Germany makes Open Document Format mandatory as the standard format for documents within its sovereign digital infrastructure (along with PDF/UA - accessible PDF) https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/20/big-news-germany-has-just-made-odf-mandatory/
Qt 6.11 Toolkit Released With "The Same 3D Capabilities As A Game Engine"
Qt 6.11 is out as the latest version of this cross-platform toolkit used by the KDE desktop and widely by both open-source and closed-source applications...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.11-Toolkit
US carmakers, backing away from EVs and basically only making SUVs + MASSIVE trucks, so they can force Americans to pay outrageous amounts for new cars, are going to destroy their industry (and the planet).
Meanwhile in Europe...
https://electrek.co/guides/kia-ev2/
https://electrek.co/2025/07/22/hyundai-ioniq-2-affordable-ioniq-5-sibling-images/
(yes, that sounds like a parody, it isn't even!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3AtWdeu_G0
What the absolute fuck is Stefano Maffulli (one of the people who ruined OSI) smoking when he writes crap like:
The modern AI world is the fulfillment of the Stallmanite dream. We are transitioning from Software-as-a-Product, a black box we receive, to Software-as-a-Specification, a fluid intent that users with little to no programming skills can control.
He’s going full-in on the fashtech propaganda:
By democratizing the ability to write, refactor, and understand code
If you’ve bought enough tokens from the corpos is something he forgot.
And all this… in order to attempt to legitimise the chardet copyright violations by its maintainer? 🤦
#TheOnion going hard at #SamAltman.
It's hard to pick, but I think this is my favorite line:
"Why did you decide to devote your life to AI?
I just saw so much suffering in the world that needed to be automated."
#OpenAI #funny #humor
https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-sam-altman/
“due to bad experiences, I don’t work with scammers. I don’t want scammers to contact me.”
“but how do you know they’re scammers? what if the scammer does good work?”
every #foss discussion right now.
Vibed account verification.
(via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lukehinds_sign-of-the-vibe-times-share-7438895731354066944-K7ox)
Israel’s accelerating crackdown on the West Bank over the past two years has reached the point of feeling like the new normal. Palestinians say that the strangulation of their daily lives is here to stay, with many describing the regime of closures and land seizures as “irreversible.”
But this crackdown also runs contrary to the longstanding Israeli policy of avoiding “friction” in the West Bank.
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/03/why-is-israel-trying-to-cause-an-explosion-in-the-west-bank/
🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News
We've aleady been repeadetly DDoSed by these companies. Spending hundreds of
volunteers hours keeping our services running while the companies extract the
labour to sell back to the FOSS community, using their standing in the Linux
Foundation to further cement their usage in our communities.
Then the FOSS communities use these models without any care of the ethical considerations.
Is this depressing? Yes.
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Full context, from LWNDQoTW:
https://lwn.net/ml/all/aawYbre5_xvhfwKA@framework/