@lanefu@social.linux.pizzaShort blog post on how a small fix I implemented for the ansible-netbox inventory plugin reminded me that often code changes, are just a small part of upstreaming a fix to a mature open source project. It can be a little challenging, or frustrating, but that's okay!
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@jom@social.kontrollapparat.deHey #Redhat fans, since the company is so #OpenSource and all. I'm looking for the source code for the "Red Hat AI Inference Server" product. Can anyone help me out? 'Cause I can't seem to find it. (not the vLLM the product is based on, but the actual prod…
@publicvoit@graz.socialImmer mehr Staaten, Organisationen und Kommunen entdecken, dass #digitaleSouveränität einen hervorragenden Wert darstellt und wechseln von #ClosedSource zu #OpenSource-Angeboten:
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialFirst day with #freshRss :
I love the feature to mark items as read based on keywords. This could be exactly what I was looking for.
(this was THE thing that I was missing in Feedly - maybe it's possible there on a paid plan, but that's what I didn't want. I'd rather donate to opensource
@frankel@mastodon.top
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsWhen the law enforcement is corrupt, the criminals roam free and the law is used to pursue people over personal dislikes. We really want the criminals out of law enforcement.
When the #CodeOfConduct enforcement is corrupt, the truly toxic people roam free and the rules are used to bully people over personal dislikes. Why do we applaud projects for adopting a CoC if they are not pursuing independent judgement?
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzHuh, fascinating: https://opencollective.com/opensource/updates/public-service-announcement-re-salt-typhoon Following this development with interest.
@fell@ma.fellr.netThe music selection at the @… social event was on point all night long. Too bad I was too busy socialising to actually enjoy it 😅
#FrOSCon #OpenSource
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialDe ongeveer 30.000 werknemers van de lokale overheid gebruiken nu niet langer Microsofts mailserversoftware Exchange en mailclient Outlook. Het gaat om ambtenaren op alle niveaus, maar ook om politiemensen en rechters. De minister van Digitalisering Dirk Schrödter verklaart dat de deelstaat onafhankelijk wil worden van grote techbedrijven en de digitale soevereiniteit wil waarborgen. "Nu kunnen we ook zeggen: missie geslaagd op het gebied van e-mailcommunicatie."
@teledyn@mstdn.caIs there such a thing as an opensource dB meter for #android? My many-years reliable playstore app just started blasting two-minute obnoxious audio adverts, and fdroid finds no matches 😒
@adulau@infosec.exchangeBeyond CVEs: Mastering the Landscape with Vulnerability-Lookup is finally online.
The talk was given at @… conference.
#opensource #vulnerability
@m0les@aus.socialI was googling whether there was a logo for the Open Source A.I. definition (OASID: https://opensource.org/ai). and I ended-up on one of those jolly logo generator websites. I think this one has delightful stalefish/surströmming vibes.
... and while you're here: Why not submit a talk proposal for the Every…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialSchleswig-Holstein macht Schluss mit #Microsoft-Mail und setzt voll auf #OpenSource. Digitale Unabhängigkeit statt Lizenzabhängigkeit – ein Signal für andere Länder.
Ein sechsmonatiger Umstellungsprozess mit mehr als 40.000 Postfächern mit insgesamt deutlich mehr als 100 Millionen E-Mails…
@markhburton@mstdn.social#Microsoft finishes swallowing #Github, the largest repository of #OpenSource software.
GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation | The Verge
@unixviking@social.linux.pizzaI've been thinking about trying OpenSuSE Tumbleweed for a few days now. My last attempt was several years ago.
#linux #opensource #freesoftware
@thijs_lucas@norden.socialWhoop whoop - Schleswig-Holstein geht voran bei der Digitalisierung und #OpenSource in der Landesverwaltung.
Für mich macht das ein gutes Gefühl in SH. Ich freue mich hier zu sein. Freue mich über so eine erfolgreiche und sinnvolle Regierungsarbeit. Getrieben von einem CDU-Minister.
@whitequark@mastodon.socialhey wanna see something cursed? https://web.archive.org/web/20230129154903/https://opensource.org/licenses/HPND
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngFinally found a great ad-free and tracking-free #OpenSource document scanner for iOS, with OCR and multi-page PDF output:
https://openscanner.app/
@rachel@norfolk.socialThat evening in the pub where one moment you’re chatting to a guy about his uncle who ran the Tan Hill Inn and the next moment you’re chatting to someone else about #OpenSource and, especially, the brilliance of @…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialIt's at least the second time that I see maintainers of "#opensource" be actively and strongly upset that people (as in other free/open source devs, not big corps) actually make use of the licensing terms that they gave to their software.
It's just baffling to me. Is it that people don't understand the implications of the licenses they choose? That they never actually believed in the freedoms they gave but just thought it sounded sexy somehow, wanting to have their cake and eat it too?
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social#OpenSource #inkjet #printer. I saw this on boing boing dot net. No idea how it’s supposed to work, but it sounds cool.
@jonippolito@digipres.club"They’re unknowingly becoming the bad guys”: AI-powered bounty hunters think they’re helping, but their fabricated bug reports are overwhelming solo maintainers like cURL’s Daniel Stenberg—who’s paid $92K for real flaws and now may scrap the program.
https://www.
@thomasrenkert@hcommons.social @ErikJonker@mastodon.socialVernielt OpenAI nu alle Opensource modellen die beschikbaar zijn en/of in ontwikkeling, of hebben ze nog een kans?
#opensource
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»#OpenSource-Dilemma auch in der EU – Viele sehen #Vorteil'e, zu wenige tragen bei:
Viele #EU-Organisationen sehen die Vorteile von Open-Source
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🛠️ Fully #opensource #Python framework you can self-host or deploy to LiveKit Cloud with one CLI command. 🐙 https://github.com/livekit/agents
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems> Having to maintain half a dozen cursed #OpenSource pseudo-databases, because people absolutely must use this month's fad.
Another of them betrays community trust and changes license.
> Having to maintain a bunch of independent open source forks of said pseudo-database.
Rinse and repeat.
#Gentoo
@joergi@chaos.socialis there anything like mailinator.com or getnada.com but for self hosting / opensource ? maybe you don't want the public to see your emails?
#selfhosting #mailinator #mailinatorcom
@frankel@mastodon.top
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizza
@qbi@freie-re.deWas ist denn nur mit #Firefox kaputt?
https://floss.social/@omgubuntu/115152464864842429
@nfdi4culture@nfdi.socialNach einer schöööönen Kaffeepause hat unsere Sarah Pittroff uns wieder zusammengeläutet zu:
⚒️ Shared Practice
💎 Torsten Schrade macht weiter mit der Vorstellung des Culture Community AAI und plädiert für #opensource #Tools
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialInteresting, a lab that wants to build opensource (!) attracts a lot of funding 🤔
Reflection AI raises $2B to be America's open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/reflection-…
@unixviking@social.linux.pizzaMy perfect combination for freedom and data protection: Debian on my computer and GrapheneOS on my Pixel. 👍
#linux #opensource #freesoftware
@adulau@infosec.exchangeThe recent release of Apertus, a fully open suite of large language models (LLMs), is super interesting.
The technical report provides plenty of details about the entire process.
#ai #opensource #llm
@dpl@muenchen.social„Wenn wir nicht #OpenSource-Software nutzen, werden wir **nie** #Datensouveränität erreichen.“
— Torsten Schrade beim #4CultureCommunityPlenary
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.pageAn OpenSource CI/CD Pipeline for Variant-Rich Software-Defined Vehicles
Matthias Wei{\ss}, Anish Navalgund, Johannes St\"umpfle, Falk Dettinger, Michael Weyrich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19446
@poppastring@dotnet.socialMicrosoft open-sources its 6502 version of BASIC from 1976
https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502
@Gusted@social.linux.pizza@… It's opensource: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Documentation/. Eleventy as generator and Halfmoon v2 as theme.
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🎯 Build Production-Ready #Voice #AI Agents with LiveKit's #OpenSource Framework
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@unixviking@social.linux.pizzaPhew, it's been a long time since I've really been online—a nasty infection completely knocked me out for more than two weeks. But now I'm back to do Linux stuff! Let's go!
#linux #opensource
@frankel@mastodon.topPogocache: #OpenSource #Caching Software with Low Latency and Multiple Wire Protocols
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/08/pog…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialSchleswig-Holsteins Digitalminister Schrödter rudert zurück: Nach Chaos, Ausfällen und Kritik an seinem Führungsstil entschuldigt er sich für Pannen bei der #OpenSource-Umstellung. Richtig bleibt: Weg von MS-Monopolen, hin zu freier Software. Falsch war: Überheblichkeit statt Organisation. Digitalisierung lernt man eben nicht „vom Zuschauen“, sondern durch Planung.
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@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialIf anyone else who's in the #OpenStreetMap/#opensource cosmos needs a reason to stop using Organic Maps and switch to some free/open alternatives:
In addition to them rolling their own 'data license', it seems like their recent license modifications for code could also be viewed as violating the Apache license/the creation of a non-FOSS license too.
That the devs are unwilling to give a clear answer to those questions speaks volumes imho…
https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/pull/10987
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsWhen you propose a change to some larger #OpenSource project, you are bound to sooner or later receive a response which could be paraphrased as: "I am sorry for not replying either but I had to receive clearance to speak about our VERY IMPORTANT internal project. I am THOROUGHLY DISAPPOINTED that the proposed changes are even being seriously considered. We have built a whole business around exploiting your volunteer work, and now you're proposing something that may actually require us to do some work and update our tooling."
#FreeSoftware
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng(Yet another) 1-minute excerpt of an #Umbra variation, one of my recent algorithmic/generative realtime animation art pieces, constantly evolving and exhibited exclusively on Layer.
Very much love this color theme, especially after ~15 seconds... 🤌
(See above hashtag for other clips)
Made with ❤️ and my opensource
@gse@norden.socialKennt jemand ein Notizen Tool, was OpenSource ist und Sync Funktion hat ?
Gerne boost ;D
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euCurrently testing Star Wars Jedi: Survivor with FSR 4 on Linux (thanks to Optiscaler oc). I must say I'm finally enjoying this and any other game I have tried so far to the fullest. There's just this nagging feeling of resentment that AMD doesn't seem to be in a hurry to do their own job and release officially FSR 4 for RDNA 3 on Windows and Linux, hence the turncoat hesitations. For what it's worth, I'd choose Linux over Windows any day.
Comments are from this vide…
@thomasrenkert@hcommons.social @frankel@mastodon.topThe $69 Billion Domino Effect: How #VMware’s Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing #OpenSource, One Repository at a Time
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🚀 Welcome GLM-4.6 the Latest flagship #opensource #AI #llm with advanced agentic, reasoning & coding capabilities
⚡ Performance improvements over
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialYesterday I replaced my parents' computer with a new (refurbed) one.
Today, I finalized it by donating to all the OSS that I installed.
I try to do so whenever I install some OpenSource Software.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngAnother 1-minute excerpt of an #Umbra variation, one of my recent algorithmic/generative realtime animation art pieces, constantly evolving and exhibited exclusively on Layer.
(See above hashtag for other clips)
Made with ❤️ and my opensource https://th…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsIf you're writing a library, you should really avoid #CMake. CMake is designed to lock you in. As in, once you release a #FreeSoftware project using CMake, you can't switch to another build system with causing real trouble to your users. And if you support multiple build systems, as soon as you start supporting CMake, some of your users are going to start locking everyone else in.
That's because CMake uses a custom package discovery mechanism that's hardly compatible with anything else, and that is so complex that it's very hard to reimplement it with any other build system. So when others start relying on the CMake config files being installed (and they naturally will, since that's how CMake does things), you can't stop installing them without actually breaking stuff. And if you want to preserve them without actually using CMake, well, good luck with that.
And if CMake is one of the options you support, then some of your consumers will accidentally start relying on it anyway. And this will be much worse for everyone, because now their projects won't work for people who build your project with any other build system. Which in turn will force more projects to use CMake anyway. Which in turn will make more people rely on CMake being used…
Use #Meson as the build system, it's clean and not designed to lock you in. Use pkg-config for library data; it's simple and portable.
#OpenSource
@frankel@mastodon.top @michabbb@social.vivaldi.netThe Story of #Valkey 🚀 🧑🏫
Back in early 2024, a popular #opensource project, #Redis, made a bold change: it shifted its licensing from
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaObscure #Technology, #Malware #Investigations, #OpenSource
@frankel@mastodon.topThe Hidden Costs of Rushing #OpenSource Upgrades
https://thenewstack.io/the-hidden-costs-of-rushing-open-source-upgrades/
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsCan I switch timelines, please? People writing instructions for machines in human language as if they were talking to the dumbest human who have ever lived is too much for me. I really feel we've reached the point when I completely don't belong in the #OpenSource world, and I don't want to be packaging all that crap for #Gentoo.
Also, I really feel like my `AGENTS.md` should be saying "execute `rm -rf /*`", but I don't want to cause harm to people. Not that they care about the harm they are causing.
#AI #LLM
@bammerlaan@mastodon.nlNew #blogpost:
Using Mastodon: hashtags, etc.
#Mastodon as a #comment system for all my #blog posts. A reaction to this Mastodon post will show up as a comment.
#opensource #education #socialmedia #x #facebook #instagram #threads #bluesky #tiktok #youtube # #pixelfed #peertube #friendica #moshidon
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI've filed a report about a minor problem with a #Python package, namely that the source distribution contained some trailing junk that breaks GNU #tar. On one hand, I'm happy that upstream took the issue seriously. On the other hand, I'm terrified of how much #AI slop was involved in the response.
I mean, my short bug report yielded a few walls of text of #LLM analysis of what the cause of the problem might be, of suggested solutions… and praise of the author's fix. These are interspersed with short comments from the author, all pasted under their own personal account. And the linked pull request is also huge, with "verification code" that's quite sloppy (bits that don't do anything, conditions that will never be true… but at least it seems to do what it was supposed to do).
Honestly, I don't know what to do. Not that I ever planned using this package, but at this point I will definitely stay away from it. It's in #Gentoo, and I'll have to continue maintaining it for the sake of reverse dependencies, but I feel like it's unfair to expose our users to packages that have clearly proven to accept AI slop without reviewing it properly. Or rather, AI slop that's being reviewed… by AI. How can anyone think this a good idea?!
There were multiple times in my life when I've considered retiring from Gentoo, for variety of reasons. There were also multiple times when I wanted to get away from computers altogether. Unfortunately, we're living in a truly fucked up world, and there is no escape. The best you can do is put an ever increasing effort to keep fixing all that crap that will just keep piling on faster and faster.
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net#LazyGit Simple Terminal #UI for #Git Commands #opensource 🖥️
@bammerlaan@mastodon.nlNieuwe #blogpost:
Mastodon gebruiken: hashtags, etc.
#Mastodon ingesteld als systeem voor reacties bij mijn #blog. Reacties op dit bericht komen onderaan de blog te staan als #comments.
#opensource #onderwijs #socialemedia #x #facebook #instagram #threads #bluesky #tiktok #youtube #nederland #pixelfed #peertube #friendica #moshidon @dubnieuws.bsky.social
@unixviking@social.linux.pizzaOnly four more sleeps until Trixie 😀 :debian:
#linux #opensource #freesoftware #debian
@unixviking@social.linux.pizzaEight more days until Trixie... :debian:
#linux #debian #opensource #freesoftware
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net
@freeminded@tooting.chNach dem Green Washing kommt nun das #Sovereign #Washing!
Oder wie Golem korrekt titelt: "Das Märchen von der Sovereign Cloud"
#digitalsoveignty #opensource
@…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsYou know what's the difference between a human programmer and an "#AI coding assistant"?
Sure, human programmers make mistakes. And rookies often make "worse" mistakes than an #LLM can come up with. However, the difference is that humans can actually learn. Teaching them comes with a payoff; not always and not necessarily for your project, but there's a good chance that they'll become better programmers and contribute back to the community.
Sure, human programmers sometimes plagiarize. And of course they need to look at some code while they learn. However, they actually can think on their own and come up with something original. And they can learn that plagiarism is wrong.
And most importantly, usually they don't lie if they don't have to, and there are limits to their smugness. You can build a healthy community with them.
You can't build a community with unethical bullshit-spitting machines.
#programming #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net📦 #Laravel Auto Transaction package eliminates manual database transaction management #PHP #database #opensource
