Xbox just allcapsmaxxed: meet XBOX. This isn't a joke, Microsoft appears to be actually rebranding Xbox to XBOX. Asha Sharma, Xbox CEO, ran a poll on X earlier this week, asking fans whether Microsoft should use Xbox or…
The UK Government, for all its faults, is pretty good at publishing contracts it has awarded. That's why I get depressed when I see rage-bait nonsense about how companies have been award "Top Secret" deals.
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Open Food Facts is an open-source app that allows you to scan food items and discover their nutritional value.
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There is a new #friendica app github.com/LiveFastEatTrashRac… - looks super good and I've heard they are promoting our instance too since it is quite lively and reliable.
I only tested the app a bit since I do not use mu phone much, but hey @Rokosun maybe you should give it a try! :) Maybe we finally have a great Friendica app :)
Kudos to the people who are making these things. You are awesome people!
Nach Jahren des Richtungsstreits setzt Münchens „Mango-Koalition“ auf digitale Souveränität, stärkt das Open-Source-Programm und gibt das IT-Referat der FDP.
Steve Yegge는 AI가 생성한 대량의 오픈소스 PR을 관리하는 'Vibe Maintainer' 워크플로우를 소개한다. 그는 AI PR을 금지하는 대신 적극 수용하며, AI와 커뮤니티 기여를 통해 Beads와 Gas Town 프로젝트를 빠르게 성장시키고 있다. AI 도움으로 PR의 절반 이상을 자동 처리하며, 높은 품질 기준을 유지하면서도 커뮤니티 분열과 포크를 방지하는 전략을 취한다. 이는 AI 시
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Steve Yegge는 AI가 생성한 대량의 오픈소스 PR을 관리하는 'Vibe Maintainer' 워크플로우를 소개한다. 그는 AI PR을 금지하는 대신 적극 수용하며, AI와 커뮤니티 기여를 통해 Beads와 Gas Town 프로젝트를 빠르게 성장시키고 있다. AI 도움으로 PR의 절반 이상을 자동 처리하며, 높은 품질 기준을 유지하면서도 커뮤니티 분열과 포크를 방지하는 전략을 취한다. 이는 AI 시대 오픈소스 유지보수의 새로운 패러다임을 제시한다.
Help us test @Podman_io 6.0! Test Days will be from May 11-15. This release will bring modern networking, simplified architecture, and a cleaner configuration. :)
The Fedora QA team invites you to participate in the Podman 6.0 Test Days from Monday, May 11-15, 2026. Podman 6.0 is a major modernization release that removes legacycomponents and finalizes previously announced deprecation: What’s New in Podman 6.
Recent LMS security events are a good reminder to keep course content under your own control. For educators comfortable with web hosting, the new Grav Helios Course Hub offers a full-featured course companion site built on portable Markdown files. For a no-setup option, Docsify-This instantly turns Markdown files into web pages or a site. All content can also be then seamlessly embedded into an LMS if needed.
A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
Conceptual Machines has released another update to its open-source AI-integrated DAW for recording, editing, and mixing audio and MIDI. Version 0.7.0 of MAGDA comes with various new features and improvements.
Bekijk je favoriete video's, luister naar de muziek die je leuk vindt, upload originele content en deel alles met vrienden, familie en anderen op YouTube.
Le 15 avril 2026, le Cercle d'exploration Mastodon, qui a initié reseauCulture.fr, a présenté ses retours d'expériences à l'issue de son programme d'exploration de neuf mois.
While chugging away on the big 1.5 release, the Inkscape team has also worked on improvements for the current stable Inkscape 1.4.x line. Learn more about the improvements you can expect in this minor release!
La leyenda urbana de «entrenar tu propio modelo de IAG» sigue siendo un anzuelo para monetizar tutoriales, cursos, masterclass y demás productos que los gurúes y promotores de la IA generativa usan para seguir lucrando a costa de todos los autores vulnerados. ¡No se dejen engañar!
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.
