Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code (Altair BASIC source released) | by Bill Gates.

https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code

I'm keynoting SOSS Community Day NA and speaking at Open Source Summit NA, see you in Denver June 23-26!

https://sched.co/1zolR
https://sched.co/1zfl7

Announcing Windows Community Toolkit v8.2 | by Michael Hawker.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/ifdef-windows/announcing-windows-community-toolkit-v8-2/

Open Source Experiences

A podcast for your morning, afternoon, and all other UTC offsets. This episode features the BSD community's renowned leader for all things CFT, OpenZFS, FreeBSD, and many more Open Source topics in-between: Michael Dexter - @dexter

"Open doesn't Always Mean Accessible", from My Open Source Experience Podcast

So then, let's listen to tales of OSS in the episode! Links to various syndicated apps below.

- Podverse: https://podverse.fm/episode/kr9LJXJi3
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ke/podcast/my-open-source-experience-podcast/id1726085697
- ACast: https://shows.acast.com/my-open-source-experience-podcast/episodes/open-doesnt-always-mean-accessible

It's not 2FA, MFA, nor passkeys, but it'll let you (and everyone else) create better passwords

"Random Password Generator. No cookies, no trackers. Just passwords."

https://password.oppetmoln.se

Free to use, free to self-host.

#infosec #passwords #cybersec #cybersecurity #devops #security #opensource #oss #foss #privacy

@oppetmoln

Noch ein letztes mal: #KleineAnfrage von @ankedb zeigt: Der am 1. April gestarteten deutschen #Verwaltungscloud fehlts an Voraussetzungen für #Souveränität : Türen offen für US-Hyperscaler, Tür zu für das #ITZ-Bund , Netze des Bundes nicht nutzbar, homöopathischer Anteil #OpenSource . Noch einmal: Wo bleibt die digitale Unabhängigkeit, wo bleibt #unplugtrump https://mdb.anke.domscheit-berg.de/2025/04/pressemitteilung-cloud-souveranitat/ #oss #eGov #cloud @dielinke

Clandestine daggers & knives used by the Office of Strategic Services and the Special Operations Executive during WW2:

#WW2 #SOE #OSS

https://www.fairbairnsykesfightingknives.com/thumb-daggers-etc.html

Brief primer on the Special Operations Branches and Detachments of the Office of Strategic Services:

#OSS #WW2

https://arsof-history.org/oss/index.html

#CIA Dirty Secrets: #OperationSunrise, Allen Dulles' plan for how the #OSS bypassed the #US government and #FDR's policies to save the Nazis from #Nuremberg and build an anti-communist Europe after the war

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjMO3AB6r5s

April 1, 1942: Area B, the Office of Strategic Services training facility at Catoctin Mountain, Maryland, was established on this date.

#WW2 #OSS #Maryland #USA

https://www.nps.gov/cato/learn/historyculture/oss-training.htm

OSS Armv9.2 Motherboard

Radxa Orion O6 ... I must have one. I WILL have one!

The first ARMv9.2 open-source motherboard, designed for ai computing and engineering.

Cix P1 SoC CPU
- 4x Cortex-A720 (big)
- 4x Cortex-A720 (med)
- 4x Cortex-A520 (little)
- 12MB Shared L3

Mem, I/O, Net
- 64GB LPDDR5 RAM
- 4x display outputs
- 2x 5GbE networking
- PCIe Gen4 x8 lane (x16 physical)

GPU, NPU
- Arm Immortals: G720 MC10
- Hardware‑based Ray‑Tracing
- OpenGL ES3.2, OpenCL 3.0, Vulkan 1.3
- 30 TOPs, INT4, INT8, INT16, FP16, BF16, TF32

- https://docs.radxa.com/en/orion/o6/getting-started/introduction
- https://arace.tech/products/radxa-orion-o6

Today, #AWS announced an extended $3 million annual commitment to #Kubernetes, reaffirming our commitment to supporting open source projects with the vital infrastructure they need to operate at global scale. For free.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/aws-cloud-credits-for-open-source-projects-affirming-our-commitment/

I'm looking for help desk software right now, and I'm realizing that I'm not looking for open source tools so that I can build/deploy/maintain them myself. In fact, I very much want to pay someone for the trouble of hosting the software and working on it--I'm an obsessive (in a bad way) sysadmin and a middling coder.

What I'm looking for is really more of a commitment that the developer won't screw me later. #OSS isn't a guarantee of that, of course, but it's a pretty good proxy.

Hi folks, I'm trying to jumpstart federation on my little gotosocial instance and get a more full feed of things to read and interact with.

I could use your help. If you could boost this, I would appreciate it. If you see this and favorite it, I will follow you if your interests seem to align with mine.

I'm not asking for follows... rather I'm asking for you to help me shout out into the ether that I'M looking for people to follow. My main interests are going to be hashtagged below.

By the way, the way hashtags work here is that currently, if I search, I only see what my server is already knows about... which would mean just the folks I follow, since I'm a single-user instance. Not very helpful

I will also be using one of my apps that can load the main feed from other servers, to see if I see something interesting. If you see a follow from me and come here to check me out... I mean you no harm and I come in peace.

Thanks all!

#linux #fedora #foss #floss #oss #fediverse #raspberrypi #technology #gnome #polymerclay #fantasy #scifi #adventuremotorcycles

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