If you maintain an open source package, set up a standing search on scholar.google.com for your package name. You'll get gmail notifications of published papers referencing your package.

It's truly gratifying to see students and research teams making use of my pyparsing package to parse data sets and DSLs, so they can quickly get past the pesky parser development stage and get on with the business of their actual field of study. #pyparsing #python #google #oss #opensource

Germany sends €204.5M to Microsoft annually while European open-source projects need investment.

Our Account Manager's analysis shows how redirecting these funds could:
End vendor lock-in cycles
Strengthen data sovereignty
Create local tech jobs
Support FLOSS innovation

XWiki, CryptPad and other open-source solutions prove alternatives exist, they just need proper funding.
Read more : https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/why-governments-should-invest-in-open-source/

#OpenSource #FLOSS #oss @ueeu #tech #technology

We've told many of users to "stay tuned" for news on our #Android app - well, here it is!

Quad9 Connect is now available on F-Droid! If you're new to #FDroid check out our blog post for more information!

https://www.quad9.net/news/blog/quad9-connect-now-on-f-droid/

If you're using #Serverless Framework, and you really don't want to move to v4 because they've now made it pay to play, you can use this Open Source version:
https://github.com/oss-serverless/serverless

Pretty much a drop in replacement

Did you know that I'm co-organizing a supply-chain security mini-track at the #PyConUS2025 open spaces?

Open source users and maintainers are invited to attend for short talks and discussions with security-interested Pythonistas.

https://sethmlarson.dev/pycon-us-2025-security-mini-summit

April 14/15, 1945: On this date, the disaster plagued Office of Strategic Services’ NORSO Group that had been inserted into Nazi occupied Norway for Operation RYPE destroyed the Tangen Bridge. 8 days later, the team destroyed 2 1/2 km of nearby railroad track. (1/2)

#WW2 #OSS #NORSO #Norway

https://historycollection.com/cia-director-william-colby-got-his-start-blowing-up-stuff-in-nazi-occupied-europe/3/

Als ideeller Träger unterstützt das ZenDiS den diesjährigen Open-Source-Wettbewerb der @OSBA

Der Wettbewerb soll den Einsatz von #OSS in der Öffentlichen Verwaltung fördern und so:

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Today in Labor History April 13, 1953: CIA Director Allen Dulles launched the MKUltra mind control program. The program ran from 1953 to 1973. It involved giving human subjects LSD and other drugs, often without their knowledge. Then, researchers would try to “weaken” their minds and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. Over 7,000 U.S. war veterans were unwitting test subjects, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians. The program was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the CIA, recruited many of these Nazi torturers in the wake of World War II to exploit their knowledge and research. MKUltra was headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who later devised plans to kill Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar, and saturating his shoes with radioactive thallium to make his beard fall out. He also tried to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, with poison. Several well-known liberals and radicals knowingly participated in MKUltra and its OSS predecessors, either as test subjects (e.g., Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hunter), or as researchers (e.g., anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson). Others who have been alleged to have been victims or volunteers include Sirhan Sirhan, Ted Kaczyinski, Charles Manson, and Whitey Bulger.

For a really fascinating look at Margaret Mead's and Gregory Bateson’s exploration with hallucinogens and their connection to MKUltra, check out the recent book, Tripping on Utopia, by Benjamin Breen. And for a truly amazing documentary on the 1961 CIA-supported coup in Congo, check out the 2024 documentary, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” But the film is really about so much more than the coup. It covers Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations in the early 1960s; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #cia #mindcontrol #torture #lsd #mkultra #castro #nazis #oss #allenginsberg #lumumba #malcolmx #coltrane #jazz #imperialism #kenkesey #margaretmead #charlesmanson #mescaline #castro #soviet #coldwar #books #nonfiction #ussr #communism #film #documentary @bookstadon

Just switched from #LibreWolf to #Floorp #Browser on my #Arch and #Gentoo computers. I swear that it's faster than LibreWolf and standard #Firefox because a lot of pages just load instantly now.

In oktober komt Windows met een nieuwe versie en. 1 op de 5 computers en laptops die nu nog goed draaien op Windows 10 dreigen dan onbruikbaar te worden.
Wereldwijd gaat het om 240 miljoen laptops en computers. Repair Café International wil voorkomen dat al die pparaten worden weggegooid en biedt hulp bij het installeren van een alternatief.

Luister het NPO Radio 1 ragment van vanochtend hierover terug op https://www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/nieuwsweekend/01962907-9cce-7007-95eb-031cd13e9588/2025-04-12-repair-cafe-heeft-list-om-250-miljoen-computers-van-de-schroot-te-redden

Belangstellenden kunnen op 23 april en 14 mei komen ‘aanwaaien’ om de 51e editie van de opgraving door #Leidse studenten #archeologie in #Oss te bezichtigen.
https://www.kliknieuwsoss.nl/nieuws/historie/235367/neem-een-kijkje-bij-een-archeologisch-onderzoek-in-oss

What is the most recommended #PasswordManager amongst the #OpenSource and #InfoSec worlda at present, for users primarily on #Linux and #Android.

Anything I can self-host the backend/data of?

April 9, 1914: On this date, Serbian-American George Musulin was born in New York City. He served in the Office of Strategic Services in WW2 & successfully led the evacuation of some 447 US airmen from Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia as part of Operation HALYARD.

#OSS #WW2 #Yugoslavia #Serbia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Musulin

I'm hiring a Technical Lead for CollectionSpace. More information at https://lyrasis.isolvedhire.com/jobs/1459664-382443.html #fedihire #oss