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What the WW2 secret agent who rescued my grandpa can teach us about protecting democracy:
Office of Strategic Services operative Peter Ortiz rescued a downed American pilot named 2nd Lt. Murray Simon. Simon's granddaughter, Katie Sanders, has published a book on Ortiz titled “Ortiz’s War: he Allies’ Secret Weapon Against the Nazis in France.”
https://www.wearethemighty.com/opinion/oss-peter-ortiz-how-democracy-is-protected/
Lord help me, I'm considering hosting my own email again.
(Stalwart just hit 1.0 finally, and it's fantastic.)
#email #linux #opensource #OSS #FLOSS #FOSS #rust
https://github.com/stalwartlabs/stalwart/releases#release-v1.0.1
I can hear the bubbles popping. The U.S. has lost the AI race.
The world and the U.S. are watching the development of AI tools with great concern and an almost obsessive fixation. Yet the prevailing perspective is a Western-centric, utterly narrow view of the matter. As a result—much like in many other
https://word.undead-network.de/2026/10/31/i-can-hear-the-bubbles-popping-the-u-s-has-lost-the-ai-race/
#ai #bubble #capitalism #china #FOSS #opensource #oss #popping #race #robotics #us
Hey followers! I’m currently part-time contracting at the wonderful https://convocation.design/ where I get to work on internet freedom and privacy/security projects but I’m also looking for other projects to fill me days that I’m not working for Convocation.
If y’all have projects where you need a designer who has worked on complex UI systems, typically for skill-proficient people, and want more usable and accessible to non-proficient users then I’m your designer/researcher!
Check out more of my work on my updated website https://erioldoesdesign.github.io/
I’ve worked primarily on privacy, security, civic tech, open science, open source software tools and the digital rights space for over 8 years and I’ve worked on commercial/proprietary tech for another 6 years, totally over 15 years of designing for people across technology. I’m a detailed user researcher and typically employ a ‘just enough’ research approach to make meaningful changes to user bases of tools.
#fedihired #lookingforwork #hireme #butnojobscammers #oss #design #opendesign #opensourcedesign
#fedihired #lookingforwork #hireme #butnojobscammers #oss #design #opendesign #opensourcedesign
Does something like AI even exist?
The AI debate has become overheated and is taking on ridiculous tones. As is always the case with such debates, there are only black-and-white perspectives—and all within a specific framework that narrows the scope and prevents meaningful thinking on the subject. It seems silly.
If you listen closely to Liang Wenfeng, the founder of #Deepseek, you’ll hear that Liang sees himself as a 100% part of the international #opensource #community and, with Deepseek, simply wants to continue what was already started with #free #software. It’s about the democratization of #knowledge. According to his philosophy, AIs are neither a new tool nor a product that can or should be sold, but rather naturally emerging synergies that arise from connecting the knowledge of the people who use the internet.
So the problem isn’t this interconnection in and of itself, but—once again—the privatization of the commons by #thieves and #charlatans from #Silicon Valley or wherever. It makes a lot of sense to use this, and it makes a lot of sense to oppose the commodification of this knowledge. #Liang has given back to the community what #OpenAI wanted to steal! Thank you for that. #AI #OSS #FOSS #llm
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LLMs have changed how software is developed - read about how we’re handling that change in the ZAP project:
https://www.zaproxy.org/blog/2026-10-13-developing-zap-in-the-llm-age/
#zaproxy #oss #llm
I'm really glad to see that our Iranian #friends are back and were able to hold #Software #Freedom Day in Shiraz in 2026 as well. In the end, they can't do anything to us if we just stand together. #iran #foss #floss #oss #opensource
https://mastodon.social/@Shirazlinux@mastodon.social
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📸 عکس دسته‌جمعی روز آزادی نرم‌افزار ۲۰۲۶ شیراز 🌱
این عکس توی سالن دوم گرفته شده؛ جایی که به‌خاطر پر شدن ظرفیت سالن اول، بخشی از برنامه‌ها و جمعمون اونجا برگزار می‌شد 🙌
البته چند نفر از دوستان قبل از اینکه عکس گرفته بشه رفته بودن و توی این عکس نیستن؛ وگرنه جمعمون حتی از اینم شلوغ‌تر بود 😄
دم همه‌تون گرم که کنارمون بودید و این روز رو ساختید
Someone asked about replacing their (somewhat) boosted Discord server with something that could be self-hosted, without losing audio quality for "group calls" (6-8 ppl).
I said Mumble, hands down. But then I realized I hadn't looked at the project for a while, nor its smartphone apps (and forks thereof).
Anyone care to comment? 🤔
Ich spiele im Moment mit dem Gedanken meinen Passwort Safe zu wechseln. Ich nutze schon lange Passwd Safe. Ursprünglich entwickelt von Bruce Schneier, dass Arbeit ich sehr schätze. Er wird nicht umsonst auch als Cryptopapst bezeichnet.
Allerdings ist die Software etwas in die Jahre gekommen und die Oberfläche inzwischen altbacken.
Ich tendiere zu KeyPass. Das hat sogar etwas bessere Mechanismen gegen Brute Force Angriffe und nutzt wie passwd safe auch AES256.
The problem of fascists in Open Source Software projects has become so bad that some vim users are considering using emacs.
I’ve been working on this one for a few weeks. Let me know what you think!
https://ryancheley.com/2026/08/17/what-if-maintainer-burnout-isn-t-burnout/
GitHub Actions needs OIDC audience constraints
https://blog.yossarian.net/2026/08/10/github-actions-needs-oidc-audience-constraints
🔇 User Frustrations Over The "Tragic State of FreeBSD Audio/Sound" Support - Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Tragic-FreeBSD-Audio-Support
"But these random 'boozing' sounds are just unacceptable ... and I can not even tell where they came from ... is it OSS problem? Is is PulseAudio problem? Something in between? Because there is NOTHING in the logs for audio."
RE: https://slothrop.org/2026/07/20/what-software-freedom-means-today/
Please join me as I casually set fire to some venerable beliefs about software freedom.
Here's my talk from last weekend as a blog post.
New article, although this one is a controversial one based on the situation of GNOME Calendar and Linux Mint. I present to you: How far would hostile distributions go to hurt application developers?
https://tesk.page/2026/07/18/how-far-would-hostile-distributions-go-to-hurt-upstream/
Vor einem Jahr habe ich mich, nach 40 Jahren, auf allen Geräten unwiderruflich von #Windows und #Office verabschiedet. Es GIBT ein Leben nach #Microsoft.
"Proprietary" means having owner(s). If the maintainers are the only ones allowed to introduce changes, they are establishing an ownership relationship over the codebase. I.e., it's a proprietary project, and that is the sense in which it's closed.
This is the destiny of most projects that go AI, in my opinion.
- https://exquisite.social/users/thomholwerda/statuses/116697078838020135
- https://ladybird.org/posts/changing-how-we-develop-ladybird/
What appears as critique – yearning for smaller, weirder, more human spaces – often functions as brand repair. Netstalgia becomes a strategy: it restores trust without redistributing power, softens anger without changing infrastructures and reframes structural problems as matters of vibe, design or community feeling."Am I working on change, or am I working on brand repair?" is an important question to ask oneself regularly, it seems to me. It's especially relevant for the tech sector, open source, and computer science.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #tech #dev #software #OSS #FOSS #ComputerScience
#FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #software #tech #dev #SoftwareLicensing
"Politics" isn't only about institutions. It's about organizing large numbers of people to do something they wouldn't otherwise do. Corporations organize large numbers of people to do things they probably wouldn't do if they weren't paid and/or didn't need the money to live. 10,000 people wouldn't spontaneously get together and spend the best hours of their days for months building a commercial jet airliner if there weren't corporate structures in place and a society that keeps them close enough to deprivation that they will do this in exchange for money.
#FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #software #OpenSourceSoftware #tech #dev #SoftwareDevelopment #politics #economics #corporations