Dangerzone — an open source app to safely open suspect PDFs, office docs, or images

Dangerzone works like this: You give it a document that you don’t know if you can trust (for example, an email attachment). Inside a sandbox, Dangerzone converts the document to a PDF (if it isn’t already one), and then converts the PDF into raw pix ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/dangerzone-an-open-source-app-to-safely-open-suspect-pdfs-office-docs-or-images/

#opensource #security #technology

I'm happy to announce the first RC of #distrobox v2! Rewritten in #golang, looking at being a drop-in replacement. I want to thank the team behind this: @dottorblaster @fabriziosestito @balanza

Get an early look at this and give us feedback!

https://distrobox.it/posts/announcing_distrobox_next/

#linux #opensource #containers

It's not only Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ but also World Backup Day! Therefore, Pika Backup 0.8 is available as of today. After two years of work, this release not only brings many small improvements, but also a rework of the code base that dates back to 2018. This will greatly help to keep Pika Backup stable and maintainable for another eight years.

Learn more on https://apps.gnome.org/PikaBackup/ and help Pika Backup via a donation on https://opencollective.com/pika-backup or to me directly https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/projects/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116315212768870068

I've been muttering to myself "how do I boycott an externality" all day now

OnlyOffice is getting upset that they've been forked, after they attempted to set sketchy license additions to prevent forks:

https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2026/03/onlyoffice-flags-license-violations-in-euro-office-project-by-nextcloud-and-ionos

I explain their questionable license, including a conversation I had with their legal manager, on isitreallyfoss:

https://isitreallyfoss.com/projects/onlyoffice/

I hope Euro-Office succeeds to provide a FOSS-friendly alternative, will need a lot of effort though to continue a project like that, especially if OnlyOffice play nasty.