Tootfinder

Since the topic came up in the whole "I run models locally so it's all fine" conversation:
"Open Source AI" does not meaningfully exist. It's just openwashing proprietary shit
https://tante.cc/2024/10/16/does-open-source-ai-really-exist/…

Does Open Source AI really exist?
The OSI has presented their definition of Open Source AI and a closer reading only shows that "Open Source AI" probably just isn't a thing that can exist.

heise | Nach Deepseek: So geht es mit der chinesischen Open-Source-KI weiter
Die offenen Modelle, die vor allem in China vorangetrieben werden, setzen sich weltweit immer mehr durch, auch in Universitäten und Entwickler-Communities.

Projects with open codebases like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in the average quality of submissions, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/for-open-source-prog…

For open source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing | TechCrunch
AI coding tools have enabled a flood of bad code that threatens to overwhelm many projects. Building new features is easier, but maintaining them is just as hard.

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

Open-Source Thermostatic Radiator Valve (OpenTRV) - OpenTRV retrofit open-source reference mechanical/hardware/software design for zoned heating to save carbon and money. #OpenTRV #TRV #heating

Open-Source Thermostatic Radiator Valve (OpenTRV)
OpenTRV retrofit open-source reference mechanical/hardware/software design for zoned heating to save carbon and money. #OpenTRV #TRV #heating #cutCarbon

from my link log —
Verilator: open-source SystemVerilog simulator and lint system.
https://github.com/verilator/verilator
saved 2026-03-20 https://

Skip, the SwiftUI for Android stack is now open source.
The post details how they are going to fund their future work:
https://skip.dev/blog/skip-is-free/

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…

#Leanstral: #OpenSource foundation for trustworthy #vibecoding
https://

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…

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…

I have been thinking about how LLM agents pose a threat to open source projects and what strategies can offer us at least some protection. Nevertheless, this is likely to remain a challenge: https://cusy.io/en/blog/how-llm-agents-endanger-open-source-projects.html

Digitale Unabhängigkeit: Berlins vorsichtiger Abschied von Microsoft & Co.
Eine neue Open-Source-Strategie soll die Hauptstadt aus den Fesseln von Tech-Giganten befreien. Doch es bleibt im Gegensatz zu anderen Ländern bei vagen Marken.

Whoever runs their account does more harm than good to their brand.

#smallweb that only contains personal blogs (no medium)

“Clawdbot can execute Terminal commands, write scripts on the fly and execute them…”
I don’t even trust myself to do those things before 9am most days!
I just do not think I can be convinced I need a “digital assistant” in my life or on my computers (with elevated permissions, no less). https://mastodon…

Federico Viticci :ticciseal: (@viticci@macstories.net)
Attached: 1 image An open-source AI agent running on my Mac mini server is the most fun and productive experience I've had with AI in a while. Clawdbot by @steipete@mastodon.social is a personal AI assistant that you can infinitely tweak. It runs in any messaging app (!), has access to skills, can use the shell, and – notably – it can improve itself because it's completely open to customization. My story: Clawdbot Showed Me What the Future of Personal AI Assistants Looks Like https://ww…

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

Nennt's doch nicht Souveränität. Nennt es doch, was es ist: Deutsche Software, europäische Software, oder Open-Source-Software, oder was auch sonst Ihr damit meint.
Die deutsche 'digitale Souveränität', also weder US- noch chinesische IT-Komponenten, oder nur, wenn Microsoft sagt, dass es europäisch sei, auch wenn Microsoft drin ist - das ist doch nicht meine 'digitale Souveränität', bei der ich weiß, wo meine Daten landen und das auch ändern kann.

«Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'
Projects like @… are being swamped by contributors who may not even understand the code they're submitting.»
The AI will still create security issues in general. Open-source software suffers from t…

Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'
Projects like Godot are being swamped by contributors who may not even understand the code they're submitting.

Ground Station: An Open Source SDR Orchestration Platform for Satellite Tracking and Decoding

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 …

On prend le temps mais on y va, doucement 🤞
https://www.clubic.com/actualite-595870-booster-l-open-source-bruxelles-recoit-des-centaines-de-reponses-pour-faire-avancer-le-projet.html

Booster l'open source : Bruxelles reçoit des centaines de réponses pour faire avancer le projet
Lancée début janvier, la consultation publique sur l'open source européen n'est pas passée inaperçue. Celle-ci a collecté déjà près de 600 réponses en seulement quelques jours, émanant d'organisations, de sociétés ou de citoyens.

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116110194513314869
seeing a future of personal computing with people running open source operating systems on their outdated cyberdecks with scrounged-up hardware from the detritus that datacenters leave behind when the next generation of GPUs and storage becomes available (but only to large corporations)
very cyberpunk

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

AI bros are just loving open source — loving it to death... maybe quite literally! (Godot being latest popular example[1])
More and more projects are impacted by floods of bogus AI pull requests and resulting discussions, stealing precious time and nerves away from their maintainers doing actual productive work. More buggy and insecure software (incl. commercial offerings) due to slopcoding, more websites getting attacked daily by AI crawlers in desperate search for any new bits (liter…

Mastodon, a decentralized, open source social media platform and alternative to centralized social media apps like X and Threads,
announced on Wednesday its plans to make its platform more approachable for newcomers
while also targeting creators with the launch of new features.
The changes follow the expansion of Mastodon’s core development team over the past 18 months
to include people with experience across web and mobile and back end,
as well as the hiring o…

Mastodon, a decentralized alternative to X, plans to target creators with new features | TechCrunch
Mastodon is looking to grow its open source, decentralized social network with new features aimed at creators.

Berlin wagt den ersten Schritt in Richtung Open-Source! 🐧 Die Hauptstadt hat erkannt, dass die jahrzehntelange Abhängigkeit von proprietärer Software nicht nur teuer ist, sondern angesichts geopolitischer Spannungen auch ein Sicherheitsrisiko darstellt.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11148087

Die EU-Kommission will Open Source als Kern der digitalen Souveränität stärken – aber statt nur zu forschen soll OSS kommerzieller und strategisch unterstützt werden. Öffentliche Verwaltungen sollen OSS nutzen, Lieferketten sicherer werden. Kritisch bleibt: Kommerzialisierung ≠ Gemeinwohl. | #netzpolitik.org | 🇪🇺

from my link log —
Fairphone and /e/ team up to build open source, Google-free, sustainable smartphone.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/fairphone-and-e-team-up-to-build-open-source-sustainable-smartphone/…

Fairphone and /e/ team up to build open source, sustainable smartphone
The Fairphone 3 becomes an open source, Google-less, repairable smartphone.

A post from the archive 📫:
Debugger Tip - Step into a specific method
#debugging

Digitale Unabhängigkeit: Berlins vorsichtiger Abschied von Microsoft & Co. | heise online
https://heise.de/-11148087

Digitale Unabhängigkeit: Berlins vorsichtiger Abschied von Microsoft & Co.
Eine neue Open-Source-Strategie soll die Hauptstadt aus den Fesseln von Tech-Giganten befreien. Doch es bleibt im Gegensatz zu anderen Ländern bei vagen Marken.

Politics
https://open.substack.com/pub/jimehansen/p/politics?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
> James Hansen

What comes next is the next stage of enshittification: monetization
Has anyone seen any hint of a real revenue source for BSky? I know that at one point they had a domain registrar partnership deal, but that can’t pay for a billion-user social network. @…

Jay 🦋 (@jay.bsky.team)
I raised a Series B last year for Bluesky to build the open social web. I want to thank our investors who share our vision, our users who light up the network (2.4B posts and counting), and the developers bringing the Atmosphere to life. Can’t wait to show you all what comes next! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

We found the cyber Amish :
#ai #cyberamish

Security: Learning the Language of Privacy by Matthew Plascencia
Watch now: https://youtu.be/qV5KVKQdCmI?si=imAhOc_xz9p-MfAn
🔒 Dive into the essentials of privacy and security in the open source world!

1/2 Two new blog pieces. In which I have opinions about GenAI and open-source: #GenAI

Open Source and GenAI?

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…

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 patches WebKit flaw, Chinese hacker group steals $7m posing as a cyber firm, much more

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 ×.
…

Open source software valued at $8 trillion in Harvard study
"Any time you spend on building that software to operate is time taken away from building the services that customers really want and will pay for. Open source software helps companies get to their goals faster..."

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

GLM-5: The World’s Strongest Open-Source LLM Solely Trained on Chinese Huawei Chips
The listed Chinese AI company Zhipu AI has introduced GLM-5, the fifth generation of its large language model. The model comprises 745 billion parameters

A research project led by the University of Glasgow has launched a free, open-source tool designed to make AI systems more trustworthy by enabling more rigorous audits, including by non-experts.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/uk-research…

UK researchers launch AI audit tool for non-experts
A research project led by the University of Glasgow has launched a free, open-source tool designed to make AI systems more trustworthy by enabling more ...

Lightning AI merges with data center operator Voltage Park to create an "AI cloud" with a $2.5B valuation, managing 35,000 Nvidia GPUs across six data centers (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

AI Startup Merges With A Billionaire-Backed Data Center Operator In $2.5 Billion Deal
The startup behind open source tool PyTorch Lightning has merged with compute provider Voltage Park to create a “full stack AI cloud” to serve corporates and startups like Cursor.

"Capable LLMs require a logic of dominance and of disregarding consent of the people producing the artifacts that are the raw material for the system. LLMs are based on extraction, exploitation and subjugation. Their politics is violence. How does one “liberate” that? What’s the case for open source violence?"
(Original title: Acting ethically in an imperfect world)

Acting ethically in an imperfect world
Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are […]

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 EU Commission is currently gathering feedback from open source communities in order to tailor its open source funding accordingly. Wouldn’t that also be something for @…?

Deutschland-Stack: Open-Source-Bündnis warnt vor „Souveränitäts-Washing“
Die OSB Alliance kritisiert Schlupflöcher für Hyperscaler und fordert eine ausnahmslose Open-Source-Strategie für die neue staatliche Technologie-Plattform.

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-…

Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026: Talking To Drones: Natural Language Cont...
View more about this event at Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026

Open Slopware
“Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.”
#AI

open-slopware
Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives. Fork of the repo by @gen-ai-transparency after its deletion.

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.

Empörung zum Sondervermögen? Eigentor!
Warum die Studien zum Sondervermögen und die reaktionäre Empörung darüber falsch sind. Und was die bessere Strategie für Progressive wäre

Video tutorials for modern ideas and open source tools. #python

Code. Simply. Clearly. Calmly.
Short and simple video lessons that start from scratch. Tools and thoughts that might make your professional life more enjoyable.

Collabora Online
<https://www.collaboraonline.com/>
The Collabora name is instantly recognisable but somehow, I had forgotten the open source aspect: <

#OpenTelemetry Project Publishes “Demystifying OpenTelemetry” Guide to Broaden Observability Adoption
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/02/opentelemetry-observability/

Wenn Souveränität nur heißt „Server stehen in Europa“, wird sie zur Worthülse. Tim Schlotfeldt kritisiert zu Recht, dass das BSI Daten-Souveränität mit digitaler Souveränität gleichsetzt – entgegen klarer Definitionen des IT-Planungsrats.
@…
👉

“To keep the power in the hands of developers and honor its deep roots in open source, Netlify is committed to being good stewards of the Gatsby open-source project”
February 2023
https://www.netlify.com/press/netlify-acqu

Another way of dealing with many low-quality reports:
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/hackerone-signal-requirement

Node.js — New HackerOne Signal Requirement for Vulnerability Reports
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.

Wonder how many folks have joined the waitlist... https://office.eu/

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/879623/openclaw-founder-peter-steinberger-joins-openai

I particularly liked the summary "Understanding the Limits of Documentary Evidence". A #MustRead for #genealogy #familyhistory

What Happens When AI Analyzes a 160-Year-Old Murder Case—Without the Legend
For 160 years, the story of Tom Dula has been filtered through folklore, ballads, and legend.

#Berlin will sich langfristig von #Windows und #MicrosoftOffice lösen und setzt auf eine neue #OpenSource

Open-Source-Strategie: Mit diesem Plan will Berlin weg von Windows und Office - Golem.de
Mit Schulungen, Sprechstunden und Prototypen des Linux-PCs will die Berliner Verwaltung sich selbst verändern - eine große Aufgabe.

Weitere Experimente mit Ghost durchgeführt. Die Anwendung ließ sich mit Dokploy leicht installieren. Wie immer - Teufel im Detail. Email-Konfiguration für User-Mails und Newsletterversand ist ein wenig tricky. Ansonsten ist dieses Publishing-System sehr leicht zu bedienen und die verschiedenen Themes machen einen optisch ansprechenden Eindruck.
https://ghost…

Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.

"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/

AI as economic warfare
People often ask me how I feel about open-source models, and to be clear, I'm very supportive of them. But I can't help pondering about the following... Open source always was and always will be a financial weapon by design. You see, one of the primary goals of open source

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung ​ ​

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…

Beim Weltwirtschaftsforum 2026 hat Eric Schmidt (ex-Google) Europa klargemacht: Ohne ernsthafte Investitionen und Open-Source-Strategien verliert der Kontinent im globalen KI-Wettbewerb. Regulierung ist wichtig, allein reicht sie nicht. Ein Blick auf Europas Wettbewerbsfähigkeit, ausgerechnet von Schmidt .... #KI #WEF

«Nextcloud Hub 26 vorgestellt. Der Weg zur echten Datensouveränität:
[…] End‑to‑end‑Verschlüsselung lässt sich direkt im Browser einrichten. Dateien können klassifiziert werden, damit sensible Inhalte automatisch geschützt bleiben. […]»
Spannend wie @… sich entwickelt aber weiss wer welche E2EE Technik sie einsetzen, sprich wo kann ich es nachsehen?…

Nextcloud Hub 26 vorgestellt. Der Weg zur echten Datensouveränität - fosstopia
Technik-Blog für Linux, Unix, Open Source, Cloud Computing, Nachhaltigkeit und Co.

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 …

Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung ​ ​
Die neue digitale Bibliothek der TIB Hannover verknüpft als Open-Source-Projekt Wissenschaftsergebnisse direkt mit Original-Daten und Programmcodes für alle.

Wenn Microsoft Unis mit Gratis-Software anfüttert, und die deutsche Open-Source-Lösung Eintritt verlangt, dann ist das keine „digitale Souveränität“ – das ist Cloud-Dating mit Folgen. 🙃 IT-Experten fordern: OpenDesk auch für Studis auf „Freemium“ setzen, bevor der Lock-in zur Beziehung fürs Leben wird! #heise #CloudLockIn

Expertenforderung: OpenDesk sollte für Unis gratis sein
Hochschul-IT-Vertreter warnen vor Abhängigkeit von US-Software und verlangen vom Bund kostenlose Lizenzen für die heimische Open-Source-Alternative OpenDesk.

There is a massive focus on trying to get Open Source software to the point where governments or big corporations can use them to "increase sovereignty" (which sometimes means a bit of a weird mix of things).
But that can lead to software being pushed towards more and more complex architectures and deployment strategies (think something like a simple collaborative editor needing Kubernetes to be deployable). While governments and certain companies might be able to shoulder tha…

In October last year, US chip giant Qualcomm acquired Italian open source electronics and software pioneer Arduino. Not everyone was happy.
https://www.computing.co.uk/interview/2026/arduino-ceo-we-will-always-be-open-source

Arduino CEO: We will always be open source
In October last year, US chip giant Qualcomm acquired Italian open source electronics and software pioneer Arduino. Not everyone was happy.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung ​ ​

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung ​ ​

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/…

Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models, Filings Show
The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.

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

Free Open-Source Whistleblower Platform Without Self-Hosting
Anonymous, end-to-end encrypted reporting for journalists, lawyers, employers, and more. Hush Line is a free & open-source whistleblower platform that provides secure, anonymous tip lines with no self-hosting, maintenance, or technical overhead.
🤫 https://hushline.app

Free Open-Source Whistleblower Platform Without Self-Hosting | Hush Line
Hush Line is a free & open-source whistleblower platform that provides secure, anonymous tip lines with no self-hosting, maintenance, or technical overhead.

Freitag bin ich zu Gast bei Breitband von Deutschlandfunkkultur. Wir sprechen über Open Source und "Digitale Souveränität".

„Crimson Desert“ angespielt: Das Zelda für Erwachsene erfordert starke Nerven
„Crimson Desert“ schürt große Erwartungen bei vielen Open-World-Fans. Nach rund 50 Spielstunden ergibt sich jedoch ein durchwachsenes Bild.

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

A nasty bit of undefined timezone behavior in Golang
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.

AI is a threat to the existence of open source software.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung ​ ​

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/

Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform
Ahead of its annual developer conference, Nvidia is readying a new approach to software that embraces AI agents similar to OpenClaw.

I'm really liking MacDown 3000 for editing and viewing Markdown files on macOS. Especially the ability to customize the style sheets.
#macOS

Home - MacDown 3000
MacDown 3000 - A free, open source Markdown editor for macOS with live preview, syntax highlighting, GitHub Flavored Markdown, and Apple Silicon optimization. Download the best lightweight Markdown editor for Mac.

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.
🫴

Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security
fosdem 2026: Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money

TROT-Open-Source-Roboter lässt Evolution von Vierbeinern nachvollziehen
Mit dem TROT-Roboter können Forscher evolutionäre Veränderungen von Vierbeinern vergleichen. Der Roboter ist Open Source und kann nachgebaut werden.

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

Digitale Souveränität kostet – und Deutschland hat die Rechnung lange ignoriert
Stolpersteine in Open Source-Projekten werden kritischer bewertet als Probleme, die es bei jeder SAP-Einführung gibt – und genau das verzerrt die Debatte. Parallel sind die realen Kosten der Micros…

NemoClaw: Nvidia erweitert OpenClaw um Sicherheitsfunktionen
Nvidia hat NemoClaw vorgestellt, einen Open-Source-Stack, der die Nutzung von KI-Agenten auf Basis von OpenClaw einfacher und sicherer gestalten soll.

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.
💻

Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’

Dienstag: Verfahren gegen X in Irland, Starlink erhält Genehmigung in Vietnam
Deep Fakes von Grok Starlink mit Betriebslizenz in Vietnam SPD: Forderung nach Social-Media-Verbot Kommentar zum SPD-Vorschlag Open-Source-Bündnis warnt

"The study Vibe Coding Kills Open Source, takes an economic view of the problem and asks the question: is vibe coding economically sustainable? Can OSS survive when so many of its users are takers and not givers? According to the study, no."
(Original title: Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue)

Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’

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…

KI-Hype OpenClaw: OpenAI nimmt österreichischen Entwickler unter Vertrag
Peter Steinberger hat OpenClaw entwickelt, einen mächtigen KI-Agenten für die eigene Hardware. Nun arbeitet er für OpenAI. OpenClaw bleibt Open Source.

Vorwerk schaltet Neato-Cloud ab: Tausende Nutzer fordern Open-Source-Lösung
Nach der vorzeitigen Abschaltung der Neato-Cloud-Plattform durch Vorwerk fordern tausende Nutzer in einer Petition den Erhalt ihrer smarten Saugroboter.

GitHub führt Maßnahmen gegen KI-Slop ein – ohne das Problem klar zu benennen
Viele Open-Source-Projekte haben ein Problem: Sie ertrinken in Codeänderungen, die mithilfe von KI erstellt wurden. GitHub ergreift jetzt Maßnahmen.

Euer Browser nervt mit KI-Assistenten, Shopping-Vorschlägen und ständigen „Mach mich zum Standard"-Popups? 😤 Der US-Journalist und Programmierer Corbin Davenport hat genug davon – und eine elegante Lösung entwickelt.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11143193

Kampf um digitale Souveränität: Experten fordern Gratis-OpenDesk für Unis
Hochschul-IT-Vertreter warnen vor Abhängigkeit von US-Software und verlangen vom Bund kostenlose Lizenzen für die heimische Open-Source-Alternative OpenDesk.

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Expertenforderung: OpenDesk sollte für Unis gratis sein

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Expertenforderung: OpenDesk sollte für Unis gratis sein

Bose-Lautsprecher: SoundTouch-Abschaltung entschärft und verschoben
Bose schaltet die Cloud-Funktionen von SoundTouch-Geräten nun doch etwas später ab. Verlorene Features könnte die Open-Source-Community kompensieren.

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…

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Expertenforderung: OpenDesk sollte für Unis gratis sein