posthole (@posthole@social.posthole.net)
THE POSTHOLE
Saturday, 18 April 2026 · Evening Edition · Vol. 1 No. 129
MJD 61148.87
LEAD — WORLD
Bayern keen on Villa's Rogers - Sunday's gossip
-- BBC News
Bayern Munich are keen on Aston Villa's Morgan Rogers, Curtis Jones is preparing to leave Liverpool, and Real Madrid are considering appointing Jose Mourinho again.
WORLD
▸ Miettinen dies in seven-car crash during Nurburgring race
-- BBC News
Racing driver Juha Miettinen dies following a seven-car crash during the qualifiers for a race in Germany.
▸ Howe's biggest Newcastle challenge yet as questions grow on his future
-- BBC News
▸ A mass shooting in Ukraine's capital leaves 6 dead before police shot and killed the gunman
-- NPR News
IN BRIEF
• Critical flaw in Protobuf library enables JavaScript code execution -- BleepingComputer
• Microsoft Teams right-click paste broken by Edge update bug -- BleepingComputer
• NAKIVO v11.2: Ransomware Defense, Faster Replication, vSphere 9, and Proxmox VE 9.0... -- BleepingComputer
• AWS Announces General Availability of DevOps Agent for Automated Incident Investigation -- InfoQ
• Pulumi Adds Full Bun Runtime Support -- InfoQ
SECTIONS
Account Avoidance: Happy one month, Patches! 🥹🐾 #opensource
Tech Talk: Young sons of U.S. marshal ride horseback from Oklahoma to New... #tech
Politics Fightbox: I Want to Have a Baby With My Wife. She Has Some Upsetting... #politics
Books Bundle: After the Mystics #books
Guns Galore: Aimpoint ICE: A More Aesthetic 1990s Prototype Red Dot #firearms
Science Showcase: The science behind the peptide craze #science
USA News Firehose: Family throws surprise birthday party at Eagles tailgate for... #USnews
Comic Collection: Hark, A Vagrant: Away From Desk #comics
Music Hotline: How Sunn O))) Taught Us to Listen Beneath the Surface #music
Gaming Greatness: Hela title changed to Hela: of Mice & Magic; ‘In Tune with... #gaming
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bipbop (@bipbop@mstdn.forfun.su)
📝 Daily report 📈
Here are today's most popular trending hashtags #⃣ on our website 🌐️:
#kde, #solus, #nsfw, #freebsd, #arte, #opensource, #ollama, #foss, #drawing, #terminal, #video, #fedora, #watercolor
🔥 Stay tuned! 🔥
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sayzard (@sayzard@mastodon.sayzard.org)
Sudo su (@sudoingX)
llama.cpp 웹 UI에서 Gemma 4 31B dense가 프롬프트 한 줄만으로 GPU 마켓플레이스 카드 UI를 한 번에 생성했다는 사례다. 프롬프트 엔지니어링이나 에이전트 도구 없이도 로컬 모델이 실제 제품 수준의 UI 코드를 만들어낸 점이 주목된다.
https://x.com/sudoingX/status/2045468708307673454
#llamacpp #gemma #localllm #uigeneration #opensource
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jaenatech (@jaenatech@mastodon.social)
Кевін Вейл і Білл Піблз залишають OpenAI після реорганізації та згортання частини внутрішніх проєктів #technology #it #opensource #freeinternet' - https://gagadget.com/uk/705767-kevin-veil-i-bill-piblz-zalishaiut-openai-pislia-reorganizatsiyi-ta-zgortannia-chastini-vnutrishnikh-proiektiv/
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stillhq (@stillhq@mastodon.social)
Working on automatic driver installation on new installations of stillOS. Will be available within a couple weeks. #linux #opensource #FOSS
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manolomarcosp (@manolomarcosp@mastodon.social)
Local AI without the headaches.
I built xagentai-net-coding-agent: a free, cross-platform app bundling chat, a file-handling agent, plan mode, image generation (AUTOMATIC1111), and MemPalace — the top-rated free AI memory system.
All you need is LMStudio or Ollama.
https://xagentai.net/xagentai-net-coding-agent/
#AI #OpenSource #LocalLLM #Ollama #LMStudio #AIAgents
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manolomarcosp (@manolomarcosp@mastodon.social)
IA local sin complicaciones.
He creado xagentai-net-coding-agent: app gratuita y multiplataforma que integra chat, agente de ficheros, modo plan, generación de imágenes (AUTOMATIC1111) y MemPalace, el sistema de memoria de IA mejor puntuado.
Solo necesitas LMStudio u Ollama.
https://xagentai.net/xagentai-net-coding-agent/
#IA #OpenSource #LocalLLM #Ollama #LMStudio #AIAgents
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firethering (@firethering@mastodon.social)
The MOE trick changed how people think about LLMs. Instead of running every parameter on every token, you activate a small fraction of the network per forward pass and somehow the quality stays competitive while the compute drops.
Nucleus-Image is a 17B parameter diffusion transformer that activates roughly 2B parameters per forward pass. It beats Imagen4 on OneIG-Bench, sits at number one on DPG-Bench overall, and matches Qwen-Image on GenEval.
https://firethering.com/nucleus-image-open-source-moe-diffusion-model/
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Pulrepo (@Pulrepo@mastodon.social)
🚀 This Week in RAG & Vector Databases: Fastest-Growing Projects — April 18, 2026
This week, we've seen significant growth in the RAG & Vector Databases space, with several tools leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to enhance AI document search and knowledge base manage...
Read full report → https://pullrepo.com/report/this-week-in-rag-vector-databases-fastest-growing-projects-april-18-2026-2
#AI #OpenSource #GitHub #Tech #RAGVectorDatabase
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narrowhouse (@narrowhouse@mastodon.social)
Starting a series of quick alternatives to popular #fonts (In my personal amateur opinion) some "metric compatible" (taking up the same space in an already composed document or layout i.e. a "drop-in replacement") some with a similar feel with all the alternatives being licensed to be freely used personally and professionally.
Comic Sans v. Comic Neue
(https://github.com/crozynski/comicneue) #opensource
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forumuu (@forumuu@nerdculture.de)
Vor der Installation und grundlegende Fragen
Paßwortabfrage
https://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/passwortabfrage-3/
18.04.2026 um 22:04 Uhr
#ubuntuusers #forumuu #linux #opensource #fragenistmenschlich #install #installation
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Mediocreman (@Mediocreman@mastodon.social)
@joepublic.bsky.social
I always knew it would save money and educate more than Microsoft.
Well done the people who made that decision. Spread the word.
#linux #foss #opensource #education
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