Worst: as long as we are not locked out, we offer all our secrets to a country that could arbitrarily decide to attack yours and kidnap your president. I wonder how much Venezuelan sensitive information was in fact stored on Google/Microsoft services and accessed by the US military to prepare their recent strike.

He shows how clearly open AI models are underestimated in the current market. The basis is an unusually extensive dataset on usage, pricing, and performance of various models.

The authors make it clear that closed models do shape the market, but not primarily due to technical superiority. The decisive factors are instead habits, risk aversion, and a lack of information. At the same time, open models are quickly catching up in terms of performance, are significantly cheaper, and could enable annual savings in the double-digit billions for the global AI economy.

This contrast between perceived and actual value creation runs through the entire text. It points to parallels with early open-source development and indicates what still largely unused significance open models could assume in the AI field. The summary therefore provides a clear reason to examine the underlying study more closely.

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes in »FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs« for thenewstack.io

Lorenc added, in an e-mail to me, that “Creating and publishing software under an open source license is an act of contribution to the digital commons. Finding and publishing information about security issues in that software is also an act of contribution to the same commons.

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Graphite is free software for graphics editing. It supports both vector and raster graphics and is also suitable for creating animations. What sets Graphite apart is its non-destructive workflow: changes can be adjusted at any time without altering the original. Editing is done via a node-based system in which graphical elements are controlled and combined through connections. The project aims to be more than a traditional graphics editor, bringing tools for design, painting, animation, and effects together on one platform.

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What’s at stake

• Public package registries like Maven Central, PyPI, crates.io, or Packagist underpin the software supply chains
• Running them requires people, hosting, and security — costs that have so far often been borne by a few organizations or volunteers
• Expectations are rising, for example around availability, signing, compliance, and protection against abuse
• What’s being called for are models where large users contribute more, without restricting openness

I can empathize with the pain described and at the same time see the dilemma. Those who invest time or money take on responsibility, but by doing so also put themselves at a competitive disadvantage compared with those who use everything for free. That’s manageable for large companies, but barely feasible for small firms in fierce competition. Still, it remains indisputable that the infrastructure — and the ecosystem — will not be sustainable in the long run without contributions.

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If you’re looking for an affordable provider for open-source software, you should check out “PikaPods”.

My FreshRSS instance is still hosted on fly.io. If they cut my free tier, I’ll probably move to PikaPods or Uberspace.

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“That doesn’t just mean money — it means showing up, contributing engineering time, asking thoughtful questions and understanding their roadmap,” said Hanlon. “If your business relies on OSS, you’re part of that ecosystem and part of the responsibility.”

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Wonderful piece of software that saved me another hour I could spend on more interesting things.

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NeoHtop is Open Source and compatible with Unix-based systems.

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Update 2025-02-15 19:14 The project was removed from GitHub; I’ve updated the link.

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But that’s only one of many features. Ghostty is fully Open Source and available cross-platform.

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Installation is very simple, and running it is straightforward as well.

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At first glance the concept looks like a mix of open-core and free-code approaches, though the exact distinction and how it works aren’t entirely clear to me yet.

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Some think that open source software is generally more secure, but is it? Open source software mainly made in the West has well-documented security issues of its own, due in part to its heavy reliance on overworked and volunteer maintainers. Securing open source software requires time, energy and diligence. Unfortunately, many projects are very thinly resourced and lack the expertise required to look for security risks diligently.

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Gary Little writes in “Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community” for foursquare.com

In an effort to change that dynamic, we are announcing today the general availability of a foundational open data set, Foursquare Open Source Places (“FSQ OS Places”). This base layer of 100mm+ global places of interest (“POI”) includes 22 core attributes (see schema here) that will be updated monthly and available for commercial use under the Apache 2.0 license framework.

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