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The new "Mythos" #AI algorithm from #Anthropic can easily find vulnerabilities in any code it has access to—something a #human is incapable of doing. Does this spell the end of the #OpenSource movement? In the face of the danger posed by AI, are we forced to return to proprietary #software that does not disclose its source code?
Millions of working #PCs are being trashed because of #software policy, not #hardware failure. What's the best solution? #Endof10 https://news.opensuse.org/2026/01/12/software-policies-can-fuel-waste/
Options: (choose one)
Today marks Linux’s 35th birthday! 🎉🎂
35 years of milestones that took a hobby project from one developer’s announcement to the foundation of much of modern computing
Here is a look at the milestones that shaped its remarkable journey 😎👇
Find high-res pdf ebooks with all my Linux related infographics at https://study-notes.org
#linux #software #technology #computer #opensource
Next milestone achieved 🍾
Merged into @symfony core.
max_depth was counted per runtime class name. A Doctrine proxy is a subclass of the entity, so it got its own counter, and a graph with max_depth 1 serialized two levels deep instead of one.
The depth key now falls back to the parent class when the parent declares the same MaxDepth. Proxy and entity share one counter.
The issue was opened in October 2024. 685 days in the tracker before someone got to it.
Landed in 6.4 LTS, merged by nicolas-grekas, upmerges to 7.4 and 8.1 next.
https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/65647
#Symfony #PHP #Doctrine #Serializer #OpenSource #Backend #Blog #Fediverse #FOSS #Software #Development
![A black card in DOL brand style. Across the top, in mono uppercase, Open source, Symfony core, and on the right a dark green pill reading 6.4 LTS. A large white headline, Merged into Symfony core. Under it in grey, the pull request title, [Serializer] Fix max depth counting for subclasses that inherit MaxDepth metadata. A thin rule, then four figures with labels. Pull request #65647, Issue open for 685 days, Merged by nicolas-grekas, Upmerges to 7.4 and 8.1. At the bottom the DOL emblem with dol.ch and dol.social.](/proxy/post_attachment/1173994/cfa236e253.png "A black card in DOL brand style. Across the top, in mono uppercase, Open source, Symfony core, and on the right a dark green pill reading 6.4 LTS. A large white headline, Merged into Symfony core. Under it in grey, the pull request title, [Serializer] Fix max depth counting for subclasses that inherit MaxDepth metadata. A thin rule, then four figures with labels. Pull request #65647, Issue open for 685 days, Merged by nicolas-grekas, Upmerges to 7.4 and 8.1. At the bottom the DOL emblem with dol.ch and dol.social.")
In which I fix a straightforward concurrency problem in my Go code, with multiple side-trips: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/09/01/Un-Racing
Every time I hear Microsoft Windows and Apple MacOS users complaining bitterly about the most recent humiliations forced on them when they update to the latest version, I get more convinced everyone but #Linux users are little more than masochists begging 'daddy' to hurt them more.
(Of course, I also need to admit those Linux users who insist on using offbeat distros or otherwise making major changes to their boot scripts seem to me like they are into a form of self-harm…)
LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610538
#HackerNews #LibreOffice #Download #Records #AI #Features #OpenSource #Software #Community
Whoa. @libreoffice unleashes “no AI as a feature” and breaks download records.
“In one week, the installer was downloaded more than 1 million times — not counting updates via Linux distribution repositories.”
Great work, LibreOffice team! 👏🏻
https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai
"Politics" isn't only about institutions. It's about organizing large numbers of people to do something they wouldn't otherwise do. Corporations organize large numbers of people to do things they probably wouldn't do if they weren't paid and/or didn't need the money to live. 10,000 people wouldn't spontaneously get together and spend the best hours of their days for months building a commercial jet airliner if there weren't corporate structures in place and a society that keeps them close enough to deprivation that they will do this in exchange for money.
#FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #software #OpenSourceSoftware #tech #dev #SoftwareDevelopment #politics #economics #corporations
TESTANDO WALLPAPERS ANIMADOS NO LINUX
#LINUX #DEBIAN #FUN #DESKTOP #SOFTWARE #GNU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmUQJa_ZppM
This is an excellent thread and I recommend reading the whole thing. I'd like to say that it's getting at why competent software developers are implementing gradient ascent while LLMs+test suites are implementing generate-and-test or hillclimbing. People who know and understand a codebase are able to make changes to it that have a high probability of being improvements according to however you measure that. Stochastic code generation filtered by a static test suite is expected to be orders of magnitude slower at achieving the same improvement. This is a fundamental GOFAI result (the "knowledge-search tradeoff" or the "representation problem") but it applies to a wide swath of optimization problems.
Let's also not forget that optimization generally can only occur in small worlds, while humans---software developers and users alike---exist in large worlds. Databases, physics engines and other simulators, and research tools all have an open-ended space of possible applications ("extension") that cannot be anticipated, let alone tested for, in advance. Understanding the intended inner workings ("intension") of such systems is crucial to building them in such a way that they can support and continue to grow with their evolving applications.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #coding #software #dev #tech
#lispyGopherClimate Sunday-morning-in-Europe 8am UTC
Unfortunately, comrade @dirtycommo had to reschedule again!
Instead, @kentpitman joined live and we talked a bit about lisp-hosted other languages such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma and https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/rtoy/cl-series/-/wikis/Series-User's-Guide and why lisp is so good for this. He also helped me use the hyperspec better.
https://toobnix.org/w/fYyMa9LBAtF6RqgK1564FG
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/ and https://medium.com/@screwlisp/001beginnings-as-consuming-as-possible-and-no-consumer-by-screwlisp-c5d4036a3976
the somewhat-unconventionality of normal great #lisp #software.