbed NemoClaw, to corporate software firms. This framework will enable these businesses to deploy intelligent agents to execute assignments for their own personnel. According to sources,…

Nvidia’s Open-Source AI Agent Engine Unveiled

EEZYbotARM : Le Bras Robotique Éducatif Imprimé en 3D

L’EEZYbotARM est un projet de bras robotique de bureau qui est devenu extrêmement populaire dans les communautés Maker et éducatives en raison de sa simplicité de conception, son faible coût et son approche entièrement open source.

En savoir plus 👉https://www.lemondedu3d.com/eezybotarm-le-bras-robotique-educatif-imprime-en-3d

Opencode CLI e Ollama: Como Rodar o Claude Code 100% Local e Grátis - Doug Design | Desenvolvimento, Web Design, IA e Games

Quer codar com IA local, sem mensalidade e sem vazar código? Neste guia eu mostro o fluxo Opencode CLI + Ollama na prática. Leia no blog 👇

No right to relicense this project

No right to relicense this project · Issue #327 · chardet/chardet

This seems to be can we steal your work and put it under a different license if we use AI

Over the past few years James Holden has been eagerly beavering away on his own open source software project benny: “a modular software playground for making live music.”

So far he has displayed benny’s workings at a couple of the London live coding events, but they’ll be making their first international outing together on 24th April for the Tivoli Vredenburg x Creative Coding Utrecht algorave event in Utrecht, NL.

Tickets on sale HERE

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While sipping my hot Lemon 🍋 Tea 🫖 and some fun!! 😜

computers are fun

I discovered a fun multiplayer snake game played over SSH in your terminal. I love this kind of stuff, it really throws me back to the days when computing was personal, new to many people, and most importantly, fun! Computers are supposed to be fun, and are supposed to be yours.

If you weren’t around in those days, it might not ring as true for you. But if this aesthetic is something that you want to capture on your own machines, you can! Dive into TUIs, tiling window managers, and GNU/Linux distros. You don’t have to be locked into Windows and Mac, you can make your computing your very own!

Sometimes the best projects come from problems you didn’t expect.

I was deep into building Digital Shopfront CMS when I realized the UI libraries I was using had licensing terms that weren’t compatible with an open source CMS. That meant I had to build my own component library from scratch.

The result is ArtisanPack UI — an open source collection of Laravel packages anchored by a Livewire UI Components package. It wasn’t easy (there were plenty of false starts), but finding Mary UI as a foundation gave me the boost I needed to get it off the ground.

I just released v2.0 with Livewire 4 support, glass background controls, and ApexCharts integration — and there’s a lot more on the roadmap.

In this video, I walk through the full story: the problem, the pivot, and where it’s all headed.

Why I Built My Own Livewire UI Component Library ArtisanPack UI

Goose: Open Source Local AI Coding Agent for Developers

Kudos to Open Source Community! We’ve got a Best #OpenSource alternative to #ClaudeCode Desktop App. You can either run it locally using OLLAMA or Choose from Multiple Provider Like #OpenAI, #Claude, Gemini etc.

AI Coding Boom Drives Surge in Open-Source Vulnerabilities

Open-source vulnerabilities are surging as AI-generated code floods repos, putting the software supply chain under new pressure. https://jpmellojr.blogspot.com/2026/02/ai-coding-boom-drives-surge-in-open.html

I Thought ElevenLabs Was the Only Option Until I Found This Free Voice Cloning Tool

Think of it as ElevenLabs but running on your own computer. No account or server holding your voice samples. Even the setup is straightforward.

OpenClaw Enforces Complete Ban on Crypto Mentions Following Token Scam

OpenClaw has implemented a strict Discord policy prohibiting any mention of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin.

The move follows a January incident in which scammers hijacked former social media accounts during a rebranding phase and promoted a Solana-based token ($CLAWD), which briefly reached a ~$16M market cap before collapsing more than 90%.

Founder Peter Steinberger publicly stated he has no involvement in any crypto token and emphasized:

• Zero tolerance for crypto discussion on the official server

• Clear distancing from tokenized projects

• Firm anti-scam positioning

OpenClaw is an open, self-hosted AI agent designed for automation tasks including web interaction, API usage, file handling, and scheduled execution.

The case highlights the reputational risks AI projects face amid token speculation and impersonation scams.

AAEON’s UP Squared Series Gains Full Mainline Linux Support for 40-pin Header

AAEON UP Squared developer boards now have official mainline Linux (kernel 6.18) support for the 40-pin I/O header — enabling GPIO, I²C, UART and SPI right out of the box without extra drivers. This major upstream integration simplifies development, accelerates prototyping, and strengthens open-source support for embedded and industrial projects on the UP platform.