open source software ⁽²⁾

A storm hit social media this week. FFmpeg maintainers, the developers behind one of the world’s most important open-source multimedia libraries, were accused of demanding monetary compensation and license acknowledgments from commercial platforms using their code. Among those…

After years of jumping between email clients, many of which have either disappeared, become bloated, or pivoted into something unrecognizable, I’ve decided to return to an old acquaintance: Thunderbird. Or more precisely, its better-behaved fork, Betterbird. Before I…