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This was day one of #FOSSBack 2026! Thanks to everyone for attending, speaking, volunteering, and helping shape the future of Free and Open Source Software with us.
Time for a little recap: https://26.foss-backstage.de/this-was-day-one/
See you tomorrow ✨
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.
Welcome to #FOSSBack 2026!
Doors open at 9 am, the program starts at 10:05 am (CET) with a keynote by @aeva: Can Open Source be Secure by Design?
Please have your order confirmation mail with the ticket QR-code ready!
More info on all things you need to know for your visit: https://26.foss-backstage.de/all-you-need-to-know-foss-backstage-2026/
Breakfast kindly sponsored by SerNet.
Looking forward to see you very soon ✨
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.
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
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 ...
Reminder that we do NOT live in "unprecedented" times.
On this day on Feb. 5, 1917, Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 to block “undesirable” immigrants. That meant a ban on Asian, Mexician, and Mediterranean migrants, literacy tests, new taxes, & excluded the poor, disabled, & criminalized.
Meanwhile white European migrants were welcomed with open arms & given land via Homestead Act.
This racist law was finally repealed in 1952.
Trump wants to revive this fascism. Do not let him.
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’
https://www.404media.co/vibe-coding-is-killing-open-source-software-researchers-argue/
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@aeva/115995259506677540
Starting in ~15 minutes! #FOSDEM
FOSS Backstage
Open Source Initiative 
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
404 Media