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Beyond Code: #APIs as the Next #OSS Battleground
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2025/06/09/o…

Is anyone looking for good first-timer OSS contributor issues? Crell/Serde has a few tagged "good first issue" if you're interested.
https://github.com/Crell/Serde/issues?q=is:issue state:open label:"good fir…

Crell/Serde
Robust Serde (serialization/deserialization) library for PHP 8. - Crell/Serde

Firefox OS's story from a mozilla insider not working on the project
#mozilla

Firefox OS's story from a mozilla insider not working on the project

I just realized that OSS, as you know it, is dead.
The only hope you have of growing a community is to spend your time building docs that appeal to generative AI models in hopes they spit out the name of your library as a solution.
Megacorps and organizations flush with cash and resources will out-generate you every time, as they will have a direct line to AI vendor data miners.

Noen ganger kjenner jeg på frustrasjonen over at det er arbeidsledere og et hierarki som bestemmer over meg på jobben. Det er urettferdig at bare et fåtall har kontroll over viktige avgjŸrelser som former min arbeidshverdag, mens vi som faktisk utfŸrer arbeidet sjelden får si vår mening eller påvirke det som skjer.
Jeg Ÿnsker meg en arbeidsplass der alle oss arbeidere sammen tar de viktige avgjŸrelsene som angår arbeidsdagen og framtiden vår. For meg er det viktig at ingen enkeltperson…

Israels försvarsminister: "Jag har instruerat IDF att agera så att Madleen inte når Gaza. Till den antisemitiska Greta och hennes vänner säger jag tydligt: Ni borde vända tillbaka, för ni kommer inte att nå Gaza”. https://www.dn.se/varlden/greta-thunberg-v…

Greta Thunberg väntas nå Gaza under söndagen
Greta Thunberg väntas anlända till Gaza på söndagen, tillsammans med andra aktivister och ett segelfartyg lastat med nödhjälp.

Die Bundesregierung gibt jährlich Milliarden für proprietäre US-Software aus, obwohl das E-Government-Gesetz seit 2024 #OpenSource (OSS) bevorzugt. Trotzdem bleibt OSS in der Verwaltung Randerscheinung – mit gravierenden Folgen für digitale Souveränität, Transparenz und Kostenkontrolle
Gerd Mischler: Digitalisierung: Open Source hat im Bund keine Lobby -

Open Source, Hidden Costs: A Systematic Literature Review on OSS License Management
Boyuan Li, Chengwei Liu, Lingling Fan, Sen Chen, Zhenlin Zhang, Zheli Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05270

Open Source, Hidden Costs: A Systematic Literature Review on OSS License Management
Integrating third-party software components is a common practice in modern software development, offering significant advantages in terms of efficiency and innovation. However, this practice is fraught with risks related to software licensing. A lack of understanding may lead to disputes, which can pose serious legal and operational challenges. To these ends, both academia and industry have conducted various investigations and proposed solutions and tools to deal with these challenges. However,…

"The trick is knowing which tape to use, and young influencers on the social media platform are quick to enter into paid partnerships to sell the one brand of mouth tape you really need."
The Paper-Thin Evidence for Mouth Taping https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/…

The Paper-Thin Evidence for Mouth Taping
TikTokers can’t shut up about this one simple trick. All you need to do is seal your mouth with tape before going to bed, and you will apparently collect a slew of benefits. It will give you more energy, chisel your jawline, and even improve the health of your heart in the long run. The trick is knowing which tape to use, and young influencers on the social media platform are quick to enter into paid partnerships to sell the one brand of mouth tape you really need. If you don’t trust “ran…

Folks in NZ are starting to realise the implications of the impending EOL of Microsoft Windows 10 for our education system. In its finite wisdom, our MinOfEd has effectively locked all schools into either the use of MS Windows or Google ChromeOS. Both have fundamental issues like endless license hassles, EOLing OSs, ending support for Window or ChromeOS on specific computer models, etc. And that doesn't even start to talk about digital colonisation & sovereignty (see

Ingen kjenner mine behov bedre enn meg selv, og jeg er lei av politikere som lover forandring, men som alltid opprettholder systemet som undertrykker oss.
Hvis dere virkelig står på arbeidernes side, hvorfor overlater dere ikke makten til oss? La oss avskaffe Stortinget og monarkiet, og bygge et samfunn hvor arbeiderne selv tar kontrollen gjennom direkte demokratiske fagforeninger og selvstyrte lokale fellesskap.
Makten må være desentralisert og ligge hos arbeiderne selv, ikke ho…

Understanding Underrepresented Groups in Open Source Software
Reydne Santos, Rafa Prado, Ana Paula de Holanda Silva, Kiev Gama, Fernando Castor, Ronnie de Souza Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00142

Understanding Underrepresented Groups in Open Source Software
Context: Diversity can impact team communication, productivity, cohesiveness, and creativity. Analyzing the existing knowledge about diversity in open source software (OSS) projects can provide directions for future research and raise awareness about barriers and biases against underrepresented groups in OSS. Objective: This study aims to analyze the knowledge about minority groups in OSS projects. We investigated which groups were studied in the OSS literature, the study methods used, their im…

tänk om mastodon men socialdemokratiskt https://www.flamman.se/mina-bebisbilder-ska-inte-gora-zuckerberg-rikare/

Mina bebisbilder ska inte göra Zuckerberg rikare
För Meta är varje bild på min nyfödda bebis en datapunkt i ett psykologiskt experiment. SVT och SR har tjänat oss väl – nu är det dags för SSM: Sveriges Sociala Medium. Och det borde vara exakt lika tråkigt som det låter

Per Svensson var en briljant journalist och författare, en intellektuell i ordets bästa bemärkelse. Sorgligt att han inte längre finns bland oss. https://www.dn.se/kultur/journalisten-per-svensson-dod-blev-68-ar/

Journalisten Per Svensson död – blev 68 år
Journalisten, författaren och tidigare DN-medarbetaren Per Svensson har avlidit vid 68 års ålder. Han var en av Sveriges mest tongivande kulturskribenter

Open Source, Open Threats? Investigating Security Challenges in Open-Source Software
Seyed Ali Akhavani, Behzad Ousat, Amin Kharraz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12995

Open Source, Open Threats? Investigating Security Challenges in Open-Source Software
Open-source software (OSS) has become increasingly more popular across different domains. However, this rapid development and widespread adoption come with a security cost. The growing complexity and openness of OSS ecosystems have led to increased exposure to vulnerabilities and attack surfaces. This paper investigates the trends and patterns of reported vulnerabilities within OSS platforms, focusing on the implications of these findings for security practices. To understand the dynamics of OS…

Det är egentligen fel att en sådan här text publiceras som en debattartikel. Det finns ingen debatt kring den här frågan. Nyström är helt ute och cyklar och påstår saker som är långt bort om all rimlighet när det gäller många saker. Så även i den här frågan.
Så mest rätt hade varit att publicera det här under någon form av "så här är det" eller "faktajournalistik".
Skräm inte människor – fysisk aktivitet räddar liv

Beyond Code: The Multidimensional Impacts of Large Language Models in Software Development
Sardar Fatooreh Bonabi, Sarah Bana, Tingting Nian, Vijay Gurbaxani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22704

Beyond Code: The Multidimensional Impacts of Large Language Models in Software Development
Large language models (LLMs) are poised to significantly impact software development, especially in the Open-Source Software (OSS) sector. To understand this impact, we first outline the mechanisms through which LLMs may influence OSS through code development, collaborative knowledge transfer, and skill development. We then empirically examine how LLMs affect OSS developers' work in these three key areas. Leveraging a natural experiment from a temporary ChatGPT ban in Italy, we employ a Differe…

Alas I've just ordered a WIFI enabled, AI washing machine; and the copyright doesn't even include CURL; I thought the 5 year warranty would enable be to ask @… for advice on getting my clothes cleaner.
Still, it seems to have everything else, NuttX and contiki low power OSs (neither of which I've come across), Uboot, wpa_supplicant, cJSON, FatFS

so why on earth were CNCF/K8s kicked off Slack's enterprise plan, anyway?
cost? how much can it cost to store a bunch of chat messages for two moderately popular OSS groups, ten dollars a day? all of the capital cost has been paid at this point, it's just the marginal one at question, which cannot be high unless Slack's infrastructure is dramatically worse than any reason could allow
the amount of goodwill they know they'll lose can't possibly compensate the c…

OSS-UAgent: An Agent-based Usability Evaluation Framework for Open Source Software
Lingkai Meng, Yu Shao, Long Yuan, Longbin Lai, Peng Cheng, Wenyuan Yu, Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Jingren Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23239

OSS-UAgent: An Agent-based Usability Evaluation Framework for Open Source Software
Usability evaluation is critical to the impact and adoption of open source software (OSS), yet traditional methods relying on human evaluators suffer from high costs and limited scalability. To address these limitations, we introduce OSS-UAgent, an automated, configurable, and interactive agent-based usability evaluation framework specifically designed for open source software. Our framework employs intelligent agents powered by large language models (LLMs) to simulate developers performing pro…

Enda et nytt parti som lover «direkte demokrati», men som likevel stiller liste til valg og vil ha makt over oss andre.
Generasjonspartiet fremstiller det som en frisk nyvinning, men i virkeligheten er dette bare mer av det samme representative systemet som har sviktet arbeiderklassen i generasjoner.
Syndikalismen handler om at vi organiserer oss selv, i fagforeninger og lokale råd, og tar beslutningene direkte, ikke gjennom partier, valg eller politikere.
Når Generasjonsp…

Me: “Cool, new #dotnet #oss library, let me read the docs"
** Five minutes later **
Me: “These docs are all ChatGPT-generated, and half the methods and examples are hallucinated. I'm out.”

Efter 50 år på den här planeten är jag förvånad över att människan fortfarande inte verkar vilja dela den med någon annan art. Vi trycker undan djur och växter alltmer, många av dem till den grad att de utrotas helt. En del göms undan i industrier där vi utvinner "nytta" och "produkter" – men utan att beblanda oss med dem. Bina får allt svårare att pollinera, korna får inte beta på sina ängar, renarna tvingas gå andra vägar när vi spränger hål i berget.
Är det verkli…

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IssueCourier: Multi-Relational Heterogeneous Temporal Graph Neural Network for Open-Source Issue Assignment
Issue assignment plays a critical role in open-source software (OSS) maintenance, which involves recommending the most suitable developers to address the reported issues. Given the high volume of issue reports in large-scale projects, manually assigning issues is tedious and costly. Previous studies have proposed automated issue assignment approaches that primarily focus on modeling issue report textual information, developers' expertise, or interactions between issues and developers based on h…

Det blir troligen inte lika varmt i år men det kan ju ändå bli så att temperaturen är klart högre än de flesta av oss är vana än så länge i år.
Hur värme påverkar prestationen vid löpning https://traningslara.se/hur-varme-paverkar-prestationen-vid-lopning/

"Det er ingen tvil om at anarkosyndikalismen trengs. Vi håper at det blir klarere for stadig flere at det er staten og kapitalen som dikterer vilkårene og at dette ikke kan fortsette."
— https://www.nsf-iaa.org/om-oss/
"Vi lever i et Ÿkonomisk diktatur som har en demokratis…

Open Source, Open Threats? Investigating Security Challenges in Open-Source Software
Seyed Ali Akhavani, Behzad Ousat, Amin Kharraz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12995

Open Source, Open Threats? Investigating Security Challenges in Open-Source Software
Open-source software (OSS) has become increasingly more popular across different domains. However, this rapid development and widespread adoption come with a security cost. The growing complexity and openness of OSS ecosystems have led to increased exposure to vulnerabilities and attack surfaces. This paper investigates the trends and patterns of reported vulnerabilities within OSS platforms, focusing on the implications of these findings for security practices. To understand the dynamics of OS…

'Beneath the surface of external dominance lies an “invisible” European strength: a long-standing presence in open-source software (OSS) and open standards that form the backbone of critical digital infrastructures. From Linux and Python to core internet protocols, Europe has made significant
contributions to open source initiatives.'
3/n

Ahoj @… @… @… , vy mšte k OSS a upstreamu tak nějak blíž, tak by mě zajímalo jestli víte o něčem takovémh…

Enda et eksperiment fra makta for å få flere til å lŸpe i hamsterhjulet! Staten vil «belŸnne» oss for å jobbe mer, men det er fortsatt de samme som tjener på at vi selger livene våre for småpenger. I stedet for å frigjŸre folk fra tvangsarbeid og meningslŸse jobber, skal vi lokkes med små skattefradrag – mens de rikeste og sjefene fortsetter å håve inn.
Hvorfor skal vi godta et system der verdien vår måles i arbeidstid og produktivitet? Kanskje vi heller burde rive ned hele arbeidslinj…

Fredagskväll. Ovanför oss. #Paris #Himmel #photography

David Graeber sier at anarkisme ikke handler om kaos, men om at vanlige folk kan styre seg selv, uten at noen bestemmer over oss. Kanskje du allerede tenker som en anarkist, uten å vite det? Svar på disse fem spŸrsmålene:
1. Venter du på tur i kŸen, selv om ingen passer på deg?
- Da tror du at folk kan ordne ting selv, uten tvang. Det er det anarkismen handler om!
2. Er du med i en gruppe eller vennegjeng hvor dere bestemmer sammen, uten at en sjef bestemmer alt?
- …

Fredrik Nyströms påståenden om träning och hälsa - en granskning https://traningslara.se/fredrik-nystroms-pastaenden-om-traning-och-halsa-en-granskning/

Fredrik Nyströms påståenden om träning och hälsa - en granskning
För några dagar sedan publicerades en artikel i Göteborgs-Posten med titeln Läkaren Fredrik Nyström varnar för att vi tränar oss till döds. I artikeln görs ganska många kontroversiella påståenden kring träning, kost och hälsa så jag tänkte att det skulle passa med en liten granskning. För den som har följt mig genom åren ät Fredrik […]

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02817 has been replaced.
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Open Source at a Crossroads: The Future of Licensing Driven by Monetization
The widespread adoption of open source libraries and frameworks can be attributed to their licensing. Open Source Software Licenses (OSS licenses) ensure that software can be sold or distributed as part of aggregate programs from various sources without requiring a royalty or fee. The quality of such code rivals that of commercial software, with open source libraries forming large parts of the supply chain for critical commercial systems in industry. Despite this, most open source projects rely…

Penger styrer makta, uansett.
Å sette en grense på 5000,- per person eller organisasjon og kreve full åpenhet er bare plaster på såret i et system som er korrupt fra bunnen av.
Partipolitikk handler om å holde folket nede, ikke gi dem reell makt. En felles plattform for politikk? Bare enda en måte å kontrollere og temme opprŸr på.
La oss rive hele greia ned i stedet!

Gener förklarar fetma lika bra som det förklarar typ 2 diabetes, högt blodtryck och dåliga blodfetter https://traningslara.se/gener-forklarar-fetma-lika-bra-som-det-forklarar-typ-2-diabetes-hogt-blodtryck-och-…

Applying Large Language Models to Issue Classification: Revisiting with Extended Data and New Models
Gabriel Aracena, Kyle Luster, Fabio Santos, Igor Steinmacher, Marco A. Gerosa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00128

Applying Large Language Models to Issue Classification: Revisiting with Extended Data and New Models
Effective prioritization of issue reports in software engineering helps to optimize resource allocation and information recovery. However, manual issue classification is laborious and lacks scalability. As an alternative, many open source software (OSS) projects employ automated processes for this task, yet this method often relies on large datasets for adequate training. Traditionally, machine learning techniques have been used for issue classification. More recently, large language models (LL…

Läser du det här och del 2 så kan du sen lätt sortera bort över 50 procent av all skräpinfluencers inom hälsa där ute 👍
Blodsockerkontroll och långsiktig hälsa – vad vet vi idag? https://tyngre.se/artiklar/forskning/blodsockerkontroll-…

Blodsockerkontroll och långsiktig hälsa – vad vet vi idag? | Artikel
Att ha kontroll på blodsockret är något som har diskuterats flitigt under lång tid. I en artikelserie på tre delar tar Jacob Gudiol oss med till vad forskningen

From Release to Adoption: Challenges in Reusing Pre-trained AI Models for Downstream Developers
Peerachai Banyongrakkul, Mansooreh Zahedi, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Christoph Treude, Haoyu Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23234

From Release to Adoption: Challenges in Reusing Pre-trained AI Models for Downstream Developers
Pre-trained models (PTMs) have gained widespread popularity and achieved remarkable success across various fields, driven by their groundbreaking performance and easy accessibility through hosting providers. However, the challenges faced by downstream developers in reusing PTMs in software systems are less explored. To bridge this knowledge gap, we qualitatively created and analyzed a dataset of 840 PTM-related issue reports from 31 OSS GitHub projects. We systematically developed a comprehensi…

VFArch\=e: A Dual-Mode Framework for Locating Vulnerable Functions in Open-Source Software
Lyuye Zhang, Jian Zhang, Kaixuan Li, Chong Wang, Chengwei Liu, Jiahui Wu, Sen Chen, Yaowen Zheng, Yang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18050

VFArchē: A Dual-Mode Framework for Locating Vulnerable Functions in Open-Source Software
Software Composition Analysis (SCA) has become pivotal in addressing vulnerabilities inherent in software project dependencies. In particular, reachability analysis is increasingly used in Open-Source Software (OSS) projects to identify reachable vulnerabilities (e.g., CVEs) through call graphs, enabling a focus on exploitable risks. Performing reachability analysis typically requires the vulnerable function (VF) to track the call chains from downstream applications. However, such crucial infor…

Social Media Reactions to Open Source Promotions: AI-Powered GitHub Projects on Hacker News
Prachnachai Meakpaiboonwattana, Warittha Tarntong, Thai Mekratanavorakul, Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul, Pattaraporn Sangaroonsilp, Raula Kula, Morakot Choetkiertikul, Kenichi Matsumoto, Thanwadee Sunetnanta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12643

Social Media Reactions to Open Source Promotions: AI-Powered GitHub Projects on Hacker News
Social media platforms have become more influential than traditional news sources, shaping public discourse and accelerating the spread of information. With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), open-source software (OSS) projects can leverage these platforms to gain visibility and attract contributors. In this study, we investigate the relationship between Hacker News, a social news site focused on computer science and entrepreneurship, and the extent to which it influences de…