@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-04-28 18:48:47
RE: #OpenSource projects need financial support, but this doesn't look like a good idea to me.…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-04-28 18:48:47
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-04-28 18:01:25
👥 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
@thijs_lucas@norden.social2026-04-26 08:20:18
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
@adulau@infosec.exchange2026-04-25 07:10:26
We are cleaning various code base including MISP. I'm wondering if someone still uses OpenIOC format in someways?
#openioc #threatintel #opensource
@a@paperbay.org2026-04-26 13:36:00
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-05-22 06:23:03
"Der Staat kann nicht nur fordern, dass offene Lösungen entstehen. Er muss ein professioneller Kunde werden. Er muss Wartung finanzieren, Communities pflegen, Repositories absichern und Produktqualität einfordern," schreibt @… und recht hat er zum Thema #OpenSource
@rasos@fairmove.net2026-04-23 05:49:07
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
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-03-20 17:03:10
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-03-27 05:04:07
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-04-28 18:01:24
🚀 #Warp is now #opensource! The #AI powered #terminal used by ~1 million active developers has f…
@adulau@infosec.exchange2026-03-20 17:07:22
I just published The Open Contributions Descriptor format as an IETF Internet-Draft.
#opensource #opendata #openstandard
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2026-04-14 07:43:55
Microsoft Exec Suggests AI Agents Will Need to Buy Software Licenses - Business Insider
#Microsoft #W365 #opensource
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2026-03-09 02:11:26
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
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-03-09 22:42:47
Norrköping! As in the place in Sweden where our friends @… live?!
#osgeo #GISChat #OpenSource
@lornajane@indieweb.social2026-04-12 14:18:57
Is anyone using trust scoring on PRs to help evaluate things during this influx of noise on public repositories? I'm looking at #openSource
@gla@mastodon.social2026-05-18 08:39:32
Finally found a nifty app to disable those pesky macOS Spaces animations!
#macOS #opensource #utility
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-03-19 17:20:15
Reverse-engineering #Viktor and making it #OpenSource
https://matijacniacki.com/blog/openviktor…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-03-27 11:12:20
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
@unixorn@hachyderm.io2026-03-10 00:21:05
Hit 30k github contributions today. #opensource
@publicvoit@graz.social2026-03-05 21:17:27
“#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
@unixviking@social.linux.pizza2026-05-20 13:27:18
Well, you can make the most of the long wait for the NAS hard drives to finish formatting by enjoying an authentic Viennese “Punschkrapferl” with a cup of tea for a sweet afternoon snack.
#linux #unix #opensource
@e8johan@social.linux.pizza2026-04-09 17:45:55
I'll be speaking about #opensource in #varberg next week. Come and join me!
https:/…
@lunalms@floss.social2026-03-28 16:55:28
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
@tgpo@social.linux.pizza2026-04-08 16:33:39
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…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-04-29 06:35:25
«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
@a@paperbay.org2026-05-17 11:39:22
"OpenAI and Malta partner to bring ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"
We keep repeating the same mistake: allowing corporations into the education system. Remember how Microsoft effectively pushed the entire educational world toward its products? This time, however, it’s not only about software, it’s about textbooks, content, and everything around them.
#opensource
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-04-21 00:04:50
🚀 #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…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-04-15 06:23:03
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
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-04-17 09:05:32
A free, #opensource #offline #server you install on any computer. Download the content you want, and it works without internet — forever.
@emy2k@social.linux.pizza2026-05-14 02:53:51
Alguién sabe si existe alguna app de citas o para conocer gente que sea #softwarelibre o cuando menos #opensource gracias 😉
@castarco@hachyderm.io2026-03-25 08:06:51
Slowly, but without pause, our #FLOSS slicer for resin #3dPrinting is starting to take shape :) .
#OpenResinAlliance ( #Resin3dPrinting #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
@nebucatnetzer@social.linux.pizza2026-05-02 23:14:54
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
@gla@mastodon.social2026-05-18 20:49:48
I always wanted a remote for PowerPoint that would allow me to use the phone as the laser pointer. So, I've made one! (macOS only, sorry)
#macOS #opensource #swift
@ToneMilazzo@mastodon.cloud2026-04-23 17:08:55
Hey #SanDiego, Curious about #Linux, #selfhosting, or #opensource software? The Central Library is hos…
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-04-14 17:23:25
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-03-17 18:49:49
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…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-05-11 09:17:58
I've been talking before why money won't solve the burnout problem. But let's for a minute assume that you really wanted to help people maintaining #FreeSoftware by paying them. The problem is that:
1. You have to pay them a living wage.
While all monetary help is appreciated by developers, they need a living wage. Not "that should prevent you from starving to death" but the kind of money that can support a honest (but not lavish) lifestyle: pay the bills, feed your family, cover other living costs such as repairs, clothes, appliances, and let you save enough for future emergencies.
It's simple as that. If you can't do that, they're going to need a dayjob. If they're lucky, it won't collide with their #FLOSS work. If they're not, it will kill them. Or they'll fall somewhere in the middle, slowly burning out until they can neither maintain their projects, nor work.
2. You need to guarantee that the payouts will continue.
People need security. They're not going to stay unemployed, let alone quit their job or turn down a job offer, unless they either have good guaranties or substantial savings (or they're in a really bad shape and wouldn't be able to handle the job anyway). The job market is hell, and people just know that when the payments stop, they may not be able to find a job soon, let alone a good job. Even "passively" looking for a job can burn you out.
So yeah, one-off payments and pinky swears won't do. And it isn't even a matter of whether we can trust you; it's a matter if you'll actually be able to continue paying us. And honestly, I don't really know how to solve that. Perhaps by paying up front, but for how long? Finding a job may take more than a year, finding a good job may be once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
3. It can't end up being a job.
Perhaps most difficult of all, these payments can't really come with explicit obligations. I mean, that's the whole point: you want to support FLOSS, not turn it into a corporate project. You want the maintainer to remain free and enjoy the work. That is unlikely to happen if their livelihood is now dependent on your satisfaction. And even if it isn't, I for example would still feel indebted to whoever's paying me to do FLOSS, even if they really didn't expect anything in return, and would fall into a spiral of guilt-inflicted burnout if I failed to maintain the software satisfactorily.
#OpenSource
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-05-12 17:13:45
Camoufox, an #opensource browser built for AI agents
#stealth
@bart@toot.re2026-03-22 14:53:55
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
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-04-11 20:43:48
♿ 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
@adulau@infosec.exchange2026-05-10 10:44:13
The Synthetic Exercise World Format provides fictional countries, companies, sectors, and threat actors with structured metadata for neutral CTI examples, exercises, interoperability tests, and standards documentation without referencing real-world sensitive entities.
I just released version 1.0.
#cti #opensource
@bammerlaan@mastodon.nl2026-04-21 23:29:41
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
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-05-09 17:14:03
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-03-03 16:46:29
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
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-05-10 18:14:15
📦 Works with any HTTPS server. No proprietary listener required. Ideal for #serverless functions, self-hosted backends, or CI/CD pipelines waiting on AI jobs. #opensource #devops
🔗
@publicvoit@graz.social2026-03-09 07:22:18
"A new #opensource edge #AI system called π #RuView is turning ordinary #WiFi infrastructure into a
@gse@norden.social2026-03-03 09:07:47
Weiss jemand eine Seite, wo man open source sachen für #macos oder überhaupt #apple finden kann ?
#macos #opensource
@castarco@hachyderm.io2026-04-14 10:41:45
Now it's possible to contribute translations for the #OpenSource SoulCrafted Slicer #FLOSS #3dPrinting #Resin3dPrinting
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-05-08 10:45:25
🔑 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
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-03-23 04:40:50
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
@adulau@infosec.exchange2026-03-01 12:01:48
Open Contributions Descriptor — or how to map your contribution in open source, open data, and open standards
🔗 Blog post #opensource
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-03-07 15:10:20
#Unbrowse — agent-native browser skill for #AI agents. Auto-discovers APIs from browser traffic & generates reusable skills on the fly #opensource
@bammerlaan@mastodon.nl2026-05-11 20:06:28
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-04-23 10:21:17
Content warning: Gentoo, FLOSS, LLMs, depressing
#Gentoo is still one of the bright outposts in #FLOSS where human work is valued and #LLM contributions are banned. However, sometimes I feel that this matters very little.
After all, Gentoo is a distribution. While it has its own value, it cannot exist without all the software it is shipping. It makes no sense in isolation.
And let's be honest, I don't think you can avoid slop today. We are trying our best to sieve out the worst: the copywashing chardet, the vibecoded NIH Perl crypto packages… but it's just that.
As someone who bumps Python packages, let me tell you this: LLMs are omnipresent. I notice Claude in commit logs, I notice the blasphemy of agent instructions all over the place… and there's probably much more than I don't notice. With many core components giving in, you can't avoid it without literally freezing on old, vulnerable versions, or spending hours looking for alternatives or creating them.
FLOSS is dead. People don't care. They don't have conscience. All they care about is the sick idea of "productivity", i.e. generating more slop.
The few of us who do care can do very little. We will continue doing our best until they kill us (as they're literally slowly killing the whole humankind). But that's it. Maybe it will pass once the bubble pops, maybe it won't. Either way, the damage is beyond repair. We will never be able to trust one another like we did. We will never again be a community building a better world.
It's just like everything nowadays. It's hard to find a good washing machine (one that will actually be repairable), good shoes (that won't fall apart shortly after the warranty expires), good food. You need lots of money, and even then you have to sieve through all the scammers who just sell the same shit with higher profit margin. #OpenSource is just another branch of business where people are trying to "sell" you shit, and don't care anymore if it explodes in your face. They don't even care if they're actually making a profit.
#AI #NoAI #NoLLM #enshittification #AntiCapitalism
@castarco@hachyderm.io2026-05-13 13:11:58
Some of my latest work on the #SoulCraftedSlicer for #Resin3dPrinting : displaying warning visual cues when the object lays partially or totally outside of the printing volume.
#3dprinting #floss #openSource
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-04-05 06:46:25
📱 #React 19 frontend with #TypeScript, fuzzy search across keyboard layouts, #PHP 8.4 with 40 API endpoints. 100% free &
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-03-14 21:23:47
#Varlock – #dotenv files built for sharing, powered by @ env-spec decorator comments #opensource #devtools
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-04-11 20:43:47
#OpenDataLoader PDF — #opensource #PDF parser for #AI &
@bammerlaan@mastodon.nl2026-05-08 22:41:25
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
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-03-05 11:58:10
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
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-04-10 00:15:21
🌐 #Helium is a free, fully #opensource #browser built on #Chromium — privacy-first by def…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-05-11 04:49:30
Tech companies seem to be running a cycle:
1. They don't realize how much they're relying on volunteer-maintained projects.
2. Something bad happens and they suddenly decide they need to support this critical infrastructure, often by hiring some people behind it and making its maintenance part of their dayjob.
3. They realize they could save money by exploiting volunteers to maintain these #OpenSource projects. They lay workers off or move them to other projects.
4. Go to 1.
Except now they're trying to replace workers with slop machines, deskill everyone and basically they're not only poisoning the well, but killing the whole water cycle. And they're realizing that they just gave the bad people a tool that can quickly find just how vulnerable their critical infrastructure is.
Really appreciate the long-term thinking there.
#FreeSoftware #FLOSS #TechBros #AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM #Linux #security
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-03-04 04:17:35
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
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-03-07 20:20:44
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