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The origins of open source culture
https://negativepid.blog/the-origins-of-open-source-culture/
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European Open Source AcademyWe have wrapped up the two successful days of #fossbackstage -
#EOSAwards consortium with Nicholas Gates(@OpenForumEurope ) leading two talks on #opensource in #localgovernment and #european sovereign tech fund.
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N-gated Hacker News🚀💩 Just in: a groundbreaking study reveals that Cursor AI boosts short-term speed but also breeds "long-term complexity" in open source projects. In other words, it's like turbo-charging your car with a blender... sure, it moves fast, but good luck making any sense of it! 🍹🔧
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04427 #CursorAI #ShortTermSpeed #LongTermComplexity #OpenSourceProjects #TechInnovation #HackerNews #ngated
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04427 #CursorAI #ShortTermSpeed #LongTermComplexity #OpenSourceProjects #TechInnovation #HackerNews #ngated
Speed at the Cost of Quality: How Cursor AI Increases Short-Term Velocity and Long-Term Complexity in Open-Source Projects
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the promise to revolutionize the field of software engineering. Among other things, LLM agents are rapidly gaining momentum in software development, with practitioners reporting a multifold increase in productivity after adoption. Yet, empirical evidence is lacking around these claims. In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of adopting a widely popular LLM agent assistant, namely Cursor, on development velocity and software quality. The estimation is enabled by a state-of-the-art difference-in-differences design comparing Cursor-adopting GitHub projects with a matched control group of similar GitHub projects that do not use Cursor. We find that the adoption of Cursor leads to a statistically significant, large, but transient increase in project-level development velocity, along with a substantial and persistent increase in static analysis warnings and code complexity. Further panel generalized-method-of-moments estimation reveals that increases in static analysis warnings and code complexity are major factors driving long-term velocity slowdown. Our study identifies quality assurance as a major bottleneck for early Cursor adopters and calls for it to be a first-class citizen in the design of agentic AI coding tools and AI-driven workflows.
gnu0os0ta ✅🐧Die 50 wichtigsten Open‑Source‑Konferenzen im Jahr 2026!
https://opensource.org/blog/top-50-open-source-conferences-in-2026
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Peter B. PolgarDesign & Documentation Clinics at FOSDEM Fringe 2026
Is your project:
- Hard for newcomers to understand?
- Struggling with inconsistent UI/UX?
- Lacking visual identity?
Good design and documentation are vital for project growth. We'll review your UX, provide feedback, and connect you with collaborators.
Register: https://luma.com/et4k9ivw
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ThePfromtheO@SuperDicq @Vivaldi
“I really hope they change this policy and publish the full source code at some point. Because if they do Vivaldi can actually start hanging out with the big boys like Firefox or Chromium.”
#Vivaldi's answer on this: “But, the way we see it, Vivaldi is more than just its code. It is our brand, with associated trademarks we have to protect. This means any fork needs to be branded as a different product.
And this new product then would become an immediate competitor without putting any significant technical work to reach that status.”
https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/#:~:text=But%2C%20the%20way,reach%20that%20status.
“a very small, but important part of the codebase.”
That's the whole point of it
And yes, this can be done very easily, but, as they said, there's no coming-back. They don't only have to think about the ease of doing something, but also about it's (long-term) consequences.
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@SuperDicq @Vivaldi
Really?
https://vivaldi.com/source/
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