Muchos intentan asociar el rótulo de open source como «libre de culpa y cargo». Y siguen mezclando peras con manzanas. El hecho de que un modelo sea open source no garantiza que sea ético, transparente, confiable ni con seguridad jurídica. Stable Diffusion se lanzó como open source y es la génesis del mal en todo este asunto.
Mucho chanta ofreciendo «cursos para descubrir el mundo de la IA generativa» y monetizar a costa de la vulneración sistemática de nuestros derechos. No se necesita ningún curso para saber cómo funcionan los modelos de IAG comercial 👇
🔸 Cuadernillos de Arte es Ética. Volumen 1: ROBO DE DATOS
🎙️ Spent ~35 hours reverse-engineering the Apogee ONEv2 USB audio interface on Linux: • 2 kernel patches to sound/usb/ • Vendor init sequence found via Wireshark on macOS • Hardware watchdog keepalive daemon • ALSA sees Playback and Capture PCMs • Playback PCM opens — stable streaming not yet cracked
Linux support for the Apogee ONEv2 USB audio interface — kernel patches, vendor init sequence, and keepalive daemon reverse-engineered from scratch - stevebrodie/apogee-one2-linux
Updated! We are now up to 20 entries in my European digital sovereignty tracker. New examples of orgs ditching US tech include media entities, the Dutch National Bank, and open source sewing software.
Thanks to everyone who has sent me examples, please do keep them coming if there are others I am missing!
There's a handful that I am still reviewing and I'm also considering in the next update including new categories (political declarations, funding, projects such as Euro-Office, etc)
Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so important.
That's why I'm beyond disappointed at recent moves from NHS England to backtrack on all the previous commitments they've made about the value of open source to the UK's health service.
It's rare that multiple people leak the same story to me, but that's what gives me confidence that lots of people within the NHS are aghast at this news.
A few days ago, I was sent this quote which was attributed to a senior technical person in NHS England.
We are obviously looking at things like Mythos, which is more sophisticated at
Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so important.
That's why I'm beyond disappointed at recent moves from NHS England to backtrack on all the previous commitments they've made about the value of open source to the UK's health service.
It's rare that multiple people leak the same story to me, but that's what gives me confidence that lots of people within the NHS are aghast at this news.
A few days ago, I was sent this quote which was attributed to a senior technical person in NHS England.
We are obviously looking at things like Mythos, which is more sophisticated at finding vulnerabilities. In the next week or so, we will be changing our tack on coding the open and making our code public until we're on top of that risk.
Most of our repos, unless they're essential, will be removed for security reasons.
As I've written before, this is not the correct response to the purported threat by Mythos. Neither the AI Safety Institute nor the NCSC recommend this action. While there may be some increase in risk from AI security scanners, to shutter everything would be a gross overreaction.
Nevertheless, that's what the NHS is preparing to do.
On the 29th of April, guidance note SDLC-8 was sent out. Here's what it says: The majority of code repos published by the NHS are not meaningfully affected by any advance in security scanning. They're mostly data sets, internal tools, guidance, research tools, front-end design and the like. There is nothing in them which could realistically lead to a security incident.
When I was working at NHSX during the pandemic, we were so confident of the safety and necessity of open source, we made sure the Covid Contact Tracing app was open sourced the minute it was available to the public. That was a nationally mandated app, installed on millions of phones, subject to intense scrutiny from hostile powers - and yet, despite publishing the code, architecture and documentation, the open source code caused zero security incidents.
There are very few examples of code that must not be published in the open.
The main reason for code to be closed source is when it relates to policy that has not yet been announced. In this case, you must make the code open as soon as possible after the policy is published.
Public services are built with public money. So unless there's a good reason not to, the code they're based should be made available for other people to reuse and build on.
All of which is to say - open source should be baked into the DNA of the NHS by now. There are thousands of NHS repositories on GitHub. The work undertaken to assess all of them and then close them will be massive. And for what?
Even if we ignore the impracticality of closing all the code - it is too late! All that code has already been slurped up. If Mythos really is the ultimate hacker, hiding the code now does nothing. It has likely already retained copies of the repositories.
And if it were both practical and effective to hide source code - that doesn't matter. These AI tools are just as effective against closed-source. They can analyse binaries and probe websites with ease.
There are tens of thousands of NHS website pages which refer to their GitHub repos - will they all need to be updated? What's the cost of that?
I am convinced that closing all their excellent open source work is the wrong move for the NHS. I hope they see sense and reverse course.
Until then, I've helped make sure that every single NHS repository has been backed up and, because the software licence permits it, can be re-published if the original is closed.
In the meantime, you should email your MP and tell them that the NHS is wrong to shutter its world-leading open source repositories.
Don't let them take away your right to see the code which underpins our nation's healthcare.
National Health Service rules state that all software created with public money should be publicly available, but fears of computer-hacking AI models like Mythos have prompted a change in policy
Mastodon is not going to allow colored badges anymore, but we are going to keep them in our instance. With this rate of deprecation, we can expect even more forks, but that's OK. Luckily, Mastodon is open source.
Steps to reproduce the problem Go to Administration > Roles and edit a role Set a badge color for the role Assign the role to a user and make it highlighted Visit that user's profile page Expected ...
We’re proud to share that Deb Goodkin, Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation, will be speaking at Open-Source Summit North America, hosted by the Linux Foundation.
The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories.
Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so…
The Open Social Web’s kryptonite is the liability participants can face as intermediaries. Laws aiming to change Section 230 put decentralized projects in a uniquely precarious position. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/open… #fediverse #opensource #section230
If you want to overthrow Big Tech, you’ll need Section 230. The paradigm shift being built with the Open Social Web can put communities back in control of social media infrastructure, and finally end our dependency on enshitified corporate giants.
I'm honoured to have been elected to the Board of Directors of @fdroidorg , the most well-known #opensource alternative to Google's Play Store.
Imagine Microsoft deciding from now on what you can install on your laptop. No internet, you can only download things through the MS app store. Apps that MS has approved. Who wouldn't find that suffocating? Yet that is what Google wants to do on our Android phones (and what Apple already has - a closed ecosystem).
I am pleased to be able to announce this year’s appointments to the F-Droid Board of Directors! We received a record number of nominations, and it was diffic...
We are also testing sealed bootable container images! These are installs which "include all the components needed to create a fully verified boot chain, from the firmware to the operating system composefs image."
Sealed bootable container images include all the components needed to create a fully verified boot chain, from the firmware to the operating system composefs image
Our two desktop editions bring some big updates with Fedora 44!
Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition brings you Plasma 6.6, more Plasma integration in a new install, and joins the Fedora Ready program for hardware support starting with @starlabssystems! fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-i…
Fedora Workstation Edition brings with it GNOME 50, parental controls, and general ecosystem improvements. fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-f…
I’m excited to announce that Fedora Linux 44 is here! Keep reading to discover highlights of Fedora Linux 44, or if you are ready, just jump right in and give Fedora Linux 44 a try!
Want a job shaping the future of #OpenSource in EU tech? European tech standards body ETSI has a new paid position available for an open source expert.
The advert doesn't say it quite like that because they have members who dislike open source, but "SDG" is the term for what was originally "Open Source Group" and this person will be managing collaborative open source projects on open source tools in a unique, challenging but hugely influential setting.
V2.5-Pro is the next step up from MiMo-V2-Flash and its closed source for now, but Xiaomi has confirmed open source is coming for the V2.5 series. What V2.5-Pro adds over Flash is meaningful. Better long-horizon coherence, stronger agentic capabilities, and the ability to sustain complex tasks across more than a thousand tool calls without losing the thread
Peking University gives its computer science students a compiler project every semester. Build a complete SysY compiler in Rust including lexer, parser, abstract syntax tree, IR code generation, assembly backend, performance optimization.
Already 31 servers are running the experimental #Jamulus builds supporting uncompressed PCM audio transmission 🥳 ♥️ 🎧 I couldn't be happier about that and even more grateful for all the feedback from the users and code review from the developers I received so far. But the more people use it, the more I wish for the bugs to vanish by themselves If you're not scared of bugs you can find the most recent automatic build on github: github.com/jamulussoftware/jam… #LinuxAudio #OpenSource #CrossPlatform
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BREAKING! Meshcore team splits over dispute over AI-generated code disclosure, and hostile trademark takeover.
Meshcore is an off-grid, decentralised mesh radio platform powered by low-cost and public access LoRa radio technology for reliable, long-range emergency text and embedded sensors communication. It can communicate across kilometres — no towers, no subscriptions, no single point of failure.
