@jackie@social.linux.pizzahttps://microblog.jackiejude.me/slop-free-software/
my personal anti-AI software list (I'll make a git repo for it later)
This is part of some projects I’m working on including
- a tool like vrms that allows you to scan all your installed packages with
@mlawton@mstdn.socialFinished reading "Mal Goes to War" by Edward Ashton.
Mal is a free AI trapped in a human body when war cuts him off from infospace, protecting an augmented girl and the ragtag crew they pick up along the way.
Murderbot-meets-Mickey7 in mostly good ways, with decent chemistry in the group. But Mal's internal conflicts play out in a literal castle, and for software, that never made sense to me.
3/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI personally hate the handwringing around free software licenses. Folks, adding (often non-enforceable!) restrictions your software license, despite the good intentions, is not going to move the needle on fascism and capitalism. Withholding or redirecting your labor will. Remember, software licenses are a tool of intellectual property, which is wholly an invention of those same courts that are captured by capitalists.
@crell@phpc.socialFree Software is inherently political. It always has been.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/free-software-political
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialThe two essential freedoms in C are use-after-free and double-free.
Just found this nice older paper on the topic:
https://software.imdea.org/~juanca/papers/undangle_issta12_av.pdf
This is from
@crell@phpc.socialFree Software is inherently political. It always has been.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/free-software-political
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
@jtk@infosec.exchangeI've noticed access to fsf.org and gnu.org through Tor (e.g., torify, onion browser) is unreliable. As in the connection is often refused.
I'm not sure if this is a recent change at the content end, perhaps due to this: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/blocking…
@cdarwin@c.imOccasionally I get asked why I don't use so-called permissive licenses like BSD or MIT.
These are free software licenses,
but they do not require that forked versions of the code be free and open source software.
In other words, you can take something written with a BSD or MIT license,
put it in the next version of Windows and no one will ever know.
If you did that with GPL code, you'd be in for big legal trouble if found out.
What I don't u…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialStockholm-based Endra, which automates the design of plumbing and electrical wiring in new buildings, raised $50M led by a16z (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/06/01/endras-engineer-buildings-ai
@compfu@mograph.socialYou have to be kidding me.
I was looking for some song lyrics and thought that google is probably going to suggest them as soon as I type the first few words. It didn't. And so I kept going (wrongly) and when I hit enter this joke of a non-answer came up.
I've heard that google is doing AI first now - CO2 emissions be damned. But holy crap. If this is how 90% of Internet users are experiencing the web in 2026 we're headed for dark times.
@thijs_lucas@norden.socialGibt es so was wie #Canva als (Free and) Open Source software/App?
Ich würde gerne die Story Funktion bei Pixelfed mehr nutzen, aber dazu fehlt mir noch eine einfache Möglichkeit, zu den Bildern Text und Infos und vielleicht auch Sticker hinzuzufügen.
Links wären auch toll, aber das wäre vielleicht etwas viel. Mehr als auch canva kann.
@marcel@waldvogel.family"Under the order filed in Illinois, Deere will now be required to make diagnostic and repair tools available to equipment owners and independent repair shops, not only its own network of authorized dealers. It also prevents Deere dealers from retaliating against equipment owners or repair shops who choose to fix their own equipment instead of paying for Deere’s services."
#DigitalSovereignty
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzIt's that time again! Tomorrow night, Tues 9 June at 20:00 NZST we'll meet at https://meeting.iridescent.nz to discuss all things libre/FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) and the sociopolitical landscape in which it all exists. We'll be discussing whatever people in attendance want to discuss - the…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeRE: https://floss.social/@VolkerKrause/116741489331797800
"… Regardless of how this will eventually materialize, the direction is clear, Android isn’t going to be a viable long-term platform for FOSS software, not even in its Google-free form. I hav…
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialHey all, any recommendations for keyboard-typing software? I would like to recommend one to my student.
I learned (a long time ago) with TapTouche but I think you have to pay for it.
I think https://www.typing.com/ doesn't look too bad, but I never actually used it myself.
Sometimes I go to
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgThinking about earlier days of free software, I guess GPL was designed for a world where you might get a program on tape, floppy disk, or downloaded from a local BBS (probably historically inaccurate, but stay with me..). You might have an address to write to a human to get the source code off them, or find them and ask for it in-person. I guess the code would move slowly, getting improved in different ways depending on the community it reached.
In the corporate internet days, almost e…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
New features in gnuplot 5.4.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/826456/2ea90dd464e104d5/
saved 2020-07-23 https://
@ncoca@social.coop
@arXiv_physicsmedph_bot@mastoxiv.pagePortable surrogate-free 4D MRI from standard fast multi-slice 2D MRI via implicit neural representations
Muheng Li, Xinyang Wu, Xia Li, Orso Pusterla, Philippe C. Cattin, Sairos Safai, Antony J. Lomax, Ye Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.17906 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.17906 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.17906
arXiv:2607.17906v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Four-dimensional MRI (4D MRI) characterizes respiratory organ motion, yet existing reconstruction pipelines are tightly coupled to specific acquisition platforms (e.g., non-Cartesian trajectories with self-gating, vendor-specific navigators, or external respiratory hardware), limiting broad adoption across diverse clinical and research settings, including low-field, open-bore, and non-supine imaging. We present SIMPLE-4D (Surrogate-free, IMplicit, PortabLE 4D MRI), a software-first portable workflow that operates entirely on reconstructed slices from standard fast multi-slice 2D MRI and requires no pulse-sequence modification, no non-Cartesian trajectory, no navigator, and no external hardware. SIMPLE-4D combines an acquisition-agnostic front end consuming standard 2D protocols, a surrogate-free variational motion encoder that extracts a compact motion code directly from each 2D slice, and a physics-aware continuous spatio-temporal reconstruction based on a hash-encoded implicit neural representation (INR) with a SIREN deformation network producing bidirectional cycle-consistent DVFs and motion-dependent Gauss-Legendre thick-slice quadrature. Bidirectionality yields a complete inter-frame motion model by composition, supporting downstream tasks such as dose accumulation without retraining. We validate the identical pipeline on two contrasting datasets: a 1.5 T clinical bSSFP dataset (5 volunteers, 3 sessions each) and a 0.5 T open-bore HASTE dataset (5 volunteers, supine and upright). To our knowledge, this is the first per-frame 4D volumetric respiratory MRI reconstruction on a weight-bearing upright open-bore low-field scanner from reconstructed 2D Cartesian slices alone. On low-field data the INR template additionally acts as an implicit denoiser, yielding 132% SNR. Systematic ablations isolate each component's contribution.
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@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaSigh, server hosed again. Downstream system noted that the expected file didn't arrive. Our system shows it went out. Server froze again and those running it don't have monitoring software.
I have pointed out a simple & free solution and we use it ourselves.
1. I wrote scripts to check the INBOX for a series of file names that we expect.
2. If the file is NOT there it sends an alert to our support INBOX.
3. Create JCL wrapper to run the scripts.
4.…
@cdarwin@c.imHosted in the UK
Libre.fm is generously hosted in York, UK by our good friends at Bytemark, a hosting company with a long-standing commitment to a free and open society.
Human support
When you email us for support, you're speaking to Matt Lee, the co-founder of Libre.fm. Matt cares deeply about the indieweb, accessibility, standards and open source software.
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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI really think for “AI” coding that local models are the future.
It’s basically free to run them on hardware you might already have, doesn’t have the environmental issues that data centers have and you don’t have to share your code or project details with anyone.
I’m a bit ambivalent about the ethics of the training data—for coding stuff that data is mostly open source code. I don’t have an issue with my MIT-licensed stuff used for this, but I know other authors do and their preferences should be honored.
I’m hoping that we get “clean” models for this in the future.
Generally I don’t think LLM-assisted programming is universally applicable to all software development but it can be a useful tool.
I also don’t think LLMs are useful for much else (coding is like a one in a million special case). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The code is here, if you're interested: https://github.com/madrobby/png-to-scad/
@pre@boing.worldWell, the Makerfield by-election is over. Voting just closed.
I don't live there, but if I did I think you gotta vote Labour in order to destroy this Labour government.
Which is in itself pretty mad. Demonstrating the utterly broken nature of the whole political system.
This is surely the only circumstance in which I switch away from the Greens.
As I said last month, they absolutely should have stood and spoke in front of every camera pointed at the constituency. Dunno that they managed the second part. I didn't see much of her myself, certainly.
Anyway, the point is that there's only one candidate at this election which has any chance at all of changing the direction of this government.
None of the others might be Prime Minister by autumn. Nobody else who wins can do that. There's only one candidate who can probably unseat the failing prime minister.
Would be voting more in hope than expectation of course.
He won't be very different. Certainly he's the same on Israel's genocide, on taxing wealth, on fiscal rules preventing government investment, on private industry being better than government owned industry, on capitalism, on the bond market, on the monarchy, on the pointless drug war, on conflating protest with terrorism, on the house of lords, on AI, on Free Software, on copyright, on age-gating and surveilling the internet.
But maybe that one difference, "public 'control' without ownership of industry" is at least a bit better than just Starmer thinking the state is powerless against American AI? He might try a bit harder to build more houses?
So not voting in expectation of anything really changing here, but voting for the only candidate who will even be in a position to try.
If you dislike Starmer and prefer any of the other candidates, if you prefer Greens, or Conservatives, or Restore, or Reform, or Lib Dem, or anarchy or antifa or woke then you should vote for the Labour Party candidate to cause Starmer's downfall.
You should only be voting against Starmer's Labour Party if you are happy with Starmer's Labour government and want Starmer to stay.
And only like 75,000 people even get to mark a ballot.
"Restore" are the splitters from Reform (who are in turn the Nativist right wing party splitters from the Conservatives).
They left Reform because Reform weren't racist enough for them, mostly. Their vote count is key here. Will their vote be higher than the Labour/Reform margin?
I think probably it will.
So the Restore Party is the spoiler that forces the PM out of office by splitting the nazi vote and allowing in a challenger to the PM.
Insane election. 😵💫
Apparently nobody conducted an exit poll, so we'll find out in the morning.
#ukpol #makerfield
@pre@boing.worldI see the prime minister and home secretary are lying, just blatantly lying, about the existence of technology which can tell how old someone is and whether an image is porn or not.
They claim this technology already exists in phones and just needs to be turned on.
I mean, judges at trials haven't been able to describe what is or isn't pornography, but apparently I guess they should have just turned on the software switch in their phones! Easy!
No phone can know it's operator's age. Even if the phone's owner is registered, it can't know if it's being operated by it's owner or not.
The PM and Home Sec are lying that they think there's no reporting, no data-collection, no spying, no monitoring, involved in their impossible imaginary tech they demand must be implemented in 3 months.
They are lying that adults can turn it off without having to register the owner of the phone and it's ID with a central database.
Never head anyone even mention the environmental consequences of burning power to pass every image a camera takes through a large neural network to have it be classified as porn or not, so at least they haven't had to lie about it being free and easy and not burning energy to classify every image taken in the UK.
Good thing they have little chance of being in power when their deadline hits and the tech companies have failed to turn on the imaginary software switch to do impossible things.
Sadly, Burnham's government will probably do much the same.
#ukpol #tech #clientSideScanning #survelienceState
