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@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-05-12 20:46:00

Münchens IT-Wende: Open Source ist für die neue Koalition der Normalfall
Nach Jahren des Richtungsstreits setzt Münchens „Mango-Koalition“ auf digitale Souveränität, stärkt das Open-Source-Programm und gibt das IT-Referat der FDP.

@johnleonard@mastodon.social
2026-05-14 10:25:06

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.

@frankel@mastodon.top
2026-04-14 17:23:25

#OpenSource #security at Astral
astral.sh/blog/open-source-sec

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
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

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.
cybercultural.com/p/1993-mosai

@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2026-06-13 11:05:48

Yugabyte bets on open-source memory infrastructure for AI agents
<forkable.io/p/yugabyte-bets-on> (Paul Sawers, 2026-05-12)
"… I check in with Karthik Ranganathan, CEO and co-founder of Yugabyte, an open-source database com…

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-04-14 01:46:53

Hi all, just a tardy reminder that a few (a bunch?) of us will be meeting at 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…

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2026-05-14 06:05:18

«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.
💻

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-03-14 12:24:09

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,
--…

@berlinbuzzwords@floss.social
2026-05-14 12:53:08

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: 2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/sessio

@gevoel@mastodon.green
2026-04-13 16:08:17

How many people does heat actually kill?
open.substack.com/pub/theclima
> It dep…

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…

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-05-13 04:19:00

Mittwoch: Handy-Neuheit mit alten Funktionen, Google-Interesse an SpaceX-Plänen
Sony mit Klinkenbuchse & MicroSD-Fach Google-Server mit SpaceX im All München wieder mit Open Source Gigabit-Anschlüsse holen auf Ankers neue Solarbank

@privacity@social.linux.pizza
2026-06-09 17:44:53

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…

@qbi@freie-re.de
2026-05-13 14:27:01

Klingt nice. Aber fast die Hälfte der Commits stammt von #Claude.
#vibecoding
bsd.network/@lcheylus/11656610

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-13 13:21:48

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)
theinformation.com/articles/mi

@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2026-06-13 11:11:15

Did anyone attend OSFS last month?
05f5.com/ – Open Source Founders Summit
― The conference about building financially successful and sustainable open source companies.
Via <

@chrislowles@mastodon.social
2026-04-14 03:40:37

F-Droid, home to thousands of free and open-source Android apps, calls Google's developer verification an "existential threat." An estimated 85% of F-Droid apps could face distribution issues because their developers signed through F-Droid, not through Google. @…

@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2026-05-10 03:23:03

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

@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-05-14 06:44:26

🇺🇦 #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)
open.spotify.com/track/301Ghrx

@kornel@mastodon.social
2026-04-13 00:08:40

#Code reviews seem to be the biggest bottleneck in software development right now.
Open source package ecosystems are victims of their own success. There's a long tail of iffy packages that nobody has reviewed, and nobody wants to.
For the top projects, maintenance is tough. Stakes are high. Reviews are hard. Contributions are meh quality (even before LLMs). It's not just code, …

@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2026-03-14 10:56:36

Finally a scalable open-source alternative to Samsara

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-05-13 19:58:00

Terminbuchungssoftware: OpenReception-Entwickler sehen „Ende der Passwort-Ära“
Die Entwickler der Terminbuchungssoftware OpenReception erklären im Digital-Health-Podcast, warum Open Source mehr Chancen für Datensicherheit bietet und mehr.

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2026-05-12 18:26:17

Microsoft, your climate plan ran into a problem and needs to restart. Read the coalition's open letter and add your name.
microsoftlies.com/?utm_source=

@paulwermer@sfba.social
2026-05-12 18:26:17

Microsoft, your climate plan ran into a problem and needs to restart. Read the coalition's open letter and add your name.
microsoftlies.com/?utm_source=

@rberger@hachyderm.io
2026-03-14 17:58:16

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

@adulau@infosec.exchange
2026-05-13 15:41:29

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…

https://cti-transmute.org/
https://cti-transmute.org/
https://cti-transmute.org/
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-06-08 07:54:14

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."
blog.do…

@theDuesentrieb@social.linux.pizza
2026-05-14 09:22:58

#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

@jdrm@social.linux.pizza
2026-04-07 12:42:31

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 opensource.org/ai/open-source-

@peter_mcmahan@mas.to
2026-06-14 00:27:24

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…

@hex@kolektiva.social
2026-04-13 08:47:30

RE: #enshitificaton of software, hardware, and services and the austerity to fascism pipeline. The state is just an older type of walled garden. The solution isn't to improve the walled garden, but to leave it forever.
When we build systems, together, that cannot be shut down, that exist outside of these political systems, then we are opting out. Anarchism is the open source option of political ideologies.

@nic@geno.social
2026-06-13 13:17:53

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:

@macandi@social.heise.de
2026-06-10 11:16:00

OpenLogi: Alternative zu problematischer Options -App für den Mac
Der Zubehörspezialist Logitech nervt Nutzer mit einer inkonsistenten Steuer-App, die Systemlast frisst und Daten sammelt. Ein Open-Source-Projekt hilft.

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-05-13 09:10:48

Servus, freie Software! 🥨 In München weht ein neuer Wind durchs Rathaus – und der riecht verdächtig nach Open Source.
Zum Artikel: heise.de/-11292444?wt_mc=sm.re

Das Bild zeigt die Frauenkirche München. Im Bild steht: "
München setzt auf Open Source
Neue Koalition macht freie Software zum Standard"
@theodric@social.linux.pizza
2026-06-12 20:35:39

I regret to inform you that Wayland has been canceled owing to recent developments phoronix.com/news/YSERVER-Rust

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-05-11 06:08:26

für alle #IBM-#TrackPoint-fans: es gibt jetzt eine trackpoint-maus: theverge.com…

@almad@fosstodon.org
2026-04-11 20:32:59

Can we call Windows abandonware now?
mastodon.social/@nixCraft/1163

@gevoel@mastodon.green
2026-06-13 07:43:34

JoJoFromJerz gaat allOut op het kooigevecht voot het WitteHuis. 😂
But I Thought MAGA Said Bud Light Made You Gay?
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom

@johnleonard@mastodon.social
2026-04-09 13:34:28

Microsoft has locked the lead developers of two prominent open source security projects out of their accounts.
computing.co.uk/news/2026/micr

@totientfunction@mathstodon.xyz
2026-05-09 21:07:35

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…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-06-10 14:57:49
Content warning: Fundraising for Open Source work & maintenance

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

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2026-04-14 06:03:22

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.

Ein Bild der Moskwa, die nach dem Vorfall angeblich in Flammen stand und auf der Kippe stand. Dieses Bild ist eine der wenigen physischen Bestätigungen der Art des Schiffsschadens und die Hauptquelle für Open-Source-Internetberichte, beispielsweise von H. I. Sutton
Autor: unknown
Lizenz: Public domain
@fractaleblog@masto.comversive.com
2026-05-13 07:38:50

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) :

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2026-05-12 14:42:21

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…

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2026-04-14 05:05:15

«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?!
🧑‍💻

@veit@mastodon.social
2026-06-12 06:07:25

Der Artikel »Wie LLM-Agenten Open-Source-Projekte gefährden« von Frank (@…) und mir ist im Linux-Magazin (@…) erschienen:

Der Angreifer hat Einfluss darauf, welche Trainingsdaten erfasst werden (COLLECT), kann jedoch möglicherweise nicht kontrollieren, wie die Daten gekennzeichnet werden, hat keinen Zugriff auf das trainierte Modell und keinen Zugriff auf das KI-System.
@mot@chaos.social
2026-06-08 22:18:13

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:

@frankel@mastodon.top
2026-05-13 17:29:17

The Java Week Geekly, special Belgrade edition, is available! Get it now!
blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-week

@jtk@infosec.exchange
2026-05-12 13:22:30

Every so often ideas come along that are sufficiently deserving of ridicule and derision, this is one of those times:
gofundme.com/f/help-build-ipv8

@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2026-06-08 19:51:03

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

@janneke@todon.nl
2026-06-07 18:19:01

Smooth, polished and clear talk by @… "Open by Design, Sovereign by Choice" with some fun interactions today at @…
#tdose

Emiel Brok on stage, a slide showing: "Open by DESIGN, SOVEREIGN by CHOICE -- A Strategic Roadmap for the Open Source Ecosystem" with a big stylished Geeko head.
Emiel Brok on stage standing before a slide: left half a stylished green on white Geeko, on the right white on black: "The REQUIRED level of SOVEREIGNTY can ONLY be reached with OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE & OPEN STANDARDS"
@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-05-05 11:06:39

Some organizations are doing panicky things over Mythos.
NHS Goes To War Against Open Source
shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-g

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2026-05-11 04:55:02

➡️ Jamulus ‒ Play music online with friends
#bookmarks

@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social
2026-05-11 15:54:42

Boston Godot Users group meets tonight: meetup.com/bostongamedev/event

@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social
2026-06-09 14:01:24

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

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-06 17:30:39

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)
axios.com/2026/04/06/meta-open

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-04-01 15:15:42

So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”.
Totally trustworthy people.
(Any open source project that at the very least requires disclosure of AI-authored contributions should immediately ban Anthropic employees on principle.)
#AI

Source code detail from Claude Code: export function getUndercoverInstructions(): string {
  if (process.env.USER_TYPE === 'ant') {
    return `## UNDERCOVER MODE — CRITICAL

You are operating UNDERCOVER in a PUBLIC/OPEN-SOURCE repository. Your commit
messages, PR titles, and PR bodies MUST NOT contain ANY Anthropic-internal
information. Do not blow your cover.

NEVER include in commit messages or PR descriptions:
- Internal model codenames (animal names like Capybara, Tengu, etc.)
- Unreleased…
@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2026-06-11 02:50:36

I am coming to the conclusion that we (the US) will need an extraordinary process to clean up after the end of the Trump/Maga Era (what I call the "TME").
I've begun a website to publish my thoughts on this, and perhaps more importantly, to instigate others to think about these things.,
Basically I am thinking of an extraordinary system - an American Tribunal. I am aware that this could well stretch our Constitutional structure. I am refraining, at least for the m…

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

@marcel@waldvogel.family
2026-05-11 06:27:58

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…

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2026-03-14 08:05:23

«@… & 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.…

@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2026-05-09 09:51:02

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

@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2026-06-13 07:51:01

"Don't just grab random stuff off the internet": What Chainguard found in 52,000 open-source packages - The New Stack
<thenewstack.io/chainguard-grey> @…

@macandi@social.heise.de
2026-05-08 07:35:00

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.

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-04-07 16:41:00

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.
heis…

@adulau@infosec.exchange
2026-04-12 15:45:18

Ransomlook 2.0 "Mira" Released - Observability, Crypto Traceability, and a Cleaner Core.
Thanks to all the contributors who helped and worked on this release. A huge thanks to @… for his continuous commitment to make ransomlook always better.
Ransomlook remains firmly committed to an open-source codebase and to keeping it that way. We believe security to…

Ransomlook 2.0 "Mira" Released - Observability, Crypto Traceability, and a Cleaner Core.
Ransomlook 2.0 "Mira" Released - Observability, Crypto Traceability, and a Cleaner Core.
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-07 18:20:55

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)
cyberscoop.com/project-glasswi

@hex@kolektiva.social
2026-06-12 07:49:15

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.

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-06-02 00:26:37

Just stumbled on this (don't ask): web.archive.org/web/2011113004

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-06-09 14:27:19

Phew... Just been informed that, thi.ng/, my labor of (open source) love of many, many years is on the front page of HN:
news.ycombinator.co…

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-06-11 07:22:38

Europa hat jetzt sein eigenes Office – und das ist auch noch Open Source! 🚀
Zum Artikel: heise.de/-11320254?wt_mc=sm.re

Auf dem Bild ist das Logo von Euro-Office zu sehen. Im Bild steht: "Open-Source-Office aus Europa:
Erste stabile Version von Euro-Office ist verfügbar" darunter steht: "Die quelloffene Office-Suite von Nextcloud, Ionos und Partnern bietet kollaboratives Arbeiten ohne Abhängigkeit von US-amerikanischen Tech-Konzernen."
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-05-04 07:16:47

für die sammlung von #icons-sammlungen:
"CoreUI Icons"
designerinaction.de/gestaltung

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2026-05-08 05:55:11

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 — @…,

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-05-05 02:40:46

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)
siliconangle.com/2026/05/04/de

@gevoel@mastodon.green
2026-04-10 13:00:49

Half of the United States Is Now in Drought
open.substack.com/pub/theclima
> …

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-05-05 16:42:00

Android-Dunkelmodus: Open-Source-App passt Systemdesign an Umgebungslicht an
Die Open-Source-App „Adaptive Theme: Auto Dark Mode“ erweitert Android um einen automatischen Dark-Mode-Wechsel per Lichtsensor.

@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2026-06-06 09:51:04

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

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-06-07 21:09:24

It's that time again! Tomorrow night, Tues 9 June at 20:00 NZST we'll meet at meeting.iridescent.nz to discuss all things libre/FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) and the sociopolitical landscape in which it all exists. We'll be discussing whatever people in attendance want to discuss - the…

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-03-31 17:54:43

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has linked the recent axios NPM supply chain attack to a suspected North Korean threat actor, UNC1069 (and not TeamPCP).
techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/hack

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-05-07 07:43:00

heise | Open-Source-Grundausstattung: Freie und kostenlose Apps für Ihren Desktop
Sie haben keine Lust mehr auf Abhängigkeit von Adobe- und Microsoft-Abos? Quelloffene Software sorgt für den Befreiungsschlag auf dem Desktop – und spart Geld.

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-03-29 16:45:10

"Using Open Source Tools to Capture Closed Captions and Timecode": guest post by Morgan Morel of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center at the Library of Congress @ the LoC's blog "The Signal"
blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/0

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2026-06-12 13:10:27

«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…

A suspected North Korean hacker has hijacked and modified a popular open source software development tool
to deliver malware that could put millions of developers at risk of being compromised.
On Monday, a hacker pushed malicious versions of the widely used JavaScript library called Axios,
which developers rely on to allow their software to connect to the internet.
The affected library was hosted on npm, a software repository that stores code for open source projects…

@gevoel@mastodon.green
2026-04-07 15:21:44

Menselijke activiteiten, CO2, temperatuur, klimaat en vertraagd effect.
open.substack.com/pub/justdean

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-31 18:11:11

Google attributes the supply chain attack on HTTP client Axios to a suspected North Korean threat actor it calls UNC1069 (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/hack

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-05-05 05:00:56

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2026-04-09 14:35:18

«Keycloak 26.6.0 — Fünf Preview-Features werden produktionsreif:
Das Open-Source-IAM-System Keycloak 26.6 befördert fünf Features in den produktiven Status - darunter Federated Client Authentication und Zero-Downtime-Updates.»
Das muss ich mir mal in aller Ruhe ansehen und dann mal sehen was ich daran noch lerne (sicherlich einiges).
🔐

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-05-05 16:00:36

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-05 21:36:33

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)
cnbc.com/2026/06/05/trump-open

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-05-04 08:14:00

OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
Mit OpenReception 1.0 steht eine quelloffene Terminverwaltung bereit – als datenschutzfreundliche Alternative für Praxen und Patienten.

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2026-04-03 05:05:10

«KI baut Open-Source-Projekte in Minuten als kommerzielle App nach:
KI stellt die Open-Source-Community vor eine grundlegende Herausforderung - Neue Werkzeuge sind inzwischen in der Lage, komplette Softwareprojekte nahezu automatisch nachzubilden. Das wirft drängende Fragen zu Urheberrecht und Fairness auf.»
Das KI Daten klaut um Faule zu "bereichern" sollte eigentlich allen mittlerweile bewusst sein.
🤖

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-05-04 16:00:54

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-05-15 21:16:02

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)
p3institute.substack.com/p/fro

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-06-08 07:26:03

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.

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-04-04 08:25:00

Totgesagte leben länger: Lokale Bilder-KI Amuse 3.2.0 erschienen
Die Entwicklung an der Bild- und Video-KI Amuse wurde eingestellt, die Quellen als Open Source veröffentlicht. Nun gibt es erste Updates.

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-05-04 09:05:00

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.

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-06-04 10:01:02

Debatte über digitale Souveränität: Protektionismus oder Befreiungsschlag?
Das neue Tech-Souveränitätspaket der EU erntet gemischte Reaktionen: Open-Source-Verfechter jubeln, doch US-Branchenverbände warnen vor schweren Marktstörungen.

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-04-06 15:45:38

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Schadcode-Sicherheitslücken in Werbeblocker Pi-hole geschlossen

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-03-27 04:54:00

Zwischen Markt und Regulierung: Streit um Open Access
Open Access ist Konsens im Glasfasermarkt. Aber wie weit reicht die Pflicht zur Netzöffnung? Da gehen die Meinungen auseinander.