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This case shows how Open Source will die. With anyone just being able to pipe existing code and tests through an LLM and claiming that to be "clean room" (which is hogwash) no licensing can protect your work from being accumulated and monetized by anyone. The commons are actively being shredded […]

The Guardian: US AI giant accuses Chinese rivals of mass data theft The Guardian: US AI giant accuses Chinese rivals of mass data theft. “US artificial intelligence company Anthropic said on Monday it had uncovered campaigns by three Chinese AI firms to illic…

We live in the Decade of Serious Irony

@researchbuzz_firehose https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/24/the-guardian-us-ai-giant-accuses-chinese-rivals-of-mass-data-theft/

This year for lent I will be giving up keyboard shortcuts.

this discussion fails to understand the central issue here. The coding models dramatically reduce the cost of producing code. So the cost of production of a SalesForce replacement is very low. The capital value of the SaaS companies just vanished […]

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_Tools for Conviviality_ by Ivan Illich is an essay that anyone who wants to better understand economic and societal trends in tech should probably read.

Written in 1972, it analyzes technological revolutions such as the sewing machine and the car, but it’s surprising how the same patterns can […]

This feels significant #privacy

@DarioZanette https://mastodon.uno/@DarioZanette/115770566034013295

#LawFedi This also feels true of legal work. A client who 'just pops' a contract in for AI review and then suggests you keep your review to the 'reference' analysis, hurts their cause.

@inkican https://mastodon.social/@inkican/115770639529842856

A free app to visualize your subscription costs SubGrid is a free, open-source tool that visualizes subscription costs to help manage monthly budget decisions more effectively.

SubGrid is a free, open-source tool that visualizes subscription costs to help manage monthly budget decisions more effectively.

https://coywolf.com/news/productivity/a-free-app-to-visualize-your-subscription-costs/

#Budget #PersonalFinance #OpenSource

@stephanie How do we know if they are machine translated? Is there a handy list somewhere?

Fork like you've never forked before, friends. A propos #Mozilla #Firefox

The firefox fox wrapped around a crying emoji. Well I've been counting fingers And you've got forty-three You've got a brand new AI interface That won't work for me

We trained our model on your emails last night
We captured screenshots of your banking website
And though our surveys say you don't want AI
That doesn't matter, your consent is implied

For we've got a brand new AI interface
You can use for free
You know you can […]

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@andyjennings
Good idea but how long before it becomes another corporatised thing, I wonder.

Genuine question #OSS #privacy #digitalrights - I'm often bothered that organisations working for a cause often use big tech tooling. The reason is some variation of these are cheapest, most convenient, have greatest reach etc..
Are others bothered by this? Does choice of tooling compromise […]

@fsfe
Good move and well done!

Today, the #EU will launch a new legal entity aimed at supporting the development of the #DigitalCommons.

The so-called European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (#EDIC) is a legal instrument that allows EU countries to pool resources and "coordinate with communities to develop, maintain and […]

Text Shot: Fear-based framing dulls the pedagogical opportunities AI tools can provide. Emerging research illustrates how generative AI can support personalized and scaffolded learning that aligns with constructivist theories and Vygotsgy’s Zone of Proximal Development. Studies by Kanont et al. (2024) and Zheldibayeva (2025) describe the possibilities for AI to act as a learning buddy that enhances listening, writing, and other literacy skills. But when institutional framing casts AI as illicit, these learning supports become off-limits. This has troubling consequences for accessibility. Students with disabilities depend on AI-enhanced assistive technologies. Kuerban et al. (2025) demonstrate how specialized AI tools can provide essential support for learners with dyslexia by blending generative AI and augmented reality. For these students, AI is not an advantage but a bridge to equitable learning. Similarly, Zhao’s (2025) work shows how L2 learners use AI to strengthen reading,…

The Hidden Curriculum of AI Syllabus Statements: How Fear-Based Framing Shapes Student Behaviour and Academic Integrity academicintegrity.org/aws/ICAI/pt/sh… #AI #education

Publish or perish has become publish and we all perish. The silver lining of generative AI has been to show up our broken research evaluation systems.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/06/ai-research-papers

PSA - immediately cancel auto-renewal after signing up

I'll say it again: there is a hard limit to how many satellites you can have in orbit without terrible consequences, and I am quite sure we are already above that limit, mostly thanks to Starlink.

Everything you've posted on any forum, open or not, since May 2008 has been scraped and stored by Common Crawl in a massive dataset used to train AI.

#cybersecurity #privacy #slop

UN Ditches Google for Taking Form Submissions, Opts for an Open Source Solution Instead The United Nations opts for an open source alternative to Google Forms.

Update. The #UN is dropping #GoogleDocs in favor of #OpenSource #CryptPad (@CryptPad).
https://itsfoss.com/news/un-ditches-google-form/

Judges have become ‘human filters’ as AI in Australian courts reaches ‘unsustainable phase’, chief justice says

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov/21/judges-have-become-human-filters-as-ai-in-australian-courts-reaches-unsustainable-phase-chief-justice-says?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other […]

Rules of the game:

* Grab the nearest book.
* Turn to page 42.
* Find the 2nd sentence.
* Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag "page42" and write the rules as a comment to it.
* Don't look for your favorite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.

This was part management theory (protecting it against the dead hand of old-cultire thinking) and part industrial apartheid to keep the new workforce away from the unionised workforce.

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@www.jvt.me
Some interesting observations. Thanks for sharing

CfP for the #FOSDEM #Legal and #Policy devroom is out. The DevRoom invites hackers, developers, contributors,
lawyers, and decision-makers alike to share their knowledge with the community. Deadline is 7 December:

https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2025q4/003703.html

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@simon_brooke
Have you considered Zotero?