So what's new in the world of digital ham radio? This could be a big deal and might knock proprietary protocols and waveforms on the head. #Mercury #Hermes #opensourcesoftware #vara #packetradio

Good news for Linux ops too!
https://www.ardc.net/wp-content/uploads/Mercury-Press-Release-07-MAY-2026.pdf

Totally gave up on exiftool, I have better things to do than read pages and pages of instructions when I just wanna add copyright info and where the photo was taken.

Found digiKam and it removed all the headaches.

I also saw it has a GPS correlator so not only can I use my Garmin Etrex with it, I also have an actual use beyond "toy bought because I always wanted one but never had a plan of how to use it" for the Etrex.

#photography #photoediting #opensourcesoftware #digikam #KDE #exiftool

Vor oder während großen Umbrüchen sagen Leute gerne furchtbar dumme Sachen.
Deswegen traue ich mich auch mit ein paar Tagen Abstand zur Veröffentlichung von #Mythos nicht eine Prognose über #AI und die Zukunft von #CyberSecurity abzugeben. Was ich mich aber sagen traue sind drei Dinge.

1. AI verschärft die sozioökonomische Schieflage von #OpenSourceSoftware. Während #LLM s auf OpenSource Quellen trainiert werden fließt der wirtschaftliche Nutzen zu großen Tech-Unternehmen und die Maintainer bleiben unterfinanziert zurück.
2. Am #ProjectGlaswing zeigt sich, dass die Tech- und Security Community noch immer keinen gesellschaftlich verantwortlichen Weg gefunden hat Wissen und Ressourcen zum Finden und Beheben von Schwachstellen zu verteilen
3. Zukünftig gilt noch mehr als jetzt die Grundpfeiler von guter CyberSecurity einzuhalten um die Aufwände für (AI gestützte) Angriffe unwirtschaftlich zu machen.

Mein Appell: Unterstützt die OpenSource Projekte die ihr nutzt - angemessen. Investiert in die Effizienz und Stabilisierung eurer Vulnerability- und Patchmanagement Prozesse.

Anyone in the #NoAI / #AntiAI crowd look at Caddy Anti-Bot and have thoughts?

Also what is the best license these days for fighting back on paper for what it’s worth against LLM consumption for creating open source apps on Codeberg? Basically the equivalent of AGPLv3 + no LLM

Caddy Anti-bot looks like it uses more heuristics than Caddy Defender to beat back LLM bots. Relatively new to the point there’s no meaningful web references, not even on the Caddy Community forum.

And how does Caddy Bot Barrier compare to Anubis?

https://github.com/KoDevV2/caddy-anti-bot

https://github.com/steffenbusch/caddy-bot-barrier

#foss #opensource #opensourcesoftware

GitHub - KoDevV2/caddy-anti-bot: A Caddy v2 HTTP handler module that aims to protect your site from bots, scrapers, and ddos attacks.

A Caddy v2 HTTP handler module that aims to protect your site from bots, scrapers, and ddos attacks. - KoDevV2/caddy-anti-bot

GitHub

With #GitHub slowly falling apart, I couldn't be more excited to be working on a better way to host the world's #OpenSourceSoftware:

@radicle - the peer-to-peer GitHub alternative.

I took a minute to write down what I feel is especially exciting about it:
https://yorgos.net.gr/posts/working-on-a-better-home-for-open-source.html

Working on a better home for Open Source

GitHub is giving us even more reasons to consider alternatives. I'm so happy I'm working on one of them!

Yorgos Saslis

Calibre 9.8 update adds local AI support and practical fixes

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/calibre-9-8-update/

📖 Interesting read: "💎 redis-objects 2.0: 17 years, 2k stars, and 16M downloads later"

https://nateware.com/2026/04/23/redis-objects-2-0-17-years-2k-stars-and-16m-downloads-later/
#ruby #opensourcesoftware

💎 redis-objects 2.0: 17 years, 2k stars, and 16M downloads later

17 years ago, I created the Ruby library redis-objects to solve a problem I was having at PlayStation. I never expected to still be maintaining it so many years later — it’s older than my kids! I just released version 2.0, which got me reflecting on the journey and lessons learned.

Nate Wiger
OpenUK’s Skills report is featured by John Leonard of Computing, saying that open source is not free; we just don’t pay for it. He recognises the open source skills opportunity, and from our report, the increase in contributions and contributors. Read here: https://www.computing.co.uk/analysis/2026/open-source-isn-t-free-we-re-just-not-paying-for-it
#openuk #computing #opensource #opensourcesoftware #opensourceskills
Open source isn’t free. We’re just not paying for it

A lot of things don’t add up in the world of software. The skills gap remains stubbornly wide, with IT and data skills the hardest ...

Hitting 5.5 million @github accounts in the UK, it’s 7.9% per capita of the UK population and emphasising our nation of collaborative workers.

Some of the challenges faced in open source, the benefits, and the potential of capacity building through skills evolved from open source are explored in our most recent Open Source Skills Report for the UK. https://openuk.uk/report/opensourceskills/

#opensource #opensourceskills #opensourcesoftware #opensourceai #digitalskills #opensourcemaintainers #openuk #openhq