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"For Researchers in the Humanities, Is Open Really Fair?" @ Katina Magazine
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/for-researchers-in-the-humanities-is-open-really-fair
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"For Researchers in the Humanities, Is Open Really Fair?" @ Katina Magazine
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/for-researchers-in-the-humanities-is-open-really-fair
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A concrete case study from Svendborg Kommune is fascinating to follow.
It's crucial to be open and honest about what we do and don't know. Use lots of different ways to talk to and connect with different groups.
#NCKF25
Geyser is a crowdfunding system.
Lots of history of patrons raising funds from the public for art works or public infrastructure.
Kickstarter and the like on the internet made this much easier. But it's all bank money which is conservative and restrictive. Not global. High fees and middle men.
So doing it freely with bitcoin makes some sense. Censorship resistance and global scope.
Geyser has been running and funding projects for a while. Non custodial and money goes to creators only if target reached in time, otherwise returned.
All open source in smart contracts on chain.
#bitfest #bitcoin #crowdfunding
Digitalstrategie: Bayern setzt auf zentrale Infrastruktur, Microsoft & Bayern‑KI
Bayern will eine zentrale IT-Infrastruktur aufbauen – mit an Bord sind die Anstalt für Kommunale Datenverarbeitung in Bayern, aber auch Microsoft.
Microsoft Open Sources Zork I, II, and III Source Code https://www.thurrott.com/classic-technology/329907/microsoft-open-sources-zork-i-ii-and-iii-source-code
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The System:
🎵 Don't Disturb This Groove
#TheSystem
https://misounds.bandcamp.com/track/the-system-dont-disturb-this-groove-m-i-sounds-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6GAn3ar2CL8wUg0MbICZvp
NATO to open second Ukraine arms supply hub in January 2026: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/22/nato-to-open-second-ukraine.html
A bit annoying that free/open source communities are almost all hosted by a closed source platform owned by microsoft AI who use it to IP-wash all those projects by training LLMs.. While also supporting genocide etc.
Migrating the big @… and @…
NFL news roundup: Buccaneers open DT Calijah Kancey's 21-day practice window https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-wednesday-dec-24
Berlin veröffentlicht auf dem Open-Data-Portal (https://daten.berlin.de) Datensätze. Hier die Zahl der monatlichen 'Impressions' (Aufrufe?) für Datensätze aus dem Kulturbereich. Die Ausleihzahlen der @…
Paperless-ngx
Paperless-ngx is a community-supported open-source document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, less paper.
🌱 https://docs.paperless-ngx.com
I've set up a #TriliumNotes server to test it as a replacement for my job-related Trello. Phew... I've rarely seen an app that looks so daunting when you first start it up. Dozens of buttons, menus, features... and on first start it wants a password but you can't use it with multiple users. You need multiple servers for that or encrypt a set of private notes.
Trilium integra…
Been working on Corsi-Rosenthal like filters devices and it's really nice to see them just sucking up PM2.5 particles in minutes when put in a room
Trying to make ones that look a bit less like a DIY shitshow and more professional
Really great and happy with these, considering making a little Open Source project for the few designs I made
Image is a prototype I put together but not yet finished the box with varnish or anything but really loving this
(background he…
So, the new LLM from Zhipu, GLM 4.6, is about as good at coding as Anthropic's Sonnet 4.5. but roughly 8 times cheaper. It's impressive since, apparently, Zhipu has raised 13x less capital than Anthropic. Additionally, since GLM 4.6 is an open(ish) model, the inference costs will come down rapidly.
The beginning of the end for the #AI investment bubble?
#AIResearch #opensource
One of the world’s premier security organizations has canceled the results of its annual leadership election
-- after an official lost an encryption key needed to unlock results stored in a verifiable and privacy-preserving voting system.
The International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR) said Friday that the votes were submitted and tallied using Helios,
an open source voting system that uses peer-reviewed cryptography to cast and count votes in a verifiable, con…
Cowboys open 21-day windows for Cooper Beebe, DeMarvion Overshown, Shavon Revel Jr. https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-open-21-day-windows-for-cooper-beebe-demarvion-overshown-shavon-revel-jr
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
Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam https://www.zdnet.com/article/europes-plan-to-ditch-us-tech-giants-is-built-on-open-source-and-its-gaining-steam/
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Christmas is a doctor.
Open wide.
Say "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Richard Stallman: "Chatbots sind Bullshit-Generatoren"
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es gibt zwei neue folgen vom #podcast "The Future is Open Science":
"FOS 54 Paper Mills und Fake Journals" https://podcast.zbw.eu/fos/2025/12/23/
Their father, who they thought was human, revealed himself to be a man of the soil once drunk. Crackling browns darkened by wine dribbling down his chin, writhing with small insects and budding flora. They couldn't bear laying eyes on his breath any longer, the flood was all of God's open might they could handle.
I haven't been meditating regularly and I always feel immediate benefit when I do. In part things get better when you do meditate, but it becomes hard to see the contrast as you did when you started again.
Sometimes changing techniques from open-observation, focused attention, mindfulness to either a more visceral practice like alternating nostril breathing or contemplative practice can be useful and welcome change if your previous practice lacks vigor or feels mundane.
I loo…
@… I probably did not test to tell whether the issue is reproducible after booting the installed system.
If reproducible in both ways when release candidate time comes: I guess, list a known issue <https://www…
I hope iPadOS 26.2 fixes the issue where open folders auto-close when coming out of applications in windowed mode. It is quite annoying. Especially when you were going to open a related app in the same folder.
Unsere #Politiker machen Lippenbekenntnisse zu #digitaleSouveränität aber wenn's ums Entscheiden geht, dann verstehen sie die Rolle von #FOSS offenbar überhaupt nicht:
Analyse zum Di…
Browns need to open up holes for Quinshon Judkins | Keys to the Game https://www.clevelandbrowns.com/news/browns-need-to-open-up-holes-for-quinshon-judkins-keys-to-the-game
🎉 A huge thank you to TiDB for being a Silver Sponsor of SCaLE 23x! Your support helps us celebrate the power of open source technology! Learn more about TiDB's cutting-edge distributed SQL database at http://www.pingcap.com. See you in Pasadena!
#Magika 1.0: Smarter, Faster #FileDetection with Rust and AI
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/magika-
20m from NC seems to be open only to MA this afternoon...
After 20 minutes of fruitlessly calling CQ on my 40 efhw deployed in an inverted V, I switched to my 33' random wire deployed as a sloper. All my QSOs so far have been MA. And not many of those. I'm at a 2fer and still not getting a lot of takers. Only three so far, and I have a deadline so I may just not have a successful activation. For my first 2fer... 😭
Maybe I'll try hunting again.
Localsend is Great!
If you need a App that flawless send files to your cross platfom devices, Try Localsend.
No cloud or internet needed.
End-to-end encrypted transfers.
Simple, user-friendly interface.
Open-source.
Plus, European-developed (German) and privacy-focused.
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Spotify disables accounts after open-source group scrapes 86 million songs from platform https://therecord.media/spotify-disables-scraping-annas
Microsoft Open Sources Zork I, II, and III Source Code https://www.thurrott.com/classic-technology/329907/microsoft-open-sources-zork-i-ii-and-iii-source-code
RE: https://alpaca.gold/@Jeremiah/115582068879659968
European Commission actively engaged with FOSS - free and open source software - to build different, read non-US, digital ecosystem 🧵
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
#FreeSoftwareAdvent finale 2025! Without these free and open source projects our pipeline couldn't exist at all:
Python, the VFX world's favourite programming language. And of course... Linux itself 🥳
Happy Holidays!
Auf der gemeinsam von UB und HRZ der #UniMarburg organisierten Veranstaltung „CoCreate: Wissen gemeinsam organisieren - #OpenScience“ stelle ich nachher in einem Pitch vor, wie wir beim DDK - Bildarchiv #FotoMarburg
Richard Stallman: "Chatbots sind Bullshit-Generatoren"
Der Gründer der Free Software Foundation macht auf Europatour auch Halt in München. Dort mahnt er zu mehr Einsatz von Open Source – gerade beim Staat.
htt…
Derrick Ross from Shakespeare reckons there open web is in trouble because you got to be a dev to build a website.
He seems to think his app Shakespeare can make it easier to make a web app by using ai 😕
"Build me a Twitter like website" is the kind of instruction he thinks it will handle.
A local app running on your own machine, though calling the big ai model apis. Including if you have the power at home to run deep seek or open models.
I find myself suspecting it'd be hard for vibe coders who aren't devs to tell if they had vibe coded buggy insecure software or not.
#vibeCoding #nostershire
Yesterday was my last day of this term's teaching Communication at the School of Engineering. So time to say good by to the little fellow living in TH547 and attending all lectures! He was there even on days none of the 33 students showed up
#AcademicChatter #TeachingElephant
In der Episode 6 des ShareCast des Zentrums für Verantwortungsbewusste Digitalisierung (@…) geht es um Open Source und ob das alles super ist. ich darf mal wieder ein bisschen in die Suppe spucken:
https://
Robert Saleh wants to be a head coach again -- but isn't desperate after 49ers return https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47384999/is-san-francisco-49ers-robert-saleh-open-being-head-coach-again-2026
"“Papers with Code” went offline, the knowledge doesn’t have to" @…: https://blog.tib.eu/2025/10/02/papers-
heise | Mac als lokales KI-System: So geht's
Wer Aufgaben an Chatbots wie ChatGPT & Co. delegiert, muss den Betreibern oft sensible Daten anvertrauen. Mit dem Open-Source-Projekt Ollama geht das lokal.
https://www.<…
I finally got my first Raspberry Pi, for a totally different usecase, but it certainly won't be the last.
I just discovered that I could build my own MIDI-synth with one:
#RaspberryPi
Denmark Begins its Exit from Microsoft — and This is Just the Beginning
https://itsfoss.com/news/denmark-road-traffic-authority-ditches-microsoft/
'The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning.'
Microsoft: 'We welcome competition, and there need not be a contradiction between open source and what Microsoft delivers.'
Microsoft could have avoided vendor lock ins for decades and datagrabbing. 😇🙃
(Via @… & @… )
:linux: Yes, I use #Secureblue #Linux
Starging this Sunday, every single Toronto Public Library will be open on Sunday.
Thank you Olivia Chow for that
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/city-hall/all-toronto-…
In acht Tagen spreche ich im #39C3 Sendezentrum im c’t uplink Podcast mit @… und anderen Gästen über #DigitaleSouveränität.
Habt Ihr dazu in letzter Z…
Books Say NFL Field is 'as Wide Open as We've Seen in a Long Time' https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/books-say-nfl-field-as-wide-open-weve-seen-long-time
I'm running a German-speaking Mastodon instance with half-open registration. So when I receive an account application in English, it's almost always from a bot or click-worker/slave trying to create sleeper accounts for use in spam campaigns. Here is a rather disingenious, very generic application that came in today:
I would like to register on this site to explore its features, connect with the community, and contribute valuable insights. I’m genuinely interested in engagi…
So, initial thoughts so far on the Clockwork uConsole:
- The trackball is pretty bad, would classify it as barely functional.
- Wifi does not work which severely limits things...maybe an antenna problem? Verified it was securely installed on the CM4 module.
- Install isn't bad, very solid device.
- The thermal pad for the RPi CM4 is waaaay too thick.
#clockwork…
Will we see you tomorrow at Tech Pizza Monday? VICTORY CAFE whoops, that was too loud, Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W., 6 PM. With any luck, we will have some printouts of the paper we will discuss at on tje following Monday. Come for the pizza, also, stay for the pizza, not to mention the discussions about free and open technology for a free and open society. #Toronto
Open Webinar IIP – 28 ottobre 2025 – Diritto dei dati 2005-2025, lezioni apprese e strumenti operativi: un’unica rotta per l’impresa digitale
https://www.istitutoitalianoprivacy.it/202
Memory lane.
Many of my generation remember that feeling. When you had to go to school all day, only to come home, open MSN to talk to your friends, use a buzzer to get their attention, open your mailbox to find out there was no email, and share that computer with your whole family. Or when you got your first mobile phone—most likely a Nokia 3310—which you might still have after 20 years, with one block of battery remaining. Remember when you had to ask for directions to a street you’d…
Cash-flows in the #AIBubble, in one neat diagram. Carole Cadwalladr has one question, "when will it pop". No answer yet, but the question is delicious. https://open.substack.com/pub/broligar
Be part of the conversation about how to #DefendResearch, support #OpenAccess, and protect #Education! Register for next week's SJSU OA Virtual Conference, where I'm very excited …
I can't stop laughing at how nonsensical it is to use the XKCD block tower supported by tiny block meant to represent a open source project maintained by one person for the cloudflare outage. It's not some tiny one person operation.
This website illustrates nicely how the US lost the competition–at least for now–in open(ish) LLM models: #AIResearch #AGI_hype
/via Wired
Panel talking about dark markets on nostr.
Nostr can be quite anonymous and encrypted and connected to payment via bitcoin. Can it therefore do Silk Road? Allow anonymous markets?
Nobody wants to publicly advocate for selling illegal drugs, but yeah, sure, people could do that. There's even protocol types for market places.
Relay owners might get into legal issues if they are forwarding illegal market listings. But this is true in general, there are also illegal images and even illegal text.
Nostr relays and Devs might find themselves in legal trouble anyway, due to the general legal crackdowns on internet requiring age proof and id on websites obstensively to protect kids. These are freedoms we all need to fight for. Perhaps brains will drain to more free jurisdictions? Devs move to where open development is legal? Not the panel at least. They want to say at home.
#nostr #nostrshire #darkMarkets
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 letter to President Trump: Protect legal Ukrainian workers in US: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/17/open-letter-to-president-trump.html
We're thrilled to have Software Freedom Conservancy as a Network Sponsor at SCaLE 23x! Your dedication to promoting free and open source software makes a difference. See you in Pasadena, March 5-8, 2026! 🎉 Check them out: https://sfconservancy.org/
Tracking the NFL playoff picture: Updated chances to clinch open spots, win division titles https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/47248728/2025-nfl-playoff-live-odds-updated-chances-clinch-bracket-projecti…
Hi @… @… people!
If you'd like to support encourage software and community development of Strudel, Tidal and sibling projects, now would be great time!
Hier die Folien zu meinem kurzen Impuls heute bei der @… -Jahreskonferenz: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16970805
Hauptpunkte:
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What is Anarcho-Syndicalism and how we work: An Open letter to Media and all workers all over the world
https://iwa-ait.org/content/what-anarcho-syndicalism-and-how-we-work-open-letter-media-and-all-workers-all-over-world<…
Nvidia übernimmt den Open-Source-Anbieter SchedMD
Um sein Open-Source-Software-Ökosystem zu stärken und KI-Innovationen voranzutreiben, adquiriert Nvidia den Softwareentwickler SchedMD.
https://www.
Not often the new stack writes anything coherent these days.
https://thenewstack.io/put-a-fork-in-it-the-future-of-open-source-thats-done/
Cowboys to open practice window for injured OL, sign 2nd-round WR to active roster https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/cowboys-open-practice-window-for-injured-ol-sign-2nd-round-wr-to-active-roster
RE: https://social.opensource.org/@policy/115575889086954433
Sure, bringing more Open Source into public infrastructures would be great. Pouring more funding (and structural support) into that space also would be fantastic.
But what has "AI…
The Færdselsstyrelsen
(Danish Road Traffic Authority)
is becoming the first agency to pilot SIA Open,
a government-wide project by Statens IT
(Danish Governmental IT Agency)
designed to replace Microsoft services with open source alternatives.
With this, they are not stopping at just Office apps.
Færdselsstyrelsen will be replacing both the Windows operating system and Microsoft's suite of applications
(Word, Excel, Teams, and Outlook)
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves. https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/
"How Libraries Can Shape the Next Era of Open Education" @ Katina Magazine: https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/how-libraries-can-shape-the-next-era-of-open-education
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"Although Ecosia is a not-for-profit, they seem to be re-enacting the for-profit erosion of human knowledge and the active murder of the open web currently being orchestrated by Google and the other tech giants."
(Original title: Ecosia’s “Green AI”: false hope for corrosive tech)
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NFL predictions: NFC North race is wide open entering Week 16
https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/nfl-predictions-nfc-north-race-is-wide-open-entering-week-16/
Have a OSS story to share? Come join us at #scale23x. Our #CFP is still open!
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/c
Cowboys open 21-day IR-return window for 3 key players, including third-round rookie https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/20/cowboys-update-ir-status-of-beebe-overshown-rookie-re…
#heiseshow: EU-Strafe für X, Open-Source im Norden, UKW für die Schweiz
In der #heiseshow: EU-Kommission verhängt Millionenstrafe gegen X, Schleswig-Holstein setzt auf Open Source und die Schweiz verschiebt die UKW-Abschaltung.
"Austausch zum Thema #Schattenbibliotheken" – Einladung von Anna Schwerdtel, Nina Gerlach, @… und @…:
Follow live: Bills open scoring with James Cook's 45-yard rushing TD https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47037314/buffalo-bills-houston-texans-highlights-week-12-thursday-night-football-best-play…
"When Focusing on Terminology Becomes a Hurdle to Open Access Outreach"
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/focusing-on-terminology-hurdle-open-access-outreach
"Convers…
Schleswig-Holsteins E-Mail-Systeme auf Open Source umgestellt
Die Landesverwaltung Schleswig-Holsteins hat den Umstieg ihres Mailsystems von Microsoft Exchange und Outlook auf Open-Source-Lösungen vollzogen.
h…
Cowboys to ‘Look at Everything’ as NFL Trade Deadline Approaches https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/schottenheimer-nfl-trade-deadline/?adt_ei=[email]
Seahawks deliver wild win to open NFL Week 16; College Football Playoff begins with Alabama vs. Oklahoma
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-16-college-footbal…
Digitale Souveränität zahlt sich aus! 💻 Schleswig-Holstein zeigt, dass der Umstieg auf Open-Source-Software nicht nur die technologische Unabhängigkeit stärkt, sondern auch den Landeshaushalt entlastet.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11105389?wt_mc=sm.re
George Pickens' future with Cowboys gets open door from Jerry Jones https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/george-pickens-future-dallas-cowboys-open-door-jerry-jones
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Schleswig-Holstein: Verwaltung m E-Mail-Migration auf Open Source fertig
What's wrong with NFL powerhouses? Early struggles leading to most wide open title race in 15 years
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-pow
Cloud: Zoff in Bayern wegen Milliardenauftrag an Microsoft ohne Ausschreibung
Das Open-Source-Lager, Informatiker und IT-Wirtschaft warnen vor Verlust der digitalen Souveränität in Bayern und fordern den Stopp der Microsoft-Verhandlungen.
Donnerstag: Open-Source-Office aus deutscher Cloud, M365-Copilot ohne US-Cloud
Ionos Nextcloud Workspace startet Microsofts lokale Clouds Reform der EU-Datengesetze Banken-Risiko der KI-Finanzierung KI ohne Bildrechte #heiseshow
Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Cloud: Zoff in Bayern wegen Milliardenauftrag an Microsoft ohne Ausschreibung