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@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · 9h ago
“For too long, the UK has been content to be a digital colony of Silicon Valley. We are ceding both economic value and strategic autonomy because we lack a coherent plan to stand on our own two feet.” 🗣️ Victoria Collins MP on the cross-party warning over the UK's dependence on US tech. They call for the risks to be disclosed and recognised in the National Risk Register. Read more ⬇️ https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-british-lawmakers-demand-transparency-over-us-tech-dependence/ #DigitalSovereignty #opensource #tech #bigtech #ukpolitics #ukpol
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@amadeus@mstdn.social · 11h ago
Have any of you #linuxaudio enthusiats heard of Jun Murakami App Factory? They offer a bunch of interesting #opensource #plugins, see https://jun-murakami.web.app/ 😊
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@libreoffice@fosstodon.org · 6h ago
#LibreOffice is available in over 120 languages – but for some, our community needs help, such as with Swahili: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/27/help-us-to-improve-libreoffices-swahili-translation/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
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@9to5linux@floss.social · 18h ago
Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.6 Is Out Now with Support for #Fedora 44, #Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, and #Mageia 10 https://9to5linux.com/trinity-desktop-environment-r14-1-6-adds-support-for-fedora-44-ubuntu-26-04-lts #KDE #Linux #OpenSource #TDE
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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · 1d ago
The scheduling service Cal has shut down its #opensource program because it views it as a security risk now that LLMs are much more capable and can be deployed to scan the code base 24/7 https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-security-worries-force-company-to-abandon-open-source/ #linux #freebsd
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@chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net · 1d ago
@annabonnie@mastodon.social gave a good talk about getting children engaged with #OpenSource software with a project to build things for older kids, and an illustrated story for younger ones. The #Gouvernent #Français took the content and made audiobooks, a film and games to play!
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@9to5linux@floss.social · 1d ago
#BleachBit 6.0 Open-Source System Cleaner Introduces New Cookie Manager, Improves Browser Cleaning https://9to5linux.com/bleachbit-6-0-introduces-new-cookie-manager-improves-browser-cleaning #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux
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@codewizard@hear-me.social · 2d ago
@FediFollows@social.growyourown.services you ought to include the contacts of #opensource champions like the #developers of #linux #distros like #mxlinux #linuxMint #debian #archlinux, #developers of some prime #mastodon instances, #piefed instances, #codeberg , #github and email services like #mailo and #proton. That way, we would be able to reach out to them through #socialmedia whenever we need their support. This informal channel is oftentimes better than your regular email.
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@newsgroup@social.vir.group · 2d ago
Google has announced plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, the developer of Claude AI. The previous record was $13 billion from Microsoft into OpenAI. Amazon had already given Anthropic $4 billion. Three tech giants are now financially tied to the three leaders of the frontier AI race. Independent players at this level have effectively disappeared. Computing power is controlled by the same cloud providers. Training data flows from platforms owned by the same corporations. Talent is recruited by whoever has the deepest pockets. This is not competition. This is structural monopoly. Anthropic markets itself as a safety-first AI lab with Constitutional AI. The question remains: who writes the constitution? A private company now dependent on Google and Amazon. Corporate oversight of "safe AI" is not neutral academic process. It is the definition of allowable knowledge through the lens of business interests. When you talk to Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini, your conversations are stored on corporate servers. Official reason: improving models. Default setting: data collection. You can opt out if you find the buried setting. Most users never will. The alternative is not utopian. Open models like Meta LLaMA 4 and Mistral AI can run locally on your own hardware. Ollama and LM Studio provide one-command installation. Local AI means no data collection. No corporate control. No surveillance. Frontier models are more capable. But for most daily tasks, open models are sufficient. The question is not technical. It is structural. And the window for keeping AI as a public good rather than a corporate asset is closing. https://newsgroup.site/google-40-billion-anthropic-ai-monopoly-open-source/ #AI #Monopoly #Google #Anthropic #OpenAI #Microsoft #Amazon #OpenSource #Privacy #LocalAI
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@wood5y@mastodonapp.uk · 2d ago
#Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon released. #Linux #opensource https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/24/ubuntu_resolute_raccoon/
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@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net · 2d ago
#OpenAI releases #PrivacyFilter — an open-weight #AI model for detecting & redacting #PII in text. Runs fully locally, no data ever leaves your machine. Apache 2.0 licensed. #opensource 🧵👇#privacy 🔍 Detects 8 PII categories in a single forward pass: names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, URLs, dates, account numbers & secrets (passwords, API keys) — covering virtually all common sensitive data types
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@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · 3d ago
The UK isn’t a vassal state of America. Yet Trump wants to punish us over a digital services tax. This can be resolved by ditching US Big Tech from our digital infrastructure. We should invest in open source to promote economic growth through greater innovation and a more competitive tech sector. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/trump-tariff-uk-digital-services-tax-warning #digitalsovereignty #trump #digitalservices #tech #bigtech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol #tarrif
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@thunderbird@mastodon.online · 3d ago
Our latest Mobile Progress Report is now live on the blog! Notifications on Android? Progress on iOS? 📱 Get the full scoop: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/04/mobile-progress-report-april-2026/ #Thunderbird #Android #iOS #OpenSource
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@FreeBSDFoundation@mastodon.social · 4d ago
How the Foundation’s Laptop Support & Usability Project Came Together In this article from the Q1 2026 FreeBSD Journal, Deb Goodkin, Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation, explains how the Foundation turned recurring community feedback about FreeBSD on laptops into a structured, funded initiative with long-term impact. Read more: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/laptop-desktop/how-the-foundations-laptop-support-usability-project-came-together/ #FreeBSD #OpenSource #Usability #LaptopSupport
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@itsfoss@mastodon.social · 4d ago
People from Colorado could be exempted from age verification if they use Linux. https://itsfoss.com/news/colorado-age-attestation-bill-open-source-exemption/ #linux #opensource #ageverfication
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@jbz@indieweb.social · 4d ago
🐧 WSL9x Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux. ｢ WSL9x runs a modern Linux kernel (6.19 at time of writing) cooperatively inside the Windows 9x kernel, enabling users to take advantage of the full suite of capabilities of both operating systems at the same time, including paging, memory protection, and pre-emptive scheduling. Run all your favourite applications side by side - no rebooting required! ｣ https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x #wsl9x #linux #win9x #opensource
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@jbz@indieweb.social · 4d ago
🐧 Ubuntu Looks Toward More Snap-Based Devpacks Moving Forward ｢ Ubuntu Devpacks have come about over the past year as Snaps that bundle framework-specific tools with curated defaults all into a convenient stack built around Ubuntu's Snap format. Ubuntu Devpacks began for Java/Spring, .NET, Golang, and more while moving ahead Canonical is looking at expanding the scope. ｣ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-More-Devpacks-Future #snap #snaps #ubuntu #opensource
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@jbz@indieweb.social · 4d ago
⛽ They will force you, open source maintainers, to drink the gasoline ｢ The quality matters but the size of the wave will drown you and I think projects will have to adopt AI themselves to stay above water. ｣ https://www.notcheckmark.com/2026/04/you-will-drink-the-gasoline/ #opensource #vibecoding #cybersecurity
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@jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu · 4d ago

open-source-code zum verkauf verwursten

obviously some "business people" try to steal open source code and try to take possession of it in a "legal" way: by running it through ai and "recreating" it without all the opensource stuff like GPL and such attached. so they think they can sell it, license it however they want without this GPL commons impediment. as @@pluralistic@mamot.fr puts it in this article: This is the risk that Nolan and his partner are trying to awaken the free/open source community to: that our commons is about to be raided by selfish monsters who serve as gut-flora for the immortal colony organisms we call "limited liability corporations," who will steal everything we've built and destroy the social contract we live by. gut flora and immortal colony organisms ... i seriously doubt that any german politician would ever understand this meaning ... :-) @@pluralistic@mamot.fr even shows a way out, one that the colony organisms most probably didn't think of:  no copyright for ai generated stuff, neither books, nor pictures, nor music nor code. the principle that copyright is strictly reserved for human creativity isn't remotely controversial in legal circles. This is just how copyright works. Which means that the "be evil" version of Malus's business model has a fatal flaw. While the code that Malus produces is indeed "legally distinct" with "no attribution" and "no copyleft," it's not true that there are "no problems." That's because Malus's code doesn't have "corporate-friendly licensing." Far from it: Malus's code has no licensing, because it is born in the public domain and cannot be copyrighted. this means: If you give me code that Malus produced, you can't stop me from doing anything I want with it. I can sell it. I can give it away. I can make a competing product that reproduces all of your code and sell it at a 99% discount. let just hope doctorow is right with his assessment. #computer #OpenSource #GPL #raub #diebstahl #software #programme #Lizenz RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116454017121705714
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@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · 4d ago
Did Palantir say the quiet bit out loud? Maybe not when clue's in the name that they're the bad guys trying to spy on everyone. But still, erm, bold to set out their sinister megalomania in a 22-point manifesto. They make the case for ditching Big Tech in favour of UK Digital Sovereignty for us tbh. https://cybernews.com/editorial/palantir-manifesto-britain-tech-dependence/ #palantir #DigitalSovereignty #opensource #bigtech #tech #ukpolitics #ukpol
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