TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

Almost by default, open-source developers get very little insight into who uses their projects. In part, that’s the beauty of open source, but for developers who want to monetize their projects, it’s also a bit of a curse because they get very little data back from these projects. Was it on a laptop or on CI?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Mistral released impressive new small language models that can run on laptops and even phones with its Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B, as did Microsoft with its Phi-3 and Phi-4 models. It even showed its work through research papers and by open-sourcing its models. People downloaded variants of the open-source Phi-3 more than 4.5

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2021

It originally ran a custom Linux operating system that reviewers loved ( Laptop Mag ’s Mark Spoonauer said it was “ten times simpler to use than any Windows notebook”) and was generally heralded as a new kind of computer with tremendous mass appeal. Spoonauer: “Pound for pound, the best value-priced notebook on the planet.”. It’s a netbook.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. Week 1 I should have taken pictures – unboxing a new laptop is a lot of fun. My first step was to make sure the laptop booted.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In practical terms, this takes the form of an open source API that enables users to convert the data (video, audio, etc) into a mathematical representation that machines can understand. He says that there are 55 contributors to the open source project and 700 community members overall. Activeloop image database.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2004

Laptops roasting by a wood fire. Imagine if you will, a group of free/open-source software internationalization/translation/localization evangelists gathered in an artist's studio in snow-covered Warsaw, heated by a wood-stove, but with high-speed wireless internet access! Check the Wiki at the above link for more information.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Computerless February 20, 2007 My laptop is in the shop. It’s a lucky thing my partner has a laptop I can beg and borrow (stealing might cause issues.) I’ll spare you the details. Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

The company has created an open source toolkit to help developers remove some of the complexity associated with creating these applications. He released the first version of that tool in 2017 and today he has more than 100,000 developers using the open source tool kit worldwide including a bunch of Fortune 500 companies.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

billion text messages each day with an open-rate that currently hovers at about 90%. FrontlineSMS is an award-winning free, open source software that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a central communications hub. They also send 2.5 The Mobile Web is not the Next Big Thing. It’s already here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I’m on week 3 of my Ubuntu laptop migration – things are smoothing out – I’ve got audio working, I can listen to mp3 and audio streams. I still haven’t figured out how to get higher resolution on my laptop screen, but that’s mostly due to lack of time trying to get it to work. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

I have become a complete devotee of Dokuwiki , which I use locally on my laptop, for my to do lists, notes, etc. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Wiki Syntax madness November 26, 2007 As most people deeply imbedded in Web 2.0, Be Helpful.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Desktop Linux can run on your Windows 7 (and older) laptops and desktops. For all your other desktop software needs, there’s usually a free, open-source program that can do just as good a job. To do this, open the applications menu, search for “Driver Manager,” and run the program. How you do this depends on your system.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 28, 2005

It will tell you what networks are around, and whether they are open or not, and what’s their strength. I had her laptop open, and I saw a "Ford_F350" network come, and go. A wifi hotspot on a bus?? July 28, 2005 I just found this very cool tool, called MacStumbler. It’s a wifi network sniffer. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Goodbye Microsoft… March 29, 2007 Just today, I received in the mail some Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops, courtesy of Gavin’s regular potlatch program. So now, I have two bricks. Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

The company has created an open source toolkit to help developers remove some of the complexity associated with creating these applications. He released the first version of that tool in 2017 and today he has more than 100,000 developers using the open source tool kit worldwide including a bunch of Fortune 500 companies.

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The Verge

MAY 25, 2021

Google’s work on Fuchsia OS first emerged in 2016 , and the open-source operating system is notable for not being based on a Linux kernel, instead using a microkernel called Zircon. Google’s long-awaited Fuchsia OS is starting to quietly roll out on its first consumer device, the first-generation Nest Hub, 9to5Google reports.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Previously he was staff software engineer and lead for Google’s Open Source Security Team (GOSST). Log4J epitomizes the garbage-in, garbage-out problem of open source software: If you’re grabbing no-warranties code from the internet, there are going to be bugs, and some of these bugs will be exploitable. Dan Lorenc.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The company has had an open source CI product for some time, but today it announced that is releasing a SaaS version, Earthly CI, which users can sign up for. What’s more, he says the software is difficult to run and debug on a local laptop. It also made public a previously unannounced $6.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Metapa was in the Akamai space and as the markets cratered in 2001 for funding infrastructure projects, Scott Yara (the company’s founder) and team bought a small company called Didera and turned it into Greenplum, the first petabyte scale data warehouse built on top of open-source technology,” Sim told TechCrunch.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

It’s also unique because, despite being developed “in the open” on publicly browsable repositories, nobody really understands what the OS is for, and Google executives have been remarkably coy about it all. It’s unique because it’s not based on a Linux kernel; instead, it uses a microkernel called Zircon.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

But what I realized was that the whole WPA thing with my laptop added to the pile of “little problems I haven’t solved yet.&# Of course with my mac, I opened up the system preferences, checked a button, and, voila! Needless to say, I’m doing that right now. Directories were shared. This is my dilemma. Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Even a small company could be dealing with large libraries of open source code, making it time-consuming to pull the various pieces of a project together, package them up and compile them into a single program. Over the years, applications have gotten bigger and bigger. This often creates a bottleneck for developers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Fleet , a startup offering a service that helps to track and manage enterprise devices like laptops, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series A round led by CRV with participation from angel investors including GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij. ” Open source origins. But then they’re stuck with maintenance.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Giving up, a little August 6, 2007 As you might know, I migrated from using a MacBook Pro laptop as my primary desktop, to eating my own dogfood, as it were, and using Ubuntu Linux as my primary desktop.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

There are a number of reasons for my deciding to slowly leave the Macintosh platform: I want to focus more energy and time on free and open source platforms – I might donate what I would have spent on Leopard to some deserving projects. have you thought about which laptop might be best to load Ubuntu up on? Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

But what was once solely an internal project at Google has since been open-sourced and has become one of the most talked about technologies in software development and operations. One person with a laptop can now accomplish what used to take a large team of engineers. For good reason.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

At some point, when I’ve saved up enough pennies, I’m going to buy a Mac laptop again. On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. And, guess what? I’m giving up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

It looked quite like it might be a fun event to be at, but the hefty $3000 price tag for admission wasn’t something that I could possibly stomach, so I sat in front of my laptop, watching people describe new tools. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 23, 2023

While there have been many recent advances in training joint visual-language models on Internet-scale data, figuring out how to best connect them to a spatial representation of the physical world that can be used by robots remains an open research question.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I’m actually quite happy – I can run both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, and I like Android (and my Droid 2 phone) a lot. It does feel a bit weird to use Windows sometimes, considering my years as an open source advocate. But I don’t think Apple is any purer, really, they just have less market share.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

It can sit under your Christmas tree and… if you open your presents at 9 o’clock, by 10 o’clock you can be sitting in front of your television with a computer,” Raspberry Pi’s founder, Eben Upton, tells me in an interview ahead of the announcement. The layout of the Raspberry Pi 400’s keyboard will be familiar to most laptop users.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

The only time I shut down this laptop is when I’m taking it somewhere, which is relatively rarely. I’m relatively happy, and, surprisingly enough, I don’t miss using the mac everyday. Here are the good things: Even macs get weird sometimes, especially if they’ve been on for a long time. I love apt-get/aptitude.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 31, 2022

Unlike Microsoft and Apple OS, it’s open source, meaning other companies can use it without permission — which is why Android is so widely used. You can find the Android OS on most kinds of everyday devices — laptops, smartphones, and tablets. What devices use Android?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

At the core of Arrikto is Kubeflow, the Google -incubated open-source machine learning toolkit for Kubernetes — and in many ways, you can think of Arrikto as offering an enterprise-ready version of Kubeflow. Image Credits: Arrikto.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

A lengthy article in the Wall Street Journal highlights the effect that the One Laptop per Child Initiative has had on the pc industry. The result is that low-cost laptops are being sold to schools in many developing countries today, but surprisingly few are OLPC units.

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The Verge

JUNE 2, 2021

There have been big questions surrounding HarmonyOS ever since an Ars Technica investigation alleged that it’s a glorified open-source Android fork. Huawei’s screen-mirroring technology also returns with the new MatePad Pro. inch MatePad Pro has a 10,050mAh battery which Huawei claims can playback video for 14 hours on a single charge.

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