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I blogged about my cute little open source computer, the #mntpocketreform, and how it is connected to the idea of #permacomputing.
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Mapping a universe of open source software: the Nixpkgs dependency graph.
https://www.tweag.io/blog/2019-02-06-mapping-open-source/
saved 2020-07-28

Mapping a Universe of Open Source Software
The repositories of distributions such as Debian and Nixpkgs are among the largest collections of open source (and some unfree) software. They are complex systems that connect and organize many interdependent packages. In this blog post I'll try to shed some light on them from the perspective of Nixpkgs, mostly with visualizations of its complete dependency graph.

Who was Columbus, really? (Probably not all that Genoese.)
https://substack.com/inbox/post/174978

Who Was Columbus Really?
We all know the rhyme: 'In 1482, Columbus said the ocean blue.

With at least one powerful acceleratorist ai corporation looking to fund/partner with open source live coding projects, I wonder if anyone will take the bait

This image is from an official blog post by the AFfiNE team (a "source available" alternative to Notion, trying to pass as "open source").
The article was posted on December 18th, 2024. No one has tried to fix it since then.
AI slop & noise all the way down, carelessness as the new dominant creed.

Pragyaan: Designing and Curating High-Quality Cultural Post-Training Datasets for Indian Languages
Neel Prabhanjan Rachamalla, Aravind Konakalla, Gautam Rajeev, Ashish Kulkarni, Chandra Khatri, Shubham Agarwal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07000

Pragyaan: Designing and Curating High-Quality Cultural Post-Training Datasets for Indian Languages
The effectiveness of Large Language Models (LLMs) depends heavily on the availability of high-quality post-training data, particularly instruction-tuning and preference-based examples. Existing open-source datasets, however, often lack multilingual coverage, cultural grounding, and suffer from task diversity gaps that are especially pronounced for Indian languages. We introduce a human-in-the-loop pipeline that combines translations with synthetic expansion to produce reliable and diverse Indic…

Training Dynamics Impact Post-Training Quantization Robustness
Albert Catalan-Tatjer, Niccol\`o Ajroldi, Jonas Geiping
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06213 https://

Training Dynamics Impact Post-Training Quantization Robustness
While post-training quantization is widely adopted for efficient deployment of large language models, the mechanisms underlying quantization robustness remain unclear. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of quantization degradation across open-source language model training trajectories up to 32B parameters and 15T training tokens to accurately assess the relationship between training dynamics and quantization performance. Our key finding is that quantization errors in large-scale training runs…

A good blog post about the Framework/Omarchy/DHH situation. It’s just sad. And support for far-right people in Open Source projects should just not be a thing.
https://crimier.github.io/posts/Framework-Omarchy/

Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?
You might’ve noticed Framework, the laptop manufacturer, embroiled in a controversy as of now. The Discord server is on lockdown because the volunteer moderation team has gone on hiatus, and the Framework forum post about the controversy has been gaining unsightly amounts of steam from people disappointed at actions taken by Framework.

And yet another post talking about mapping my bike rides... this time looking at the very interesting wanderer which is open source and uses ActivityPub!
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/09/26/mapping-bike-rides-part-iv/

Mapping Bike Rides (Part IV)
An open source, self-hosted route mapping solution...

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 @…

Sentiment Matters: An Analysis of 200 Human-SAV Interactions
Lirui Guo, Michael G. Burke, Wynita M. Griggs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08202 https://arxiv.o…

Sentiment Matters: An Analysis of 200 Human-SAV Interactions
Shared Autonomous Vehicles (SAVs) are likely to become an important part of the transportation system, making effective human-SAV interactions an important area of research. This paper introduces a dataset of 200 human-SAV interactions to further this area of study. We present an open-source human-SAV conversational dataset, comprising both textual data (e.g., 2,136 human-SAV exchanges) and empirical data (e.g., post-interaction survey results on a range of psychological factors). The dataset's…

For #FreeSoftwareAdvent I'd like to post about open source tools that we're using in our #VFXPipeline.
On Dec. 5th let's start with #OpenImageIO (

What Is The Political Content in LLMs' Pre- and Post-Training Data?
Tanise Ceron, Dmitry Nikolaev, Dominik Stammbach, Debora Nozza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22367 https://

What Is The Political Content in LLMs' Pre- and Post-Training Data?
Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate politically biased text, yet how such biases arise remains unclear. A crucial step toward answering this question is the analysis of training data, whose political content remains largely underexplored in current LLM research. To address this gap, we present in this paper an analysis of the pre- and post-training corpora of OLMO2, the largest fully open-source model released together with its complete dataset. From these corpora, we draw large …

Short 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!
#ansible #opensource #netbox

Process-Driven Visual Analysis of Cybersecurity Capture the Flag Exercises
Radek O\v{s}lej\v{s}ek, Radoslav Chudovsk\'y, Martin Macak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15589 https:…

Process-Driven Visual Analysis of Cybersecurity Capture the Flag Exercises
Hands-on training sessions become a standard way to develop and increase knowledge in cybersecurity. As practical cybersecurity exercises are strongly process-oriented with knowledge-intensive processes, process mining techniques and models can help enhance learning analytics tools. The design of our open-source analytical dashboard is backed by guidelines for visualizing multivariate networks complemented with temporal views and clustering. The design aligns with the requirements for post-trai…