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@marcdinkum @unfa this will of course propagate to more than just lower-level things, I just mention the stuff that caught my attention.
I imagine at some point it will be impossible to have a working system without some LLM gen code on it.
@marcdinkum @unfa the kernel is for sure full of LLM gen patches lately, just check the kernel mailing lists or maybe LWN?
heck even phoronix has mentioned that quite a few times, kernel devs being overwhelmed by the amount of stuff sprung by LLMs - for example https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Networking
Some "random" libraries started accepting LLM stuff quite liberally.
My preferred go-to json as example https://github.com/nlohmann/json/
Or hidapi for dealing with HID devices https://github.com/libusb/hidapi
@unfa at this point if we want to avoid any LLM gen based code/software we need to think about leaving Linux too. The last few releases have a whole big pile of LLM related things in there.
HaikuOS looks more and more appealing by the day... they consistently say no to LLM stuff
The folks at work went all-in for big production work for announcing a software update for the Anagram 🎸
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lupuyXsyAm8
Looks much better than even I was expecting, and it is all about a single software update really.
Basically a monophonic synth, being driven by a bass guitar. Several months of work.
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Dear #MusicProduction lovers!
As you may know already, #FOSDEM opened their call for devrooms. Of course, after the success of last year, I'd love to have our devroom again, but there's a problem... I won't be at FOSDEM this year for family reason, and @marquisdegeek may not either 😥
Is there anyone willing to take the baton this year and help organize it, especially in Brussels on the day? I can take care of everything, except the actual day there.
Please let me know, boosts welcome! 🙏
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"One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works.
It's called #MarginaliaSearch.
It runs its own #crawler and builds its own #index instead of borrowing Bing's. It has no ads, no investors, and no loans.
What it does differently: it ranks for text-heavy, non-commercial pages. Personal blogs. Old university pages.
The weird corners SEO strangled. Every result tells you whether the page uses affiliate links and JavaScript, and you can filter them out.
There's an "explore" mode that just shows you random sites from the index. It's open source under AGPL, so you can host your own copy.
It's keyword-based, so don't type a full question at it. Type two nouns and see where you land. Every #searchengine now shows you the same twelve #monetizedpages."
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I don’t have a smartphone…
…or, at least, I wish I didn’t.
@PaulDavisTheFirst yes, that is the wayland embed through a nested compositor solution.
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My #talk from this year's #FrOSCon is online now:
https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2026-3598-canvassing_for_the_commons
You can find the slides over here:
https://pkgbuild.com/~dvzrv/presentations/froscon2026/
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The Prototype Fund is growing!
With “Resilience,” we’re now funding not only data security and software infrastructure but also alternatives to tech giants and their centralized ecosystems.
Under “Up and Coming,” we aim to specifically support people who are new(ish) to the #FOSS world.
In total, this means up to 19 million euros in additional funding for software developed by the civil society! 🎉
More information on our blog:
➡️ https://www.prototypefund.de/en/blog/ptf-3-0
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Hey, everybody? I get that it's frustrating when Codeberg is down. But please remember that it's a community project, and that the expectation of "everything is up 100% of the time" was created by exactly those tech companies that were killing off communities for the past 20 years. 100% uptime was never true before Facebook/Google/etc. came around, not even close.
And it's even more difficult to keep things up nowadays; there is *so much more* malicious traffic coming from the internet now than back then, especially since the rise of LLM scrapers.
So if you want Codeberg to be down less often, might I suggest reaching out to them about volunteering instead? Not right now, because they're probably pretty busy getting things back up, but once things have been stabilized a bit. Then you yourself can help improve the uptime!
#Codeberg
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Is AI Profitable Yet?, https://isaiprofitable.com/.
No.
It doesn’t count neither the environmental, nor the social impacts.
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The Software Freedom Conservancy's LLM-backed generative AI recommendations
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Anubis has a pretty solid business strategy:
1) Release open source software for free
2) Add catgirl branding
3) Charge companies to remove catgirl branding
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Stenberg: curl summer of bliss
@Inqb8tr its on hold for the moment as I am busy with Darkglass work + new opensource project with @trummerschlunk (this last one got proper funding, so I couldn't say no)
That means all my time - job/work and "free" time - is now taken.
As there is no one to pass MOD Desktop development to, it is at least temporarily halted until either I do some stuff for MOD again, or there is someone else able to do it.
Personal anecdote, but I am pretty certain most of the recent CI build failures I have seen in the past few weeks in projects of mine have been due to some breakage in GitHub.
It is more than 50% chance, to the point where I don't really care much about failures. It usually means I need to re-run/retry the build at some later point.
If not GitHub, also often it's something being offline or throwing server errors.
Maybe around 5-10% are real issues.
