🪞 Introducing Mirror Hall, an app to turn any Linux devices into a second wireless monitor!

We offer custom P2P screen sharing optimized for latency. Only Mutter-based DEs are currently supported as *senders*, whereas all DEs work as receivers.

This is our first unstable release, sp please be kind and report issues. If you are an #ARM user, we would love your help testing the gstreamer pipeline on new phones!

https://notes.nokun.eu/post/2024-09-22-mirrorhall/

#linux #opensource #foss #gnome #apps #gstreamer

Adwaita is really pretty freaking great. It makes designing responsive apps just… easy?? Here’s an update to Butler, my Home Assistant app, for GNOME 47 and Adwaita 1.6.

Update coming soon to Flathub!

#GNOME #Adwaita #Flatpak #Flathub #HomeAssistant #Linux #OpenSource

‼️ The Free Software Foundation Europe needs your help ‼️

The EU Commission aims to remove funding from free software projects which are crucial to our digital lives.

We spoke with the #FSFE to learn more.
👉 https://youtu.be/mNZgSCvg6Ew

Please share this post with your friends to spread the message and rally support for free software! 📣

#freesoftware #opensource #eu #europe #freedom

David Revoy è un artista francese che stimo moltissimo, sia per la capacità nel disegno che per l'impegno nel trovare soluzioni alternative alle grandi aziende. Ho portato il suo esempio di fumetto open source anche ai miei studenti dell'accademia di belle arti.

Qui un articolo dove dimostra come si possa organizzare una stazione di lavoro creativo con Debian.

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1030/debian-12-kde-plasma-2024-install-guide

Lo potete seguire nel fediverso da qui: @davidrevoy

#OpenSource #Debian #Linux #Krita #KDE

Debian 12 KDE Plasma: The right GNU/Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024. Reasons and complete installation guide.

^{David Revoy}

I really think that every marginalized group that suffered #discrimination and systemic oppression should join the discussion about #OpenSourceAI

If a black box will be distributed, regulated and trusted as #OpenSource, no human right organization will be able to inspect the dataset used to train it.

And if you can implant undetectable backdoors in a machine learning model (see https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06974), you can much more easily implant undetectable bias that will hurt some groups of people to benefit others.

#LGBTQ people and victims of systemic #racism should really demand transparency,...before it's too late!

Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models

Given the computational cost and technical expertise required to train machine learning models, users may delegate the task of learning to a service provider. We show how a malicious learner can plant an undetectable backdoor into a classifier.

^arXiv.org

TIL that a #BlackBox #AI can be defined as #OpenSource.

Granting the “freedom to fine tune” cannot be enough to qualify as Open Source AI just like granting the “freedom to configure” cannot be enough to qualify as Open Source Software.

Yet, for #OSI it's enough.

And you can't provide effective solutions to the problem they pretend to see into making training data available.

Or you will be silenced.

https://opensource.org/blog/copyright-law-makes-a-case-for-requiring-data-information-rather-than-open-datasets-for-open-source-ai

#OpenSourceAI #OpenWashing #OpenWashingAI
#OSS #OSAI #AIAct #BigTech #GAFAM

Copyright law makes a case for requiring data information rather than open datasets for Open Source AI

When we look at applying Open Source principles to the subject of AI, copyright law comes into play, especially for the topic of training data access.

^{Open Source Initiative}

Update. Open Research Europe (#ORE) is still planning to shift from closed to #OpenSource, and from proprietary to #OpenInfrastructure.
https://www.openaire.eu/open-research-europe-an-update

"[ORE] should be collectively owned and supported by research funders and research institutions and operate as a service for researchers with no author facing fees. The aim is for the infrastructure of the platform to be open source."

Open Research Europe: An Update

Scientific Knowledge Graph. Scholarly Communication Knowledge Graph. Open scholarly communication infrastructure. European Open Science Cloud. Open Access. Open Data. Open Science

^OpenAIRE

Update. Here's the #EuropeanCommission call for tenders on the new #OpenSource infrastructure for Open [#OpenAccess] Research Publishing.
https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:737455-2023:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0

The EC estimates it will pay €1 million for 2 years of work. Tenders are due by January 31, 2024.

#Code4OA #FLOSS #ORE #OSS

Update. More on the EC plan for Open Research Europe (#ORE) to adopt an #OpenSource core.
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/3603e219-6a65-11ef-a8ba-01aa75ed71a1/language-en

See §2.4.5. "ORE will be underpinned by an #OpenSource software #infrastructure, the core elements of which will be developed with the support of the Commission and will follow #OpenStandards. Its infrastructure will be in line with the Principles for Open Scholarly Infrastructure [#POSI] and with the Open Source Software Strategy of the European Commission."

Open research Europe - Publications Office of the EU

This report puts forward a vision for Open Research Europe as a collective non-profit open access publishing service for the public good.

^{Publications Office of the EU}

Update. Here are some of my own past calls (2018-2020) for the EC specs to require that #OpenResearchEurope (#ORE) be #OpenSource.
https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1241106910574784519

EC awarded the ORE contract to #F1000 in March 2020.
https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-research-and-innovation-news/european-commission-awards-contract-setting-open-access-publishing-platform-2020-03-20_en

#TaylorAndFrancis had acquired F1000 in January 2020.
https://newsroom.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/f1000-research-joins-taylor-francis/

F1000 Research joins Taylor & Francis Group - Taylor & Francis Newsroom

Leading specialist academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group, part of Informa plc, has today announced the addition of cutting-edge open research publisher F1000 Research Ltd.

^{Jodie Bell (Taylor & Francis)}