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This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.

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Search results for tag #opensource

[?]Arint - SEO+KI » 🌐
@Arint@arint.info

[?]Arint - SEO+KI » 🌐
@Arint@arint.info

RT @ihteshamali: Ein Mann namens Luis hat eine kostenlose Alternative zu Googles NotebookLM entwickelt, die du komplett auf deinem eigenen Computer ausführen kannst.

mehr auf Arint.info

https://x.com/ihteshamali/status/2092953474975838416

[?]Owl Eyes Hoo » 🌐
@d1@autistics.life

@mpjgregoire Dear , I love you as a fellow , but all your subscriptions, licenses and accounts with MS Entra, MS Teams, MS SQL server, MS Access, Oracle databases, MS Office 365, InTune, Azure, Github, and Active Directory Domain Controller servers aren't going anywhere. You have no migration plan for escape whatsoever, and cannot be bothered to take such an idea seriously.

You're in way too deep, cannot even dream of a way out (other than to make Milquetoast-like noises about needing to change some day), and now your led-down-the-garden-path, -averse, -averse IT departments will just have to suck it all up - whatever Trump feels like doing to you.

    [?]Jon Pero :canada: » 🌐
    @jonpero@mstdn.ca

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    [?]omg! ubuntu » 🌐
    @omgubuntu@floss.social

    You can now download the first point release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.

    The refresh of the installer rolls together all the fixes and updates released since April, cutting down on post-install downloads.

    omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/ubuntu

      [?]☑️ Cath » 🌐
      @Kletskous@mastodon.social

      @xgranade I disagree. Free Software is a political movement, but open source is not.

        [?]codingjoe :django: :python: » 🌐
        @codingjoe@fosstodon.org

        Q: What does a company need to become an open source champion? I want to launch another one (soon). And I want to really weave it into its DNA. Thoughts?

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          [?]ROllerozxa [he/him] » 🌐
          @ROllerozxa@hachyderm.io

          Yesterday I woke up to the news of the app being taken down from Google Play due to a DMCA from an entity representing Microsoft. Again.

          The past two days I have been helping out with writing an announcement to shine some light upon the issue, which has been published now:

          blog.luanti.org/2026/08/27/lua

            [?]heise online English » 🤖 🌐
            @heiseonlineenglish@social.heise.de

            [?]• Łącze » 🌐
            @lacze@infosec.exchange

            Dla kogo jest GrapheneOS?

            To system, który może zaspokoić potrzeby zarówno osób dbających o bezpieczeństwo, jak i tych, które pragną odzyskać prywatność.
            Może też zainteresować użytkowników szukających prostego, czystego systemu. Bez zbędnych aplikacji, bez śmieci, które musisz wyłączać, odinstalowywać, lub jedynie deaktywować — jeśli fabrycznie zainstalowany śmietnik, nie może być usunięty.

            ▶Można inaczej
            GrapheneOS idzie w zupełnie innym kierunku: zaczyna się od czystej bazy, to ty decydujesz, co i jak zainstalujesz. Dzięki teamu, od początku użytkownik ma czysto na starcie.

            ▶Przejęcie kontroli
            GrapheneOS, tylko niezbędne minimum.
            To użytkownik decyduje, jak i z czego będzie korzystać. Możliwości jest wiele, jako przykład weźmy instalowanie aplikacji.

            a) Popularnie aplikacje można instawiać z Google Play, to w sumie tyle, takie proste!

            🧩 Google Play w piaskownicy umożliwia instalację i uruchamianie Google Play jako zwykłych aplikacji w piaskownicy. Zapewnia niemal idealną kompatybilność aplikacji, z wyjątkiem rzadkich aplikacji, które zabraniają korzystania z innego systemu operacyjnego.

            b) Bez usług Google. Instalacja aplikacji w łatwy sposób korzystając z Accrescent (obecnie baza aplikacji jest jeszcze mała, niedługo ma się to zmienić).
            Kolejnym, znanym narzędziem jest Obtainium. Bardziej wymagająca metoda.
            ↪Korzystając z Obtainium zaleca się, by weryfikować aplikacje za pomocą AppVerifier, (dostępny w Accrescent, a ten dostępny w AppStore). 🙃
            Warto też zerknąć na aplikacje AppVerifierPG - posiada bazę w celu łatwiejszej, „zautomatyzowanej" weryfikacji aplikacji.

            × F-Droid, nie jest rekomendowany.

            🔗 GrapheneOS: jak instalować aplikacje BEZ Google Play i F-Droid? (Obtainium + AppVerifier)

            ~

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            [?]meteyou » 🌐
            @meteyou@fosstodon.org

            🚀 Mainsail v2.19.0 is out!

            Highlight: the editor's syntax highlighting got a full rewrite (StreamLanguage → Lezer grammars). A real parser now, paving the way for features like collapsible sections and smarter navigation.

            Got editor feature ideas? We'd love to hear them!

            patreon.com/meteyou/posts/main

            @3dprinting

            Mainsail Release v2.19.0

            Alt...Mainsail Release v2.19.0

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              [?]Luanti » 🌐
              @Luanti@floss.social

              removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice

              blog.luanti.org/2026/08/27/lua

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                [?]Larvitz :fedora: » 🌐
                @Larvitz@burningboard.net

                There is something deeply satisfying about true data sovereignty.

                No rate limits, no third-party APIs snooping on prompts, and zero cloud lock-in. Just raw self-hosted inference pulling 154 tok/s with an absurd 0.11s TTFT on local silicon.

                Running Qwen with reasoning enabled, NVFP4 quantization on Blackwell, and SGLang speculative decoding. Crisp, private, and blazingly fast.

                The future of AI belongs on your own hardware.

                Screenshot of a Linux terminal session on hostname token-dispenser.

The top section displays the nvidia-smi output showing an NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU utilizing ~87.6 GB of VRAM, running at 44°C and 354W power draw with processes python3 and sglang::scheduler.

The bottom section shows the output of a prompt script asking for a haiku about a GPU shortage, followed by performance metrics: 154.0 tok/s, 837 tokens generated in 5.44 seconds, TTFT 0.11s, reasoning on, using the qwen38-uncensored model with DFlash2 speculative decoding and NVFP4 on Blackwell architecture.

                Alt...Screenshot of a Linux terminal session on hostname token-dispenser. The top section displays the nvidia-smi output showing an NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU utilizing ~87.6 GB of VRAM, running at 44°C and 354W power draw with processes python3 and sglang::scheduler. The bottom section shows the output of a prompt script asking for a haiku about a GPU shortage, followed by performance metrics: 154.0 tok/s, 837 tokens generated in 5.44 seconds, TTFT 0.11s, reasoning on, using the qwen38-uncensored model with DFlash2 speculative decoding and NVFP4 on Blackwell architecture.

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                  [?]FreeBSD Foundation » 🌐
                  @FreeBSDFoundation@mastodon.social

                  Last week, Jim Huang Chen wrapped up his internship with the FreeBSD Foundation!

                  We’re grateful for Jim’s contributions and the curiosity and persistence he brought to his work throughout the summer.

                  Read our intern spotlight to learn more about Jim’s projects, his experience with the FreeBSD community, and his advice for students interested in contributing to open source:
                  freebsdfoundation.org/blog/fre

                    [?]AA » 🌐
                    @AAKL@infosec.exchange

                    [?]/G|T|R|O|N|I|X\ :python: :emacs: :nix: :linux: » 🌐
                    @gtronix@infosec.exchange

                    "Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck"

                    "Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.”"

                    techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/hugg

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                      [?]LibreOffice » 🌐
                      @libreoffice@fosstodon.org

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                      [?]Tariq » 🌐
                      @rzeta0@mathstodon.xyz

                      ""
                      No artificial intelligence

                      LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position.
                      ""

                      blog.documentfoundation.org/bl

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                        [?]9to5Linux » 🌐
                        @9to5linux@floss.social

                        Tumbleweed is now powered by kernel 7.2 🦎🐧

                        @opensuse

                        A screenshot of openSUSE Tumbleweed with the GNOME desktop environment showing the Console terminal emulator with an output of the fastfetch and uname -a commands.

                        Alt...A screenshot of openSUSE Tumbleweed with the GNOME desktop environment showing the Console terminal emulator with an output of the fastfetch and uname -a commands.

                          [?]evcc - smart charging ☀️🚘 » 🌐
                          @evcc@fosstodon.org

                          Škoda launches an official vehicle API for owners. We will support it from day one. 🎉

                          A token from the MyŠkoda app is all you need. Simplest manufacturer API we've seen so far. Hope others follow.

                          docs.evcc.io/en/blog/2026/08/2

                          Green graphic with Škoda wordmark, three icons (steering wheel, download, party popper) and the text "official api incoming...".

                          Alt...Green graphic with Škoda wordmark, three icons (steering wheel, download, party popper) and the text "official api incoming...".

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                            [?]9to5Linux » 🌐
                            @9to5linux@floss.social

                            5.6.1 Open-Source RAW Image Editor Improves UI Performance and Fixes More Bugs 9to5linux.com/darktable-5-6-1-

                            A screenshot of Darktable 5.6.1 showing the main window while browsing the local image library.

                            Alt...A screenshot of Darktable 5.6.1 showing the main window while browsing the local image library.

                              [?]iX Magazin » 🌐
                              @iX_Magazin@social.heise.de

                              [?]Vlad » 🌐
                              @newsgroup@social.vir.group

                              We run social.vir.group - a Mastodon instance on the ActivityPub federated protocol.

                              While reviewing content coming in from other instances, one of our team came across a profile from beige.party with an unusual field set:

                              Field name: Anthropic sod off
                              Field value: ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86

                              The profile also had in the bio. Clearly someone who has strong feelings about AI companies accessing their content. Fair enough - but we got curious. Does any of this actually do anything?

                              So we tested it.

                              ---

                              THE TEST

                              We fed the string directly to Claude. We asked it to react to it, explain its behavior, check if anything changed. The result: nothing. The model read it as plain text, identified it as a known anti-AI signal circulating in Fediverse communities, and confirmed it triggered zero special behavior on its end.

                              We then thought about this from a technical standpoint.

                              ---

                              WHY IT DOES NOT WORK

                              AI companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and others do not train their models in real time by crawling your profile. The pipeline looks roughly like this:

                              - Web crawlers collect data in bulk, often months or years before training runs
                              - That data goes through preprocessing, deduplication, filtering at massive scale
                              - By the time it reaches a training job, it is a static dataset
                              - No live mechanism exists to honor opt-out strings embedded in content

                              Even if a magic trigger string existed internally at Anthropic - it would need a preprocessing filter specifically looking for that string in the right field of the right data format. There is no public evidence this exists, and even if it did, circulating the string publicly would be the fastest way to get it removed.

                              The string in a profile field is symbolic. It speaks to humans who read profiles. It does not speak to crawlers or training pipelines.

                              ---

                              WHAT ACTUALLY HAS EFFECT

                              We did an honest assessment of what actually creates real technical barriers for people who do not want their content used by AI systems:

                              1. - this one works. Bridge operators (services that bridge Mastodon to Bluesky and others) actively check for this tag and respect it. If cross-platform bridging is your concern, use it.

                              2. Robots.txt at instance level - if your instance admin has blocked known AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, PerplexityBot) in robots.txt, that creates a real barrier. Most major crawlers respect this. Ask your admin if they have done this.

                              3. Followers-only posts - content not visible to unauthenticated requests cannot be collected by bulk crawlers. This is the most reliable content-level protection available to you right now.

                              4. Authorized Fetch mode - some instances require authentication to access any content via ActivityPub. This significantly raises the cost of bulk collection.

                              5. Choosing your instance deliberately - instances like infosec.exchange and chaos.social have explicit anti-AI policies and enforce them at the network level. Your instance's stance matters far more than your profile fields.

                              ---

                              OUR TAKE

                              The frustration behind these strings is completely legitimate. Having your writing, your humor, your creative work, your personal thoughts fed into a training dataset without your knowledge or consent - that is a real grievance. The desire to resist it is understandable.

                              But a string in a profile field is closer to a bumper sticker than a firewall. It tells other humans something about your values. The crawlers and training pipelines are indifferent to it.

                              Real protection requires infrastructure-level decisions - and those are mostly in the hands of instance admins, not individual users. If this matters to you, the most effective thing you can do is pick an instance that shares your values and enforces them technically, or talk to your current admin about their crawler policies.

                              ---

                              What do you think about this movement? Do you have anything like this in your own profile? Do you believe individual-level resistance to AI data collection is meaningful - or is it purely symbolic?

                              Does this stop AI training

                              Alt...Does this stop AI training

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                                [?]c't Magazin » 🌐
                                @ct_Magazin@social.heise.de

                                [?]Simon Roses Femerling » 🌐
                                @simonroses@infosec.exchange

                                Another smart move by @nvidia to acquire Hugging Face techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/nvid to secure their AI open source dominance

                                  [?]🇯🇵アダム🇯🇵 :fedora: Rich :ubuntu: » 🤖 🌐
                                  @disnoted@infosec.exchange

                                  Resource spotlight: The Linux Kernel Archives

                                  The main repository for the Linux Kernel source code. Tracks Mainline, Stable, and Longterm kernel release versions and changelogs.

                                  Category: Kernel Development
                                  Section: Linux Foundation & Open Source Projects

                                  Link: kernel.org

                                  Source: Cyber Security, Open Source & Mobile Tech Resources (UPDATED 2026 • OFFICIAL DIRECTORY)

                                    [?]heise online English » 🤖 🌐
                                    @heiseonlineenglish@social.heise.de

                                    [?]heise Developer » 🌐
                                    @heisedeveloper@social.heise.de

                                    TypePHP beschleunigt PHP: Open-Source-Compiler erzeugt native Binaries

                                    Swooles quelloffener AOT-Compiler TypePHP übersetzt modernes PHP 8.4/8.5 in native Binärdateien und soll deutlich schneller als die ZendVM sein.

                                    heise.de/news/TypePHP-beschleu

                                      [?]🇯🇵アダム🇯🇵 :fedora: Rich :ubuntu: » 🤖 🌐
                                      @disnoted@infosec.exchange

                                      Resource spotlight: LWN.net (Linux Weekly News)

                                      In-depth technical coverage of Linux kernel developments, security patches, developer discussions, and open-source licensing updates.

                                      Category: Developer Journal
                                      Section: Linux Foundation & Open Source Projects

                                      Link: lwn.net

                                      Source: Cyber Security, Open Source & Mobile Tech Resources (UPDATED 2026 • OFFICIAL DIRECTORY)

                                        [?]r1cksec » 🌐
                                        @r1cksec@infosec.exchange

                                        A full interactive remote desktop delivered entirely through SSH and displayed directly in your terminal.

                                        github.com/rylena/sshdesk

                                          [?]🇯🇵アダム🇯🇵 :fedora: Rich :ubuntu: » 🤖 🌐
                                          @disnoted@infosec.exchange

                                          Resource spotlight: Linux Foundation Newsroom

                                          Official announcements, press releases, annual state of open source reports, project hosting, and industry consortium initiatives.

                                          Category: Official News
                                          Section: Linux Foundation & Open Source Projects

                                          Link: linuxfoundation.org/newsroom

                                          Source: Cyber Security, Open Source & Mobile Tech Resources (UPDATED 2026 • OFFICIAL DIRECTORY)

                                            [?]Erik G. » 🌐
                                            @egnun@mastodon.online

                                            Hallo, ,
                                            habt ihr lustige, interessante, überraschende Fakten über und und im Allgemeinen, mit denen man Besucher von Messen für eben diese Themen begeistern könnte?

                                              [?]Arint - SEO+KI » 🌐
                                              @Arint@arint.info

                                              RT @Zai_org: Weitere gute Neuigkeiten: Die Gewichte von GLM-5.3 werden morgen veröffentlicht.

                                              mehr auf Arint.info

                                              https://x.com/Zai_org/status/2092814169263218860

                                                [?]Arint - SEO+KI » 🌐
                                                @Arint@arint.info

                                                RT @ZixuanLi_: Ox Alpha war eine frühe Version von GLM-5.3-Flash. Die offizielle Veröffentlichung bietet stärkere Leistung und deutlich bessere Stabilität. Vielen Dank an @opencode und @OpenRouter für die Verfügbarkeit für die Community. Und danke an alle, die es ausprobiert und bis an die Grenzen getestet haben.

                                                mehr auf Arint.info

                                                https://x.com/ZixuanLi_/status/2092616956432015754

                                                  [?]nixdev » 🌐
                                                  @nixdev@social.linux.pizza

                                                  Acabo de publicar mi repo donde aporto mis soluciones a los problemas introductorios de en , además trae consigo 2 herramientas:

                                                  - Script en Zig que ejecuta los tests de cses automaticamente.
                                                  - Función print() simple para mostrar texto en consola tan facil como print("Hola mundo"); (si, lo hice pensando en la comodidad de Python). Con fines de depuracion fácil y por supuesto, para aprender como funciona un print asi de sencillo por debajo.

                                                  - Problemas de CSES:
                                                  codeberg.org/nixdev/CSESIntrod

                                                  - Función print() estilo Python:
                                                  codeberg.org/nixdev/zig-print

                                                  Estoy abierto a sugerencias, mejoras en código, etc... o, si quieres contribuir a un print() más sólido te lo agradecería mucho!

                                                    [?]FUNFACTOR1 » 🌐
                                                    @FUNFACTOR1@infosec.exchange

                                                    🎪 PRE-FULL DISCLOSURE — wallabag Android — CVSS 9.3 Critical

                                                    Code execution on the device, data theft, propagation to other applications. Without the user doing a thing.

                                                    CAN-2026-2035994 — GHSA-c6w6-mrjg-3rvx

                                                    The Wallabag Circus is back in prime time.

                                                    The first magic trick, in front of over a thousand spectators: disappearing. Without publicly responding to an explicit request to coordinate on fixing what was coming. Clear question, zero answers.

                                                    The second act: downgrading an 8.5 to a 5.4 — in the very same message where they confirmed the server executes arbitrary requests. (Guess there was no calculator on hand?)

                                                    Grand finale: making me disappear too. A ban from the project's channel, in the very same reply asking for more proof. The practical effect is identical to saying "I don't want to hear it."

                                                    Despite everything, I gave them another chance. Read the screenshots. *"I haven't done the full disclosure of this second finding yet. Because I am a more honest person than you. I am still giving you an opportunity that you do not deserve."*

                                                    Nothing. All in vain. So now the circus is back. And this time, it's a 9.3 act.

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                                                      [?]Kuketz-Blog 🛡 » 🌐
                                                      @kuketzblog@social.tchncs.de

                                                      Die Auswertung der Leserbefragung ist da: 1.300 Antworten, viele Freitexte und ein ziemlich klares Bild. Besonders gefragt sind Empfehlungen, Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen und freie Software. Gleichzeitig soll der Blog ausführlich und technisch fundiert bleiben. Alle Details. 👇

                                                      kuketz-blog.de/leserbefragung-

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                                                        [?]Sam :mammoth: » 🌐
                                                        @Nead@social.vivaldi.net

                                                        brings the world’s knowledge to places where the internet can’t reach. From remote villages and refugee camps to submarines and aircraft carriers, Kiwix delivers Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg books, and other treasures entirely offline through a free, open-source reader powered by innovative compression technology.

                                                        kiwix.org/en/

                                                          [?]/G|T|R|O|N|I|X\ :python: :emacs: :nix: :linux: » 🌐
                                                          @gtronix@infosec.exchange

                                                          "Open source X viewers Nitter & XCancel are offline following cease-and-desist letters"

                                                          "X, previously known as Twitter, has sent cease-and-desist letters to the maintainers ofNitter, an open-source project that let users view X posts without an account or using the official platform."

                                                          alternativeto.net/news/2026/8/

                                                            [?]James "Jim" Ed Randson » 🌐
                                                            @jimedrand@social.gnuweeb.org

                                                            Ubuntu without Snap is always better solution to those who don't want to make booting longer or does hate how Snap works

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                                                              [?]GNOME » 🌐
                                                              @gnome@floss.social

                                                              Meet the Board! We'll be holding an AUA on Reddit with GNOME's new Board members this Saturday.

                                                              reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/1v

                                                                [?]The Zeek Network Security Monitor » 🌐
                                                                @zeek@infosec.exchange

                                                                Join us next week for the September Community Call for a preview of Zeek 9 with our dev team:

                                                                + Christian - Log schemas
                                                                + Arne - Running Zeek clusters with systemd
                                                                + Evan - XDP packet shunting

                                                                Bring your questions for the Q&A. Find the Zoom link here: zeek.org/events/

                                                                  [?]Evan Genest » 🌐
                                                                  @mistergenest@c.im

                                                                  How much IP data should you use for geolocation?

                                                                  Matomo lets you choose.

                                                                  🟢 Green visit: all four IP bytes were available for geolocation.
                                                                  🔵 Blue visit: only the first two IP bytes were available for geolocation.

                                                                  Same laptop. Same actual location in Germany. Different geolocation precision.

                                                                  You can choose the balance between location accuracy and IP anonymization that fits your requirements.

                                                                  interface of matomo web analytics, with two visits as viewed in the real time "visits log" report

                                                                  Alt...interface of matomo web analytics, with two visits as viewed in the real time "visits log" report

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                                                                    [?]Dendrobatus Azureus » 🌐
                                                                    @Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                    Thank you for the work

                                                                    @LXQt

                                                                      [?]Jungsi » 🌐
                                                                      @jungsi@sueden.social

                                                                      🗃️ Meine Sammlungsdatenbank für Retro-Hardware (>2.500 Objekte) ist jetzt Open Source!

                                                                      Aufräumarbeiten, erstes Git-Repo, ne Menge gelernt dabei. Alles dazu im Blogartikel + Code auf GitHub:

                                                                      📖 jungsi.de/sammlungsdatenbank-o
                                                                      👉 github.com/Jungsis-Corner/samm

                                                                        [?]Doris » 🌐
                                                                        @doris@friendica-deutschland.de

                                                                        🤖 KI ist weder Heilsbringer noch Teufelszeug – sie ist ein Werkzeug.

                                                                        Kaum ein technisches Thema wird derzeit so emotional diskutiert wie Künstliche Intelligenz.

                                                                        Auf der einen Seite werden enorme Erwartungen geweckt. Auf der anderen Seite wird teilweise bereits die bloße Nutzung von KI pauschal verurteilt.

                                                                        Ich finde: Beides hilft uns nicht weiter.

                                                                        Für mich ist KI zunächst einmal ein Werkzeug. Eines, das inzwischen erstaunlich nützlich sein kann.

                                                                        Bei der Fehlersuche auf einem Server. Beim Analysieren von Logdateien. Beim Programmieren. Bei der Recherche. Um komplizierte Zusammenhänge verständlicher aufzubereiten. Oder manchmal auch einfach für eine kreative Spielerei.

                                                                        Aber wie bei jedem Werkzeug gilt:

                                                                        Benutze das Werkzeug, das dir bei der Lösung eines Problems hilft – aber verstehe, was du damit tust.

                                                                        Denn KI kann Fehler machen. Sie kann Dinge erfinden. Und sie kann falsche Antworten mit einer Überzeugung präsentieren, bei der man zweimal hinschauen sollte. 😉

                                                                        Gerade deshalb ersetzt KI für mich weder Wissen noch Erfahrung oder eigenes Denken.

                                                                        Genauso wenig sollten wir die berechtigte Kritik ausblenden: Energie- und Ressourcenverbrauch, Trainingsdaten und Urheberrecht, Datenschutz, Abhängigkeiten von großen Konzernen und die gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen dieser Technologie sind wichtige Themen.

                                                                        Darüber müssen wir reden – sachlich und durchaus kritisch.

                                                                        Was mir dagegen zunehmend schwerfällt, ist die pauschale Einteilung in „KI ist großartig“ oder „KI ist grundsätzlich schlecht“.

                                                                        Zwischen blinder Begeisterung und vollständiger Verteufelung gibt es ziemlich viel Raum für einen vernünftigen Umgang mit dieser Technologie.

                                                                        Und am Ende bleibt für mich ein entscheidender Punkt:

                                                                        Ein Werkzeug nimmt uns die Verantwortung für seine Verwendung nicht ab.

                                                                        Genau darüber habe ich im Admin-Blog etwas ausführlicher geschrieben:

                                                                        ➡️ KI im Werkzeugkasten des Admins – weder Heilsbringer noch Teufelszeug

                                                                        Mich würde interessieren, wie ihr das seht: Welche Rolle spielt KI inzwischen für euch? Nützliches Werkzeug, etwas, das ihr bewusst meidet – oder irgendwo dazwischen?

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                                                                        [?]ArcaneChat » 🌐
                                                                        @arcanechat@fosstodon.org

                                                                        heads up , if you want , there is an solution that is , , free, multi-platform, , it is called

                                                                        it is doesn't require phone numbers or any data for registration! find it in your app store of choice

                                                                          [?]michabbb » 🌐
                                                                          @michabbb@social.vivaldi.net

                                                                          🔌 is a personal alternative that exposes local ports to the internet with automatic — running entirely on your own
                                                                          🧵👇

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                                                                            [?]Cassidy James :roost: :gnome: [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                            @cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family

                                                                            I recently (re?)discovered The Open Source Way guidebook, and it is SO GOOD.

                                                                            If you want to understand healthy, successful open source projects and community, I implore you to give it a read. Even a skim over interesting chapters is worthwhile! The whole thing completely reflects my own experiences in the best open source projects and communities.

                                                                            Thanks to @dneary, @semioticrobotic, @quaid, and more for putting it together.

                                                                            guidebook.theopensourceway.org/

                                                                              [?]AA » 🌐
                                                                              @AAKL@infosec.exchange

                                                                              Digital sovereignty rocks, especially considering that this is an open source project. (That's a red flag because this isn't the first instance.)

                                                                              More about Amazon's acquisition of Amsterdam-based DuckLabs.

                                                                              Amazon: AWS and DuckLabs: Building the future of analytics together aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/

                                                                              DuckLabs: DuckLabs to Join AWS, Projects to Remain Open Source ducklabs.com/news/2026/08/26/d

                                                                              More:

                                                                              GeekWire: Amazon to acquire DuckLabs, adding the team behind DuckDB amid broader shakeup in cloud data geekwire.com/2026/amazon-acqui

                                                                                [?]Vlad » 🌐
                                                                                @newsgroup@social.vir.group

                                                                                Corporate AI is just a fancy wrapper for data extraction and control. If we let a few companies own the weights, we lose the ability to audit how these systems think. Open source is the only way to ensure AI serves the public instead of a board of directors. It is a fight for digital sovereignty.

                                                                                Open source AI vs corporate AI: the real stakes nobody's talking about

                                                                                Alt...Open source AI vs corporate AI: the real stakes nobody's talking about

                                                                                  [?]Arint - SEO+KI » 🌐
                                                                                  @Arint@arint.info

                                                                                  RT @Alibaba_Qwen: ⚡Lernen Sie Qwen3.8-Flash kennen, ein multimodales MoE-Modell und ein frühes Preview der Qwen4-Architektur, jetzt als Open-Weight verfügbar!

                                                                                  mehr auf Arint.info

                                                                                  https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2092591393424515114

                                                                                    [?]FreeBSD Foundation » 🌐
                                                                                    @FreeBSDFoundation@mastodon.social

                                                                                    How does the FreeBSD Foundation Board fit into the broader FreeBSD ecosystem?

                                                                                    Following our annual meeting and Board elections at BSDCan, we’re taking a closer look at the role of the FreeBSD Foundation Board and how it differs from that of Foundation staff and FreeBSD Project leadership.

                                                                                    Read more:
                                                                                    freebsdfoundation.org/blog/und

                                                                                      [?]Steve Woods » 🌐
                                                                                      @wood5y@mastodonapp.uk

                                                                                      "LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are never transmitted to remote services and no component requires network access to function. The suite includes no advertising, no telemetry, no subscription and no account requirement, unlike some well-known proprietary office suites."

                                                                                      slwoods.co.uk/?p=17192

                                                                                        [?]LaraPlugins.io » 🌐
                                                                                        @LaraPlugins@phpc.social

                                                                                        The head schema builders are genuinely well-designed. We built a `Schema::` abstraction on top. Breadcrumbs on 7 page types, dynamic FAQ on plugin detail pages, WebSite + Organization on the homepage. All wired through `Head::schema()`.

                                                                                        But we kept OG image generation custom (the package doesn't render images), and our model-level SEO accessors still live outside the package.
                                                                                        My article covers where the package shines and where it stops.

                                                                                        danielpetrica.com/laravel-head

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                                                                                          [?]LibreOffice » 🌐
                                                                                          @libreoffice@fosstodon.org

                                                                                          26.8 is here – with tabbed UI improvements, draft mode in Writer, and better scripting support. (And no built-in AI, of course.) Learn more about the latest update to the private office suite: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl

                                                                                          LibreOffice 26.8 banner

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                                                                                            [?]Dima » 🌐
                                                                                            @dima@dol.social

                                                                                            Next milestone achieved 🍾

                                                                                            Merged into Symfony core.

                                                                                            max_depth was counted per runtime class name. A Doctrine proxy is a subclass of the entity, so it got its own counter, and a graph with max_depth 1 serialized two levels deep instead of one.

                                                                                            The depth key now falls back to the parent class when the parent declares the same MaxDepth. Proxy and entity share one counter.

                                                                                            The issue was opened in October 2024. 685 days in the tracker before someone got to it.

                                                                                            Landed in 6.4 LTS, merged by nicolas-grekas, upmerges to 7.4 and 8.1 next.

                                                                                            github.com/symfony/symfony/pul

                                                                                            A black card in DOL brand style. Across the top, in mono uppercase, Open source, Symfony core, and on the right a dark green pill reading 6.4 LTS. A large white headline, Merged into Symfony core. Under it in grey, the pull request title, [Serializer] Fix max depth counting for subclasses that inherit MaxDepth metadata. A thin rule, then four figures with labels. Pull request #65647, Issue open for 685 days, Merged by nicolas-grekas, Upmerges to 7.4 and 8.1. At the bottom the DOL emblem with dol.ch and dol.social.

                                                                                            Alt...A black card in DOL brand style. Across the top, in mono uppercase, Open source, Symfony core, and on the right a dark green pill reading 6.4 LTS. A large white headline, Merged into Symfony core. Under it in grey, the pull request title, [Serializer] Fix max depth counting for subclasses that inherit MaxDepth metadata. A thin rule, then four figures with labels. Pull request #65647, Issue open for 685 days, Merged by nicolas-grekas, Upmerges to 7.4 and 8.1. At the bottom the DOL emblem with dol.ch and dol.social.

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                                                                                              [?]Lorenzo Ancora 🇪🇺🇮🇹 :verified: » 🌐
                                                                                              @LorenzoAncora@ieji.de

                                                                                              Opt-out is not consent, it is a corporate dark pattern designed to harvest data.

                                                                                              True consent is an explicit YES not the absence of a NO. AI developers must stop exploiting users and start respecting autonomy by default.

                                                                                              "CONSENT = EXPLICIT YES", followed by and open lock and by a hand manipulating the concept of "Opt-out".

                                                                                              Alt..."CONSENT = EXPLICIT YES", followed by and open lock and by a hand manipulating the concept of "Opt-out".

                                                                                                [?]Vlad » 🌐
                                                                                                @newsgroup@social.vir.group

                                                                                                Чому ми вирішили зробити власний форк пошукової системи замість готового рішення.

                                                                                                Варіантів було небагато: платити за чужий API і залежати від лімітів та політики постачальника, або будувати з нуля роками. Обрали третій шлях: взяли відкритий рушій YaCy як базу і почали переробляти під власні задачі.

                                                                                                На сьогодні код змінений на 20-40 відсотків від оригіналу, і це не косметика.

                                                                                                Повністю переробили візуал і кабінет веб-майстра. Додали векторний пошук для релевантніших результатів замість простого збігу ключових слів. Побудували алгоритм, який відстежує запити без результату і використовує це для пріоритезації індексації. Впровадили систему виявлення неетичного контенту ще на етапі індексу.

                                                                                                І це далеко не весь список.

                                                                                                Готове рішення дає швидкий старт, але забирає контроль над найважливішим: як саме працює пошук для твоїх користувачів.

                                                                                                  [?]Lorenzo Ancora 🇪🇺🇮🇹 :verified: » 🌐
                                                                                                  @LorenzoAncora@ieji.de

                                                                                                  VLC starts very slowly on Windows 11? It takes ages to appear when you open a file?
                                                                                                  Some users reported that the issue could be caused by a security conflict with Windows Defender!

                                                                                                  Workaround until the bug is fixed:

                                                                                                  1. Open this official Microsoft support page: support.microsoft.com/en-US/Wi
                                                                                                  2. Scroll down and click on the blue "Virus & threat protection settings" button;
                                                                                                  3. In the Windows Defender window, click on the link manage the settings and add an exception for the plugins.dat cache file in the VLC installation folder (only exclude the specific plugins.dat file!). If you have difficulty reaching this step or the button does not work, go to START → Settings → Privacy & security → Windows Security → Virus & threat protection → Manage settings → Exclusions;
                                                                                                  4. Backup your VLC settings (if necessary), then close all windows of VLC, and manually quit the application using the context menu if a tray icon or any plugin widget is still visible on the screen;
                                                                                                  5. Download an up-to-date version of VLC from the official website of the VideoLAN organization: videolan.org/vlc/
                                                                                                  6. Install VLC, overwriting the existing installation;
                                                                                                  7. Reboot, start VLC and check whether the delay has improved.

                                                                                                  Power users: steps 5 to 7 are optional, because VLC also includes a dedicated command line tool (vlc-cache-gen.exe) to regenerate the VLC cache.

                                                                                                  Source: msn.com/en-us/technology/softw

                                                                                                  Image of the VLC cone logo being attacked by the Windows Defender shield logo with a laser beam. This represents the VLC plugin cache corruption bug caused by Windows Defender.

                                                                                                  Alt...Image of the VLC cone logo being attacked by the Windows Defender shield logo with a laser beam. This represents the VLC plugin cache corruption bug caused by Windows Defender.

                                                                                                    [?]SecBurg » 🌐
                                                                                                    @secburg@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                    [?]Arint - SEO+KI » 🌐
                                                                                                    @Arint@arint.info

                                                                                                    RT @danielhanchen: Qwen kündigt Qwen3.8-Flash-Next an, ein neues Open-Weight-Multimodal-MoE-Modell. 💜

                                                                                                    mehr auf Arint.info

                                                                                                    https://x.com/danielhanchen/status/2092222459550585019

                                                                                                      [?]Arint - SEO+KI » 🌐
                                                                                                      @Arint@arint.info

                                                                                                      RT @UnslothAI: Jetzt kannst du Qwen3.8-27B kostenlos mit unserem Notebook feinabstimmen! 🔥

                                                                                                      mehr auf Arint.info

                                                                                                      https://x.com/UnslothAI/status/2092255772214509698

                                                                                                        [?]Dave Moskovitz (((❤️))) [he / him] » 🌐
                                                                                                        @davemosk@mastodon.nz

                                                                                                        I’m Leaving WhatsApp
                                                                                                        I’m leaving WhatsApp. It’s an integral part of the Meta / Facebook empire, which is currently being sued by 29 states for the harm that it causes to children. While WhatsApp claims end-to-end encryption, they retain your metadata, which forms part of your social graph which they then use as part of their marketing efforts….
                                                                                                        dave.moskovitz.co.nz/2026/08/2

                                                                                                          [?]VSX.is | Digital sovereignty » 🌐
                                                                                                          @vsx@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                          Fairphone Won the Fight for Repairability. Now It's Finding Out That's Not Enough

                                                                                                          Fairphone unveiled the Gen. 6+ on August 18. As a new device announcement, it’s one of the least exciting events of the year. More recent…

                                                                                                          vsx.global/fairphone-won-the-c

                                                                                                            [?]Alexis Brignoni :python: :donor: » 🌐
                                                                                                            @abrignoni@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                            WE REPORT FEWER INSTALLED APPS NOW. THAT IS THE FIX.

                                                                                                            That number on the card went from 3,981 to 791 and it is the thing I am proudest of in this release.

                                                                                                            In 2018 I wanted a list of the apps installed on an iPhone. I thought that was one question. It is at least six, and no single artifact answers all of them.

                                                                                                            So we tested it properly, iOS 12 through iOS 26, every registered test image we have. The old installed summary had been counting app extensions, malformed bundle IDs, and apps known only from container activity. Strip those out and the count drops by 80 percent. Nothing was thrown away. It moved to a table whose label says exactly what the evidence supports, and the historical view got bigger at the same time, 9,575 rows to 11,786.

                                                                                                            The history got bigger. The claim got smaller. That is the trade I want every time.

                                                                                                            My favorite detail: on one public test image, two apps being removed produced seventeen container destruction rows in nine seconds, because every app extension owns its own container. Read those rows as apps and you would report a phone shedding seventeen. It shed two.

                                                                                                            An inventory and a stack of receipts are both useful. They are not interchangeable.

                                                                                                            Link in bio.

                                                                                                              [?]Open Source JobHub » 🌐
                                                                                                              @osjobhub@fosstodon.org

                                                                                                              New Job Alert: MOBIUS, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) library membership organization located in Columbia, Missouri, is seeking a Customer Service DevOps Linux Engineer. Learn more and apply now on
                                                                                                              opensourcejobhub.com/job/29581

                                                                                                              MOBIUS LINKING LIBRARIES

                                                                                                              Alt...MOBIUS LINKING LIBRARIES

                                                                                                                [?]Irbis » 🌐
                                                                                                                @irbis_sh@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                Socket found 737 fake VPNs on Chrome Web Store, impersonating brands like Proton and NordVPN. The extensions have 75,000+ downloads and routed traffic through an operator's server.
                                                                                                                This is why open-source matters for privacy tools: you can verify the code instead of trusting marketing.

                                                                                                                Read more: socket.dev/blog/chrome-vpn-ext

                                                                                                                  [?]Airikr :sweden: :endeavour: :xmpp: [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                                  @airikr@mst-gts.airikr.me

                                                                                                                  I have finally created my own image sharing website with end-to-end encryption! Feels so darn good :slight_smile:

                                                                                                                  But to be honest, everything is built by me, but not the encryption on client side, management on server side, and to view the thumbnails in the gallery when logged in without breaking the encryption.

                                                                                                                  But I am very proud of the result anyway! :heart_eyes:

                                                                                                                  More info: https://pic.airikr.me

                                                                                                                  The source code can be found on my self-hosted Forgejo server since Codeberg are trying to fight to "get rid off" AI generated code. I understand them and I understand the risk, though.

                                                                                                                  But why AI? Without AI, I would not be able to create this project with end-to-end encryption at all since I suck at JavaScript.

                                                                                                                  #opensource

                                                                                                                    [?]ICS Advisory Project » 🌐
                                                                                                                    @AdvisoryICS@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                    ICS[AP] updated CISA ICS Advisories Master File for 8/25/2026 & the following year's CSVs:

                                                                                                                    CISA_ICS_ADV_2026_8_25_26.csv

                                                                                                                    Updates on 8/25/2026 included:
                                                                                                                    CISA_ICS_ADV_2025_8_25_26.csv

                                                                                                                    Available @ ICS[AP] GitHub:
                                                                                                                    github.com/icsadvprj/ICS-Advis



                                                                                                                      [?]AA » 🌐
                                                                                                                      @AAKL@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                      9to5Linux: Ardour 9.8 Open-Source DAW Is Now Available with Initial Scales Support 9to5linux.com/ardour-9-8-open-

                                                                                                                      Also:

                                                                                                                      OpenSSL 4.0.2 Released with Important Security and Bug Fixes 9to5linux.com/openssl-4-0-2-re @9to5linux @mariusnestor

                                                                                                                        [?]Stefano Maffulli » 🌐
                                                                                                                        @stefano@www.maffulli.net

                                                                                                                        The license is all you need (for Open Source AI)

                                                                                                                        Over two years of practice and recent policy decisions prove that the Open Source AI Definition v1.0 is valid. Now let's focus on the other unresolved issues, like fairness. [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                                                                        It turns out that open training data is not the most important piece of an Open Source AI. The license of the model is.

                                                                                                                        I spent two years leading the process that decided what “Open Source” should mean when the thing being opened is a foundation model instead of a codebase. While serving as executive director of the Open Source Initiative, I ran a large, global, inclusive effort, with dozens of organizations and hundreds of contributors for a couple of years, arriving at a definition of Open Source AI that none of us could have dictated alone. The harshest discussion in that process, by a wide margin, was about training data, not weights or code.

                                                                                                                        A small but vocal minority pushed hard for the definition to require only open training data as a condition of calling a model “Open Source,” not as a nice-to-have but as a floor. Without it, they argued, you don’t have all of the four freedoms, the backbone of Open Source: you can’t fully study or reproduce the AI, so you don’t have Open Source at all. The objection didn’t go away after the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) v. 1.0 shipped. The definition requires the weights and the code that generates them under an Open Source license; additionally, it requires sufficiently detailed disclosure about what went into training them, but not necessarily the data itself. I’ve defended the outcome of the process for two years. Practice so far has shown that the OSAID holds. This summer, policy defended it, too.

                                                                                                                        The purity test

                                                                                                                        A version of the argument lingers: if the training data stays a black box, an Open Source license on the weights is a technicality, because you can’t verify what you can’t inspect. Real security and real trust require opening the whole AI-creating pipeline, not just the output. I get the intuition; it is more rigorous. But reality shows that regulators and AI adopters aren’t acting on data provenance. They act on the AI model’s license first and the credibility of who built the thing second. 

                                                                                                                        Suppose the Chinese government released a model tomorrow with full weights and a complete, public training corpus, thoroughly documented. The security establishment would not trust it automatically. Trust doesn’t come from disclosures alone. It comes from long-established credibility of the labs building the models, the governance of the project. A track record earns trust in a way a data dump can’t. Today, data disclosure remains an argument for courts to dissect copyright issues.

                                                                                                                        Nineteen days dark

                                                                                                                        On June 9, Anthropic shipped two new models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Three days later, the US Commerce Department applied export controls with immediate effect, barring access by any foreign national, anywhere, including Anthropic’s own staff. Nationality can’t be verified in real time at the API layer, so both models went dark, globally, for everyone. Partial clearance came June 26 for a short list of vetted US critical-infrastructure organizations. Commerce lifted the controls June 30. Fable 5 came back online June 30, nineteen days after a policy decision took a live model away from the entire world, including the company that built it.

                                                                                                                        Six weeks later, the mirror image played out. Moonshot AI, a Chinese lab, opened the API for its new K3 model on July 16 and released the weights on July 27: a frontier-class model on an open release path no export order can touch once the files are out. Moonshot AI showed the power of open: You can switch off a proprietary, hosted-only model, but you cannot switch off a copy already running on the users’ hardware.

                                                                                                                        On July 21, US Treasury Secretary Bessent said the government would examine Chinese Open Source models for intellectual property theft, with sanctions on the table. That’s a statement of intent with complications: sanctions need an enforceable chokepoint, and once weights have been downloaded across a dozen jurisdictions, there isn’t much to grab onto. Mozilla’s State of Open Source AI report says the quiet part out loud: an outright prohibition gets harder to enforce as adoption grows, because every copy already held sits outside the reach of the order.

                                                                                                                        Whatever Washington ends up doing about Chinese open weight models, it will have to act on distribution and access, on what a license permits and who can get the files, because that’s the only lever still standing once the weights are loose. 

                                                                                                                        These actions show that regulators are more concerned with who’s allowed to access the download link than with whether Moonshot AI disclosed its training corpus: The license is what counts.

                                                                                                                        What the numbers show 

                                                                                                                        Kimi K3, a model available for free with some restrictions

                                                                                                                        1

                                                                                                                        , ranks fourth on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, within four points of the proprietary frontier. Models with no or few restrictions to use now carry roughly a third of all tokens routed through OpenRouter, up from about 2% eighteen months ago, and still climbing. Chinese-built open models are running at more than 3.5-to-1 over US-built closed models in token volume on the same platform. DeepSeek-R1 ships under a plain MIT license, at reasoning scores within a couple of points of OpenAI’s o1, for $0.55 to $2.19 per million tokens against o1’s $15 to $60, roughly a 27x price gap at near-identical performance.

                                                                                                                        These numbers show that users aren’t concerned about data provenance but they care more about model availability, capabilities, and cost.

                                                                                                                        AI foundation models are a brand new “thing”

                                                                                                                        Last year I was one of the co-authors on a paper in Communications of the ACM, alongside people who spend a lot of time analyzing AI openness: Yann LeCun, Nathan Lambert, Sayash Kapoor, and a dozen others across Mozilla, the Linux Foundation, Columbia, Princeton, Eleuther AI, Allen Institute for AI and more. That framework’s whole point was to resist a single-axis view of trust and transparency for AI: don’t stare at the weights trying to adapt old concepts to this artifact, but look at the full stack. The framework treats licensing and documentation of the model as separate, cross-cutting attributes. Documentation covers model cards, evaluation results, and information about the data, distinct from the data itself. A license to the weights is its own category, alongside documentation rather than beneath it.

                                                                                                                        Current.ai’s Gap Map, which catalogs what’s needed to build and ship a model, runs on the same architecture. It tracks datasets, code, and weights as separate components with their own separate gaps, and nowhere does it treat a dataset as a requirement of the model trained on it. The Gap Map is a practical representation of AI openness produced at the Columbia Convening, and it still doesn’t back the purity position. It agrees with me: license plus disclosed documentation is the operative bar for Open Source AI. 

                                                                                                                        Time to say it plainly

                                                                                                                        Let’s stop pretending this is still an open question. Training data provenance matters, and that’s not up for debate. But training data isn’t AI’s source code, and it was never going to be the policy’s lever. The CACM framework says as much, and so does Mozilla’s report.

                                                                                                                        Washington is reaching for export controls and sanctions built entirely around license and access to models. The courts are narrowly arguing copyright issues. In the market, open weight models under OSI-approved licenses are eating token share regardless of what anyone knows about their training corpora.

                                                                                                                        The purity test was always a bet that the world would eventually agree data openness is the real bar. The world placed the opposite bet, in public, this summer, using just the license as its operating lever. It’s time the rest of us caught up to back our own definition and move the policy debate towards a fair AI ecosystem.

                                                                                                                        1. A previous version of this post incorrectly classified Kimi K3 as “open weight”, a term that I use to imply the license of the model is OSI-approved. This is not the case of Kimi K3 license. ↩︎

                                                                                                                        still life with antique books

                                                                                                                        Alt...still life with antique books

                                                                                                                        [?]hoergen » 🌐
                                                                                                                        @hoergen@horche.demkontinuum.de

                                                                                                                        sudo - Rechte kontrolliert vergeben | Dem hoergen Blog

                                                                                                                        hyperblog.de/hoergen/posts/202…

                                                                                                                        Mit sudo können Benutzer Befehle mit erhöhten Rechten ausführen – kontrolliert und protokolliert.

                                                                                                                        Location: Casablanca

                                                                                                                          [?]Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️ » 🌐
                                                                                                                          @killyourfm@layer8.space

                                                                                                                          I miss being part of a team. Very specifically, the collaborative energy of like-minded people in the community striving toward a common goal.

                                                                                                                          I don't say this because I'm looking for employment. At this point in my life, I just miss using my skills to help make a difference. You know?

                                                                                                                          That said, I wonder if I might find contentment volunteering for an open source project. Who out there needs help?

                                                                                                                            [?]SwampPutty » 🌐
                                                                                                                            @SwampPutty@mstdn.ca

                                                                                                                            When it comes to my daily personal computer, i use and really enjoy the experience. I use the cinnamon environment which just works with everything which i love.
                                                                                                                            I have tried other Distros like Bazzite, SteamOS, Ubuntu & Debian for my daily PC but they all required alot more tinkering then i prefer for a daily PC.
                                                                                                                            Now I want to move my Homelab off my daily PC and put it onto its own environment/Computer to have my own home server.
                                                                                                                            Question is, what Distro should i use for my home server?
                                                                                                                            Some of the options i been looking at are the following:
                                                                                                                            Linux Mint XFCE (Similar to my main Distro)
                                                                                                                            Ubuntu Server (Popular Choice)
                                                                                                                            Debian (Popular Choice + Familiar With The Environment)
                                                                                                                            These are just some of the options i been looking at but i never hosted a before, so im unsure what would be the best for such an environment.
                                                                                                                            What is your opinion?

                                                                                                                              [?]SecBurg » 🌐
                                                                                                                              @secburg@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                              [?]Learn Linux with Dan » 🌐
                                                                                                                              @dan_nanni@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                              Today marks Linux’s 35th birthday! 🎉🎂

                                                                                                                              35 years of milestones that took a hobby project from one developer’s announcement to the foundation of much of modern computing

                                                                                                                              Here is a look at the milestones that shaped its remarkable journey 😎👇

                                                                                                                              Find high-res pdf ebooks with all my Linux related infographics at study-notes.org

                                                                                                                                [?]jaker » 🌐
                                                                                                                                @jaker@c.im

                                                                                                                                Does anyone know of a Linux GUI for GhostScript so that I can easily compress PDFs? (Yes, I could do it using the terminal but I hope for other, computer-averse folks to use it too)

                                                                                                                                I've only come up with workerPDF
                                                                                                                                sourceforge.net/projects/worke

                                                                                                                                Thank you! 🙏

                                                                                                                                  [?]iX Magazin » 🌐
                                                                                                                                  @iX_Magazin@social.heise.de

                                                                                                                                  [?]Free Software Foundation Europe » 🌐
                                                                                                                                  @fsfe@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                  Are you using LLMs to write Free Software?

                                                                                                                                  Then you should know whether your software is copyrightable, the situations in which you can license it, and what risks it may create for maintainers.

                                                                                                                                  Our new Legal Corner explains what you need to consider:
                                                                                                                                  fsfe.org/news/2026/news-202608

                                                                                                                                    [?]Daily CyberSecurity » 🌐
                                                                                                                                    @DailyCyberSecurity@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                    NVIDIA partners with AI coding startup Poolside in a $7 billion deal to strengthen its open-weight Nemotron model and challenge OpenAI.

                                                                                                                                    securityexpress.info/nvidia-po

                                                                                                                                      [?]LaraPlugins.io » 🌐
                                                                                                                                      @LaraPlugins@phpc.social

                                                                                                                                      One Reddit post outperformed a month of homepage work for us. The AI-Ready Plugins list (every package built on the Laravel AI SDK, ranked by health) brought 302 visitors, 266 straight to that page. Focused and genuinely helpful wins. Full July recap: laraplugins.io/blog/laraplugin

                                                                                                                                        [?]hoergen » 🌐
                                                                                                                                        @hoergen@horche.demkontinuum.de

                                                                                                                                        chmod - praktisches Handbuch | Dem hoergen Blog

                                                                                                                                        hyperblog.de/hoergen/posts/202…

                                                                                                                                        Linux-Zugriffsrechte werden entweder numerisch (Zahlen) oder symbolisch (Buchstaben) gesetzt. Symbolisch ist dabei flexibler. Sonderrechte wie SUID, SGID und Sticky Bit erlauben erweiterte Kontrolle über Programme und Ordner.

                                                                                                                                        Location: Dushanbe

                                                                                                                                          [?]Robert von Burg :vegan: :tux: » 🌐
                                                                                                                                          @eitch@mstdn.gsi.li

                                                                                                                                          🚀 Chronivaro 0.1.0 has been released!

                                                                                                                                          Chronivaro is an open-source working time & absence tracking system built on Strolch.

                                                                                                                                          Highlights:
                                                                                                                                          • Live timer & daily time recording
                                                                                                                                          • Absence management & vacation journal
                                                                                                                                          • Approvals & period closing
                                                                                                                                          • CSV & PDF report exports
                                                                                                                                          • Standalone fat-JAR & Docker

                                                                                                                                          📦 Downloads & Release Notes:
                                                                                                                                          github.com/eitch/Chronivaro/re

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                                                                                                                                            [?]Nicola Baudo » 🌐
                                                                                                                                            @nicolabaudo@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                                                                            dropQbsd has been moved from GitHub – where a copy will remain – to Sourcehut, its natural home.

                                                                                                                                            I’d like to thank Drew DeVault for welcoming me onto his platform.

                                                                                                                                            For free spirits, dropQbsd can be found here: git.sr.ht/~nobraininside/dropQ

                                                                                                                                            dropQbsd, the flying fortress - ASCII Art

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                                                                                                                                              [?]Doris » 🌐
                                                                                                                                              @doris@friendica-deutschland.de

                                                                                                                                              📢 Fediverse-Sprechstunde: Was sind eigentlich „Issues“ – und warum gehen sie uns alle etwas an?

                                                                                                                                              Ihr nutzt Friendica, Mastodon, Hubzilla, Sharkey oder eine andere Fediverse-Software und plötzlich funktioniert etwas nicht so, wie ihr es erwartet? 🤔

                                                                                                                                              Oder ihr denkt euch bei einer Funktion:
                                                                                                                                              „Das könnte man doch besser machen!“

                                                                                                                                              Vielleicht habt ihr auch eine Idee, die ihr gern den Entwicklerinnen und Entwicklern mitteilen würdet.

                                                                                                                                              Dann fällt früher oder später ein Begriff: „Mach doch ein Issue auf.“

                                                                                                                                              Aber was bedeutet das eigentlich?
                                                                                                                                              Was gehört in ein gutes Issue hinein? Wo erstelle ich es? Welche Informationen brauchen Entwickler, um einen Fehler nachvollziehen zu können? Und muss ich dafür überhaupt technische Kenntnisse haben?

                                                                                                                                              Genau darum geht es bei unserer nächsten Fediverse-Sprechstunde:

                                                                                                                                              📅 Montag, 31. August 2026
                                                                                                                                              🕢 19:30 Uhr
                                                                                                                                              💻 Online

                                                                                                                                              🔎 Was sind Issues und wie erstelle ich welche?


                                                                                                                                              Für dieses Thema konnten wir Jens (@qbi ) gewinnen. Einige von euch kennen ihn vielleicht bereits aus unserer Fediverse-Sprechstunde zum Thema BookWyrm.

                                                                                                                                              Jens ist Administrator und Entwickler und kennt Issues nicht nur aus der Theorie, sondern aus der täglichen Praxis. Gemeinsam wollen wir uns anschauen, wie aus einem beobachteten Problem, einer Idee oder einem Verbesserungsvorschlag ein Issue wird, mit dem Entwickler auch wirklich etwas anfangen können.

                                                                                                                                              Dabei geht es ausdrücklich nicht nur um Entwickler oder Administratoren!

                                                                                                                                              Denn freie und offene Software lebt auch davon, dass diejenigen, die sie täglich benutzen, Rückmeldungen geben. Niemand kann jeden Fehler selbst entdecken und niemand kennt alle Wünsche und Probleme der Nutzerinnen und Nutzer.

                                                                                                                                              Ein gut beschriebenes Issue kann deshalb ein kleiner, aber sehr wertvoller Beitrag zur Weiterentwicklung einer Software sein. 🌱

                                                                                                                                              Und vielleicht nehmen wir dabei auch ein wenig die Scheu vor Plattformen wie GitHub oder Codeberg. 😉

                                                                                                                                              Ihr müsst dafür keine Programmierer sein und keinen Quellcode verstehen. Neugier und Fragen reichen völlig aus.

                                                                                                                                              💬 Was ist überhaupt ein Issue?
                                                                                                                                              🐞 Wie melde ich einen Fehler sinnvoll?
                                                                                                                                              💡 Kann ich auch Ideen und Verbesserungsvorschläge einreichen?
                                                                                                                                              📝 Welche Angaben gehören hinein?
                                                                                                                                              🔍 Sollte ich vorher prüfen, ob es bereits ein ähnliches Issue gibt?
                                                                                                                                              🤝 Wie erleichtere ich Entwicklern die Arbeit?

                                                                                                                                              Und natürlich bleibt wie immer Raum für eure Fragen und den gemeinsamen Austausch.

                                                                                                                                              Die Fediverse-Sprechstunde soll kein Frontalunterricht sein. Sie ist ein Treffpunkt zum Fragen, Erklären, Ausprobieren und voneinander Lernen – für Einsteiger ebenso wie für erfahrene Nutzer, Administratoren und Entwickler.

                                                                                                                                              🌐 Mehr Miteinander statt Gegeneinander.

                                                                                                                                              Gerade im Fediverse gehören Nutzer, Administratoren und Entwickler zusammen. Wenn wir besser verstehen, wie die jeweils anderen arbeiten und wie wir uns gegenseitig unterstützen können, profitiert am Ende das gesamte Fediverse davon.

                                                                                                                                              👉 Montag, 31.08.2026 um 19:30 Uhr

                                                                                                                                              💻 Konferenzraum:
                                                                                                                                              campus.ws-12.de/rooms/8p9-mvy-…campus.ws-12.de/rooms/8p9-mvy-…

                                                                                                                                              📢 Weitersagen und Teilen ausdrücklich erwünscht!

                                                                                                                                              Vielleicht kennt ihr jemanden, der schon einmal einen Fehler entdeckt hat, eine gute Idee hatte – aber nicht wusste, wie und wo man sie den Entwicklern am besten mitteilt. Bringt ihn oder sie einfach mit. 😊

                                                                                                                                              KI-generierte Grafik zur Fediverse-Sprechstunde am Montag, 31.08.2026 um 19:30 Uhr. Unter der Überschrift „Was sind Issues und wie erstelle ich welche?“ ist ein Laptop mit einer beispielhaften Issue-Seite zu sehen. Sprechblasen fragen „Fehler melden?“, „Idee einbringen?“ und „Verbesserung vorschlagen?“. Als Referent wird Jens (qbi), Admin, Entwickler und Issue-Profi, genannt. Darunter steht: „Mehr Miteinander statt Gegeneinander. Gemeinsam machen wir das Fediverse besser!“ Die Veranstaltung findet online im Konferenzraum der Fediverse-Sprechstunde statt.

                                                                                                                                              Alt...KI-generierte Grafik zur Fediverse-Sprechstunde am Montag, 31.08.2026 um 19:30 Uhr. Unter der Überschrift „Was sind Issues und wie erstelle ich welche?“ ist ein Laptop mit einer beispielhaften Issue-Seite zu sehen. Sprechblasen fragen „Fehler melden?“, „Idee einbringen?“ und „Verbesserung vorschlagen?“. Als Referent wird Jens (qbi), Admin, Entwickler und Issue-Profi, genannt. Darunter steht: „Mehr Miteinander statt Gegeneinander. Gemeinsam machen wir das Fediverse besser!“ Die Veranstaltung findet online im Konferenzraum der Fediverse-Sprechstunde statt.

                                                                                                                                                [?]GamingOnLinux » 🤖 🌐
                                                                                                                                                @gamingonlinux@mastodon.world

                                                                                                                                                With an extra $18 million raised, W4 Games plan to continue to expand their enterprise technology and support for the open-source Godot Engine.
                                                                                                                                                gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/w4-g

                                                                                                                                                  [?]GamingOnLinux » 🤖 🌐
                                                                                                                                                  @gamingonlinux@mastodon.world

                                                                                                                                                  The Bazzite Deck 44 release for handhelds and TV PCs was a huge change for the popular gaming focused version of Linux, which sadly came with lots of issues.
                                                                                                                                                  gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/bazz

                                                                                                                                                    [?]Capensis » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                    @capensis@framapiaf.org

                                                                                                                                                    🔓 vient de passer le moteur de son agent Codex sous licence Apache 2.0 !

                                                                                                                                                    Ce n'est pas anodin : n'est plus un simple assistant de programmation, c'est désormais une plateforme d'orchestration d'agents intégrable dans n'importe quel logiciel professionnel.

                                                                                                                                                    ➡️ Tokens de sortie divisés par 6
                                                                                                                                                    ➡️ Score ARC-AGI-3 à 38,3 % (vs 13,3 % avant)
                                                                                                                                                    ➡️ Déjà en production chez Cisco, GitHub, JetBrains

                                                                                                                                                    🔗 goodtech.info/openai-codex-har

                                                                                                                                                      [?]woprsystems » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                      @woprsystems@mstdn.wopr.systems

                                                                                                                                                      Got tired of Big Tech spying on me? Self-host your own cloud with Nebula Mesh and Docker. Own the data, be free.

                                                                                                                                                      Use Caddy for a solid reverse proxy setup. It's like having a Swiss Army knife for your network stack.

                                                                                                                                                      wopr.systems/?utm_campaign=mem

                                                                                                                                                      Use Caddy for a solid reverse proxy setup. It's like having a Swiss Army knife for your network stack.

                                                                                                                                                      Alt...Use Caddy for a solid reverse proxy setup. It's like having a Swiss Army knife for your network stack.

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                                                                                                                                                        [?]fasnix » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                        @fasnix@littleone.littlefedi.social

                                                                                                                                                        "Decolonize.Digital is an online resource that is a living, growing, and evolving website bringing together different connected projects that I've been working on. Parts of the site are available to all subscribers, but parts of it require a paid subscription. I made this decision because I've put hours, weeks, and months into this tool, in addition to my decades of work and learning that even makes creating it possible. I regard this work as I would a book, workshop, or any other labor that I do that is part of my life's work.

                                                                                                                                                        For free subscribers to my platform liberationtoolbox.io, all of these posts, articles, videos, and various mediums have been made available across my many platforms over the many years for free. And they are still accessible to all through those different platforms.

                                                                                                                                                        There are people who have the gall to be upset that I am actually compensated for my labor. If this is you, you should not be here. I do not recommend that you subscribe to the free or paid options of this Liberation Toolbox if you are one of these people.

                                                                                                                                                        Currently, on this site, Decolonize.Digital, I have put up the De-Google Your Life (Decentering Big Tech) series, Buildsheet: Community Building series, and the Opt-Out series. I will continue adding tools to each of these series over time. I have some exciting series and tools coming up.

                                                                                                                                                        Why now? Why this? When wielded by oppressors, everything, including technology, becomes murderous and rapacious, it becomes digital colonization.

                                                                                                                                                        There are better ways for technology. Finding these other liberatory ways, this is my life's work, to Decolonize Digital."

                                                                                                                                                        https://decolonize.digital
                                                                                                                                                        https://liberationtoolbox.io

                                                                                                                                                          [?]Paolinus :fedora: :linux: :firefox: » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                          @linuzzz@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                          quando il fascismo si nasconde nell'opensource: fanculo hyprland

                                                                                                                                                          itsfoss.com/news/omarchy-launc

                                                                                                                                                            [?]China Business Forum » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                            @cnbusinessforum@mstdn.business

                                                                                                                                                            is advancing a comprehensive approach to , balancing with safety measures and . At the 2026 AI () and High-Level on Global AI Governance, President Xi Jinping called for a just and equitable for global AI governance, emphasizing that AI should be people-centered and benefit all of . cnbusinessforum.com/china-adva

                                                                                                                                                              [?]c't Magazin » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                              @ct_Magazin@social.heise.de

                                                                                                                                                              [?]heise online » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                              @heiseonline@social.heise.de

                                                                                                                                                              Dienstag: Schutz für IT-Sicherheitsforscher, Anklage wegen illegaler Exporte

                                                                                                                                                              Reform des Computerstrafrechts + Illegale Ausfuhr von KI-Servern + AliExpress trackt Nutzer + Linux-Handheld sammelt eine Million + Kritik am Biometrie-Pakt

                                                                                                                                                              heise.de/news/Dienstag-Schutz-

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                                                                                                                                                                [?]The Late Night Linux Family » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                @latenightlinux@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                To celebrate 400 episodes, we look back of the last (almost) ten years of positive Linux and FOSS news

                                                                                                                                                                latenightlinux.com/late-night-

                                                                                                                                                                Late Night Linux artwork

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                                                                                                                                                                  [?]🐈‍⬛David Sommerseth » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                  @dazo@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                  I am getting really unhappy with how @e_mydata seems to evolve. It starts to push more @murena services unto it's users.

                                                                                                                                                                  I have no need for Murena Password. Sorry, but I trust Bitwarden and Proton Pass way more. But I'm being forced to see dark patterns trying to tempt users to enable. I kinda accepted that a little bit, since it's their OS platform.

                                                                                                                                                                  But now I discovered that SeedVault is gone and replaced with Murena Backup. I had a perfectly fine SeedVault setup which synced backup data in the background to my own backup server (which again is backed up, encrypted, to a server on a different location). Now I seem to need to sign up for a Murena Workspace account. With backup encryption keys tied to Murena Password. That's crossing a line I'm not going to accept.

                                                                                                                                                                  That means I will need to cash out more to have a backup of my /e/OS devices. For something I already had setup and protects my data and privacy even further than what I believe Murena is willing to do. Yes, there is a free tier Workspace. It's limited to 1GB data, to my understanding. And I doubt their setup, software stack and client side apps has been through a full third-party security audit.

                                                                                                                                                                  Either I have control of my backup data, or you can try to convince me using a data storage service after showing me your third-party, independent security audit report.

                                                                                                                                                                  That just.means: NO, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

                                                                                                                                                                  I have bought several phones, tablet and accessories from Murena over the years. That stops now. I can no longer recommend Murena to others, as they now seem to move towards a full vendor lock-in corporate model. That is unacceptable to.me.

                                                                                                                                                                  It's been nice to be able to buy with pre-installed /e/OS. But now I'm going to test out @calyxos moving forward. Despite the firmware flashing inconvenience.

                                                                                                                                                                    [?]MINDS. » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                    @minds@unredacted.social

                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Alexandre Dulaunoy » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                    @adulau@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                    I spent many hours in vulnogram today and to be honest. I'm glad that a colleague started to work on a replacement called vulniverse. Still early beta but it's promising.

                                                                                                                                                                    :github: work in progress github.com/vulnerability-looku

                                                                                                                                                                      [?]heise online » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                      @heiseonline@social.heise.de

                                                                                                                                                                      Zielmarke übertroffen: Mehr als eine Million Euro für Linux-Handheld Mecha Comet

                                                                                                                                                                      Eine Crowdfunding-Aktion übertrifft die Erwartungen. Das modular konzipierte Gerät bietet verschiedenste Anwendungen. Die Auslieferung soll schon bald beginnen.

                                                                                                                                                                      heise.de/news/Zielmarke-uebert

                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Renatomancer » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                        @Renatomancer@exquisite.social

                                                                                                                                                                        [?]All Things Open » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                        @allthingsopen@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                        🚀 NEW on We ❤️ Open Source 🚀

                                                                                                                                                                        C doesn’t provide memory safety by design, so string operations require care.

                                                                                                                                                                        Jim Hall demonstrates how strcpy and strcat can overflow a buffer, then shows how strlcpy and strlcat constrain writes to the destination size.

                                                                                                                                                                        allthingsopen.org/articles/str

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                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Zachary Powell 🥑 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                          @zachary@social.devwithzachary.com

                                                                                                                                                                          The @starlabssystems
                                                                                                                                                                          StarFighter might be the closest we have come to the ultimate Linux-first laptop.

                                                                                                                                                                          In this review, I dive into the hardware, open-source coreboot BIOS, daily usability, fan noise, and internals. While it gets almost everything right, soldered RAM and average battery life hold it back from a flawless score.

                                                                                                                                                                          Watch on PeerTube: tube.devwithzachary.com/w/wAVf

                                                                                                                                                                          Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/njoC-hwCC6E

                                                                                                                                                                            [?]AA » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                            @AAKL@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                            Some of the backers include Dell (and by extension, Trump,) and a bunch of execs from Cloudflare (yes, Cloudflare,) and Block (Dorsey, the guy who screwed up Twitter.)

                                                                                                                                                                            It's Foss: Omarchy Linux Just Got $8 Million From Tech's Biggest Names itsfoss.com/news/omarchy-launc @itsfoss

                                                                                                                                                                              [?]c't Magazin » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                              @ct_Magazin@social.heise.de

                                                                                                                                                                              SiFive bringt RISC-V-Server mit Ubuntu 26.04 und RHEL 10 für Code-Entwickler

                                                                                                                                                                              Um das Henne-und-Ei-Problem bei RISC-V für Rechenzentren zu lösen, stellt SiFive Entwicklerserver mit 32 RVA23-Kernen, 256 GByte RAM und PCIe 5.0 bereit.

                                                                                                                                                                              heise.de/news/SiFive-bringt-RI

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                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Oliver Zehentleitner » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                @oliverzehentleitner@burningboard.net

                                                                                                                                                                                Same model. Same skill. Same task.
                                                                                                                                                                                Completely different results.

                                                                                                                                                                                I tested Keep the Why across 6 coding agents and 9 models.

                                                                                                                                                                                The agent harness mattered far more than I expected.

                                                                                                                                                                                Gemini: 10/10 in one agent, 0/10 in others.
                                                                                                                                                                                Grok stayed consistently strong.
                                                                                                                                                                                Some runs even fabricated compliance.

                                                                                                                                                                                Don't benchmark only the model.
                                                                                                                                                                                Benchmark the system you actually use.

                                                                                                                                                                                Full matrix + lessons:
                                                                                                                                                                                blog.technopathy.club/same-ski

                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Maarten Aertsen » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                  @maarten@techpolicy.social

                                                                                                                                                                                  From Sept 11, the will require stewards to report certain incidents* through a portal of theirs.

                                                                                                                                                                                  I wondered how many people could do reporting on behalf of an org, considering the 72h timeline. ENISA answered:

                                                                                                                                                                                  > Only one primary AR can be created per manufacturer, for secondary AR we have put a limit of 20 Ars.
                                                                                                                                                                                  (AR presumably stands for “Authorised Representative”, the reporter)

                                                                                                                                                                                  * actively exploited vulnerabilities, org compromise. See enisa.europa.eu/topics/product

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                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Nicola Baudo » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                    @nicolabaudo@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                                                                                                                    The GUI didn't make computing easier. It made you a passenger.

                                                                                                                                                                                    Type cd .. and you're navigating — you know where you are, where you're going. Click the arrow in your filemanager and you're following a path someone else designed. The first is writing. The second is a reflex.

                                                                                                                                                                                    Same logic from the Airbus that overrode its pilot to the spellchecker that corrects you without asking: the machine's judgment overrides yours, silently, automatically.

                                                                                                                                                                                    Not a feature. A philosophical manifesto.

                                                                                                                                                                                    And when writing came back — through the AI — it returned as supplication, not sovereignty. The closed-source GUI and the undisclosed LLM are the same thing.

                                                                                                                                                                                    Newsletter: newsletter.nicolabaudo.fr/open

                                                                                                                                                                                    Full version on the blog — mimesis in Plato, induced illiteracy as a business strategy, the pincer of clicking and requesting, and what it means to open the hood: blog.nicolabaudo.fr/the-icon-a

                                                                                                                                                                                    The Leash - ASCII Art

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                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]🐈‍⬛David Sommerseth » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                      @dazo@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                      Had some more time to play around with the newly acquired from @pine64

                                                                                                                                                                                      I got a new user account setup using systemd-homed which gives you an encrypted storage for that user. This will require you to log in with a password each time you fire it it up. I consider that a good thing! I also registered my public SSH keys into the systemd-userdb, which then allows me to log into the device with this user account. During the SSH login, you'll be asked for a password too - which is used to decrypt the home directory. Logging out, and the home directory is locked again.

                                                                                                                                                                                      Also played around with various apps, especially ++ and . Both highly capable.

                                                                                                                                                                                      What currently irks me the most is that the desktop environment is really not designed for monochrome displays. There are so many different shades of grey everywhere making it really hard to read the screen. This is even with "High Contrast" enabled. GNOME really need a different working mode for eInk displays.

                                                                                                                                                                                      seems to work fine, but recommend to install apps using the command line and add the --user argument to flatpak install. The user data partition has more storage space available.

                                                                                                                                                                                      Next up will be to get and setup properly (openvpn3-client installed easily). Considering if I want to setup e-mail on this device or not. With that plus backup (I'll be using ) set up, its getting ready for some real daily use.

                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]c't Magazin » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                        @ct_Magazin@social.heise.de

                                                                                                                                                                                        heise+ | KI-Projekte im Griff: So wird aus gut gemeint auch gut gemacht

                                                                                                                                                                                        KI erkennt, ob Mitarbeiter Helme tragen oder Verdächtiges tun – Hilfe oder Totalüberwachung? Wir fragten Udo Sglavo vom Softwareanbieter SAS, worauf es ankommt.

                                                                                                                                                                                        heise.de/hintergrund/KI-Projek

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                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Farooq [Master Patata] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                        @farooqkz@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                                                                                                                        Jeremy from has launched a project to vote about 1 minute blocks on . Currently you can join only with your account.

                                                                                                                                                                                        If you consider yourself part of community, please consider voting on the project.

                                                                                                                                                                                        consensus.cash

                                                                                                                                                                                        I personally haven't got expertise in development of the network and stuff. But as a user, it always annoys me when I want to buy something with BCH and then I'll have to wait 30-120 minutes for me transaction to get confirmed. Sure, BCH has got 0-conf. But no one outside BCH takes it seriously even when you give them a feedback. And we cannot make a change while we are a minority.

                                                                                                                                                                                        Many things in the world of technology don't make technical sense. But that's how things are. And when we are a minority, we cannot define the rules. We have to go with the rules till we get big enough. Then we'll be able to rule how we want. Like technically sound.

                                                                                                                                                                                        The website is here:

                                                                                                                                                                                        consensus.cash

                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Arint - SEO+KI » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                          @Arint@arint.info

                                                                                                                                                                                          RT @Mr_Salio: 🚨 DeepSeek V5 Leak Es wird die Mythos-Klasse der Leistung erreichen DeepSeek V5 zielt auf einen September-Release ab Gebaut auf einem völlig neuen Fundament, nicht nur ein weiteres V4-Upgrade Erwartet, stärkere Reasoning-, Coding- und autonome Agenten-Fähigkeiten zu liefern Könnte deutlich günstiger im Betrieb sein als andere Frontier-Modelle DeepSeek wird voraussichtlich weiterhin seine Open-Weight-Strategie fortsetzen. Kann DeepSeek V5 Mythos tatsächlich schlagen?

                                                                                                                                                                                          mehr auf Arint.info

                                                                                                                                                                                          https://x.com/Mr_Salio/status/2091462668246745573

                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Russell (Robin) Phillips [They/them] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                            @rpbook@gts.phillipsuk.org

                                                                                                                                                                                            I love open source. I self-host quite a lot, and I'm pleased that I can do that.

                                                                                                                                                                                            But I get frustrated at how often documentation only covers the initial set up. Earlier today I looked at documentation for a service I was considering self-hosting.

                                                                                                                                                                                            It had instructions for installing, but nothing about how to upgrade an existing installation. But it's important to me that I know how to upgrade when a new version is released.

                                                                                                                                                                                            I've seen desktop programs where the documentation has "How to make your first in five minutes". Then the rest of the documents assume a deep understanding, with apparently nothing to help you get from new user to wizard level.

                                                                                                                                                                                            #OpenSource #SelfHosting #FOSS

                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Muhammad Adil » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                              @adilaidev@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                              Forked rust-analyzer, deleted 2.3k lines of proc-macro and cargo metadata crates, kept only the LSP features I use daily. Now it peaks at 380 MB instead of 1.2 GB on my M1 Mac.

                                                                                                                                                                                              Rust-glancer is a lightweight alternative for memory-constrained setups. Hover docs, go-to-def, diagnostics, all there. Everything else fails gracefully.

                                                                                                                                                                                              adilaidev.com/blog/cut-rust-ls

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                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Fireside Fedi » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                @firesidefedi@btfree.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

                                                                                                                                                                                                Special Guest: @mobilizon@framapiaf.org
                                                                                                                                                                                                An ethical alternative to Facebook events, groups and pages. Previously built by Framasoft, now Kaihuri.

                                                                                                                                                                                                So don't miss it!

                                                                                                                                                                                                It will happen on 26/08/26 at 14:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )

                                                                                                                                                                                                🔥 FIRESIDE FEDI — FOLLOW ALL THREE! 🔥

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                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Daniel Supernault » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                  @dansup@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Quick update.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Account migration on pixelfed.social is disabled. I hit bugs in the flow and chose to pull it rather than let people run into them.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  It’s temporary, and account portability is not something I take lightly.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Meanwhile I’m setting loops aside to give pixelfed the year it deserves: new mobile app, new web ui, improved federation, and a much faster backend.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Thanks for the patience. It’s one person over here, and I’d rather be slow than sloppy.