Is AI killing open source? As LLMs and coding agents reduce reliance on small open-source libraries and make large ones harder to maintain, the future of open source looks smaller, quieter, and much more exclusive.

Is AI killing open source?
> In sum, we don’t need more code; we need more care. Care for the humans who shepherd the communities and create code that will endure beyond a simple prompt.
www.infoworld.com/article/4129...
#opensource #maintanance #review #cost

Back from the engine room. Everything is up to date on our Mastodon instance:

Mastodon :mastodon: : 4.5.0-rc.3
Ruby: 3.4.7
PostgreSQL :postgres: : 18.0
Redis: 8.0.2
Elasticsearch: 7.17.29

Also all operating system updates deployed and re-organized the […]

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Now running Mastodon v4.5-beta1 on our instance burningboard.net. This release allows for example to quote toots.

Also updated Ruby to version 3.4.7 🙂

All looking perfectly stable from the engine room !

#mastodon #mastoadmin #maintanance #update #ruby @tux

Update of Mastodon to v4.4.6 for our Instance burningboard.net was done successfullt. We're on the latest version again.

Mastodon 4.4.6 :mastodon:
PostgreSQL 18 :postgres:
Debian GNU/Linux 13 :debian:

#mastodon #mastoadmin #updates #maintanance #up2date #burningboard

Mastodon update to v4.4.4 on burningboard.net has been installed :mastodon:

#mastodon #mastoadmin #maintanance #up2date #burningboard

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Homelab Maintanance 2025-06-29:

- Upgraded Red Hat Satellite to version 6.17.1

- Upgraded Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 (RPM) to 2.4-12

- Upgraded Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 (Containerized) to 2.5-15

- Patched Proxmox hypervisors to latest version […]

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And another successful round of home- and colo-lab maintainance:

- Updated Proxmox VE servers to v.8.3.4
- Updated Proxmox backup server to v.3.3.3
- Updated all Debian/GNU Linux servers (including the
burningboard.net Mastodon instance) with the latest patches and rebooted them
- Updated Red […]