2026-01-27 04:31:00
TV-Software: Gericht stiftet Verwirrung um Open Source
Seit Jahren versucht eine Stiftung zwei Open-Source-Lizenzen gegen eine Walmart-Tochter durchzusetzen. Es gibt Erfolge und eine Merkwürdigkeit.
https://www…
TV-Software: Gericht stiftet Verwirrung um Open Source
Seit Jahren versucht eine Stiftung zwei Open-Source-Lizenzen gegen eine Walmart-Tochter durchzusetzen. Es gibt Erfolge und eine Merkwürdigkeit.
https://www…
»Vernetzte Fernseher vor Gericht — Open Source Code muss nicht installierbar sein:
Seit Jahren versucht eine Stiftung zwei Open-Source-Lizenzen gegen eine Walmart-Tochter durchzusetzen. Es gibt Erfolge und eine Merkwürdigkeit.«
Nur weil was Kostenlos ist, heißt es noch lange nicht, dass mensch es ohne Erwähnung der Open-Source Lizenz- & Code-Hinweis in seine Projekte integrieren darf.
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Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, an open-source enterprise text-to-speech model that supports nine languages, including Hindi and Arabic, based on Ministral 3B (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/mistral-releases-a-new-open…
Zwischen Markt und Regulierung: Streit um Open Access
Open Access ist Konsens im Glasfasermarkt. Aber wie weit reicht die Pflicht zur Netzöffnung? Da gehen die Meinungen auseinander.
https://www.
Digitale Souveränität wird gern beschworen, doch "Souveräne Clouds“ der Hyperscaler bleiben dem US-Recht unterworfen. Bezahlen mit Wero statt US-Diensten, Open Source statt Lock-in. Persönliche Entscheidungen ersetzen keine Politik – aber sie zeigen, dass Alternativen existieren #Kuratiert.
Cohere launches Transcribe, its first voice model; the 2B-parameter, open-source speech recognition model handles tasks like notetaking and speech analysis (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/cohere-launches-a…
Our recommendation for #fosdem
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/KTFEWJ-2038-rollover-open-source/
☝️"Pulling 32-bit time_t Asbestos out of the Ope…
Karol Piekarski will speak on 'Red Teaming the Robot: Practical Open Source Security for LLMs' as part of our Open Source AI track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
The Smell of Progress: A Brief History of Bird Droppings Ruling the World
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatehistorian/p/the-smell-of-progress-a-brief-history?utm_source=share&utm_medium=an…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Main Source:
🎵 Just a Friendly Game of Baseball (remix)
#MainSource
https://skillzbeats-fr.bandcamp.com/track/57-main-source-just-a-friendly-game-of-baseball-lp-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7pcCT7shfK08Rys6PxnnEF
When open-sourcing your code goes wrong...
Everything you use on the internet today is built on the shoulders of OSS - but not every open-source project makes it. Let's take a look at 5 open-source projects that achieved a meteoric rise and then crashed out under the weight of their own success.
📺 https://www.youtube.com/wa…
Are governments properly supporting the digital commons? Many adopt open source software but don't fund the upstream projects that maintain it. This amplifies a "tragedy of the commons" rather than being part of the solution. Governments have historically invented ways to shape the playing field - patents, public universities, copyright, taxes ... They can do it again!
Huh. A self-hosted dead man's switch... https://linuxiac.com/lastsignal-is-a-new-open-source-dead-mans-switch-you-can-self-host/ Interesting.
my definition of "an UI bug" is basically "any design or implementation choice that makes users miserable". i do not think many in open source hardware|software share this definition and i won't be satisfied until it's a new norm
Anyone on here fancy themselves a TinaCMS expert? #ssg #javascript
Why open source is so important? Help the European Commission to build a European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystem…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Elin Manahan Thomas, George Frideric Handel, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Harry Christophers:
🎵 Eternal source of light divine (Birthday Ode for Queen Anne)
https://open.spotify.com/track/301GhrxRRyQ0h8NP6NQQxc
I don't understand Open Source.
I use it, I love it, I promote it, and sometimes I contribute, but I don't get it. Perhaps I don't need to.
Pro tip: bookmarking https://www.tind.io/ is an effective way to let Firefox autocomplete accidentally bring you to a safe space when you're at risk of visiting a dangerous domain a few letters longer.
Open-source tool Scrapling gains traction with OpenClaw users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission and has 200K downloads since its release (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openclaw-users-bypass-anti-bot-systems-clou…
Open Source in der Verwaltung rechtlich gestärkt
https://www.linux-magazin.de/news/open-source-in-der-verwaltung-rechtlich-gestaerkt/
"Software-Beschaffung für öffentliche Verwaltungsbehörden sind durch die EVB-IT geregelt. Dank aktu…
@… @… There’s a bit more nuance than “If it’s Open Source I can do whatever I want with it”.
LLMs aren’t exactly known for accurately reproducing the licenses that come with the code…
Vernissage is an open-source photo-sharing platform compatible with the Fediverse, such as Mastodon and Pixelfed. Designed with a focus on photography.
https://vernissage.photos/home
Vive la resistance!
New App Detects the Radio Fingerprint of Smart Glasses and Warns You When Someone Is Using Them Nearby
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/app-smart-glasses-bluetooth
LibreOffice teilt heftig aus:
Konkurrent OnlyOffice sei 'fake Open-Source'
The Document Foundation greift nach Microsoft nun auch OnlyOffice scharf an und warnt vor einem geschlossenen Ökosystem. Die Macher hinter LibreOffice bezeichnen den Konkurrenten als "falsches Open Source", das Nutzer in die Abhängigkeit treibt.
https://
Will AI Kill Open Source?
Will AI kill Open Source? Is it already happening? Or is this just another clickbait title? Well, let’s see. First of all, I am writing this by hand without the help of any artificial intelligence. There is only human intelligence involved here. […]
⚛ https://www.agilejava.eu/…
#прыщинг @…
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15082 недорогой фотолитографический агрега…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116135903287161988
The replies on this thread… wow. This is how open source burnout happens.
from my link log —
Fairphone and /e/ team up to build open source, Google-free, sustainable smartphone.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/fairphone-and-e-team-up-to-build-open-source-sustainable-smartphone/…
I have been thinking about how LLM agents pose a threat to open source projects and what strategies can offer us at least some protection. Nevertheless, this is likely to remain a challenge: https://cusy.io/en/blog/how-llm-agents-endanger-open-source-projects.html
OpenAI releases a set of prompts designed to be used with its open-weight safety model gpt-oss-safeguard that lets developers make their apps safer for teens (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/openai-adds…
The levels of victimhood demonstrated by the "strudel studio" author charging $49 per year for the free/open source @… project, wrapped in their closed source editor plugin and abusing the (unregistered) strudel trademark with zero prior engagement with the community.
At this point if I looked I'd probably find many more similar projects an…
Skip, the SwiftUI for Android stack is now open source.
The post details how they are going to fund their future work:
https://skip.dev/blog/skip-is-free/
"Wie wäre es, wenn die #EU mal so richtig groß in #OpenSource-Projekte investiert? Nicht ein bisschen hier, ein bisschen da. Nicht das eine Land sucht sich Projekt X aus Eigeninteresse heraus und macht dann das Nötigste, sondern wirklich breit – von Basistechnologien bis zum Desktop und einzelnen Program…
While analyzing video,
Eliot Higgins, the founder of the open-source investigative outlet Bellingcat,
observed on Bluesky that it was hard to take at face value any statements from the Trump administration’s claims in the wake of the Good shooting.
“Treat the US government and ICE claims like you’d treat a Russian government claim after they’ve shot down an airliner or bombed a hospital,”
Higgins wrote.
“America 2026.”
In a statement, assistant homeland s…
Folks who have successfully bootstrapped a complex open source project from a solo endeavor with occasional third part PRs up to something with multiple core developers and lots of more casual contributors: how do you handle the balancing act between conflicting responsibilities?
I'm sitting on top of 250K lines of complex multi threaded C and GLSL HPC code in ngscopeclient and it's been a constant struggle to clean up decade old technical debt to make it easier for new devs …
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.
FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source
I just learned that a new release of the decentralized, open source Android (and iOS, but that requires a centralized Apple service) key attestation library warden-supreme has landed. It explicitly supports alternative/custom roots of trust for the attestation chain now and comes with a test for @… keys:
«AI Slop verstopft Open Source — GitHub kündigt Maßnahmen an:
Immer mehr Open-Source-Projekte leiden unter der Flut oft wertloser KI-Beiträge über GitHub. Der Betreiber hat nun erste Maßnahmen dagegen angekündigt.»
Das KI Bots Open-Source belästigen in der Hoffnung sie automatisiert abzuzocken (Gewinne zu erhalten) ist ein heutzutage übliche Betrügerei.
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The software presents as a web-based UI that allows users to manage satellite passes, view SDR waterfall data, decode basic signals such as GMSK telemetry, view telemetry packets, synchronize TLEs, manage multiple SDR devices, browse downloaded weather imagery, monitor DSP performance, and interface with antenna rotators.
Unlike tools such as SatDump, which focus primarily …
Open Slopware
“Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.”
#AI
RE: https://social.cloudron.io/@cloudron/115952505679195672
WOOHOO! Self hosted Grist, an open source Airtable / FileMaker type app, just got packaged for @…
I'm going to stop writing to my Labour MP. The last one was about digital sovereignty (i.e. need for government to use open source, not big tech firms where possible).
I got back a vindication of the government's plans for data centres and AI.
Elizabeth Christensen, Devrim Gunduz, Ryan Booz will speak on 'Postgres Configuration and Performance Tuning - Hour 5 of Postgres Training Day' as part of our PostgreSQL@SCaLE track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
More cows, more wives
https://open.substack.com/pub/worksinprogress/p/more-cows-more-wives?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
> It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single …
AI bros are just loving open source — loving it to death... maybe quite literally! (Godot being latest popular example[1])
More and more projects are impacted by floods of bogus AI pull requests and resulting discussions, stealing precious time and nerves away from their maintainers doing actual productive work. More buggy and insecure software (incl. commercial offerings) due to slopcoding, more websites getting attacked daily by AI crawlers in desperate search for any new bits (liter…
Es gab hier schon mal einen thread zu doctolib Alternativen. Ich meine sogar irgendwas mit EU Förderung oder war es sogar Open Source? Wer kann sich erinnern oder kennt entsprechende Lösungen ?
@… https://www.zachleat.com/web/symbiotic-open-source/ still accurately reflects my current feelings on it. If a deal isn’t *financially* symbiotic, I wou…
Trump keeps escalating his war against Iran. Sets deadline on Monday, shortly before midnight CET. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iran-nuclear-facility-fourth-week-us-troops-9.7137298?utm_source=flipboard&utm_me…
An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements by the University about “Generative AI”
https://medium.com/center-on-privacy-technology/an-open-letter-to-geor…
Say what you will but AI has the douchbag developer persona down pat.
https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-story.html…
I just published The Open Contributions Descriptor format as an IETF Internet-Draft.
#opensource #opendata #openstandard
My hobby: creating PRs to open source projects with ‘printf(“here! Line: xyz”);’ after every line.
Because those messages are so helpful. #programming
an attack on free software maintainers... https://glama.ai/blog/2026-03-19-open-source-has-a-bot-problem
This is an excellent video from #veritasium touches in the history of free software, #compression #algorithms and the dangers of supply chain attacks in open source projects.
How One Ha…
from my link log —
Verilator: open-source SystemVerilog simulator and lint system.
https://github.com/verilator/verilator
saved 2026-03-20 https://
Ram Mohan Rao Chukka will speak on 'Who broke the build? Using Kuttl to improve E2E testing and release faster' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
Alibaba Cloud releases a cheap AI coding tool built on open-source models like Alibaba's Qwen 3.5, as well as Zhipu, Moonshot, and MiniMax models (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-25/…
Berlins IT-Strategie will die Abhängigkeit von Microsoft & Co. beenden – aber eher vorsichtig als radikal. 70 % Open-Source bis 2032 klingt gut, doch schon einfache Updates auf Windows 11 stocken. Schleswig-Holstein zeigt, wie’s schneller geht. Kritik: viel Absicht, wenig Tempo. Autor: Stefan Krempl (heise) #DigitaleSouveränität
Srinithin Jayabal will speak on 'Building an Open-Source AI Factory with Upstream Projects - A Primer' as part of our Systems & Infrastructure track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
It feels like the open source world is fracturing. It used to be if we wanted alternatives to commercial software we could look to open source, but so much of open source software today is using AI.
Sure, some maintainers are saying "I only use it to speed things up, I still review all code before it gets added." but for lots of folks that's not good enough, and they draw a hard line at the use of any AI.
Are we looking at "open source" versus "open …
«Ein Netflix-Ersatz im Eigenbau — Es muss nicht immer Streaming sein: Jellyfin ist ein Medienserver aus der Open-Source-Sphäre. Er stellt Filme, Musik, Fotos und Hörbücher im Browser, am Tablet und Smartphone und via AppleTV auch am Fernseher bereit.»
Wer von euch kennt @… noch nicht? Hier ein Tipp vom @…
Projects with open codebases like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in the average quality of submissions, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/for-open-source-prog…
Ray Paik will speak on 'Companies vs. Foundations: Who Should Steer Your Open Source Project?' as part of our General track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
Digitaler Befreiungsschlag: EU-Parlament fordert Loslösung von US-Tech-Riesen
EU-Abgeordnete skizzieren einen Kurswechsel in der Digitalpolitik. Sie verlangen Unabhängigkeit von US-Infrastrukturen sowie mehr heimische KI und Open Source.
Thomas Cameron will speak on 'Zero Trust for Linux Admins with Open-Source IAM' as part of our Security track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
Avni Khatri, Adam Holt will speak on 'Can Teachers Help Teachers with AI?' as part of our Open Source in Higher Education track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
SCaLE 23x is proud to host Open Source in Higher Education as a co-event this year. Don't miss what they have planned: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/special-event/open-source-higher-education
A look at Clawdbot, an open-source personal AI agent that runs locally on the user's computer and integrates with multiple LLMs and messaging services (Federico Viticci/MacStories)
https://www.macstories.net/stories/clawdbot-sho…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
«Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'
Projects like @… are being swamped by contributors who may not even understand the code they're submitting.»
The AI will still create security issues in general. Open-source software suffers from t…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
Stephanie Lieggi, Cyril Oberlander will speak on 'Powering California's Future: How State Universities Can Drive Innovation through Open Source' as part of our Open Source in Higher Education track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
Digitale Unabhängigkeit: Berlins vorsichtiger Abschied von Microsoft & Co.
Eine neue Open-Source-Strategie soll die Hauptstadt aus den Fesseln von Tech-Giganten befreien. Doch es bleibt im Gegensatz zu anderen Ländern bei vagen Marken.
Berlin wagt den ersten Schritt in Richtung Open-Source! 🐧 Die Hauptstadt hat erkannt, dass die jahrzehntelange Abhängigkeit von proprietärer Software nicht nur teuer ist, sondern angesichts geopolitischer Spannungen auch ein Sicherheitsrisiko darstellt.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11148087
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Digitaler Befreiungsschlag: EU-Parlament fordert Loslösung von US-Tech-Riesen
Die Open-Source-Lösung ist teurer als Microsoft. Klingt absurd? Ist aber gerade Realität an deutschen Unis.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11176449?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=masto…