2026-05-07 07:43:00
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"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…
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 — @…,
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.
Smooth, polished and clear talk by @… "Open by Design, Sovereign by Choice" with some fun interactions today at @…
#tdose
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Leanstral 1.5: Mistrals KI-Modell für formale Beweise ist Open Source
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/
It's that time again! Tomorrow night, Tues 9 June at 20:00 NZST we'll meet at https://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…
«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.
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It is, while completely expectable, still surprising to me that when I talk about software on here and particularly services like Github, all the replies assume I'm doing open source work only or primarily.
I do wonder if this shapes a lot of the thoughts about AI on Mastodon. It's a niche group. (Remember approximately 3% of developers contribute to open source!)
I’m still completely lost with logic of JA4 patent licensing and actual incompatibility with the copyleft-license. So it seems to be a patent-based license and really risky to implement if you want to keep your actual software open source.
Did someone explore alternatives to avoid this? and especially other format which are open source friendly?
#ja4
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…
Please delete your repository. When we stole your source code to train our LLM, it got dumber!
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#foss
The third episode in Linda Teppler 's Farmers Pride series is out. #writingcommunity #writing
Building an #OpenSource #RobotVacuum — Meet OOMWOO
https://makerspet.com/blog/building-an
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.
Several versions of The vOICe vision BCI are closed source to keep implantable visual prosthesis developers on their toes, but long-term availability is guaranteed through crude but fully functional open source versions https://www.seeingwithsound.com/im2sound.htm#artificial_scenes
Does anybody know of a locally hosted, open source, slop-free calculator tool that can do complex unit conversions from algebraic/text input similar to e.g. wolfram alpha, and properly handle SI prefixes etc?
Examples of things I want to be able to do:
1 / (10.3125 GHz) to ps (expected answer 96.97)
(50V / 10K ohms)^2 * 10K ohms to mW (expected answer 250)
I appreciate this “Accessibility Best Practices for Your Project” guide from GitHub:
https://opensource.guide/accessibility-best-practices-for-your-project/
I would share it more readily if the links were underlined.
So I filed a PR to fix that:
für die sammlung von #icons-sammlungen:
"CoreUI Icons"
https://www.designerinaction.de/gestaltung/coreui-icons-open-source-icon-set…
from my link log —
Support for IPv6 link local addresses in browsers.
https://ungleich.ch/u/blog/ipv6-link-local-support-in-browsers/
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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…
okay, can people help me find things please? /nm
i SWEAR there was some sort of open-source, collaborative DNS service (possibly endorsed by @…?) but i CANNOT find any trace of it for the LIFE of me and i would really like to try it out :P
Der Journalist Burkhard Schröder hat die #KI vier Artikel zum #Journalismus verfassen lassen. Velbekomme! https://www.burks.…
Want to scale up with open-source technologies seamlessly? Stop by the NetApp Instaclustr booth!
Drop by for a chat, try your luck at the Plinko game, and get a chance to win an awesome NASA Artemis Lego set! 🚀✨ #bbuzz
I don’t really have a problem with LLM code review, in fact I think that may be one of the places where it is both good at the task and can be ethically justified, IF:
1. Training is ONLY on unencumbered open source software
2. Qualified humans act on the review.
I think (1) is important because the LLM is doing what a sufficiently high-capacity skilled human could do ethically. Reading code to learn from it. A code review doesn’t replicate training data, so copyright isn’…
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
"Kiel verbannt die Tech-Giganten"
Ich wünsche euch viel Erfolg im Kampf gegen schwarze Koffer!
https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Was-wir-gerade-machen-ist-einzigartig-id30900768.html
RE: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
It’s OK, Palantir should still have access.
Just downloaded the latest version of @… and planning on putting together a tutorial on how to get a radio show online with just a computer and free (libra, open source) software. #radio #radioshow
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
The European Commission has presented the European Technological Sovereignty Package, which aims to boost European performance in semiconductors, AI, cloud and open source.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026…
"Aber es existiert beispielsweise eine enge Verdrahtung von SAP zu Microsoft Excel. Das ist ein Problem, wenn man auf Microsoft Office verzichten möchte. Wir müssen Fachanwendungen wie SAP so umstellen, dass sie gut mit einem Open-Document-Format kommunizieren können. [...] Leider ist SAP da sehr zurückhaltend, um es vorsichtig auszudrücken. Aber auch dieses Produkt hat eine endliche Laufzeit und kann durch gute Alternativen ersetzt werden."
At this year’s French Open, the air is particularly thick with tension.
After a tournament of shocks and upsets, only five top-10 seeds and one Grand Slam champion are left across the men’s and women’s draws.
The stakes always get higher deeper into a tournament, but the openness of this year’s draw further complicates matters.
Lower-ranked players are facing unusual situations with less formidable foes in their way,
and with that comes expectation.
A less forebo…
🇺🇦 #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)
#Spotify
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116715286898132655
Here's the Open Source Malware post that spurred this story.
The Blight Reaches Microsoft: 73 Repos Disabled in 105 Seconds
TIL, "just chatting" with @… he's not only doing "something with open source"; just like me he's also involved in education reform: #Agora
We chatted a bit about the pros and cons of
#GPN24 Lounge is serving well.
Currently: Midtempo/Dark Electro by twyn!b
Next up: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn24-lounge/talk/LW9BEW/
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I've always thought it was a bit ironic that git was designed to be perfectly decentralized, only to have Github become the one centralized way one uses git (for many people, at any rate).
But this post makes a good point: the centralization also means that it functions as a reliable archive. If a popular open source project spins up its own git server, and then later goes mostly defunct -- or least, the git server goes away -- the code is pretty much gone. But with git…
Looking for the latest in open-source search, analytics, observability, and AI-powered search experiences? Make sure to swing by the OpenSearch booth! 🔍✨ #bbuzz26
Meta says Muse Spark powers Meta AI's "shopping mode" feature and that it plans to release a version of Muse Spark under an open-source license (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/08/meta-muse-alexandr-wang
And here is a first try on the snippet for open vs. closed source. Honestly, it doesn't look as good, as the first one. Maybe because, the flag colors are missing?
Any other ideas?
https://fingolas.eu/OpenClosed/
Something for the US #TTRPG bubble:
https://open.substack.com/pub/exeuntpress/p/im-teaching-free-game-design-cl…
A Pro-Earth Reading List for Humans 📚
https://open.substack.com/pub/ayanaelizabeth/p/a-pro-earth-reading-list-for-humans?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
> Beach read…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
can’t fucking believe that “omg we’re down all the time b/c we're being ddosed by too much code 🥺”-github is fucking hosting a fucking meet and greet with the fucking dude who’s responsible for some of the worst offenses by enabling an legion of mac minis flooding the world with slop.
guess github is now fully integrated into the org chart
Die EU legt ihr „European Technological Sovereignty Package" vor: Chips Act 2.0, Cloud and AI Development Act, Open-Source-Strategie, Energie-Fahrplan. 80 Prozent der europäischen Tech-Infrastruktur kommt aktuell von außerhalb Europas. Das Paket soll das ändern — t3n erklärt die vier Säulen. #DigitaleSouveränität
Sources: Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a 2.7T-parameter model, dubbed M3 Pro and set for release as early as Q3, and plans to open-source it (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusiv…
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
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
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Sovereignty Is Engineered, Not Procured
Europe often asks whether it can build a company like Palantir: a software champion capable of serving intelligence, defence, law enforcement, crisis response, cyber defence, and public-sector decision-making at scale.
The usual answer is that Europe lacks data, capital, talent, or legal room. I do not think this is the full story.
The capacity is there. The data is there. The technical talent is there. The public-sector problems are …
Alibaba's Qwen models have made it an AI powerhouse, but the company has struggled to turn their global popularity into a profitable business (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/business/alibaba-ai-qwen.html
This will increase a lot of uncertainty in all areas:
«Artificial Intelligence — Decades-Old Bash Tricks Expose AI Coding Agents to Supply Chain Attacks:
Decades-old Bash shell tricks can bypass safeguards in most open source AI coding agents, potentially turning malicious repositories into supply chain attack vectors.»
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Something for the US #TTRPG bubble:
https://open.substack.com/pub/exeuntpress/p/im-teaching-free-game-design-cl…
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s MythoOpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-launche
Fauxx: Data poisoning for your everyday tracking
Fauxx is an open-source Android (@…) privacy tool that poisons data broker and ad-tech profiles by generating continuous, plausible, off-demographic synthetic activity from your device. The goal is simple: make your real behavioral signal statistically indistinguishable from noise.
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Cloudflare acquires VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite frameworks, and says the projects will stay open source (Cloudflare)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/voidzero-joins-cloudflare/
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.
Chinese AI developer MiniMax launches M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Opus 4.7, costing $0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with $5 for Opus 4.7 (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/chin…
Open source isn’t free. We’re just not paying for it: Who maintains the maintainers?
A lot of things don’t add up in the world of software. The skills gap remains stubbornly wide, with IT and data skills the hardest to recruit for five consecutive years. Yet, at the same time, entry level roles are declining as employers redeploy existing employees rather than hiring new ones.
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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…
Google introduces Gemma 4 12B, a unified, encoder-free open multimodal model that can run locally on devices with 16GB of VRAM or unified memory (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/goo…
Insurance tech startup Corgi denies accusations that it used Papermark's open source software code to develop its software and present it as its own (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/corg
Starlette, an open-source Python framework underpinning FastAPI, has a vulnerability, called BadHost, that can allow hackers to bypass authorization (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/information-te
Microsoft releases ASSERT, an open-source framework that lets developers generate and run AI behavior tests using natural-language descriptions (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/new-microsoft-tool-lets-de…
RadixArk, led by former xAI employee Ying Sheng, raised a $100M seed at a $400M valuation to make AI inference more efficient via its open-source SGLang engine (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com…
OpenAI unveils an updated GPT-5.5-Cyber model, launches the Patch the Planet initiative in partnership with Trail of Bits to fix open source bugs, and more (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-launche
OpenAI releases Symphony, an open-source spec for agent orchestration that turns a project-management board like Linear into a control plane for coding agents (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/open-source-codex-orchestration-symphony
Together AI, which offers access to open-source models, raised $800M led by Saudi Aramco's Prosperity7 at an $8.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $1.3B (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/business/dealbook/together-ai-fu…
Im Norden weht ein neuer digitaler Wind 🌬️ Mecklenburg-Vorpommern macht Ernst und verabschiedet sich schrittweise von Microsoft.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11352440?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&…
How hacker group TeamPCP exploited the open source trust model and distribution method to compromise and inject malware into over 1,000 software packages (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/teampcp-breaks-open-source-software-trust-model/
Cal.com, which provides scheduling software, is moving its core open-source codebase to a closed repository, citing the dangers of AI hacking its open code (Steven Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-security-worries-force-company-t…
Keine Alterskontrolle für Linux
Gesetze, die eine Altersverifikation in Betriebssystemen vorsehen, nehmen zumindest in Kalifornien und Colorado wohl Open-Source aus.
https://www.heise.de/news/Keine-Alterskont…
SenseTime releases SenseNova-U1, an open-source image model that it says can "read" images without translating them to text, reducing computing power needs (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/chinese-ai-giant-sensetime-is-…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Stringman: Fest montierter Open-Source-Roboter räumt einzelne Räume auf
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Münchens IT-Wende: Open Source ist für die neue Koalition der Normalfall