Dear Europe: Germany has shown the way forward, by making the Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory within its sovereign digital infrastructure. Now it's time for other countries to do the same! https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/23/dear-europe/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware #openstandards

As the number of LLM-generated patches in my inbox increases, I am starting to experience the sort of maintainer stress that has long been predicted. But there's another aspect of this that has recently crossed my mind.

Just over a week ago, a new personality showed up with a whole pile of machine-generated patches claiming to fill in our memory-management documentation. A few reviewers had some sharp questions, the response to which has been ... silence. This person doesn't seem to have cared enough about that work to make an effort to get past the initial resistance.

Once upon a time, somebody who had produced many pages of MM documentation would be invested enough in that work to make at least a minimal attempt to defend it.

Kernel developers often worry that a patch submitter will not stick around to maintain the code they are trying to push upstream. Part of the gauntlet of getting kernel patches accepted can be seen as a sort of "are you serious?" test.

When somebody submits a big pile of machine-generated code, though, will they be *able* to maintain it? And will they be sufficiently invested in this code, which they didn't write and probably don't understand, to stick around and fix the inevitable problems that will arise? I rather fear not, and that does not bode well for the long-term maintainability of our software.

Als leveranciers te weinig doen om onze data te beschermen dan geef je ze toch niet 3,3 miljard aan belastinggeld?! Dan moet je het zelf willen doen! De alternatieven zijn er. Hou op met angst zaaien over continuiteit van dienstverlening zonder onderbouwing! Debat aangevraagd! https://fd.nl/bedrijfsleven/1588448/rechter-dwarsboomt-it-aanbesteding-rijksoverheid-van-3-mrd?utm_medium=social&utm_source=app&utm_campaign=earned&utm_content=20260309&utm_term=app-ios

Russische staatshackers zoeken wereldwijd toegang tot Signal- en WhatsApp-accounts van militairen, ambtenaren en hoogwaardigheidsbekleders. Ook in Nederland. Dat blijkt uit inlichtingen van de MIVD en de AIVD. Deze Russische hackers kregen toegang door phishing en ‘social engineering’. Lees in het cyberadvies hoe je een aanval herkent en wat je ertegen kunt doen: https://www.aivd.nl/actueel/nieuws/2026/03/09/rusland-voert-cybercampagne-uit-tegen-signal--en-whatsapp-accounts

Stop gebruik ChatGPT!