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Events and Education: Slop Hype, GNUHealthCon, Hackaday Europe, and More
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Education
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Raspberry Pi ☛ Bring AI literacy into every classroom with our new themed resources
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already part of young people’s everyday lives, from the content recommended to them on social media to the generative AI tools they increasingly encounter. But AI technologies are also being used to tackle challenges in the wider world, from forecasting floods to monitoring our environment.
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Hackaday ☛ Hackaday Europe 2026: Bare Metal Made Easy
When we talk about programming in “bare metal,” it basically means writing software that runs right on the hardware with no operating system or abstraction layers in between. This gives the program the most direct possible access to peripherals and memory, with the tradeoff being that you don’t get the protection and ancillary features that come with an OS.
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Eric McClure ☛ Of Course Open-Source Uses AI
The reason this keeps happening is because open-source projects are competing for one extraordinarily scarce resource: a programmer’s spoons (time and energy). They are forced to compete because people only use software that fixes their problems. They don’t care how, only that it does. Thus, whoever ships something wins, no matter how shitty it is. In academia, you publish or perish - in open-source, you ship or sink. This pressure forces open-source projects to rely on anyone willing to help, and heavily incentivizes turning a blind eye to any questionable beliefs held by those people. This pressure is immense, and those who have not attempted to maintain an open-source project likely aren’t aware of just how bad it is.
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GNU Projects
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GNU Health: GNUHealthCon 2026 – XI Free Software and Social Medicine Conference
Dear community
The XI edition of GNUHealthCon will take place in Gran Canaria, Spain, this December 18th, and you are invited!
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In this edition, besides the technical and social talks, we will have the space to commemorate these 20 years. During these two decades we have gone through many things. We have many happy stories to share, but we also have sad ones, that made us learn and be more resilient. Stories of people from countries around the world that have conformed this wonderful community around GNU Solidario. Stories and experiences that have made GNU Health the leading Free/Libre Health and Hospital Information System.
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Openwashing
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Open Source Initiative ☛ We Must Open the Frontier: OSI, OFAI Support Calls for the U.S. to Develop More Open Models [Ed: Microsoft OSI continues to promote slop plagiarism (with openwashing), i.e. it participates in a malicious Ponzi scheme in exchange for dirty, unethical money]
The OSI joins the Open Forum for Hey Hi (AI) (OFAI) in supporting calls for the U.S. to develop more open models.
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