@stsquad@mastodon.org.ukI do find the #openweight discussions quite interesting. As a #floss developer I generally favour openness although I'm never quite clear what the training inputs are. They could be the product of #distillation
@aral@mastodon.ar.alSuggesting those of us who care about the freedom/libre aspects of it stylise FLOSS as **FL**OSS to ensure everyone knows where the emphasis is.
h/t Evangelous Paterakis
#FLOSS #freeAsInFreedom #libreAsInLiberty
@castarco@hachyderm.ioSo... I was working on preparing forge.cloudsling.dev to open to the public, to start hosting #FLOSS projects for free, away from Github and other tech overlords...
Well, it will take some more time than I wanted. Our services have been down for around 1h because of a bots avalanche that have been scrapping all they could.
Now, the "attack" continues:
CPU usage above 80% of total capacity.
Outbound traffic at 3MiBps... when we only have 15 registered users, and only me is looser enough to be touching that on a weekend.
Shutting down the servers for the rest of this weekend... π 
#FuckAI #Fuck_AI
@castarco@hachyderm.ioA short video showcasing the current state of the #SoulCrafted Slicer I'm working on.
#3dPrinting #Resin3dPrinting #SoulCraftedSlicer #FLOSS #OpenSource #Rust #Rustlang
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsSome people think that #LLM usage costs rising will start undoing some of the harm caused by the #AI hype. I don't think that's really going to help that much.
I'm not even talking about all the projects that were ensloppified and enshittified already. I'm not talking about all the technical debt. I'm not talking about all the forks that will have to be maintained forever. I'm not talking of all the projects that were abandoned because of burnout, or because they were only hype-oriented. And I'm not talking about all the corporations that will continue submitting slop.
I'm talking about the loss of trust. After all, we're not talking of people who realized they were wrong and are sorry. We're not talking of people realizing that it was wrong to forfeit ethics and morals in the name of "productivity". We're talking of people who are jumping ships because their previous approach turned out not to be profitable anymore. We're talking of gamblers who left the casino because they went broke. They aren't sorry that they gambled; they are sorry that they've lost. And they'd be happy to do it again at the nearest opportunity.
So, I'm sorry to say, but #FreeSoftware is never going to be the same again. A lot of people have shown their true colors, and I won't forget that.
#NoAI #NoLLM #OpenSource #FLOSS
@castarco@hachyderm.ioIt's been a looooong time since I wrote a technical article for my #blog
This one is about my work on Logtau, a collection of logging libraries for #NodeJS : #JavaScript #TypeScript #logging #FLOSS #OpenSource
@kingconsult@berlin.social> @… announces 60 projects strenghtening the #DigitalCommons ΒΉ
β‘οΈ There are two #Fediverse-related tools:
#ActivityBot β A full #ActivityPub server in a single #PHP file
π #Fedipub β #Ruby Library for adding #ActivityPub Federation
π #NLnet #OpenSource #SocialMedia #OpenSocialWeb #FOSS #FLOSS
@castarco@hachyderm.io#FLOSS ecosystem.
I don't think we have a clear idea yet of what's to come, but a recurring image in our conversations is that of feudal age alchemists: closed, hermetic, underground groups, sharing knowledge in tight secret circles, never with the wide public... it's certainly not a pretty picture, but it might be the "rational" conclusion for many.
When we see the threat of big corporations (or just petty unimaginative people) stealing our work, what can we do, when collective action has been labelled as criminal activity, other than hide or risk the severe consequences of being combative?
#ai #generativeAI #fuck_ai
@kingconsult@berlin.socialDie Gesellschaft fΓΌr #Informatik ( @… − folgen!) fordert im neuen Policy Brief die Anerkennung und Besserstellung von #OpenSource-Software-Stewards ( Das sind Verwalter quelloffener Software,#OSSStewards ) nach der EU πͺπΊ #Cyberresilienz-Verordnung.
15.07.2026:
π #CyberResilienceAct #CRA #FOSS #FLOSS #Cybersicherheitsstrategie #ITSecurity #DutGemacht