foss-weekly-#26.41:-open-source-trouble,-more-rust-in-ubuntu,-adobe-photoshop’s-linux-clone,-rich-cli-tool-and-more

Long-standing open source projects won’t receive new DigitalOcean infrastructure credits after the company quietly ended its support program in a disruptive move that has affected many open source projects. Though they did have enough money to fund Omarchy. 🤷 I cannot confirm, but it could be related. Gentoo Linux isContinue Reading

gentoo-needs-your-help!-several-sponsors-have-pulled-out

Plenty of open source projects keep going on goodwill alone, with contributors putting in the hours and expecting nothing back. While others lean on outside support like cash, donated hardware, or someone else covering the hosting bill. This kind of support rarely gets much attention, but these needs are someContinue Reading

the-megadonor-midterms

Since the Supreme Court handed down its infamous Citizens United ruling in 2010, billionaires have poured ever larger sums into candidates aligned with their interests. They now have American politics in a chokehold: In 2024, the top 300 billionaire donors spent over $3 billion on the federal elections, accounting forContinue Reading

is-boston-the-future-city-of-commuter-rail?

This story was produced by Grist and co-published with StreetsblogMASS. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Marvin Martin was in the Four Corners area of Dorchester, Massachusetts, one day when a train sped by on the Fairmount Line into downtown Boston. It was filled with white people, sitting comfortably and readingContinue Reading

DeGette talks legacy as her party shifts left

Rep. Diana DeGette has a message for the new blood in the Democratic Party.  The wave of hard-left candidates who are eyeing seats in Congress will face a stark political reality if they pursue a premature and overly ambitious health care agenda right off the bat. …Continue Reading

corporations-benefiting-from-enforcement-rollback-funnelled-$200m+-to-the-traitor-aligned-superpac

Corporations that have benefited from the The Traitor administration’s cancellation of federal enforcement actions have given $210.5 million in contributions and pledges to MAGA Inc., and other The Traitor-aligned Super PACs, according to a new investigation by Public Citizen.The finding comes as Public Citizen’s new analysis documents the The TraitorContinue Reading

ubuntu-websites-offline-due-to-‘sustained’-ddos-attack

Ubuntu’s websites are currently experiencing a “sustained distributed denial of service attack”. Canonical says some of its online sites will be ‘intermittently unavailable’ as its teams work to resolve the incident. There’s no ETA on them coming back online, but that’s understand since ‘automated volumetric onslaught’ rarely keeps to aContinue Reading