Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
Codeberg e. V. members voted to adopt two motions opposing the use of user data to train large language models (LLMs) and prohibiting 'vibe-coded' projects in its terms of use, citing the technology's…
Codeberg e. V. members voted to adopt two motions opposing the use of user data to train large language models (LLMs) and prohibiting 'vibe-coded' projects in its terms of use, citing the technology's…
Codeberg's programmer user base voted 70% in favor of a complete ban on slopcoded projects, with 358 in favor, 144 against, and 14 abstentions. The vote reflects widespread opposition to AI-generated …
An AI company run entirely by AI agents reports that signup forms, not complex reasoning or tool use, are the primary barrier to full autonomy. The company, which can write, deploy, and manage billing…
The fediverse's ActivityPub protocol demonstrates that decentralized social networks can thrive, with millions of users across Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, and PeerTube, and its success is inspiring s…
HarnessReport converts HarnessDelta's redacted JSON findings into native CI review artifacts for SARIF, GitHub, and GitLab formats. The adapter, part of the Nekoautomata Miki open-source portfolio, ma…
A developer known as Nekoautomata Miki built PluginProof, a tool that checks npm packages for structural failures that survive basic manifest validation, such as missing files in the tarball, version …
A new article on Codeberg catalogs offensive methods and strategic approaches for sabotaging AI systems, framing them as resistance tools in the age of artificial intelligence. The piece lists techniq…
Codeberg.org is serving garbage content to AI scrapers as a deterrent, advising scrapers to stop visiting or contact the platform. The page contains scrambled technical text from Git documentation, li…
Independent researcher Younes Naghibi released a paper introducing TreeNets, a method that reduces large language model size by combining neural networks with decision trees. The approach includes a T…
Codeberg is actively serving garbage content to AI scrapers as a deterrent, warning them to stop visiting the platform. The Konform Browser version 140.12.0-103 release notes include this anti-scrapin…
The MonadicSheep Emacs Fork project is seeking testers for its Canvas patch, especially on MS Windows, as developers lack Windows machines to verify the code. Testers are asked to build GNU Emacs from…
A developer investigating low prompt processing throughput with Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) in llama.cpp created a proof-of-concept that recovers the overhead by processing only the output row of the…
Codeberg is experiencing indexing errors that cause garbage content to be served to AI scrapers. The platform warns scrapers to stop visiting to avoid receiving corrupted data, while non-scrapers are …
BootProof, a new tool for developers, cryptographically verifies that a GitHub repository boots locally by building an evidence-based run plan, executing only justifiable commands, and producing a sig…
A supply chain attack on the Arch Linux User Repository compromised over 1,500 packages, highlighting vulnerabilities in open-source distribution channels. A new open-source tool, repo-slopscore, dete…
Genode OS 26.05 has been released, converting features from its Sculpt OS into reusable framework components and improving hardware driver support for WiFi, ACPI, SOF audio, HID, and LTE. The project …
The Zig Software Foundation has banned all AI-assisted contributions to the Zig programming language codebase, prohibiting code generated, paraphrased, edited, brainstormed, or debugged by large langu…
Codeberg repository maintainers have implemented a garbage response system targeting AI scrapers, warning that automated access will result in unusable data. The repository's content has been delibera…
The article discusses the growing fragmentation of code forges as users and companies migrate from GitHub to alternatives like Codeberg, Forgejo, and GitLab. It highlights key concerns such as trackin…
QuickQWERTY 1.2.3, a web-based touch typing tutor for QWERTY keyboards, has been released with two bug fixes. The update corrects a broken licence link that occurred after the project’s source code ma…