Despite clearly being an advertisement for Proton's offering, this shows how reliant European companies are on vendors showing strategic problems. We can cheer at the EU policies when they go in the right direction. It's probably not enough already, but the European companies are clearly asleep at the wheel.

Interesting analysis. It gives a balanced view on the possible scenarios around the AI hype.

Good historical perspective about the attempts to get rid of developers. This never unfold as envisioned. This is mostly about the intellectual work to build artifacts handling the world complexity, and this doesn't go away.

They'll do anything to further their grip on tech. The European Union is sleep walking on this one.

Is this really to improve your work? Or make you dependent? In the end it might be the user which looses.

This is a very rich article. There's indeed more and more a rift between Open Source projects used by hyperscalers and the ones used by smaller businesses and individuals. You likely want to aim for the latter.

Wondering what's on the mind of people working on an hyperscaler? This podcast and its transcript gives good insights.

Probably one of the most important talks of 39C3. It's a powerful call to action for the European Union to wake up and do the right thing to ensure digital sovereignty for itself and everyone else in the world. The time is definitely right due to the unexpected allies to be found along the way. It'd be a way to turn the currently bad geopolitical landscape into a bunch of positive opportunities.

Looks like Europe is finally waking up. It needs to pick up the pace now.

Definitely required more preparation work than brainstorming. That said it's a nice alternative, maybe easier to get right.

Was it all going to end up as a management fad? I'd say yes. It's not to say the values and principles in the manifesto are useless... but if something gets successful you'd better have guardrails on how it'll be warped. It didn't happen here.

Long but excellent opinion piece about everything which is wrong with the current AI-mania.

An excellent piece, I like this kind of thinking. It works in fact as several level in your life.

This is a good way to see that the architecture questions are multi-layered. And yes, in enterprise contexts they go all the way to the company strategy level.

Unsurprisingly the big tech players want their own information bubble too. This kind of propaganda machine isn't really new, but they feel like they need their own now.

This debate around licensing, politics and making our FOSS efforts sustainable need to happen. It looks like for now to some people the path forward is defensive licensing? I wish at least we'd first attempt to have more strong copyleft use...

I was actually wondering when this would happen. Was just a matter of time, would have expected this move a couple of months ago.

I'm happy to see I'm actually very much aligned with one of the "Attention Is All You Need" co-authors. The current industry trend of "just scale the transformer architecture" is indeed stifling innovation and actual research. That said I find ironic that he talks about freedom to explore... well this is what public labs used to be about, but we decided to drastically reduce their funding and replace that with competition between startups. It's no surprise we have very myopic views on problems.

It was around two years ago, but maybe a good idea to revisit it with the recent AWS outage?

Some food for thought about the use of bounded contexts in Domain Driven Design.