OpenLabs

News & sources

Where the news here comes from. No aggregator of my own, no tracking, no affiliate links — just the feeds worth reading, grouped by what they're good at. All of them have RSS.

Daily

Hacker News The default firehose. Comments are the product.
Lobsters Smaller, tagged, higher signal-to-noise.
The Register Enterprise and infrastructure news, written by people who are not impressed.
Ars Technica Long-form technical reporting, especially on policy and security.
LWN.net Kernel and Linux development, in depth. Worth subscribing to.
Phoronix Linux hardware support and benchmarks, obsessively.

Privacy & digital rights

EFF Deeplinks The people who actually litigate this stuff.
Privacy Guides Practical, opinionated, well-maintained tool recommendations.
Krebs on Security Breach and fraud reporting, first and usually right.
Schneier on Security Security as a political and economic subject, not just a technical one.
Have I Been Pwned Check your addresses. Then set up notifications and forget it.

Right to repair

iFixit News Teardowns, repairability scores, and the policy fight.
Repair.org US legislative tracking and campaigning.
Right to Repair Europe The EU side of the same fight.
Rossmann Repair Group Board-level repair, and a running commentary on why it's hard.

Self-hosting & homelab

selfh.st Weekly newsletter on self-hosted software. The best single source here.
Awesome-Selfhosted The canonical index of what you can run yourself.
ServeTheHome Server and networking hardware, including the cheap used kind.
r/selfhosted Noisy, but the failure reports are useful.
Jellyfin Free software media server. No account, no telemetry, no upsell.

Media, copyright & preservation

TorrentFreak Copyright enforcement and file-sharing law, reported straight.
Internet Archive Blog Preservation, and the lawsuits aimed at it.
Public Knowledge Copyright and consumer rights policy analysis.

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