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Fired up the Linux rig and ready for adventure! Streaming Lord of the Rings Online tonight. Come join me for some quests, great scenery, and a demonstration of open-source power! #LOTRO #MMORPG #Linux

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person/
Great article.

EditReward: A Human-Aligned Reward Model for Instruction-Guided Image Editing
Keming Wu, Sicong Jiang, Max Ku, Ping Nie, Minghao Liu, Wenhu Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26346

EditReward: A Human-Aligned Reward Model for Instruction-Guided Image Editing
Recently, we have witnessed great progress in image editing with natural language instructions. Several closed-source models like GPT-Image-1, Seedream, and Google-Nano-Banana have shown highly promising progress. However, the open-source models are still lagging. The main bottleneck is the lack of a reliable reward model to scale up high-quality synthetic training data. To address this critical bottleneck, we built \mname, trained with our new large-scale human preference dataset, meticulously…

TULIP: Adapting Open-Source Large Language Models for Underrepresented Languages and Specialized Financial Tasks
\.Irem Demirta\c{s}, Burak Payzun, Se\c{c}il Arslan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16243

TULIP: Adapting Open-Source Large Language Models for Underrepresented Languages and Specialized Financial Tasks
Thanks to the growing popularity of large language models over the years, there is great potential for their applications in finance. Despite the exceptional performance of larger proprietary models, which are presented as black-box solutions through APIs, smaller models that can be hosted on-premise present opportunities for adaptability and privacy. Especially in cases where the management of sensitive information and application of domain knowledge is important, like finance, enhancing the c…

@… 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…

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A great open-source community is about more than just code — it's about people, too. A strong company culture fosters engagement and growth. At Berlin Buzzwords, Jessie de Groot and Marion Nehring discussed how values such as kindness, collaboration and developer experience influence companies and communities. Gain practical insights into fostering inclusion, engagement, and long-term impact.
Watch the full session: #bbuzz 2026: https://tickets.plainschwarz.com/bbuzz26/c/8Hvk0ZvJA/

Great open source tools often were not given a name that makes them remember easily or explain what they do.
Which is your favourite (un)successful example? VLC? GIMP? nginx? riot?
At the #LinuxDay 2025 in #Dornbirn I am giving a talk on challenges for software branding. What are good prac…

ScaleCUA: Scaling Open-Source Computer Use Agents with Cross-Platform Data
Zhaoyang Liu, JingJing Xie, Zichen Ding, Zehao Li, Bowen Yang, Zhenyu Wu, Xuehui Wang, Qiushi Sun, Shi Liu, Weiyun Wang, Shenglong Ye, Qingyun Li, Zeyue Tian, Gen Luo, Xiangyu Yue, Biqing Qi, Kai Chen, Bowen Zhou, Yu Qiao, Qifeng Chen, Wenhai Wang
https://arxiv.org/…

ScaleCUA: Scaling Open-Source Computer Use Agents with Cross-Platform Data
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have enabled computer use agents (CUAs) that operate GUIs autonomously, showing great potential, yet progress is limited by the lack of large-scale, open-source computer use data and foundation models. In this work, we introduce ScaleCUA, a step toward scaling open-source CUAs. It offers a large-scale dataset spanning 6 operating systems and 3 task domains, built via a closed-loop pipeline uniting automated agents with human experts. Trained on this scaled-up data,…

I looked at #blogging

Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.

The Amphora of Great Intelligence
https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/018.html

18. The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI) - Pepper&Carrot
Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.

Been working on Corsi-Rosenthal like filters devices and it's really nice to see them just sucking up PM2.5 particles in minutes when put in a room
Trying to make ones that look a bit less like a DIY shitshow and more professional
Really great and happy with these, considering making a little Open Source project for the few designs I made
Image is a prototype I put together but not yet finished the box with varnish or anything but really loving this
(background he…

QVNTVS, Open-Source Quantum Well Simulator
Barbaros \c{S}air
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07792 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07792

QVNTVS, Open-Source Quantum Well Simulator
Quantum Wells (QW) are of great importance in optoelectronic devices such as LEDs and LASERs, being the emissive layers.Simulating the quantum particles in different QW topologies like rectangular finite potential wells, multiple potential wells, and triangular biased potential well heterojunctions enables faster modeling, theoretical characterization, and more. QVNTVS performs energy level and wavefunction calculations, recombination probability, transition energy, and optical emission computa…