my my how the tables have tabled

Thanks to Natwest for providing their Goagerburn conference centre as the venue and to our sponsors: Arm, Microsoft, GitHub, Control Plane, and Percona.

Tables and sponsorship opportunities available.

We are also looking for volunteers to support the event on the day.

#openuk #openhq #aiscotland

Early bird tickets until midnight on 6 May, and the price increases to £149 on 7 May. Tickets include catering and the conference party on 4 June.

Free ticket allocation is available for the community, students and those between jobs. Please send an application explaining which category and how you qualify to receive an individual code, mailto:admin@openuk.uk

Register: https://luma.com/z2py8ph4

Speaker reveal on 7 May, so please stay tuned.

#opensource #AI #opensourceai #aiskills

📣State of Open Con 26 is On The Road 🚘 and Early Bird Tickets for Edinburgh, on 5th June, are available at a discounted £99 until 6 May!

The day will focus on the AI stack, working up from Compute through Models and Agents to user experiences and ROI with an openness slant. You can guarantee that there will be a fair level of debate around sovereignty in the AI Stack as we look at open source software, data, hardware, standards and AI.

https://stateofopencon.com/edinburgh-soocon26/

#stateofopencon #soocon26

Early bird tickets until midnight on 6 May, and the price increases to £149 on 7 May. Tickets include catering and the conference party on 4 June.

Free ticket allocation is available for the community, students and those between jobs. Please send an application explaining which category and how you qualify to receive an individual code, mailto:admin@openuk.uk

Register: https://luma.com/z2py8ph4

Speaker reveal on 7 May, so please stay tuned.

#opensource #AI #opensourceai #aiskills

📣State of Open Con 26 is On The Road 🚘 and Early Bird Tickets for Edinburgh, on 5th June, are available at a discounted £99 until 6 May!

The day will focus on the AI stack, working up from Compute through Models and Agents to user experiences and ROI with an openness slant. You can guarantee that there will be a fair level of debate around sovereignty in the AI Stack as we look at open source software, data, hardware, standards and AI.

https://stateofopencon.com/edinburgh-soocon26/

#stateofopencon #soocon26

Klar, wenn der Staat Geld braucht, immer von denen nehmen, die sich nicht wehren können. Wir wollen ja nicht, dass ein Milliardär eine Yacht verkaufen muss!

Es wird wirklich wieder Zeit für Strassenproteste.

At @Vivaldi, we agree with Mozilla's Jank Architect. The Prompt API isn't a Web API, and we drown it in a bucket at compile time. https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/30/mozilla_pushes_back_against_googles/

Bella Ciao 🎶🎵 🎶🎵 🎶

Why are AI people so monumentally *bad* at copyright?

I'm looking for ethical/copyright-safe training data sets. Common Corpus sells itself as that... but then I go read the paper and they include CC BY-SA scientific papers and GPL stuff from GitHub, and then in models trained on that dataset they proudly state:

> Only trained on open data under a permissible [sic?] license [...] By design, all Pleias model are unable to output copyrighted content.

Um, no?? CC BY-SA is not public domain, it's a copyright license. You can't train on CC BY-SA content and then claim your model is any more copyright-safe than whatever Google and Meta are releasing. It just means you're violating the copyright of people releasing content under open licenses only.

@lautreg non. je parle des suspects que j’ai identifiés, je sais que le serveur est connecté au net : il sert une application web qui fonctionne. tu n’as pas le contexte, je ne cherche pas d’assistance.

1 May 1911 | A Frenchman, Jean Reich, was born in Arcueil.

In #Auschwitz from 8 July 1942.
No. 46041
He perished in the camp on 14 February 1943.

@iamkonstantin okay, in that case… €43 for 1.5TB is actually pretty good

I am writing this on Tusky, which is free software that someone had to write. It is running on an older Android phone, which someone had to assemble from components that other people had to make from raw materials that still other people had to produce.

You are reading this because it was transmitted via a sophisticated international communications system which someone had to design and someone else had to make from raw materials that someone else had to produce.

The electricity also had to be produced by someone, using machinery made by someone else.

Happy May Day, y'all. The world is nothing without our labour. Our masters know this; we should too.

@TheBreadmonkey Congratulations bro, you just reinvented monastic culture

Do not mock a hanged man, or else he might make a house call!

#PhantomsFriday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Visit_of_the_Hanged_Man

The #Filton6 took an unusual move yesterday and dismissed their legal representatives. This afforded them an opportunity to speak directly to the jury.
What they say to them is seriously profound as it is troubling, detaling the inconsistent nature of the prosecution as well as the complicity of the British State.

The press are not allowed to report their words

Once again, I am indebted to @strangetown for finding this xx

#PalestineAction
#gaza
#freepalestine

https://realmedia.press/filton-6-closing-speech-1/

@okias oh wow this is crazy, will this work on oneplus6 too?

🚀 Big milestone for the SHIFT 6MQ!

Just got it running through dockstation with:
✔️ keyboard
✔️ mouse
✔️ ethernet
✔️ ...DisplayPort output 🎉

Full external display support is now working, thanks to some hands-on implementation and a few extra patches on top of sdm845 Linux.

Plug it in, and you’ve got a proper desktop experience.

Running: https://codeberg.org/sdm845/linux + few custom patches which I'll try to finish today.

#SHIFT6mq #sdm845 #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile #LinuxOnMobile