the-5-regional-aircraft-manufacturers-still-competing-for-airline-orders-under-100-seats

Across all types of routes, airlines are taking advantage of advancements in aerospace manufacturing to begin choosing different types of aircraft for shorter-duration flights. Finding the right balance between route frequency and fuel burn has renewed focus on the sub-100-seat market. Major airframe manufacturers chase larger narrowbody families, all theContinue Reading

ctrl-alt-speech:-sell-me-lies,-sell-me-sweet-meta-lies

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodes withContinue Reading

linux-mint-now-considers-wayland-stable

Among the mainstream Linux distros, Linux Mint has been an outlier, spending many years easing Cinnamon and its users, into Wayland one careful step at a time while other distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora made it the default experience. Now, that patience is paying off, as the project’s June updateContinue Reading

xeal’s-ev-charging-protocol-creates-a-direct-link-between-ev-and-charger-with-no-cell-or-wifi-connection

Public EV charging has a reliability problem—to put it mildly. Charging provider Xeal Energy believes that 95% of the problems are caused by dependence on cellular or WiFi networks, which create multiple points of failure. Xeal says its patented Xeal Protocol establishes a direct, encrypted communication channel between a driver’sContinue Reading

run-a-virtual-conference-using-only-open-source-tools

The Fedora Design Team discovered that using open source tools to run a virtual conference can be quite effective by hosting the first Creative Freedom Summit in January 2023. In this article, I’ll share some background on the conference, why using open source tools to run it was important toContinue Reading

5-open-ways-to-help-ux-designers-and-developers-collaborate-better

Ideally, designers have a good relationship with their product team and users. However, the relationship between designers and developers is more difficult to build and maintain. The lack of a close relationship makes it difficult to solve problems or improve. In my experience, the open source Open Decision Framework can overcomeContinue Reading