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AI Openness: The Policy Maker Plenary Panel at SOOCon 25 with Lord Clement-Jones of House of Lords; Dr Laura Gilbert of Ellison Institute-Oxford; @chionwurah of House of Commons. stateofopencon.com #AI #opensourceai #opensource #stateofopencon #soocon25 #openuk

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Spent the last few days deep in refactoring & code cleanup for #CyMaIS! 🛠️💻 Today, I finally finished the #SnipeIT role from @grokability 🎉 Just need to integrate #SAML & #LDAP authentication to complete it.

Check it out here: 🔗 github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach…

Check out my other solutions:

#IT Solutions ➡️ cybermaster.space

#AI Solutions ➡️ promptmaster.nexus

#Agile Solutions➡️ agile-coach.world

#DevOps #Ansible #Docker #OpenSource #SysAdmin #ITAutomation #CyberSecurity #Linux



🐾 Could your pet be part of a cyberattack?

Melanie Rieback’s research in 2006 showed that RFID chips—used in pet tags and retail products—could be exploited for cyberattacks.

💡 In this NGI Interview, she & Rob Van Kranenburg discuss:
🔹 How RFID vulnerabilities reshaped cybersecurity
🔹 The role of open-source tech in protecting digital systems
🔹 What companies need to do to ensure security & privacy

🎧 Listen now! ow.ly/8kcO50UU46E

#Cybersecurity #OpenSource #NGI #DigitalSafety



Congratulations (again!) to @yabellini for being named a 2025 GitHub Star ⭐ for all the amazing work she does for the scientific open-source community. We're lucky to have her at @rOpenSci

stars.github.com/profiles/yabe…

#RStats #OpenSource #GitHub



Hexagod is a minimalist roguelike village builder from the dev of Chess Survivors#Hexagod #Godot #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck

Hexagod is a minimalist roguel...




Four Fantastic Four trailer controversies (and four things we liked): While the first trailer for Fantastic Four:First Steps got a lot of people excited, there were, shockingly, some issues

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UnixWare in 2025: still actively developed and maintained

It kind of goes by under the radar, but aside from HP-UX, Solaris, and AIX, there's another traditional classic UNIX still in active development today: UnixWare (and its sibling, OpenServer). Owned and developed by Xinuos, UnixWare and other related code and IP was acquired by them when the much-hated SCO crashed and burned a

osnews.com/story/141690/unixwa…

#Unix

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Did you know that #rats can retract their limbs, faces, and tails to become orbs? Willoughby is a master. #petrats

(image descriptions: rat in a hammock from four different sides. he is a featureless scoop of fur, like a furry black snowball.)

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Of course it’s a coup

Miss the obvious, lose your republic

A couple dozen young men go from government office to government office, dressed in civilian clothes and armed only with zip drives. Using technical jargon and vague references to orders from on high, they gain access to the basic computer systems of the federal government. Having done so, they proceed to grant their Supreme Leader access to information and the power to start and stop all government payments.

That coup is, in fact, happening. And if we do not recognize it for what it is, it could succeed.


snyder.substack.com/p/of-cours…

#USPol



After a wrenching decision by NASA, private lunar lander finds a new customer
"When VIPER was removed, that was definitely a setback. Our team felt that."
arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/…


Serbia and Albania to co-host Euro tournament amid tensions byteseu.com/717249/ #Albania #Serbia #uefa


Over the weekend, I noticed something very surprising: Warner Bros Discovery, through its classics and entertainment arms, has been releasing vintage theatrical releases on YouTube without even a hint of DRM or region-locking.

Some of their worst movies ever are among the releases. But so too are some classics and even a box office hit. What gives?

tedium.co/2025/02/05/warner-br…

new @tedium

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Cos'è Polonia e dintorni


Benvenuti e benvenute in "Polonia e dintorni", piccolo spazio del Fediverso dedicato alle notizie provenienti dall'Europa centro-orientale.

Mi chiamo Fabio Turco, faccio il giornalista da un po' di anni (semicit. Stefano Nazzi), e tolta una iniziale parentesi sportiva, la mia area di interesse e di lavoro è sempre stata quell'area che va dal Baltico al pianura pannonica, dai Sudeti alla foresta di Białowieża.

Il mio lavoro quotidiano è raccontare quello che succede in questi Paesi, seguirne gli sviluppi e contestualizzarli.

Insomma, quello che si cercherà di fare qui.

Spero che ci troveremo bene, anzi ne sono sicuro.

Viva il Fediverso,

Pozdrawiam!

@fabioturco@poliverso.org



#OtD 5 Feb 1885 King Leopold of Belgium declared his new colony the Congo Free State. What followed was one of the most horrific examples of European colonialism, with 8 to 10 million killed. More on colonialism in the Congo here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/c…
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Interview: Liane Kilinc – Kriegsopferhilfe für den Donbass anonymousnews.org/internationa… anonymousnews.org – Nachrichten unzensiert

Interview: Liane Kilinc – Kriegsopferhilfe für den Donbass
Vor 10 Jahren begann Liane Kilinc Kriegsopfern im Donbass zu helfen Mehr als 80 Hilfstransporte organisierte die ehemalige DDR-Meisterin im Bahnradsport seitdem im Osten der Ukraine. Staatsanwälte in Deutschland wollen dieses Engagement



Publishers sue state of Idaho over library book bans

A group of major publishers in the US are suing the state of Idaho over a book-banning law.

HB 710, enacted last July, forbids anyone under the age of 18 from accessing books deemed "harmful to minors", including those depicting "sexual conduct",...
bookbrowse.com/news/detail/ind…

#WritingCommunity
#SelfPublishing
#Writing
@indieauthors



MAGA Feeding Frenzy Has Caused a Constitutional Crisis

The assault is coming from different angles: Project 2025. The feudal tech barons. The America First nativists. It’s not a single master plan – it’s comprehensive chaos.

Some thoughts from my new piece:

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thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/ma…

in reply to Thomas Zimmer

I don’t think any of this is sustainable as a governing strategy – or even as a long-term strategy to integrate the different MAGA factions. It works right now because they all feel a sense of radical excitement and euphoria. But the insurgency will inevitably slow down, there will be setbacks.
in reply to Thomas Zimmer

Right now, however, this feeding frenzy is unleashing an incredibly destructive potential. Unless it is stopped very soon, it will do severe – and potentially irreparable – harm to both the system of constitutional government and the civil rights order. The crisis is here.


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“ #Musk's DOGE is a rebranding of Curtis Yarvin's RAGE (Retire All Government Employees). This is what's behind the buyout offers, firings, and elimination of entire departments. The strategy: Purge the govt of civil servants & replace them w those loyal to a dictator..

This network state coup isn't happening in secret. It's unfolding right in front of our eyes while our democratic institutions remain paralyzed in fear and/or denial” #coup

thenerdreich.com/the-network-s…



Politiker ausgeladen Südtirol: Hotelverbannung von Alexander Gauland wird zum Politikum jungefreiheit.de/politik/ausla… Ein Hotel in Südtirol will AfD-Urgestein Alexander Gauland nicht mehr als Gast – weil es ein „liberales Haus“ sei. Doch davon sind nicht alle begeistert. Gegenüber der JUNGEN FREIHEIT erklärt der Chef der Südtiroler „Freiheitlichen“, was ihn an der Ausladung stört.
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