@heiseonline@social.heise.deRichard Stallman: "Chatbots sind Bullshit-Generatoren"
Der Gründer der Free Software Foundation macht auf Europatour auch Halt in München. Dort mahnt er zu mehr Einsatz von Open Source – gerade beim Staat.
htt…
@theDuesentrieb@social.linux.pizzaI finally got my first Raspberry Pi, for a totally different usecase, but it certainly won't be the last.
I just discovered that I could build my own MIDI-synth with one:
#RaspberryPi
@heiseonline@social.heise.deNoch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Richard Stallman: "Chatbots sind Bullshit-Generatoren"
@aral@mastodon.ar.alAs fascism descends, you are going to need easy to access and use alternatives to Big Tech (aka Fascist Tech).
So maybe bookmark the Chatons collective site initiated by our friends at Framasoft with hosted versions of free-software services for collaborative writing, video conferencing, scheduling appointments, collaborative spreadsheets, file sharing, picture sharing, etc.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRivian launches Universal Hands-Free driving for second-generation R1 EVs, expanding coverage from 135,000 highway miles to 3.5M miles across the US and Canada (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/18/rivian-rolls-out-new-un…
@seav@en.osm.townIn 2021 I gave a talk about “openness” briefly tracing the history from the Free Software movement, #GNU, and OSS, to open formats like XML and ODF, then to the #FreeCulture and #OpenData movement like
@cdarwin@c.imA curated list of UI clients for accessing the ActivityPub Fediverse social network.
https://delightful.coding.social/delightful_fediverse_clients
@johl@mastodon.xyz
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»Freie Alternative zu Google und Apple — Free Software Foundation plant LibrePhone:
Die Free Software Foundation (@…) will mit dem LibrePhone Projekt eine freie Alternative zu Android und iOS entwickeln. Es wäre nicht der erste Anlauf der FSF.«
Da bin ich mal gespannt was sich da ergibt und wie es von den Mobile-Herstellern eingesetzt oder verweigert wird.
@publicvoit@graz.social"Freie Alternative zu #Google und #Apple: Free Software Foundation plant #LibrePhone"
@bici@mastodon.socialDear Reader,
Today I'm delighted to announce a Take Control book about a fantastic new Mac email app called #MailMaven. Developed by our friends at SmallCubed (best known for their popular MailSuite plugin for Apple Mail), MailMaven is a powerful and flexible alternative to apps like Apple Mail, Outlook, and Thunderbird.
The Manual is free from :
@a_j_millar@fediscience.orgRE: https://alpaca.gold/@Jeremiah/115582068879659968
European Commission actively engaged with FOSS - free and open source software - to build different, read non-US, digital ecosystem 🧵
@laf0rge@chaos.socialI'm currently looking for one or more volunteers to maintain the Openmoko USB PID OUI service at https://github.com/openmoko/openmoko-usb-oui as the existing maintainer is no longer available. This is a service providing free USB Product IDs and Ethernet MAC addresses for the
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizzaFSF announces Librephone project https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project
"The Free Software Foundation announced its project to bring mobile phone freedom to users. "Librephone" is an initiative to reverse-engineer obstacles preventing mobile phone freedom until its goal is…
@Techpizzamondays@social.linux.pizzaWill we see you tomorrow at Tech Pizza Monday? VICTORY CAFE whoops, that was too loud, Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W., 6 PM. With any luck, we will have some printouts of the paper we will discuss at on tje following Monday. Come for the pizza, also, stay for the pizza, not to mention the discussions about free and open technology for a free and open society. #Toronto
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social«Nowadays the commons that we built is the feedlot of large language models, and increasingly also its waste pond. The software we make is free, but the system in which it is made is not»
Yeah, it feels very clear by now that licensing might be a necessary condition for building our software commons, but it's far from being sufficient.
/HT @…
https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/12/17/in-which-our-protagonist-dreams-of-laurels
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @aral@mastodon.ar.alFolks creating free and open software for the common good: here’s a checklist of everything else you should be doing so corporations can make the best use of your free labour.
I mean, sure, some good security tips here and worth reading anyway but do fuck off with holding free software developers to account for supply chain attacks. It’s your fucking supply chain, not ours, you fucking corporation.
@socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizzaWe're thrilled to have Software Freedom Conservancy as a Network Sponsor at SCaLE 23x! Your dedication to promoting free and open source software makes a difference. See you in Pasadena, March 5-8, 2026! 🎉 Check them out: https://sfconservancy.org/
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukWhile I maybe a Linux Penguin, It's worth pointing out there are plenty of other free OSs which share many of the user space parts (e.g. the desktop) - and some very different; So, give FreeBSD a go once in a while, Then there are things like FreeDOS, embedded OSs, and ReactOS which can run Windows software, or lots of other things to play with. Give some a go:
@compfu@mograph.socialRemember the Photoshop competitor that didn't require a monthly subscription? #AffinityPhoto
You can no longer download/purchase their software and they are giving away the iPad version for free until the end of the month. And they are teasing something "big" coming up with a bunch of marketing-speak. Whenever a company talks about freedom, be weary.
@heiseonline@social.heise.deZum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Freie Alternative zu Google und Apple: Free Software Foundation plant LibrePhone
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageCrosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[2/3]:
- Sharp Structure-Agnostic Lower Bounds for General Functional Estimation
Jikai Jin, Vasilis Syrgkanis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17341 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/115762312049963700
- Timely Information Updating for Mobile Devices Without and With ML Advice
Yu-Pin Hsu, Yi-Hsuan Tseng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17381 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNI_bot/115762180316858485
- SWE-Bench : A Framework for the Scalable Generation of Software Engineering Benchmarks from Open...
Wang, Ramalho, Celestino, Pham, Liu, Sinha, Portillo, Osunwa, Maduekwe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17419 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_bot/115762487015279852
- Perfect reconstruction of sparse signals using nonconvexity control and one-step RSB message passing
Xiaosi Gu, Ayaka Sakata, Tomoyuki Obuchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17426 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/115762346108219997
- MULTIAQUA: A multimodal maritime dataset and robust training strategies for multimodal semantic s...
Jon Muhovi\v{c}, Janez Per\v{s}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17450 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115762717053353674
- When Data Quality Issues Collide: A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Co-Occurring Data Quality Issu...
Emmanuel Charleson Dapaah, Jens Grabowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17460 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_bot/115762500123147574
- Behavioural Effects of Agentic Messaging: A Case Study on a Financial Service Application
Olivier Jeunen, Schaun Wheeler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17462 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_bot/115762430673347625
- Linear Attention for Joint Power Optimization and User-Centric Clustering in Cell-Free Networks
Irched Chafaa, Giacomo Bacci, Luca Sanguinetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17466 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSY_bot/115762336277179643
- Translating the Rashomon Effect to Sequential Decision-Making Tasks
Dennis Gross, J{\o}rn Eirik Betten, Helge Spieker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17470 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/115762556506696539
- Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for Nonlinear Matrix Decompositions
Atharva Awari, Nicolas Gillis, Arnaud Vandaele
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17473 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSP_bot/115762580078964235
- TwinSegNet: A Digital Twin-Enabled Federated Learning Framework for Brain Tumor Analysis
Almustapha A. Wakili, Adamu Hussaini, Abubakar A. Musa, Woosub Jung, Wei Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17488 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115762726884307901
- Resource-efficient medical image classification for edge devices
Mahsa Lavaei, Zahra Abadi, Salar Beigzad, Alireza Maleki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17515 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/115762459510336799
- PathBench-MIL: A Comprehensive AutoML and Benchmarking Framework for Multiple Instance Learning i...
Brussee, Valkema, Weijer, Doeleman, Schrader, Kers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17517 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115762741957639051
- HydroGym: A Reinforcement Learning Platform for Fluid Dynamics
Christian Lagemann, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17534 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot/115762391350754768
- When De-noising Hurts: A Systematic Study of Speech Enhancement Effects on Modern Medical ASR Sys...
Chondhekar, Murukuri, Vasani, Goyal, Badami, Rana, SN, Pandia, Katiyar, Jagadeesh, Gulati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17562 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/115762423443170715
- Enabling Disaggregated Multi-Stage MLLM Inference via GPU-Internal Scheduling and Resource Sharing
Lingxiao Zhao, Haoran Zhou, Yuezhi Che, Dazhao Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17574 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_bot/115762425409322293
- SkinGenBench: Generative Model and Preprocessing Effects for Synthetic Dermoscopic Augmentation i...
N. A. Adarsh Pritam, Jeba Shiney O, Sanyam Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17585 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/115762479150695610
- MAD-OOD: A Deep Learning Cluster-Driven Framework for an Out-of-Distribution Malware Detection an...
Tosin Ige, Christopher Kiekintveld, Aritran Piplai, Asif Rahman, Olukunle Kolade, Sasidhar Kunapuli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17594 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/115762509298207765
- Confidence-Credibility Aware Weighted Ensembles of Small LLMs Outperform Large LLMs in Emotion De...
Menna Elgabry, Ali Hamdi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17630 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115762575512981257
- Generative Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization with Scalable Batch Evaluations for Sample-Effic...
Madhav R. Muthyala, Farshud Sorourifar, Tianhong Tan, You Peng, Joel A. Paulson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17659 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/115762554519447500
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@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialA good thing this is not available in the EU....
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/this-free-app-pays-you-to-record-your-calls-for-ai-training-and-its-a-hit/
@egallager@social.treehouse.systemsGovernments should use FOSS whenever possible, and that should extend to fonts as well: https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/articles/Why_Free_Fonts.html
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza📌 Pinned Post
I'm an anarcho-syndicalist non-binary person who uses they/them pronouns, is bisexual, from Bergen, Norway, and whose posts automatically delete after seven days regardless of likes or boosts, because I have autism and say random shit sometimes.
I talk allot about free software, and I use Secureblue, GrapheneOS and Debian as part of my software setup. I also spend a lot of time experimenting with Linux, especially Debian Testing/Sid, GNOME, and KDE.
As an …
@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.pageValidation of collision-free spheres of Stewart-Gough platforms for constant orientations using the Application Programming Interface of a CAD software
Bibekananda Patra, Rajeevlochana G. Chittawadigi, Sandipan Bandyopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08408
@phpmacher@sueden.social
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialYesterday I installed some OpenSource Software on my Laptop. As it also has a donation page, I donated 5€.
Since a couple of years I try to donate whenever I install OpenSource Software. Something between 5€-15€. Especially in the age of "Free"Apps that are bloated with Ads, I want to honor when a software comes just as is with a friendly hint to a donation page.
(I really try to avoid resetting my machines as this always comes with a couple of donations...)
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at outlets in Belgium and France that are prioritizing independence from Big Tech and opting for open source or in-house software (Owen Huchon/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/editorial-independence-means-technologic…
@ber@social.tchncs.de"Getting Hired to Work on FOSS - The Do-s, Don't-s and Pitfalls for Everyone Involved" is what my friend Till Adam talked about at #Akademy2025. He also has a short section on why Free Software is worth more compared to proprietary software, so you should take higher rates and principals should be willing to pay more. And he draws from experience of contracts that
@chiraag@mastodon.online @heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techpizzamondays@social.linux.pizzaQuiet Friday nights are for updating our calendar. Event listings have been added into December. Subscribe at https://luma.com/techpizzamondays
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeFaced with the possibility of scrapping old computers on which Windows 11 is not supported by Microsoft: some users resort to hacking.
Others prefer a switch to free software, to no longer depend on Microsoft.
https://www.radio…
@hippyjo@c.imIt's Word Press Accessibility Day!
A free online conference with global scope and participation.
I just saw a great session on accessibility and the "global south" which refers to a lot of places in rural USA as much as it does to South America and African countries.
Technological disparities including bandwidth, computer power, stable electric supply, and poverty-limited access to technology and software are still huge problems that affect business and societ…
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com"I would like to propose that IPs of [NTP] pool-members should not be allowed to host [Tor exit nodes] simultaneously under the same IP."
or put another way, "my employer paid for this whizzy firewall but it complains when we make it talk to a free service run by a volunteer because of other software the volunteer runs. Please educate your volunteers about how they need to go about providing this free service to us."
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialI just went to my Gototags, my old #NFC tag vendor hardware/software & their tools are trying to charge people "PER ENCODED TAG" now.
There's tons of tools that encode tags for free. Thankfully, I have their old unlimited use NFC encoding tools so eff that but is anyone else actually doing this?
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsWorked on some more #Gentoo global #jobserver goodies today.
Firstly, Portage jobserver support patch: #PyTest jobs will also be counted towards total job count.
Again, it's not a perfect solution, but it works reasonably. The plugin still starts -n jobs as specified by the arguments, but it acquired job tokens prior to executing every test, therefore delaying actual testing until tokens are available. It doesn't seem to cause noticeable overhead either.
@mro@digitalcourage.social
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeAs SBOMs slowly progress at the federal level and in enterprises, the rise of AI coding assistants is fueling optimistic—and, some experts argue, “kind of insane”—claims about a future with vulnerability-free software.
Check out my latest CyberScoop piece.
Many thanks to @…, @…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says his new superintelligence team will build "frontier-grade research capability" and Microsoft needs AI self-sufficiency (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI was looking for my dishwasher manual. I noticed next to the manual, a link that said "Free Open Source Software". Curious, I clicked on it, and it's a long list of licenses and copyright information that is used in the dishwasher. Ctrl-F, and sure enough - my name's on the list.
I feel like I should have gotten a discount on the dishwasher, or at the very least access to its firmware source code! 🤠
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialPlease don't upload my code on GitHub
This is a call to free/libre and open source software developers to not upload the work of others to GitHub.
🚫 #NoGitHub
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgAccording to the US copyright office, copyright doesn't extend to purely AI-generated material.
I'm not sure if vibe coding can count as 'purely AI-generated', but it's an annoying thought that e.g. GPL code can be turned into uncopyrightable code via the AI meat grinder.
I also keep returning to the question also of whether vibe-coded edits to GPLd free software projects counts as 'source code'. If it's unreadable to both the vibe-coder and origina…
@mikeymikey@hachyderm.ioDo you have the ability to write code for Apple platforms? Do you know what MDM / device management is? Do you understand what Compliance is? Do you care about being able to use a Mac or iPad or iPhone for work or school?
Does the idea of dealing with the bugs that can crop up from things like "this needs to be reliably managed like a server, but a human randomly sleeps it mid-process and when it wakes up it's in a different country!" sound interesting to you?
If so - come be my direct co-worker!
Need to be able to be based in/work within the US, but the team itself is fully remote. Multiple positions open.
Feel free to DM me with questions
https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200628824-0836/software-engineer-test-infrastructure
@cheeaun@mastodon.socialIf Affinity really cares about the creatives, they (& all other design companies, hopefully Adobe too?) should have form a group to create a file format standard. As long as the design format is proprietary, there's not much "freedom" here, even if the software is free, paid-once or subscription-based.
Sketch is actually almost there, at least for UI/vector designs (
@chiraag@mastodon.online @heiseonline@social.heise.deEtwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Nicht neues OS: FSFs LibrePhone-Projekt will Android befreien
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net@… Boycotting software, especially when it is open source, because of the personal views of a single individual is small-minded and pointless. Nothing will change. The person in question does not care at all about your boycott, so I do not care either and will use a great free piece of software that will continue to exist whether I or anyone else boycotts that per…
@jae@mastodon.me.ukAffinity just gave away their software for free.
https://www.affinity.studio
@cdarwin@c.imFree software communities offer ethical alternatives to the centralised platforms by the web giants:
It is possible to find trusted services that respect your privacy
https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/
@arXiv_mathNA_bot@mastoxiv.pageFast and Accurate Intersections on a Sphere
Hongyu Chen, Paul A. Ullrich, Julian Panetta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09892 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09892
@whitequark@mastodon.socialPSA: i now consider https://grebedoc.dev (and the underlying git-pages server software) feature-complete and production-ready, feel free to use it for all your "not supporting Microsoft-nee-GitHub" needs (or whatever other reasons you might have)!
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukGnucash is a nice simple Gtk/GUI accountancy program; I've used it to keep track of my spending, income, credit cards etc for well over a decade; it does simple double-entry stuff and also has some more advanced stuff for generating reports and small businesses.
https://www.gnucash.org/
@wrog@mastodon.murkworks.netMERCER ISLAND SCHOOL BOARD
Wow, you really do have to watch the downballot races. Mercer Island School Board has two (2) candidates (O'Callahan is and Gaspar) that are *both* software CTOs touting their "AI" credentials. Gaspar explicitly wants "free AI classes".
Here's a hint: The only "AI classes" that kids need are ones that teach them how to TURN ALL OF THAT SHIT OFF, and learn to think and write in their own words, not Chat-GPT'…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alI don’t know if this is a sick burn (by a FOSDEM organiser spilling the truth about FOSDEM) or an own goal.
🤷♂️ https://pleroma.debian.social/objects/f49df30a-d65e-4195-833d-29b7481b3aba
@Techpizzamondays@social.linux.pizzaWe’re still meeting tonight, like we usually do. Visit the Luma link for details! https://luma.com/l4fe2xvh
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsDoing #Gentoo these days feels like being a small cell of unpaid volunteers opposing the enshittification of software. On one side, we're put up against a horde of full-time corporate developers. On the other, against young ambitious volunteers with lots of free time. And both can rapidly spew tons of mediocre code, and doing things wrong is so much easier than doing things right.
(Just to be clear, I'm not saying every corporation or every youngster does things wrong — there are people who care on the other side too.)
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI keep wondering what it would look like for free software developers to unionize and strike.
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialIs it really foss?
Where Projects are Evaluated — To see if they're as free and open source as advertised. The software rights of users are continously (and often opaquely) being eroded by the desire of growth.
This website aims to push back against that by bringing transparency to FOSS software users.
💻 https://isitreallyfoss.com
@Techpizzamondays@social.linux.pizzaWe’re still meeting tonight, like we usually do. Visit the Luma link for details! https://luma.com/l4fe2xvh
@compfu@mograph.social#FreeSoftwareAdvent
A piece of free software I rely on at work is #Dokuwiki: https://www.dokuwiki.org
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialAdobe launches its Premiere video editing software on iPhone for the first time; general editing is free, but Adobe charges for credits to generate AI content (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…
@Techpizzamondays@social.linux.pizzaTech Pizza Monday is on, as usual, tomorrow starting at 6 PM, at the usual place, Victory Cafe at 440 Bloor St. W. #techmeetup https://luma.com/h9neb30z
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems🤚 Free Saturday
👉 Saturday spent working on Free Software
Highlights from #Gentoo:
• #Gemato is now compatible with #FreePG and mostly compatible with #SequoiaPGP chameleon.
• Prepared patches to support FreePG and SequoiaPGP chameleon as "gpg" symlink providers.
• #FlexiBLAS is now enabled by default on ~arch.
• Finally finished working on #PkgCheck check for missing #PyPI provenance checks.
• gpy-list-pkg-impls now includes "does this package have tests?" state, can optionally include PythonCompatUpdate results from PkgCheck and output mIRC colors. In other words, our IRC bot will now tell us when dependencies let us port new packages to #Python 3.14, and whether these packages have tests.
