Weird little guys of FOSS
As the name says: a collection of "weird little guys" of the FOSS and adjacent worlds. Massively subjective, of course, but I don't think I've seen one (that I know of) that I disagree with yet.
Human Emacs
I feel like this project is jumping the gun quite a bit, but I also appreciate that it exists. I did also see someone say the other day that it's worth running with anyway to "get away from RMS". Which is far I guess.
LinguaCelta: The Community is the Achievement; the Achievement is the Community
An article on how community is one of the important properties of where tech has taken us, and the threat that AI poses to this.
LM Studio - Local AI on your computer
Tool for installing and managing local models. Might be worth a look.
manyfold/AGENTS.md at main · manyfold3d/manyfold
Pretty fun anti-AI AGENTS.md file.
I wonder if it works?
Dave Pearson
Me on Codeberg.
in which more paths are charted towards code independence - Technomancy
A post on how git forges might be, or can be.
open-slopware
A database of software that some feel is "tainted" by AI. Seems to very much come from the "all code touched by AI is slop; no disagreement is allowed". It is, however, an interesting project to follow.
Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?
Simon Willison's take on the whole chardet issue.
No right to relicense this project | Hacker News
HackerNews weighing in on the chardet legal/ethical issue.
SPDX License List | Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX)
The list of SPDX licences. For me this is useful to find the ID so that I can add the most useful value to Python package metadata.
Open Source Insights
Handy site, backed by Google, that lets you dive into packages from different ecosystems and see what they depend on and what depends on them, etc.
Announcing Casual Image
A new major mode for Emacs that allows for easy image editing.
The Open Source Foundation for Application Security
All things software security.
Copyright without years
A blog post about why curl switched away from showing years in copyright statements within the project.
The Stallman report
Another document that collects together various reports about problematic behaviour by RMS.
After 15 years, the maintainer of Homebrew plans to make a living
Wrong license · Issue #16 · mdmintz/pynose
This looks like a really great example of not now to handle the licnece of a fork, and also how not to handle the feedback you get when you make such a change.
HN: Lessons I learned from working full-time on a FOSS project for 503 days
A submission to HackerNews of Rodrigo's blog post about working at and on Textual. What's pretty funny in the comments is the speculation about how Textualize would make money, which shows that some folk were speculating on the post without actually having read it.
So nothing new for HN there.
A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
Some background on how the xz backdoor situation arose.
Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing
A reminder that FOSS project developers owe you nothing, at least under the license. The only way you're ever owned anything is if they've directly contracted them.
503 days working full-time on FOSS: lessons learned
Rodrigo's history of working at Textualize, mention of the layoffs, and what he learned during the time.
Why the Emacs virgins joke is so problematic
This is a great description of why the Emacs virgins "joke" is so problematic, and why it helpfully demonstrates so many of the problems with RMS' influence over Emacs and Free Software culture.
An open letter to remove Richard M. Stallman from all leadership positions
As per the title: an open letting calling for the removal of RMS from all Free Software leadership positions; especially now that he's been let back into one within the FSF.
Browse good first issues to start contributing to open source - The GitHub Blog
Github are doing more to make it easier to find good issues to get you into contributing to projects. I like this idea and should make a point of looking at the possible contributions of projects I make use of a lot.
jgraph/drawio: Source to www.draw.io
Client-side diagram drawing app. Open Source.
Rebuttal to Stallman’s Story About The Formation of Symbolics and LMI
A comprehensive rebuttal to the story that rms tells about Symbolics and the history of Lisp Machines.
Various Licenses and Comments about Them - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation's take on various software licences, both Free and non-Free.
The mysterious history of the MIT License | Opensource.com
Short article about the unclear history of the MIT licence.