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Articles about how technology works, who it serves, the systems around it, and what it all costs. Digital sovereignty, open source governance, and internet rights.
I Get No Ideas Inside the Machine
At Cables of Resistance, I ran a workshop asking if we can build hardware without capitalism. I was grieving what AI is doing to open source. Technologists need to see there's no innocent ground under the machine. It was always someone's land.…
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Faking Git Till You Make It: Open Source Maintainers Beware of Reputation Farming
It has a name: reputation farming. The under-reported, slightly dangerous practice of manufacturing open source credibility through hollow GitHub activity, and why maintainers should care.…
What on Earth is Open Source AI?
The Open Source AI definition fight, from someone who thinks the AI gold rush is both an environmental disaster and badly oversold. What 'open' can and cannot mean once you bolt it onto a model.…
Can I figure out if I'm legally required to use an SBOM in my OSS without asking a lawyer?
SBOMs keep showing up in cybersecurity regulation, and the rules are a maze. One open-source developer's attempt to work out what actually applies, armed with a search engine and no lawyer.…
What's Elections got to EU with IT
It's EU Parliament election season. A short, non-partisan recap of the recent digital regulations, from AI to privacy to cybersecurity, that reach well beyond Europe's borders.…
Let's Talk About Open Source in Munich (and Everywhere Else)
Schleswig-Holstein is dropping Microsoft Office for LibreOffice, and the framing matters as much as the switch. On public-sector open source, and what the migration is really about.…
The FCC is coming for BGP, what about the EU?
If DNS is the internet's address book, BGP is its motorway, and it has run on trust for decades. As the FCC moves to regulate it, a look at whether the EU should follow.…
What I Learnt from What We Learnt from the xz-utils Incident
Not the xz-utils backdoor, but the month everyone spent talking about it. On the attention economy of a security incident, and what the conversation revealed that the vulnerability didn't.…
SconePro with Network Jam and Clotted Streams
Notes from an IETF working-group-forming session where internet providers and video platforms tried to make traffic shaping work a little better, and what that cooperation means for net neutrality.…