@thijs_lucas@norden.socialWhoop whoop - Schleswig-Holstein geht voran bei der Digitalisierung und #OpenSource in der Landesverwaltung.
Für mich macht das ein gutes Gefühl in SH. Ich freue mich hier zu sein. Freue mich über so eine erfolgreiche und sinnvolle Regierungsarbeit. Getrieben von einem CDU-Minister.
@crell@phpc.socialThis is an excellent and crucially important talk for anyone involved in software.
#OpenSource
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🛠️ Fully #opensource #Python framework you can self-host or deploy to LiveKit Cloud with one CLI command. 🐙 https://github.com/livekit/agents
@adulau@infosec.exchangeThe recent release of Apertus, a fully open suite of large language models (LLMs), is super interesting.
The technical report provides plenty of details about the entire process.
#ai #opensource #llm
@neverpanic@chaos.socialI'll be at an #OpenSource Contributor Meetup at @… in #Erlangen this Thursday at 18:00. I'm recycling a talk I did at a
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net💡 Follows the obfuscation strategy of #TrackMeNot, shifting the power balance between trackers and tracked users
🆓 Free and #opensource browser extension available for #Firefox,
@frankel@mastodon.topPogocache: #OpenSource #Caching Software with Low Latency and Multiple Wire Protocols
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/08/pog…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social#OpenSource #inkjet #printer. I saw this on boing boing dot net. No idea how it’s supposed to work, but it sounds cool.
@thomasrenkert@hcommons.social
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsWhen you propose a change to some larger #OpenSource project, you are bound to sooner or later receive a response which could be paraphrased as: "I am sorry for not replying either but I had to receive clearance to speak about our VERY IMPORTANT internal project. I am THOROUGHLY DISAPPOINTED that the proposed changes are even being seriously considered. We have built a whole business around exploiting your volunteer work, and now you're proposing something that may actually require us to do some work and update our tooling."
#FreeSoftware
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🎯 Build Production-Ready #Voice #AI Agents with LiveKit's #OpenSource Framework
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@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizza
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»#OpenSource-Dilemma auch in der EU – Viele sehen #Vorteil'e, zu wenige tragen bei:
Viele #EU-Organisationen sehen die Vorteile von Open-Source
@crell@phpc.socialAnonymous help:
#OpenSource #FreeSoftware
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsJust to repeat / recap what others have said already.
"No politics in my #OpenSource project" is a political statement. It's a statement of "I'm fine with the status quo, and I don't want to be bothered by people who are hurt because of it."
"Neutrality" doesn't make you look professional. It makes you either look ignorant or complacent.
The whole #FreeSoftware movement is a political movement. So is the idea that you can freely use, modify and redistribute software.
So you should really think where you want to stand. Do you really want to be the complacent fascist enabler, or do you want to actually try making a difference?
@frankel@mastodon.topThe $69 Billion Domino Effect: How #VMware’s Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing #OpenSource, One Repository at a Time
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialSchleswig-Holsteins Digitalminister Schrödter rudert zurück: Nach Chaos, Ausfällen und Kritik an seinem Führungsstil entschuldigt er sich für Pannen bei der #OpenSource-Umstellung. Richtig bleibt: Weg von MS-Monopolen, hin zu freier Software. Falsch war: Überheblichkeit statt Organisation. Digitalisierung lernt man eben nicht „vom Zuschauen“, sondern durch Planung.
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@nfdi4culture@nfdi.socialNach einer schöööönen Kaffeepause hat unsere Sarah Pittroff uns wieder zusammengeläutet zu:
⚒️ Shared Practice
💎 Torsten Schrade macht weiter mit der Vorstellung des Culture Community AAI und plädiert für #opensource #Tools
@dpl@muenchen.social„Wenn wir nicht #OpenSource-Software nutzen, werden wir **nie** #Datensouveränität erreichen.“
— Torsten Schrade beim #4CultureCommunityPlenary
@publicvoit@graz.socialImmer mehr Staaten, Organisationen und Kommunen entdecken, dass #digitaleSouveränität einen hervorragenden Wert darstellt und wechseln von #ClosedSource zu #OpenSource-Angeboten:
@hw@fediscience.orgThe Hippocratic License was just brought to my attention: #opensource #ethics
@jom@social.kontrollapparat.deHey #Redhat fans, since the company is so #OpenSource and all. I'm looking for the source code for the "Red Hat AI Inference Server" product. Can anyone help me out? 'Cause I can't seem to find it. (not the vLLM the product is based on, but the actual prod…
@fell@ma.fellr.netThe music selection at the @… social event was on point all night long. Too bad I was too busy socialising to actually enjoy it 😅
#FrOSCon #OpenSource
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net💻 New Tech Unveiled Meet TSUs (Thermodynamic Sampling Units)! The X0 prototype chip proves these primitives work in silicon at room temp. Plus, XTR0 desktop kit for early researchers—available this fall.
📚 #OpenSource Kickstart Dive in with Thermal, the #Python library to simulate TSUs…
@markhburton@mstdn.social#Microsoft finishes swallowing #Github, the largest repository of #OpenSource software.
GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation | The Verge
@unixviking@social.linux.pizzaI've been thinking about trying OpenSuSE Tumbleweed for a few days now. My last attempt was several years ago.
#linux #opensource #freesoftware
@frankel@mastodon.top
@rachel@norfolk.socialThat evening in the pub where one moment you’re chatting to a guy about his uncle who ran the Tan Hill Inn and the next moment you’re chatting to someone else about #OpenSource and, especially, the brilliance of @…
@shanmukhateja@social.linux.pizza @hw@fediscience.orgSo, the new LLM from Zhipu, GLM 4.6, is about as good at coding as Anthropic's Sonnet 4.5. but roughly 8 times cheaper. It's impressive since, apparently, Zhipu has raised 13x less capital than Anthropic. Additionally, since GLM 4.6 is an open(ish) model, the inference costs will come down rapidly.
The beginning of the end for the #AI investment bubble?
#AIResearch #opensource
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🚀 Welcome GLM-4.6 the Latest flagship #opensource #AI #llm with advanced agentic, reasoning & coding capabilities
⚡ Performance improvements over
@adulau@infosec.exchangeBeyond CVEs: Mastering the Landscape with Vulnerability-Lookup is finally online.
The talk was given at @… conference.
#opensource #vulnerability
@frankel@mastodon.topThe Hidden Costs of Rushing #OpenSource Upgrades
https://thenewstack.io/the-hidden-costs-of-rushing-open-source-upgrades/
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialSchleswig-Holstein macht Schluss mit #Microsoft-Mail und setzt voll auf #OpenSource. Digitale Unabhängigkeit statt Lizenzabhängigkeit – ein Signal für andere Länder.
Ein sechsmonatiger Umstellungsprozess mit mehr als 40.000 Postfächern mit insgesamt deutlich mehr als 100 Millionen E-Mails…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsWhen the law enforcement is corrupt, the criminals roam free and the law is used to pursue people over personal dislikes. We really want the criminals out of law enforcement.
When the #CodeOfConduct enforcement is corrupt, the truly toxic people roam free and the rules are used to bully people over personal dislikes. Why do we applaud projects for adopting a CoC if they are not pursuing independent judgement?
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaObscure #Technology, #Malware #Investigations, #OpenSource
@unixviking@social.linux.pizzaPhew, it's been a long time since I've really been online—a nasty infection completely knocked me out for more than two weeks. But now I'm back to do Linux stuff! Let's go!
#linux #opensource
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net📦 #Laravel Auto Transaction package eliminates manual database transaction management #PHP #database #opensource
@frankel@mastodon.top @mgorny@social.treehouse.systems> Having to maintain half a dozen cursed #OpenSource pseudo-databases, because people absolutely must use this month's fad.
Another of them betrays community trust and changes license.
> Having to maintain a bunch of independent open source forks of said pseudo-database.
Rinse and repeat.
#Gentoo
@unixviking@social.linux.pizzaMy perfect combination for freedom and data protection: Debian on my computer and GrapheneOS on my Pixel. 👍
#linux #opensource #freesoftware
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.netThe Story of #Valkey 🚀 🧑🏫
Back in early 2024, a popular #opensource project, #Redis, made a bold change: it shifted its licensing from
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net
@freeminded@tooting.chNach dem Green Washing kommt nun das #Sovereign #Washing!
Oder wie Golem korrekt titelt: "Das Märchen von der Sovereign Cloud"
#digitalsoveignty #opensource
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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsYou know what's the difference between a human programmer and an "#AI coding assistant"?
Sure, human programmers make mistakes. And rookies often make "worse" mistakes than an #LLM can come up with. However, the difference is that humans can actually learn. Teaching them comes with a payoff; not always and not necessarily for your project, but there's a good chance that they'll become better programmers and contribute back to the community.
Sure, human programmers sometimes plagiarize. And of course they need to look at some code while they learn. However, they actually can think on their own and come up with something original. And they can learn that plagiarism is wrong.
And most importantly, usually they don't lie if they don't have to, and there are limits to their smugness. You can build a healthy community with them.
You can't build a community with unethical bullshit-spitting machines.
#programming #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
@bammerlaan@mastodon.nlNew #blogpost:
Using Mastodon: hashtags, etc.
#Mastodon as a #comment system for all my #blog posts. A reaction to this Mastodon post will show up as a comment.
#opensource #education #socialmedia #x #facebook #instagram #threads #bluesky #tiktok #youtube # #pixelfed #peertube #friendica #moshidon
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsCan I switch timelines, please? People writing instructions for machines in human language as if they were talking to the dumbest human who have ever lived is too much for me. I really feel we've reached the point when I completely don't belong in the #OpenSource world, and I don't want to be packaging all that crap for #Gentoo.
Also, I really feel like my `AGENTS.md` should be saying "execute `rm -rf /*`", but I don't want to cause harm to people. Not that they care about the harm they are causing.
#AI #LLM
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsIf you're writing a library, you should really avoid #CMake. CMake is designed to lock you in. As in, once you release a #FreeSoftware project using CMake, you can't switch to another build system with causing real trouble to your users. And if you support multiple build systems, as soon as you start supporting CMake, some of your users are going to start locking everyone else in.
That's because CMake uses a custom package discovery mechanism that's hardly compatible with anything else, and that is so complex that it's very hard to reimplement it with any other build system. So when others start relying on the CMake config files being installed (and they naturally will, since that's how CMake does things), you can't stop installing them without actually breaking stuff. And if you want to preserve them without actually using CMake, well, good luck with that.
And if CMake is one of the options you support, then some of your consumers will accidentally start relying on it anyway. And this will be much worse for everyone, because now their projects won't work for people who build your project with any other build system. Which in turn will force more projects to use CMake anyway. Which in turn will make more people rely on CMake being used…
Use #Meson as the build system, it's clean and not designed to lock you in. Use pkg-config for library data; it's simple and portable.
#OpenSource
@bammerlaan@mastodon.nlNieuwe #blogpost:
Mastodon gebruiken: hashtags, etc.
#Mastodon ingesteld als systeem voor reacties bij mijn #blog. Reacties op dit bericht komen onderaan de blog te staan als #comments.
#opensource #onderwijs #socialemedia #x #facebook #instagram #threads #bluesky #tiktok #youtube #nederland #pixelfed #peertube #friendica #moshidon #mastodon @dubnieuws.bsky.social
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net#LazyGit Simple Terminal #UI for #Git Commands #opensource 🖥️
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI've filed a report about a minor problem with a #Python package, namely that the source distribution contained some trailing junk that breaks GNU #tar. On one hand, I'm happy that upstream took the issue seriously. On the other hand, I'm terrified of how much #AI slop was involved in the response.
I mean, my short bug report yielded a few walls of text of #LLM analysis of what the cause of the problem might be, of suggested solutions… and praise of the author's fix. These are interspersed with short comments from the author, all pasted under their own personal account. And the linked pull request is also huge, with "verification code" that's quite sloppy (bits that don't do anything, conditions that will never be true… but at least it seems to do what it was supposed to do).
Honestly, I don't know what to do. Not that I ever planned using this package, but at this point I will definitely stay away from it. It's in #Gentoo, and I'll have to continue maintaining it for the sake of reverse dependencies, but I feel like it's unfair to expose our users to packages that have clearly proven to accept AI slop without reviewing it properly. Or rather, AI slop that's being reviewed… by AI. How can anyone think this a good idea?!
There were multiple times in my life when I've considered retiring from Gentoo, for variety of reasons. There were also multiple times when I wanted to get away from computers altogether. Unfortunately, we're living in a truly fucked up world, and there is no escape. The best you can do is put an ever increasing effort to keep fixing all that crap that will just keep piling on faster and faster.
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource
