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Freenode is dead. That’s the unfortunate truth. On May 19, an event regularly described as “hostile takeover” , in which the control over the biggest IRC network for free, open-source software has been forcefully taken away from the volunteer group called Freenode Staff who have run it ever since it was founded about 20 years ago, has taken place. Therefore, all the communities I…
In October, the popular and famous archivist tool youtube-dl was taken down by GitHub due to a DMCA request by the Recording Industry Association of America . I posted a detailed analysis explaining the relation between international, US, EU and German law, and showing why this request was very different from what most people know as the “classic” DMCA takedown request. I felt this was…
On Oct 23, 2020, GitHub Inc. published a takedown notice after taking down youtube-dl ’s main repository as well as a number of its forks. youtube-dl is a Python library which can be used to decode stream URLs of a large variety of services. This allows third-party video players to stream videos, legitimately download copies and much more. It has been used as the basis for many other…
This week, AppImageLauncher’s “stargazer” count exceeded the 1000 mark. To me, this shows how many people appreciate a tool designed for the average Linux desktop user, providing a simple and intuitive workflow to manage AppImages. By the way, did you know you can help translate AppImageLauncher? Please refer to GitHub for more information.
AppImageLauncher 2.2.0 has been released today. Read on to see what’s new in the new version as well as the previous release 2.1.4 , for which I forgot to write an article about (yet again). Please note that there’s a vulnerability in a component contained in releases prior to v2.1.4. An update to v2.1.4 or later is strongly recommended!
Recently, while looking for media coverage on AppImageLauncher which I might have missed before, I stumbled across DLN Xtend , a podcast spin-off of Destination Linux Network . They covered AppImageLauncher in a few episodes. Here’s my story with DLN Xtend!
AppImageLauncher 2.1.3 has been released today. Read on to see what’s new in today’s version as well as the previous release 2.1.2 , for which I forgot to write an article about.
AppImageLauncher 2.1.1 has been released today. Read on to see what’s new in today’s version as well as the previous release 2.1.0 .
On Friday, October 18, AppImageLauncher 2.0.0 was released. This version is the first one to feature libappimage 1.0.0 . AppImageLauncher 2.0.0 provides new, innovative features and subtle improvements over the previous 1.x series of releases. Read on to see what’s changed!
libappimage, AppImage’s core library, has just seen its first stable release after the rewrite. Version 1.0.0 was released on April 1, 2019. Read on to see what’s new!
After more than half a year, the first stable version of AppImageLauncher has been released. This marks a big milestone in the software’s history, as up to now, a continuous release scheme was used without any kind of real version scheme. Within the last weeks, a lot has changed about AppImageLauncher. Read on to see what’s new, and find out how to install it!
In the last weeks, Alexis Zubieta has been working on redesigning and refactoring AppImageLauncher. He’s invested a lot of time into restructuring the code base, designing new dialogs following the established workflow, and we’re almost ready to merge his changes .
We’ve started a little project on GitHub that shall serve as a central directory of plugins for linuxdeploy. You can find the list on GitHub: https://github.com/linuxdeploy/awesome-linuxdeploy Contributions welcome! Please don’t hesitate to send us pull requests adding new plugins or other linuxdeploy-related projects to the list.
This weekend, among other things, I was working on improving the Pext AppImage. Sylvia and I were spending quite some hours on making the Pext AppImages smaller, more efficient and provide improved desktop integration . Also, AppImages are now built using linuxdeploy , the universal AppImage creation tool suite, using the conda plugin to set up everything Python related. That plugin was actually…
The AppImage project has never had a proper documentation. Sure, there were (and still are!) some wikis (most notably the AppImageKit wiki ), but wikis, especially the ones on GitHub, lack any sort of structure. Recently, I could finally start to work on this, resulting in the (fairly) brand new docs.appimage.org .
I decided to start a blog. It will contain announcements of projects I’m involved. Also, I might be posting about some recent topics or opinions. We’ll see.
Welcome to my homepage. Right now, it’s primarily a blog. If you’re here to find out who the person behind this page is, this is the short description: Infrastructure maintainer, privacy advocate, professional software engineer, open source developer and supporter, passionate Pythoneer, and friend of C++. I’m not a fan of the so-called (anti)social media, I don’t own an…