mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchF/OSS hack of minor notoriety.
... former CISA, MSFT, OSI, OpenStack, & more.
🏳️⚧️ & 🏍️ & 🇪🇺
[ all opinions 💯 mine ]
Heading to Berlin for #FOSSBack to tell a story about information propagation asymmetry, about finding resilience in times of turbulence, and about stewardship of the digital commons.
F/OSS has been the thread woven through my life since college.
F/OSS has changed the world.
What happens when humans use agentic interfaces to write the control code of autonomous agents without understanding how the actual code works?
What happens when the last humans who actually know how to read code are no longer around?
... I think I need to rewatch Westworld ...
Coming up in a few hours -- "Could Compliance Cost-Savings sustain open source software communities?" -- I'm speaking at #FOSDEM, and following my presentation, will be joined by Tommaso Bernabo, Michael Schuster, and Greg Wallace on stage to discuss the potential beneficial impacts of the CRA on OSS community sustainability.
Event link: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PTHENV-sustaining-foss-with-attestations/
Live stream: https://live.fosdem.org/watch/ua2118
Room: UA2.118
My #FOSDEM2026 talk recordings are up!
I've been working for the past few months on developing a "theory of voluntary security attestations" -- building on the outlines drawn by #CyberResilienceAct's Article 25, I think there is an opportunity for many #OpenSource projects/communities to become sustainably funded as a result of this new EU cybersecurity regulation.
Talk #1: 20-minute explainer
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PTHENV-sustaining-foss-with-attestations/
Talk #2: 40-minute panel with the public sector
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/U9JFC8-sustaining-foss-a-panel-with/
But there are still a lot of unknowns for me, for all of us ...
So! If you want to get involved, help figure this out, join the Matrix channel -- #oss-attestations:fosdem.org