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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
‘I use AI to do the things that I’m bad at’: Linus Torvalds on why it works for him. ttps://zdnet.com/tech/linus-torvalds-ai-coding-programming/ via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social Torvalds loves the idea of "#AI as a gateway drug" to programming.
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‘I use AI to do the things that I’m bad at’: Linus Torvalds on why it works for him - ZDNET
The Linux creator calls vibe coding 'a wonderful way to find joy in programming,' but not for running Linux development. (Finding bugs is OK.)
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Docsy for AI Agents, Oh, and People Too devops.com/docsy-for-ai... via @techstronggroup.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social Docsy’s developers are adapting documentation publishing to serve two audiences: People reading websites and #AI tools retrieving instructions to answer questions or write code.
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Docsy for AI Agents, Oh, and People Too - DevOps.com
Of course, back then we actually had manuals and documentation. Since then, good documentation has fallen by the wayside.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A catastrophe in the making.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Mistral’s Le Chonk Arrives With a Trillion Parameters—and Something to Prove digitalcxo.com/article/mist... via @techstronggroup.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social Mistral’s new trillion-parameter #AI model arrives weigh not just performance, but also control, cost & proprietary platform dependence.
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Mistral’s Le Chonk Arrives With a Trillion Parameters—and Something to Prove
Mistral’s new trillion-parameter model arrives as enterprises weigh not just AI performance, but also control, cost and dependence.
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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just published on FOSS Force: OpenSSH 10.6 Released With Security Fixes and a Dozen New Features fossforce.com/2026/10/open...
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
May light perpetual shine upon her. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...
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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died (Gift Article)
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Either way, she’s very hot!
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Valkey 9.2 Targets Memory Overhead With AI Used to Improve Its Code techstrong.it/featured/val... via @techstronggroup.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social Some #opensource projects are hesitant to talk about how they use #AI to improve their code. Not Valkey. Its developers are proud AI users.
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Valkey 9.2 Targets Memory Overhead With AI Used to Improve Its Code
Some open-source projects are hesitant to talk about how they use AI to improve their code. Not Valkey. Its developers are proud AI users.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
AWS Uses AI to Tame Linux CVEs securityboulevard.com/2026/10/aws-... via @techstronggroup.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social But even with ##AI, keeping up with #Linux CVEs in production is still a major pain in the rump.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nonsense, I'm not old! Now, get off of my lawn!
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The Register @theregister.com · 07/10/2026
COSMIC shuts the door on AI code as GNOME debates letting bug reports in
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COSMIC shuts the door on AI code as GNOME debates letting bug reports in
System76 demands human-written contributions, while a rival desktop developer argues bot-found flaws are too valuable to ignore
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Jason Perlow @jperlow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Our first dual architecture install of NCZ-OS 26.10 “Cygnus” for AMD64, T2 x86 Macs, and CIX Sky1 Arm64. It’s beautiful. With Wayland GLES shader screensavers. Kernel 7.3-RC6. @sjvn.bsky.social @brideoflinux.bsky.social
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Marco Fioretti @mfioretti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Free/ #opensource Software is great. Problem is, it’s also increasingly irrelevant And this is bad for everybody, from software hackers to #parents. Software geeks, parents, educators, lawmakers should work together to fix this. Here is what, why, and how: mfioretti.substack.com/p/freeopen-s...
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Free/Open Source Software is great. Problem is, it’s also increasingly irrelevant
And this is bad for everybody, from software hackers to parents.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ah... Really? Really!?
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Lifelong Bookaholic @aleksis4ashdown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🟩🟩🟩 Founding Father Thomas Jefferson (May 19, 1809): "I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county..." www.loc.gov/resource/mtj...
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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 06/10/2026
Now-obsolete slide. I showed in my intro course a mere five weeks ago. WBD and Paramount collapse into a single entity, the Big Four becomes the Big Three media companies that bring in more than 90% of revenue depending on how you measure (we studied the Big Ten when I was in college in the '90s).
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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just published on FOSS Force: Nextcloud Launches Academy to Help Developers Build Apps fossforce.com/2026/10/next...
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is true. www.contrariannews.org/p/words-and-...
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I used to have an honest-to-goodness fax machine... back in the 20th century.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How AI model collapse works in real time. Technically, I describe the problem here www.theregister.com/software/202... Or you could just watch this video.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
GitHub Slams the Brakes on Private Vulnerability Reports devops.com/github-slams... via @techstronggroup.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social Drowning in #AI-generated bug reports? GitHub has a radical answer: Stop accounts from reporting them.
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GitHub Slams the Brakes on Private Vulnerability Reports - DevOps.com
They're an admission that the traditional security-disclosure workflow, with human maintainers in the loop, simply doesn't scale.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's not just the UK. American schools are also dropping liberal arts in favor or turning higher-education into VoTech schools.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You may be wondering why I've called you here today.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Windows Developers get a Built-In #Linux Container Runtime: WSL Containers opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/windows-de... by @sjvn.bsky.social Microsoft has made WSL Containers generally available. Programmers now have a Docker Desktop alternative in the making, but it's not there yet.
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Windows Developers get a Built-In Linux Container Runtime: WSL Containers
Microsoft has made WSL Containers generally available. Programmers now have a Docker Desktop alternative in the makings.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yeah, that was my reaction, too.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The IT guy is much too tidy; otherwise, I have no notes.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Doxx.net takes its plans for Agentic Defined Networking live with $38M backing. www.networkworld.com/article/4230...
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Agentic Defined Network - doxx.net
doxx.net is an Agentic Defined Network (ADN). A private, parallel internet where you and your agents browse, mesh, call, message, and transfer files. P2P Comms connects devices directly with end-to-en...
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The oldest open-source cloud, OpenStack, is ready for the age of #AI with additions like confidential computing, improved DNS, and more AI-friendly infrastructure .by @sjvn.bsky.social opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/openstack-...
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OpenStack Hibiscus Adds Confidential Computing and AI-Ready Infrastructure to its bag of cloud tricks
The oldest open-source cloud, OpenStack, is ready for the age of AI with additions like confidential computing, improved DNS, and more AI-friendly infrastructure.
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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just published on FOSS Force: The EU Is About to Make Linux’s Vulnerability Management Problem Harder to Ignore fossforce.com/2026/10/the-...
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For your amusement, here's my interview from the NERDERA conference in Buenos Aires, where I talk about my personal technology history, #Linux and open source, and, of course, #AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e75K...
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Interview with SJVN - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
YouTube video by Nerdearla
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ah...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Typical pattern from ICE and police of claiming to be the true victim after they attack someone newrepublic.com/post/216004/...
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Man Shot by ICE Agent Is Charged With Assault
Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was shot by an ICE agent. Now the Justice Department is charging Pérez.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You know who hallucinates more than AI does? This guy. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...?
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RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the "tyranny" of medical facts, expertise
AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less than Kennedy.
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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just published on FOSS Force: The FSF’s Warning on AI Kill Switches fossforce.com/2026/09/the-...
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.techtarget.com/cybersecurit... Though the title of CISO is common, the specific responsibilities of CISOs across verticals are not. Had a tonne of fun putting this one together getting different insights across industries.
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The CISO role isn't universal: 5 industry perspectives | TechTarget
Same title, different responsibilities, risks and challenges. Explore how the CISO role varies dramatically across industries.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh, I've seen my share of bad ones, and even my home office, with two dozen PCs and servers, is, uh, messy.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
AI workloads are driving new hardware and storage requirements in OpenStack, while AI-assisted security research is driving up the number of vulnerability reports. Those are two of the prevailing themes in OpenStack 2026.2, code-named Hibiscus www.networkworld.com/article/4228...
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OpenStack Hibiscus adds DNS security features and confidential computing to the open-source cloud platform
AI workloads are driving new hardware and storage requirements in OpenStack, while AI-assisted security research is driving up the number of vulnerability reports. Those are two of the prevailing them...
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ah-ha! That's why the Borg kept saying they wanted to add our biological and technological distinctiveness to their own. It was our cable-management skills!
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Netherlands is preparing to dump Windows and Office for its own homebrew Linux opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/the-nether... by @sjvn.bsky.social Digital Sovereignty bitches! Another EU country has had enough of US-Trump-dominated tech companies and is switching to #Linux and open-source.
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The Netherlands is preparing to dump Windows and Office for its own homebrew Linux
Another European company has had enough of USTrump-dominated technology companies and is switching to Linux and open-source software.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Two years after Helene came and ruined much of Asheville, we're on our way back. But it's not as rosy as the WSJ makes it out to be. #Asheville runs on tourism, and that's still lagging. www.wsj.com/business/how...
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How Asheville’s Artists and Shopkeepers Rebuilt Their City
Two years after Hurricane Helene, tourists and business are back—largely thanks to the persistence of local residents and merchants.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trust us!
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Musk says space will soon hold all compute. Google is still finding out if chips can work there. thenewstack.io/google-sunca... via @thenewstack.io & @sjvn.bsky.social SpaceX & Nvidia plan to put an #AI system in orbit in 2027. Google’s modest plan is to see if AI chips can work in space at all.
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Elon Musk says space will soon hold nearly all compute. Google is still finding out if its chips can work there.
SpaceX and Nvidia want full AI racks in orbit by 2027. Google's first Suncatcher satellite asks a humbler question: Will TPUs even survive space?
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money theregister.com/columnists/2... via @theregister.com & @sjvn.bsky.social The Big #AI business model is based on intellectual property theft and illegally crushing competition.
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Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money
The more we learn about how AI does business, the more unfair it looks
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Jason Perlow @jperlow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Native Wayland GLES3 implementation. Black Hole Sun, won’t you come drive.google.com/file/d/1Rh3Z... @brideoflinux.bsky.social @sjvn.bsky.social @davidgewirtz.com
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The latency was awful.
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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just published on FOSS Force: AlmaLinux’s New Beefed-Up, High-Performance Hardware and Software Certification fossforce.com/2026/09/alma...
AlmaLinux booth at the All Things Open 2023 conference.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I can hear David Bowie singing it.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
OpenAI Keeps Hacking and Hacking and… securityboulevard.com/2026/09/open... by @sjvn.bsky.social OpenAI says it is reviewing when agents took “actions we did not intend,” after it hacked an Australian government health-statistics site and others. That’s big of them.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New Selector Foundry runtime environment lets network operations teams build, test, version, and govern their own AI agents inside the company's NetOps platform. www.networkworld.com/article/4225...
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Selector brings Git-based workflows and incident replay to network AI agents
New Selector Foundry runtime environment lets network operations teams build, test, version, and govern their own AI agents inside the company's NetOps platform.
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