What happens when you leave port 22 (ssh) open on the Internet for 54 days. Stories from a honeypot https://arman-bd.hashnode.dev/i-left-port-22-open-on-the-internet-for-54-days-here-s-who-showed-up
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Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
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TIL @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu is trialing #Matrix protocol as a sovereign backup to Microsoft Teams
https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-trials-european-open-source-communications-software/
#Debian deciding on the
ban of LLM contributions (only from Debian developers, not upstream projects)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/07/msg00000.html Interesting discussion #AI #FreeSoftware
German Federal Government spending on Microsoft *licenses*: 481.4 million euros (2025), 347.7 million (2024), 274.1 million (2023)
How much #freeSoftware development could be funded with that money? Now, scale up to all public administrations in Germany. Now, scale up to #EU (and you could go on scaling up).
Does the current situation make sense from a purely economic point of view? #publicMoneyPublicCode
Trying vocalinux for speech to text in my Debian-testing box. Works like a charm. Just type CTRL twice, speak, CTRL twice again, and text is produced.
Works with all applications. Recognizes Spanish and English without apparent problems. Everything running on my laptop, no external model used. Works on CPU.
For me, this is going to be a game changer.
https://vocalinux.com/
https://github.com/jatinkrmalik/vocalinux
The family of #freeSoftware software suites for EU public administrations is growing:
* OpenDesk (DE): https://www.opendesk.eu
* LaSuite (FR): https://github.com/suitenumerique
* Mijn Bureau (NL): https://minbzk.github.io/mijn-bureau/
This reminds me of the situation in Spain 20 years ago: the blossoming of Linux-based distros (Linex, MAX, Guadalinex, Lliurex, and many others) promoted by regional public administrations, that we're discussing in the #LaEraDeLasDistros podcast (in Spanish) https://laeradelasdistros.es/
Mozilla’s ‘State of Open Source AI’
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-state-of-open-source-ai-report/
"Flipper One — we need your help" describes a really impressive device, based on #openhardware and #freesoftware useful for all kinds of hacks, from a TV stick to a 5G or SDN monitor (and many, many other things)
The USA Supreme Court: Federal agencies are no longer independent
Max Schrems: “Even in the European Commission's logic, the basis for any EU-US data transfer deal is dead. We call upon the Commission to start an orderly exit from the US cloud – which is not easy, but unfortunately unavoidable. The Commission built a legal house of cards under industry pressure. Now that it clearly collapses, it has to take responsibility.”
More and more concerns about EU's dependency on USA tech. #freeSoftware could be a part of the solution
Comenzamos las II Jornadas Nacionales de Ciencia Abierta, que organizamos desde la @OfiLibreURJC@floss.social
Hay streaming!!!
https://tv.urjc.es/live/event/698095a8ae7edfbd414a2de6
#cienciaAbierta #datosAbiertos #accesoAbierto #softwareLibre
#JNCA26
A nuanced description of the #Linux+based system to be used by the French administration.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/s/UdXAbQUBgv
Based on NixOS, focus on reproducibility, usability and security. Also, a collection of cloud-based applications
#FreeSoftware for the French public administrations
Ya tenemos programa para #seLIA !!! Recuerda, I Jornada sobre #SoftwareLibre e #IA Abierta, lunes 6 de julio en #URJC Fuenlabrada (ES)
https://selia.codeberg.page/programa.html
La asistencia es gratuita, pero recomendamos registrarse (pronto estará lista la página de registro)
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Source code of MSDOS-1.0 translated into C (with the help of OpenCode and Claude). For me, it was quite an interesting experiment, both about the capabilities of LLMs, and about MSDOS code, which is (to me) much more understandable in C.
https://codeberg.org/jgbarah/msdos-1.0
Tercer capítulo del podcast "La era de las distros", con Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra, Carlos Castro y Jesús Rubio
Razones políticas, económicas y sociales que llevaron, ya a principios de los 2000, a usar software libre en educación en Extremadura, #Linex #GNULinex #SoftwareLibre
The Debian Release Team has decided that Debian must ship reproducible packages. Since yesterday, they
have enabled the migration software to block migration of new packages that
can't be reproduced or existing packages (in testing) that regress in
reproducibility
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/05/msg00001.html
European Citizens' Initiative to introduce an additional option for the cover design of passports: the "European Union" passport.
Campaign: https://star-pass.eu/
HuggingFace: We detected and responded to an intrusion into part of our production infrastructure. This one was different from anything we had handled before in one important way: it was driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system - and we detected and dissected it largely with AI of our own
https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026
I got carried away and asked OpenCode to “translate” MSDOS-1.0 (originally written in 8086 Assembly) not only into C, but also into Rust and Ada. I found the comparison between the versions in the three languages—and between any of them and the original Assembly code—to be intriguing and interesting.
Our talk (with Daniel Izquierdo) at #FOSDEM: "The Geopolitics of Code: From Digital Sovereignty to Global Fragmentation" Slides and video available
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/XWSW3R-the_geopolitics_of_open_source_software/
The evolution of the YAML specification, and the problem with Norway
Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/
BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175820
Some 3D-printing companies seem to be clashing with #freesoftware values... and maybe licenses.
seLIA: I Jornada sobre Software Libre e Inteligencia Artificial Abierta. #URJC (Comunidad de Madrid) 6 de julio
¡Envíanos tu propuesta de contribución! (charlas, talleres...)
Abierta la inscripción (gratuita): I Jornada de Software Libre e Inteligencia Artificial Abierta. 6 de julio, Campus de Fuenlabrada (Madrid, ES) Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
La inscripción no es imprescindible para poder asistir, pero nos ayuda a saber cuánta gente piensa venir.
Para registrarse: https://eventos.urjc.es/go/selia
Programa: https://selia.codeberg.page/programa.html
Por favor, reenvía a quien pueda tener interés ¡Te esperamos!
Fight Chat Control. Protect digital privacy in the EU
The "Chat Control" proposal would mandate scanning of all private digital communications, including encrypted messages and photos. This threatens fundamental privacy rights and digital security for all EU citizens
¿Te interesan los modelos de #IA abiertos? ¿Te interesa el #SoftwareLibre para interaccionar con ellos? Apunta: #seLIA, 6 de julio en Fuenlabrada (Madrid, ES). ¡Vente y participa! Petición de contribuciones (charlas, talleres...) abierta
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BTW, Principia is in Mastodon: @Principia Thanks to @Le_bottin_des_jeux_linux for showing it to me
Why there are exactly 13 DNS root servers? A deep dive into DNS, that little protocol which is so fundamental for Internet
https://www.simonpainter.com/why-thirteen-root-servers/
BTW, a protocol from 1987, which has been working almost unchanged since then
#OpenClaw story: an outlier, an example of everything that can be wrong in software development, the way #freeSoftware will be written in the years to come, or what?
Whatever you think about it, the story is interesting, and I'm pretty sure you can find several takeaways
https://www.roborhythms.com/openclaw-changed-the-ai-industry/
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@modulux I agree completely. I see *huge* opportunities for improving accessibility of #freeSoftware apps, either by direct development done by public admins or subcontractors, or (likely much better) by funding orgs and associations invested in accessibility to audit and improve the situation of those apps
Is #GitHub starting to decline? (as a useful service to host our projects) https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github by @mitchellh@hachyderm.io
Being it such a fundamental infrastructure for #FreeSoftware we should be concerned...
"Game design is simple, actually" by Raph Koster
https://www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/game-design-is-simple-actually/
[ Yes, this Raph Koster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raph_Koster ]
We’re training students to write worse to prove they’re not using AI, and it’s pushing them to use more AI
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/06/were-training-students-to-write-worse-to-prove-theyre-not-robots-and-its-pushing-them-to-use-more-ai/
Some visions from a practitioner, on the impact of the latest AI models
https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
Facts and opinions, and a lot of food for thought
Inside OpenClaw: How a Persistent AI Agent Actually Works
https://entelligence.ai/blogs/openclaw Detailed description of the architecture and functioning of #OpenClaw
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@AngelaScholder @jago It sems the CloudFlare tests is failing for several other people ( such as @daks ) :-(
Algo serio se está montando #seLIA
Heretic is a tool that removes censorship ("safety alignment") from transformer-based language models without expensive post-training
https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic
Post by @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de about their banning of mostly-AI-generated code in their platform
https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html
Life finding its way as soon as there is the slightest opportunity
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@neilernst@mastodon.acm.org Well, the first C compiler (the one used for Unix) was from about 1973, so there were C compilers at the time of MSDOS-1.0...