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May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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alfchee

Apr 6

Pocket Studio: Bringing High-Performance Speech AI to Your CPU

#ai #python #docker #opensource

2 min read

Niklas

Apr 6

I built a forensics documentation tool because my university course drove me crazy

#forensics #security #linux #opensource

2 min read

Omer faruk Isil

Apr 6

I built an intelligence database because Resident Evil made me obsessed with classified files as a kid

#laravel #react #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Arshvir

Apr 6

I create my own AI OS

#ai #linux #opensource #automation

2 min read

Rory | QIS PROTOCOL

Apr 6

QIS Outcome Routing with SQLite — Quadratic Intelligence on Any Device, No Server Required

#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

8 min read

Apr 6

DMCA Takedown Notice Issued Against Gallery-DL: Owner Considers Compliance or Platform Migration

#dmca #opensource #copyright #migration

8 min read

Damien Gallagher

Apr 6

Nvidia’s SchedMD Deal Is a Warning Sign: AI Is Now About Control of the Stack

#ai #infrastructure #opensource #antitrust

3 min read

Behram

Apr 6

Uncensoring AI: How to Surgically Remove an LLM's Refusal Mechanism

#ai #tutorial #opensource #security

2 min read

Apr 6

Escaping Pilot Purgatory: How Semantix-ai v0.1.5 Built the Immutable Trust Layer for AI Agents

#ai #python #opensource #security

7 min read

Apr 6

OSIRIS JSON a new journey beyond silos and tribal knowledge

#opensource #devops #architecture #infrastructure

4 min read

iSevenBe

Apr 10

Your Kubernetes backups are lying to you

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #sre

4 min read

Apr 6

Why "Optimize Your Images" Is Bad Advice

#ai #webdev #productivity #opensource

2 min read

KevinTen

Apr 20

Building Digital Souls: The Brutal Reality of Creating AI That Understands You Like Nobody Else

#ai #opensource

7 min read

Glenn Sonna for Xybrid

Apr 6

Run AI Models On-Device — Zero Config, Five Minutes

#ai #rust #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

Apr 6

How I serve 12,237 law pages in 0.3 seconds with Astro and zero client JavaScript

#astro #webdev #opensource #performance

5 min read

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