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1. Credit Card Privacy Matters: Apple Card vs. Chase Amazon Prime Rewards Visa

   Have you ever wondered what happens with your credit card data after you make a purchase?

2. Manipulating Text With Bash String Operators

   Learn how to effectively manipulate strings with built-in Bash operators.

3. Why Angry Librarians Are Going to War With Publishers Over E-Books

   Librarians continue the fight for a better E-Book experience for their patrons.

4. What All the Stuff in Email Headers Means—and How to Sniff Out Spoofing

   Ars Technica provides a deep dive on email headers.

5. Working With Git

   Developers and writers can benefit from Git's version control capabilities. This post can help you get started and serve as a useful reference.

6. The Nextcloud Mission and Principles

   Nexcloud's CEO formalizes the project's values with a mission and principles statement.

7. Maybe the Internet Wasn't Such a Great Idea.

   Bryan Lunduke evaluates life pre- and post-Internet.

8. This New App Wants To Make Linux Firmware Management MUCH Easier

   There is a new effort to create a cross-distribution power user tool for managing firmware on GNU/Linux systems.

9. What a No-Carrier Phone Could Look Like

   The Librem 5 and Librem Dial service may help aggrandize smartphone users' freedom.

10. The Vikings, eBooks, and Open Source

    LPI's Editor at large reflects on the future problems engendered by DRM's use to attenuate ownership, openness, and freedom.