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Morgen is er weer een interessante kennissessie ism @opensource en @codefornl in Utrecht.

Tijdens de kennisessie nemen Esmeralda Tijhoff en Bas van der Ven (DICTU Web&App) je mee in hun ervaring met de community rondom het generieke Drupal Intranet. Dit intranet is open source ontwikkeld en wordt binnen de rijksoverheid breed ingezet.

Aanmelden kan via:
opensourcewerken.nl/events/vie

Zou leuk zijn daar wat van jullie te zien!

Opensourcewerken · Opensource communitybouwen: Hoe werkt dat bij Drupal?Elke maand organiseren we een kenissessie met een professional die vertelt over een interessante opensource-casus. Het onderwerp van deze kennissessie is de community rondom het generieke…
#ospo#oss#foss

Currently exploring Block’s Goose tool… seems to be pretty good for programming.. and you can bring your OWN API keys!! (thanks jack)

not sure why it’s talking so much about #OSS LLMs when you bring your own proprietary keys.. whatever. it’s cool

github.com/block/goose?tab=rea

an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM - block/goose
GitHubGitHub - block/goose: an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLMan open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM - block/goose

Shower thought I had today: If you want to prevent your software from being used against your wishes by large companies or government agencies, it would probably be far more effective to call it something rude or politically charged rather than applying a dual license on a source available software. Like naming it the "DEI-LGBTQ-Cocksucker-Tiananmen-1989" v1.3.2-rc.1. I bet you wouldn't see that used much in the U.S., Russia, or China no matter how great the software is. Those that do use it still would probably honor the license. #showerthoughts #oss #opensource #licensing

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▪️ die Digitale Souveränität stärken

▪️ Innovationen in europäischen Softwareprojekten fördern

▪️ die Rolle von #OSS für Modernisierung und Resilienz der Öffentlichen Verwaltung hervorheben

▪️ die Wahrnehmung und Sichtbarkeit von #OpenSource-Projekten erhöhen

▪️ den Austausch zwischen Entscheider:innen, Fachleuten und Open-Source-Communities intensivieren

▪️ eine nachhaltige Open-Source-Kultur in der Öffentlichen Verwaltung etablieren

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Today in Labor History April 13, 1953: CIA Director Allen Dulles launched the MKUltra mind control program. The program ran from 1953 to 1973. It involved giving human subjects LSD and other drugs, often without their knowledge. Then, researchers would try to “weaken” their minds and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. Over 7,000 U.S. war veterans were unwitting test subjects, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians. The program was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the CIA, recruited many of these Nazi torturers in the wake of World War II to exploit their knowledge and research. MKUltra was headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who later devised plans to kill Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar, and saturating his shoes with radioactive thallium to make his beard fall out. He also tried to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, with poison. Several well-known liberals and radicals knowingly participated in MKUltra and its OSS predecessors, either as test subjects (e.g., Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hunter), or as researchers (e.g., anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson). Others who have been alleged to have been victims or volunteers include Sirhan Sirhan, Ted Kaczyinski, Charles Manson, and Whitey Bulger.

For a really fascinating look at Margaret Mead's and Gregory Bateson’s exploration with hallucinogens and their connection to MKUltra, check out the recent book, Tripping on Utopia, by Benjamin Breen. And for a truly amazing documentary on the 1961 CIA-supported coup in Congo, check out the 2024 documentary, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” But the film is really about so much more than the coup. It covers Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations in the early 1960s; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #cia #mindcontrol #torture #lsd #mkultra #castro #nazis #oss #allenginsberg #lumumba #malcolmx #coltrane #jazz #imperialism #kenkesey #margaretmead #charlesmanson #mescaline #castro #soviet #coldwar #books #nonfiction #ussr #communism #film #documentary @bookstadon

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“Jedburgh Team AMMONIA under American Captain Benton McDonald (“Mac”) Austin, <French 2nd Lt Verneuil>, and American radioman Sergeant Jacob B. (“Jack”) Berlin, were able to slow down, through blasted bridges and railroad lines, a crack German armored division, the 2nd SS Panzer (“Das Reich”) Division, as it struggled to reach the invasion beachhead from southwestern France.” (2/2)

#WW2 #OSS #Jedburgh #DDay

nps.gov/articles/oss-in-action

www.nps.govOSS in Action The Mediterranean and European Theaters (U.S. National Park Service)