2026-05-13 05:15:50
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Münchens IT-Wende: Open Source ist für die neue Koalition der Normalfall
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Münchens IT-Wende: Open Source ist für die neue Koalition der Normalfall
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (#ICCL) has released an open source tool designed to reduce LLM hallucinations.
If my 15-year-old PC had a GPU I'd be tempted to give it a try.
https://www.
Sources: Trump admin and industry groups have discussed streamlining releases of US open models of equal or lesser capability than leading Chinese open models (Benjamin Guggenheim/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-intellig
Just over a week after Mosaic 1.0 was released, CERN gifted the Web to the world as open source software. As of 30 April 1993, the still relatively new Internet communications platform was suddenly free for anyone to use, with no strings attached.
https://cybercultural.com/p/1993-mosai
Yugabyte bets on open-source memory infrastructure for AI agents
<https://www.forkable.io/p/yugabyte-bets-on-open-source-memory> (Paul Sawers, 2026-05-12)
"… I check in with Karthik Ranganathan, CEO and co-founder of Yugabyte, an open-source database com…
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…
Open weight AI models are facing an existential policy test in the US, with Anthropic leading a campaign against Chinese models over distillation concerns (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/6-months-to-live-for-open-models
«Warum Cloud-Lock-in zum Sicherheitsrisiko wird—Digitale Souveränität braucht einen Exit-Plan:
Mit dem Wechsel hin zu Open-Source-Strukturen hat Schleswig-Holstein Anfang des Jahres ein deutliches Signal gesetzt. Die Abhängigkeit von großen Technologiekonzernen ist kein Naturgesetz.»
Viele verantwortliche Leute glauben wenn sie die Tools aufzuzählen, dass dies ein Plan sei. Es ist komplexer & benötigt Zeit.
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Most organisations lack the visibility to meaningfully reduce their cloud carbon footprint. Julien Nioche (DigitalPebble, creator of SPRUCE) is at #bbuzz26 to show what GreenOps at scale actually looks like with open source tooling.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/spruce-it-up-open-source-greenops-at-scale/
RE: https://social.bund.de/@bmv/116736117872259496
Dann bau doch endlich diese Radwege!
(Aber ansonsten ein großes Lob für so eine Open-Source-Lösung, zusammen mit -ebenfalls Open Source- QGIS)
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…
JoJoFromJerz gaat allOut op het kooigevecht voot het WitteHuis. 😂
But I Thought MAGA Said Bud Light Made You Gay?
https://open.substack.com/pub/jojofromjerz/p/but-i-thought-maga-said-bud-light?utm_source…
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…
Una lettera aperta agli utenti di suite per ufficio, poco prima dell'annuncio di Euro-Office
«Negli ultimi giorni avrete letto diversi articoli che annunciano l'arrivo di EuroOffice, presentato come la prima suite per ufficio open source sviluppata in Europa. Ci sentiamo in dovere – seppur a malincuore, poiché l'open source dovrebbe basarsi sulla trasparenza e non sull'inganno – di correggere questa affermazione. La prima suite per ufficio open source sviluppata in Euro…
Klingt nice. Aber fast die Hälfte der Commits stammt von #Claude.
#vibecoding
https://bsd.network/@lcheylus/11656610
Why the #Zig project bans all LLM contributions – How Open Source Survives the Age of Free Code
https://lumramabaja.com/posts/engineering-sacrifice-ho…
Did anyone attend OSFS last month?
https://05f5.com/ – Open Source Founders Summit
― The conference about building financially successful and sustainable open source companies.
Via <
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
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
Microsoft, your climate plan ran into a problem and needs to restart. Read the coalition's open letter and add your name.
https://microsoftlies.com/?utm_source=ensocial
Microsoft, your climate plan ran into a problem and needs to restart. Read the coalition's open letter and add your name.
https://microsoftlies.com/?utm_source=ensocial
You don't want to miss today's Metacurity for the rundown of critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--AI's new battleground: Cost, efficiency, and control,
--AI vendors pivot from capability to cost,
--OpenAI eases GPT-5.6 usage limits,
--Enterprises scrutinize soaring AI bills,
--Chinese AI models gain enterprise traction,
--Anthropic data reveals how AI gets used,
--AI agents tackle business ops w…
Löblich:
Die Schweizer Armee setzt künftig verstärkt auf #OpenSource und will Microsoft-Produkte schrittweise ersetzen.
Als Gründe werden digitale Souveränität, Sicherheitsbedenken und geringere Abhängigkeit von einzelnen Softwareanbietern genannt.
Bis Oktober 2026 sollen die Arbeitsplätze mit #Opendesk
This release includes a major new feature: a graph visualisation for the MISP standard and STIX format, making it easier to explore, understand, and present CTI data structures directly from JSON.
CTI Transmute is an online service available at cti-transmute.org and also an open source project availabl…
Are they right? 🤔
"Euro-Office defaults to the fully proprietary OOXML document format, developed and controlled solely by Microsoft. This makes it a de facto ally of Microsoft in its content lock-in strategy, with control remaining firmly in Redmond and far from Europe."
https://blog.do…
#Calisthenics 1.Woche geschafft
Die 48h Regenration für jede Muskelgruppe machen wirklich den Unterschied.
Hab früher schon versucht, jeden Tag z.B. Liegestütze zu machen und dann wegen Muskelkater des Todes aufgegeben. Aber jetzt die Abwechslung von Push/Pull/Squat mit Springseil für Cardio zwischendrin ist ein guter Mix.
Eine
Pushing back on the idea that GenAI is "just another tool" for coding.
This comes up all the time in discussions on its use in open source software. People will fall back on the argument that it's like linters or autocomplete, and all that matters is whether the code passes muster. But it's not. In addition to the ethical issues, GenAI is a fundamentally different kind of "coding tool" and needs to be considered differently.
A comment to that effect in…
Noch schnell einen Sessionvorschlag für die #DINAcon CH im November eingereicht...
Die Konferenz dreht sich umt digitale Nachhaltigkeit, Open Source, digitale Souveränität, Communities, Public Tech und nachhaltigen digitalen Infrastrukturen.
‼️ Morgen um 12 Uhr ist Einreichungsschluss!
Call:
Servus, freie Software! 🥨 In München weht ein neuer Wind durchs Rathaus – und der riecht verdächtig nach Open Source.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11292444?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_sou…
für alle #IBM-#TrackPoint-fans: es gibt jetzt eine trackpoint-maus: https://www.theverge.com…
Trump announced Monday that the United States will reinstate its naval blockade of Iran and be
"reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped" through the Strait of Hormuz, a levy he did not explain.
Trump said the strait itself would stay open to every country other than Iran.
Hours earlier, in a call-in to Fox News, he said:
"We're taking over the strait. They've got nothing."
He added that the US would "probably run it&q…
It's that time again! Tomorrow (Tues) 14 July, 20:00 NZDT is our #libre / #FOSS Catch up. We'll be at https://meeting.iridescent.nz
I got your Open Source Operating System right here. (1959)
SHARE Operating System for the IBM 709/7090/7094: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vrlJOfXNxxE3Ik_a3SZfj2rEb9hV9qru/view?usp=sharing
I don't do these often (only once or twice a year, if at all), but since I just lost the main sponsor of my open source work (forever grateful for their long & major support!), I urgently need to reach out to other people (especially users) for financial help with the continued development, documentation and maintenance efforts (incl. hosting costs) of the primarily 215 TypeScript libraries and 185 example projects in
Heute vor 4 Jahren: Am 14. April 2022 sank das russische Kriegsschiff #Moskva nach ukrainischen Beschuss. Laut ukrainischen Angaben war die Moskva in der Lage, #Atomsprengköpfe zu tragen und hatte zum Zeitpunkt ihres Untergangs möglicherweise zwei Atomsprengköpfe bei sich gehabt.
Au fait, pour celles et ceux que ça intéresse et qui n'auraient pas encore eu l'info, le nouveau @… est disponible !
Petit tour d'horizon de la version 0.11(.2) : https:…
🇺🇦 #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
It's been a few months and I have a lot of new followers so, periodic reminder: I make extra capacity in my home lab facilities available on a best-effort basis to support noncommercial/hobby/open source projects who would otherwise not be able to afford them.
Services are generally provided free of charge if they're not a major time/consumable commitment on my part, or on a cost-recovery basis for anything particularly large. If you're not making money from the project I w…
«Schwierige Kundschaft — 83 Prozent der Europäer misstrauen US-Techfirmen:
Noch schlechter schneiden chinesische Unternehmen ab. Den Umstieg vollziehen bislang jedoch nur wenige»
Das Europa nun langsam aber sicher und hoffentlich auch nicht nur jetzt aus Protest auf Open-Source setzt ist mein Wunsch. Doch zu viele Firmen sehen MS, Apple & Co. als den Standart obwohl sie sich darüber beschweren?!
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Bin nicht so der Fan von Jump 'n' Run Plattformer Spielen, aber beim Browsen durch die Open Source Game List (OSGL) bin ich auf VVVVVV gestoßen.
Zu meiner Schande muss ich gestehen, dass ich das Spiel vor gut 15 Jahren (!) günstig in einem der ersten Humble Bundles gekauft und seit dem nie wirklich gespielt hatte. Da hab ich wohl echt was verpasst! Macht ziemlich Spaß und der Soundtrack ist echt gelungen :)
In der Zwischenzeit ist das Spiel sogar Open Source geworden:
The "AI Industry" (to the degree that it exists) has burned billions of dollars with no real hope of recuperating that. Models offered by services, charging huge amounts for inference, don't really offer much, if anything, above open source models run locally. Many of the claims made by these companies, and their supporters, have turned out to be lies. It seems as though the whole thing is a huge grift.
Investments will likely never be recovered. We've already seen a bail out in the form of military contracts. We will see much more public money dumped in to these technologies. In fact, threatening workers and suppressing labor strength is so strategically valuable that I expect LLMs to just be publicly funded (by being folded into the military industrial complex).
On these grounds, it can be easy to reject the technology outright. After all, how can anything useful not be profitable?
Even for radicals, capitalism can cloud our lens. The fact is, the dominant technologies of our age tend to not be profitable. Or rather, they are "publicly funded, privately profitable" (/hums in propagandhi/). Just like oil.
Outside of Saudi Arabia, oil is mostly not profitable to get out of the ground. Even there, it had only historically been profitable because of massive global military investments. The oil-centric world we have today is largely built on, and kept in place by, massive government subsidies. Roads, street parking, and direct subsidies to oil companies are all massive investments that tie populations to the resource at the heart of the military industrial complex: oil.
Oil was strategically important, because you can't run a modern military without it. The fossil fuel economy doesn't exist because fossil fuels are so cheap, but because modern militaries are only really possible by militarizing the population.
Unprofitable things *are made profitable* to serve the strategic interests of authoritarian systems. Though we have better alternatives to most oil-based products, it would be hard to argue that oil is not a useful resource. We can acknowledge it's strategic importance while also recognizing that the elimination of oil is essential to the survival of humanity.
Returning to "AI," we're seeing the same type of thing but it's more obvious. After the crypto grift, this seems to just be another way to transfer money into the pockets of the rich.
But crypto wasn't exactly a grift. It had a strategic function to power. It wasn't what we were told it was. It didn't free us from central banks. It wasn't a new way to invest. It wasn't anonymous. But it did create a new way to bribe politicians. It did make it easier to funnel public money into the pockets of the far right.
"AI" can similarly be mostly a grift. It can fail to do most, or all, of the things it claims, and it can still fulfill strategic functions. If we dismiss it as "just another grift," I think we miss a lot. "Just a grift" isn't something sustainable. It is something that will die out. It's something we don't need to resist because it is self limiting. But a strategy is something different. A strategy is more complex. A strategy will be sustained, at any cost. A strategy must be actively resisted.
Very interesting @… talk about risk misalignment for EU policy regarding digital sovereignty and free and open source software. It's a policy problem, not a technical problem!
I also really like the general bit of wisdom at the end:
"If we want to move somebody, [we must] first understand them. And this means standing where they stand, and not wh…
The Java Week Geekly, special Belgrade edition, is available! Get it now!
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/136/
Every so often ideas come along that are sufficiently deserving of ridicule and derision, this is one of those times:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-build-ipv8-the-next-generation-of-the-internet
Sources: Nous Research, the startup behind Hermes, an open-source agent and OpenClaw rival, is raising $75M at a $1.5B valuation led by Robot Ventures (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/hermes-agent-maker-nous-resear…
Smooth, polished and clear talk by @… "Open by Design, Sovereign by Choice" with some fun interactions today at @…
#tdose
Some organizations are doing panicky things over Mythos.
NHS Goes To War Against Open Source
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
Boston Godot Users group meets tonight: https://www.meetup.com/bostongamedev/events/313618732/
Donald Trump's ability to avoid accountability for the many previously inconceivable actions he's taken as president often seemed premised on two essential elements:
First, his every scandal was in the open for the world to see;
if the coverup is always worse than the crime, don't bother covering anything up,
which fed the second premise:
Create so many scandals such that the public couldn't keep up with any one egregious abuse of the system.
Ne…
Die EU-Kommission hat ihre Open-Source-Strategie vorgestellt — Teil des Tech Sovereignty Package. Open Source als Fundament europäischer Digitalstrategie, nicht mehr als Sparmaßnahme. Gut. Aber: nicht rechtlich bindend, und 2 Mrd. Euro über 7 Jahre stehen 264 Mrd. jährlicher US-Software-Abhängigkeit gegenüber.#DigitaleSouveränität #OpenSource
⭐ Starred a repository
luisfrancisco/colorsym
An open-source symbol font that makes colors instantly identifiable by shape. Designed for color-blind accessibility
github.com/luisfrancisco/colorsym
I regret to inform you that Wayland has been canceled owing to recent developments https://www.phoronix.com/news/YSERVER-Rust-X11-Server
Die Aktivitäten von Google laufen darauf hinaus, dass unabhängige App-Entwickler immer mehr eingeschränkt werden und alternative Android-Versionen wie #GrapheneOS in den Augen von Firmen, welche Apps entwickeln, als nicht vertrauenswürdig eingestuft werden.
Obwohl mein GrapheneOS-Handy jetzt schon die Sicherheitsupdates bietet, die offiziell erst im November kommen. Und wichtige weiter…
"Don't just grab random stuff off the internet": What Chainguard found in 52,000 open-source packages - The New Stack
<https://thenewstack.io/chainguard-greyware-scanner-vibe-coding/> @…
HomeKit für mehr Geräte: Homebridge 2.0 bekommt Matter
Das Open-Source-Projekt zur Anbindung von Apple nicht unterstützter Geräte wird erwachsen. Version 2.0 bringt verschiedene Verbesserungen.
https://www.
FediSuite: Open-Source Social-Media-Management fürs Fediverse — Alle deine Fediverse-Accounts an einem Ort.
FediSuite ist eine kostenlose Open-Source-Plattform zum Planen von Beiträgen, automatischen Aufteilen langer Posts in Threads, Verwalten von Benachrichtigungen und dem Handling mehrerer Accounts auf 14 Fediverse-Plattformen — @…,
Ollama, which helps developers run open-weight AI models locally, raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Venture, following a $15M Series A led by Benchmark (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/popular-ope…
Phew... Just been informed that, https://thi.ng/, my labor of (open source) love of many, many years is on the front page of HN:
https://news.ycombinator.co…
Europa hat jetzt sein eigenes Office – und das ist auch noch Open Source! 🚀
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11320254?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon
für die sammlung von #icons-sammlungen:
"CoreUI Icons"
https://www.designerinaction.de/gestaltung/coreui-icons-open-source-icon-set…
Stop Using Conventional Commits
#SCM
We started rulezet project after identifying a clear gap in open source tooling for detection rules management: the ability to operate synchronised instances while still allowing each organisation to maintain its own autonomous rule repository.
Rulezet addresses this need as an open source platform for managing, sharing, and synchronising detection rules. Each organisation can run its own standalone instance and decide independently which other instances, communities, or repositories i…
«Open Source — Neues Firefox-Add-on umgeht Alterskontrollen:
Aufgrund vorgeschriebener Altersprüfungen müssen sich immer mehr Nutzer bei Onlinediensten ausweisen. Ein neues Tool soll die Kontrollen austricksen.»
Seit ihr nun auch schockiert wie simpel die Alterskontrolle per JavaScript umgangen werden kann?!?? Nun, es geht nicht um Alterskontrolle & Kinderschutz, sondern es ist Datensammelwut.
🦊
Users of AI coding tools are flooding open-source projects with low-quality contributions, overwhelming maintainers and potentially eroding community engagement (Sam Learner/Financial Times)
https://as.ft.com/r/b7f62212-989e-412f-b76a-6905b6333afd
Building an #OpenSource #RobotVacuum — Meet OOMWOO
https://makerspet.com/blog/building-an
Over the past few days a lot of people have shared this new open source symbol-based color identification system as design augmentation/accessibility toolkit for addressing color vision deficiencies:
https://colorsym.com/
ColorADD is another (older) system which relies on a very similar kind of symbolic alge…
«Euro-Office greift Microsoft Office an, doch schon zum Start gibts Zoff:
Eine neue Bürosoftware aus Europa tritt gegen Microsoft, Google und Apple an. Doch das Open-Source-Projekt ist aus mehreren Gründen umstritten.»
Was @… an Euro-Office kritisiert kann ich nachvollziehen. Den die üblichen User*innen wechseln die Dateienformate kaum selber dur…
Inference cloud startup DeepInfra raised a $107M Series B co-led by 500 Global and Georges Harik; it currently supports more than 190 open models (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/04/deepinfra-la…
KI-Update: UN-Bericht zu KI, Plädoyer für Open Source, Vorsicht vor KI-Kollegen
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Leanstral 1.5: Mistrals KI-Modell für formale Beweise ist Open Source
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how such efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AVs, and more (Bill Gurley/Bill's Substack)
https://p3institute.substack.com/p/from-open-source-software-to-open…
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
Source: OpenAI and White House are discussing a government stake in the company, to seed something like the "Public Wealth Fund" that OpenAI outlined earlier (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/trump-open-ai-altman-stake.html
Google: Neues KI-Modell läuft auch auf Laptops mit nur 16GB RAM
Google veröffentlicht Gemma 4 12B: Das lokale Open-Source-Modell läuft schon auf Laptops mit nur 16 GByte RAM.
https://www.
Quelloffenes HDMI 2.1 kommt endlich für Linux
Ein AMD-Entwickler kündigt vollwertiges HDMI 2.1 für den Linux-Open-Source-Treiber an. Auch für den Nouveau-Treiber gibt es eine erste Implementierung.
https://www.