Luis Cañas Díaz and I shared lessons from our BI journey at the Eclipse Foundation SDV webinar — from open source to automotive. Methodology, real use cases, and hard-won lessons on data, metrics, and insights.

The SPDX Cryptographic Algorithm List keeps growing. New cryptoClass values, a structured docs folder, PQC as a new property, and SCANOSS as our first user-contributor. Here is what happened in the past months.

Today's links The (other) problem with automatic conversion of free software to proprietary software: You can't add ANY license to a public domain work. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Pimp My Snack; Abandoned Soviet missile silo full of cash; MPAA v 'democratizing culture'; 3,000 page garbage Kindle books; London's lost postal tunnels; Internet voting is stupid;…

La Palma Tech Tagoror vuelve. Los meetups en la isla canaria de La Palma se relanzan este 23 de abril, en La Real Sociedad Aridane, Los Llanos de Aridane. La entrada es gratuita previo registro. Únete al evento o apúntate al grupo de Meetup para estar informado de futuras actividades.

Trisquel 12.0 Ecne has officially arrived, bringing an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base, expanded browser choices like GNU IceCat and ungoogled chromium, improved AppArmor security rules, and support through 2029. The fully free Linux distribution continues its mission of delivering a desktop operating system that respects software freedom while remaining practical for everyday use.

The initial injustice of proprietary software often leads to further injustices: malicious functionalities.

The introduction of unjust techniques in nonfree software, such as back doors, DRM, tethering, and others, has become ever more frequent. Nowadays, it is standard practice.

We at the GNU Project show examples of malware that has been introduced in a wide variety of products and…

pURL and SWHID are both software identifiers with similarities, but they are fundamentally different. pURL is assigned by a registry. SWHID is derived from the code itself. They are not competitors — they complement each other.

This article explains the syntax of SWHIDs, describing how the core identifier and optional qualifiers are structured. It shows how SWHIDs can reference software artifacts such as files, directories, revisions, and releases, and how their design enables precise comparison of software

Put on your best progressive’s voice and repeat: in our lived experience ‘Linux user’ is a protected characteristic, and anyone who disagrees is actually, like, performing an illegal operation and making us feel memory-unsafe right now!

Writing this in 2026 AD (234 AdR), crypto is solidly in a “winter”. As valuations have fallen, so has the intensity of the debate surrounding the topic. I therefore feel it apt to use this opportunity to briefly write down my thoughts and opinions regarding this otherwise contentious topic.

First of all I should make clear that I do have a (small) financial interest in the success of crypto…