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Today's topics:

ChatGPT ads and conversion tracking - A researcher observed how ChatGPT ads are injected into responses and how OpenAI-style attribution can follow users onto merchant sites via tokens, SDK calls, and cookies—raising privacy and measurement questions.

Governments self-hosting open source forges - The Netherlands soft-launched code.overheid.nl on Forgejo as a self-hosted, government-wide Git platform, signaling digital sovereignty, reduced vendor dependence, and a push for shared public-sector collaboration.

Open-source projects leaving GitHub - Ghostty’s maintainer Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub outages and flaky Actions have become frequent enough to block releases, prompting an incremental migration away while keeping a read-only mirror.

Decentralized code hosting with Radicle - HardenedBSD began moving repositories to Radicle, betting on more resilient, decentralized distribution and less reliance on a single forge—while acknowledging early rough edges for large repos.

Rust security audit of uutils - An Ubuntu-driven audit found dozens of CVEs in uutils, showing that Rust can prevent memory bugs but still leaves teams exposed to filesystem semantics, TOCTOU races, and compatibility pitfalls.

Rip.so memorializes dead internet services - Rip.so is a hand-built “digital graveyard” archiving once-major services like ICQ and Google Reader, highlighting how quickly online culture disappears and why preservation needs community effort.

Tindie downtime shakes maker marketplace - New owners of Tindie apologized for prolonged outages and weak communication during a migration, a reminder that marketplace reliability and timely payouts are existential for independent hardware sellers.

-Dutch government soft-launches code.overheid.nl open-source development platform
-Ghostty Project Plans Exit From GitHub Over Frequent Outages
-Rip.so launches as a ‘digital graveyard’ memorializing defunct internet services
-Canonical audit of Rust coreutils highlights security bugs beyond Rust’s compiler checks
-Mitchell Hashimoto to Move Ghostty Off GitHub Over Frequent Outages
-Stardex seeks first Founding Customer Success Lead to scale support for recruiting firms
-HardenedBSD Begins Migrating Code Repositories to Radicle
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