it’s a little disingenuous to refer to #LLMs as #opensource because you can really only open source an LLM in roughly the same way you open source a microprocessor — RISCV is open source, the plans for it anyway, but it still costs millions to riff off it and make your own custom version, same with LLMs. that’s not exactly what open source was going for
ICYMI: We're proud to announce the AlmaLinux Engineering Steering Committee (ALESCo)!
ALESCo is a group of #engineers involved in using and developing AlmaLinux, formed into a committee that will guide AlmaLinux's technical progression and growth.
Wrapping up a very productive GNOME design call… about accent colors! We addressed every single blocking topic and have a clear way forward. I don’t want to promise anything specific (especially timelines), buuuut it’s looking good to me.
I might write up a blog post to summarize the direction once we sort some of the little details out. But there’s a pretty good consensus across half a dozen or so people doing the work—harder than it sounds. 😅
Since I've just been asked again why some of the https://thi.ng/umbrella examples in the repo are not working when copy/pasting the source code into a new (external, I assume) project — there could be several reasons...
The default branch of the repo is develop and usually does contain code which hasn't been released yet (as library/package). If in doubt, please switch to the main branch which contains the state as of the most recent release cycle...
Related to #1, there could be breaking API changes on the develop branch (as is the case for the current major undertaking of thi.ng/geom v8.0.0) and some of the examples are already using the new/upcoming API...
Rare, but possible, I've forgotten to declare dependencies for an example and you might encounter broken imports. Since 2022 I've got a custom tool to verify imports and exports of all packages and examples (and which is run prior to each release), so this shouldn't happen anymore...
Personally, I'm only using a bundler setup/workflow (@vite) and had zero problems in the past few years. However, some people using ESM imports directly have been encountering weird issues with some transpilation features of JS CDNs (e.g. skypack) in the past, but these shouldn't happen with more modern ones like https://esm.run.
Finally, all packages have a generally uniform readme structure, incl. "install/import instructions". For examples, there're also these wiki pages:
Gary is organising OggCamp this year, so we wonder what makes the perfect Linux and open source event. Plus why we don’t use multiple partitions for home and swap etc.
The Fedora Podcast returns! @itguyeric is back, this time joined by Peter Boy to discuss documentation in Fedora. This episode is prerecorded and going live on Tue, Jun 11 at 5pm EDT (9pm UTC).
Congrats to @andrewrk & team to the new Zig v0.13.0 release! So exciting! 🚀🤩
Thankfully there were only very minor changes to be done on my end this time around, and I've just updated the build file & readme for https://thi.ng/wasm-api to be compatible with this new Zig version (the older build files are still kept around for those who might need it...). Also tested all the bundled examples, all working fine!
Thanks to Adobe’s licensing shenanigans today I learned about @penpot1, an open-source design tool that you can self-host and gives you HTML+CSS+SVG code that represents your designs.
I remember having found something similar just for macOS, but I cannot remember the name now…
Spent some extra time today responding to an issue a user reported, as I noticed it was their first interaction with the project. Life as an #OpenSource maintainer may not be glamorous, but when that extra effort results in feedback like this later... incredibly rewarding.
There aren’t enough characters for us to tell you about all the incredible things that the sourmash package, a command-line tool and Python/Rust library for metagenome analysis and genome comparison using k-mers, does, but we promise that you’re going to want to check out this incredible package from Tessa Pierce-Ward, Titus Brown, and Luiz Irber!