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March 2026

Category Date Topic Focus Area
Security & Privacy Daily Post March 02 2026 - Mailcow Daily Post March 03 2026 - ClamAV Daily Post March 05 2026 - Manticore Search Antivirus Engine
Daily Post March 06 2026 - LineageOS Daily Post March 09 2026 - Forem Daily Post March 11 2026 - OPNsense (Firewall/Security)
Daily Post March 12 2026 - osquery Daily Post March 13 2026 - ONLYOFFICE Daily Post March 16 2026 - Metasploit Framework
Daily Post March 17 2026 - fsroot Daily Post March 19 2026 - Immich Daily Post March 23 2026 - eXo Platform
Daily Post March 24 2026 - Nextcloud Email Client Daily Post March 25 2026 - Nextcloud Passwords Daily Post March 26 2026 - Nextcloud Deck
Daily Post March 27 2026 - Nextcloud Flow

February 2026

Daily Post February 02 2026 - OpenStreetMap Daily Post February 04 2026 - WeKan Daily Post February 05 2026 - WireShark
Daily Post February 06 2026 - Make the shift toward FOSS Daily Post February 10 2026 - Self-Hosting LLMs Daily Post February 11 2026 - CryptPad
Daily Post February 12 2026 - Woodpecker CI Daily Post February 13 2026 - PrivateBin Daily Post February 16 2026 - Paperless-ngx
Daily Post February 18 2026 - Krita Daily Post February 19 2026 - Podman Daily Post February 20 2026 - Aegis
Daily Post February 24 2026 - Ownership vs. Outsourcing Daily Post February 25 2026 - Pivot Toward Autonomy Daily Post February 26 2026 - Intention to Implementation
Daily Post February 27 2026 - Maturity of Openness

January 2026

Daily Post January 06 2026 - Baserow Daily Post January 07 2026 - The Hesitant Japanese SME Daily Post January 08 2026 - Licenses
Daily Post January 09 2026 - PDFArranger Daily Post January 12 2026 - Sphinx Daily Post January 13 2026 - LibreWolf
Daily Post January 14 2026 - Privacy Badger Daily Post January 15 2026 - Linkewarden Daily Post January 16 2026 - Risks of Free Big Tech
Daily Post January 19 2026 - Weblate Daily Post January 20 2026 - Offen Daily Post January 21 2026 - LibreSpeed
Daily Post January 22 2026 - Mautic 7.0 Daily Post January 26 2026 - Aureus ERP Daily Post January 27 2026 - VeraCrypt
Daily Post January 29 2026 - OpenNMS Daily Post January 30 2026 - Lufi

2025

December 2025

Daily Post December 01 2025 - Knime Daily Post December 02 2025 - Collabora Online Desktop Daily Post December 04 2025 - KumoMTA
Daily Post December 05 2025 - Taiga Daily Post December 09 2025 - SeaweedFS Daily Post December 11 2025 -Technitium
Daily Post December 12 2025 - Japan's FOSS Reality Daily Post December 15 2025 - Looking at Collabora Online Daily Post December 16 2025 - matrix
Daily Post December 17 2025 - LiteFarm Daily Post December 18 2025 - Wagtail Daily Post December 19 2025 - KeePassXC
Daily Post December 22 2025 - Keycloak Daily Post December 24 2025 - OpenCloud Daily Post December 25 2025 - OSSEC
Daily Post December 26 2025 - Ghost

November 2025

Daily Post November 4 2025 - FOSS Reality in Japan Daily Post November 6 2025 - Let’s Encrypt Daily Post November 7 2025 - SaaS
Daily Post November 10 2025 - Kasm Workspaces Daily Post November 11 2025 - Calibre Daily Post November 12 2025 - Drupal
Daily Post November 13 2025 - Open Project Daily Post November 14 2025 - Outsourcing Daily Post November 18 2025 - Element
Daily Post November 19 2025 - Znuny Daily Post November 20 2025 - Trilium Daily Post November 21 2025 - TYPO3
Daily Post November 25 2025 - MintHCM Daily Post November 26 2025 - Pleasanter Daily Post November 28 2025 - Syncthing

October 2025

Daily Post October 2 2025 - OpenVAS Daily Post October 3 2025 - Logseq Daily Post October 6 2025 - Rocket.Chat
Daily Post October 7 2025 - MantisBT Daily Post October 9 2025 - Papra Daily Post October 10 2025 - Gatus
Daily Post October 14 2025 - New Peppermint OS Daily Post October 15 2025 - Nextcloud AIO Daily Post October 16 2025 - Deploy Collabora Online(native)
Daily Post October 17 2025 - Deploy Collabora Online(docker) Daily Post October 20 2025 - Self-Hosting Matters for Small Businesses in Japan Daily Post October 21 2025 - Cloud Sprawl
Daily Post October 23 2025 - Email Options Daily Post October 24 2025 - ERPNext Daily Post October 27 2025 - Scribus
Daily Post October 28 2025 - Seafile Daily Post October 29 2025 - Redash Daily Post October 30 2025 - GIMP
Daily Post October 31 2025 - Thunderbird

September 2025

Daily Post September 1 2025 - BookStack Daily Post September 3 2025 - LibreTranslate Daily Post September 4 2025 - Pyinfra
Daily Post September 5 2025 - Blocky Daily Post September 8 2025 - Roundcube Daily Post September 9 2025 - OpenCTI
Daily Post September 11 2025 - Papermark Daily Post September 12 2025 - BigBlueButton Daily Post September 15 2025 - opsi
Daily Post September 16 2025 - Nextcloud Talk Daily Post September 17 2025 - Mautic Spam Daily Post September 18 2025 - Selfhosted Email
Daily Post September 19 2025 - Dolibarr Daily Post September 22 2025 - NIAP Daily Post September 23 2025 - MinIO
Daily Post September 24 2025 - FOSS Advocacy in Japan Daily Post September 25 2025 - Grist-Core Daily Post September 26 2025 - XCP-ng
Daily Post September 29 2025 - ZITADEL Daily Post September 30 2025 - CodeBerg

August 2025

Daily Post August 1 2025 - Mail-in-a-Box Daily Post August 4 2025 - FusionPBX Daily Post August 6 2025 - Galene
Daily Post August 7 2025 - MintHCM Daily Post August 8 2025 - Incus Daily Post August 11 2025 - OpenSearch
Daily Post August 13 2025 - Authentik Daily Post August 14 2025 - Seafile Daily Post August 15 2025 - Clonezilla
Daily Post August 18 2025 - SuiteCRM Daily Post August 19 2025 - Duplicated Chat Services Daily Post August 20 2025 - Snipe-IT
Daily Post August 21 2025 - webmin Daily Post August 22 2025 - Gophish Daily Post August 25 2025 - GLPI
Daily Post August 27 2025 - OpenCast Daily Post August 28 2025 - FleetDM Daily Post August 29 2025 - Joplin

July 2025

Daily Post July 1 2025 - YARA Daily Post July 2 2025 - Desktop Environments (Linux) Daily Post July 3 2025 - Windows manager (Linux)
Daily Post July 4 2025 - Collabora Office / Online Daily Post July 7 2025 - pangolin Daily Post July 8 2025 - Thinking Tech Strategy
Daily Post July 9 2025 - OpenNebula Daily Post July 10 2025 - SaltCorn Daily Post July 11 2025 - CrowdSec
Daily Post July 14 2025 - Odoo Daily Post July 15 2025 - Digital Transformation, let's talk about it Daily Post July 16 2025 - Docuseal
Daily Post July 18 2025 - NetBird Daily Post July 21 2025 - Flarum Daily Post July 22 2025 - matrix
Daily Post July 23 2025 - OpenObserve Daily Post July 24 2025 - Wallabag Daily Post July 25 2025 - OpenMediaVault
Daily Post July 28 2025 - AFFiNE Daily Post July 30 2025 - Incus Daily Post July 31 2025 - Stirling-PDF

June 2025

Daily Post June 2 2025 - Mediawiki Daily Post June 4 2025 - XWiki Daily Post June 5 2025 - Clonezilla
Daily Post June 6 2025 - Understanding FOSS Japan POV Daily Post June 9 2025 - Apache ECharts Daily Post June 10 2025 - OpenBoard
Daily Post June 11 2025 - mintarc Daily Post June 12 2025 - Solr Daily Post June 13 2025 - Wazuh
Daily Post June 16 2025 - GnuCash Daily Post June 17 2025 - Cal.com Daily Post June 18 2025 - Authelia
Daily Post June 19 2025 - Uptime Kuma Daily Post June 20 2025 - SBOM Daily Post June 23 2025 - Vendor Lock In
Daily Post June 25 2025 - Mautic Daily Post June 26 2025 - OpenBao Daily Post June 27 2025 - WireGuard
Daily Post June 30 2025 - Redmine

May 2025

Daily Post May 1 2025 - Web Browsers Daily Post May 2 2025 - LUFI Daily Post May 5 2025 - Jellyfin
Daily Post May 6 2025 - Nextcloud Daily Post May 7 2025 - Apache Answer Daily Post May 8 2025 - ThingsBoard
Daily Post May 9 2025 - Privacy And Data Ownership Daily Post May 13 2025 - Pi-hole Daily Post May 14 2025 - Taiga
Daily Post May 15 2025 - BuildBot Daily Post May 16 2025 - AI and FOSS, Thinking Business Responsibility Daily Post May 19 2025 - Calyx Meet
Daily Post May 20 2025 - LeanTime Daily Post May 21 2025 - FarmOS Daily Post May 22 2025 - Business Owner's FOSS Perspective
Daily Post May 23 2025 - CiviCRM Daily Post May 26 2025 - Joomla Daily Post May 27 2025 - OMV
Daily Post May 28 2025 - Serious Business Decisions Daily Post May 29 2025 - Apache Superset Daily Post May 30 2025 - Fediverse

April 2025

Daily Post Apr 1 2025 - OWA Daily Post Apr 2 2025 - SSPL Daily Post Apr 3 2025 - Guacamole
Daily Post Apr 4 2025 - Grav Daily Post Apr 7 2025 - Mautic 6.0 Daily Post Apr 8 2025 - Discourse
Daily Post Apr 9 2025 - LimeSurvey Daily Post Apr 10 2025 - Japan FOSS Illusion Daily Post Apr 11 2025 - Anytype
Daily Post Apr 14 2025 - iRedMail Daily Post Apr 15 2025 - Chatwoot Daily Post Apr 16 2025 - Wireguard
Daily Post Apr 17 2025 - Forgejo Daily Post Apr 18 2025 - Data Privacy and Ownership Daily Post Apr 21 2025 - mmdebstrap
Daily Post Apr 22 2025 - FormBricks Daily Post Apr 23 2025 - SaaS Creep Daily Post Apr 24 2025 - OpenMeetings
Daily Post Apr 25 2025 - Seafile Daily Post Apr 28 2025 - The Choice for Small Businesses Daily Post Apr 29 2025 - OpenSourceBilling
Daily Post Apr 30 2025 - Open Core and Washing

March 2025

Daily Post Mar 04 2025 - FOSS Contributions Daily Post Mar 05 2025 - Deb822 Daily Post Mar 06 2025 - CycloneDX
Daily Post Mar 07 2025 - MiroTalk Daily Post Mar 10 2025 - Collabora Online Daily Post Mar 12 2025 - SaaS
Daily Post Mar 13 2025 - Owncast Daily Post Mar 14 2025 - ModSecurity Daily Post Mar 17 2025 - A tech story
Daily Post Mar 18 2025 - Buildbase Daily Post Mar 19 2025 - Listmonk Daily Post Mar 21 2025 - MintHCM
Daily Post Mar 24 2025 - RustDesk Daily Post Mar 25 2025 - OWASP Daily Post Mar 26 2025 - Japan FOSS Reality
Daily Post Mar 28 2025 - Vaultwarden Daily Post Mar 31 2025 - FOSS Licenses

February 2025

Daily Post Feb 24 2025 - Debunking Daily Post Feb 25 2025 - FOSS Solutions Daily Post Feb 26 2025 - mintarc-Collabora

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Answers to Questions

A place for answers to questions we get about the things we post

What is the main difference between FOSS, FLOSS, and OSS

We get this one often, all involve publicly available source code, FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) emphasizes user freedom ("free as in speech"). FLOSS adds "Libre" to clarify that it means liberty, not necessarily zero cost. OSS (Open Source Software) is a broader term that focuses more on the benefits of open development and collaboration rather than the philosophical or ethical parts of user rights.

What are the risks of staying with "Big Tech" SaaS solutions?

This is always a "Prove it to me" questions LOL - Basically the risks include "SaaS Creep" (accumulating unused, subscriptions), lack of data sovereignty, vendor lock-in, and privacy concerns where user data is monetized or mined by the provider. If you as a business do not see that as a risk then its not really a problem.

What is OWASP ZAP and why should a business use it

Its is an open-source web security tool. It acts as a "manipulator-in-the-middle" to find vulnerabilities like SQL injection and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). It is recommended because it is free, highly customizable, and can be integrated into DevSecOps pipelines.

What is "Shadow IT" and how does FOSS mitigate it?

This is a good one. Because you see it rampant everywhere, so this occurs when employees use unauthorized SaaS apps because they are easier to access than company tools. This creates security gaps. FOSS mitigates this by allowing the company to host its own user-friendly tools (like Listmonk for emails or Matrix for chat) that are managed centrally and securely.

My business runs smoothly on Google services, and I don't currently see a reason to switch. What specific business risks am I ignoring by staying with a proprietary provider rather than exploring Open Source? Is the 'anti-Google' sentiment from FOSS companies based on technical flaws or ideological differences?

The Business Risks You Are "Ignoring"

Even when things are running perfectly, relying on a single proprietary provider creates "silent risks" that don't matter... until they suddenly do.

  • The "Price Creep" when a business is deeply integrated into Google (Sheets, Meet, Gmail, Drive, Cloud), the "cost of switching" becomes so high that you effectively lose your bargaining power. If Google increases Workspace prices by 30%, you are forced to pay it because the alternative (migrating years of data) is more expensive than the price hike.
  • Data Sovereignty & Jurisdictional Risk the big one for 2026. Even if you are based in Europe or Asia, if you use a US-based provider like Google, your data may be subject to the US CLOUD Act, which allows US authorities to compel disclosure of data held by US companies, regardless of where the server is physically located. For many regulated industries, this is a growing legal liability.
  • The "Feature Sunset", Google is notorious for killing products that aren't billion-user successes think aboutit Google Hire, Jamboard, Stadia. If your workflow relies on a specific integration or niche tool within the Google ecosystem, you have zero power to keep it alive if Google decides it’s no longer profitable.

Is anti-Google Technical or Ideological?

  • FOSS advocates see Google as a "centralized authority" that goes against the original spirit of the internet (which was meant to be decentralized). To us, informing about what Google does is a way to alert users that they are "digital tenants" rather than "digital owners."
  • FOSS companies argue that Google’s code is a "black box." You can’t audit it for security flaws or "backdoors" yourself; you have to take Google's word for it. Many of us FOSS folk believe "given enough eyes, all bugs are shallow" meaning open code is inherently more secure because it can be audited by anyone.

You don't need to quit Google to benefit from Open Source. a "Hybrid Approach"

  • Stay on Google Workspace for email and docs because the collaboration is your preference.
  • Sensitive Data (Move to FOSS)put your most sensitive client data, internal wikis, or proprietary code to a FOSS tool like Nextcloud or Baserow that you host on your own server.
  • Future-Proofing when you are using Open Standards. For example, use standard .csv or .odt formats where possible, so if you ever have to leave Google, your data isn't trapped in a format only they can read.