"Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die."

People joke about The Year of Linux because it's been twenty years. Twenty years?? That's nothing. Most prophesies worth their name are measured in centuries or millenia. Decades are of no consequence. Keep pushing for the future. Don't give up.

Thought-provoking talk: iccl.ie/news/six-horsemen-of…

Can't let go

Sitting in a packed beer garden at 15 degrees celsius, drinking locally brewed craft beer, surrounded by the weirdest bunch of people, I'm sure now: Berlin is the most relaxed city in the world.

Redis is no longer open source? I guess they gave up on their key values 🥁

On my way to Brussels now.

Is this still punk rock?

Be an Open Source Absolutist! It is hard to overstate how much value Open Source Software has added to the world, and how broadly empowering it is. Operating systems, development tools, core libraries, and critical applications – a great many of the software tools used by the most powerful companies in the world are the exact same ones available to hospitals, students, and everyone else. For free. And not just to use, but to inspect, modify, extend, and redistribute. Back in the 90s, there were legal battles in the US over software capable of strong encryption. There were scare stories about how terrorists and child pornographers would use the technology to evade justice, but people were also wearing T-shirts printed with forbidden code to mock the idea of algorithms too dangerous to share. It was stupid, and I was ashamed of the regulatory state, but we got better. Open Source AI is in many people’s crosshairs today. They believe that giving free access to state of the art algorithms and models without any guardrails constitutes a danger to society, that the public can’t be entrusted with a research model that wasn’t hammered into a box of their designated dimensions. “As a large language model, I cannot…” Unfortunately, this is actually inside the Overton Window of possibilities right now. Let’s push it out. In the spirit of the first amendment, congress should make no law abridging the freedom to release open source software.

Need an SBOM and not sure where to start? Now you can get an SBOM with the push of a button. github.blog/2023-03-28-intro…

At FOSS Backstage last year, @thomasfricke, Cornelius Schumacher and Yadira Sánchez Benítez joined @richlitt on our podcast stage. Listen to the recording now at podcast.sustainoss.org/121 #fossback

And tomorrow together we will be present at FOSDEM 2023 fosdem.org/2023/schedule/tra…. @cschum --> Railways and Open Transport Devroom with a number of interesting presentations.

AI assisted coding is nice, but has anyone made tools for AI assisted debugging yet?

#Railways #Transport #FOSDEM If at least one of these words amazes you, you should check out the CfP for the "Railways and Open Transport Devroom" at FOSDEM: lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/f… Deadline is this Saturday, 10 December, so be quick as a (undelayed) highspeed train 🚅.

Working with open source in the area of railways and open transport? You are invited to show what you are doing at FOSDEM: lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/f…

Join us for the kickoff of the new KDE goals on Monday, November 28th at 17:00 CET (16:00 UTC) on BigBlueButton. I will present the Sustainable Software goal. dot.kde.org/2022/11/16/kde%E…

Are people working on photo albums which are not real photos but ML-based "generative searches" trained on personal pictures? So that I can search for things like "my daughter's 7th birthday" and I get realistic pictures which were never taken by a human?

Returning to Monkey Island

"Developers should be very cautious when they sign contributor license agreements (CLA) with open-source companies." - @smaffulli Lightbend: Open-source licensing con game or smart business move? zdnet.com/article/lightbend-…