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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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Jun 22

Why we pay AI to undo the failures of PDFs (Introducing UDS 1.0)

#software #opensource #cryptography #webdev

6 min read

Jun 22

Every hash chain company builds on rented land. Regulatory Compliance Mapping in Cryptographic Ledgers doesn't.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

4 min read

Jun 22

We built Terminal-Based Developer Experience so you never have to trust anyone.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

4 min read

Jun 22

Every browser engine company builds on rented land. Anti-Enshittification doesn't.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

3 min read

Jun 22

There is no patch for cloud browser engine. Only Spatial Web Browsing.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

4 min read

Jun 22

We solved monotonic ledger lifecycle management without telling anyone's server.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

3 min read

Jun 22

Encryption at Rest is now sovereign. The cloud is optional.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

4 min read

Jun 22

TensorSharp: .NET Native Open Source Local LLM Inference Engine

#ai #llm #opensource #programming

1 min read

Jun 22

Privacy Implications of Local vs Cloud AI Inference changes everything about p2p.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

3 min read

Jun 22

You don't need the internet to run research - document 05 ? local ai inference performance. We made sure of it.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

4 min read

Jun 22

Every vector search startup is wrong about hierarchical vs. graph file systems.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

4 min read

Jun 22

I Built RAG From Scratch in Python to Understand It. Here's What I Learned.

#python #ai #softwareengineering #opensource

11 min read

Shahraan Hussain

Jun 22

I Tested an Open-Source Anti-Bot Firewall (Anubis) Against Requests, AsyncIO, Selenium, and Playwright

#antibot #firewall #ai #opensource

4 min read

Jun 22

We solved hash-chained audit trails for ai-assisted software developme without telling anyone's server.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

4 min read

Jun 22

The cloud was never necessary for Ed25519 State Proofs for Offline Audit Verification. Here's why.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

4 min read

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