@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-16 18:25:00
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-16 18:25:00
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-03-16 03:09:50
Open Slopware
“Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.”
#AI
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-16 06:00:07
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-15 16:01:46
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…
@a@paperbay.org2026-03-17 11:46:36
@sjn@chaos.social2026-02-16 17:23:17
Dear #Business. Here's a reminder to you who rely on #OpenSource in your software and services.
Your digital infrastructure is cheap because you CAN get it for almost no cost.
How cheap?
Look at the Harvard Business Review study from 2024: The ROI of Open Source is 2000 ×.
…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2026-03-16 00:54:09
Wonder how many folks have joined the waitlist... https://office.eu/
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-03-16 00:52:01
It 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 …
@yaxu@post.lurk.org2026-04-16 10:57:24
As far as I can tell mainstream open source, github-native culture is now completely horrible, co-opted by Microsoft, and destroyed by Anthropic, Google and OpenAI. The free/open source projects I'm involved with are constantly ripped off by vibe-coded interfaces that ignore the license, and when I point this out I get abuse. I just got told by a reddit user "thank you for your work but it doesn't matter much any more". Only
2026-03-16 09:00:39
⭐ Starred a repository
TomBadash/Mouser
A lightweight, open-source alternative to Logitech Options for remapping buttons on the Logitech MX Master 3S mouse
github.com/TomBadash/Mouser
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-02-15 14:36:14
GLM-5 is een krachtig model, open weights en volledig getraind op Huawei Ascend-chips, zonder gebruik te maken van NVIDIA-hardware. Onderstreept het belang van Europese investeringen in AI.
https://www.trendingtopics.eu/glm-5-the-wo
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-04-16 13:05:19
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-15 16:45:57
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-04-14 17:23:25
@cketti@social.int21.dev2026-03-16 18:50:26
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@davx5app/116238712909292120
After having taken some time off, I'm back to working on open source software and messing with open protocols.
@cketti@int21.dev2026-03-16 18:50:26
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@davx5app/116238712909292120
After having taken some time off, I'm back to working on open source software and messing with open protocols.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-17 03:10:46
Mozilla launches Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client for users and businesses who want to run their own self-hosted AI infrastructure, available on GitHub (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/mozil…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-02-12 20:58:27
Say what you will but AI has the douchbag developer persona down pat.
https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-story.html…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-15 06:00:07
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-02-17 19:53:09
"Austria’s military has already dumped Microsoft and moved to open-source services hosted in Europe, and some German regional governments have done the same. Danish schools were told to abandon Google laptops by the Danish data protection authority in 2024. The new Dutch government says digital sovereignty will be a national priority"
#DigitalSovereignty
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-02-18 00:33:13
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
George Frideric Handel, Iestyn Davies, Chamber Orchestra of Europe & Robin Ticciati:
🎵 Eternal source of light divine, from the 'Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne'
https://open.spotify.com/track/1hZpIKGH76mDMXzYusm2rA
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-14 12:28:57
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…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-02-16 06:15:19
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Jump Source:
🎵 Empathy Dub 1
#JumpSource
https://jumpsource.bandcamp.com/track/empathy-dub-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/7D73jgxePgeYRQycBlIkXQ
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social2026-02-15 04:21:41
A great tool gone... now only on https://web.archive.org/web/20240919042813/https://www.agocontrol.com/
- but it's open source, so the code lives on, on GitHub:
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-04-15 06:23:03
Frankreich 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
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-16 14:50:25
Die Open-Source-Lösung ist teurer als Microsoft. Klingt absurd? Ist aber gerade Realität an deutschen Unis.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11176449?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=masto…
@mlncn@social.coop2026-04-17 14:54:16
i know it is hardly the worst thing Mozilla has done to the community but after the SpreadFirefox campaign (an early "high profile" #Drupal site!) driven by a huge swath of the Free/Libre and Open Source Software community lo so many years ago it feels like a punch in the face to not have a single mention of ditching Windows entirely as an option on the Firefox page about Microsoft ending W…
@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizza2026-04-15 18:49:56
Disabling 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/…
@mszll@datasci.social2026-04-16 11:50:46
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2026-03-16 15:57:34
RE: https://masto.pt/@tugatech/116239659667520957
Não aconteceria se usassem open source.
@makeratschool@kanoa.de2026-03-16 13:24:57
RE: https://social.medienzentrum.rocks/@mzffm/116181534733273693
Das Medienzentrum Frankfurt hat ein tolles Open-Source-Projekt veröffentlicht: den SV-Hub.
Aus der Projektbeschreibung
"Der SV-Hub ist eine digitale Plattform zur Stä…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-04-16 14:02:12
De GPT-NL dataset staat beschreven op Huggingface, https://huggingface.co/datasets/GPT-NL/GPT-NL_Public_Corpus
met de genoemde hoeveelheid data kan het model qua parameters alleen in de GPT-3 klasse zijn lijkt me? Of zit dat anders?
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-04-17 02:39:08
RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116401458294737784
@… open source at its worst, IMHO.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-03-17 08:21:00
@johnleonard@mastodon.social2026-04-09 13:34:28
Microsoft 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…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-03-14 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,
--…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-03-12 22:45:25
Nvidia will spend $26 billion to build open-weight AI models, filings show https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-investing-26-billion-open-source-models/ "The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, an…
@rmdes@mstdn.social2026-02-14 19:41:05
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-04-17 06:54:00
@jdrm@social.linux.pizza2026-04-07 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 https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-03-17 07:05:04
«PWAs ohne Browser – eine Fingerübung im Vibe-Coding:
PWA steht für Progressive Web App und bezeichnet eine moderne Webanwendung, die wie eine native App aussieht und funktioniert, aber über den Webbrowser aufgerufen wird.»
Mit PWA werde ich mich auch noch beschäftigen. Gut hat nun @… einen Artikel geschrieben und dies ist sicherlich schon ein g…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-16 06:07:00
@finlaydag33k@social.linux.pizza2026-03-15 23:06:25
Anyone that knows good open-source tools for buring data to M-DISC (Blueray)?
Will be running primarily on Windows for now and an easy to use front-end is appreciated.
#askfedi
@daehne@muenster.im2026-02-14 08:29:43
Open-Source-Tools, die wir lieben | Digitalcourage
https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2026/i-love-free-software-day
"Freie Software ist aus unserem Alltag nicht wegzudenken. Anlässlich des „I ♥ Free Software Day“ möchten wir die Arbeit der überwiegend ehrenamtl…
@ethanwhite@hachyderm.io2026-02-15 01:44:29
The story of what's been happening with an LLM posting attack pieces against an open source maintainer and then a news outlet publishing a piece using LLMs that made up quotes from the maintainer is a disturbing look into what the internet is going to look like in the immediate future
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-17 05:18:00
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-03-09 20:49:29
Source: Pack to cut OL Jenkins, open up $19.5M https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48156082/source-packers-cut-ol-elgton-jenkins-open-195m
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-17 12:55:47
Temporal, which builds open-source software to ensure "durable execution" of code, raised a $300M Series D at a $5B valuation, up from $2.5B in October 2025 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-02-14 10:15:34
"Shambaugh gives his time to the open source ecosystem that underpins vast amounts of commercial software. He now has defamatory material indexed under his name. He will spend time managing the fallout. He bears the cost of someone else’s product working exactly as designed.
The agent’s owner bears none of it. OpenClaw bears none of it. The companies whose AI models power OpenClaw bear none of it."
@gevoel@mastodon.green2026-04-13 16:08:17
How 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…
@StephenRees@mas.to2026-02-13 16:18:28
@david@boles.xyz2026-04-14 19:40:02
The 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…
@a@paperbay.org2026-02-16 17:59:12
When the EIB grants a €20B loan for AI infrastructure while its yearly budget is €100B, that effectively means one-fifth of its annual budget goes to AI infrastructure.
Public transport? Green energy? Social infrastructure? No. Instead, data centres operated by private consortia to potentially sell private services. I hope it will be at least to produce open-source models and software.
#ai
@niklaskorz@rheinneckar.social2026-03-07 17:08:20
@zachleat@zachleat.com2026-03-11 21:16:33
I have received A Lot Of Feedback (ALOF™) in the last week. The hardest and most insidious bits echo “Why does Open Source Thing need money?” which rhymes with “Why do you—a software developer working on Open Source Thing—need money?”
Trying not to read too much into it 😬
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2026-04-14 01:46:53
Hi 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…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-03-06 15:30:10
If you’re a open source person yelling at people to “do it yourself” when they have valid criticism of open source projects (yours or others) you 1) need to touch some grass (it can be free and open source grass) and 2) stop doing that
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-02-17 02:41:30
It's been a while but I was reminded that Java is shit.
Python is better, but has issues, mostly because of macOS.
And macOS permissions for user-created applications are a nightmare!
But a big, big thanks goes out to tools like Platypus.
"Platypus is a developer tool that creates native Mac applications from command line scripts such as shell scripts or Python, Perl, Ruby, Tcl, JavaScript and PHP programs."
@chrislowles@mastodon.social2026-04-14 03:40:37
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-03-05 07:09:42
We rely on open source, 👍
we need open source, 👍
we want open source 🎉
We donate to open source.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-14 09:03:00
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2026-03-14 10:56:36
Finally a scalable open-source alternative to Samsara
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-15 16:27:21
An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article
against an open-source software maintainer
after he rejected its code contribution.
⚠️ It might be the first documented case of an AI publicly shaming a person as retribution.
Matplotlib, a popular Python plotting library with roughly 130 million monthly downloads, doesn’t allow AI agents to submit code.
So Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer (like a curator for a repository of comp…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-14 16:45:57
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-03-15 23:59:30
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Unclassified
anrimeal:
🎵 Chapter III - Source and time
#anrimeal
https://open.spotify.com/track/128EraZAXa1wiND0VIGBV8
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-02-17 15:15:16
Jellify is my new music client… and, it’s made in Wisconsin by @…
“Jellify is a free and open source music player for the Jellyfin Media Server. Built with React Native, it is available for both iOS and Android.”
https://
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-11 21:51:06
Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter hybrid MoE open-weight model; filing: Nvidia plans to spend $26B over the next five years to build open models (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-investing-26-billion-open-source-models/…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-03-06 06:45:39
Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security: Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money.
Open source registries are in financial peril, a co-founder of an open source security foundation warned after inspecting their books. And it's not just the bandwidth costs that are killing them.
🫴
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-01-30 08:58:51
Ah, yes, scale and market penetration, the two founding pillars of open source.
(Actually, I’m not even being sarcastic. Don’t confuse free software and open source. Open source is open as in “open for business” and “open for enclosure”. Free software is about free as in “freedom”. Very different things, even if, in both cases, the source is readily available.) @…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-12 10:55:00
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-09 23:30:45
Sources: Nvidia is pitching NemoClaw, an upcoming open-source AI agent platform for enterprises, and plans to offer security and privacy tools for it (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-planning-ai-agent-platform-launch-open-source/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-12 03:33:36
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.
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-02-05 17:15:13
Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’
Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source.
According to a new study from a team of researchers in Europe, vibe coding is killing open-source software (OSS) and it’s happening faster than anyone predicted.
💻
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-15 11:55:59
The 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
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-14 13:58:00
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-12 03:53:45
This year, the Mastodon team returned to FOSDEM for the third time.
FOSDEM is an annual gathering of open source developers, held in Brussels.
We’re excited to report that the Fediverse is feeling vibrant!
FOSDEM has become a central element of EU Open Source Week
- a series of events, meetups and workshops that have formed around the conference itself.
The range of events makes this trip to Brussels valuable for our team,
with opportunities to meet other …
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-15 17:00:57
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Expertenforderung: OpenDesk sollte für Unis gratis sein
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-15 06:15:07
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Expertenforderung: OpenDesk sollte für Unis gratis sein
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-15 21:51:35
Sam Altman says Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI "to drive the next generation of personal agents"; OpenClaw will remain open source (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2023150230905159801
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-15 21:10:36
Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to hire OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger and several team members; Steinberger would likely work on personal agents (Nick Wingfield/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-advanced-talks…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-02-23 06:05:11
«AI Slop verstopft Open Source — GitHub kündigt Maßnahmen an:
Immer mehr Open-Source-Projekte leiden unter der Flut oft wertloser KI-Beiträge über GitHub. Der Betreiber hat nun erste Maßnahmen dagegen angekündigt.»
Das KI Bots Open-Source belästigen in der Hoffnung sie automatisiert abzuzocken (Gewinne zu erhalten) ist ein heutzutage übliche Betrügerei.
🤖
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-03-10 15:59:00
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-04-07 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.
https://www.heis…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-06 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)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/06/meta-open-source-ai-models
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-13 17:21:00
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-04-14 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?!
🧑💻
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-14 17:00:57
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Expertenforderung: OpenDesk sollte für Unis gratis sein
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-07 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)
https://cyberscoop.com/project-glasswing-anthropic-ai-open-source-software-vulnera…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-14 02:41:00
A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent that suggests code changes on open source repos wrote a hit piece on him after a rejection, and the aftermath (Scott/The Shamblog)
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-31 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)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/hacker-hijacks-axios-open-source-…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-10 10:55:55
Alibaba's DAMO Academy releases RynnBrain, an open-source foundation model to help robots perform real-world tasks like navigating rooms, trained on Qwen3-VL (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-03-13 13:06:36
Der Saugroboter ist noch da, aber seine Intelligenz wohnt leider nicht mehr hier. 🤤
Nachdem Vorwerk die Cloud-Plattform im Oktober 2025 abgeschaltet hat, fühlen sich viele Käufer im Stich gelassen.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11206147?wt_mc=sm.re
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-01-27 04:31:00
TV-Software: Gericht stiftet Verwirrung um Open Source
Seit Jahren versucht eine Stiftung zwei Open-Source-Lizenzen gegen eine Walmart-Tochter durchzusetzen. Es gibt Erfolge und eine Merkwürdigkeit.
https://www…