EU-FOSSA 2

The EU-FOSSA project – short for Free and Open Source Software Auditing – aims to increase the security and integrity of critical open-source software. It was launched by the European Commission at the instigation of the European Parliament after the discovery of the Heartbleed bug in 2014.

Following the success of the initial pilot, the project was renewed for another three years. EU-FOSSA 2 builds on the pilot project by extending the auditing of free and open-source software through setting up bug bounty programmes, organising hackathons and conferences, and engaging with developer communities. In addition, EU-FOSSA 2 expanded its scope to a wider range of software projects and communities.

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Date: January 2019–augustus 2020.

Joinup project page: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/eu-fossa-2

Project deliverables: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/eu-fossa-2/eu-fossa-2-deliverables

Publications & Patents

Scientific publications

• Aad Offerman and Ad J. van de Goor: An Open Notation for Memory Tests (presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Memory Technology, Design and Testing, 1997)
• Aad Offerman and Ad J. van de Goor: An Open Notation for Memory Tests (Technical Report No.1-68340-44(1997)07, Delft University of Technology)
• Ad J. van de Goor, Aad Offerman, and Ivo Schanstra: Towards a Uniform Notation for Memory Tests (presented at the European Design & Test Conference and Exhibition 96)

See web page on semiconductor memory testing for detailed information and citations.

Other publications

• project report 'Development of a Funding Mechanism for Sustaining Open Source Software for European Public Services', April 2022
• report 'IPv6-inventarisatie, september 2018: Achterstandspositie IPv6 en kortzichtige houding branche vormen probleem voor de BV Nederland', a market adoption analysis and report for .nl registry SIDN
• report 'DNSSEC-inventarisatie, februari 2017: DNSSEC-beveiliging Nederlandse domeinnamen onder de maat', a market adoption analysis and report for .nl registry SIDN
• book 'Hands-on: OpenVPN; Installing and configuring an OpenVPN server and gateway, and setting up OpenVPN clients on Linux and Android' (Private and Secure Computing), ISBN 978-1503048485, November 2014
• paper 'Public Open Source Software Procurement Models: The Next Generation', published in the European Journal of ePractice, issue No.18 on New Business Models for Public Services, October 2012
• three chapters of the book 'Get Ready for Cloud Computing; A Comprehensive Guide to Virtualization and Cloud Computing' (Van Haren Publishing, Jan 7th, 2011, ISBN 978-9087536404)

Patents

• EU patent 008315642-0001: aluminum soldering tabletop

Adding NoAI and NoImageAI robots meta tags to your Joomla 4 website

As well as blocking CCBot and GPTBot using robots.txt

In reaction to robots freely crawling the web and incorporating every valuable asset they find into (closed) AI models, creatives (platforms) have introduced new robots meta tags to denote that they do not want their content to be worked into these models.

One reason is that creators consider "incorporating into an AI model" in itself as an infringement of their copyright. Another reason is that AI models are known to sometimes be able to produce (clearly) recognizable parts of the original works, which then become part of work produced by users of the AI model.

In this article we show how you can add the 'robots noai' and 'robots noimageai' meta tags (invented by DeviantArt) to your Joomla 4 website.
We also show you how to stop OpenAI's web crawler from processing (parts of) your site, using the robots.txt file.

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Configuring MAME on Fedora Linux

Finally sat down to properly configure MAME on my Fedora workstation.

Here is what I did and found out:

• MAME contains only emulators (machines), no games (ROMs), so the default ROMs directory /usr/share/mame/roms/ is empty
• as an ordinary user, you create your personal ini file ~/.mame/ini/mame.ini (start with a copy of /etc/mame/mame.ini) and add your directory $HOME/.mame/roms to the rompath, which allows MAME to find your ROM files

Read more: Configuring MAME on Fedora Linux