6 essays tagged “Free and open-source software”.
Concept: Wikidata · Q506883
Around the third month of using an agent, someone says the model has got worse. Almost always it isn't the model: it's the scaffolding, which came apart without throwing an exception. What degrades quietly is exactly what nobody is required to check, and in Europe, from September, that friction costs a non-conformity.
On the Cloud and AI Development Act, on the ten thousand repositories dressed up as honest projects, and on the distance between being inspectable and actually being inspected.
Software runs the world yet stays invisible. Between ai, open source and European rules, trust is built with care, choices, and responsibility.
There's a sentence from Adam Wathan that struck me, that I've been thinking about for two days since he posted it.
I was browsing the Firefox site to check release notes for an update when I ran into a banner that made me smile—a slightly bitter smile, the kind you give when you find out your favourite vegan restaurant is owned by a fast-food chain.
8 November would have been Aaron Swartz's birthday. He was born in 1986 and left too soon, on 11 January 2013. Every time I think about him I feel that hollow that unjust losses leave behind.
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