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[Link] Copyright, What You Need To Know

Read: 6/2/2022 hackaday.com

Last week brought the story of a group of crypto enthusiasts who paid well over the going rate for a rare sci-fi book, then proposed encoding scans of all its pages in a blockchain before making and selling NFTs of them. To guarantee their rarity the book was then to be burned.

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[Link] More Software Isn't Better Software

Read: 14/11/2021 www.wired.com

Last month, Eugen Rochko learned that the software project he started building during his university days, called Mastodon, is running Donald Trump’s new Truth Social network.

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[Link] Deep dive into Node.js Architecture

Read: 7/11/2021 dev.to

In this article, we are going to deep dive into Node.js architecture and understand the asynchronous nature of Node.js. Let's dive into it.

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[Link] Migration to SourceForge

Read: 12/10/2021 opengapps.org

Hello everyone! It’s been a while. You may have noticed that our website has undergone some changes. Today we’d like to share what has been going on with the hosting situation at GitHub and shed some light on our decision to transfer our releases to the SourceForge.

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[Link] Muse Group Continues Tone Deaf Handling Of Audacity

Read: 23/7/2021 hackaday.com

When we last checked in on the Audacity community, privacy-minded users of the free and open source audio editor were concerned over proposed plans to add telemetry reporting to the decades old open source audio editing software.

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[Link] Amazon Lumberyard is dead, long live the permissively licensed Open 3D Engine

Read: 9/7/2021 www.theregister.com

Amazon is abandoning its Lumberyard 3D engine project before it even leaves beta, but in a way that means it could live on for years to come: it's donating it to the newly formed Open 3D Foundation for release and continued development under a permissive open-source licence.

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[Link] Not for children: Audacity fans drop the f-bomb after privacy agreement changes

Read: 9/7/2021 www.theregister.com

A few more litres of accelerant were poured onto Audacity critics' fire late last week as an update to the sound editor's privacy agreement seeped out to the consternation of users.

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