FOSS loving tech journalist. Publishes FOSS Force. Formerly with ITPro Today, Data Center Knowledge, & Informa Tech. #Linux #OpenSource Tweets are my own.
Winston-Salem, NC
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Just published on FOSS Force: Cybersecurity Chief Says Musk Can Use Perloined IRS Data Against Taxpayers buff.ly/4k3lQ2W
ALT President Donald Trump with reporters and Elon Musk, who is holding his young son named X Æ A-Xii in the White House Oval Office on February 11, 2025.
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Just published on FOSS Force: Asahi Linux Adopts Collective Leadership After Lead Dev Quits buff.ly/3Qlo14e
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Just published on FOSS Force: Erez Zuckerman Talks About (What Else?) Quality Ergonomic Keyboards buff.ly/3ED5Lkc
ALT ZSA CEO Erez Zukeman.
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Can they be used to edit the metadata tags in audio files, I wonder: 7 Best Free and Open Source Photo Metadata Editors - LinuxLinks buff.ly/4197aaS
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Lordy, lordy, lordy, FSF is turning 40. What we want to know is, how is that even possible?: Auction With GNU's Original Gnu Kicks Off FSF's 40th Anniversary Events - FOSS Force buff.ly/4aX1eFj
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You shouldn't do that. OO hasn't been updated in like forever, and no new development has been done in a decade or so. Use LibreOffice instead: How To Install Apache OpenOffice on Linux Mint 22 buff.ly/4ibseDF
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Just published on FOSS Force: ChatGPT Looks Into Musk’s Move on Its Parent Company buff.ly/4hKa2ka
ALT Trump and Musk on an airplane.
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"His message: the U.S. wants to be number one, and regulation is a killer" - In Paris, JD Vance skewers EU AI rules, lauds US tech supremacy | TechCrunch buff.ly/4hxgivZ
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I was really proud of this article when I wrote it. I still think it's a good product: Mirantis Releases k0rdent for Managing Kubernetes Clusters Across Clouds - FOSS Force buff.ly/42Pke6A
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Just published on FOSS Force: Texas A&M Is Building a $45 Million AI Supercomputer buff.ly/40VVRSa
ALT Texas A&M Campus.
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Auction With GNU’s Original Gnu Kicks Off FSF’s 40th Anniversary Events buff.ly/3ExN1Ti
ALT FSF 40th Anniversary logo.
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Just published on FOSS Force: Mirantis Releases k0rdent for Managing Kubernetes Clusters Across Clouds buff.ly/3WSRjuM
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Just published on FOSS Force: FSF Announces that Nominations Are Open for This Year’s Free Software Awards buff.ly/4gzOc1V
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Just published on FOSS Force: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ergonomic Next-Gen Keyboards but Didn’t Know to Ask buff.ly/4aMNhKb
ALT Moonlander keyboard from ZSA Technologies
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"To highlight the importance of open licensing as a tool for building a shared culture, we are upgrading the license on our website": Open Licensing Promotes Culture and Learning. That's Why EFF Is Upgrading its Creative Commons Licenses. buff.ly/4grUL6D
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"When you consider that AlmaLinux 9.2 has had FIPS 140-3 certification since 2023, this means you can turn AlmaLinux into a data center superhero": AlmaLinux Now Has a DOD Guide for Security Hardening the Distro as Much as You Want - FOSS Force buff.ly/4hMJNtr
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Just published on FOSS Force: The Groups Behind the Group That Told EU Politicians to Stand Up to Trump buff.ly/4hGT5XK
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Just published on FOSS Force: Deal of the Week — HQST’s Valentine’s Solar Sale With Coupon Codes buff.ly/40Dtvfe
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Just published on FOSS Force: AlmaLinux Now Has a DOD Guide for Security Hardening the Distro as Much as You Want buff.ly/411Q0MC
ALT AlmaLinux logo.
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Just published on FOSS Force: Trump’s Media War Broadens to Threaten Public Broadcasters buff.ly/4aLXw1b
ALT Radio station control room.
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Just published on FOSS Force: Today Is EU AI Act Compliance Day — Here’s What You Can and Cannot Do buff.ly/4hBomeC
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An open-source event has just been updated on FOSS Force's Calendar of Open Source Events! Open Networking and Edge Summit buff.ly/4hEE60r
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Just added to FOSS Force's Calendar of Open Source Events: Open Networking and Edge Summit buff.ly/4hEE60r
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An open-source event has just been updated on FOSS Force's Calendar of Open Source Events! Automotive Grade Linux All Member Meeting buff.ly/3Q45etS
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Just added to FOSS Force's Calendar of Open Source Events: The Linux Foundation Member Summit buff.ly/3WHSMnC
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Just added to FOSS Force's Calendar of Open Source Events: Automotive Grade Linux All Member Meeting buff.ly/3Q45etS
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Just published on FOSS Force: Open Letter Urges EU to Not Be Bullied By Trump and His Tech Bros on Cyber Issues buff.ly/3PY0Ht9
ALT Musk Zuckerberg, Nadella, and Bezos in front of the European Commission building.
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Just published on FOSS Force: Linux Support for Windows Copilot Key Brings Potential Security Risks buff.ly/42zNrlT
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Just published on FOSS Force: Deal of the Week — 35% Off Linux Foundation Learning and Certification Courses buff.ly/4aEnGmz
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You might not know that in addition to his weekly stint on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart does a weekly podcast. I listened to this one last night, an hour-long interview/talk with AOS that was recorded the day after Dump was sworn in. buff.ly/4gv1OeR
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"Can we all stop this please? It’s getting a bit silly": CAPTCHAs are getting creepy buff.ly/4hrNXqf
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Just published on FOSS Force: All Things Open AI’s Early Bird Pricing Ends January 31 buff.ly/3WzfOwV
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Just added to FOSS Force's Calendar of Open Source Events: SeaGL (the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference) buff.ly/42nnAgQ
ALT SeaGL logo
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It's online only, which means I'll be up at all sorts of weird hours, but I'll be at Everything Open 2025 in Australia, and I'll be reporting on it too! For example, when the first keynote happens at about 10 am Monday, it'll be 6:30 pm Sunday here.
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Just published on FOSS Force: Fleet Data Centers Launches, Offering Hyperscalers a “Will Build to Suit Tenant” Approach buff.ly/40l2Bca
ALT Google data center in The Dalles, Oregon.
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Just published on FOSS Force: Test AlmaLinux 10 Beta With Your Workload Using ELevate buff.ly/4h03jTh
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An open-source event has just been updated on FOSS Force's Calendar of Open Source Events! Spacewalk 2025 buff.ly/3ADC29e
ALT Spacewalk 2025 banner.
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Just published on FOSS Force: All Things Open Just Announced They’re Going to Livestream Tonights Spacewalk and We’re Going to Carry It Here! buff.ly/3WfVccM
ALT Spacewalk 2025 banner.
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One thing I can say about Mark Cuban, he's got an entirely different take on things than the guy who runs this site.
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How Google's playing games with the justice department on FOSS Force Google Kinda Gives Chromium Away Because… Antitrust buff.ly/4gOZkZH
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At our house at 8 am this morning. About two miles away from downtown Siloam, which consists of an antique store that's open by appointment only, a strange little restaurant, and a post office that's open for four hours daily.
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Last week's snow caught us by surprise and didn't amount to too much. Today's is different. We've known it was coming for a week. It's expected to give us more snow than we've seen in four or five years, but because of global warming, we don't see nearly as much snow as we did.
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Just published on FOSS Force: ATO Focuses on AI Ahead of the Launch of New Big Tent Event buff.ly/3C3qHQs
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Just added to FOSS Force's Calendar of Open Source Events: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 buff.ly/40o30vA
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Just added to FOSS Force's Calendar of Open Source Events: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 buff.ly/3PtLr7a
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Just added to FOSS Force's Calendar of Open Source Events: ATO RTP Meetup – Speaker John Willis buff.ly/4afHxbp
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Just published on FOSS Force: Red Hat In-Vehicle Linux Gets Closer to Go With New Certification buff.ly/4gK1n0V
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Just updated on FOSS Force ‘Everything Open’ Is Reinventing Open Conferencing in Post Pandemic Oz buff.ly/4fKwt7u
ALT A closing moment onstage at Everything Open 2024.
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Just published on FOSS Force: ‘Everything Open’ Is Reinventing Open Conferencing in Post Pandemic Oz buff.ly/4fKwt7u
ALT A closing moment onstage at Everything Open 2024.
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Just added to FOSS Force's Calendar of Open Source Events: Open Expo Europe Congress 2025 buff.ly/4fFyguo
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OMG, no!: Samsung Bespoke smart refrigerators bring Instacart-powered grocery shopping to your kitchen buff.ly/40lmYqA
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Just published on FOSS Force: Five Ways Google Could Improve Search In 2025 That Have Nothing To Do With AI buff.ly/4iZ3lfs
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Just published on FOSS Force: Cohabitating in Passadena: SCALE 22x’s Colocated Events buff.ly/4gyYoZ3
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An open-source event has just been updated on FOSS Force's Calendar of Open Source Events! LinuxFest NorthWest 2025 buff.ly/4gTV8XU
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An open-source event has just been updated on FOSS Force's Calendar of Open Source Events! Everything Open 2025 – Australia buff.ly/4fCNtfy
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Just added to FOSS Force's Calendar of Open Source Events: LinuxFest NorthWest 2025 buff.ly/4gTV8XU
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Just added to FOSS Force's Calendar of Open Source Events: Everything Open 2025 – Australia buff.ly/4fCNtfy
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