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Chris Mason Steps Down as a Btrfs Maintainer
Btrfs author Chris Mason left Meta on August 28 and changed his MAINTAINERS line from M to R. David Sterba stays principal maintainer, and nothing else moves.
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Debian Adopts Responsible Use of Generative AI
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Hugging Face Opens Orders for a $399 Robot
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Germany Puts 508,640 Euros Into Flatpak Portals
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a16z Raises $1.1B for the Metal Under the Models
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Anthropic Previews a Hardware Standard for AI Agents
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Linux 7.3 Checks the Cable Before It Promises DisplayPort
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AI Token Counter
Count tokens and estimate cost for GPT-5, Claude 4 and Gemini 3 before you call the API.
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JSON to TypeScript
Turn any JSON payload into clean, typed TypeScript interfaces in one paste.
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tar Command Generator
Build, extract or list any tar archive by clicking, with every flag explained.
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AI Crawler Blocker
Generate a robots.txt that blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot and 20 other AI bots, plus Nginx and Apache rules.
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SPF, DKIM, MX and the plumbing behind deliverability.
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Converters, calculators and cheats for people who run servers.