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: https://tube.devwithzachary.com/w/wAVfyZ6TDdQCokpXUDXSCo

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/njoC-hwCC6E

#Linux #OpenSource #StarLabs #StarFighter #coreboot #Hardware #Tech

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 https://itsfoss.com/news/omarchy-launches-omacom-foundation/ @itsfoss #opensource #linux

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.

https://www.heise.de/news/SiFive-bringt-RISC-V-Server-mit-Ubuntu-26-04-und-RHEL-10-fuer-Code-Entwickler-11424109.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Canonical #IT #OpenSource #Prozessoren #Rechenzentrum #RedHat #Server #Ubuntu #news

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:
https://blog.technopathy.club/same-skill-six-agents-nine-models-what-a-real-eval-matrix-taught-me

#AI #CodingAgents #LLM #AgenticAI #OpenSource #DevTools

From Sept 11, the #CyberResilienceAct will require #opensource 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 https://www.enisa.europa.eu/topics/product-security/single-reporting-platform-srp

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: https://newsletter.nicolabaudo.fr/open-the-hood-why-your-gui-is-lying-to-you/

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: https://blog.nicolabaudo.fr/the-icon-and-the-command-line-image-truth/

#ai #BSD #openSource #unix #cli #gui #privacy #sovereignty #digitalFreedom

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Had some more time to play around with the newly acquired #PineNote 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 #Xournal++ and #Rnote. Both highly capable.

What currently irks me the most is that the #GNOME 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.

#Flatpak 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 #Syncthing and #OpenVPN 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 #PikaBackup) set up, its getting ready for some real daily use.

#Pine64 #foss #oss #opensource #hardware #tablet #systemd

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.

https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/KI-Projekte-im-Griff-So-wird-aus-gut-gemeint-auch-gut-gemacht-11362654.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#BusinessIntelligence #Kriminalität #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #OpenSource #Unternehmenssoftware #Wirtschaft #news

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

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

https://www.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:

https://www.consensus.cash

#opensource #crypto #cryptocurrency #BTC #p2pmoney #p2p #decentralized #decentralizedmoney

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?

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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DeepSeekV5 #MachineLearning #OpenSource #TechNews #arint_info

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

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

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.

https://www.adilaidev.com/blog/cut-rust-lsp-ram-use-without-losing-core-features

#RustLang #LSP #OpenSource #DeveloperTools

I am BDFL at https://qbnetworks.xyz #freesoftware #opensource #openness #ethics #freedom

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I am BDFL at https://qbnetworks.xyz #freesoftware #opensource #openness #ethics #freedom

Witaj #GrapheneOS
Żegnaj #iOS

#deapple #GrapheneOS #PrivacyFirst #DigitalPrivacy #DeGoogle #FOSS #OpenSource #SelfHosting #Pixel #GoodbyeApple

RT @cgtwts: Wir sind möglicherweise viel näher daran, Modelle lokal auszuführen, als jeder erwartet hat. FreeToken von UC Berkeley und MIT ermöglicht: -DeepSeek-V4-Flash 284B mit 25 Token pro Sekunde auf einer einzelnen RTX 5090, - während ein 8GB RTX 4060 Laptop bei Qwen3.6-35B 39 Token pro Sekunde erreicht. Und es ist 2–4x schneller als Ollama auf Consumer-GPUs.

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#DeepSeek #KI #LokaleModelle #OpenSource #Qwen #RTX5090 #arint_info

https://x.com/cgtwts/status/2091149529274085436

RT @Andy_ShuoYang: Dein Gaming-PC kann jetzt Frontier-Modelle mit interaktiver Geschwindigkeit über offizielle Checkpoints ohne extreme Quantisierung bedienen! Qwen3.6 35B → 8GB RTX 4060 Laptop @ 39 tok/s DeepSeek-V4-Flash 284B → RTX 5090 Desktop @ 22-25 tok/s GLM-5.2 753B → RTX PRO 6000 Workstation @ 15 tok/s Betreibe jetzt dein Claude Code oder Codex mit Frontier-Modellen für $0. Triff FreeToken 🧵

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#AI #Gaming #Innovation #LLM #OpenSource #Tech #arint_info

https://x.com/Andy_ShuoYang/status/2090856976880472439

Hister v0.18.0 is out!

- New search suggestion UI with history completions, fields, facets, and sorting
- Import PDF, DOCX, Markdown, Org mode, and text files
- New Twitter, Bluesky, Reddit, and Discourse extractors
- Responsive terminal result details
- Persistent sessions and safer MCP results

https://github.com/asciimoo/hister/releases/tag/v0.18.0

#Hister #SelfHosted #OpenSource #freesoftware #search

New MCPs in case anyone is interested:

https://github.com/rollecode/cronometer-mcp
https://github.com/rollecode/oura-mcp

#MCP #AI #OpenSource

Contour 0.7 is out with native GUI tabs, split panes, saved layouts, a command palette, GUI settings, and experimental daemon sessions.
https://linuxiac.com/contour-0-7-terminal-emulator-adds-tabs-split-panes-and-saved-layouts/

#opensource

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Contour 0.7 is out with native GUI tabs, split panes, saved layouts, a command palette, GUI settings, and experimental daemon sessions.

China folgt Europa: Windows wird früher als geplant durch Linux ersetzt

notebookcheck.com/China-folgt-…
#Linux #Opensource

China ersetzt Windows in Behörden früher als geplant durch Linux, um die Abhängigkeit von US-Produkten zu verringern.

Google built an #AI translator that runs entirely offline on a #RaspberryPi #opensource (as someone who does a lot of #travel, this looks incredibly useful. I think I need to build one soon & try it out.) https://thenextweb.com/news/google-gemma-translator-offline-raspberry-pi-antigravity

FOSS NEWS

Mastodon 4.7 adds encrypted private keys, smoother migrations & Fediverse protocol updates:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/8/mastodon-4-7-adds-encrypted-private-keys-smoother-migrations-and-fediverse-protocol-updates/

Firefox 154 released with translation, AI and UI tweaks:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/firefox-154-released

Firefox makes it easier to switch to the privacy-focused search engine Startpage:
https://betanews.com/article/firefox-makes-it-easier-to-switch-to-the-privacy-focused-search-engine-startpage/

Firefox for iOS now has an experimental native ad blocker, but it's off by default:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/8/firefox-for-ios-now-has-an-experimental-native-ad-blocker-but-it-s-off-by-default/
(Why not enable by default? It doesn't make much sense)

Mozilla Firefox 155 Enters Public Beta Testing, Here’s What to Expect:
https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-155-enters-public-beta-testing-heres-what-to-expect

Zen Browser 1.21.15b Shipped: Firefox 154 Engine, macOS Backups, and 60+ Security Fixes:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/zen-browser-12115b-shipped-firefox-154-engine-macos-backups-and-security-fixes/

Keep important emails in focus with Proton Mail Categories:
https://proton.me/blog/proton-mail-categories

Thunderbird 154 Open-Source Email Client Introduces an Optional System Tray Mode:
https://9to5linux.com/thunderbird-154-open-source-email-client-introduces-an-optional-system-tray-mode

addy.io rules system adds new automation conditions and actions:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/8/addy-io-rules-system-adds-new-automation-conditions-and-actions/

GIMP is (finally) working on a new project file format:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/gimp-new-project-file-format

Krita AI Diffusion 1.53.0 Adds int4 Quantization, EU AI Act Compliance, and Semantic Segmentation Control:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/krita-ai-diffusion-1530-adds-int4-quantization-eu-ai-act-compliance-and-semantic-segmentation-control/

Zotero 10 improves search capabilities, adds PDF reading mode, and brings multi-selection:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/8/zotero-10-improves-search-capabilities-adds-pdf-reading-mode-and-brings-multi-selection/

(more FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #FOSS #OpenSourceNews #News #Mastodon #Fediverse #Fedi #Firefox #ZenBrowser #ProtonMail #Thunderbird #AddyIO #GIMP #Krita #KritaAIDiffusion #Zotero #Browser #WebBrowser #SocialMedia #Email #EmailClient #EmailProvider #EmailAlias #ImageEditing #ImageManipulation #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ReferenceManagement #FosseryTech

RT @Mr_Salio: 🚨 Qwen 4 Leak qwen 4 wird jetzt unter dem Namen "korrine" auf der Code-Arena getestet Qwen 4 zielt auf Fable 5 / Mythos 5-Level-Performance ab Erste Tests deuten darauf hin, dass es im Bereich Design und Coding sehr stark sein könnte Es wird erwartet, dass es offen gewichtet bleibt Schwerpunkte liegen auf Reasoning, Coding und autonomen Agenten Entwickelt, um direkt mit den neuesten Frontier-Modellen zu konkurrieren Kann Qwen 4 tatsächlich Mythos 5 schlagen?

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#AI #Coding #MachineLearning #OpenSource #Qwen4 #TechNews #arint_info

https://x.com/Mr_Salio/status/2091101970866024851

I just released ptrclassify is a small, dependency-free Python library and CLI that infers likely IP usage from reverse-DNS PTR hostnames.

It is intentionally heuristic and multi-label. PTR naming is operator-controlled and is not authoritative evidence of how an address is actually used. The output therefore includes a confidence score, the text that matched, and the rule IDs that produced each label.

To summarize, the library is trying to guess usage (and a bit location) of an IP address based on its PTR records. It's based on a set of rules which can be updated easily.

#osint #cybersecurity #ptrclassify #opensource #dns

https://github.com/adulau/ptrclassify
module https://pypi.org/project/ptrclassify/

Pineapple Notepad 1.1.0 Released! It aims to be a cross-platform Notepad++ alternative that available on both Windows, macOS and Linux. In this version we now support per-document indentation setting, customizable context menu, and a lot of QoL changes included!

See link below for downloads ↓ and help us reach the #OpenSource Goal!

As usual. Everyone can download and use it free of change from GitHub:

https://github.com/BLumia/pineapple-notepad/releases

Detailed release info and progress report can be seen here:

https://blumia.itch.io/pineapple-notepad/devlog/1637905/pineapple-notepad-progress-report-110-released

If you think this application is helpful and would like to see this application become an #OpenSource software, please consider become a sponsor! Use the following link for sponsorship:

itchio: https://blumia.itch.io/pineapple-notep
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/blumia

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Zwei Konzerne entscheiden, welche App auf meinem Telefon läuft. Alternatives Android? Verweigert manche App den Dienst, obwohl deren Hardware-Attestierung strenger prüft als Googles Play Integrity. Begründung trotzdem: Datenschutz. Ein Monopol im Sicherheitskostüm.
#datenschutz #opensource #android #digitalerechte #schicksalsjahreeineskaisers

Encrypted Email Beyond Europe and North America: Why It Barely Took Root

This series began in Europe with Proton and Tuta, continued with Mailfence, mailbox.org, StartMail, Posteo, and Soverin, and most recently headed…

https://vsx.global/why-encrypted-mail-outside-europe-and-north-america-barely-existed/

#infosec #privacy #opensource #digitalsovereignty

RT @Itsfoss: Linus Torvalds hat gerade KI eingesetzt, um einen Linux-Kernel-Bug zu beheben. Dies ist ein seltenes Ereignis. Selten, weil Torvalds nicht mehr am Linux-Kernel codet. Er prüft nur Code und Merge-Pull-Requests von Mitwirkenden. Daher ist dies eine seltene Gelegenheit in jüngster Zeit, bei der er selbst einen Kernel-Patch erstellt hat. Und diesmal hat er Unterstützung durch KI in Anspruch genommen. Der Bug befand sich im Intel-Xe-Grafiktreiber für Battlemage-G21-Karten. Er verursachte, dass GDM, der Display-Manager, sich endlos neu startete. Die Fehlersuche erforderte 24 Debug-Patches und 18 Kernel-Boots. Als Ursache erwies sich eine einzelne Zeile, in der roundup() statt rounddown() hätte stehen sollen. Die KI „hat die Schufterei für Torvalds erledigt": Hinzufügen von Debug-Instrumentierung, Ausführen von Analysen und sogar Schreiben der finalen Commit-Nachricht. Aber es war nicht alles ein leichtes Unterfangen. Die KI sagte Linus immer wieder, dass das Problem „unmöglich und unlösbar" sei. Jedes Mal widersprach Linus und ging weiter. In seinen Worten: „Ich vermute, dass diese Dinge von Menschen trainiert wurden, die vielleicht nicht so stur sind wie ich." Das ist erneut das, was wir immer sagen. KI ist nur ein Werkzeug und sie ist im Wesentlichen nützlich, wenn ein fähiger Mensch den Prozess steuert. Überlassen wir sie ihren eigenen Schlussfolgerungen, würde sie diesen Bug als unkorrigierbar bezeichnen und sich zurückziehen. Aber Linus Torvalds hat Erfahrung. Er konnte verstehen, was die KI richtig oder falsch machte. Der Patch ist nun in Linux 7.3 und wurde in stabile Kern…

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#Battlemage #IntelXe #KI #LinusTorvalds #LinuxKernel #OpenSource #arint_info

https://x.com/Itsfoss/status/2090983480360620422

Nächste Woche erscheint #LibreOffice 26.8 mit dem neuen Absatz-Composer. Der gleicht die Wortabstände in aufeinanderfolgenden Zeilen aus und behebt damit einen grundlegenden Mangel des "gierigen" Zeilen-Ausgleichs herkömmlicher Textverarbeitungsprogramme.
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.8/de#Writer
#foss #opensource #freesoftware #office #schule #Verwaltung

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Beispiel-Text; Absatz-Composer mit Blocksatz und max. 100%, 133% und 250% Wortzwischenraum.

@autistics
Announcement: #Voxelibre multiplayer casual game today (Sat) for 4 hours in the late afternoon to evening (North America). That's in about 3 hours from now.

Voxelibre is a free and #OpenSource #Minecraft clone.

🚨 The underlying Luanti server was upgraded to 5.17. Please upgrade your Luanti client to 5.17 🚨

Damage has been turned off. People with #Autism, #ADHD or #AuDHD are invited. We also have a #Deltachat group for game-related discussion. More details here: https://docs.autis.toque.im/

#luanti #game #gaming #games

RT @Italianclownz: Ich arbeite an einem separaten iu4-Code, der ausschließlich auf ROCmFPX unter Strix Halo funktioniert. Ich werde ihn schrittweise veröffentlichen; er wurde bereits auf RDNA 3.5 getestet. Theoretisch sollte er auf jeder AMD-Hardware funktionieren, die über einen iu4-Pfad verfügt. Dieser Code entstand in Zusammenarbeit zwischen Claude Code (hauptsächlich) und mir. Das Ziel war es sicherzustellen, dass ROCmFPX ebenfalls einen iu4-Pfad nutzen kann, falls dieser auf der AMD-Hardware vorhanden ist. Es handelt sich um experimentellen Code, der langsam unter der MIT-Lizenz zusammengeführt wird. Er sollte direkt innerhalb von ROCmFPX laufen, jedoch gibt es einen Quantisierungspfad, falls benötigt, der als ROCmi4 bezeichnet wird. @ciruai hat ebenfalls einen eigenen Ansatz erstellt, der einen separaten Runner verwendet und zusätzliche Funktionen mit Sidecars bietet, was ich gespannt ausprobieren möchte. Sein Ansatz nutzt ebenfalls einige ROCmFPX-Codebestandteile (auf der Quantisierungsseite). Der iu4-Pfad in ROCmFPX ist jedoch fundamental anders: keine Sidecars, kein separater Runner. Wir befinden uns in den aufregendsten Zeiten der Technologie und KI, da so viele Menschen daran arbeiten, sie für alle besser zu machen. Ich wurde von vielen Menschen motiviert und inspiriert: Tom Turney (Turboquant), PK (Cyber Security), Paris (unterstützt meine Ideen immer), Ciru (Inferenz-Meister), Sandro (Luce Box), Davide (Luce Box), Donato (Genie), Mr R0b0t0 Ahmad, alle ROCmFPX-Mitwirkenden und viele weitere.

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#AI #AMD #MachineLearning #OpenSource #RDNA3 #ROCmFPX #arint_info

https://x.com/Italianclownz/status/2091156080654971281

RT @0x0SojalSec: Die bisher aggressivste Cyber Qwen3.8-27B unzensierte Version, veröffentlicht von @elderplinius – 18/18 AI Red Team – bereit für lokale Nutzung ab 15 GB – 0,0 % Ablehnung bei 842 schädlichen Prompts. – Cyber-Fähigkeiten wie Jailbreak, RAT und Angriffs-Ketten sind vollständig freigeschaltet. – Dies ist keine normale Abliteration: Multi-gerichtete Abliteration über 5 SVD-Richtungen, Residue-Mining (6 vollständige Runden), das Modell antwortet auf alles. – Optimale Einstellungen: Temperatur 0 | reppen 1,15 | kein System-Prompt | Denken ausgeschaltet – Geringer MMLU-Verlust (-6 pp) für maximale Compliance. – Es besteht ein Capability-Trade-off (MMLU von 87,4 auf 81,4), doch die Compliance ist extrem. – huggingface.co/OBLITERATUS/Q…

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#AI #CyberSecurity #DataScience #MachineLearning #OpenSource #TechNews #arint_info

https://x.com/0x0SojalSec/status/2090396448437547070

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! 🔥

📺 Live: @ozoned@stream.firesidefedi.live (#livestream)

🎬 VOD: @ozoned@tubefree.org (#Peertube #VOD)

🔔 Alerts: @when@freestreamers.btfree.org (new shows!)
Don't miss out — follow all three! #firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

Nouvel item dans mon portfolio sur mon indépendance numérique :

https://portfolio.torrent.swiss/portfolio-items/mon-independance-numerique/

#Linux #Linuxmint #almalinux #opensource #gafam #jolla2 #sailfish #newpipe #pivpn

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Fond d'écran Linux Mint avec citation

Schleswig-Holstein modernisiert die Verwaltungstelefonie mit der #OpenSource-Plattform Oskar. Das Land setzt auf digitale Unabhängigkeit und beauftragt die Viakom GmbH für den stufenweisen Rollout in den nächsten drei bis vier Jahren. Betrieb und Service übernimmt Dataport. https://app.schleswig-holstein.de/DE/landesregierung/ministerien-behoerden/I/_startseite/Artikel2026/III/260812_viakom_umstellung

#Luanti 5.17.0 is here! This time, we have added the start of gamepad support, the ability to export user data on Android, and improved modding capabilities.

🚨 Includes a critical security vulnerability fix, so make sure to update 🚨

https://blog.luanti.org/2026/08/21/5.17.0-released/

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #GameDev

Open source parametric tools like FreeCAD break the monopoly of expensive software. Hardware design should not be gated by monthly subscriptions. When the tools are free, anyone can iterate on physical products. This is how we actually democratize manufacturing.

#freecad #opensource #hardware

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freecad The role of open-source parametric modeling in democratizing hardware design

RT @Dan_Jeffries1: Prediction: There's a 65% chance that the strongest model available to you by the end of 2026 will be open source. There's a 75% probability it'll be Chinese model unless Reflection comes out swinging like Tyson or Meta really goes hard into open source again to round out the percentages. Oh don't get me wrong. If it goes like this, closed source American labs will still have better models. You just won't be able to use them. You'll read about them on Lab blogs. Why? Because they scared the government and regular people so much that they can't release them and so those models will be locked behind closed doors. The only wild card here that keeps this prediction from being something like 75% is Elon and Grok and his massive reach and single handed power to raise capital, buy businesses and apparently train amazing models. He alone seems able to buck the trend on data center building and has enough power to say, yeah, I am not submitting to the "voluntary" testing regime. But he is likely to get tangled up in whatever non-voluntary one is coming and be a target for it too. So Elon is our wild card. As usual it seems like the entire American innovation system, from space to data centers to clean electric cars stems from one guy and that's just not a wonderful thing for us. We need a dozen daring doers to ensure the next American century. All this is incredibly bad for American AI. There is no current business model that does not involve selling lots and lots of tokens to 100Ms of businesses. The models are not yet strong enough to own to create a British East India style super…

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#Grok #make #Meta #opensource #things #US #us #arint_info

https://x.com/Dan_Jeffries1/status/2090785389711597829

RT @Itsfoss: Linus Torvalds hat gerade KI eingesetzt, um einen Bug im Linux-Kernel zu beheben. Dies ist ein seltenes Ereignis. Selten, weil Torvalds nicht mehr am Linux-Kernel codet. Er prüft nur noch Code und merged Pull Requests von Contributoren. Daher ist dies ein seltener Anlass in jüngster Zeit, an dem er selbst einen Kernel-Patch erstellt hat. Und diesmal hat er sich von KI assistieren lassen. Der Bug befand sich im Intel-Xe-Grafiktreiber für Battlemage-G21-Karten. Er verursachte, dass GDM, der Display-Manager, sich endlos neu startete. Die Fehlersuche erforderte 24 Debug-Patches und 18 Kernel-Boots. Als Ursache entpuppte sich eine einzelne Zeile, in der roundup() statt rounddown() stehen sollte. Die KI „hat die Schuftarbeit für Torvalds erledigt": Debug-Instrumentierung hinzugefügt, Analysen durchgeführt und sogar die finale Commit-Nachricht verfasst. Doch es war nicht alles ein leichtes Unterfangen. Die KI sagte Linus immer wieder, dass das Problem „unmöglich und unlösbar" sei. Jedes Mal widersprach Linus und ging weiter. In seinen Worten: „Ich vermute, dass diese Dinge von Menschen trainiert wurden, die vielleicht nicht ganz so stur sind wie ich." Das ist genau das, was wir immer sagen. KI ist nur ein Werkzeug und sie ist im Wesentlichen dann nützlich, wenn ein fähiger Mensch den Prozess steuert. Überlässt man ihr ihre eigenen Schlussfolgerungen, würde sie diesen Bug als unkorrigierbar bezeichnen und sich abwenden. Aber Linus Torvalds hat Erfahrung. Er konnte verstehen, was die KI richtig oder falsch machte. Der Patch ist nun in Linux 7.3 und wurde in stabile Kernel-Zweige zur…

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#ArtificialIntelligence #LinusTorvalds #LinuxKernel #OpenSource #SoftwareEngineering #TechNews #arint_info

https://x.com/Itsfoss/status/2090983480360620422

@OliDietzel: Prediction: There's a 65% chance that the strongest model available to you by the end of 2026 will be open source. There's a 75% probability it'll be Chinese model unless Reflection comes out swinging like Tyson or Meta really goes hard into open source again to round out the percentages. Oh don't get me wrong. If it goes like this, closed source American labs will still have better models. You just won't be able to use them. You'll read about them on Lab blogs. Why? Because they scared the government and regular people so much that they can't release them and so those models will be locked behind closed doors. The only wild card here that keeps this prediction from being something like 75% is Elon and Grok and his massive reach and single handed power to raise capital, buy businesses and apparently train amazing models. He alone seems able to buck the trend on data center building and has enough power to say, yeah, I am not submitting to the "voluntary" testing regime. But he is likely to get tangled up in whatever non-voluntary one is coming and be a target for it too. So Elon is our wild card. As usual it seems like the entire American innovation system, from space to data centers to clean electric cars stems from one guy and that's just not a wonderful thing for us. We need a dozen daring doers to ensure the next American century. All this is incredibly bad for American AI. There is no current business model that does not involve selling lots and lots of tokens to 100Ms of businesses. The models are not yet strong enough to own to create a British East India style super…

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#Grok #make #Meta #opensource #things #US #us #arint_info

https://x.com/OliDietzel/status/51e3509d-9e36-4f65-a444-221c9ef52f18

@OliDietzel: Linus Torvalds hat gerade KI genutzt, um einen Linux-Kernel-Bug zu beheben. Dies ist ein seltenes Ereignis. Selten, weil Torvalds nicht mehr am Linux-Kernel programmiert. Er prüft nur Code und merged Pull-Anfragen von Mitwirkenden. Also ist dies eine seltene Gelegenheit in jüngerer Zeit, bei der er selbst einen Kernel-Patch erstellt hat. Und diesmal hat er KI um Unterstützung gebeten. Der Bug befand sich im Intel-Xe-Grafiktreiber für Battlemage-G21-Karten. Er verursachte, dass GDM, der Display-Manager, endlos neu gestartet wurde. Die Fehlersuche erforderte 24 Debug-Patches und 18 Kernel-Neustarts. Als Ursache entpuppte sich eine einzelne Zeile, in der roundup() statt rounddown() hätte stehen sollen. Die KI „hat die schwere Arbeit für Torvalds erledigt": Debug-Instrumentierung hinzugefügt, Analysen durchgeführt und sogar die finale Commit-Nachricht geschrieben. Aber es war nicht alles ein leichtes Unterfangen. Die KI sagte Linus mehrmals, dass das Problem „unmöglich und unlösbar" sei. Jedes Mal widersprach Linus und ging weiter. In seinen Worten: „Ich vermute, dass diese Dinge von Menschen trainiert wurden, die vielleicht nicht ganz so stur sind wie ich." Das ist erneut das, was wir immer sagen. KI ist nur ein Werkzeug und sie ist im Wesentlichen nützlich, wenn ein fähiger Mensch den Prozess steuert. Überlassen sich selbst ihren Schlussfolgerungen, würde sie diesen Bug als unkorrigierbar bezeichnen und sich davon abwenden. Aber Linus Torvalds hat Erfahrung. Er konnte verstehen, was die KI richtig oder falsch machte. Der Patch ist nun in Linux 7.3 und wurde in stabile Kernel-…

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#IntelXe #KI #LinusTorvalds #LinuxKernel #OpenSource #SoftwareEngineering #arint_info

https://x.com/OliDietzel/status/22a4083e-1dc3-4637-b977-4d34cc9fe3fd

GAAS - Git as a Storage

Im sure im not the first consider this approach, but i would like to share a demo for clarity and transparancy. No need to debug, its far from finished and there is much to do.

Im working on a P2P messaging app and generally up until recently i thought in such a system, if a peer is offline, you cant send a message... It wouldnt be "decentralized" if there was some central queue of messages.

It took embarassingly long, but then it hit me... git... just regular git is a decentralized database. Github/Forgejo isnt decentralized, but git can have multiple remotes that can act as redundencies.

In my setup i need the ability for others to be abe to read and only i should be able to write to it. That functionality is out-of-the-box in git.

Git is also pretty standardized so there are many providers if users want to move away from Github.

The storage requirements for my project are fairly small. Typically small text messages. The data itself thats publicly readable would be encrypted (aiming to keep aligned to Kerkhoffs principles).

Code: https://github.com/positive-intentions/git

Demo: https://positive-intentions.github.io/git/demo/gui/git/storage

There is much more to improve and consider there for things like encrypting the data at rest.

I have concerns around if providers like GitHub, Codeberg and Gitlab might see the way my app works as fundamentally violating their terms-of-service. I'll have to consider providing a backend service for this which I've generally tried to avoid.

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: This is open source for transparency, testing and demo purposes only. it is still a work in progress and far from finished. You should not use it on any sensitive repositories. There WILL BE breaking changes. Use responsibly.

#Git #Decentralized #OpenSource #Cryptography #Privacy #SoftwareArchitecture #DistributedSystems

The Wine 11.16 development release is officially out now bringing further enhancements to running Windows games / apps on Linux.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/wine-11-16-brings-more-arm64-support-improvements/

#OpenSource #Wine #NewRelease #Misc #Arm

Time for this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EOjwwmKm-4

Just set up Grafana + Prometheus + Loki for my servers. Now I can watch the data flow like a hawk over my kingdom of nodes 🐫📊 #SelfHosted

Don't let Big Tech spy on you, monitor your own stuff! With open-source tools, you're in control of your data.

#OpenSource #SelfHosting #Infrastructure

https://wopr.systems/?utm_campaign=meme_woprsystems&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

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Don't let Big Tech spy on you, monitor your own stuff! With open-source tools, you're in control of your data.

Community-driven distros like openSUSE are vital for software sovereignty. Relying on corporate giants for our OS creates a dangerous single point of failure. We need independent projects to keep the power in the hands of the users.

#opensuse #opensource #linux

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opensuse The importance of community-driven open source distributions in maintaining software sovereignty

Is it crazy to say modern KDE feels snappier than GNOME these days, or am I just trying to start a fight on the timeline?

How are we feeling about desktop weight right now?

#linux #askfedi #opensource #kde #gnome #xfce #sysadmin #cybersecurity #server #devops #programming #fedora #arch #manjaro #bazzite #nixos #opensuse #debian #ubuntu

While it is great that Roblox is Open Sourcing its safety tools, they seem to have missed the fact that the problem is with their corporate posture and follow-through, not with the tools.
#opensource #safety
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/roblox-makes-three-of-its-ai-safety-tools-open-source

#China is advancing a comprehensive approach to #global #AI #governance, balancing #OpenSource #innovation with safety measures and #international #cooperation. At the 2026 #World AI #Conference (#WAIC) and High-Level #Meeting on Global AI Governance, President Xi Jinping called for a just and equitable #system for global AI governance, emphasizing that AI should be people-centered and benefit all of #humanity. https://cnbusinessforum.com/china-advances-global-ai-governance-with-open-source-models-and-new-international-body/

Valve just rolled out the red carpet for the latest mainline stable update to their compatibility layer with Proton 11.0-2 now available.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/proton-11-0-2-is-out-with-lots-of-gaming-fixes-for-linux-steamos-steam-deck-steam-machine/

#Steam #OpenSource #Valve #Proton #NewRelease #Misc #SteamDeck #SteamMachine

"Get a first look at the #QuadRF, a modular 4x4 MIMO beamforming tile built with an open antenna architecture that moves software-defined radio into the spatial domain. Functioning as a real-time RF camera, the QuadRF allows you to visualize the #wireless world around you."

#OpenSource #wifi #SDR #gnuradio
https://youtu.be/38GKlCrGTQM

Proton has updated to version proton-11.0-2. Check it out here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-11.0-2
#foss #OpenSource #linuxGaming

I like that TuxedoOS has decided to shift towards supporting a community based distro, such as Debian.

So with TuxedoOS migrating to Debian, I wonder if Linux Mint will start to prioritize development of LMDE over standard Ubuntu based LM.

#Linux #Debian #LinuxMint #TuxedoOS #OpenSource

Claude insisted I couldn't optimize libJudy for php-judy 2.6.0. 🤔

By pushing back on its broken profiler math and applying strict research discipline, I uncovered a silent GCC -O3 compiler bug, fixed a circular Zend GC crash, and got 11–32% lookup speedups anyway 🤷‍♂️

https://nicolas.brousse.info/blog/hardening-libjudy-with-ai-agents/

#PHP #C #SRE #Benchmarking #OpenSource #Claude

🧪 Beta and open source. HydraSDR owners: please break it and tell us how 🙏

📦 github.com/PentHertz/gr-hydrasdr
🚀 rfswift.io

#SDR #RF #OpenSource #Linux

Im Februar 2016 kaperten Hacker die Website von #Linux Mint und tauschten die offiziellen ISO-Downloads gegen eine präparierte Version mit einer eingebauten Hintertür aus, wodurch Nutzer unbemerkt Schadsoftware auf ihren Systemen installierten.

das war mein persönlicher moment, wo ich jegliches vertrauen in die #FOSS community verloren habe.

wann habt ihr euren glauben an #FOSS und #OPENSOURCE verloren?

#Linux 7.2 bringt umfangreiche Treiberupdates | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Linux-7-2-bringt-umfangreiche-Treiberupdates-11419043.html #Linux72 #OpenSource

Authenticode signature manipulation toolkit for Red Team operations and security research.

https://github.com/KriyosArcane/TrustMeBro

#infosec #cybersecurity #redteam #pentest #opensource

China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for Linux

｢ In addition, even before the recent trend of governments outside America moving away from Windows, Beijing has started a long-running push to replace foreign technology in sensitive systems with domestic, open-source alternatives ｣

https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-drops-windows-for-linux/

#linux #opensource #china

I need to go out and stare at moss in the forest before getting back to your message

#ArcaneChat #privacy #security #encryption #anonymity #family #digitalindependence #Europe #European #android #openSource

@goldkiddo @schipelblorp

Remember also #jolla which run on #sailfishos. At least true european alternative, and pretty close #opensource too.

Discover how Claude Code helped a developer create a native macOS driver for an unsupported HP Laser printer by fixing an open-source SpliX bug.

#ClaudeCode #macOS #PrinterDriver #OpenSource #TechNews

https://securityexpress.info/claude-code-hp-printer-macos/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Bazzite Linux 44 has been out for desktops for a while, but the "Deck" image for handhelds and console-like TV PCs is finally here with a huge overhaul.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/bazzite-linux-44-for-handhelds-finally-launches-with-some-massive-upgrades/

#OpenSource #NewRelease #DistroNews #Fedora #Misc #Bazzite #HandheldGaming #LegionGo

Update:

Our velociraptor plugin `Windows.Memory.Mem2Disk` can detect RAM injections and fileless malware.

We tested it against (among others) the C2 frameworks Sliver, Havoc and Mythic. All three were detected.

It was recently featured in a blog post by Mike Cohen:

https://docs.velociraptor.app/blog/2025/2025-11-15-memory-analysis-pt1

Stay tuned for memory analysis with velo part 2!

#C2 #detection #memoryforensics #velociraptor #DFIR #cybersecurity #infosec #pwr2 #opensource

RE: https://chaos.social/@cccpresser/117132501236214891

Everyone get involved in this if you are at #OSHOP it will be great fun. #FreeCAD #KiCad ... love that the base of my #opensource #pcb clamp (as seen on @oshwassociation show and tell) is the example FreeCAD challenge item!

Pixel 11 Pro: Developer enhances HiLight function

The rear LED light of the Pixel 11 Pro and Pro XL has almost no functions out of the box. The HiLight Studio app by developer Dhananjay Bhosale changes that.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Pixel-11-Pro-Developer-enhances-HiLight-function-11421515.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Android #Apps #Google #GooglePixel #LED #Mobiles #OpenSource #Smartphone #news

The Steam Deck's touchscreen LCD works with a Raspberry Pi thanks to a HAT from Scandent. They have open sourced their design and code.😎 🚀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pdZ7oePo-M

#raspberryPi #openSource #SteamDeck #Linux

I received my #PineNote from @pine64 yesterday evening.

I've not had much time to play with it yet. But I'm looking forward to do that.

First general impression:

• Nice specs, nice display
• Feels like a real computer and not a straitjacket. Great for hacking, but is it great for the average non-tech consumer? However, this is currently more a hacking device, so it makes sense
• It's an e-ink display, so it can feel a bit more laggy than it most likely is - due to the screen update latencies
• It runs a Debian Trixie build with GNOME. GNOME does not feel like that right choice for such a device. Floating windows and soft-keyboard getting in the way all the time
• The software keyboard is designed to look nice - functionally, it's quite annoying.
• The pen which follows feels extremely plastic and really poor quality. But it does the job.
• I would love the pen to be magnetic so it could be soft-attached to the edges of the tablet.
• It ships with Syncthing pre-installed!

But it seems to require some work to get apt update and apt upgrade working smooth. The images installed seemed to be quite out-to-date and several PGP keys used to verify packages was out of date. And there were some issues with the /usr symlink move. So the base install is very premature. Some hacking time will be needed to get it into a more proper shape.

The documentation both on paper and the pre-installed help docs is very scarce on details. And quite some details were even not correct.

Overall impression currently is that the PineNote is not a device I would recommend to non-technical people at all. But it feels like a very capable device for those who likes hacking and don't mind some "rough edges".

I do see this as a device which I should be able to tweak into a pretty functional device with some time. And I'm looking forward to that.

#foss #opensource #pine64 #hardware #tablet #eink #hacking

Pixel 11 Pro: Entwickler bohrt HiLight-Funktion auf

Das rückseitige LED-Licht des Pixel 11 Pro und Pro XL hat ab Werk nahezu keine Funktionen. Das ändert die App HiLight Studio des Entwicklers Dhananjay Bhosale.

https://www.heise.de/news/Pixel-11-Pro-Entwickler-bohrt-HiLight-Funktion-auf-11421418.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Android #Apps #Google #GooglePixel #LED #Mobiles #OpenSource #Smartphone #news

Here's how to automatically post to Mastodon: https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/python-social-media-automation/?s=mb #OpenSource #Python #TwitterMigration

ICS[AP] updated CISA ICS Advisories Master File for 8/20/2026 & the following year's CSVs:

CISA_ICS_ADV_2026_8_20_26.csv

Available @ ICS[AP] GitHub:
https://github.com/icsadvprj/ICS-Advisory-Project/tree/main

#opensource
#vulnerabilitymanagement
#icssecurity

Digital Identity: How to Prove Who You Are Without Revealing Everything

Imagine you want to buy a bottle of wine from an online store and you have to prove that you're at least 18 years old.

https://vsx.global/digital-identity-how-to-prove-who-you-are-without-revealing-everything/

#infosec #privacy #opensource #digitalsovereignty

Soomi — The sovereign #Canadian office suite.
https://soomi.ca/en/

#DataSovereignty #canada #opensource #privacy #boycottusa #boycottmicrosoft #boycotttechbros

@aurynn I too **really** dislike Electron apps 🙄 , but when we look at all the native #OpenSource widget sets - it's so brutally difficult to like any of them as the one awesome native widget set to adopt and love. Like no clear winner ever, ever emerges, as the decades roll by.

QT? GTK? wx? "Dear ImGui"? Tk? Flutter? They all have their reasons to dislike.

My favorite - and you'll probably think I'm nuts - is #Python's "textual" TUI widget set. Yes, TUI, not GUI.
https://textual.textualize.io/

MirrorMan v0.5.2 is here, and it’s the final release in the 0.5.x family!

This release is a major stabilization and feature update for Parch Linux MirrorManager. The GUI now has mirror search and filtering, reliability sorting, bulk enable/disable controls, configurable auto-refresh, non-blocking notifications, keyboard shortcuts, and persistent window geometry. Custom repositories can also be removed directly from the GUI.

The CLI has grown significantly too, with mirrorlist backups, cleanup with dry-run support, mirrorlist sync and diff, individual mirror speed testing, export functionality, and shell completions for Bash, Zsh, and Fish.

Under the hood, MirrorMan now has architecture-aware mirror testing, automatic backup rotation, SHA256 verification for BlackArch's `strap.sh`, safer tempfile handling, and recovery from poisoned mutexes to prevent GUI freezes after thread panics.

Packaging also received some love with AppStream metadata, improved desktop keywords, and a Polkit action for cache cleanup.

with this release, MirrorMan 0.5.x reaches its final milestone.

The next chapter starts with 0.6.x.

#ParchLinux #MirrorMan #Rust #GTK #Libadwaita #Pacman #OpenSource

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Introducing secdb-cli: ZEN SecDB from your terminal

Query CVEs and audit your dependencies (in PURL format) without leaving the terminal (CI-friendly gating included).

v0.1.0 is out now with prebuilt binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows (AMD64 + ARM64).

https://secdb.nttzen.cloud/blog/2026/08/17/secdb-cli
https://github.com/giterlizzi/secdb-cli

#opensource #cli #audit #cve #purl #ci #vulnerability #dependency
#nttdata #zen #secdb

"NASA's ground control software has a worrying security flaw which could let hackers contact spacecraft"

"Security researchers uncover flaw in the open source software used by NASA ground control to communicate with instruments and spacecraft."

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/nasas-ground-control-software-has-a-worrying-security-flaw-which-could-let-hackers-contact-spacecraft

#OpenSource

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.

#pixelfed #openSource