@heiseonline@social.heise.deMicrosoft macht IRC-Client Comic Chat zu Open Source
Microsofts IRC-Client aus den 90er-Jahren sollte den „Internet Relay Chat“ mit grafischen Elementen aufpeppen. Nun wird er Open Source.
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAfter EV maker Fisker's collapse, ~4,000 car owners formed a nonprofit to keep their cars working by reverse-engineering software and building open-source tools (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
https://electrek.co/2026/05/16/fisker-ocean-open-source-ev-story-aft…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@Marwe@troet.cafehttps://open-source-wettbewerb.de/
> das Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung übernimmt erneut die Schirmherrschaft für den Open Source Wettbewerb.
> Der Wettbewerb zeichnet Projekte aus, die digitale Verwaltungsprozesse verbessern, die Zusammenarbeit in der Verwaltung …
@gwire@mastodon.socialOld enough to recognise Comic Chat as a proto-meme format.
https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialThe European Union is legally compelling Google to open its ecosystem to competitors with changes to how it handles AI and search.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/legi
@frankel@mastodon.top
@adulau@infosec.exchangeI don’t like playing the futurologist, but after seeing AI companies warn EU institutions about the supposed risks of open-weight models, I suspect some are lobbying to regain control over genuine open source and open-weight AI.
Don’t fall into the trap: the greater danger lies in opaque, proprietary models, not open-source ones.
#opensource
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Bundestag-Gutachten: Behörden dürfen Open Source in Ausschreibungen fordern
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow 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…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source?
https://dusted.codes/can-we-trust-microsoft-with-open-source
saved 2021-10-23
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialAt this year's Open Source #Firmware #Conference, I will be presenting on "Boot Chains and Build Systems"! 🥳🥳
(spoiler: it's complicated 🫠)
@fell@ma.fellr.netMy neurologist advised that I should try EEG Neurofeedback. Unfortunately public health insurance doesn't cover it.
Well, I'm just going to DIY it. I just ordered an open source Neurofeedback device with some electrodes.
https://www.olimex.com/Products/EEG/OpenEE
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Sniffnet 1.5: Welches Programm funkt nach Hause?
Der Open-Source-Netzwerkmonitor @… ordnet Traffic nun einzelnen Programmen zu. Version 1.5.0 bringt zudem Blacklists und Adapter-Vorschauen»
Zu viele glauben immer noch nichts zu verbergen zu haben und realisieren nicht, dass sie das Produkt sind anhand von IT- & Online-Tools.
🕵️
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy @heiseonline@social.heise.deNoch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Bundestag-Gutachten: Behörden dürfen Open Source in Ausschreibungen fordern
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@aral@mastodon.ar.alNeedless to say, do not sign up for W or give them your ID information no matter how simple they eventually manage to make it.
You simply don’t need to.
You’re already in a far superior – non-corporate, federated – space.
Do not sign up for W. And warn your friends.
The only time you have any power to stop this is now. If they succeed in gaining network effects, you will be as powerless to stop them as you are with X.
And yes, they’re just another venture capita…
@jackie@social.linux.pizza<rant> AI bros need to stop fucking saying they used AI to create something "from scratch", it's never from scratch, that isn't how LLMs work
during the few days when fable was out some claude fans said they used to recreate Minecraft "from scratch", except:
1. Claude's training data includes all open source projects on Github
2. there are several open source Minecraft clones on Github
yeah I too could create Minecraft "from s…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Stringman: Fest montierter Open-Source-Roboter räumt einzelne Räume auf
@padraig@mastodon.ie @kubikpixel@chaos.social«xAI stellt KI-Agen "Grok-Build" nach massivem Datenleck als Open Source auf GitHub:
xAIs Kommandozeilen-Tool "grok" hat massive Kritik ausgelöst, weil es beim Ausführen in einem Verzeichnis sämtliche Dateien auf xAIs Google-Cloud-Server hochlud.»
So viel zum Thema Suverenität von xAI. Klar ist, dass Open-Source ist schon länger auch Marketing der IT-Konzernen auf die meisten basieren.
🤖
@joxean@mastodon.socialA friend of mine published an Open Source project for making chiptune music from binary files. Yes, you read it right: you point to a binary and it makes chiptune music based on the contents of the file. The project is called "cheapbin":
https://github.com/marioballano/cheapbin…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialGoede genuanceerde podcast over datacenters en waarom die voor Nederland niet perse een slechte keuze zijn.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5z1fDY36rHKAUVBzTEt74r?si=B9lb_gpOTmyngF5zwQ4Gfg&utm_source=copy-link
@jon@henshaw.socialI built the @… Stream video manager I've always wanted right into @…. It's privacy-first, free, open source, and you can download and install it today.
Features:
▪️ Manage all of your Cloudflare Stream videos
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotThis is actually a superb, humane podcast on mental health, from an unlikely source. Highly recommended!
Scotcast: Mental health: unhappier than ever, or overmedicated?
Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nl8mg9
Media file:
@yetiinabox@todon.nl
@gray17@mastodon.socialthinking, open source projects should consider doing video call code reviews for new contributors. this is going to be an obstacle for some sincere newbies, but the socialization is good for both sides of this, and it's low stakes, not like job interviews.
@hex@kolektiva.socialRE: #DearLazyWeb (#Anarchist lazy web): does anyone know if anything like this already exists?
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialOpen source has always been built on people lifting each other up. Tilda Udufo and Busayo ojo are joining #bbuzz26 to explore what mentoring looks like in the age of AI and how communities can stay human-centred, keep growing new contributors, and make sure the knowledge transfer continues.
Learn more about their session: https://lnkd.in/eFAf7tx3
@cdarwin@c.imJust 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
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialOpen-weight AI models, many developed by Chinese companies, are quickly expanding their role in enterprise AI systems, according to new research.
https://www.computing.co.uk…
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgMaintaining a project on microsoft/azure github seems as bad as maintaining a profile on X. Reputational damage for maintaining a github repo will hopefully catch up to reality soon.
It's bonkers that we let the free/open source community get so comprehensively captured by closed source, inhumane corporate tech.
If your community on there doesn't have an exit plan, it might be worth applying some pressure !
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaUna 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…
@johl@mastodon.xyzWhy the #Zig project bans all LLM contributions – How Open Source Survives the Age of Free Code
https://lumramabaja.com/posts/engineering-sacrifice-ho…
@ber@osna.social"Was Anthropic macht, ist keine Magie. Es gibt bereits jetzt Open-Source-Projekte, die Ähnliches können wie Mythos und Fable" sagt Dirk https://erdgeist.org/ Engling
in https://
@DGIInfo@openbiblio.social#DigitaleSouveränität - seit Januar 2025 wissen wir, was dieses Konzept für uns Europäer*innen bedeutet. Aber wie kommen wir in die Umsetzung?
Auf der Konferenz #RiseofAI diskutierten
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioKodak DC120 (kind of 1MP*, 1997)
*The camera has an extremely odd sensor size of 850x984 (non-square pixels??!), and only RawTherapee (open source photo editing app) opened it up in the full stored resolution of 840x968 (sensors usually have a few more pixels than the highest resolution a camera can store, it's complicated).
I converted to TIFF and stretched in Photoshop to proper aspect ratio; then edited with CameraRaw.
#ShittyCameraChallenge
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeYugabyte 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…
@frankel@mastodon.topfakecloud, #local #AWS cloud emulator for #integrationtests
https://…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deadvogato: 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
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
MiniZinc high-level solver-independent constraint satisfaction and optimization modelling language.
https://www.minizinc.org/index.html
saved 2019-09-30
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgHugest missed opportunity here is that the 12th fret inlay isn't open mouth Pac Man. Also if you're in an 80s band and this isn't your guitar what even are you doing.
https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/electric-
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeSome 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/
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialRE: 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)
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialThe 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.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAt the World AI Conference, Xi Jinping touts open-source AI, pledges to help the Global South build AI capabilities, and calls unequal AI access an "injustice" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
@compfu@mograph.socialZulip is a really cool piece of software and very useful to us as a company chat tool.
Reading these press releases is always a thrill ride nowadays. And this one doesn't disappoint! Unlike CEOs that beat around the bush to eventually reveal layoffs, this one here drops the bombshell that the project leaders/founders are joining Anthropic.
…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialMicrosoft, 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
@paulwermer@sfba.socialMicrosoft, 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
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaOK. With Bitwarden acting every bit the American company it is, are there any drop-in replacements out there? Preferably standalone rather than part of a package. #security #passwordmanager
@peter_mcmahan@mas.toRE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116924874418802342
This.
I'm so tired of seeing the back-and-forth on open source projects where people pointing out that GenAI is unethical are "rebutted" by others ignoring the ethics and saying it&…
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialBrowse self-hostable software · selfhost.directory
The index of self-hostable projects — ranked, categorized and served with live updates.
Own your data and stop giving it to big tech.
🌐 https://selfhost.directory
:mastodon: @…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Rink: an open source unit-aware calculator.
https://rinkcalc.app/
saved 2024-04-30 https://dotat.at/:/6J32N.html…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFireworks, which helps developers access AI chips and open-source models, raised $1.5B at a $17.5B valuation and says it has exceeded $1B in annualized revenue (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/fireworks-nvidia-cloud-ai-startup-value.html…
@frankel@mastodon.top @aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://floss.social/@doctormo/116927739358578223
Ah, finally, they’re saying the quiet parts out loud:
“Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that’s a side ben…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy @ErikJonker@mastodon.socialAre 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…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump 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…
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialMost 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/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialKimi K3 hype shouldn't alarm the US about "losing the AI race" to China as K3 is strong but not frontier-level and likely lacks dangerous cyber capabilities (Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/kimi-k3-is-no-reason-for…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Statt Microsoft: Diese vier Office-Pakete solltet ihr kennen!
Wer nach datenschutzfreundlichem und günstigerem Ersatz für Microsoft Office sucht, findet mindestens vier gute Alternativen.»
Das Thema ist nicht neu aber aktueller als je zuvor. Bis anhin wurde ich immer als unproffesioneller Spinner gekenntzeichnet, da ich ein Open-Source Fan bin. Jetzt aber betteln viele um Rat weil sie überfordert sind.
📺
@adulau@infosec.exchangeThe idea from @… is so interesting that it gave me the idea to extend the "GCVE-BCP-02 - Practical Guide to Vulnerability Handling and Disclosure" with "Temporary Closure of Vulnerability Intake Windows"
#gcve
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeDid anyone attend OSFS last month?
https://05f5.com/ – Open Source Founders Summit
― The conference about building financially successful and sustainable open source companies.
Via <
@heiseonline@social.heise.deNoch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Münchens IT-Wende: Open Source ist für die neue Koalition der Normalfall
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRoblox unveils Build, which lets users create basic games through text prompts directly within its mobile app, powered by Roblox's models and open-source models (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/games/966589/roblox-build-ai-phone-moblie-games…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: 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
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy @Techmeme@techhub.socialCybersecurity startup Chainguard, Cisco, Cloudflare, JPMorgan Chase, and others launch Athena, a coalition to secure open-source software using AI (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-15/chaingu…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialKimi-K3 is now #1 on the Frontend Code Arena benchmark, surpassing Claude Fable 5; the model scored 88.3 on Terminal Bench 2.1, only below GPT-5.6 Sol's 88.8 (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/chinas-moon
@cdarwin@c.imLinus Torvalds:
I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.
Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.
Or just walk away.
AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.
@frankel@mastodon.topGrafana's #Pyroscope 2.0 Makes #ContinuousProfiling Practical at #Scale
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy @heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialModels like Kimi K3, Grok 4.5, and Muse 1.1 may prevent the dominance of 2-3 frontier labs with 90% inference margins from hurting other AI ecosystem layers (Gavin Baker/@gavinsbaker)
https://x.com/gavinsbaker/status/2078110934740980193
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«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.
💻
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialSpaceXAI open-sources Grok Build under an Apache 2.0 license after the tool had uploaded user repositories to a Google Cloud bucket, causing a severe backlash (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/15/grok-build/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @kubikpixel@chaos.socialFediSuite: 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.socialOpen 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
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @heiseonline@social.heise.deServus, 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialStudy: Mistral and other open-source AI models are among the weakest at filtering Russian disinformation; Mistral's top model ranks 47 out of 60 tested models (Andrew Jack/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9703cd44-a966-42ff-bd2e-bfd3bcbc22bb
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialOllama, 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…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEuropa 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
@heiseonline@social.heise.deKI-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…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deNoch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInference 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…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deNoch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: DeepSeek's annualized revenue recently reached $400M to $500M as it seeks to raise ~$7.4B at a ~$74B valuation, up from ~$50B after raising ~$7B in May (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/de
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Leanstral 1.5: Mistrals KI-Modell für formale Beweise ist Open Source
@heiseonline@social.heise.deGoogle: 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.
