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FSF Blogs: Working together for free software licensing

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Our copyright & licensing associate Craig Topham is working together
with free software developers, lawyers, and volunteers to help the
community with licensing questions, finding hardware that respects
your freedom, and keeping the public informed of interesting free
software projects out there. In this article, Topham shares some of the
accomplishments the Licensing and Compliance Lab achieved during the
last six months.

Project restores Windows Update for Windows 9x

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This is a community-based project and is actively updated. This project aims at restoring the legacy Windows Update websites, and allows older operating systems (Windows 95, NT 4.0, 98, Me, 2000, and XP) to obtain updates like they used to. Ever since 2011 when Microsoft pulled the plug on nearly all the Windows Update websites, the Windows Update feature for older Windows operating systems was no longer functional. The only way to install updates after that point was through external third-party installers which didn’t cover all the updates that the operating system would fully support. So, with this project, we can now update operating systems as old as Windows 95 all the way through Windows XP RTM like we used to back in the day. IT’s still a work-in-progress, as sourcing the various update packages and installers is proving to be quite difficult in some cases, and not all versions of Windows/Microsoft Update have been recreated yet. However, as the ever awesome Michael MJD notes in his video overview of the project, it already works quite well for Windows 95 and Windows 98 and 98SE.

Llega Threads, la ‘app’ de Meta que pretende competir con Twitter

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Instagram ha lanzado Threads, su nueva aplicación de ‘microblogging’ ideada para “compartir ideas y tendencias con texto”, con la que pretende convertirse en el principal competidor de Twitter. La red social de Meta ha estado trabajando durante los últimos meses en una nueva plataforma diseñada con un objetivo muy similar al de Twitter, compartir experiencias y opiniones a partir de publicaciones de texto breve, tal y como se pudo conocer en el mes de mayo. (Fuente: Threads)

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos The Movie – Part 2 (Opening)

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Video Opening của “Sailor Moon Cosmos The Movie – Part 2” chính thức được cho ra mắt!

“Sailor Star Song” là bài hát Opening nổi tiếng của anime “Sailor Moon Sailor Stars” vào năm 1996. Lần này, ca khúc do Sailor Kakyuu (CV: Nana Mizuki) và nhóm Sailor Star Lights (CV: Marina Inoue, Saori Hayami, Ayane Sakura) đảm nhận phần thể hiện.

Sự tri ân đối với series anime truyền hình của những năm 90s xuất hiện ở khắp mọi nơi trong video opening này, ví dụ như logo bộ phim và sự xuất hiện lần lượt của các chiến binh thủy thủ.

Mời các bạn thưởng thức đoạn Opening Part 2 của bộ phim hiện đang được cống chiếu tại các rạp phim trên toàn Nhật Bản.

Phim điện ảnh “Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos”
《Phần 1》 và 《Phần 2》 đang được công chiếu!

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LN Webworks: Drupal: The Cutting-Edge CMS Now a Digital Public Good

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LN Webworks: Drupal: The Cutting-Edge CMS Now a Digital Public Good

April 24, 2023, was a remarkable day in the history of Drupal as it got certified as a digital public good. Its proposal was finally approved by the Digital Public Good Alliance (DPGA), and Drupal got added to the Digital Public Good Registry. Accomplishing this milestone isn’t easy. After all, aspiring software products have to adhere to the stringent Digital Public Good Standard. However, Drupal triumphed after undertaking a tedious journey filled with struggle and strife, and hence, validated its enormous potential again.

Getting established as a digital public good (DPG) has opened new avenues for Drupal development. It is now drawing the interest of more and more governments and nonprofit organizations across the globe. If you wonder why so much hype about Drupal becoming a DPG, this blog will help you satiate your curiosity.

Soft updates (softdep) disabled for future VFS work

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A low key leak from the ongoing g2k23 hackathon comes the news that
soft updates
(aka
softdep) will, for now, be a no-op
on OpenBSD-current.

The commit message by Bob Beck (beck@) reads, 

From:       Bob Beck <beck () cvs ! openbsd ! org>
Date:       2023-07-05 15:13:28

CVSROOT:	/cvs
Module name:	src
Changes by:	beck@cvs.openbsd.org	2023/07/05 09:13:28

Modified files:
	sys/kern       : vfs_syscalls.c 
	sys/sys        : mount.h 
	sys/ufs/ffs    : ffs_softdep.c ffs_vfsops.c 

Log message:
Make softdep mounts a no-op

Softdep is a significant impediment to progressing in the vfs layer
so we plan to get it out of the way. It is too clever for us to
continue maintaining as it is.

ok kettenis@ kn@ tobhe@ and most of the g2k23 room except bluhm@

We look forward to further work and explanation of the motivation behind this change, sure to follow.