@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
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsToo many days working on #FLOSS feel like: "I'm not paid for this shit. I'm paid to do other shit and I have to focus on that shit, but I can't when I have to spend so much time fixing shit that apparently others are being paid to break all the time."
#Gentoo #LLVM #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
@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
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsHow to be an asshole in #FLOSS? Lesson one: tell someone who submitted a pull request for an issue you don't care about to go fix other issues.
https://github.com/pchtsp/orloge/pull/14#issuecomment-5934633183
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI haven't been attending #FLOSS events much for two main reasons. Firstly, because I found having to pay for attendance discriminating and against the spirit of #FreeSoftware. Secondly, because staying away from home for a few days posed problems. So I've been only attending local events that were open.
However, nowadays I doubt that I'm even going to continue that. I don't feel at home with the wider community anymore. What's for me, between nazi enablers and their apologists?
Perhaps it's time for dedicated #NoAI events.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgHere's a question #AskFedi may be able to make some suggestions for. I'm looking for an open source security privacy conscious nutrient tracker - for sporty vegan family member in middle of training for competitive sports. So shouldn't just be calories but also macro (and maybe micro?) nutrition.
There's a tonne on F-droid but hard to know which to choose. Any recommendations welcome
#FOSS #FLOSS #nutrition
@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
@enriquericos@mastoart.socialReading a lot of Linux projects talking about LLMs now, focusing on if they work well enough or not. No talk about ethics, ideals or politics.
If it continues down this path, FLOSS will end up like the Ed Sheeran of software.
#software #foss #floss #libresoftware #linux #lxqt #desktopEnvironment #openSource #ethics #llm #techbros #tech
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems#Gentoo has a strict #NoAI policy, so our projects are slop-free. Unfortunately, these days you cannot run an up-to-date system without tons of random slop packages, because everyone insists on using that crap.
Gentoo supports a whole bunch of architectures that probably every other distribution dumped so far. Unfortunately, these days the available software list is shrinking, as everyone insists on adding some random meaningless dependencies on #RustLang (like using uv-build, which is the single most harmful meaningless #Python project ever created).
Gentoo has a strong upstream cooperation policy. However, these days I'm afraid to file issues, because just too often they just trigger more slop. I miss the "good" old days where the worst you could expect is some toxic asshole.
The state of #FreeSoftware is truly depressing. There is little joy in distribution work these days. You're overwhelmed with shit, burned out and end up doing a shitty job. And it's bad for your health.
#FLOSS
@castarco@hachyderm.ioA short video showcasing the current state of the #SoulCrafted Slicer I'm working on.
#3dPrinting #Resin3dPrinting #SoulCraftedSlicer #FLOSS #OpenSource #Rust #Rustlang
@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