Sovereignty in the EU is now the trend, at least as a conceptual idea. Someone finally discovered that most of the Western world is dependent on a few US big companies, and the current status of Geopolitics is quite confusing, causing stoma…
This was a little idea gnawing at the back of my brain. The humble barcode has been in use since the 1970s. In the next few years it will likely be replaced with a 2D QR Code. I couldn't find anyone who'd made a QR code with an embedded UPC…
As is the case for many people working in the security industry, the last few months of my life have been focused on dealing with people wanting to use LLMs everywhere. From an enterprise security perspective that’s not an inherent problem
Ok, such dramas and the whole topic are starting to be annoying. The last episode was the rsync project with the well-respected Andrew Tridgell as maintainer, who initiated a Claude-based development effort for the 3.4 series a few months a…
I already dealt with the status of the WWW in the recent past. See, specifically, the authoritative opinion of Sir Tim Berners-Lee on that. Multiple dynamics have upset the initial idea of a distributed, democratic, and influential worldwid…
Some months ago, I participated in this Mastodon poll. My thesis was that, in general, there is no presumptive quality flag that can be added to a product, whether it was created with AI-aided tools or not. My opinion sparked a small, heate…
I recently finished reading Simone Aliprandi’s second edition of a book I would recommend to many people interested in either authoring software and databases or making creative works. ‘The Artificial Author’, as its title suggests, deals w…
Here at work, we develop a series of tools for geospatial processing with multiple goals, expected maintenance durations, different scopes, generalization needs, and motivations. Note that about 10 years ago, here in Europe, a completely ne…
I’m not too happy with using mobile devices as a daily driver for server connections. When one needs to use a keyboard, in many cases the appropriate device is inevitably a laptop or a desktop computer. Anyway, sometimes it happens that the…
Someone on Mastodon (I’m sorry, but I don’t remember who exactly) published a short post that pointed to a rather technical economic study of the impact of AI on FOSS software development . It is no secret that the AI debate is highly polar…
More and more, recent (and not too recent) episodes [1-5] nowadays show a hard truth we already discovered in the Debian project since the end of the 90s. A key security principle in FOSS code development is ensuring the trustworthiness of
More and more, recent (and not too recent) episodes [1-5] nowadays show a hard truth we already discovered in the Debian project since the end of the 90s. A key security principle in FOSS code development is ensuring the trustworthiness of