September 8, 2024
Keeping tech free
As you might expect from the folks at the eFoundation, the new Parental Controls do a better job of protecting child users than the controls that Google ships with Android.
If you have to do research online you might want to bookmark this set of online tools that make exploring Mastodon's federated world easy.
Rather than handing more censorship powers to moderators, Bluesky devs are looking to make design changes to encourage its users to be civil.
Although Elastic plans to make Elasticsearch and Kibana open source again in the "upcoming weeks," nothing is said about X-Pack, which will evidently continue to be only available under "fauxpen" licensing.
If you have to do research online you might want to bookmark this set of online tools that make exploring Mastodon's federated world easy.
As you might expect from the folks at the eFoundation, the new Parental Controls do a better job of protecting child users than the controls that Google ships with Android.
Community, News and Social Networks
Rather than handing more censorship powers to moderators, Bluesky devs are looking to make design changes to encourage its users to be civil.
Licensing, News and Open-Source
Although Elastic plans to make Elasticsearch and Kibana open source again in the "upcoming weeks," nothing is said about X-Pack, which will evidently continue to be only available under "fauxpen" licensing.
An article in which our reporter tries to get Leo, Brave's chatbot, to spill the beans on what's really happening at Brave Software.
The FreeBSD Foundation will organize and manage the projects that STF is funding, which mainly focuses on security.
Among other things, this newest version of LibreOffice will let you choose whether to allow or disallow a hyphen at the end of the last line on a page.
Business, Data Center and News
Natron Energy's sodium-ion batteries are non-flammable and have more energy density than lithium-ion batteries. Right now, they're primarily being used as emergency backup in data centers, but expect to see them powering EVs soon.
Uptime Institute's survey shows that corporations are taking a hybrid approach, but that on-premises data centers remain the mission critical centerpiece of their IT environment. Following on-prem in importance are colocation facilities and public cloud.
The percentage of outages caused by cooling issues is expected to rise as server density increases.
What Microsoft’s Borking of Grub Says About Redmond’s ‘Love’ of Linux
Business, Commentary and Operating Systems
Windows might not rule the day at Microsoft anymore, but it's still a moneymaker and desktop Linux is still the competition.