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Yep it’s quite true.

A modern-looking, tiny, fast, self-hosted URL shortener built for Docker Compose. zer0 keeps the redirect path lean, protects public link creation with CAPTCHA, stores links in Redis, and includes a browser admin dashboard for stats and cleanup.

“The first week in any wet shaving group feels like walking into a conversation halfway through.

I rarely ever promote a partner sponsored article, but this one does touch on important aspects around data sovereignty which I wished government design-makers better understood.

“The Fairbuds 2 have been redesigned from the ground up, moving to a stemmed design, available in black or green, and a case that’s 37 percent smaller than the first generation.

“This file manager is written in Rust with GTK4 and released under the MIT license, with its lead developer, Pierre, announcing its first stable release a few hours ago.

All I can say is, this was quite a refreshing surprise to me, where everything is going tinier and more glued and sealed up today.

“South Africans who have been scammed, hacked, extorted or harassed online now have a free place to turn for help.

“LastBar is a map of where mobile phones have signal and where they do not, made by the phones of the people who use it.

“South Africans can register blocks against direct marketers on the government’s new National Opt-Out Registry now – not from May 2027, as the National Consumer Commission’s (NCC’s) own launch statement indicated – the commission has told TechCentral.

“Using Claude Opus 5.5 and the programming language Rust, the creator of these apps, Atlanta-based Brandon Thomas, says he recreated Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, Acrobat Pro, After Effects, and InDesign, and made them free to use.

“Every Ubuntu or Fedora user eventually hits the same wall.

“The Netherlands Tax and Customs Administration has abandoned its planned Microsoft 365 cloud migration in favour of services hosted on infrastructure it controls, alongside European open source alternatives.

“Voicebox is an open-source and free-to-use voice studio created by Jamie Pine, who is the founder of Spacedrive Technology Inc.

“It’s made for people who film their trips: motorcycle tours, cycling, hiking, road trips and sailing.

“The Honor Magic 9 Pro Max launches in China on September 28 with a directional “shotgun” microphone, ARRI cinema color, and a lens mount that takes a 500mm teleconverter.

You really have to see this cross-platform player to believe everything it does.

I can really sympathise with this situation as it happened to me as well a few years ago.

“Microsoft has ended 40 years of single-occupancy for Excel cells and is now allowing multiple values to inhabit the same home.

“Virtually every Android device comes with the Play Store preloaded, but there are other ways to get apps.

This mobile app does largely what Adobe PDF Scan or similar apps do, but your scans stay private and offline.

“Grist is a relational spreadsheet-database app that I can host on my own server.

OpenCode is an open source agent that helps you write and run code with any AI model, including free (for now although the free tier uses a limited subset of backend models including Big Pickle) use of its own OpenCode Zen model.

This is a very though-provoking that applies much wider than just AI.

“It is a tiny wireless box that can unlock your desktop session, approve a sudo command, authenticate via polkit, log you into a server over SSH, generate TOTP codes for 2FA, and put a physical touch in front of an AI coding agent.

“The Australian government is proposing to give social media users the option to switch off the default algorithmic feed, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Tuesday.

“If you’ve been in the Linux space for a while, you know just how customisable KDE Plasma can be.

It looks and feels like Google Keep notes, but is private and tracker-free.

“RPN isn’t exactly the way people calculate with pencil and paper, and it certainly wasn’t derived from the slide rule, but there is a similarity in the way you work.

“Continuity.

This is an interesting option to try (I have a Pebble watch, so battery life is not an issue).

“Sutter’s cringe-inducing tale perfectly illustrates how many users of AI tools are putting themselves at risk without knowing it, including in the most rarefied echelons of academia.

“For you, as a content creator, the tools that matter the most are batch processing, format conversion, the 61 built-in export presets sized for platforms like Instagram, X, and YouTube, background removal, and watermarking.

“Unlike a general-purpose chatbot, HAMgpt is built around the real operating situation of each ham.

“When the analogue TV signals were turned off in most places around fifteen years ago, their replacement took the form of a set of digital multiplexes.