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Building resilient services at Amazon Prime Video with chaos engineering.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/building-resilient-services-at-prime-video-with-chaos-engineering/
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Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering | Amazon Web Services
Large-scale distributed software systems are composed of several individual sub-systems—such as CDNs, load balancers, and databases—and their interactions. These interactions sometimes have unpredictable outcomes caused by unforeseen turbulent events (for example, a network failure). These events can lead to system-wide failures. Chaos engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a distributed system to build confidence […]

Reverse-engineering #Viktor and making it #OpenSource
https://matijacniacki.com/blog/openviktor…

Finally found a nifty app to disable those pesky macOS Spaces animations!
#macOS #opensource #utility

Disable macOS Spaces animation · Technical inconsistencies blog
I keep Fantastical and Things on my second macOS space, and everything else on the first. However, there’s a bug that showed a black screen for a split second every time I would switch space using the trackpad. After searching how to disable the animation, I stumbled upon this neat little utility that does exactly that and it is glorious. The preference pane of InstantSpaceSwitcher

"OpenAI and Malta partner to bring ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"
We keep repeating the same mistake: allowing corporations into the education system. Remember how Microsoft effectively pushed the entire educational world toward its products? This time, however, it’s not only about software, it’s about textbooks, content, and everything around them.
#opensource

I always wanted a remote for PowerPoint that would allow me to use the phone as the laser pointer. So, I've made one! (macOS only, sorry)
#macOS #opensource #swift

A free, #opensource #offline #server you install on any computer. Download the content you want, and it works without internet — forever.

Frankreich verpflichtet alle Ministerien bis Herbst 2026 zu Open-Source-Plänen. Alle Ministerien müssen bis Herbst 2026 Pläne für den Wechsel zu Open-Source-Software vorlegen. Das Kalkül dahinter ist nüchtern: Wer die Software kontrolliert, kontrolliert die Infrastruktur. Deutschland diskutiert noch. Horst Schulte über eine Lücke, die größer wird.
#OpenSource

I appreciate this “Accessibility Best Practices for Your Project” guide from GitHub:
https://opensource.guide/accessibility-best-practices-for-your-project/
I would share it more readily if the links were underlined.
So I filed a PR to fix that:

Accessibility Best Practices for Your Project
Practical, actionable steps to make your open source project usable by everyone, especially people with disabilities.

The EU digital age verification app.
Statement:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/STATEMENT_26_817
The technology (opensource):

No puede haber una IA de código abierto si todas sus partes no son de código abierto, y eso significa que también deben de ser accesibles los datos utilizados para entrenarla https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition

Is anyone using trust scoring on PRs to help evaluate things during this influx of noise on public repositories? I'm looking at #openSource

Zulip is a really cool piece of software and very useful to us as a company chat tool.
Reading these press releases is always a thrill ride nowadays. And this one doesn't disappoint! Unlike CEOs that beat around the bush to eventually reveal layoffs, this one here drops the bombshell that the project leaders/founders are joining Anthropic.
…

Norrköping! As in the place in Sweden where our friends @… live?!
#osgeo #GISChat #OpenSource

It's that time again - tomorrow, Tues 10 March, 20:00 NZDT is when the next Aotearoa NZ #FOSS #OpenSource #Libre meetup starts. You can find us at

I've been talking before why money won't solve the burnout problem. But let's for a minute assume that you really wanted to help people maintaining #FreeSoftware by paying them. The problem is that:
1. You have to pay them a living wage.
While all monetary help is appreciated by developers, they need a living wage. Not "that should prevent you from starving to death" but the kind of money that can support a honest (but not lavish) lifestyle: pay the bills, feed your family, cover other living costs such as repairs, clothes, appliances, and let you save enough for future emergencies.
It's simple as that. If you can't do that, they're going to need a dayjob. If they're lucky, it won't collide with their #FLOSS work. If they're not, it will kill them. Or they'll fall somewhere in the middle, slowly burning out until they can neither maintain their projects, nor work.
2. You need to guarantee that the payouts will continue.
People need security. They're not going to stay unemployed, let alone quit their job or turn down a job offer, unless they either have good guaranties or substantial savings (or they're in a really bad shape and wouldn't be able to handle the job anyway). The job market is hell, and people just know that when the payments stop, they may not be able to find a job soon, let alone a good job. Even "passively" looking for a job can burn you out.
So yeah, one-off payments and pinky swears won't do. And it isn't even a matter of whether we can trust you; it's a matter if you'll actually be able to continue paying us. And honestly, I don't really know how to solve that. Perhaps by paying up front, but for how long? Finding a job may take more than a year, finding a good job may be once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
3. It can't end up being a job.
Perhaps most difficult of all, these payments can't really come with explicit obligations. I mean, that's the whole point: you want to support FLOSS, not turn it into a corporate project. You want the maintainer to remain free and enjoy the work. That is unlikely to happen if their livelihood is now dependent on your satisfaction. And even if it isn't, I for example would still feel indebted to whoever's paying me to do FLOSS, even if they really didn't expect anything in return, and would fall into a spiral of guilt-inflicted burnout if I failed to maintain the software satisfactorily.
#OpenSource

Alguién sabe si existe alguna app de citas o para conocer gente que sea #softwarelibre o cuando menos #opensource gracias 😉

I'll be speaking about #opensource in #varberg next week. Come and join me!
https:/…

Working on an #opensource project can be strange sometimes.
Personally, the strangest is seen when people want something changed.
Some peeps simply ask. (Yes, do this one)
Some get extremely angry that it isn't already like they want and demand it be changed.
Some people try to pay for the change.
Some try to guilt you to make the change by saying other…

#OpenSource #security at Astral
https://astral.sh/blog/open-source-security-at-astral…

https://www.computing.co.uk/analysis/2026/open-source-isn-t-free-we-re-just-not-paying-for-it?utm_source=mastodon_org&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=Apr_opensource…

Open source isn’t free. We’re just not paying for it
A lot of things don’t add up in the world of software. The skills gap remains stubbornly wide, with IT and data skills the hardest ...

Mit der Umschulung zum Berufskraftfahrer muss ich auch Fristen im Blick halten. Amtsarzt: 5 Jahre. Fortbildungen: 5 Jahre. Aber einzeln. D.h. ich kann jährlich je ein Modul fortbilden oder alle 5 Jahre alle 5 Module auf einmal.
Das Problem haben andere auch. Also muss es dafür Software geben. Manches sauteure Flottenmanagement hat sowas auch eingebaut. Für xxx Euro/Jahr.
Kennt da jemand was gutes im Opensource-Bereich? Ärzte/Sanitäter haben das Problem ja auch, kann man da was ad…

«Zum 45. Geburtstag — Microsoft stellt MS-DOS 1.0 als #OpenSource bereit:
Zum 45. Jahrestag des Betriebssystems hat Microsoft den Quellcode der allerersten MS-DOS-Version für den #IBM PC freigegeben. Dieses wurde zum Zeitpunkt seines Erscheinens offiziell noch als 86-DOS 1.00 bezeichnet und

Zum 45. Geburtstag: Microsoft stellt MS-DOS 1.0 als Open Source bereit
Zum 45. Jahrestag des Betriebssystems hat Microsoft den Quellcode der allerersten MS-DOS-Version für den IBM PC freigegeben. Dieses wurde zum Zeitpunkt seines Erscheinens offiziell noch als 86-DOS 1.00 bezeichnet und Microsoft kaufte es erst etwas später auf.

The Synthetic Exercise World Format provides fictional countries, companies, sectors, and threat actors with structured metadata for neutral CTI examples, exercises, interoperability tests, and standards documentation without referencing real-world sensitive entities.
I just released version 1.0.
#cti #opensource

RE: #OpenSource projects need financial support, but this doesn't look like a good idea to me.…

Kennt ihr soetwas, habt ihr Empfehlungen für digitale Bilderrahmen?
Ein energiesparsamer Bildschirm, um Bilder und einen Kalender in guter Qualität anzuzeigen, in Farbe, #OpenSource. Wir würden das gerne in der Familie verteilen und untereinander Fotos teilen.
So etwas wie der #AIArtFrame

Thank you very much to all the #freesoftware projects that allowed me to do, what I do now.
Thank you for educating me, giving me tools to work with, giving me the opportunity to give back, to feel validated, thank you.
#opensource

Why do I find myself digging in the depths of Go tooling again? 🥺
It's a sunny Sunday afternoon... 🌞
https://cs.opensource.google/go/x/tools/ /master:go/packages/packages.go;drc=f045b047b729bbb193f2a0ceda7…

Camoufox, an #opensource browser built for AI agents
#stealth

> #Eurosky and @… announce partnership to develop key infrastructure for the open social web, based on the #ATProtocol.
16 March 2026: #SocialMedia #ATmosphere #OpenSource #DiDay #OpenWeb #DigitalSovereignty #DigitaleSouveranitat

Now it's possible to contribute translations for the #OpenSource SoulCrafted Slicer #FLOSS #3dPrinting #Resin3dPrinting

boards are great for making notes collaboratively. @… is hosting one of the largest etherpad instances and just finished a major upgrade. Got faster and better support for tables.
#opensource

1. Submit a pull request to #zlib that changes the library filename on #Windows.
2. Pull request gets merged, and you effectively break everything that linked dynamically to zlib.
3. Attack everyone who reported this as a bug.
#OpenSource

Jetzt kann man mal schauen, was das kostet, wenn man es als Dienstleistung einkauft. Bei OpenRouter bekommt man alle OpenSource Modelle von verschiedenen Providern und gemma4-31B bekommt man z.B. ab und zu auch mal für lau, aber jetzt aktuell hier https://openrouter.ai/google/gemma-4-31b-it
Input: $0.12per 1M
Output: $0.37per 1M
Dieser günstige Anbieter verspricht 22 Token/s, was ungefähr meiner output rate von oben entspricht.
5/n

Vorsicht, dieser Mann hat Visionen und setzt sie um!
Dr. Tobias Weiß zeigt auf den #clt2026, wie #OpenDesk an der Uni Marburg eingeführt wird – eine OpenSource-Alternative zu #ms365 und

The Open Contributions Descriptor (OCD) is an open, machine-readable JSON format that allows an organization to publish a structured description of its participation in the open ecosystem.
It's still a bit in flux but the goal of OCD is to make organizational openness discoverable, interoperable, and automatable.
#opensource

Really excellent, easy, working, guide to self-hosting OnlyOffice if you want to break free of #Microsoft or #Google
https:/…

Digitale Souveränität braucht mehr als Schlagworte: klare Roadmap, offene Standards, „Public Money, Public Code“. Wenn die eAkte nur mit Word funktioniert, läuft etwas schief. @da_bei@social.darmstadt.de
#OpenSource #Darmstadt

RIP Commercial #OCR. An #OpenSource #Model Just Topped Every Benchmark.

#EnteLocker - to nowa aplikacja od twórcy #EnteAuth i #EntePhotos. Służy do zapisywania dokumentów w bezpieczny sposób.
Oczywiście

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Conserva i tuoi documenti e le tue credenziali importanti. Condividili con contatti fidati o trasmettili in caso di emergenza.

#UK #Petition #Software #OpenSource #NHS #PublicMoneyPublicCode

We are cleaning various code base including MISP. I'm wondering if someone still uses OpenIOC format in someways?
#openioc #threatintel #opensource

Goed dat we in Nederland zelf aan de slag zijn met GenAI. Ik ben benieuwd hoe GPT-NL, ondanks het minieme budget, beperkte mogelijkheden, maar met kwalitatief hoogwaardige data, gaat presteren in vergelijking met andere beschikbare open weight / opensource modellen.

Nederlands AI-project GPT-NL gaat met vijf klanten proefdraaien
Kunstmatige intelligentie: GPT-NL, dat het Nederlandse antwoord moet zijn op de AI-modellen uit Silicon Valley, zet na twee jaar ontwikkeling zijn eerste stappen in de praktijk. Vijf klanten gaan ermee aan de slag om te kijken wat GPT-NL waard is.

Beschluss der #Digitalministerkonferenz (12. u. 13. Mai 2026):
> Die #DMK bittet den Bund zu prüfen, ob und ggf. wie an #Universitäten und anderen #Hochschulen der öffentlichen Hand im Bereich der Softwarenutzung durch Studierende geeignete Entwicklungen auf Bundesebene bzw. beim @… sowie dort entstandene Produkte den Studierenden zur Förderung der Digitalen #Souveränität kostenfrei zur Nutzung zur Verfügung gestellt werden können.
PDF:
#Wissenschaft #OpenSource

So many people don't understand how good the AGPLv3 license is designed. The latest piece from Bradley M. Kühn of the @… is a piece of art to explain the great mechanisms within the license to avoid crappy exception around a well-designed free software license.

Weiss jemand eine Seite, wo man open source sachen für #macos oder überhaupt #apple finden kann ?
#macos #opensource

I just published The Open Contributions Descriptor format as an IETF Internet-Draft.
#opensource #opendata #openstandard

Some of my latest work on the #SoulCraftedSlicer for #Resin3dPrinting : displaying warning visual cues when the object lays partially or totally outside of the printing volume.
#3dprinting #floss #openSource

Macbook Neo is killing WIndows laptops, i would even buy one 🙂 (not being an Apple fan). I sometimes have the feeling Microsoft is "dying".... 🤔
Ofcourse Linux is the best choice from an opensource and autonomy perspective.
https://youtu.be/eXa2ndhmatI?si=BkwaeBie-TNkf13W

Open Contributions Descriptor — or how to map your contribution in open source, open data, and open standards
🔗 Blog post #opensource

#Leanstral: #OpenSource foundation for trustworthy #vibecoding
https://

Tech companies seem to be running a cycle:
1. They don't realize how much they're relying on volunteer-maintained projects.
2. Something bad happens and they suddenly decide they need to support this critical infrastructure, often by hiring some people behind it and making its maintenance part of their dayjob.
3. They realize they could save money by exploiting volunteers to maintain these #OpenSource projects. They lay workers off or move them to other projects.
4. Go to 1.
Except now they're trying to replace workers with slop machines, deskill everyone and basically they're not only poisoning the well, but killing the whole water cycle. And they're realizing that they just gave the bad people a tool that can quickly find just how vulnerable their critical infrastructure is.
Really appreciate the long-term thinking there.
#FreeSoftware #FLOSS #TechBros #AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM #Linux #security

The GCVE.eu initiative will take part in hackathon.lu (14–15 April, Luxembourg), alongside core developers of GCVE-related projects. See you there to build, experiment, and collaborate!
#gcve #cve #opensource

I have written a sample letter that you can use to invite organizations to join the #Fediverse.
The letter is shared under a #CC0 license. Feel free to copy, adapt and send it to organizations that still rely on #BigTech.
Thanks to @… for the English translation.
Replies to this post will also appear as comments under the blog post.
#OpenSource #SocialMedia #mastodon #decentralisation #PublicSpaces #x #threads #bluesky #DigitalSovereignty #ActivityPub #AntiTrust

I'm not sure the US administration understands the damage it has done to Big Tech. Europe is shifting to open source
#us #bigtech #europe #opensource

Honestly, looking at the license violation thread of #chardet, I really feel like #OpenSource these days is a complete shitshow and I really don't feel like a part of the community anymore. Almost all replies are basically assholes questioning whether there "legally" is actually a problem there. Nobody's concerned that the whole thing is a huge dick move, which makes the maintainer a complete dick and nobody with a shed of morality left would be willing to approve this.
Also, it's a great opportunity to seed some GitHub blocklists.
#FreeSoftware #AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM

Dr. #Rogalla und A. Bode haben es bei ihrem Vortrag auf den Punkt gebracht:
"#Barrierefreiheit ist kein Feature. Es ist #Usability für alle."
Das ist genau da, wo wir mit Luna LMS andocken. 🚀
#LunaLMS #Chemnitz #clt2026 #ChemnitzerLinuxTage #OpenSource

Happy #EuropeDay!
The #EU's wonderful motto is: "United in diversity". That fits perfectly with what the #OpenSocialWeb #OpenSource & the #Fediverse can do: sovereign collaboration to foster technical & social #innovation.
🤝 The #EU & #Fediverse are true social networks.
We are therefore delighted that the @… has prioritised @… over #X, as this is in line with EU's objectives & values!👍 #ThankYou!
#democracy #2MR #DutGemacht #DiDay #SocialMedia

New on #blog: "Money isn’t going to solve the #burnout problem"
"""
The xz-utils backdoor situation brought the problem of FLOSS maintained burnout into the daylight. This in turn lead to numerous discussion on how to solve the problem, and the recurring theme was funding maintenance work.
While I’m definitely not opposed to giving people money for their FLOSS work, if you think that throwing some bucks will actually solve the problem, and especially if you think that you can just throw them once and then forget, I have bad news for you: it won’t. Surely, money is a big part of the problem, but it’s not the only reason people are getting burned out. It’s a systemic problem, and it’s in need of systemic solution, and that’s involves a lot of hard work undo everything that’s happened in the last, say, 20 years.
But let’s start at the beginning and ask the important question: why do people make free software?
"""
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #AI #NoAI #LLM #NoLLM #Gentoo

Slowly, but without pause, our #FLOSS slicer for resin #3dPrinting is starting to take shape :) .
#OpenResinAlliance ( #Resin3dPrinting #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

"Es geht auch ohne Microsoft", Der #Spiegel bringt spannende Erfahrungsberichte von grösseren Organisationen beim Umstieg auf #OpenSource #LibreOffice & Co!
#digitalesouveranitat
https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/digitale-souveraenitaet-es-geht-auch-ohne-microsoft-a-395903c2-7109-48a7-91df-52997d27d569

Sometimes I wonder why do I even bother. I mean, people are perfectly happy to let statistical models designed as bullshit generators do their coding. Why do I even bother running their test suites and inspecting the failures as a human, if these tests may well be complete bullshit?
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Gentoo #Python #AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM #VibeCoding

Auch der öffentlich-rechtliche #Rundfunk kommt zur #2MR, der Konferenz für souveräne #Kommunikation! Wir freuen uns sehr über:
Robert Amlung (@…), Senior Innovation Advisor, Direktion AUDIENCE beim @…, verantwortlich u. a. für den #PublicSpacesIncubator¹ & die #OpenSource -Strategie. Danke für eure Unterstützung #ZDF!
➡️ Du bist verantwortlich für #SocialMedia? Sei dabei:
👉️️ #Hamburg
¹ #ÖRR #Medien

< mgorny> that's gunicorn
< mgorny> looks like vibecoding hard
<@sam_> sigh
<@sam_> #Python #NoAI #NoLLM #AI #LLM #OpenSource

RE: #Fediverse.
De brief is gedeeld onder een #CC0 licentie. Voel je vrij om de tekst te kopiëren, aan te passen en te versturen naar organisaties die nog op #BigTech leunen.
Reacties op deze post verschijnen ook als comment onder het blogbericht.
#OpenSource #SocialeMedia #mastodon #decentralisatie #PubliekeRuimte #x #threads #bluesky

If you think #vibecoding is fine, let me ask you a single question: would you use a medical device whose software was vibecoded? And by "medical device" I mean something where a bug could literally kill you.
If you answered "oh, gawd, no!" then consider that anytime you use an #LLM to contribute to or develop an #OpenSource project, there's a chance that this code will end up powering such a device. And even if it doesn't, you're setting a trend, and it will be even more likely that the software used by these devices will be vibecoded.
I have type 1 #diabetes. I also lead a physically active life. This is both a blessing and a curse. My doctors keep suggesting Constant Glucose Monitoring systems and insulin pumps to me. And I do realize that such hardware would likely improve my blood glucose, and definitely make my life much easier (especially with a closed loop system).
So why do my fingertips look like crap, and I keep using a glucometer and insulin pens? Because I don't want to risk my life to an unnecessarily complex technology.
Admittedly, I occasionally get things wrong and suffer consequences. Or I suspect I got them wrong and worry. Or meet an unexpected situation and need to figure out a way out. Or even accept having elevated glucose levels (as in nearing 200 mg/dl) because there's just no way to safely fit insulin doses on a particular day.
But still, I prefer having control and risking my own mistakes to a device that could suddenly start pumping insulin because of a bug. And that was even before the story of the application that stripped the decimal point and gave people ten times the dose. Or the one about CGMs giving wrong high glucose alerts. Or the whole vibecoding fancy.
Back then, I could have considered such a device. Now, I'm more worried than ever. And honestly, I'm hoping that relatively simple glucometers will remain available. To think that my worst fear used to be of a mechanical fault…
#AI #NoAI #NoLLM

There's a new piece explaining "The Slow Collapse of #MkDocs": "How personality clashes, an absent founder, and a controversial redesign fractured one of Python's most popular projects."
#httpx?
Well, turns out no, not at all. It looks like encode has already crumbled and became immensely toxic.
httpx is not allowing bug reports anymore, apparently because of "absurdly skewed gender representation", whatever that means.
#OpenSource.
#FreeSoftware #Python

Oh, #GitHub is empathetic to #OpenSource projects impacted by all the #AI slop. They're willing to help, right?
#Copilot even once, and of course they're not going to let people actually block this piece of shit.
#LLM #NoAI #NoLLM #hypocrisy #Microsoft

RE: #Hannover kauft falsche #Microsoft-Lizenzen für 324.000 Euro«¹
vs
»#SchleswigHolstein zeige, so @…, dass der Weg in die digitale Unabhängigkeit möglich und bereits jetzt wirtschaftlich sei. Das Land spare dadurch schon jetzt mehr als 15 Millionen Euro an Lizenzkosten.«²
¹ #FOSS #OpenSource #Wirtschaft #Digitalisierung #PublicMoneyPulicCode #Bund #Verwaltung #Schulen #Hochschulen #Bildung #Wissenschaft

RE: #Kommunen, #Behörden etc. mit #Software befasst sind:
Informativer Thread des @… zur neuen rechtssicheren Beschaffung von #OpenSource-Software für die #Verwaltung 👇
Wir gratulieren zu diesem wichtigen Schritt für #PublicMoneyPublicCode !
#DigitaleSouveranitat #Kommune #Software #EVB #DiDay #Floss #Foss #OSS #dutgemacht #DigitaleTransformation #ITBeschaffung #Digitalwirtschaft #offentlichehand