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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 02, 2023

Doctrine - how to use LIKE with dbal prepared statements

I'm just getting started with Symfony, so I'm blogging some of the weird things I'm finding.

Firefox can now match on diacritics

I’m not sure when the Firefox devs added this feature, but it’s already made my life so much better!

Open Source Communities Need More Than Funding From Big Tech [Ed: No, there are strings attached. Proprietary software companies do not xo-exist with freedom.]

Subtext 2.0 Released with FidoNet Support

This is a major update to Subtext that represents many months of development, over 200 amendments, and many nights of testing and debugging. The largest change is the addition of FidoNet (FTN) support for distributed mail (Netmail) and message boards (Echomail) by way of a binkp hub.

Joe Brockmeier: SOSSA and CRA Spell Trouble for Open Source Software

Even though I’m no longer writing full time, I do have a “bucket list” of publications I’d still like to write for, and Dark Reading has been one of those publications for many years. Happily for me, I get to cross that one off (though I’d do it again!) with this article, “SOSSA and CRA Spell Trouble for Open Source Software.”

Short version: Some ill-considered legislation that’s coming in the wake of Log4Shell poses a threat to open source software, particularly the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).

Sparky news 2023/04

VM owners can now override the boot kernel

Dave Voutila (dv@) has added another feature to virtualisation on OpenBSD. Thanks to the following commit, it is now possible for the owners of virtual machines to override the boot kernel: [...]