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So @… spent 443 characters in describing (and apologizing for) the license of BTstack when it could have said "BTstack is not #OpenSource".
I typically like/trust what @…

Bluepad32 Brings All The Controllers To Your MCU
As much as we enjoy spinning up our own solutions, there are times when you’ve got to look at what’s on the market and realize you might be out of your league. For example, take Bluetoo…

Imagine a new type of intelligent animal named "The Ayber Resilience Cat" staring you in the eyes, quietly saying...
"I'm waiting for you, #OpenSource developer; How do *you* want to play with me? I'll be a part of your life until the end of your career, but how we work and play together is decided *MEOW*" 😼

RAGFlow is an #opensource #RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) engine based on deep document understanding.
It offers a streamlined RAG workflow for businesses of any scale, combining LLM to provide truthful question-answering

Oddly I've been nominated to sit on the Open Source Initiative's board.
Elections close 18-Mar and you should (from tomorrow) be able to ask me awkward on-the-record questions about how I plan to make the world a better place through this link:
https://opensource.org/board-member/mi

Miles Goodhew
Miles has worked in the US, UK and Australia in both civil service and private industry roles. Taking a break from work, Miles is now looking to contribute to the open source community.

Honestly, the worst effect of the xz/sshd exploit is the evaporation of trust in #OpenSource.
There's this new prolific contributor. I haven't looked in great detail, but they're seemingly doing great work. All pull requests are nicely annotated as to ease review. Really, everything you could wish for. But what if it's a bad actor trying to quickly build trust?
Then this contributor kindly pings assignee a week after filing the PR. Well, nothing wrong with that. It makes sense. But then, what if it's a bad actor trying to pressure maintainers?
Or perhaps it's just a great, well-organized #Gentoo contributor.

just tried piped.video: alternative #opensource #youtube website. it can use channels, groups and accounts from #libretube that i've already reviewed later. so, today ive completely re…

I had an idea for a talk and I can't decide if it's awful or delightful.
Would you go to a talk at a tech conference entitled:
"Carly Rae Jepsen, #3DPrinting, and the future of #OpenSource"
(CRJ would not be played during said talk to preserve sanity)

so wild that the home of Project Zero chose to reimplement JPEG in C https://opensource.googleblog.com/2024/04/introducing-jpegli-new-jpeg-coding-library.html

Introducing Jpegli: A New JPEG Coding Library
Jpegli, an advanced JPEG coding library that maintains high backward compatibility is faster, and more efficient, than traditional JPEG.

Szczerze mówiąc, najgorszym skutkiem dziury xz/sshd jest wyniszczenie zaufania w projektach #OpenSource.
No więc mamy kogoś nowego, kto aktywnie wrzuca propozycje zmian na przeglad. Nie przyglądałem się bardzo dokładnie, ale wygląda to na dobrą robotę. Wszystko ładnie opisane tak, by ułatwić przegląd. Wszystko to, czego byśmy chcieli. Ale co, jeśli to jest złoczyńca, który stara się szybko z…

Imagine a new type of intelligent animal named "The Ayber Resilience Cat" staring you in the eyes, quietly saying...
"I'm waiting for you, #OpenSource developer; How do *you* want to play with me? I'll be a part of your life until the end of your career, but how we work and play together is decided *MEOW*" 😼

Among my peers, I'm the one who always praises #OpenSource software. Recently, however, I was quite surprised when someone who usually uses proprietary programs told me they have completely switched from the official :youtube: app to #NewPipe. In disbelief, I asked why – of course the built…

MarioKart.js Blew My Mind (#OpenSource #React #ThreeJS)

My Google Calendar implementation for the Inkplate 6Color eInk Display is now opensource:
#inkplate

GitHub - jonquark/InkyCal: Google Calendar Implementation for the Inkplate 6Color eInk display
Google Calendar Implementation for the Inkplate 6Color eInk display - jonquark/InkyCal

Open sourcing MS-DOS 4.0
#OpenSource

Another day, another PR to the minutiae of Node.js's internal network stream handling: #opensource

Fix h2-over-h2 connection proxying by pimterry · Pull Request #52368 · nodejs/node
This fixes #52344. Previously, kSession was used on sockets to track the HTTP/2 session happening within that socket, and used on HTTP/2 streams to track the HTTP/2 session containing that stream (...

Hey all my #FOSS & #OpenSource folks, do any of you know any platforms like Open Collective except for the option to make the Collective private for members only? https://

Raise and spend money with full transparency.
Open Collective is a legal and financial toolbox for groups. It’s a fundraising + legal status + money management platform for your community. What do you want to do?

#Jellyfin is gearing up for the 10.9 release! Be sure to follow @… because he will be highlighting some of the awesome changes!
#opensource

@… https://archive.org/services/collection-rss.php?collection=opensource

The mistery of 'Jia Tan', the mastermind behind the XZ-Utils backdoor supply-chain hack [WIRED News, April 2024]
https://www.wired.com/story/jia-tan-xz-backdoor/?ref=platformer.news

The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind
The thwarted XZ Utils supply chain attack was years in the making. Now, clues suggest nation-state hackers were behind the persona that inserted the malicious code.

If you have a couple of minutes, check out these new opensource #LLM s. Especially #cohere's command-r-plus comes very close to the top of the commercial #AI models, and it includes full

DBRX Instruct - a Hugging Face Space by databricks
Discover amazing ML apps made by the community

#dnip xz oder: Wie die #OpenSource-Community an Ostern die Welt gerettet hat. Von Marcel Waldvogel https://dnip.ch/202…

#HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an #opensource HDMI 2.1 driver
https://

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02132 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_…

Unveiling the Potential of LLM-Based ASR on Chinese Open-Source Datasets
Large Language Models have demonstrated unparalleled effectiveness in various NLP tasks, and integrating LLMs with automatic speech recognition is becoming a mainstream paradigm. Building upon this momentum, our research delves into an indepth examination of this paradigm on a large opensource Chinese dataset. Specifically, our research aims to evaluate the impact of various configurations of speech encoders, LLMs, and projector modules in the context of the speech foundation encoderLLM ASR par…

In my experience Russ Cox is always worth reading. But… in this case, only if you’re up to looking at extremely gnarly shell/sed/awk/etc incantations. These attackers were serious. #xz
https://social.afront.org/@pba…

The impact from smaller opensource LLMs like Llama3-8B and Phi-3 could be large. They are not necessarily the best and smartest models but can be easily integrated in software on every device and platform. Also they can be finetuned, improved with RAG to function better for specific tasks and in specific contexts. Exciting times ahead.
#opensource

For me, there has always been a set of analogies between the evolutions of the music industry and (open) software industry to learn from and reason about.
Below Perens applies a music industry solution as a possible solution to #OpenSource sustainability.

Open Source world's Bruce Perens emits draft Post-Open Zero Cost License
Software doyen hopes to achieve a third impossible thing

Friendly reminder 👼
#Mastodon #FediVerse #OpenSource

Hat jemand Empfehlungen für Anbieter, die Technik und Support des Livestreamings einer mehrtägigen Online-Konferenz übernehmen können, vorzugsweise mit FOSS? #livestreaming #opensource #foss…

The mistery of 'Jia Tan', the mastermind behind the XZ-Utils backdoor supply-chain hack [WIRED News, April 2024]
https://www.wired.com/story/jia-tan-xz-backdoor/?ref=platformer.news

The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind
The thwarted XZ Utils supply chain attack was years in the making. Now, clues suggest nation-state hackers were behind the persona that inserted the malicious code.

Had someone open two identical issues on GitHub. When I closed *one* of them as a duplicate, they replied “Thanks for nothing, Zach”
#OpenSource

Be amazed/horrified by how many relevant #opensource projects are maintained by just one person.
Practical illustrated example:
https://npmgraph.js.org/?q…

Databrick's #opensource #DBRX model seems very interesting indeed.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/databric

DBRX Instruct - a Hugging Face Space by databricks
Discover amazing ML apps made by the community

"Upon reflection, I’ve come to realize that the #relicensing trend towards non-compete licenses has exposed single-vendor #OpenSource software for what it truly is: #proprietary software in hiding (…

Why single vendor is the new proprietary - OpenSource.net
it’s time to reassert the value of software developed in an open collaboration. Everything else is proprietary. Everything else is a relicensing time bomb.

Do Rails next https://mastodon.social/@jbzfn/112192252501750998

Gibt es einen guten, aktuellen Artikel, der den Einfluss von Open Source auf die Gesamt-IT allgemeinverständlich beschreibt?
So was wie der Artikel, aber aktueller und tiefer?
#OpenSource #OSS #FOSS #FLOSS
https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/webwelt/article114753788/Ohne-Open-Source-gaebe-es-kein-Internet.html

Funny quote
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.
From https://opensource.net/painless-regex-apache-groovy-11/

Woohoo! Looks fresh and can't wait to dive in :)
#Fedora
#KDE
Huge thanks to all the devs, volunteers and the #OpenSource goodness that goes into all our favourite distros 😍

Interacting with humans in #OpenSource as well as language barriers, part 6426:
Got a reply "'"I didn't "just suspect" that it was one of them. […] So please stop taking users for idiots."'" after asking a bug reporter if he knew for sure that one of three patches was causing the problem or if he just suspected it.
Four days later the s…

Rogier highlighting that dedicating time on #OpenSource software is easier to do as a white male, with picture from the blog here; #NRSD2024

@… @… @… I love my supernotes (from ratta) but they are expensive.
Hardware is not opensource and software , it depends on the model : some are …

Given that I see calls for better support for those random opensource devs that happen to maintain some of the most important pieces of software on the planet: a good friend of mine is maintaining expat - possibly the most important popular xml library out there - and he has a message in his latest changelog that you may want to read:

libexpat/expat/Changes at R_2_6_2 · libexpat/libexpat
:herb: Fast streaming XML parser written in C99 with >90% test coverage; moved from SourceForge to GitHub - libexpat/libexpat

Now contributed to five pull requests on #OpenSource projects in 24 hours (four new ones, one updated one). On a roll, here!

While I would very much like to opensource some of the code I've written in the last few years, I'm pretty sure github (and others) will simply use it to train their LLMs with the stated objective of putting me and others out of a job.
What to do?
(No, I don't trust tags/robots.txt/whatever - and neither should you)

mostly what I think I'd want if I were an opensource maintainer is an accountability buddy, a test user, and a mentor
I bet some of that you can get in like, groups of devs, if it's the same protocol.
like #fedidevs

I published a blog post on #Valkey at AWS.
"#Redis broke with the community that helped it grow and left them stranded. This community is now unbound and will continue to use and contribute to the project as they have always done, and with more freedom. "

Why AWS Supports Valkey | Amazon Web Services
AWS is committed to supporting open source Valkey for the long term. We are adding Valkey support to our ElastiCache and MemoryDB managed database services and contributing to the open source Valkey project.

"#opensource is not a business model. Open source does not describe a business model. Open source doesn't even necessarily need a business model." - Peter Zaitsev #civonavigate

What Everyone Missed About The Linux Hack – Theo - t3․gg/YouTube – #zx

Last call for the @… & @… newsletter (planned to be send out early next week)! 📰 🧬
We are always happy to include community news from the intersection of #bioinformatics, #openscience, and #opensource.
So if you have any project updates, upcoming events etc. let me know – or leave a comment/suggested edit directly on GH at https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/pull/39
@…

Well, it's done. I'm now running Fedora 40 Beta (with KDE) on my main computer, and openSuSE Tumbleweed on the ThinkPad. Both camps satisfied. 😎
#linux #unix #opensource

Funny quote
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.
From https://opensource.net/painless-regex-apache-groovy-11/

De app die in Oekraine wordt gebruikt voor alle overheidsdiensten (en succesvol), is volledig opensource beschikbaar, https://opensource.diia.gov.ua/en.html
Daar kunnen andere landen een voorbeeld aan nemen.

Diia.Open Source - open source of the main government application
How and who can use the Diia’s open source code. New opportunities to improve the application and the basis for creating new technology products.

I'm curious about #opensource #coworking space management #software. Anyone aware of / using any solutions currently available?
My initial queries haven't turned up a lot - The Nadine Project…

For me, there has always been a set of analogies between the evolutions of the music industry and (open) software industry to learn from and reason about.
Below Perens applies a music industry solution as a possible solution to #OpenSource sustainability.

Open Source world's Bruce Perens emits draft Post-Open Zero Cost License
Software doyen hopes to achieve a third impossible thing

Open source sustainability questions
As a user, sponsor and supporter of various open source projects, I find that I am again thinking about the financial sustainability of these projects. The benefits of projects like Mastodon are undeniable and a joy to many people, myself included. But have we found a sustainable financial model that supports on-going development and longevity of open source projects? I would be interested in other people's thoughts about this.
Linux seems to have found a sustainable model through the Linux Foundation. Canonical provides commercial level support for Ubuntu Linux. I suspect they are sustained by paid optional technical support agreements. I know that OpenSSL struggled for some time before finding some corporate sponsors and they also do consulting projects.
However, I’ve watched a number of decent open source solutions gradually drift into the hands of commercial operators or become more limited through licensing. Java, MySQL, Vault and MongoDB initially come to mind. To me many current open source projects seem at risk for this.
I am interested in thoughts about open source sustainability, and examples that you might add to my limited list. I will summarize the results on this in a later post. Also, please feel free to share links to other sources that discuss this question.
I would appreciate a boost if you are so inclined.
#OpenSource #Mastodon #FOSS

Sigh. A certain thread on a certain mailing list makes me want to make another pessimistic point wrt the xz/sshd hassle.
What ain't going to happen? Long-term increase of donations and support to #OpenSource developers. And by "developers", I mean actual people who need to buy food and pay the bills, not "projects".
What is definitely already happening? Blaming, bright ideas and demands for the developers already suffering from burnout.
#Gentoo

#LinuxFoundation Launches #OpenSource Valkey Community
https://www.

Wzdych. Pod wpływem pewnego wątku na pewnej liście mailingowej, mam potrzebę napisania jeszcze czegoś, pesymistycznie, w temacie xz/sshd.
Co nie nastąpi? Długotrwała poprawa finansowania i wsparcia twórców #OpenSource. I przez "twórców", mam na myśli prawdziwych ludzi, którzy muszą za coś kupić jedzenie i zapłacić rachunki, a nie "projekty".
Co już się dzieje? Szuka…

I recently switched from Thunderbird to Evolution for email. I think I dig it.
#linux #opensource

also #freetube is a standalone #foss #opensource app for watching #youtube videos that can …

DECKMÄNTELCHEN. Die Bemühungen des Bundes für digitale Souveränität und #OpenSource Anwendungen in der #Verwaltung sind personell knapp aufgestellt. Demnach verfügt das Zentrum digitale Souveränität gerade einmal über neun Angestellte. Davon kümmerten sich jeweils drei um die beiden Hauptprodu…

Digitale Souveränität: Mit neun Beschäftigten zur neuen Behörden-Office-Suite?​
Mit openDesk will der Bund bis 2025 eine quelloffene Office- und Kommunikations-Suite für die Verwaltung bieten. Personell ist das Projekt aber knapp besetzt.

paying maintainers
Useful explainer from @…, inc a morsel of dry comedy:
"Don’t people do this work for the love of open source?
"In our experience, open source maintainers often start projects for non-monetary reasons... But... no maintainers started their project because of the love of ensuring it complies wth your company’s definition of enterprise secure software development practices for no pay for the rest of their lives."
#OpenSource #software #money

It was quite unexpected (in a good way) but I'm overjoyed to say I've joined the #Jellyfin web team!
#opensource #oss

De app die in Oekraine wordt gebruikt voor alle overheidsdiensten (en succesvol), is volledig opensource beschikbaar, https://opensource.diia.gov.ua/en.html
Daar kunnen andere landen een voorbeeld aan nemen.

Diia.Open Source - open source of the main government application
How and who can use the Diia’s open source code. New opportunities to improve the application and the basis for creating new technology products.

A question from the audience at#NRSD2024 is whether it should be faculty working on #OpenSource or not. Rogier is highlighting how Faculty is taken more seriously and that permanent contracts are better to reward people in these roles. Interesting discussion to have with different #TIR roles popping up - should these all be faculty in that case? This does force some management roles onto the person as well, which may not be ideal for specialists...

While I would very much like to opensource some of the code I've written in the last few years, I'm pretty sure github (and others) will simply use it to train their LLMs with the stated objective of putting me and others out of a job.
What to do?
(No, I don't trust tags/robots.txt/whatever - and neither should you)

Unveiling the Potential of LLM-Based ASR on Chinese Open-Source Datasets
Xuelong Geng, Tianyi Xu, Kun Wei, Bingsheng Mu, Hongfei Xue, He Wang, Yangze Li, Pengcheng Guo, Yuhang Dai, Longhao Li, Mingchen Shao, Lei Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02132

Unveiling the Potential of LLM-Based ASR on Chinese Open-Source Datasets
Large Language Models have demonstrated unparalleled effectiveness in various NLP tasks, and integrating LLMs with automatic speech recognition is becoming a mainstream paradigm. Building upon this momentum, our research delves into an indepth examination of this paradigm on a large opensource Chinese dataset. Specifically, our research aims to evaluate the impact of various configurations of speech encoders, LLMs, and projector modules in the context of the speech foundation encoderLLM ASR par…

Jan is an #opensource #ChatGPT alternative that runs 100% offline on your computer.
Jan runs on PCs to multi-GPU clusters, it supports universal architectures:
Nvidia GPUs (fast)
Apple M-series (fast)

For the #opensource #bioinformatics crowd: I'm starting to prepare the next @… newsletter that tentatively will go out in early March. And as always we're looking to include community-updates too!
If you have any topics fitting the open bioinformatics scope, feel free to reply/DM here, or leave a comment/suggested edit directly on GH at https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/pull/39
@…

🚀 I’ve just posted a new tutorial on **how to collaborate on your website projects** using
@… and Gitlab
Awesome #OpenSource #NoCode workflow to collaborate on

Rounding out the #civonavigate sessions for the day is Peter Zaitsev talking about the state of #opensource

Open source sustainability questions
As a user, sponsor and supporter of various open source projects, I find that I am again thinking about the financial sustainability of these projects. The benefits of projects like Mastodon are undeniable and a joy to many people, myself included. But have we found a sustainable financial model that supports on-going development and longevity of open source projects? I would be interested in other people's thoughts about this.
Linux seems to have found a sustainable model through the Linux Foundation. Canonical provides commercial level support for Ubuntu Linux. I suspect they are sustained by paid optional technical support agreements. I know that OpenSSL struggled for some time before finding some corporate sponsors and they also do consulting projects.
However, I’ve watched a number of decent open source solutions gradually drift into the hands of commercial operators or become more limited through licensing. Java, MySQL, Vault and MongoDB initially come to mind. To me many current open source projects seem at risk for this.
I am interested in thoughts about open source sustainability, and examples that you might add to my limited list. I will summarize the results on this in a later post. Also, please feel free to share links to other sources that discuss this question.
I would appreciate a boost if you are so inclined.
#OpenSource #Mastodon #FOSS

A new opensource model, DBRX. Better then GPT 3.5. However you need 320GB of memory to run the model.😆
https://www.databricks.com/blog/announcing-dbrx-new-standard-efficient-open-source-customizable-llms

Announcing DBRX: A new standard for efficient open source LLMs

If I wanted to consider de-Google my Android phone's OS, what would folks recommend? I know there are a couple #FOSS and #opensource options out there. Just no idea where to start.

#NRSD2024
Rogier is asking why we can't have #OpenSource faculty positions where the majority of the time is spent on software development. This could look like the new Comenius funding for teaching faculty (who are also still trying to figure out how this works in practice, but there is at least a start :)
#ResearchAssessment

Some proprietary software lobbyists are trying to spin the xz story as an "anti open source" story, and I see demands like "you shall only use opensource software if you have a contract with someone guaranteeing support and security". I'd be curious: Can I see the contract those people have with Microsoft or whatever company you never heard of that wrote the firmware in their wifi card that guarantees the same for the closed source software they're using?

New #RustLang projects are popping up all over the place. Many of them quickly reach feature parity with their non-Rust predecessors, then beat them both in functionality and performance. Seeing all this, it's hard not to think of Rust as a language that makes rapid development and deployment possible, and that outperforms other programming languages.
While I won't argue that Rust has its advantages, that's not the real reason here. In my opinion, it's all about its popularity. All the cool kids use Rust nowadays, and cool kids are precisely the kind of people who have time and energy to develop stuff rapidly. Add to that corporations investing in the next boom, and delivering a full-time paid workforce and funding, the culture of code reuse (i.e. sharing lots of crates), and last but not least, the benefit of starting from scratch.
Old folk like us, who barely manage enough energy to keep things alive, can't compete with that. However, we have one advantage. We don't care about being cool anymore. We aren't going to pack our bags and run after the next shiny thing, whenever the next best thing since sliced bread gets invented.
#Gentoo #OpenSource

Zentrum für Digitale Souveränität: Knappe Ressourcen für #OpenSource - Das Zentrum für Digitale Souveränität #Zendis soll die öffentliche #Verwaltung unabhängiger von Big Tech und einzelnen Herstel…

Zentrum für Digitale Souveränität: Knappe Ressourcen für Open Source
Das Zentrum für Digitale Souveränität soll die öffentliche Verwaltung unabhängiger von Big Tech und einzelnen Herstellern machen, will die Ampel-Koalition. Die stellt der Gesellschaft des Bundes jedoch nur knappe Mittel zur Verfügung und verpasst damit die Chance, IT-Sicherheit zu stärken.

Phrase of the Day
Tilting at Windmills – To contribute to #OpenSource projects that too few care about, and too many depend upon.
https://

No one cares about #OpenSource, until …
https://blog.cryptpad.org/2024/02/15/no-one-cares-intil/

Man konnte es leicht überlesen: die #KI -Ära ist in die nächste Phase eingetreten. Diese starken (teilw.) #opensource Modelle sind nun verfügbar:
🦙 #Lama3 (seit 45 Min.): llama.meta.com/llama3/

mistralai/Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1 · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

#opensource #libretube app for #android is really great, but the missing feature to me is subscriptions importing from my actual

Fascinating story about the XZ backdoor, before people start blaming opensource, these backdoors can be in any closed source component and nobody will know.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/what-we-know-about…

What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world
Malicious updates made to a ubiquitous tool were a few weeks away from going mainstream.

Some proprietary software lobbyists are trying to spin the xz story as an "anti open source" story, and I see demands like "you shall only use opensource software if you have a contract with someone guaranteeing support and security". I'd be curious: Can I see the contract those people have with Microsoft or whatever company you never heard of that wrote the firmware in their wifi card that guarantees the same for the closed source software they're using?

What we know about the #xz Utils #backdoor that almost infected the world
On Friday, a developer rocked the world when he revealed a backdoor had been intentionally planted in xz Utils, an #opensource

Je travaille sur un plugin #OpenSource GrapesJS pour avoir des notifications avancées dans les website builder #NoCode
J'ai besoin de commentaires sur l'UX
DEMO

GrapesJs Notifications Plugin
...

Gemma gets very bad reviews and Mistral ( Mixtral 8x7B) seems much better. What is Google doing ?
#Google #Gemma #Mistral

Mixtral of experts
A high quality Sparse Mixture-of-Experts.

Gemma gets very bad reviews and Mistral ( Mixtral 8x7B) seems much better. What is Google doing ?
#Google #Gemma #Mistral

Mixtral of experts
A high quality Sparse Mixture-of-Experts.

The release of GEMMA by Google seems a play to pull people in their eco-system and not bothering with opensource models or am i too cynical ?
#AI

Welcome Gemma - Google’s new open LLM
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.