See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

It is similar to the old gopher: text files, links, and images form a hypertext optimized for reading. Text is formatted like Markdown - but even simpler.

Clients display text, like an eBook, or images / media.

Servers can run on a PC or Raspberry Pi which needs half a Watt of power. No FAANG companies needed. No expert knowledge needed - not more difficult than running a file sharing client.

I think it is the right thing for defense of democracy and sharing your voice in the digital realm.

The developer of the popular curl command-line utility and library announced that the project will end its HackerOne security bug bounty program at the end of this month, after being overwhelmed by low-quality AI-generated vulnerability reports.

The project developer for one of the Internet’s most popular networking tools is scrapping its vulnerability reward program after being overrun by a spike in the submission of low-quality reports, much of it AI-generated slop.

“We are just a small single open source project with a small number of active maintainers,” Daniel Stenberg, the founder and lead developer of the open source app cURL, said Thursday. “It is not in our power to change how all these people and their slop machines work. We need to make moves to ensure our survival and intact mental health.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/49454704

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Digitization has made administration more efficient, but also more vulnerable. In a world where government processes are almost exclusively digital, collaboration across networked systems forms the central nervous system of the state. If failures occur here, standstill threatens. To escape this fate, the major German social insurance providers are now relying on strategic redundancy, which is intended to serve as a digital lifeline in an emergency.

Under the name "Cloud-based communication in crisis situations" (Cloudbasierte Kommunikation im Krisenfall, CKKI), a pilot project was launched a few days ago, marking a change in perspective. The Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund, the Bundesagentur für Arbeit, and the IT service providers Bitmarck and BG-Phoenics are trialing OpenDesk, the open-source alternative to the Microsoft 365 office suite developed by the Center for Digital Sovereignty (Zendis). The goal is to establish a fully functional emergency workplace that exists independently of the primary IT infrastructure.

According to Zendis, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs is funding the project, which is intended to demonstrate the resilience of the planned digital safety net by April. OpenDesk is more than just a chat application for crisis times. The suite offers a package of office software, email, calendar, project management, and video communication. Since the solution works purely browser-based, it allows employees to access it from almost any location and device. This flexibility is particularly crucial when physical locations or local networks can no longer be used safely.

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The four participating organizations each installed their own OpenDesk instances on different cloud infrastructures. The systems are now being tested in various scenarios to see how well they can communicate with each other. Whether interoperability will be maintained even when different cloud providers, such as project partners Ionos, Stackit, or T-Systems, serve as the basis is important. Zendis CEO Alexander Pockrandt sees this as confirmation of the chosen path: the flexibility of the solution ensures that critical infrastructure (Kritis) can be maintained even in extreme crisis.

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CKKI is not just designed as a disaster protection exercise for the German administration. The findings from the project are to be directly incorporated into the European cloud initiative 8ra. Thus, the German initiative is transforming into a building block for a larger, European vision of a sovereign and cross-provider IT infrastructure. Harald Joos, Cloud Commissioner of the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund, emphasizes that the use of OpenDesk not only strengthens their own resilience. The participants also want to demonstrate to their European partners that sovereign cloud solutions are practical at the EU level.

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After OpenDesk has already been able to find its way into other areas such as the Bundeswehr or the public health service, the acid test in the discipline of high availability now follows. If the concept proves successful, the "emergency workplace from the cloud" could soon become standard repertoire for any authority that wants to assert its digital sovereignty not just on paper.

Managarr v0.7.0 has been released with Lidarr support!

What is Managarr?

Managarr is a terminal-based application for managing all your Servarr instances from one place. It provides a user-friendly interface to interact with your media libraries, making it easier to manage your downloads, monitor your artists and albums, and perform various actions directly from the terminal.

It sports two modes: a TUI mode (Text-based User Interface) and a CLI mode (Command Line Interface).

TUI mode gives you an interactive User Interface right inside your terminal window, allowing you to navigate through your Sonarr and Radarr libraries, view details about your series and movies, and perform actions like adding or removing items, all through keyboard shortcuts.

CLI mode lets you execute commands directly from the terminal to manage your Servarr instances without needing to open the TUI. This is great for quick tasks or for integrating with scripts and automation tools.

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Try it out for yourself using the in-browser demo!

If you want to try it out for yourself without installing it first, you can use the Managarr demo-site: https://managarr-demo.alexjclarke.com/

What Lidarr operations are supported?

📚 Library Management

• Artist Library - Browse, search, filter, and sort your music collection
• Add Artists ➕ - Search for new artists and add them with full config options (quality profile, metadata profile, root folder, monitoring options)
• Edit Artists ✏️ - Tweak artist settings including quality profiles, metadata profiles, tags, and monitoring status
• Delete Artists 🗑️ - Remove artists from your library with optional file deletion
• Artist Details 🔍 - Get the full picture on any artist:
  • Overview, disambiguation, type, status, genres, and ratings
  • Album list with release dates, track counts, and download status
  • Artist history with detailed event info
  • Manual discography search with release selection and download

💿 Album & Track Management

• Album Details - Drill into individual albums to see:
  • Track listing with audio info (codec, channels, bitrate, sample rate, bit depth)
  • Album history
  • Manual album search for grabbing specific releases
• Track Details 🎼 - View individual track info and history
• Delete Albums - Remove individual albums from your library

⬇️ Downloads & Queue

• Downloads Tab - Keep an eye on active downloads and manage your queue
• Blocklist 🚫 - View and manage blocked releases

📜 History

• Full History Support - Browse, search, filter, and sort Lidarr event history
• History Details - Dig into the details of any history event
• Mark as Failed ❌ - Mark history items as failed

🔎 Indexers

• Indexer Management - View, add, edit, and delete indexers
• Indexer Settings ⚙️ - Configure global indexer settings
• Test Indexers 🧪 - Test individual or all indexers at once

📁 Root Folders

• Root Folder Management - Add and manage root folders for your music library

🖥️ System

• System Status - View Lidarr system info and health checks
• Tasks - View and trigger system tasks
• Queued Events - Monitor queued system events
• Logs 📋 - Browse system logs
• Updates 🆙 - Check for and view available updates

⌨️ CLI Commands

Full Lidarr CLI support for all the things!

managarr lidarr list artists|albums|tracks|indexers|root-folders|tags|quality-profiles|...
managarr lidarr get artist|album|track|...
managarr lidarr add artist|root-folder|tag|...
managarr lidarr edit artist|indexer|indexer-settings|...
managarr lidarr delete artist|album|root-folder|tag|blocklist-item|...
managarr lidarr search artist|album|...
managarr lidarr refresh artist|downloads|...
managarr lidarr trigger-automatic-search artist|album
managarr lidarr manual-search artist|album

Managarr also supports Radarr and Sonarr!

If you're running the full *arr stack, Managarr has you covered - It supports Radar and Sonarr too, all from the same interface!

This is a passion project so I'd love to hear your feedback, feature requests, or any bug reports you find.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/875869

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Richard Stallman Makes a Come Back in his first public appearance at an US event

The free software movement has been around for over four decades now. It started as a response to proprietary software licenses that restricted people from understanding, modifying, or sharing the programs they ran on their computers.

At the center of this movement is the Free Software Foundation (FSF), founded in 1985. It has been the organizational backbone for promoting software freedom, maintaining crucial free software licenses like the GPL, and supporting projects that respect user rights.

Dr. Richard Stallman has been at the forefront of this movement from day one, along with countless other people who joined up to make their collective vision a reality. If you want to hear from him directly, he's speaking at Georgia Tech on January 23.

Following recent discussions over AI contributions to the LLVM open-source compiler project, they have come to an agreement on allowing AI/tool-assisted contributions but that there must be a human involved that is first looking over the code before opening any pull request and similar. Strictly AI-driven contributions without any human vetting will not be permitted.

LLVM has committed its "human in the loop" policy for tool-assisted contributions given an increase in AI-driven garbage:

"Over the course of 2025, we observed an increase in the volume of LLM-assisted nuisance contributions to the project. Nuisance contributions have always been an issue for open-source projects, but until LLMs, we made do without a formal policy banning such contributions. However, LLMs are here, so we are adopting this policy, abbreviated as "human in the loop", which requires that every contribution has a human author attesting to the value of that contribution, and that it is high enough quality that it is worth the time it takes to review the contribution."

Every year, at the end of January and the beginning of February, thousands of people from Europe and around the world gather in Brussels to discuss open source and open technologies. The main attraction is FOSDEM, Europe’s largest open source conference, which has inspired a range of side events, social activities, and workshops. For those interested in open technology, digital policy, and EU developments, OpenForum Europe’s EU Open Source Policy Summit brings together open source leaders and policymakers. Together, these events make up the EU Open Source Week.

Researchers from the University of Waterloo's Faculty of Science and the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) are prioritizing collaboration over competition to advance quantum computer development and the field of quantum information. They are doing this through Open Quantum Design (OQD), a non-profit organization that boasts the world's first open-source, full stack quantum computer.

OQD was co-founded in 2024 by faculty members in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and IQC, Drs. Crystal Senko, Rajibul Islam and Roger Melko, alongside CEO Greg Dick (BSc '93).

The group is helping reshape how quantum research is shared, opening doors for the next generation of quantum scientists, and even seeding new quantum startups.

"We are offering a shared hub where groups can contribute what they're comfortable sharing and, as a non-profit, we can be transparent about real progress without commercial pressures," Senko says.

OQD's stack spans hardware, the electronic and computing layers that run it, and open software. Their quantum computer uses ion-trapping, which involves isolating charged atoms (ions) in a vacuum and manipulating them with lasers and electromagnetic fields. This isolation allows the atoms to act as quantum bits (qubits), storing and processing information with carefully controlled interactions.

More in the article. I've also crossposted this to piefed.social/c/technology.

Algorithm powering the For You feed on Twitter.

The splendidly-named "OpenSlopware" was, for a short time, a list of open source projects using LLM bots. Due to harassment, it's gone, but forks of it live on.

"OpenSlopware" was a repository on the European Codeberg git forge containing a list of free software and open source projects which use LLM-bot generated code, or integrate LLMs, or which show signs of "coding assistants" being used on the codebase, such as pull requests created or modified by automated coding tools.

However, its creator – who we are intentionally not naming or tagging here – received so much harassment from LLM boosters that they removed the repository, and indeed their Bluesky account, stating that they would withdraw from social media for a while. Now, if you try to visit the original URL, you will receive only a 404 message.

There are oodles of neat and singular programs on github and similar. Curious what steps people take to vet for malware before downloading and trying stuff, especially if you’re not very familiar with the coding language it’s written in.

OQB @reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net

If we combine these two sets of data^1 we obtain a fascinating result^2.

• 46% of all code out there, in every app, is maintained by hobbyists
• 13,8% is maintained by “I sometimes get a bit of pocket money for my code”
• 40% of all code out there is maintained by an industry-paid person

So, nearly 60% of all code being actively shipped in an app or product in the wild is hobbyist-maintained open-source.

See also this discussion on lobste.rs on the economics of the average (as in median) open source project:

https://lobste.rs/s/ftwkvo/hobbyist_maintainer_economic_gravity

To sum up, apparently most open source projects are small, and aren't funded as paid work. And they matter because of their number, which has the effect that they make up a large part of all software in use.

Another new release of the excellent open source video capture and streaming app OBS Studio is being prepared, with OBS Studio 32.1 Beta out now. You can get testing with a few new features and tweaks to existing features.

The main new features for this release include a new Audio Mixer, a new Add Source dialog, WebRTC Simulcast support and they added missing undo/redo actions for scene items. WebRTC Simulcast sounds like quite a fun one, allowing for multiple quality levels to be sent over one track in WebRTC. Similar in a way to what Twitch have with Enhanced Broadcasting.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/862961

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