For anyone still catching up on the learning from #UNOpenSourceWeek, here's our article about it: https://curioss.org/news/un_open_source_week/
It was an honor to participate with so many #AcademicOSPOs from the CURIOSS community.
It was a privilege to learn about the difference that #opensource and #PublicOSPOs are making in the world.
#AcademicOSS #DPG #DPI #openscience #opensource #opensourcesoftware
OpenUK’s 6th Annual Awards will open for nominations this week. This year’s amazing judges are @lizrice, Lisa Allen, and Nicolas Vibert. They’ll be joined by our sponsor to select the winners, who will be announced in our awards ceremony this autumn. Truly the Oscars of Open Source! #openukawards #opensource #opensourcesoftware #opendata #openhardware #opensourceAI
$8.8 trillion. Yes, with a T.
In 2024, my friend Frank Nagle (et al.) at Harvard Business School dropped a paper titled The Value of Open Source Software
https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf
It’s not light reading, but here’s the TL;DR:
* Supply-side value of creating and maintaining popular open source software? About $4.15 billion.
* Demand-side replacement cost if companies had to rebuild that OSS themselves? A casual $8.8 trillion.
Let that sink in. Open source software is quietly propping up the global economy like a tired BOFH running on coffee and unpaid emotional labor.
And how do we reward open source maintainers, the unsung heroes keeping the digital world upright?
Enter the AI Slop Era.
Take @bagder — creator and lead maintainer of cURL and libcurl — two of the most widely used OSS projects in existence. Instead of sipping margaritas on a beach somewhere (as he should be), he's busy triaging nonsense AI-generated “exploits” reported via HackerOne.
Want a peek into his inbox of doom?
1. HackerOne cURL Hacktivity https://hackerone.com/curl/hacktivity?type=teamFilter
2. Filter by: Report State = Not Applicable
3. Feel: 😬 existential dread
This is what happens when people feed vibe-code into an LLM, squint, and hit “submit.”
So, what can you do?
* Using AI to vibe-code security bugs? Please stop. Seriously. Shut the laptop. Go touch grass. Maybe talk to a human.
* Using OSS in your business? Chances are, you are. Time to give back — with funding, sponsorships, or actual engineering help.
* Using OSS personally? Thank a maintainer. Donate. Contribute. Even fixing a typo in the README helps.
Open source built the internet. It’s still holding it together with duct tape and goodwill.
Let’s treat it — and the people behind it — like the $8.8 trillion miracle it is.
#aislop #opensourcesoftware #security #cybersecurity #touchgrass
Then for lunch our wonderful UNAM Plonistas took us to one of their favorite spots, a real CDMX treasure they generously decided to share.
Great food, excellent technical discussions, and getting to connect with people who share the same passion. What a fantastic day!
not a year and a half since implementing one of the most important-yet-taxing features, phone number privacy and usernames, #Signal is now looking for testers for its next absolutely huge feature: fully secure, fully private cloud backups.
the more people who test it, the better they can iron out the bugs and publish it to the world at large!
so what are you waiting for? go take it for a test drive!
https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-signal-backups-testing/69984?u=rassilon1963
#Privacy #FOSS #OpenSourceSoftware #E2EE #EndToEndEncryption
The Marvellous Suspender: V3 Migration, volunteer testers wanted! https://gioxx.org/2025/06/24/the-marvellous-suspender-v3-beta
#addons #componentiaggiuntivi #eventi #github #google #googlechrome #microsoftedge #opensource #opensourcesoftware #themarvelloussuspender
A question to the Open Source community. Which note taking apps for all OS are currently recommended? I know about Obsidian, which is interesting but AFAIK not OSS. Should be able to be synced with an own cloud. #opensource #foss #opensourcesoftware #obsidian @nixCraft
