Hacker News·4yGive Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!
GitHub profits from those proprietary products (sometimes from customers who use it for problematic activities). GitHub profits primarily from those who wish to use GitHub tools for in-house proprietary software development. If you aren't the customer, you're the product. The FOSS development methodology is GitHub's product, which they've proprietarized.
It's Foss·4yKuro: An Unofficial Microsoft To-Do Desktop Client
Microsoft To-Do is a cloud-based task management application that lets you organize your tasks from your phone, desktop, and the web. It is available to download for Windows, Mac, and Android. Unofficial open-source application that provides you a desktop experience for Microsoft To- do on Linux with some extra features.
Windows Command Line·4yWSL 2 distros are now supported on Windows Server
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 type distros are now supported on Windows Server 2022. To get it, all you need to do is click “Check for Updates” on your Windows Server machine to update to the latest version. To make sure you have the right update, please check that you have KB 5014678 installed.
The New Stack·4yWhat Is Zero Trust Architecture?
Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) builds on the foundational principles of zero trust security as defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. NIST recommends a focus on users, assets, and resources rather than traditional network boundary defenses. Identifying critical corporate information and how a user gains access to that information must be taken into consideration.
omg! ubuntu!·4yGitHub Axes Atom Text Editor, Recommends VSCode Instead
GitHub’s Atom text editor is being discontinued. GitHub says it has decided to ‘retire Atom in order to further our commitment to bringing fast and reliable software development to the cloud’ Microsoft has its own Electron-based coding-come-text-editor in VSCode.
Hacker News·4yInternet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support—what you need to know
Internet Explorer (IE) is officially retired and out of support as of today, June 15, 2022. Over the next few months, opening Internet Explorer will progressively redirect users to our new modern browser, Microsoft Edge with IE mode. Users will still see the Internet Explorer icon on their devices (such as on the taskbar or in the Start menu) Users will have their data like favorites, passwords and settings imported from Internet Explorer.
omg! ubuntu!·4yMicrosoft Gives $10,000 to the GNOME Project for… Being Awesome
The Microsoft FOSS Fund gives $10,000 sponsorships to open source projects. The software giant has been running the fund for a few years. Previous winners include curl, QEMU, and OpenStreetMap. Microsoft is a key member of many leading open-source organisations and directly contributes to the Linux kernel.
