2026-06-11 07:22:38
Europa hat jetzt sein eigenes Office – und das ist auch noch Open Source! 🚀
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Europa hat jetzt sein eigenes Office – und das ist auch noch Open Source! 🚀
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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
https://www.
für alle #IBM-#TrackPoint-fans: es gibt jetzt eine trackpoint-maus: https://www.theverge.com…
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
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…
Why the #Zig project bans all LLM contributions – How Open Source Survives the Age of Free Code
https://lumramabaja.com/posts/engineering-sacrifice-ho…
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…
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…
Boston Godot Users group meets tonight: https://www.meetup.com/bostongamedev/events/313618732/
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
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 — @…,
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…
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…
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/
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
UK has >540 AI data centres.
Germany & France nearly as many each. (USA has 4300, China 360).
"...land surface temperature around AI data centres rise by an average of 2C (3.6F) after they open, with effects being felt up to 10km (6 miles) away."
How much heat does an AI data centre produce, and where are they located? | Science and Technology News | Al Jazeera
Paris-Saclay retire a Etienne Klein son doctorat car il en aurait plagié de grande parties
Paris-Saclay ne retire pas le doctorat de Idriss Aberkane qui est essentiellement du copier-coler du manuel d'un logiciel open-source.
Je comprend pas trop la logique
Stop Using Conventional Commits
#SCM
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
Not a privacy tool, but I love #protopage for an at-a-glace overview of your RSS feeds:
#rss
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:
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
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
Smooth, polished and clear talk by @… "Open by Design, Sovereign by Choice" with some fun interactions today at @…
#tdose
Do you use AI to develop open-source software or believe it's the future? Then I want to let you know that you should be using GitHub or GitLab, and if you already are using them, stay there. Do NOT come to Forgejo or Codeberg. Why?
GitLab just made it very clear that they are fully committing (they say betting on the agentic era) to the opportunity that the agentic era provides. I noticed they rebranded their homepage slogan a while ago to "Finally, AI for the entire software…
One of the things our community keeps coming back for is the Sunday Barcamp, an open, unconference-style day where attendees set the agenda.
Just a room full of people from across the open source data world, figuring out what they want to talk about together. It kicked off #bbuzz25 in the best possible way, and it's back for #bbuzz26 on June 7th. Entry to our barcamp is included in every onsite conference pass.
Will you be there? Get your ticket now: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets/
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…
So there was something about Github culture over time, and maybe just tech and linkedIn culture that started poising my brain.
This idea that when I make stuff... it's gotta be _for other people_ or designed to be consumed by other people... and you have to have a little marketing pitch and sell it... drive adoption etc... That's the narrative that got wedge into my skull.
Open source use to be you published a tar balls for people to download.
Anyway.... I'm b…
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
Dolphin calves name themselves with whistles and clicks:
https://iere.org/do-dolphins-have-names-for-themselves/
> Researchers have played back signature whistles to dolphins and observed that they respond more strongly to their own whistle than to others.
>…
«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…
for no particular reason whatsoever, I've updated my guide on how to measure #Python coverage across GitHub Action containers without an external service (*cough* Codecov *cough*)
https://hynek.me/articles/ditch-codeco
Projekt: Lesefortschritt zwischen allen Geräten synchronisieren und nahtlos Audiobooks und die dazugehörigen E-Books immer genau dort öffnen, wo man zuletzt aufgehört hat, zu lesen. Open Source und selbstgehostet.
https://workspace.zusammenkunft.net/wo
Gibt es so was wie #Canva als (Free and) Open Source software/App?
Ich würde gerne die Story Funktion bei Pixelfed mehr nutzen, aber dazu fehlt mir noch eine einfache Möglichkeit, zu den Bildern Text und Infos und vielleicht auch Sticker hinzuzufügen.
Links wären auch toll, aber das wäre vielleicht etwas viel. Mehr als auch canva kann.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Jump Source ft. Harmony Index:
🎵 A Dull Knife
#JumpSourceftHarmonyIndex
https://jumpsource.bandcamp.com/track/a-dull-knife-ft-harmony-index
https://open.spotify.com/track/04Tpb8EtnKpuUFsSOro7Y2
The third episode in Linda Teppler 's Farmers Pride series is out. #writingcommunity #writing
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.
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!)
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…
Una pšgina muy interesante para leer... #noChatControl #chatControl #ExitChatControl
I thought I might play with #agentshell in #emacs last night but I quickly ran into the sand. Apparently the open source #gemini tool is deprecated and
Please delete your repository. When we stole your source code to train our LLM, it got dumber!
😆
#foss
RE: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
It’s OK, Palantir should still have access.
Building an #OpenSource #RobotVacuum — Meet OOMWOO
https://makerspet.com/blog/building-an
from my link log —
How to enable IPv6 in Docker.
https://ungleich.ch/u/blog/how-to-enable-ipv6-in-docker/
saved 2019-12-14 https://
«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.
🦊
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…
für die sammlung von #icons-sammlungen:
"CoreUI Icons"
https://www.designerinaction.de/gestaltung/coreui-icons-open-source-icon-set…
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…
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…
Herzlich willkommen im Fediverse, @… 🥳
"netidee ist die große Open Source Internet-Förderaktion Österreichs. Gefördert werden Projekte und Aktivitäten, die wirksame Impulse für die Weiterentwicklung und Nutzung des Internets setzen.
netidee steht für Offenheit, Transparenz und Sharing. Die Ergebnisse aller geförderten Projekte stehen für die Öffe…
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
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jump Source ft. Deaton Chris Anthony:
🎵 Fade City
#JumpSourceftDeatonChrisAnthony
https://jumpsource.bandcamp.com/track/fade-city-ft-deaton-chris-anthony
https://open.spotify.com/track/3cKtlckdMvNPwjFpgVt0eF
"[Gerhard] Andrey hofft nun, dass die Bundesverwaltung bald nachziehen wird. «Die Digitalisierung wird zunehmend als geopolitische Waffe eingesetzt. Deshalb muss auch die zivile Verwaltung unabhängiger von Big Tech werden.»"
#DigitaleSouveränität
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
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Leanstral 1.5: Mistrals KI-Modell für formale Beweise ist Open Source
Related to my earlier open source fundraising post[1], please also do let me know what you think of the amount/cadence/detail of communication about thi.ng projects (multiple choice, other options/insights via reply or DM please 🙏):
[1] https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116726397007776730
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.
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
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
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…
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
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.