@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…
@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.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialOpen Slopware
“Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.”
#AI
@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
@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
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
@frankel@mastodon.top @Techmeme@techhub.socialCal.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…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@cdarwin@c.imEvery 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…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzWonder how many folks have joined the waitlist... https://office.eu/
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialIt feels like the open source world is fracturing. It used to be if we wanted alternatives to commercial software we could look to open source, but so much of open source software today is using AI.
Sure, some maintainers are saying "I only use it to speed things up, I still review all code before it gets added." but for lots of folks that's not good enough, and they draw a hard line at the use of any AI.
Are we looking at "open source" versus "open …
@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.
💻
@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/
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialFrankreich verpflichtet alle Ministerien bis Herbst 2026 zu Open-Source-Plänen. Alle Ministerien müssen bis Herbst 2026 Pläne für den Wechsel zu Open-Source-Software vorlegen. Das Kalkül dahinter ist nüchtern: Wer die Software kontrolliert, kontrolliert die Infrastruktur. Deutschland diskutiert noch. Horst Schulte über eine Lücke, die größer wird.
#OpenSource
@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizzaDisabling Google's default apps on Android can help reduce your exposure to Google's data mining system somewhat, while their open source alternatives are generally excellent.
https://theprivacydad.com/using-android-without-a-google-account-in-2026/…
@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)
@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…
@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
@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
@david@boles.xyzThe Generative Excess: Soul, Dream, and Idea
There are three things you cannot show me. You cannot open your hand and reveal your soul. No technology exists to replay your dream from last night with any fidelity. And no surgeon can extract from your skull the moment a thought first assembled itself into an idea. Each of these phenomena exists, if it exists at all, only as a first-person event, invisible to external observation, resistant to measurement, and stubbornly…
@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-
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Elin Manahan Thomas, George Frideric Handel, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Harry Christophers:
🎵 Eternal source of light divine (Birthday Ode for Queen Anne)
https://open.spotify.com/track/301GhrxRRyQ0h8NP6NQQxc
@datascience@genomic.socialVideo tutorials for modern ideas and open source tools. #python
@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…
@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
@theDuesentrieb@social.linux.pizza#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
@gevoel@mastodon.greenHow many people does heat actually kill?
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatebrink/p/how-many-people-does-heat-actually?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
> It dep…
@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.
…
@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
@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…
@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
@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…
@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/
@jdrm@social.linux.pizzaNo 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 https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition
@sjn@chaos.socialRE: https://chaos.social/@Foxboron/116753600698430125
This is true (and worth repeating) for all open source package systems & projects, btw.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@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
@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
@macandi@social.heise.de
@qbi@freie-re.deKlingt nice. Aber fast die Hälfte der Commits stammt von #Claude.
#vibecoding
https://bsd.network/@lcheylus/11656610
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzHi all, just a tardy reminder that a few (a bunch?) of us will be meeting at https://meeting.iridescent.nz at 20:00 NZST tonight (Tue 14 Apr) to discuss libre/open source state of play. This is coming on heels of the weekend's Ōtautahi InstallFest which went quite well, I think! We'll have a debrief on t…
@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 <
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.socialHeute 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.
@chrislowles@mastodon.social
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.socialfür alle #IBM-#TrackPoint-fans: es gibt jetzt eine trackpoint-maus: https://www.theverge.com…
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialMicrosoft has locked the lead developers of two prominent open source security projects out of their accounts.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/microsoft-locks-open-so…
@frankel@mastodon.topGrafana's #Pyroscope 2.0 Makes #ContinuousProfiling Practical at #Scale
@curiouscat@fosstodon.orgRE: https://floss.social/@CoMaps/116409089820321174
Looks interesting.
The website offers some good information on weaning yourself from privacy invading market leading products in many areas.
"Explore European and open-source alternatives to …
@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…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngI 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
@peter_mcmahan@mas.toPushing 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.socialRE: #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.
@janneke@todon.nlSmooth, polished and clear talk by @… "Open by Design, Sovereign by Choice" with some fun interactions today at @…
#tdose
@nic@geno.socialNoch 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:
@totientfunction@mathstodon.xyzVery 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…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
@kornel@mastodon.social#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, …
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeIt'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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe EU unveils an open-source age verification app that requires legal ID to shield minors from harmful content, aiming to standardize verification in the bloc (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@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 — @…,
@gevoel@mastodon.greenJoJoFromJerz gaat allOut op het kooigevecht voot het WitteHuis. 😂
But I Thought MAGA Said Bud Light Made You Gay?
https://open.substack.com/pub/jojofromjerz/p/but-i-thought-maga-said-bud-light?utm_source…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy @adulau@infosec.exchangeThis 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…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deMeta: 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.
https://www.heis…
@macandi@social.heise.deHomeKit 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.
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.socialfür die sammlung von #icons-sammlungen:
"CoreUI Icons"
https://www.designerinaction.de/gestaltung/coreui-icons-open-source-icon-set…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngPhew... 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…
@cdarwin@c.imFrance 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.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeGoogle Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has linked the recent axios NPM supply chain attack to a suspected North Korean threat actor, UNC1069 (and not TeamPCP).
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/hacker-hijacks-axios-open-source-proj…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«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?!
🧑💻
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy @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
@frankel@mastodon.topThe Java Week Geekly, special Belgrade edition, is available! Get it now!
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/136/
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe"Don't just grab random stuff off the internet": What Chainguard found in 52,000 open-source packages - The New Stack
<https://thenewstack.io/chainguard-greyware-scanner-vibe-coding/> @…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: 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)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/06/meta-open-source-ai-models
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz @heiseonline@social.heise.de @gevoel@mastodon.greenHalf of the United States Is Now in Drought
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatehistorian/p/half-of-the-united-states-is-now?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
> …
@frankel@mastodon.topStop Using Conventional Commits
#SCM
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic commits up to $100M in usage credits for Project Glasswing, along with $4M in direct donations to open-source security organizations (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/project-glasswing-anthropic-ai-open-source-software-vulnera…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy @cdarwin@c.imA 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…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«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).
🔐
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft 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)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mic…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deNoch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«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…
@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.de @kubikpixel@chaos.social«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.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
@heiseonline@social.heise.deNoch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle attributes the supply chain attack on HTTP client Axios to a suspected North Korean threat actor it calls UNC1069 (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/hacker-hijacks-axios-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.
@heiseonline@social.heise.deTotgesagte 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.
htt…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deQuelloffenes 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.
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