Re: a #Mastodon poll, @cwebber wrote:
> “Can't change a poll in progress, that would be election tampering!”

Given that #OpenSource Initiative endorses election tampering, surely it's ok in #FOSS for all purposes — #OSAID related or not.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1014603/
https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025

BTW, I'm amazed #OSI tampered w/ an election when the person w/ the longest political memory in FOSS was a candidate. I am — if nothing else — the most persistent person in #FreeSoftware. ☺

Cc: @richardfontana

I wrote a short blog post on how to identify timestamps on LinkedIn in digital investigations https://maynier.eu/blog/2025/08/02/timestamps-and-linkedin/ #OSI #OSINT

I wrote a short blog post on how to identify timestamps on LinkedIn in digital investigations https://maynier.eu/blog/2025/08/02/timestamps-and-linkedin/ #OSI #OSINT

ETHZ and EPFL announced the release of a Large Language Model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure: Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in 8B and 70B parameters configurations, using open-source training data, respecting web crawling opt-outs during data acquisition, and natively fluent in over 1000 languages. Quoting: "The model will be fully open: source code and weights will be publicly available, and the training data will be transparent and reproducible".

I don't know how good it's going to be, but if true for me this is the real definition of "open-source" in AI (not the ridiculous, corporate-promiscuous definition by the Open Source Initiative).

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html

#AI#LLM#ETH#EPFL #switzerland #eu #sovereignty #digitalsovereignty #opensource #osi #openwashing #privacy #gdpr

ETHZ and EPFL announced the release of a Large Language Model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure: Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in 8B and 70B parameters configurations, using open-source training data, respecting web crawling opt-outs during data acquisition, and natively fluent in over 1000 languages. Quoting: "The model will be fully open: source code and weights will be publicly available, and the training data will be transparent and reproducible".

I don't know how good it's going to be, but if true for me this is the real definition of "open-source" in AI (not the ridiculous, corporate-promiscuous definition by the Open Source Initiative).

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html

#AI#LLM#ETH#EPFL #switzerland #eu #sovereignty #digitalsovereignty #opensource #osi #openwashing #privacy #gdpr