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1. Empower Users by Asking Them for Money

   A FLOSS developer discusses their experiences and ideas on how to change free software economics.

2. Right to Repair

   An update on why the right to repair is crucial, the legislative efforts to defend and expand this right, and the latest news from the right to repair movement.

3. Pass-By-Value, Reference, and Assignment

   An interesting exploration of how arguments are passed to Python functions.

4. Building the Linux Vendor Firmware Service: Forcing Hardware Vendors to Care About Linux Users

   The creator of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service describes the obstacles that he surmounted while building this crucial ecosystem.

5. Why Are Hyperlinks Blue?

   A deep dive into the history of hyperlink design.

6. Easy SQL in Native Python

   SQLModel offers a way to interact with SQL in pure, native Python.

7. The Return of the UNIX Shell

   A review of recent UNIX shell research and some ideas on how to push the shell forward.

8. Using WireGuard VPN (With docker-scripts)

   An illuminating presentation on how to use Wireguard VPN via docker-scripts.

9. Cadmium Is a Linux Distribution to Liberate ARM Chromebooks

   Select ARM Chromebooks may now have a new option for a true GNU/Linux experience.

10. Case / Switch Comes to Python in 3.10

    Python gets its own implementation of the case/switch statement.