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Kevin Roose
@kevinroose.com

Every year, I compile a list of my favorite tech projects, and honor them in a column called the Good Tech Awards. This year, I was excited to feature LLMs for genomics, AI brain mapping, open-source maintainers, the NASA heroes who saved Voyager 1, and more. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/t...

nytimes.comThe 2024 Good Tech Awards (Gift Article)In a year of continued A.I. progress, “founder mode” drama and a Trump election win, a few tech projects stood out for their clear benefits to humanity.

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Augmenta iunera
@license-token.com

Maintainer recognition is so important these days. Thank you Would be curious if you agree that #Opensource has some fundamental problems these days.. Would you be interested to learn about a potential solution? bsky.app/profile/lice...

Augmenta iunera@license-token.com

Billions are saved with #OpenSource. However, Open Source has a #funding problem and we need to solve it. @mongodb.bsky.social introduced the server side license to make it fairer. This license and similar can it more #sustainable. Commercial usage of source code needs to finance maintenance!

Garofanino
@garofanino.bsky.social

Thank you! I agree, those nerds keeping the internet together in their spare time can‘t be praised enough! And probabely all they got for xmas was to fix their aunt‘s printer.