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In der Episode 6 des ShareCast des Zentrums für Verantwortungsbewusste Digitalisierung (@…) geht es um Open Source und ob das alles super ist. ich darf mal wieder ein bisschen in die Suppe spucken:
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«an ineffectual "open source revolution" that maintains the status quo of our modern day hellscape by facilitating an upwards transfer of wealth and power, amassed by the hyperscalers who are now entering their final, fascistic form. Open source "won" by aiding and abetting the already dominant owner-class.»
Quite a long read, but the core issue of where FLOSS is failing feels about right to me.
https://blog.muni.town/open-source-power/

Cloud: Zoff in Bayern wegen Milliardenauftrag an Microsoft ohne Ausschreibung
Das Open-Source-Lager, Informatiker und IT-Wirtschaft warnen vor Verlust der digitalen Souveränität in Bayern und fordern den Stopp der Microsoft-Verhandlungen.

»Breite Allianz fordert von EU Ausbau von Open Source:
45 europäische Akteure aus Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft fordern die Regierungen der EU auf, die Präsenz von Open Source auszubauen.«
Ja aber was nichts kostet hat ja auch nichts an Wert!?!! Ne im Ernst, wird nun mittlerweile wirklich im breiten Rahmen Open-Source befürwortet? Ich hoffe es auf jeden Fall.
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Breite Allianz fordert von EU Ausbau von Open Source
45 europäische Akteure aus Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft fordern die Regierungen der EU auf, die Präsenz von Open Source auszubauen.

What I don't get is why does DHH even need so much funding and sponsorships for open source projects. Tens of thousands from framework, cloudflare and god knows who else.
When I made the (then) probably most popular JavaScript open source framework I got zero funding and sponsorship and was doing fine?
I'm not saying that people shouldn't get paid for work, but that dude is a fucking multi-millionaire who drives race cars as a hobby.

Nvidia announces it has acquired SchedMD, the developer of Slurm, an open-source workload management system for HPC and AI (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-buys-ai-software-provider-schedmd-expan…

SASER: Stego attacks on open-source LLMs
Ming Tan, Wei Li, Hu Tao, Hailong Ma, Aodi Liu, Qian Chen, Zilong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10486 https://ar…

SASER: Stego attacks on open-source LLMs
Open-source large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated considerable dominance over proprietary LLMs in resolving neural processing tasks, thanks to the collaborative and sharing nature. Although full access to source codes, model parameters, and training data lays the groundwork for transparency, we argue that such a full-access manner is vulnerable to stego attacks, and their ill-effects are not fully understood. In this paper, we conduct a systematic formalization for stego attacks on ope…

Open-Source Thermostatic Radiator Valve (OpenTRV) - OpenTRV retrofit open-source reference mechanical/hardware/software design for zoned heating to save carbon and money. #OpenTRV #TRV #heating

Open-Source Thermostatic Radiator Valve (OpenTRV)
OpenTRV retrofit open-source reference mechanical/hardware/software design for zoned heating to save carbon and money. #OpenTRV #TRV #heating #cutCarbon

Free artificial intelligence technology released by Chinese tech companies appears to be more powerful and popular than that developed by American rivals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/13/china-us-open-source-ai/

Analysis | China leads the U.S. on this measure of technological influence
China’s open AI models are now more powerful and popular than those released by American rivals, a shift with implications for the future of technology.

For #FreeSoftwareAdvent I'm highlighting open-source tools in our #VFXpipeline. Today: #OpenColorIO
OCIO is a library that is part of all modern DCC applications. It color-mana…

I've just contributed to #CryptPad. Consider supporting them too — every little helps!
» https://opencollective.com/cryptpad

EReLiFM: Evidential Reliability-Aware Residual Flow Meta-Learning for Open-Set Domain Generalization under Noisy Labels
Kunyu Peng, Di Wen, Kailun Yang, Jia Fu, Yufan Chen, Ruiping Liu, Jiamin Wu, Junwei Zheng, M. Saquib Sarfraz, Luc Van Gool, Danda Pani Paudel, Rainer Stiefelhagen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12687

EReLiFM: Evidential Reliability-Aware Residual Flow Meta-Learning for Open-Set Domain Generalization under Noisy Labels
Open-Set Domain Generalization (OSDG) aims to enable deep learning models to recognize unseen categories in new domains, which is crucial for real-world applications. Label noise hinders open-set domain generalization by corrupting source-domain knowledge, making it harder to recognize known classes and reject unseen ones. While existing methods address OSDG under Noisy Labels (OSDG-NL) using hyperbolic prototype-guided meta-learning, they struggle to bridge domain gaps, especially with limited…

🪞 Inside a global campaign hijacking open-source project identities
https://www.fullstory.com/blog/inside-a-global-campaign-hijacking-open-source-project-identities/

Inside a global campaign hijacking open-source project identities
Fullstory’s security team uncovered 165 fraudulent domains impersonating open-source projects, revealing widespread risks for developers, users, and maintainers.

Schleswig-Holstein: Fast 80 Prozent der Microsoft-Lizenzen gekündigt
"Im Interview zieht Minister Dirk Schrödter eine Zwischenbilanz des Umstiegs auf Open Source..."
https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Schleswig…

I forgot this existed :)
#foss #opensource

incredible https://grebedoc.org/ [not my site, i just found this by mistyping an URL]

Codeberg.org
Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

Matchmaker: An Open-source Library for Real-time Piano Score Following and Systematic Evaluation
Jiyun Park, Carlos Cancino-Chac\'on, Suhit Chiruthapudi, Juhan Nam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10087 …

Matchmaker: An Open-source Library for Real-time Piano Score Following and Systematic Evaluation
Real-time music alignment, also known as score following, is a fundamental MIR task with a long history and is essential for many interactive applications. Despite its importance, there has not been a unified open framework for comparing models, largely due to the inherent complexity of real-time processing and the language- or system-dependent implementations. In addition, low compatibility with the existing MIR environment has made it difficult to develop benchmarks using large datasets avail…

»Diese Open-Source-Projekte können Weihnachtsspenden gut gebrauchen:
Praktisch die gesamte IT-Infrastruktur würde ohne #OpenSource zusammenbrechen. Doch das fragile Gleichgewicht aus Idealismus und kommerzieller Unterstützung beginnt zu kippen, viele #Projekte sind unterfinanziert. Was dagegen he…

Diese Open-Source-Projekt können Weihnachtsspenden gut gebrauchen | t3n
Praktisch die gesamte IT-Infrastruktur würde ohne Open Source zusammenbrechen. Doch das fragile Gleichgewicht aus Idealismus und kommerzieller Unterstützung beginnt zu kippen, viele Projekte sind unterfinanziert. Was dagegen helfen würde – und was man selbst tun kann.

Open Reception: Open-Source-Terminbuchungstool für Arzttermine steht bald bereit | heise online
https://heise.de/-11076033

Open Reception: Open-Source-Terminbuchungstool für Arzttermine steht bald bereit
Open Reception entwickelt ein Terminportal, das Praxis und Patient datenschutzfreundlich verbinden soll.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Cloud: Zoff in Bayern wegen Milliardenauftrag an Microsoft ohne Ausschreibung

plasmonX: an Open-Source Code for Nanoplasmonics
Tommaso Giovannini, Pablo Grobas Illobre, Piero Lafiosca, Luca Nicoli, Luca Bonatti, Stefano Corni, Chiara Cappelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12731

plasmonX: an Open-Source Code for Nanoplasmonics
We present the first public release of plasmonX, a novel open-source code for simulating the plasmonic response of complex nanostructures. The code supports both fully atomistic and implicit descriptions of nanomaterials. In particular, it employs the frequency-dependent fluctuating charges ($ω$FQ) and dipoles ($ω$FQF$μ$) models to describe the response properties of atomistic structures, including simple and $d$-metals, graphene-based structures, and multi-metal nanostructures. For implicit…

Much thanks and heartfelt support to @… for writing up the kind of article that I, too, have been dreading to have to write: that absolutist OSS is bad and we protect the commons with fair licensing, non-commercial and otherwise

heise | Mac als lokales KI-System: So geht's
Wer Aufgaben an Chatbots wie ChatGPT & Co. delegiert, muss den Betreibern oft sensible Daten anvertrauen. Mit dem Open-Source-Projekt Ollama geht das lokal.
https://www.<…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble:
🎵 Undying Love for Humanity
#LaetitiaSadierSourceEnsemble
https://open.spotify.com/track/586JoZte8afJbR38wwsM98

#FFmpeg to #Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-googl

One year, I had a chat with the fine people @… during the @… conference, and they were wondering why we didn't create an open source website for all the different rules (YARA, Suricata, and many others) — a place to allow comments…

A look at outlets in Belgium and France that are prioritizing independence from Big Tech and opting for open source or in-house software (Owen Huchon/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/editorial-independence-means-technologic…

Editorial independence means technological independence.
From Google to Microsoft, European newsrooms often rely on tools built in Silicon Valley. Some are trying to break free, turning to open-source alternatives or home-grown solutions.

Meine Frau hat mich grad gebeten, ihre Bibliothek zu katalogisieren.
Etwa 12000 Bände.
Nun suche ich eine Open Source Lösung um alles zu katalogisieren. Ich sollte einen Barcode-Scanner verwenden können und die Daten direkt aus grossen Bibliothekskatalogen abrufen. Also eigentlich ein Calibre für physische Bücher. Hat jemand einen Vorschlag?

🐧 Calling all open source projects! SCaLE 23x is offering FREE booth space to showcase your work. Nominate your project (or one you love):
👉 https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/blog/23x-booth-grants

Keeping the PlayStation 2 alive -- inside the world of the PCSX2 emulator
https://gardinerbryant.com/keeping-the-playstation-2-alive-inside-the-world-of-the-pcsx2-emulator

Keeping the PlayStation 2 Alive: Inside the World of the PCSX2 emulator
For more than two decades PCSX2 has been the go-to PlayStation 2 emulator, letting players revisit one of gaming’s most iconic libraries on modern hardware. What began as a scrappy open-source project has grown into a polished emulator with wide compatibility, powerful upscaling, and a dedicated community of contributors

OH: Personally, I think that it's time to create a real risk model for depending on open source components. Some of them are "free as in public parkland", and some are "free as in mattress."
#sre @… #devops

Hay que apoyar en lo que se pueda a todo proyecto Open Source. Mi Oneplus 8t tiene casi 5 años y gracias a la comunidad ha tenido android 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 y ayer se actualizó a android 16.
#AOSP #lineageos #android16

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Cloud: Zoff in Bayern wegen Milliardenauftrag an Microsoft ohne Ausschreibung

Die Gewinner des Open Source Wettbewerbs wurden anscheinend exklusiv auf LinkedIn kommuniziert. Genau mein Humor.
https://de.linkedin.com/posts/open-source-wettbewerb_gewinner-des-open-source-wettbewerbs-2025-ac…

Gewinner des Open Source Wettbewerbs 2025 | Open Source Wettbewerb | 10 Kommentare
🏆 Die Gewinner des Open Source Wettbewerbs 2025 stehen fest! Heute präsentierten die neun Finalisten auf der #SCCON25 ihre Pitches vor der Jury – nun sind die Sieger gekürt: ◽ Preisträger der Kategorie #Fachverfahren: Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz – Projekt „Zugang zum Recht“ ◽ Preisträger der Kategorie Interne #Verwaltungsanwendungen" Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung & Informationstechnikzentrum Bund (ITZBund) – Projekt…

Planning ahead for 2026? Ensure Berlin Buzzwords is on your schedule for June 7th–9th.
Berlin Buzzwords is Europe’s leading conference for modern data infrastructure, search and machine learning and is focused on open source software projects.
Get your Trust Us Ticket now and save 36% off the regular price: 🔗 https://tickets.plainschwarz.com/bbuzz26/c/8Hvk0ZvJA/
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In an open letter addressed to von der Leyen on Monday, more than 70 scientists call out the EU’s president for hyping AI, including two members of the UN’s high-level advisory body on AI
Stop overhyping AI, scientists tell von der Leyen | Euractiv

https://engineering.fb.com/2025/10/07/open-source/introducing-the-react-foundation-the-new-home-for-react-react-native/ 🧐

Introducing the React Foundation: The New Home for React & React Native
Meta open-sourced React over a decade ago to help developers build better user experiences. Since then, React has grown into one of the world’s most popular open source projects, powering over 50 m…

Is that an open source alternative to Framer/WebFlow? #Frappe #webdevelopment

Piraten van het Antroceen?
https://open.substack.com/pub/billmckibben/p/pirates-of-the-anthropocene?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx

Pirates of the Anthropocene
"I assume we're going to keep the oil."

The inevitable AI links, Swiss Open Source model apertus:
https://news.itsfoss.com/apertus/

Political fixer Bradley Tusk's nonprofit releases VoteSecure, an open-source cryptographic protocol for mobile voting, amid skepticism from cryptographers (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/bradley-tusk-mobile-voting-protocol/

Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Plan to Make Mobile Voting Happen
Political consultant Bradley Tusk has spent a fortune on mobile voting efforts. Now, he’s launching a protocol to try to mainstream the technology.

MATH-Beyond: A Benchmark for RL to Expand Beyond the Base Model
Prasanna Mayilvahanan, Ricardo Dominguez-Olmedo, Thadd\"aus Wiedemer, Wieland Brendel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11653

MATH-Beyond: A Benchmark for RL to Expand Beyond the Base Model
With the advent of DeepSeek-R1, a new wave of reinforcement learning (RL) methods has emerged that seem to unlock stronger mathematical reasoning. However, a closer look at the open-source ecosystem reveals a critical limitation: with sufficiently many draws (e.g., $\texttt{pass@1024}$), many existing base models already solve nearly all questions on widely used math benchmarks such as MATH-500 and AIME 2024. This suggests that the RL fine-tuning methods prevalent in the LLM reasoning literatur…

ResearStudio: A Human-Intervenable Framework for Building Controllable Deep-Research Agents
Linyi Yang, Yixuan Weng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12194 https://

ResearStudio: A Human-Intervenable Framework for Building Controllable Deep-Research Agents
Current deep-research agents run in a ''fire-and-forget'' mode: once started, they give users no way to fix errors or add expert knowledge during execution. We present ResearStudio, the first open-source framework that places real-time human control at its core. The system follows a Collaborative Workshop design. A hierarchical Planner-Executor writes every step to a live ''plan-as-document,'' a fast communication layer streams each action, file change, and tool call to a web interface. At any …

MeshCore is opensource
The foundation of MeshCore is developed primarily by a single developer who is incredibly hardworking, dedicated and idealistic about keeping everything he does fully open. The firmware and protocol specification are completely open, allowing anyone to create a client app or perform security audits on the device firmware implementation. Just hop over to the meshcore-dev github repo and have a look. There are also open source command line, python and javascript cl…

torchsom: The Reference PyTorch Library for Self-Organizing Maps
Louis Berthier, Ahmed Shokry, Maxime Moreaud, Guillaume Ramelet, Eric Moulines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11147 …

torchsom: The Reference PyTorch Library for Self-Organizing Maps
This paper introduces torchsom, an open-source Python library that provides a reference implementation of the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) in PyTorch. This package offers three main features: (i) dimensionality reduction, (ii) clustering, and (iii) friendly data visualization. It relies on a PyTorch backend, enabling (i) fast and efficient training of SOMs through GPU acceleration, and (ii) easy and scalable integrations with PyTorch ecosystem. Moreover, torchsom follows the scikit-learn API for e…

Large Language Models Are Effective Code Watermarkers
Rui Xu, Jiawei Chen, Zhaoxia Yin, Cong Kong, Xinpeng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11251 https://a…

Large Language Models Are Effective Code Watermarkers
The widespread use of large language models (LLMs) and open-source code has raised ethical and security concerns regarding the distribution and attribution of source code, including unauthorized redistribution, license violations, and misuse of code for malicious purposes. Watermarking has emerged as a promising solution for source attribution, but existing techniques rely heavily on hand-crafted transformation rules, abstract syntax tree (AST) manipulation, or task-specific training, limiting …

OMG OMG OMG open-source printer ‼️
https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer

Open Printer
Finally, an open hardware printer you can actually understand, repair, and upgrade

#heiseshow: EU-Strafe für X, Open-Source im Norden, UKW für die Schweiz
In der #heiseshow: EU-Kommission verhängt Millionenstrafe gegen X, Schleswig-Holstein setzt auf Open Source und die Schweiz verschiebt die UKW-Abschaltung.

I must say... :)
Meetily is the bees knees for transcribing online meetings where you cannot use the native transcription
https://meetily.ai/

Defects4C: Benchmarking Large Language Model Repair Capability with C/C Bugs
Jian Wang, Xiaofei Xie, Qiang Hu, Shangqing Liu, Jiongchi Yu, Jiaolong Klong, Yi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11059

Defects4C: Benchmarking Large Language Model Repair Capability with C/C++ Bugs
Automated Program Repair (APR) plays a critical role in enhancing the quality and reliability of software systems. While substantial progress has been made in Java-based APR, largely facilitated by benchmarks like Defects4J, there remains a significant gap in research on C/C++ program repair, despite the widespread use of C/C++ and the prevalence of associated vulnerabilities. This gap is primarily due to the lack of high-quality, open-source benchmarks tailored for C/C++. To address this iss…

Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein relies on Open Source and saves millions | @…
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Goodbye-Microsoft-Schleswig-Holstein-relies-on-Open-Source-and-saves-millions-11105459.html
Als een overheid met dit soort rendementen kan overstappen, werpt dat toch wel vragen op waarom een andere overheid dat niet zou kunnen? 😇
(Via @… )

JND-Guided Light-Weight Neural Pre-Filter for Perceptual Image Coding
Chenlong He, Zijing Dong, Min Li, Zhijian Hao, Leilei Huang, Xiaoyang Zeng, Yibo Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10648

JND-Guided Light-Weight Neural Pre-Filter for Perceptual Image Coding
Just Noticeable Distortion (JND)-guided pre-filter is a promising technique for improving the perceptual compression efficiency of image coding. However, existing methods are often computationally expensive, and the field lacks standardized benchmarks for fair comparison. To address these challenges, this paper introduces a twofold contribution. First, we develop and open-source FJNDF-Pytorch, a unified benchmark for frequency-domain JND-Guided pre-filters. Second, leveraging this platform, we …

Wow. I didn't know the history of R, actually, it's co-creator, Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Ross Ihaka, University of Auckland, of Māori descent.

A true global public good used by millions.
'...he remains modest and bighearted. Always resisting the pressure to commercialize his brainchild.'

Ross Ihaka: The Open-Hearted Data Hero - History of Data Science
Many inventors seek fame and fortune, or at least recognition. This isn’t the case for New Zealand statistician and associate professor George Ross Ihaka. Despite being the co-creator of R, an open-source programming language used by millions and loved by the likes of Google and the Bank of America, he remains modest and bighearted. Always resisting the pressure to commercialize his brainchild.

I wonder how it comes that people do not "contribute" to open source, but mutilate it. From version 4.9 to version 5.2 the contributors managed to destroy usability and consistency checking in kmymoney. Maybe this is done deliberately by those offering commercial options? (Conspiracy vs just human stupidity). I'm not amused, because it is then hard to keep it out of the updates.

PyPSA-DE: Open-source German energy system model reveals savings from integrated planning
Michael Lindner, Julian Geis, Toni Seibold, Tom Brown
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09414 …

PyPSA-DE: Open-source German energy system model reveals savings from integrated planning
Germany has set an ambitious target of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045. We explore how integrated cross-sectoral planning can reduce costs compared to existing national plans. Our new linear optimization model PyPSA-DE simulates the electricity and hydrogen transmission networks, as well as supply, demand, and storage in all sectors of the energy system in Germany and its neighboring countries with high spatial and temporal resolution. While our new model shows strong electri…

SemiAnalysis launches InferenceMAX, an open-source benchmark that automatically tracks LLM inference performance across AI models and frameworks every night (Kimbo Chen/SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/inferencemax-open-source-inference

InferenceMAX™: Open Source Inference Benchmarking
NVIDIA GB200 NVL72, AMD MI355X, Throughput Token per GPU, Latency Tok/s/user, Perf per Dollar, Tokens per Provisioned Megawatt, DeepSeek R1 670B, GPTOSS 120B, Llama3 70B

Today's open-source part of our VFX Pipeline is #mongodb
We're using the Deadline render manager and it came with mongodb as its backend. Over time I've started to use it for other pipeline needs: keeping track of dependencies between comps and cg (and between Houdini scenes and their abc/usd files) for example. This helps a lot with consolidating and pruning the huge amount of …

Studying the properties of reconnection-driven turbulence
Shi-Min Liang, Jian-Fu Zhang, Na-Na Gao, Nian-Yu Yi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09978 https://arxi…

Studying the properties of reconnection-driven turbulence
Magnetic reconnection, often accompanied by turbulence interaction, is a ubiquitous phenomenon in astrophysical environments. However, the current understanding of the nature of turbulent magnetic reconnection remains insufficient. We investigate the statistical properties of reconnection turbulence in the framework of the self-driven reconnection. Using the open-source software package AMUN, we first perform numerical simulations of turbulent magnetic reconnection. We then obtain the statistic…

advogato: Advogato trust network (2009)
A network of trust relationships among users on Advogato, an online community of open source software developers. Edge direction indicates that node i trusts node j, and edge weight denotes one of four increasing levels of declared trust from i to j: observer (0.4), apprentice (0.6), journeyer (0.8), and master (1.0).
This network has 6541 nodes and 51127 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted

Short-Lived Radioisotopic enrichment from AGB interlopers in low-mass star-forming regions
Joseph W. Eatson, Richard J. Parker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12079 https://

Short-Lived Radioisotopic enrichment from AGB interlopers in low-mass star-forming regions
The decay of Short-Lived Radioisotopes (SLRs) can be a significant source of heating early in protoplanetary systems, though how a protoplanetary disk becomes enriched with these SLRs far above the galactic background level remains an open question. Observational evidence suggests that this enrichment occurs during the period from when the disk forms to when it progresses into a protoplanetary system, and is homogenous throughout the resultant planetary system. Whilst SLRs such as 26Al and 60Fe…

So, I used vibe code to update an app, mainly for myself, but if you find it useful, good!
ScanTailor is legendary open-source software for processing book scans—deskewing, splitting spreads, cropping, enhancing scans. ScanTailor Spectre is my fork !
1/4

This image is from an official blog post by the AFfiNE team (a "source available" alternative to Notion, trying to pass as "open source").
The article was posted on December 18th, 2024. No one has tried to fix it since then.
AI slop & noise all the way down, carelessness as the new dominant creed.

"Cody Kociemba, the developer behind the Hack/House project, has taken it upon himself to maintain these aging devices. The solution is called "No Longer Evil," or “NLE” for short. It's an open-source project designed to give decommissioned Nest Thermostats a second life."
ht…

Google killed old Nest thermostats, but hackers are making them work again
A clever workaround restores lost functionality, but is it ready for prime time?

We’re getting ready for QGIS Open Day on 28 November 2025! 💚
We’re looking for speakers. If you’d like to share your #QGIS work or ideas, sign up
👉 https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki/QOD-No…

QOD November 2025
QGIS is a free, open source, cross platform (lin/win/mac) geographical information system (GIS) - qgis/QGIS

Audio Palette: A Diffusion Transformer with Multi-Signal Conditioning for Controllable Foley Synthesis
Junnuo Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12175 https://

Audio Palette: A Diffusion Transformer with Multi-Signal Conditioning for Controllable Foley Synthesis
Recent advances in diffusion-based generative models have enabled high-quality text-to-audio synthesis, but fine-grained acoustic control remains a significant challenge in open-source research. We present Audio Palette, a diffusion transformer (DiT) based model that extends the Stable Audio Open architecture to address this "control gap" in controllable audio generation. Unlike prior approaches that rely solely on semantic conditioning, Audio Palette introduces four time-varying control signal…

The current AI strategies of China and the US are complementary, as unlike the US, China isn't "AGI-pilled" yet, focusing on embodied AI and open source models (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)
https://www.hyperdimensional.co/p/the-bitter-lessons

The Bitter Lessons
Thoughts on US-China Competition

It's so depressing how orgs like #Mozilla squander volunteer goodwill for nothing. They'll never recover from this self-inflicted damage:
«Mozilla’s translation bot on Support Mozilla (that is currently overwriting user contributions is based on the closed source, copyright infringing LLM, Google Gemini. This is in spite of Mozilla claiming that they are at the forefront of open source AI, and belies their exhortations to choose to build open source AI and data sets»
https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/12/08/mozillas-betrayal-of-open-source-googles-gemini-ai-is-overwriting-volunteer-work-on-support-mozilla.html

Schleswig-Holsteins E-Mail-Systeme auf Open Source umgestellt
Die Landesverwaltung Schleswig-Holsteins hat den Umstieg ihres Mailsystems von Microsoft Exchange und Outlook auf Open-Source-Lösungen vollzogen.
h…

»Firefox mit erweitertem Fingerprinting-Schutz:
Der Open-Source-Browser verfügt in der aktuellen Version 145 über neue Mechanismen zum Schutz vor Fingerprinting. Die neuen Massnahmen sollen das Tracking um 65 Prozent reduzieren.«
Dies ist sehr zu begrüßen und deren Klones wie der @… und @…

Firefox mit erweitertem Fingerprinting-Schutz
Der Open-Source-Browser verfügt in der aktuellen Version 145 über neue Mechanismen zum Schutz vor Fingerprinting. Die neuen Massnahmen sollen das Tracking um 65 Prozent reduzieren.

A cool open source UI component library, but a lot of them I looked at don't have good semantics or accessibility compliance. #webdevelopment

We presented “Advancing Vulnerability Tracking and Disclosure Through an Open and Distributed Platform” at the excellent @…
#cve #vulnerability

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Schleswig-Holstein: Verwaltung m E-Mail-Migration auf Open Source fertig

Hoy he desinsalado Nova launcher. Uno de los principales motivos es de sobra por aquí conocido, el dev abandona (o le echan) el proyecto y la empresa que lo adquiere no deja que sea open source.
El segundo, y no menos importante, es que lo compré por 0,49€ allš entre 2015-2018 (no recuerdo la fecha exacta pero son los años que estuve usando el Mi4), y a día de hoy sigue siendo exactamente igual que por aquellos entonces.

One Woman Against the Machinery of Fear
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatehistorian/p/one-woman-against-the-machinery-of?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
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Tesla: Neue Dashcam-Funktion zeigt detaillierte Telemetriedaten im Video
Mit dem „2025 Holiday Update“ erhalten Tesla-Fahrer Zugriff auf Telemetriedaten ihrer Dashcam-Videos – ein Open-Source-Tool macht sie sichtbar.

Polars, the Amsterdam-based startup behind the popular open-source library for data manipulation of the same name, raised a €18M Series A led by Accel (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/29/the-startup-behind-open-source-t…

The startup behind open source tool Polars raises $21M from Accel | TechCrunch
Polars, the Amsterdam-based company behind the popular open source project by the same name, has raised an €18 million Series A led by Accel.

Clapshot: open source browser-based media review like frame.io
https://cinelinux.com/en/2025/10/04/clapshot-a-alternativa-open-source-ao-frame-io-para-revisao-de-videos/
Haven't tested it yet, but the review seem…

»Beirat Digitale Schweiz fordert stärkere Open-Source-Förderung:
Der Bund soll unter anderem eine zentrale Open-Source-Fachstelle schaffen. Zudem wird eine M365-Alternative getestet.«
Sehr gut und nicht das erste mal, dass Open-Source populär präsentiert wird aber wie weit wird es dann diesmal definitiv real eingesetzt?
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Beirat Digitale Schweiz fordert stärkere Open-Source-Förderung
Der Bund soll unter anderem eine zentrale Open-Source-Fachstelle schaffen. Zudem wird eine M365-Alternative getestet.

„Hogwarts Legacy“ ist im Epic Games Store gratis
Im Epic Games Store kann man sich aktuell das Open-World-Spiel „Hogwarts Legacy“ gratis sichern – wenn die Server mitspielen.
https://www.heise.d…

Anthropic releases Petri, an open-source tool using AI agents for safety testing, and says it observed multiple cases of models attempting to blow the whistle (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/petri-open-source-auditing

Petri: An open-source auditing tool to accelerate AI safety research
A new automated auditing tool for AI safety research

Donnerstag: Open-Source-Office aus deutscher Cloud, M365-Copilot ohne US-Cloud
Ionos Nextcloud Workspace startet Microsofts lokale Clouds Reform der EU-Datengesetze Banken-Risiko der KI-Finanzierung KI ohne Bildrechte #heiseshow

The Linux Foundation will launch the React Foundation, a new home for Meta's React and React Native; founding members include Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, others (Engineering at Meta)
https://engineering.fb.com/2025/10/07/

Introducing the React Foundation: The New Home for React & React Native
Meta open-sourced React over a decade ago to help developers build better user experiences. Since then, React has grown into one of the world’s most popular open source projects, powering over 50 m…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Adieu Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein setzt auf Open Source und spart Millionen

»Schluss mit dem nervigem Scrollen—Mit dieser Open-Source-Lösung verwalte ich meine Rezepte stressfrei:
Genervt von Foodblogs und Rezeptewebsites? Unser Autor verwaltet seine Lieblingsrezepte mit einer Open-Source-Lösung. Warum er darauf nicht mehr verzichten könnte.«
Ich nutze weder Tandoor noch Mealie, da ich Markdown allgemein bevorzuge aber evt ist das was für euch und/oder Ver- so wie Bekannten die gerne Kochen.
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Open-Source-Tool räumt mit Rezept-Chaos auf – und spart dir nerviges Scrollen
Genervt von Foodblogs und Rezeptewebsites? Unser Autor verwaltet seine Lieblingsrezepte mit einer Open-Source-Lösung. Warum er darauf nicht mehr verzichten könnte. Meinen ersten Apfelkuchen aß ich auf dem Schoß meiner Oma an einem milden Herbsttag. So oder so ähnlich beginnen mittlerweile viele Rezepte im Internet. Ob die meist banalen Vorgeschichten die hungrigen Leser:innen wirklich interessieren, ist […]

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Adieu Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein setzt auf Open Source und spart Millionen

Bandwagon.fm — Better Social for Musicians. Connect to Your Fans on the Fediverse
Bandwagon is 100% open source, so nobody can lock you in to their platform. Start here, then you'll be able to migrate your account or self-host your Bandwagon data anywhere.
🎶 https://bandwagon.fm

Sources: Meta's new model, codenamed Avocado, may launch in 2026 as a "closed" model, a move Alexandr Wang advocates, shifting from Meta's open-source strategy (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Digitale Souveränität zahlt sich aus! 💻 Schleswig-Holstein zeigt, dass der Umstieg auf Open-Source-Software nicht nur die technologische Unabhängigkeit stärkt, sondern auch den Landeshaushalt entlastet.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11105389?wt_mc=sm.re

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Adieu Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein setzt auf Open Source und spart Millionen

Meta introduces Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition, a suite of AI models providing automatic speech recognition capabilities for more than 1,600 languages (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/meta-returns-to-open-source-ai…

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Adieu Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein setzt auf Open Source und spart Millionen

Zoom says its "federated AI" model, combining its SLM with open- and closed-source models, got 48.1% on Humanity's Last Exam vs. 45.8% for Gemini 3 Pro w/ tools (Xuedong Huang/Zoom)
https://www.zoom.com/en/blog/humanitys-last-exam-zoom-ai-breakthrough/

Zoom AI sets new state-of-the-art benchmark on Humanity's Last Exam
Federated innovation driving breakthrough results in complex AI testing

heise | Analyse: Projektsterben in der Cloud-Native-Welt
Open-Source-Lizenzen werden ersetzt, populäre Projekte beendet und Images entfernt. Die Anzeichen verdichten sich: Die goldenen Cloud-Native-Zeiten sind vorbei.

Adieu Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein setzt auf Open Source und spart Millionen
Mit der Migration von Microsoft zu freier Software zahlt Schleswig-Holstein gut 15 Millionen Euro Lizenzkosten weniger. Die Umrüstung kommt deutlich günstiger.

Mittwoch: AI Mode von Google auf Deutsch, Dänemarks Social-Media-Verbot unter 15
AI Mode in Deutschland Mindestalter sozialer Netze Werbespot-Lautstärke beim Streaming Kompostierbare Leiterplatten Open Source im Norden Bit-Rauschen

Chinese AI startup Z.ai releases the GLM-4.6V series of vision models, with support for native function calling, available with 106B and 9B parameters (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/z-ai-debuts-open-source-glm-4-6v-a-n…

Source: the US Department of Commerce plans to allow the export of Nvidia's old H200 chips to China, seeking a compromise over controlling exports to China (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/08/2025/commerce-t…

Exclusive: Commerce to open up exports of Nvidia H200 chips to China
The move, which has the support of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, could bolster Nvidia’s revenue by opening up a huge market for its chips while ensuring US technology remains the standard worldwide.

Studie: Bundesverwaltung soll bei generativer KI auf Eigenentwicklungen setzen
Bundesbehörden können laut einer Fraunhofer-Analyse bei großen Sprachmodellen viele austauschbare, Open-Source-basierte Lösungen jenseits von ChatGPT nutzen.

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Valve: HDMI-Forum blockiert weiter HDMI 2.1 für Linux
https://www.

Open-Source-Umstellung: Schleswig-Holsteins Digitalminister räumt Probleme ein
Bei der Migration auf freie Software laufe manches nicht so reibungslos wie gewünscht, entschuldigt sich Digitalisierungsminister Schrödter bei Mitarbeitern.