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Today, I think we'd do well by distancing ourselves from the AI hype. The slop is real, and it's now obvious that it has created massive problems, and is likely to continue to do so. I don't want to associate myself with something this damaging. Do you?
With "third-party", we usually mean someone not part of an agreement, but who may still be influencing (or influenced by) it. When this party is an Open Source project we depend on, I propose we use the term "second-party" instead. Here's why.
With the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) arriving in 2024, software in general is – for the first time – about to be legislated. This means any business who wishes to place software on the EU market will have to comply to new cybersecurity demands, and by implication this will affect tens of thousands of Continue reading A Vocabulary for a Post-CRA Open Source Age
This means that personal, technical, systemic and economic well-being in the end are all actual and real dependencies for the businesses that rely on these people and their projects. What can an ecosystem provide to make the lives of these maintainers easier in this regard? Here are a few suggestions. But why? Mostly because businesses Continue reading A FOSS Ecosystem Checklist for the Benefit of…
PTS2023 was this time in Lyon, France; Organized primarily by Philippe BooK Bruhat and Laurent Boivin. This event wouldn t be possible without it s sponsors, Booking.com, Deriv, Grant Street Group, FastMail, cPanel, Perl Careers, MaxMind, Fastly Inc., Perl Maven, OpenCage, Perl Services, Oetiker+Partner, and Procura. Thank you! All pictures in this gallery are ©2023, Salve J. Continue reading Perl…
New EU laws are coming that will affect Open Source. Should we worry?
Let s have a thought experiment. Assume there is an Open Source-licensed Perl module published on CPAN that you care about, and that hasn t had any updates in a very long time what are your options? In this blog post, I ll take a dive into this problem, and use the Geo::Postcodes::NO module as an example. Continue reading A FIXIT-dive into an old CPAN module
Now and then, it s good to remind ourselves what There Is More Than One Way to Do It means. A long time ago, Larry Wall said Perl is the first postmodern programming language. I ve thought about this asking myself what does that even mean? Today I think this is just a nice way of Continue reading Perl s Postmodern Metanarrative
Things seldom happen by themselves, but when they do, there is luck, help and sweat involved. — Unknown If you ever find yourself at the Chaos Communication Congress, you may eventually snap out of your awestruck haze to realise you probably want a memento to bring home. This happened to me at last year s event, Continue reading Let s encrypt, by random encounter