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It's that time again - tomorrow, Tues 10 March, 20:00 NZDT is when the next Aotearoa NZ #FOSS #OpenSource #Libre meetup starts. You can find us at

I'll be speaking about #opensource in #varberg next week. Come and join me!
https:/…

Working on an #opensource project can be strange sometimes.
Personally, the strangest is seen when people want something changed.
Some peeps simply ask. (Yes, do this one)
Some get extremely angry that it isn't already like they want and demand it be changed.
Some people try to pay for the change.
Some try to guilt you to make the change by saying other…

🔑 The wendelladriel/laravel-idempotency #opensource package covers everything: idempotency keys, request fingerprints, cached response replay & atomic locks for concurrent requests
🔬 Idempotency ≠ deduplication! Same key different payload = 422 rejection. The package fingerprints method, route, query string & body — so key reuse with changed data is caught

“#AI is the single-greatest coordinated attack on open source in history, and the #opensource world would do well to realise that."
The great #license-washing has begun

#Unbrowse — agent-native browser skill for #AI agents. Auto-discovers APIs from browser traffic & generates reusable skills on the fly #opensource

1. Submit a pull request to #zlib that changes the library filename on #Windows.
2. Pull request gets merged, and you effectively break everything that linked dynamically to zlib.
3. Attack everyone who reported this as a bug.
#OpenSource

"A new #opensource edge #AI system called π #RuView is turning ordinary #WiFi infrastructure into a

«Zum 45. Geburtstag — Microsoft stellt MS-DOS 1.0 als #OpenSource bereit:
Zum 45. Jahrestag des Betriebssystems hat Microsoft den Quellcode der allerersten MS-DOS-Version für den #IBM PC freigegeben. Dieses wurde zum Zeitpunkt seines Erscheinens offiziell noch als 86-DOS 1.00 bezeichnet und

Zum 45. Geburtstag: Microsoft stellt MS-DOS 1.0 als Open Source bereit
Zum 45. Jahrestag des Betriebssystems hat Microsoft den Quellcode der allerersten MS-DOS-Version für den IBM PC freigegeben. Dieses wurde zum Zeitpunkt seines Erscheinens offiziell noch als 86-DOS 1.00 bezeichnet und Microsoft kaufte es erst etwas später auf.

Thank you very much to all the #freesoftware projects that allowed me to do, what I do now.
Thank you for educating me, giving me tools to work with, giving me the opportunity to give back, to feel validated, thank you.
#opensource

RE: #OpenSource projects need financial support, but this doesn't look like a good idea to me.…

Digitale Souveränität braucht mehr als Schlagworte: klare Roadmap, offene Standards, „Public Money, Public Code“. Wenn die eAkte nur mit Word funktioniert, läuft etwas schief. @da_bei@social.darmstadt.de
#OpenSource #Darmstadt

The Open Contributions Descriptor (OCD) is an open, machine-readable JSON format that allows an organization to publish a structured description of its participation in the open ecosystem.
It's still a bit in flux but the goal of OCD is to make organizational openness discoverable, interoperable, and automatable.
#opensource

Kennt ihr soetwas, habt ihr Empfehlungen für digitale Bilderrahmen?
Ein energiesparsamer Bildschirm, um Bilder und einen Kalender in guter Qualität anzuzeigen, in Farbe, #OpenSource. Wir würden das gerne in der Familie verteilen und untereinander Fotos teilen.
So etwas wie der #AIArtFrame

#Leanstral: #OpenSource foundation for trustworthy #vibecoding
https://

Happy #EuropeDay!
The #EU's wonderful motto is: "United in diversity". That fits perfectly with what the #OpenSocialWeb #OpenSource & the #Fediverse can do: sovereign collaboration to foster technical & social #innovation.
🤝 The #EU & #Fediverse are true social networks.
We are therefore delighted that the @… has prioritised @… over #X, as this is in line with EU's objectives & values!👍 #ThankYou!
#democracy #2MR #DutGemacht #DiDay #SocialMedia

I have written a sample letter that you can use to invite organizations to join the #Fediverse.
The letter is shared under a #CC0 license. Feel free to copy, adapt and send it to organizations that still rely on #BigTech.
Thanks to @… for the English translation.
Replies to this post will also appear as comments under the blog post.
#OpenSource #SocialMedia #mastodon #decentralisation #PublicSpaces #x #threads #bluesky #DigitalSovereignty #ActivityPub #AntiTrust

boards are great for making notes collaboratively. @… is hosting one of the largest etherpad instances and just finished a major upgrade. Got faster and better support for tables.
#opensource

Software used in German public offices has become geopolitical.
Part of the solution: #OpenSource
https://www.zdfheute.de/video/heute-journal/abkehr-us-software-…

Abkehr von US-Software: Bye-bye, Big Tech!
Schleswig-Holsteins Regierung macht es vor und holt sich die Hoheit über die eigenen Daten zurück. Die Abhängigkeit von US-Firmen ist in Deutschland enorm. Ein Umdenken setzt ein.

Dear #Business. Here's a reminder to you who rely on #OpenSource in your software and services.
Your digital infrastructure is cheap because you CAN get it for almost no cost.
How cheap?
Look at the Harvard Business Review study from 2024: The ROI of Open Source is 2000 ×.
…

Open source software valued at $8 trillion in Harvard study
"Any time you spend on building that software to operate is time taken away from building the services that customers really want and will pay for. Open source software helps companies get to their goals faster..."

New on #blog: "Money isn’t going to solve the #burnout problem"
"""
The xz-utils backdoor situation brought the problem of FLOSS maintained burnout into the daylight. This in turn lead to numerous discussion on how to solve the problem, and the recurring theme was funding maintenance work.
While I’m definitely not opposed to giving people money for their FLOSS work, if you think that throwing some bucks will actually solve the problem, and especially if you think that you can just throw them once and then forget, I have bad news for you: it won’t. Surely, money is a big part of the problem, but it’s not the only reason people are getting burned out. It’s a systemic problem, and it’s in need of systemic solution, and that’s involves a lot of hard work undo everything that’s happened in the last, say, 20 years.
But let’s start at the beginning and ask the important question: why do people make free software?
"""
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #AI #NoAI #LLM #NoLLM #Gentoo

We are cleaning various code base including MISP. I'm wondering if someone still uses OpenIOC format in someways?
#openioc #threatintel #opensource

Microsoft Exec Suggests AI Agents Will Need to Buy Software Licenses - Business Insider
#Microsoft #W365 #opensource

Norrköping! As in the place in Sweden where our friends @… live?!
#osgeo #GISChat #OpenSource

So many people don't understand how good the AGPLv3 license is designed. The latest piece from Bradley M. Kühn of the @… is a piece of art to explain the great mechanisms within the license to avoid crappy exception around a well-designed free software license.

Is anyone using trust scoring on PRs to help evaluate things during this influx of noise on public repositories? I'm looking at #openSource

Hit 30k github contributions today. #opensource

#EnteLocker - to nowa aplikacja od twórcy #EnteAuth i #EntePhotos. Służy do zapisywania dokumentów w bezpieczny sposób.
Oczywiście

Ente Locker - Spazio sicuro per i tuoi documenti più importanti
Conserva i tuoi documenti e le tue credenziali importanti. Condividili con contatti fidati o trasmettili in caso di emergenza.

📱 #React 19 frontend with #TypeScript, fuzzy search across keyboard layouts, #PHP 8.4 with 40 API endpoints. 100% free &

Weiss jemand eine Seite, wo man open source sachen für #macos oder überhaupt #apple finden kann ?
#macos #opensource

"Wie wäre es, wenn die #EU mal so richtig groß in #OpenSource-Projekte investiert? Nicht ein bisschen hier, ein bisschen da. Nicht das eine Land sucht sich Projekt X aus Eigeninteresse heraus und macht dann das Nötigste, sondern wirklich breit – von Basistechnologien bis zum Desktop und einzelnen Program…

A free, #opensource #offline #server you install on any computer. Download the content you want, and it works without internet — forever.

„Souveränitäts-Washing“ im 🇩🇪-Stack: Wer Unabhängigkeit predigt, aber weiter auf proprietäre Abhängigkeiten setzt, betreibt Etikettenschwindel. Digitale Selbstbestimmung ist mehr als PR. OSB Alliance laut @… #OpenSource

Open Contributions Descriptor — or how to map your contribution in open source, open data, and open standards
🔗 Blog post #opensource

How can we establish financially sustainable organisations and initiatives that are grounded in the values of Open Science?
I created a list of ways to generate money as an #OpenScience initiative, service or business (including #OpenSource).

👥 This isn't just open source for show. Nearly 1M developers told the #Warp team: "If you open this up, we will help you build it." Five years after the initial preview — and with a working business model in place — they finally made it happen. #opensource

@…'s keynote at the EU Open Source #Policy Summit 2026 pressed all the key points that I've been worried about.
#OpenSource is Digital

Reverse-engineering #Viktor and making it #OpenSource
https://matijacniacki.com/blog/openviktor…

I just published The Open Contributions Descriptor format as an IETF Internet-Draft.
#opensource #opendata #openstandard

Thema Abhängigkeit von US Tech-Bros und das alternative #OpenSource-Projekt in Schleswig-Holstein and 8:47 bei Dunja Hayali im #heutejournal vom 9.2.2026 - Gut, dass das Thema jetzt auch dort ankommt

#OpenSource #security at Astral
https://astral.sh/blog/open-source-security-at-astral…

Honestly, looking at the license violation thread of #chardet, I really feel like #OpenSource these days is a complete shitshow and I really don't feel like a part of the community anymore. Almost all replies are basically assholes questioning whether there "legally" is actually a problem there. Nobody's concerned that the whole thing is a huge dick move, which makes the maintainer a complete dick and nobody with a shed of morality left would be willing to approve this.
Also, it's a great opportunity to seed some GitHub blocklists.
#FreeSoftware #AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM

Frankreich verpflichtet alle Ministerien bis Herbst 2026 zu Open-Source-Plänen. Alle Ministerien müssen bis Herbst 2026 Pläne für den Wechsel zu Open-Source-Software vorlegen. Das Kalkül dahinter ist nüchtern: Wer die Software kontrolliert, kontrolliert die Infrastruktur. Deutschland diskutiert noch. Horst Schulte über eine Lücke, die größer wird.
#OpenSource

🚀 #MoonshotAI releases #KimiK26 — #opensource 1T-param MoE model, 32B active params, 262K context & native multimodal (image video) input
🧠 15% over K2.5 on benchmarks: bette…

Hey #SanDiego, Curious about #Linux, #selfhosting, or #opensource software? The Central Library is hos…

👍 Ohne #OpenSource keine #DigitaleSouveränität!
@… https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline/116081708267013064

Now it's possible to contribute translations for the #OpenSource SoulCrafted Slicer #FLOSS #3dPrinting #Resin3dPrinting

The entire stack is #opensource: dots.ocr model from #HuggingFace, vLLM for inference, #FastAPI proxy with parallel rendering streaming. Total model size ~12GB, runs comfortably on any…

The GCVE.eu initiative will take part in hackathon.lu (14–15 April, Luxembourg), alongside core developers of GCVE-related projects. See you there to build, experiment, and collaborate!
#gcve #cve #opensource

Auch der öffentlich-rechtliche #Rundfunk kommt zur #2MR, der Konferenz für souveräne #Kommunikation! Wir freuen uns sehr über:
Robert Amlung (@…), Senior Innovation Advisor, Direktion AUDIENCE beim @…, verantwortlich u. a. für den #PublicSpacesIncubator¹ & die #OpenSource -Strategie. Danke für eure Unterstützung #ZDF!
➡️ Du bist verantwortlich für #SocialMedia? Sei dabei:
👉️️ #Hamburg
¹ #ÖRR #Medien

Sometimes I wonder why do I even bother. I mean, people are perfectly happy to let statistical models designed as bullshit generators do their coding. Why do I even bother running their test suites and inspecting the failures as a human, if these tests may well be complete bullshit?
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Gentoo #Python #AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM #VibeCoding

♿ First #opensource end-to-end PDF accessibility tool: layout analysis − auto-tagging − Tagged PDF (Apache 2.0, Q2 2026). Built with PDF Association & veraPDF devs
🔗 #LangChain integration, #Python

Hey #SanDiego, Curious about #Linux, #selfhosting, or #opensource software? The Central Library is hos…

RE: #Fediverse apps?
Marketing Idea:
Create a series of posts, memes or videos where real people share their positive experiences with #Mastadon, #Pixelfed, #PeerTube, #Loops, #Lemmy, #Friendica, etc. - like the example below. Then post those ad nauseum on the equivalent services: X, BlueSky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, Meta, etc. Think of it like a guerrilla campaign injecting positive experiences directly into the tech bros home turf. Be relentless with the messages.
I've seen some Fediverse content on U.S. social media platforms, like videos explaining what the Fediverse is, or how to choose a server on Mastodon. But, with all respect to our technical experts (love you all), we shouldn't have nerds selling the Fediverse to non-technical social media users. People will relate to real people connecting seamlessly across different platforms - for family, for entertainment, for education.
#OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty

Dr. #Rogalla und A. Bode haben es bei ihrem Vortrag auf den Punkt gebracht:
"#Barrierefreiheit ist kein Feature. Es ist #Usability für alle."
Das ist genau da, wo wir mit Luna LMS andocken. 🚀
#LunaLMS #Chemnitz #clt2026 #ChemnitzerLinuxTage #OpenSource

I'm not sure the US administration understands the damage it has done to Big Tech. Europe is shifting to open source
#us #bigtech #europe #opensource

Our Call for Papers for Berlin Buzzwords closes this Sunday, February 15!
We encourage everyone in modern data infrastructure, search and machine learning and focused on open source software projects to submit their talk proposals, especially first-timers and people from underrepresented groups! #bbuzz #OpenSource #Berlin #Conference #MachineLearning #Search #DataInfrastructure #DataScience

Slowly, but without pause, our #FLOSS slicer for resin #3dPrinting is starting to take shape :) .
#OpenResinAlliance ( #Resin3dPrinting #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

🚀 #Warp is now #opensource! The #AI powered #terminal used by ~1 million active developers has f…

< mgorny> that's gunicorn
< mgorny> looks like vibecoding hard
<@sam_> sigh
<@sam_> #Python #NoAI #NoLLM #AI #LLM #OpenSource

RE: #Fediverse.
De brief is gedeeld onder een #CC0 licentie. Voel je vrij om de tekst te kopiëren, aan te passen en te versturen naar organisaties die nog op #BigTech leunen.
Reacties op deze post verschijnen ook als comment onder het blogbericht.
#OpenSource #SocialeMedia #mastodon #decentralisatie #PubliekeRuimte #x #threads #bluesky

Just a random reminder that #Qt is not a good choice. Qt is an #OpenSource spew of a malicious company whose business model is based on constant API churn, and selling proprietary security support to people who can't keep up and are stuck on old versions.
Many volunteers (including #Gentoo developers) are spending hours keeping the previous Qt version alive, so people can continue using software that hasn't been ported to the next version yet, and helping with porting. Dozens of useful programs are dying along with old Qt versions.
#FreeSoftware

If you think #vibecoding is fine, let me ask you a single question: would you use a medical device whose software was vibecoded? And by "medical device" I mean something where a bug could literally kill you.
If you answered "oh, gawd, no!" then consider that anytime you use an #LLM to contribute to or develop an #OpenSource project, there's a chance that this code will end up powering such a device. And even if it doesn't, you're setting a trend, and it will be even more likely that the software used by these devices will be vibecoded.
I have type 1 #diabetes. I also lead a physically active life. This is both a blessing and a curse. My doctors keep suggesting Constant Glucose Monitoring systems and insulin pumps to me. And I do realize that such hardware would likely improve my blood glucose, and definitely make my life much easier (especially with a closed loop system).
So why do my fingertips look like crap, and I keep using a glucometer and insulin pens? Because I don't want to risk my life to an unnecessarily complex technology.
Admittedly, I occasionally get things wrong and suffer consequences. Or I suspect I got them wrong and worry. Or meet an unexpected situation and need to figure out a way out. Or even accept having elevated glucose levels (as in nearing 200 mg/dl) because there's just no way to safely fit insulin doses on a particular day.
But still, I prefer having control and risking my own mistakes to a device that could suddenly start pumping insulin because of a bug. And that was even before the story of the application that stripped the decimal point and gave people ten times the dose. Or the one about CGMs giving wrong high glucose alerts. Or the whole vibecoding fancy.
Back then, I could have considered such a device. Now, I'm more worried than ever. And honestly, I'm hoping that relatively simple glucometers will remain available. To think that my worst fear used to be of a mechanical fault…
#AI #NoAI #NoLLM

> #Eurosky and @… announce partnership to develop key infrastructure for the open social web, based on the #ATProtocol.
16 March 2026: #SocialMedia #ATmosphere #OpenSource #DiDay #OpenWeb #DigitalSovereignty #DigitaleSouveranitat

There's a new piece explaining "The Slow Collapse of #MkDocs": "How personality clashes, an absent founder, and a controversial redesign fractured one of Python's most popular projects."
#httpx?
Well, turns out no, not at all. It looks like encode has already crumbled and became immensely toxic.
httpx is not allowing bug reports anymore, apparently because of "absurdly skewed gender representation", whatever that means.
#OpenSource.
#FreeSoftware #Python

#Upright - #OpenSource Synthetic #Monitoring System by #37signals

"Es geht auch ohne Microsoft", Der #Spiegel bringt spannende Erfahrungsberichte von grösseren Organisationen beim Umstieg auf #OpenSource #LibreOffice & Co!
#digitalesouveranitat
https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/digitale-souveraenitaet-es-geht-auch-ohne-microsoft-a-395903c2-7109-48a7-91df-52997d27d569

Oh, #GitHub is empathetic to #OpenSource projects impacted by all the #AI slop. They're willing to help, right?
#Copilot even once, and of course they're not going to let people actually block this piece of shit.
#LLM #NoAI #NoLLM #hypocrisy #Microsoft

RE: #Hannover kauft falsche #Microsoft-Lizenzen für 324.000 Euro«¹
vs
»#SchleswigHolstein zeige, so @…, dass der Weg in die digitale Unabhängigkeit möglich und bereits jetzt wirtschaftlich sei. Das Land spare dadurch schon jetzt mehr als 15 Millionen Euro an Lizenzkosten.«²
¹ #FOSS #OpenSource #Wirtschaft #Digitalisierung #PublicMoneyPulicCode #Bund #Verwaltung #Schulen #Hochschulen #Bildung #Wissenschaft

💻 #code-server runs #VSCode in your browser on any machine anywhere #IDE #opensource

#Varlock – #dotenv files built for sharing, powered by @ env-spec decorator comments #opensource #devtools

#OpenDataLoader PDF — #opensource #PDF parser for #AI &

RE: #Kommunen, #Behörden etc. mit #Software befasst sind:
Informativer Thread des @… zur neuen rechtssicheren Beschaffung von #OpenSource-Software für die #Verwaltung 👇
Wir gratulieren zu diesem wichtigen Schritt für #PublicMoneyPublicCode !
#DigitaleSouveranitat #Kommune #Software #EVB #DiDay #Floss #Foss #OSS #dutgemacht #DigitaleTransformation #ITBeschaffung #Digitalwirtschaft #offentlichehand

🌐 #Helium is a free, fully #opensource #browser built on #Chromium — privacy-first by def…