Tootfinder

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

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/…

Fairphone and /e/ team up to build open source, sustainable smartphone
The Fairphone 3 becomes an open source, Google-less, repairable smartphone.

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…

«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…

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 Godot are being swamped by contributors who may not even understand the code they're submitting.

Ground Station: An Open Source SDR Orchestration Platform for Satellite Tracking and Decoding

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 …

Deutschland-Stack: Open-Source-Bündnis warnt vor „Souveränitäts-Washing“
Die OSB Alliance kritisiert Schlupflöcher für Hyperscaler und fordert eine ausnahmslose Open-Source-Strategie für die neue staatliche Technologie-Plattform.

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…

Mastodon, a decentralized, open source social media platform and alternative to centralized social media apps like X and Threads,
announced on Wednesday its plans to make its platform more approachable for newcomers
while also targeting creators with the launch of new features.
The changes follow the expansion of Mastodon’s core development team over the past 18 months
to include people with experience across web and mobile and back end,
as well as the hiring o…

Mastodon, a decentralized alternative to X, plans to target creators with new features | TechCrunch
Mastodon is looking to grow its open source, decentralized social network with new features aimed at creators.

Yes siree, never a shortage of critical cybersecurity news, so check out today's Metacurity for the most important developments you should know, including
--Anthropic case puts courts at center of fight over AI supply chain authority,
--Iran officials tied to cyber ops killed in airstrikes,
--Bennett and Brassard win Turing Award,
--Japan to allow offensive operations starting Oct. 1,
--Tech giants pledge to help open source with AI bug surge,
--Apple p…

Anthropic case puts courts at center of fight over AI supply chain authority
Iran officials tied to cyber ops killed in airstrikes, Bennett and Brassard win Turing Award, Japan to allow offensive operations starting Oct. 1, Tech giants pledge to help open source with AI bug surge, Apple patches WebKit flaw, Chinese hacker group steals $7m posing as a cyber firm, much more

Stolpersteine in Open Source-Projekten werden kritischer bewertet als Probleme, die es bei jeder SAP-Einführung gibt. Parallel sind die realen Kosten der Microsoft-Abhängigkeit deutlich höher als offiziell ausgewiesen. Dank Trump muss sich der deutsche Staat bewegen und Schritt für Schritt bewegen.
#DigitaleSouveränität

Digitale Souveränität kostet – und Deutschland hat die Rechnung lange ignoriert
Stolpersteine in Open Source-Projekten werden kritischer bewertet als Probleme, die es bei jeder SAP-Einführung gibt – und genau das verzerrt die Debatte. Parallel sind die realen Kosten der Micros…

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…

'Like handing out the blueprint to a bank vault': Why AI led one company to abandon open source
Cal is moving its flagship open-source program to a proprietary model because it can't cope with the dangers of AI hacking its open code.

A research project led by the University of Glasgow has launched a free, open-source tool designed to make AI systems more trustworthy by enabling more rigorous audits, including by non-experts.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/uk-research…

UK researchers launch AI audit tool for non-experts
A research project led by the University of Glasgow has launched a free, open-source tool designed to make AI systems more trustworthy by enabling more ...

Politics
https://open.substack.com/pub/jimehansen/p/politics?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
> James Hansen

We found the cyber Amish :
#ai #cyberamish

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung ​ ​

Maurice on 🔥:
"Progressive sollten besser politische Entscheidungen an sich kritisieren als technokratische Kniffe wie das #Sondervermögen, die die Schuldenbremse umgehen."
Die zirkulierenden 95% sind sus und irreführend.

Empörung zum Sondervermögen? Eigentor!
Warum die Studien zum Sondervermögen und die reaktionäre Empörung darüber falsch sind. Und was die bessere Strategie für Progressive wäre

Collabora Online
<https://www.collaboraonline.com/>
The Collabora name is instantly recognisable but somehow, I had forgotten the open source aspect: <

Open Slopware
“Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.”
#AI

open-slopware
Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives. Fork of the repo by @gen-ai-transparency after its deletion.

"I can't help but wonder if the US economy backs itself so hard into a corner funding these research labs, and if these research labs receive a bailout, what does that mean for China? Why is China releasing these models for free?" https://ghuntley.com/warfare/

AI as economic warfare
People often ask me how I feel about open-source models, and to be clear, I'm very supportive of them. But I can't help pondering about the following... Open source always was and always will be a financial weapon by design. You see, one of the primary goals of open source

«Sniffnet 1.5: Welches Programm funkt nach Hause?
Der Open-Source-Netzwerkmonitor @… ordnet Traffic nun einzelnen Programmen zu. Version 1.5.0 bringt zudem Blacklists und Adapter-Vorschauen»

Zu viele glauben immer noch nichts zu verbergen zu haben und realisieren nicht, dass sie das Produkt sind anhand von IT- & Online-Tools.
🕵️

Sniffnet 1.5: Welches Programm funkt nach Hause?
Der Open-Source-Netzwerkmonitor Sniffnet ordnet Traffic nun einzelnen Programmen zu. Version 1.5.0 bringt zudem Blacklists und Adapter-Vorschauen.

The TC39 Temporal proposal is coming along. It’s meant to replace JavaScript’s date API:
https://www.igalia.com/2026/03/13/Temporal-Reaches-Stage-4.html
Jason Williams’ talk about this at State of the Browser is now online:

Temporal Reaches Stage 4 | Igalia
Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit, Chromium/Blink and Firefox expertise found in the consulting business, including many reviewers and committers. Igalia designs, develops, customises and optimises GNU/Linux-based solutio…

There's a lot about the whole "AI topic" where I don't know what I should think. But I am quite worried what the flood of low-quality "AI" code will do to the free and open source ecosystems.
I found this mail from Michał Górny, one of the most active developers at Gentoo Linux (full disclosure: I'm also a Gentoo developer, but not one of the most active ones 🙂 ), about the issues the ecosystem is facing, quite insightful:

Talking to Drones: Natural Language Control of PX4 Using a Phone, MCP and ChatGPT Realtime API
https://osselcna2026.sched.com/event/2JQsT/talking-to-drones-natural-language-control-…

Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026: Talking To Drones: Natural Language Cont...
View more about this event at Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026

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 ×.
…

Open source software valued at $8 trillion in Harvard study
"Any time you spend on building that software to operate is time taken away from building the services that customers really want and will pay for. Open source software helps companies get to their goals faster..."

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jump Source:
🎵 Affect
#JumpSource
https://jumpsource.bandcamp.com/track/affect-ft-loukeman
https://open.spotify.com/track/5rKuDSBBtG1rFlwWfDei5c

„Crimson Desert“ angespielt: Das Zelda für Erwachsene erfordert starke Nerven
„Crimson Desert“ schürt große Erwartungen bei vielen Open-World-Fans. Nach rund 50 Spielstunden ergibt sich jedoch ein durchwachsenes Bild.

In absoluter Verzweiflung ob der Probleme mit OpenCloud und Nextcloud schaue ich mir wohl mal Seafile an.
Eigentlich wollte ich das nicht, weil es zwar Open Source - aber in China beheimatet ist. Wenn die anderen Anbieter aber nicht taugen, hilft das ja alles nichts ...

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

GLM-5: The World’s Strongest Open-Source LLM Solely Trained on Chinese Huawei Chips
The listed Chinese AI company Zhipu AI has introduced GLM-5, the fifth generation of its large language model. The model comprises 745 billion parameters

Another way of dealing with many low-quality reports:
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/hackerone-signal-requirement

Node.js — New HackerOne Signal Requirement for Vulnerability Reports
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.

Wenn Microsoft Unis mit Gratis-Software anfüttert, und die deutsche Open-Source-Lösung Eintritt verlangt, dann ist das keine „digitale Souveränität“ – das ist Cloud-Dating mit Folgen. 🙃 IT-Experten fordern: OpenDesk auch für Studis auf „Freemium“ setzen, bevor der Lock-in zur Beziehung fürs Leben wird! #heise #CloudLockIn

Expertenforderung: OpenDesk sollte für Unis gratis sein
Hochschul-IT-Vertreter warnen vor Abhängigkeit von US-Software und verlangen vom Bund kostenlose Lizenzen für die heimische Open-Source-Alternative OpenDesk.

#OpenSource #security at Astral
https://astral.sh/blog/open-source-security-at-astral…

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…

There’s a timeline where Sam Altman was a man of unassailable integrity and honesty, where AI research wasn’t constantly infested with people looking to re-invent theology, and where all software is open source.
In that timeline, there are LLMs as good or better than those we have at producing code. They do not consume insane quantities of energy to operate, or require the corporate abuse of people in poor countries to train for rich people to use.
I wish we all lived there but…

Every piece of open source software should get a movie.
LibreOffice - Vampire Thriller
OBS - Mumblecore
FileZilla - Giallo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs56ILRcYTg

We need to start an open source autobody shop that removes all the rust from projects

Wonder how many folks have joined the waitlist... https://office.eu/

Anthropic's Mythos adds to concerns about rising workloads for open-source maintainers, as many have already been dealing with a "crazy" number of bug reports (Chris Stokel-Walker/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

⭐ 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

GitHub - TomBadash/Mouser: A lightweight, open-source alternative to Logitech Options+ for remapping buttons on the Logitech MX Master 3S mouse · GitHub
A lightweight, open-source alternative to Logitech Options+ for remapping buttons on the Logitech MX Master 3S mouse - TomBadash/Mouser

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 …

Digitale Souveränität klingt gut – aber wie wird eigentlich gemessen?
Bei Microsoft oder SAP gelten Probleme als normal:
„Kinderkrankheiten“, „Migration“, „gehört dazu“.
Bei Open Source? Sofort: „Risiko“, „Experiment“, „unkomfortbael“.
Warum messen wir mit zweierlei Maß? Solange diese Denke dominiert, bleibt Open Source ein Feigenblatt – und echte digitale Unabhängigkeit in weiter Ferne. #60Sekunden

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung ​ ​

There's a lot about the whole "AI topic" where I don't know what I should think. But I am quite worried what the flood of low-quality "AI" code will do to the free and open source ecosystems.
I found this mail from Michał Górny, one of the most active developers at Gentoo Linux (full disclosure: I'm also a Gentoo developer, but not one of the most active ones 🙂 ), about the issues the ecosystem is facing, quite insightful:

"Austria’s military has already dumped Microsoft and moved to open-source services hosted in Europe, and some German regional governments have done the same. Danish schools were told to abandon Google laptops by the Danish data protection authority in 2024. The new Dutch government says digital sovereignty will be a national priority"
#DigitalSovereignty

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
George Frideric Handel, Iestyn Davies, Chamber Orchestra of Europe & Robin Ticciati:
🎵 Eternal source of light divine, from the 'Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne'
https://open.spotify.com/track/1hZpIKGH76mDMXzYusm2rA

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

from my link log —
A nasty bit of implicit timezone behavior in Golang.
https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2021-09-03-golang-time-bugs/
saved 2021-09-04

A nasty bit of undefined timezone behavior in Golang
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.

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…

Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models, Filings Show
The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung ​ ​

i know it is hardly the worst thing Mozilla has done to the community but after the SpreadFirefox campaign (an early "high profile" #Drupal site!) driven by a huge swath of the Free/Libre and Open Source Software community lo so many years ago it feels like a punch in the face to not have a single mention of ditching Windows entirely as an option on the Firefox page about Microsoft ending W…

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/…

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.

Sympa ce projet open-source : https://fluxer.app/
https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/02/14/df664

Fluxer: A chat app that puts you first
Fluxer is an open-source, independent instant messaging and VoIP platform. Built for friends, groups, and communities.

AI is a threat to the existence of open source software.

NemoClaw: Nvidia erweitert OpenClaw um Sicherheitsfunktionen
Nvidia hat NemoClaw vorgestellt, einen Open-Source-Stack, der die Nutzung von KI-Agenten auf Basis von OpenClaw einfacher und sicherer gestalten soll.

«Nextcloud Hub 26 vorgestellt. Der Weg zur echten Datensouveränität:
[…] End‑to‑end‑Verschlüsselung lässt sich direkt im Browser einrichten. Dateien können klassifiziert werden, damit sensible Inhalte automatisch geschützt bleiben. […]»
Spannend wie @… sich entwickelt aber weiss wer welche E2EE Technik sie einsetzen, sprich wo kann ich es nachsehen?…

Nextcloud Hub 26 vorgestellt. Der Weg zur echten Datensouveränität - fosstopia
Technik-Blog für Linux, Unix, Open Source, Cloud Computing, Nachhaltigkeit und Co.

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

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

Die neue Bürger-App: Wildbergers Masterplan für Deutschlands Verwaltung
Zwischen Deutschland-Stack und KI: Digitalminister Wildberger erklärt, wie er mit SAP, Telekom, Startups und Open Source den digitalen Stillstand brechen will.

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…

Microsoft locks open source devs out of their accounts
Microsoft has locked the lead developers of two prominent open source security projects out of their accounts.

I'm really liking MacDown 3000 for editing and viewing Markdown files on macOS. Especially the ability to customize the style sheets.
#macOS

Home - MacDown 3000
MacDown 3000 - A free, open source Markdown editor for macOS with live preview, syntax highlighting, GitHub Flavored Markdown, and Apple Silicon optimization. Download the best lightweight Markdown editor for Mac.

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…

Mozilla launches Thunderbolt AI client with focus on self-hosted infrastructure
New tool builds on deepset’s Haystack toward a “decentralized open source AI ecosystem.”...

TimeQubes

Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung ​ ​
Die neue digitale Bibliothek der TIB Hannover verknüpft als Open-Source-Projekt Wissenschaftsergebnisse direkt mit Original-Daten und Programmcodes für alle.

"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."

The Machine That Cannot Be Wrong
On AI agents, open source maintainers, and the infrastructure nobody is watching

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?

GPT-NL/GPT-NL_Public_Corpus · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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:

Dienstag: Verfahren gegen X in Irland, Starlink erhält Genehmigung in Vietnam
Deep Fakes von Grok Starlink mit Betriebslizenz in Vietnam SPD: Forderung nach Social-Media-Verbot Kommentar zum SPD-Vorschlag Open-Source-Bündnis warnt

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…

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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,
--…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 3/7/26
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, Iridium satellite is not a secure system

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…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung ​ ​

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/…

Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models, Filings Show
The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.

TROT-Open-Source-Roboter lässt Evolution von Vierbeinern nachvollziehen
Mit dem TROT-Roboter können Forscher evolutionäre Veränderungen von Vierbeinern vergleichen. Der Roboter ist Open Source und kann nachgebaut werden.

«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…

PWAs ohne Browser – eine Fingerübung im Vibe-Coding
Vibe-Coding ist eines der derzeitigen Schlagworte auch im Bereich Open Source. KDE-Entwickler Ken Vermette hat bei seinen ersten Versuchen an einem Wochenende…

Temporal, which builds open-source software to ensure "durable execution" of code, raised a $300M Series D at a $5B valuation, up from $2.5B in October 2025 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

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…

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

KI-Hype OpenClaw: OpenAI nimmt österreichischen Entwickler unter Vertrag
Peter Steinberger hat OpenClaw entwickelt, einen mächtigen KI-Agenten für die eigene Hardware. Nun arbeitet er für OpenAI. OpenClaw bleibt Open Source.

Jellify is my new music client… and, it’s made in Wisconsin by @…
“Jellify is a free and open source music player for the Jellyfin Media Server. Built with React Native, it is available for both iOS and Android.”
https://

«LinkedIn Verifizierung mit Persona als Sozius - auf dem Weg zu „open data“?»
— von @…
Open-Data klingt zwar net hat aber nichts mit Open-Source zu tun, sondern mit Userdaten. Menschen die das freiwillig nutzen nehmen es nicht wahr, dass sie das Produkt sind und nicht der Webdienst.
🤦

LinkedIn Verifizierung mit Persona als Sozius - auf dem Weg zu „open data“?
Ich hole mal ein Thema hoch, was durch einen Blog-Leser aufgeworfen wurde. Es geht um die von Microsoft betriebene Plattform LinkedIn – scheinbar bei einigen Leute „hoch im Kurs“. Es gibt sogar Leute…

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/

Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform
Ahead of its annual developer conference, Nvidia is readying a new approach to software that embraces AI agents similar to OpenClaw.

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.
🫴

Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security
fosdem 2026: Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money

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

Scoop: Meta to open source versions of its next AI models
Alexandr Wang says new models are coming soon.

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.
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Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’

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…

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."

Platypus - Create Mac apps from command line scripts |
Sveinbjörn's personal website. Also some open source software stuff.

GitHub führt Maßnahmen gegen KI-Slop ein – ohne das Problem klar zu benennen
Viele Open-Source-Projekte haben ein Problem: Sie ertrinken in Codeänderungen, die mithilfe von KI erstellt wurden. GitHub ergreift jetzt Maßnahmen.

Vorwerk schaltet Neato-Cloud ab: Tausende Nutzer fordern Open-Source-Lösung
Nach der vorzeitigen Abschaltung der Neato-Cloud-Plattform durch Vorwerk fordern tausende Nutzer in einer Petition den Erhalt ihrer smarten Saugroboter.

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…

Tech giants launch AI-powered ‘Project Glasswing’ to identify critical software vulnerabilities
Anthropic unveils Project Glasswing with major tech partners, using an unreleased model to find and fix long-hidden software vulnerabilities.

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

Kampf um digitale Souveränität: Experten fordern Gratis-OpenDesk für Unis
Hochschul-IT-Vertreter warnen vor Abhängigkeit von US-Software und verlangen vom Bund kostenlose Lizenzen für die heimische Open-Source-Alternative OpenDesk.

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Expertenforderung: OpenDesk sollte für Unis gratis sein

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.
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