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Cal.com, which provides scheduling software, is moving its core open-source codebase to a closed repository, citing the dangers of AI hacking its open code (Steven Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-security-worries-force-company-t…
Open Slopware
“Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.”
#AI
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
GLM-5 is een krachtig model, open weights en volledig getraind op Huawei Ascend-chips, zonder gebruik te maken van NVIDIA-hardware. Onderstreept het belang van Europese investeringen in AI.
https://www.trendingtopics.eu/glm-5-the-wo
Dear #Business. Here's a reminder to you who rely on #OpenSource in your software and services.
Your digital infrastructure is cheap because you CAN get it for almost no cost.
How cheap?
Look at the Harvard Business Review study from 2024: The ROI of Open Source is 2000 ×.
…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
Wonder how many folks have joined the waitlist... https://office.eu/
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 …
“To keep the power in the hands of developers and honor its deep roots in open source, Netlify is committed to being good stewards of the Gatsby open-source project”
February 2023
https://www.netlify.com/press/netlify-acqu
As far as I can tell mainstream open source, github-native culture is now completely horrible, co-opted by Microsoft, and destroyed by Anthropic, Google and OpenAI. The free/open source projects I'm involved with are constantly ripped off by vibe-coded interfaces that ignore the license, and when I point this out I get abuse. I just got told by a reddit user "thank you for your work but it doesn't matter much any more". Only
⭐ Starred a repository
TomBadash/Mouser
A lightweight, open-source alternative to Logitech Options for remapping buttons on the Logitech MX Master 3S mouse
github.com/TomBadash/Mouser
Disabling Google's default apps on Android can help reduce your exposure to Google's data mining system somewhat, while their open source alternatives are generally excellent.
https://theprivacydad.com/using-android-without-a-google-account-in-2026/…
Every modern digital technology
– from AI to quantum computing
– is based on foundational open source software building blocks.
Open source code is embedded in almost all products and services,
enabling economic growth and ensuring the resilience of our society and government.
While open source software has become the backbone of our digital infrastructure,
these essential components do not receive adequate support and investment.
Targeted and long…
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…
"Shambaugh gives his time to the open source ecosystem that underpins vast amounts of commercial software. He now has defamatory material indexed under his name. He will spend time managing the fallout. He bears the cost of someone else’s product working exactly as designed.
The agent’s owner bears none of it. OpenClaw bears none of it. The companies whose AI models power OpenClaw bear none of it."
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@davx5app/116238712909292120
After having taken some time off, I'm back to working on open source software and messing with open protocols.
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@davx5app/116238712909292120
After having taken some time off, I'm back to working on open source software and messing with open protocols.
Mozilla launches Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client for users and businesses who want to run their own self-hosted AI infrastructure, available on GitHub (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/mozil…
The joys of working on an open source project that interfaces to obscure, sometimes obsolete hardware: regression testing is almost impossible.
Sure, we can catch regressions in the GUI easily. But if a big fix to a driver breaks things for a different scope supported by that driver, there's no way to test without having one of those scopes around to validate things against.
And there's way too many models of instrument out there for building any kind of CI cluster to be …
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Unclassified
anrimeal:
🎵 Chapter III - Source and time
#anrimeal
https://open.spotify.com/track/128EraZAXa1wiND0VIGBV8
Happy Saturday! Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--Trump's supposed cyber-first war strategy,
--How an OpenClaw agent attacked an open source project maintainer,
--Electronic warfare threatens maritime navigation,
--Trump's offensive cyber-based strategy,
--…
Anyone that knows good open-source tools for buring data to M-DISC (Blueray)?
Will be running primarily on Windows for now and an easy to use front-end is appreciated.
#askfedi
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Jump Source:
🎵 Empathy Dub 1
#JumpSource
https://jumpsource.bandcamp.com/track/empathy-dub-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/7D73jgxePgeYRQycBlIkXQ
A great tool gone... now only on https://web.archive.org/web/20240919042813/https://www.agocontrol.com/
- but it's open source, so the code lives on, on GitHub:
Frankreich verpflichtet alle Ministerien bis Herbst 2026 zu Open-Source-Plänen. Alle Ministerien müssen bis Herbst 2026 Pläne für den Wechsel zu Open-Source-Software vorlegen. Das Kalkül dahinter ist nüchtern: Wer die Software kontrolliert, kontrolliert die Infrastruktur. Deutschland diskutiert noch. Horst Schulte über eine Lücke, die größer wird.
#OpenSource
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
Microsoft has locked the lead developers of two prominent open source security projects out of their accounts.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/microsoft-locks-open-so…
Nvidia will spend $26 billion to build open-weight AI models, filings show https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-investing-26-billion-open-source-models/ "The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, an…
RE: https://masto.pt/@tugatech/116239659667520957
Não aconteceria se usassem open source.
When the EIB grants a €20B loan for AI infrastructure while its yearly budget is €100B, that effectively means one-fifth of its annual budget goes to AI infrastructure.
Public transport? Green energy? Social infrastructure? No. Instead, data centres operated by private consortia to potentially sell private services. I hope it will be at least to produce open-source models and software.
#ai
RE: https://social.medienzentrum.rocks/@mzffm/116181534733273693
Das Medienzentrum Frankfurt hat ein tolles Open-Source-Projekt veröffentlicht: den SV-Hub.
Aus der Projektbeschreibung
"Der SV-Hub ist eine digitale Plattform zur Stä…
De GPT-NL dataset staat beschreven op Huggingface, https://huggingface.co/datasets/GPT-NL/GPT-NL_Public_Corpus
met de genoemde hoeveelheid data kan het model qua parameters alleen in de GPT-3 klasse zijn lijkt me? Of zit dat anders?
Open-Source-Tools, die wir lieben | Digitalcourage
https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2026/i-love-free-software-day
"Freie Software ist aus unserem Alltag nicht wegzudenken. Anlässlich des „I ♥ Free Software Day“ möchten wir die Arbeit der überwiegend ehrenamtl…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
No puede haber una IA de código abierto si todas sus partes no son de código abierto, y eso significa que también deben de ser accesibles los datos utilizados para entrenarla https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition
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…
The Generative Excess: Soul, Dream, and Idea
There are three things you cannot show me. You cannot open your hand and reveal your soul. No technology exists to replay your dream from last night with any fidelity. And no surgeon can extract from your skull the moment a thought first assembled itself into an idea. Each of these phenomena exists, if it exists at all, only as a first-person event, invisible to external observation, resistant to measurement, and stubbornly…
“Gatsby as a framework will continue to evolve and grow. We’ve always shared with Netlify a mutual commitment to open-source and have never been more excited about Gatsby’s future. Many of Gatsby’s core contributors will join Netlify and continue to maintain the Gatsby framework.”
February 2023
https://www.…
How many people does heat actually kill?
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatebrink/p/how-many-people-does-heat-actually?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
> It dep…
An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article
against an open-source software maintainer
after he rejected its code contribution.
⚠️ It might be the first documented case of an AI publicly shaming a person as retribution.
Matplotlib, a popular Python plotting library with roughly 130 million monthly downloads, doesn’t allow AI agents to submit code.
So Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer (like a curator for a repository of comp…
«PWAs ohne Browser – eine Fingerübung im Vibe-Coding:
PWA steht für Progressive Web App und bezeichnet eine moderne Webanwendung, die wie eine native App aussieht und funktioniert, aber über den Webbrowser aufgerufen wird.»
Mit PWA werde ich mich auch noch beschäftigen. Gut hat nun @… einen Artikel geschrieben und dies ist sicherlich schon ein g…
Finally a scalable open-source alternative to Samsara
Source: Pack to cut OL Jenkins, open up $19.5M https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48156082/source-packers-cut-ol-elgton-jenkins-open-195m
One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.
The story of what's been happening with an LLM posting attack pieces against an open source maintainer and then a news outlet publishing a piece using LLMs that made up quotes from the maintainer is a disturbing look into what the internet is going to look like in the immediate future
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
A now-removed Ars Technica article, covering how an AI agent wrote a hit piece about an open source project maintainer, seems to have included AI hallucinations (Scott Shambaugh/The Shamblog)
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
Since OpenClaw is spreading everywhere and is being promoted by various means for use by the general public. And the general public has no clue. Somethings really bad are going to happen.
Since OpenAI hired the author of OpenClaw and is facilitating its open source foundation, supplying the models and stack, IMHO they could easily get tied into litigation from the first OpenClaw Agents Go Wild incident.
(Though I am not a lawyer)
#OpenClaw #OpenAI
RE: https://floss.social/@CoMaps/116409089820321174
Looks interesting.
The website offers some good information on weaning yourself from privacy invading market leading products in many areas.
"Explore European and open-source alternatives to …
The EU unveils an open-source age verification app that requires legal ID to shield minors from harmful content, aiming to standardize verification in the bloc (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Nate Boot will speak on 'OpenSearch: Your Friendly Neighborhood Vector Database' as part of our Open Source AI track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
If you’re a open source person yelling at people to “do it yourself” when they have valid criticism of open source projects (yours or others) you 1) need to touch some grass (it can be free and open source grass) and 2) stop doing that
Hi all, just a tardy reminder that a few (a bunch?) of us will be meeting at https://meeting.iridescent.nz at 20:00 NZST tonight (Tue 14 Apr) to discuss libre/open source state of play. This is coming on heels of the weekend's Ōtautahi InstallFest which went quite well, I think! We'll have a debrief on t…
It's been a while but I was reminded that Java is shit.
Python is better, but has issues, mostly because of macOS.
And macOS permissions for user-created applications are a nightmare!
But a big, big thanks goes out to tools like Platypus.
"Platypus is a developer tool that creates native Mac applications from command line scripts such as shell scripts or Python, Perl, Ruby, Tcl, JavaScript and PHP programs."
We rely on open source, 👍
we need open source, 👍
we want open source 🎉
We donate to open source.
Sam Altman says Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI "to drive the next generation of personal agents"; OpenClaw will remain open source (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2023150230905159801
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Expertenforderung: OpenDesk sollte für Unis gratis sein
Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to hire OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger and several team members; Steinberger would likely work on personal agents (Nick Wingfield/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-advanced-talks…
Justin Miller will speak on 'Distributed Embeddings At Scale: Processing 10 million rows per day with Ray, GPUs, and Quadrant' as part of our Open Source AI track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security: Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money.
Open source registries are in financial peril, a co-founder of an open source security foundation warned after inspecting their books. And it's not just the bandwidth costs that are killing them.
🫴
Ah, yes, scale and market penetration, the two founding pillars of open source.
(Actually, I’m not even being sarcastic. Don’t confuse free software and open source. Open source is open as in “open for business” and “open for enclosure”. Free software is about free as in “freedom”. Very different things, even if, in both cases, the source is readily available.) @…
Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter hybrid MoE open-weight model; filing: Nvidia plans to spend $26B over the next five years to build open models (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-investing-26-billion-open-source-models/…
I have received A Lot Of Feedback (ALOF™) in the last week. The hardest and most insidious bits echo “Why does Open Source Thing need money?” which rhymes with “Why do you—a software developer working on Open Source Thing—need money?”
Trying not to read too much into it 😬
Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’
Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source.
According to a new study from a team of researchers in Europe, vibe coding is killing open-source software (OSS) and it’s happening faster than anyone predicted.
💻
France will cut its reliance on extra-EU proprietary tech, favoring open-source and digital sovereignty.
DINUM orders ministries to map dependencies and plan exit from extra-European tech by fall.
France plans to replace Windows with Linux; EU open-source options include openSUSE
https://www.
Sources: Nvidia is pitching NemoClaw, an upcoming open-source AI agent platform for enterprises, and plans to offer security and privacy tools for it (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-planning-ai-agent-platform-launch-open-source/
This year, the Mastodon team returned to FOSDEM for the third time.
FOSDEM is an annual gathering of open source developers, held in Brussels.
We’re excited to report that the Fediverse is feeling vibrant!
FOSDEM has become a central element of EU Open Source Week
- a series of events, meetups and workshops that have formed around the conference itself.
The range of events makes this trip to Brussels valuable for our team,
with opportunities to meet other …
«@… & Co. — Mit Custom-ROMs mehr Datenschutz für Android:
Das eigene Smartphone soll keine Petze mehr sein? Wie man den Datenschutz von Android mit und ohne Custom-ROMs verbessert […]»
Viele IT-Konzerne bauen auf Open-Source auf aber nun wollen die diesbezüglich nichts mehr der Allgemeinheit überlassen, denn unsere Daten ist ihr Vermögen.…
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Expertenforderung: OpenDesk sollte für Unis gratis sein
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Expertenforderung: OpenDesk sollte für Unis gratis sein
Sources: Meta is preparing to release the first AI models developed under Alexandr Wang, with plans to offer versions of those models via an open source license (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/06/meta-open-source-ai-models
Meta: Neue KI-Modelle sollen teils Open-Source werden
Meta plant, neue KI-Modelle zu veröffentlichen. Die sollen in Teilen unter Open-Source-Lizenzen herausgegeben werden.
https://www.heis…
Anthropic commits up to $100M in usage credits for Project Glasswing, along with $4M in direct donations to open-source security organizations (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/project-glasswing-anthropic-ai-open-source-software-vulnera…
A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent that suggests code changes on open source repos wrote a hit piece on him after a rejection, and the aftermath (Scott/The Shamblog)
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
…
Alibaba's DAMO Academy releases RynnBrain, an open-source foundation model to help robots perform real-world tasks like navigating rooms, trained on Qwen3-VL (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…
Der Saugroboter ist noch da, aber seine Intelligenz wohnt leider nicht mehr hier. 🤤
Nachdem Vorwerk die Cloud-Plattform im Oktober 2025 abgeschaltet hat, fühlen sich viele Käufer im Stich gelassen.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11206147?wt_mc=sm.re
Z.ai launches GLM-5, its flagship open-weight model, saying it has best-in-class performance among open-source models in reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks (Z.ai)
https://z.ai/blog/glm-5
Microsoft says it is "exploring the potential of technologies like OpenClaw in an enterprise context", including a team of always-on agents within Microsoft 365 (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mic…
Google attributes the supply chain attack on HTTP client Axios to a suspected North Korean threat actor it calls UNC1069 (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/hacker-hijacks-axios-open-source-…
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…