2026-04-21 16:31:59
from my link log —
Open access to standards documents.
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-open-access-to-standards-documents/90856
saved 2026-05-21
LibreOffice teilt heftig aus:
Konkurrent OnlyOffice sei 'fake Open-Source'
The Document Foundation greift nach Microsoft nun auch OnlyOffice scharf an und warnt vor einem geschlossenen Ökosystem. Die Macher hinter LibreOffice bezeichnen den Konkurrenten als "falsches Open Source", das Nutzer in die Abhängigkeit treibt.
https://
This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright https://www.404media.co/this-ai-tool-rips-off-open-source-software-without-violating-copyright/
Open Source in der Verwaltung rechtlich gestärkt
https://www.linux-magazin.de/news/open-source-in-der-verwaltung-rechtlich-gestaerkt/
"Software-Beschaffung für öffentliche Verwaltungsbehörden sind durch die EVB-IT geregelt. Dank aktu…
I just published The Open Contributions Descriptor format as an IETF Internet-Draft.
#opensource #opendata #openstandard
"Wie wäre es, wenn die #EU mal so richtig groß in #OpenSource-Projekte investiert? Nicht ein bisschen hier, ein bisschen da. Nicht das eine Land sucht sich Projekt X aus Eigeninteresse heraus und macht dann das Nötigste, sondern wirklich breit – von Basistechnologien bis zum Desktop und einzelnen Program…
Trump keeps escalating his war against Iran. Sets deadline on Monday, shortly before midnight CET. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iran-nuclear-facility-fourth-week-us-troops-9.7137298?utm_source=flipboard&utm_me…
Moonshot introduces Kimi K2.6, an open-weight model that it says shows strong improvements in long-horizon coding tasks, available under a modified MIT License (Kimi AI)
https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-6
from my link log —
Verilator: open-source SystemVerilog simulator and lint system.
https://github.com/verilator/verilator
saved 2026-03-20 https://
Wait, those open source heroes in the Linux world who valiantly sell enterprise software and provide the infrastructure for surveillance capitalism are preemptively complying with fascism?
Why, say it ain’t so!
#linux #ageVerification
It’s impressive how eager open source projects are to fall in line to use dehumanizing technologies and to please fascists.
If this continues unabated I give personal computing maybe another 15 years and then they’ll make devices that aren’t dumb terminals to some cloud service illegal.
The levels of victimhood demonstrated by the "strudel studio" author charging $49 per year for the free/open source @… project, wrapped in their closed source editor plugin and abusing the (unregistered) strudel trademark with zero prior engagement with the community.
At this point if I looked I'd probably find many more similar projects an…
Part 1 of a new short story by Linda Teppler is out! Free to read on Substack #writingcommunity #banskolife #writing
The software presents as a web-based UI that allows users to manage satellite passes, view SDR waterfall data, decode basic signals such as GMSK telemetry, view telemetry packets, synchronize TLEs, manage multiple SDR devices, browse downloaded weather imagery, monitor DSP performance, and interface with antenna rotators.
Unlike tools such as SatDump, which focus primarily …
An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements by the University about “Generative AI”
https://medium.com/center-on-privacy-technology/an-open-letter-to-geor…
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
OpenDesk kann vieles, aber halt nicht alles. Das ist das Fazit einer Studie aus Zürich, die die Open-Source-Lösung als Microsoft 365-Alternative unter die Lupe genommen hat. 🔍
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11303065?wt_mc=sm.red.…
Im IT-Bereich gibt es eine besondere Form des ‚Whitewashings‘, nämlich das ‚Openwashing‘. Der Begriff beschreibt Software, die sich als Open-Source-Produkt ausgibt, es aber nicht ist. Um festzustellen, ob Software, die man einsetzen möchte, frei ist oder nur so tut, hilft: https://isitreallyfoss.com/
Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical cybersecurity developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--White House opens backchannel to Anthropic as Pentagon fight simmers,
--Anthropic gave NSA access to Mythos Preview,
--Anthropic's donation to open source developers highlights how under-sourced they are,
--Asian regulators urge banks to use Mythos,
--LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge Kelp DAO lost $292m in DPRK exploit…
We see and celebrate EU institutions that open shop in Mastodon, and those that add the Mastodon icon to their main website
One group of EU professionals ONLY have Mastodon as their social media contact
It's @… The Open Source Programme Office. They belong to the Directorate General of IT in the European Commission and their goal is to…
Auch Zürich will hybriden Ansatz ausprobieren.
#OpenDesk #digitaleSouveränität
an attack on free software maintainers... https://glama.ai/blog/2026-03-19-open-source-has-a-bot-problem
Open Slopware
“Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.”
#AI
Europe’s Digital Future
The EU Tech Sovereignty Package is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reclaim control over our digital foundations.
For too long, public sector procurement has defaulted to proprietary lock-in, creating a weak sovereignty posture that hinders European resilience.
We are calling for a fundamental shift: the Open Source First principle.
After 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…
Talking to Drones: Natural Language Control of PX4 Using a Phone, MCP and ChatGPT Realtime API
https://osselcna2026.sched.com/event/2JQsT/talking-to-drones-natural-language-control-…
My 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
The 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.
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
Open source is benefiting from the current AI trend: some projects are already improving their security posture and reducing their attack surface.
Proprietary software, for now, seems more out of the loop.
But once LLMs become better at analysing binaries, compiled code, and obfuscation, I wonder how vendors will handle the likely increase in vulnerability disclosures.
#ai
Digitale Souveränität klingt gut – aber wie wird eigentlich gemessen?
Bei Microsoft oder SAP gelten Probleme als normal:
„Kinderkrankheiten“, „Migration“, „gehört dazu“.
Bei Open Source? Sofort: „Risiko“, „Experiment“, „unkomfortbael“.
Warum messen wir mit zweierlei Maß? Solange diese Denke dominiert, bleibt Open Source ein Feigenblatt – und echte digitale Unabhängigkeit in weiter Ferne. #60Sekunden
«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.
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Paperweight è un'applicazione desktop open-source, pensata per l'utilizzo locale che analizza la tua casella di posta per mappare la tua impronta digitale e a riprendere il controllo e a eliminare i tuoi dati.
Cosa fa:
- Inventario degli account: mappa tutte le aziende che ti hanno mai contattato via email, con classificazione dei rischi e raccomandazioni sulle azioni da intraprendere.
- Annullamento iscrizione in blocco: trova e annulla l'iscrizione a tutte le li…
Heute um 9:15 Uhr wird der diesjährige Workshop des KIM – Kompetenzzentrum Interoperable #Metadaten eröffnet. Jede:r kann hier online teilnehmen: https://meet.academiccloud.de/gl/rooms…
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…
Finally found a #japanese keyboard for android that I like - Sumire ! Open-source, works offline, settings are usable in english, and installable from Fdroid! https://github.com/KazumaProject/Japan
Do you have experience developing Open Educational Resources (OER) or developing educational software? The Journal of Open Source Education (JOSE) is looking for reviewers to help with our check-list driven peer review process. Happy to answer questions about reviewing for JOSE if you're interested.
https://forms.gle/Rizd3TcHnQKhrbYY7
Wonder how many folks have joined the waitlist... https://office.eu/
@… the spirit of open source will never allow it. Instead, it's to be renamed:
LibreDaemon Noir Ultra
#FreeBSD
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 …
Maurice on 🔥:
"Progressive sollten besser politische Entscheidungen an sich kritisieren als technokratische Kniffe wie das #Sondervermögen, die die Schuldenbremse umgehen."
Die zirkulierenden 95% sind sus und irreführend.
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…
Google has re-engineered its search engine to keep users inside its own ecosystem with AI-powered interactive experiences. If your task is to find and critically assess information on the open web, you're fresh out of luck.
https://www.
Socket: TeamPCP, the gang claiming GitHub's repositories breach, also executed 20 "waves" of supply chain attacks recently, compromising 500 pieces of software (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/teampcp-software-supply-chain-attack-spree-github/…
⭐ 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
Vor 20 Jahren trat der erste bekannte Y2K38-Bug in Produktion auf.
Beim Open-Source-Webserver AOLserver führte „jetzt 1 Milliarde Sekunden“ erstmals über die 32-Bit-Zeitgrenze hinaus. Verbindungen liefen sofort ab, Timer kippten, Scheduler blockierten.
Das Jahr-2038-Problem war damit nicht mehr theoretisch.
Und 20 Jahre später ist es noch immer nicht gelöst.
"I can't help but wonder if the US economy backs itself so hard into a corner funding these research labs, and if these research labs receive a bailout, what does that mean for China? Why is China releasing these models for free?" https://ghuntley.com/warfare/
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
Yes siree, never a shortage of critical cybersecurity news, so check out today's Metacurity for the most important developments you should know, including
--Anthropic case puts courts at center of fight over AI supply chain authority,
--Iran officials tied to cyber ops killed in airstrikes,
--Bennett and Brassard win Turing Award,
--Japan to allow offensive operations starting Oct. 1,
--Tech giants pledge to help open source with AI bug surge,
--Apple p…
Stolpersteine in Open Source-Projekten werden kritischer bewertet als Probleme, die es bei jeder SAP-Einführung gibt. Parallel sind die realen Kosten der Microsoft-Abhängigkeit deutlich höher als offiziell ausgewiesen. Dank Trump muss sich der deutsche Staat bewegen und Schritt für Schritt bewegen.
#DigitaleSouveränität
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…
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.
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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…
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
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
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Münchens IT-Wende: Open Source ist für die neue Koalition der Normalfall
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…
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/
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…
I'm really liking MacDown 3000 for editing and viewing Markdown files on macOS. Especially the ability to customize the style sheets.
#macOS
Just 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
Socket, which helps companies safeguard open-source code against hackers, raised $60M led by Thrive Capital at a $1B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-20/security-firm-thwarting-…
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 — @…,
from my link log —
A nasty bit of implicit timezone behavior in Golang.
https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2021-09-03-golang-time-bugs/
saved 2021-09-04
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…
from my link log —
MiniZinc high-level solver-independent constraint satisfaction and optimization modelling language.
https://www.minizinc.org/index.html
saved 2019-09-30
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…
«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.
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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/…
«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.
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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/
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
Anthropic's Mythos adds to concerns about rising workloads for open-source maintainers, as many have already been dealing with a "crazy" number of bug reports (Chris Stokel-Walker/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
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…
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
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…
Servus, 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…
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig