Attacks on the character of progressive candidates may be a distraction from the popularity of their causes.
My latest for Crimson Goes Blue: how Graham Platner's legacy is affecting his successor.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jonippolito/p/attack-t…
Rudy’s Library Is Open
The key to the public library in Monowi, Nebraska hangs on the wall of the town's only tavern, within reach of the bartender....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/10/02/rudys-library-is-open/
Enterprise voice AI tools provider Deepgram acquires Daily, which has raised $62M and develops open-source voice AI framework Pipecat, for an undisclosed sum (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/deepgram-ac…
Normally I go to the Benalla Street Art Festival but this year it coincided with some guy chopping my chest open. Did an overnighter to catch up with the new art work this week. #BenallStreetArtFestival
It was minus 4 when I woke up but the art work was worth it. Here's a few examples
Every person using Linux is simply a temporarily embarrassed open source user.
Linux is actually working great, just not on my device.
📜 License: Mistral Ecosystem Open-Weight License, a modified MIT license for commercial and non-commercial use. Running a Model-as-a-Service business requires a separate commercial license, so this is open weights, not open source in the OSI sense.
🌐 https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistr
Find and Help your Open Source Friends
- Leonid Bugaev
"So let the large projects close the queue [to LLM contributions]. There is a lot more open source out there.
That was the reason I built Help Wanted in the first place, few years ago. At the time of writing, it has 650,456 issues from 96,576 projects in its index, from the projects who actually WANT help. Most developers will never hear the names of nearly all these projects.”
#OpenSource
@… @… We ended with similar numbers that year but the rain and comotion scared the skunks out into the open. Close scrapes up and down the block.
Final call for proposals to the Alpaca Festival of Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts!
Alpaca is a festival on Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts comprised of live performances, workshops and conference talks. We aim to bring people together who value deep, human curiosity into patterns. We hope this call excites you whether you are exploring patterns in heritage crafts or contemporary algorithmic art (but not AI).
First day of vacation and I’m standing outside a cafe waiting for it to open. Like a weirdo.
DeepSeek open sources Super-Agent as a research prototype, a proactive coding agent it says can monitor group chats for coding issues and suggest solutions (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11…
One hour line to vote at 5:30p today, last day of TX early voting, at one of the locations that will stay open until 10pm. I would not be surprised if people are still in line at 10 the way this is going.
Ils manquent des français dans la création de l'association pour le open social stack. Prochaine rencontre Š Paris? Chiche @…
https://mitmachen.savesocial.eu/civicr…
Rolling out some documentation QA checks for my repositories. So now I have a ton of open PR's with failing CI pipelines over small documentation issues. While I still have my doubts about AI in general for a bag of reasons. Being able to press a button to get it fixed vs opening each repo locally, fetch & pull, fix the issue, git push --force-with-lease and wait for the CI to go green.
💻 Agentic coding: 48% on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, roughly tied with GLM-5.3 while using 47% fewer tokens per task. Scores 26 on Intelligence Index v5, the highest among western open-weight models; leading Chinese open-weight models score higher on that aggregate
🌍 Natively fluent in 160 languages, including every official EU language. Strong on cybersecurity, finance and law, with state-of-the-art visual grounding among open-weight models
What's the best open-weight LLM model for handwriting recognition?
#hwr
Fall Open House for Prospective Students
Monday, October 26
Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to gain an insider’s perspective of YDS.
Register online:
https://divinity.yale.edu/admissions-aid/visit-connect/fall-open-house-fo…
pfSense is now completely free, the Plus version and CE version is gone, Plus is now open source and everyone gets it free.
Sweet. Out soon.
https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-at-20
Hör mig berätta om alla likheter mellan antivaxxare och människor som varnar starkt för all ultraprocessad mat
Vetenskapsmotstånd, vaccinskepsis och tokiga influencers.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5w7EtfG27gvquuP9NVqmzv?autoplay=true
Today is a good day to poke your management to join the Open Source Pledge:
#PHP #Node
Last day of TPAC and I’m standing outside a cafe waiting for it to open like weirdo.
Gerade über "Handy" gestolpert: KI-basierte Live-Transkription per Hotkey in jedem Programm; basierend auf lokal laufenden Modellen:
https://handy.computer
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI across multiple crawlers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1023763/openai-google-microsoft-ai-scr…
Progress on my new open source project retrofit continues.
As we work to getting a stable release I’d be happy for others to kick around, we’ve decided to make Wednesdays demo day.
So do please check out our new demo:
https://retrofit.sh/demos/flyway-adopt-retrofit/<…
Das erste Mal seit vielen Jahren, dass ich nicht zum Stemweder Open Air fahren werde. Die Hitze in erster Linie, Ruhebedarf in zweiter. Glücklich mit der Entscheidung, aber auch ein bisschen traurig. Es ist immerhin das 50. Jubiläum.
#stemweder_open_air_2026 #stemwederOpenAir
Why it’s important to have well-funded programs for open source infrastructure: “In 2024, PHP underwent its first external security audit in years. The PHP Foundation secured funding from the @… to organize this audit through OSTIF, and it was carried out by Quarkslab. While fixing one of the issues Quarkslab reported, a PHP core developer contracted by t…
Someone has sent me a “Gmail confidential mode” email, which requires creating a Google account to read. That’s weird, annoying, and not really email…
➡️ Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH
#bookmarks
The French government has been building out a collection of open source apps for use by their public servants called LaSuite
I have a test install running using atproto accounts for login. Check out my write up, and apply if you’d like to help test it https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/3mvtex2j…
Halo Reach: flying around in space
I am, apparently, a little way through the game, and I restarted halfway through chapter 3. The difference in gameplay from the first Halo is marked, with increased reliance on team members and communication, and a move to large scale set pieces rather than small-scale battles in corridors from one waypoint to the next. The world feels a lot more empty and open, and you have a sense of partaking in a massive war rather than an…
Goede analyse van de VVD.
#VVD #politiek
Listening to new devlog from Tom Francis and he mentioned two big categories he includes in all his games:
Obvious pleasures - actions that inherently feel good. Smashing enemies through windows, breaking open crates, doing a knockdown attack.
Brain food - something to figure out and keep thinking about. Puzzle mechanics, build crafting, optimization problems, inventory Tetris.
Thinking I should look for really small versions of these in games I play.
Neuer Sammelband:
"Künstliche Intelligenz: Perspektiven auf Technik, Arbeit und Geschlecht"
Themen:
_ Wie verändert KI die Arbeitswelt
_ Welche geschlechterspezifischen Effekte hat KI
_ Inwiefern werden Macht- und Geschlechterverhältnisse im Kontext von KI neu verhandelt?
Open Access unter
We did not run out. The later round of teenagers finished off the first box, so we decided to turn off the lights and not open the second box.
The debian php arm packages will take some days to finish building apparently..
Managed to build them myself so https://alpaca.cc/call/ is back !
🔓 #MistralAI has released the open weights of Mistral Large 4 on #HuggingFace. Until now it was available only through the Mistral API; the full checkpoint can now be downloaded, self-hosted and fine-tuned.
🧠 A natively multimodal
The term "single use software" currently lives rent free in my head.
People use LLMs to create software specific for their needs. But neither can other people use it (hardcoded variables, no rights management, too specific), nor do they use it again (too specific, easier to produce a new one).
Single use software is not maintained. Nobody understands it or has an interest in keeping it working.
The creation of single use software feels cheap, but isn't. It tak…
Lo and behold, Nvidia is buying Hugging Face.
In the end, the AI market will boil down to NVIDIA hosting a range of open-weight models.
#Nvidia #HuggingFace #AI
Todd Blanche Floats Chilling Likelihood of Trump Election Interference
Attorney General Todd Blanche is open to blocking states from certifying the November midterm elections.
Blanche made the comments during a Thursday press gaggle in Virginia.
“Is there any scenario in which DOJ would weigh in on that certification process or try to block states from certifying?” a reporter asked.
“Is there any scenario? Yes,” Blanche said.
“Of course there’s scenarios that we c…
I read William Golding’s The Spire, a hardcover borrowed from the grad library’s third floor stacks. It’s a Serious Book by a Serious Author. When I read it 25 years ago, I followed the story but got many of the characters confused, missed most of the carnal and spiritual undertones, and was blind to grand metaphors woven across chapters where people and things reverse roles and act like things and people. And that’s just part of it! 1/3
Can’t make it to Athens, Georgia (or Raleigh, North Carolina, where the show will be next), to see “Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone”? You may want a copy of the book instead. Here’s our blog post about the wealth of information it contains.
https://georgiamuseum.org/ed…
Anthropic says it partnered with Theorem to use Claude to formally prove security properties at the assembly level across 100 real-world open-source libraries (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/formal-verification
Any ideas what you're going to use when #OSF shuts down in November? I'm open to suggestions! #openscience
Jak AI mění open source (@…) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL3IGQ57Ols
Velké jazykové modely vtrhly do světa software engineeringu a nevyhý…
After a moment of indecision in coming to claim a ball Gomez was expecting him to gather, Mamardashvili makes a very solid save after some horrid defending. Rio late recovering, then Gomez must choose between covering two players but ended up leaving the bigger threat open.
#LFC
Tabling for my Department (Historical Studies) at our campus open house. I love the stickers a colleague brought (though am distressed at the likelihood that many were created by AI).
Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), will be delivering a guest lecture on Thursday, October 22 from 5:30-6:30 pm in Marquand Chapel.
The event is open to the Yale community.
Neuer Sammelband:
"Künstliche Intelligenz: Perspektiven auf Technik, Arbeit und Geschlecht"
Themen:
_ Wie verändert KI die Arbeitswelt
_ Welche geschlechterspezifischen Effekte hat KI
_ Inwiefern werden Macht- und Geschlechterverhältnisse im Kontext von KI neu verhandelt?
Open Access unter
The Last Closed Sunday
The World Cup final fell on a Sunday this year. The largest crowd of the summer poured out of MetLife Stadium, and the stores at American Dream were open and selling....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/10/22/the-last-closed-sunday/
Say farewell to the most intensely cyber-aware month in history by checking out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--How North Korean hackers pulled off the biggest crypto heist in history,
--Polymarket halts trading after third-party hack drains $2.65m,
--Backdoored Claude Code extension plants SSH backdoor in Cursor,
--Mistral touts Le Chonk as top open-weight coding and cybersecurity AI,
--Accenture contractor's Claude Code agent exposes Pentagon credentials,
--GSA audit finds sensitive files improperly shared on Google Drive,
--Unsecured CitySourced database exposed 42m documents,
--GCHQ can't account for thousands of sensitive storage devices,
--Fake iOS crypto app drains 27 wallets,
--Chinese hackers use DeepSeek and AI tools to attack 200 organizations,
--Proton CEO blasts security concerns as "loser thinking" amid AI push,
--Hackers exploit critical Drupal Commerce vulnerability,
--Florida student aid breach exposes data on 4.9m people,
--Icepick's DHS contractor database returns under new domain,
--Nvidia CEO's allegedly caught in a Chinese honeypot situation,
--Cyber defenders face burnout amid AI-powered attack surge
https://www.metacurity.com/how-north-korean-hackers-pulled-off-the-biggest-crypto-heist-in-history/
If you're interested in experimental weaving, community building, and unusual free/open source software, then this opportunity might well be for you:
https://unstable.design/work/community_manager/
Nice: "Data Usability Rating" im Queensland Government Open Data Portal (https://www.data.qld.gov.au/article/standards-and-guidance/data-usability-rating). 5-Haken-Skala der Nutzbarkeit von Daten.
This Social Spec initiative is quite interesting, very old-internet and I like it.
https://socialspec.org
🚀 Chronivaro 0.1.0 has been released!
Chronivaro is an open-source working time & absence tracking system built on Strolch.
Highlights:
• Live timer & daily time recording
• Absence management & vacation journal
• Approvals & period closing
• CSV & PDF report exports
• Standalone fat-JAR & Docker
📦 Downloads & Release Notes:
In älteren Ausgaben ist die Nr. 11 aus der Schott-Ausgabe die Nr. 3 aus Feuilles d'Automne (Coste, Op. 41). Ich finde es immer blöd, wenn Reihenfolgen einfach geändert werden, ohne dies in irgendeiner Weise zu dokumentieren / begründen. (Schott 1923, renewed 1951, revidiert und hg. von Georg Meier) Aber die Fingersätze in der Schott-Ausgabe sind auf jeden Fall sehr gut, wie ich finde. Zum Hören, eingespielt von Marc Teicholz:
Gestern ist der Artikel von Frank (@…) und mir bei Golem (@…) erschienen: »KI-Agenten gefährden die Grundlagen von Open Source«
#OpenSource #KI #LLM #SLOP
So... First, this is a great example of the enemy of your enemy not being your friend:
https://todon.eu/@radical_chic/117427249480571937
I can hope that this will cause Adobe to help her the AI bubble popped sooner and/or that it breaks Adobe's market share, but I'm not going to use these tools, nor will I cheer too loudly if the result is that copyright restrictions actually get applied and stop LLM coding (even though stopping LLM coding is unambiguously good). (This is very much not a "clean room" implementation if Claude's training data includes any Adobe source, which it very well might.
Second, assuming this does not cause courts to suddenly start actually applying copyright law correctly, it represents a terrifying new reality for legacy software companies, given their dependence on software monopolies for a lot of their income. The people who have been building on open source all along have the better business model here, but this becoming the norm is more destructive than helpful to the open source movement, since "just rebuild it" seems easier than actually using or contributing to an existing open-source project.
That said, these tools are certainly full of serious bugs. They would be even if they had been written by humans in this timeframe, although in that case you'd probably have an order of magnitude fewer issues. These bugs will result in things like "if you open this PDF with the tool, your computer gets taken over by a virus". That occasionally happens with Adobe products too, of course, but it will happen more frequently and won't be fixed as fast/well in these tools.
Chinese state media: DeepSeek and MiniMax completed registration and won approval to open-source and deploy AI models overseas under proposed export controls (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-23/deepse…
We are excited to host an exhibition of rare Biblical movie posters and ephemera spanning decades of Hollywood from the Silent Era to the the Golden Age. The exhibition will be open to the public during the fall semester. Opening presentation by curators Richard Lindsay '04 M.A.R. and Fr. Chris Renz.
Nice: "Data Usability Rating" im Queensland Government Open Data Portal (https://www.data.qld.gov.au/article/standards-and-guidance/data-usability-rating). 5-Haken-Skala der Nutzbarkeit von Daten.
🧠 #DeepSeek has open-sourced #DeepInfer, the high-performance #inference framework that powers its large-scale production services. The release covers offline inference with the core featu…
I love when Milwaukee wins a championship because then I can post about how the people who call the city a shit-hole or refer to it as "Kilwaukee" are not welcome. And then they show up in the comments. 😂
If you are so afraid of the city or hate it don't be surprised we don't welcome you with open arms.
It's a large city and it has good & bad just like every city, town, or village does. Milwaukee's the economic engine of the state, lots of people live there, and we're actually proud of it.
Happy Release Day! 🎉
HURT PEOPLE feat. MARINA LA TORRACA
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/55LjIAqNQ4WLFY5AD2CnRD
Please, please #mastodon web developers: find a way of allowing me to keep the page open without it turning into a multigigabyte monster.
Please.
OpenAI makes Decisions API, its Jev competitor, generally available with new voice and visual modalities, at $0.10/1M input tokens and no output-token charges (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/open
PSA: Many who have job-related or ACA health care in the US are approaching your "open enrollment" period, where you can make changes to your coverage.
This (admittedly a bit goofy) video does a good job of unscrambling the terminology you'll encounter. Worth watching to fully understand what you're getting into.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wpHszfnJns
Finding him *on* the door was a surprise
#caturday #cat #cats #catsOfMastodon
RE: https://mastodon.social/@openlink/117316177093179070
AI Agents need governed access to live systems of record, in a loosely coupled fashion using open standards — not more DBMS-specific wiring that creates compounding technical debt and more data silos.
"The [Serbian] election [on 25 October] could open new possibilities for the Serbian left, but realizing them will require turning the movement’s democratic experiment into lasting organization and a struggle over the society that follows."
https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/55345/serbias-democratic-experiment/
Just finished "Across the Widest Sea" by Jean Cremers. An excellent graphic novel about found family, the open ocean, and the unfairness of life. I really like how there's a lot that the book just refuses to explain and you just have to accept how things are as a reader, which mirrors the dietetic situation pretty closely.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
Interessante podcast, ook voor mensen die bij de overheid werken, want in feite is dit bedrijf gericht op bureaucratie, in de positieve betekenis van de term, met een enorme focus op compliance. Wat ook in overheidsorganisaties speelt. 2000 mensen, geen kantoor, alles met AI. Stof tot nadenken.
#podcast #AI #remote #Payrolling
RE: https://mastodon.social/@openlink/117311100952881244
AI Agents need governed access to live systems of record, in a loosely coupled fashion using open standards — not more DBMS-specific wiring that creates compounding technical debt and more data silos.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vpkw7cvu6eu742hvjk5wsxf2/post/3mwecvgmqiw2h
There comes (hopefully) a time in life when one recognizes that the law and the system called a "justice system" have nothing to do with justice.
Maybe it's when you see the system's complete disinterest in even investigating rich pedopholes. Maybe it's when you hear about a 6-year-old immigrant separated from his parents and compelled to take the stand in his own defense. Maybe it's when you see it give every benefit of the doubt to killer cops so they can get away scot-free, while doing nothing to change the cultures that continue to produce police shootings. Maybe it's when you see a woman prosecuted for having a miscarriage. Maybe it's when you read the court's opinion upholding the idea that police do NOT have a duty to protect civilians, or the opinion stating that if police choose not to uphold the law that's fine and they aren't accountable for that.
Whenever you see it, a natural question is: when did this happen? How long has this been going on?
Thankfully that question is easy to answer: just open up a history book and look for the founding date of whatever nation you live in.
I like the functional improvements in the new Mastodon UI, but i still prefer something like https://phanpy.social/
It is minimalistic and more serene. The nice thing about Mastodon is that it is easy to choose for something like this because it is so open.