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The Paradox of Open
Numerous organisations and initiatives have been launched with a belief in openness and free knowledge. Their proponents placed their bets on the combined power of networked information services and new governance models for the production and sharing of content and data. We – as members of this broad movement – were among those who believed it possible to leverage this combination of power and opportunity to build a more democratic society, unleashing the power of the internet to create universal access to knowledge and culture. For us, such openness meant not only freedom, but also presented a path to justice and equality.
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The Arguments Against Open Source AI are Very Bad | Tom Bedor's Blog
The release of Kimi K3 has opened a fresh round of angst and confused discourse. There's a loud cohort of journalists, business leaders, and politicians arguing that open source AI is a dangerous threat. OpenAI's Dean Ball:
The Website Specification
A platform-agnostic, full specification of the technical features a good website should have. Built in the open under an MIT licence.
Skyreader: A RSS Reader on the AT Protocol
Introducing a RSS reader for the AT Protocol where you feeds and article sharing are portable
Tests Are The New Moat | Daniel Saewitz
As AI becomes better at cloning people's open source work, what ends up becoming most valuable are software contracts, tests, and API surface area. This clashes the incentives of clearly defining your commercialized open source software with protecting it.
What is Standard Site, and why is it useful? - Leaflet Lab Notes
Lab Notes 029: explaining how Standard Site works, how it compares to RSS, and its utility for readers and publishers
R. S. Doiel, Software Engineer/Analyst — Robert's ramblings
Today the Web and Internet is owned and controlled by large for profit corporations and a few governments1. Corporate ownership combined with government policies has left us as tenant and product. It has given us a surveillance economy and enshittification2.
A quote from Daniel Stenberg
The challenge with AI in open source security has transitioned from an AI slop tsunami into more of a ... plain security report tsunami. Less slop but lots of reports. …
Riven
A modern platform for original content, genuine conversation, and a feed that's actually yours. Built on the AT Protocol.
“Policy Without Tools Is Just Poetry” - AT Protocol
Juliet Shen from ROOST joins the show to talk through the Coop 1.0 release, what open-source trust and safety unlocks for new builders, and where AI actually belongs in moderation
A quick guide to creating syndication feeds
RSS and syndication are the backbone of the web and have outlived many cycles of the tech industry. There's never been a better time to properly syndicate your content either, so Declan is here to give you a high level tour of your options.
The Algorithm, Singular
A new European ruling on algorithmic amplification determines if an operator controls how content spreads on a platform. But applying it to open social networks turns out to be a problem.
Become the Thousand Servers · Sabot Media