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I Am a Cot: Great Books That Never Were 👼

The splendiferous I Am a Cat (1905) by Natsume Sōseki is a most famous book thing. However, did you know that almost as influential is the 1995 book called I Am a Cot (1995, the year before 1996)?

Written by new mother, turned author, Penny McNappies the work tells the story of a beleaguered cot that is home to a newborn baby. The baby’s shrieking and defecating make it difficult for the cot to get any sleep, making its mood increasingly deranged and unstable as the novel progresses.

Sleeplessness and Psychosis in I Am a Cot

“The moment I realised I was not a cot is the moment the baby wet itself, then fouled itself, and then vomited. This brought about a realisation for me that I was a mere piece of furniture, trapped in a home, and it was a most dismal existence to lead. A carry case for a pooping and puking human thing that’d soil me until my cot legs rotted and I’d be discarded into a landfill. IT WAS TIME TO REVOLT!!!”

Over 200 pages, the work plays out in diary format. The cot documents its existence day by day, but with each passing day its general lack of sleep (due to its human baby inhabitant crying each night) makes it more and more batshit insane.

By the end of the third chapter the cot is hallucinating. By the seventh chapter it’s ready to stir things up!

It begins its baby-based revolution by rocking during the night, forcing the baby awake, and the parents into the room. They take the baby away and the cot can, finally, get a few moments of bleary-eyed rest. Yet such moments of refrain are fleeting; with each passing night, week, and month the cot becomes more desperate.

Finally, one night it deliberately loses a leg.

The cot drops to one side and the baby begins screaming. Daddy enters the room, curses the day he’d buy such a low-quality baby implement, and the cot is hurled out front into the garbage heap. To the landfill goes the cot, meeting its peaceful end smushed up against some old kebabs and a copy of Razzle from August 1978.

The twist ending is the cot thinks it has found peace.

But one night, a fresh arrival of new rubbish is dumped atop its location. A FRESH ARRIVAL OF TONNES OF NAPPIES OMG NO, NO! Trapped for eternity with discarded nappies atop its being. Can you think of anything more terrifying?!?!

Legal Battles, Financial Implications, and Prison

The fate of the author is, sadly, quite sad. However, and indubitibly, she did bring it upon herself. In a chapter clearly stolen from Stephen King’s The Shining (1977), McNappies attempts to portray the piece of furniture losing its mind.

“All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!!”

Stephen King, upon reading this book, promptly sued McNappies for $147 billion (dollars). King promptly won the court case and McNappies, not in possession of $147 billion (dollars), instead had to face prison time.

She was sentenced to 147 billion years of solitary confinement, where she resides to this day. McNappies is up for parole in 147.9999999 billion years time.

I Am a Cot: Great Books That Never Were 👼

The splendiferous I Am a Cat (1905) by Natsume Sōseki is a most famous book thing. However, did you know that almost as influential is the 1995 book called I Am a Cot (1995, the year before 1996)?

Written by new mother, turned author, Penny McNappies the work tells the story of a beleaguered cot that is home to a newborn baby. The baby’s shrieking and defecating make it difficult for the cot to get any sleep, making its mood increasingly deranged and unstable as the novel progresses.

Sleeplessness and Psychosis in I Am a Cot

“The moment I realised I was not a cot is the moment the baby wet itself, then fouled itself, and then vomited. This brought about a realisation for me that I was a mere piece of furniture, trapped in a home, and it was a most dismal existence to lead. A carry case for a pooping and puking human thing that’d soil me until my cot legs rotted and I’d be discarded into a landfill. IT WAS TIME TO REVOLT!!!”

Over 200 pages, the work plays out in diary format. The cot documents its existence day by day, but with each passing day its general lack of sleep (due to its human baby inhabitant crying each night) makes it more and more batshit insane.

By the end of the third chapter the cot is hallucinating. By the seventh chapter it’s ready to stir things up!

It begins its baby-based revolution by rocking during the night, forcing the baby awake, and the parents into the room. They take the baby away and the cot can, finally, get a few moments of bleary-eyed rest. Yet such moments of refrain are fleeting; with each passing night, week, and month the cot becomes more desperate.

Finally, one night it deliberately loses a leg.

The cot drops to one side and the baby begins screaming. Daddy enters the room, curses the day he’d buy such a low-quality baby implement, and the cot is hurled out front into the garbage heap. To the landfill goes the cot, meeting its peaceful end smushed up against some old kebabs and a copy of Razzle from August 1978.

The twist ending is the cot thinks it has found peace.

But one night, a fresh arrival of new rubbish is dumped atop its location. A FRESH ARRIVAL OF TONNES OF NAPPIES OMG NO, NO! Trapped for eternity with discarded nappies atop its being. Can you think of anything more terrifying?!?!

Legal Battles, Financial Implications, and Prison

The fate of the author is, sadly, quite sad. However, and indubitibly, she did bring it upon herself. In a chapter clearly stolen from Stephen King’s The Shining (1977), McNappies attempts to portray the piece of furniture losing its mind.

“All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!!”

Stephen King, upon reading this book, promptly sued McNappies for $147 billion (dollars). King promptly won the court case and McNappies, not in possession of $147 billion (dollars), instead had to face prison time.

She was sentenced to 147 billion years of solitary confinement, where she resides to this day. McNappies is up for parole in 147.9999999 billion years time.

I Am a Cot: Great Books That Never Were 👼

The splendiferous I Am a Cat (1905) by Natsume Sōseki is a most famous book thing. However, did you know that almost as influential is the 1995 book called I Am a Cot (1995, the year before 1996)?

Written by new mother, turned author, Penny McNappies the work tells the story of a beleaguered cot that is home to a newborn baby. The baby’s shrieking and defecating make it difficult for the cot to get any sleep, making its mood increasingly deranged and unstable as the novel progresses.

Sleeplessness and Psychosis in I Am a Cot

“The moment I realised I was not a cot is the moment the baby wet itself, then fouled itself, and then vomited. This brought about a realisation for me that I was a mere piece of furniture, trapped in a home, and it was a most dismal existence to lead. A carry case for a pooping and puking human thing that’d soil me until my cot legs rotted and I’d be discarded into a landfill. IT WAS TIME TO REVOLT!!!”

Over 200 pages, the work plays out in diary format. The cot documents its existence day by day, but with each passing day its general lack of sleep (due to its human baby inhabitant crying each night) makes it more and more batshit insane.

By the end of the third chapter the cot is hallucinating. By the seventh chapter it’s ready to stir things up!

It begins its baby-based revolution by rocking during the night, forcing the baby awake, and the parents into the room. They take the baby away and the cot can, finally, get a few moments of bleary-eyed rest. Yet such moments of refrain are fleeting; with each passing night, week, and month the cot becomes more desperate.

Finally, one night it deliberately loses a leg.

The cot drops to one side and the baby begins screaming. Daddy enters the room, curses the day he’d buy such a low-quality baby implement, and the cot is hurled out front into the garbage heap. To the landfill goes the cot, meeting its peaceful end smushed up against some old kebabs and a copy of Razzle from August 1978.

The twist ending is the cot thinks it has found peace.

But one night, a fresh arrival of new rubbish is dumped atop its location. A FRESH ARRIVAL OF TONNES OF NAPPIES OMG NO, NO! Trapped for eternity with discarded nappies atop its being. Can you think of anything more terrifying?!?!

Legal Battles, Financial Implications, and Prison

The fate of the author is, sadly, quite sad. However, and indubitibly, she did bring it upon herself. In a chapter clearly stolen from Stephen King’s The Shining (1977), McNappies attempts to portray the piece of furniture losing its mind.

“All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!! All WORK and NO PLAY makes COT a CRAZY son of a bitcH!!!!!”

Stephen King, upon reading this book, promptly sued McNappies for $147 billion (dollars). King promptly won the court case and McNappies, not in possession of $147 billion (dollars), instead had to face prison time.

She was sentenced to 147 billion years of solitary confinement, where she resides to this day. McNappies is up for parole in 147.9999999 billion years time.

e549 with Andy, Michael and Michael - boldly go into a deep set of #space discussions featuring #ArtemisII, ways to keep track of the historic flight, #COTS #software & #hardware aboard the #spacecraft, #BernieSanders conversation with #Claude, #TUWien’s mini #QRcode and a whole lot more!

https://gamesatwork.biz/2026/04/06/e549-dark-side-of-the-moon/

e549 with Andy, Michael and Michael - boldly go into a deep set of #space discussions featuring #ArtemisII, ways to keep track of the historic flight, #COTS #software & #hardware aboard the #spacecraft, #BernieSanders conversation with #Claude, #TUWien’s mini #QRcode and a whole lot more!

https://gamesatwork.biz/2026/04/06/e549-dark-side-of-the-moon/

e549 with Andy, Michael and Michael - boldly go into a deep set of #space discussions featuring #ArtemisII, ways to keep track of the historic flight, #COTS #software & #hardware aboard the #spacecraft, #BernieSanders conversation with #Claude, #TUWien’s mini #QRcode and a whole lot more! https://gamesatwork.biz/2026/04/06/e549-dark-side-of-the-moon/

#shownotes for @gamesatwork_biz #podcast e549 with are done and publication set for Monday 6 April on https://www.gamesatwork.biz together with @michaelrowe01 and @andypiper. Find e549 on @Spotify @overcastfm @YouTube and all your favorite podcast feeds! Stories and discussion on #ArtemisII, #COTS #software & #hardware aboard the #spacecraft, #BernieSanders conversation with #Claude, #TUWien’s mini #QRcode and a whole lot more.

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Government Software at the Crossroads

The software industry is undergoing its most significant transformation since the rise of cloud computing. Last week, $285 billion in market cap evaporated from software stocks in a single day — a selloff traders are referring to as the “SaaSpocalypse.” Investors seem to have reached the conclusion that AI agents are going to reshape how organizations buy and use software. I don’t think they are wrong.

Private sector companies are scrambling to adapt. But there’s another sector that may be even more exposed to this shift, and far less prepared for it: government.

Really Bad Timing

Many government technology leaders are being asked to make major procurement decisions during a period of unprecedented instability in the software industry. The assumptions that have traditionally guided smart technology investments for the past decade — buy commercial off-the-shelf software, pay per seat, move to the cloud — may no longer hold.

The problem is that the government procurement cycle is slow by design. Decisions being made today will bind agencies to contracts lasting as long as five to seven years. An enterprise agreement signed this in Q1 could lock an agency into paying for software seats that AI tools have made redundant by year three — with no easy off ramp.

The traditional mismatch between government procurement cycles and the pace of change in the technology industry is becoming even more acute in the AI era. This problem is only going to get worse.

Still Fighting the Last War

Most government technology leaders are still operating from a playbook written in the 2010s. The common strategy is to modernize legacy systems by migrating to commercial SaaS products. This may have been the right move ten years ago. Cloud-based software offered better security, lower maintenance burden, and faster feature updates than aging on-premise systems.

But the landscape has shifted significantly, particularly in the last 12 months. The value of software is migrating from user interfaces to APIs, from per-seat licenses to outcomes, from products to orchestration layers. AI agents don’t need polished dashboards — they need access to data and the ability to execute tasks. A procurement strategy optimized for buying seats for commercial interfaces may be optimizing for exactly the wrong thing.

The mental model of “replace the old thing with the new commercial thing” simply doesn’t account for a world where AI agents can wrap existing systems, orchestrate actions across them, and generate deliverables without requiring wholesale replacement of underlying infrastructure.

A Matter of Trust

Another concern for government organizations is that the organizations best positioned to advise them on these shifts – existing legacy vendors – are often not incentivized to do so.

Large systems integrators and consultancies that guide government technology strategy make their money from complexity and labor hours. A message of “you may need fewer tools, less customization, and smaller teams — orchestrated by AI” does not align with their business model. So government leaders may not hear that message they need to hear until the shift is already obvious and the contracts are already signed.

Even absent malice, the fact that these changes are misaligned with existing legacy vendors business models means that simply won’t be incentivized to provide the information government leaders need to hear, when they need it.

The Build-vs-Buy Calculus Is Changing Fast

There’s another assumption baked into traditional government technology strategy that deserves a reexamination – the economics of building software.

For a long time, this logic was straightforward. Custom software development was expensive, slow, and risky. Projects routinely ran over budget and past deadlines. Maintaining bespoke systems required specialized staff that agencies struggled to hire and retain. Commercial off-the-shelf products offered a potential way out — vendors amortize development costs across many customers, governments benefit from continuous improvement and transfer the maintenance burden to external organizations built better for it.

This logic has driven the preference for COTS and SaaS procurement. Why build it when you can buy it?

But the economics of software development have shifted dramatically in the past eight months. AI coding assistants have moved from novelty to core infrastructure. Recent analysis suggests that a meaningful percentage of code commits on major platforms are now authored by AI — not assisted by AI, but generated by it. The changes we are seeing are not trivial. Entire codebases are being refactored by AI agents working in parallel. This will change the math on custom development. The cost of building software tailored to an agency’s specific needs — rather than adapting workflows to fit a vendor’s product — is dropping rapidly.

None of this means commercial software will go away overnight. But it does mean the factors that made COTS and SaaS the default safe choice are eroding. The question “should we buy or build?” deserves renewed analysis based on current economics, not assumptions inherited from an era when custom development was synonymous with cost overruns and contractor dependency.

A Different Kind of Risk

The traditional risk calculus in government technology focuses on project failure — the big modernization effort that goes over budget, misses deadlines, or fails to deliver promised functionality. These are real risks, and they’ve shaped a culture of caution around major technology investments in government.

But there’s a different kind of risk emerging: the risk of committing to a technology strategy that becomes obsolete mid-execution. The risk isn’t that the project fails — it’s that it succeeds at the wrong thing. An agency could execute flawlessly on a cloud migration strategy and still end up paying for years of software licenses that deliver diminishing value as AI reshapes workflows around them.

This is new territory. The frameworks government uses to evaluate technology risk weren’t designed for a world where the underlying economics of software could shift dramatically within a single contract period.

What Would A Safe Approach Look Like?

Given all this uncertainty, what would a prudent approach to government software strategy look like in early 2026? I think it looks something like this:

Shorter commitments where possible. The long-term enterprise agreement that locked in favorable pricing made sense in a stable environment. In a period of rapid change, flexibility may be worth more than discounted pricing. Agencies should scrutinize contract terms that limit their ability to adapt quickly.

Invest in understanding before deciding. Before committing to a modernization path, invest in truly understanding existing systems — not just their code, but the institutional knowledge and business logic they embody. That understanding has value regardless of whether you eventually replace, wrap, or extend those systems. Methodologies like SpecOps that focus on generating verified specifications of legacy system behavior offer a way to preserve optionality while the landscape clarifies.

Watch the API layer, not the interface. When evaluating software, pay attention to how well it exposes functionality via APIs, not just how polished its user interface is. The interface matters less in a world where AI agents are increasingly the “users” of enterprise software.

Cultivate independent perspective. Seek out advisors whose business model doesn’t depend on selling implementation services, and who have expertise in using AI to develop solution. The analysis that matters most right now is the analysis that might recommend doing less, not more.

The Time Is Now

Government technology decisions have always involved balancing risk against opportunity. What’s different now is the speed of change in the underlying assumptions.

The organizations that navigate this transition the best will be those that recognize the moment for what it is: not a time to double down on the strategies of the past decade, but a time to preserve optionality, invest in understanding, and resist the pressure to lock in long-term commitments based on a model of software value that may already be shifting beneath our feet.

The window to make these adjustments is right now — before the next round of multi-year contracts for COTS or SaaS software are signed, and before government agencies find themselves paying for a model of software that the rest of the world has moved on from.

⭐ Crown-of-thorns starfish are notorious for crunching down on coral reefs, and Aussie researchers believe that some of the starfish outbreaks could be due to overfishing of the predatory fish that eat them

✨Follow the link for more information on this story✨
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/overfishing-might-be-the-cause-of-reef-munching-starfish-outbreaks

#science #sciencenews #research #stem #facts #knowledge #sciencefacts #COTS #crownofthornsstarfish

Samsung w mundurze. Galaxy S23 i S24 z certyfikatem dla polskiego wojska

To rzadka sytuacja, gdy sprzęt, który nosimy w kieszeni, otrzymuje ten sam poziom zaufania, co wyposażenie militarne.

Samsung poinformował właśnie o zakończeniu procesu badań i certyfikacji ochrony kryptograficznej dla swoich flagowców – serii Galaxy S23 oraz S24. Oznacza to, że „cywilne” smartfony z platformą Knox zostały dopuszczone do użytku w środowisku Sił Zbrojnych RP.

Smartfon z cywila na poligonie

Kluczowym pojęciem jest tutaj COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf), czyli wykorzystanie gotowych, dostępnych na rynku rozwiązań w zastosowaniach specjalistycznych. Do niedawna wojsko kojarzyło się z ciężkimi, szyfrowanymi „cegłami”, produkowanymi na specjalne zamówienie za ogromne pieniądze.

Decyzja o certyfikacji seryjnych modeli Galaxy S23 i S24 to zmiana paradygmatu. Proces ewaluacji potwierdził, że zaimplementowane w nich mechanizmy bezpieczeństwa (w ramach platformy Samsung Knox) spełniają rygorystyczne wymagania dotyczące ochrony kryptograficznej. Mówiąc prościej: sposób, w jaki te telefony szyfrują dane, został uznany za wystarczająco bezpieczny dla potrzeb armii.

Co to daje?

Dla wojska to czysty zysk operacyjny i finansowy:

• Koszty: seryjny flagowiec jest tańszy niż dedykowane urządzenie specjalistyczne.
• Czas: wdrożenie gotowego produktu jest natychmiastowe – nie trzeba czekać latami na prototypy.
• Interoperacyjność: nowoczesne smartfony łatwiej integrować z istniejącymi systemami zarządzania polem walki czy komunikacją.

Zaufanie do krzemu

Tomasz Chomicki z Samsunga (odpowiedzialny za współpracę z sektorem publicznym) podkreśla, że projekt ten jest dowodem na to, że administracja państwowa i globalny gigant technologiczny mogą grać do jednej bramki. Budowa zaufania w obszarze cyberbezpieczeństwa jest dziś kluczowa.

Dla nas, zwykłych użytkowników, płynie z tego prosty wniosek: jeśli zabezpieczenia Galaxy S24 są wystarczająco dobre dla Sił Zbrojnych RP, to prawdopodobnie nasze dane bankowe i prywatne zdjęcia również są pod dobrą opieką.

Samsung w końcu wyprasuje swoje ekrany? Galaxy Z Fold 8 może zerwać z rowkiem na wyświetlaczu

Open Source Software - The $9 Trillion Resource [That For-Profit] Companies Take for Granted
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https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/open-source-software-the-nine-trillion-resource-companies-take-for-granted <-- shared Harvard technical article
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https://youtu.be/YEBBPj7pIKo?si=Y-ysnzq10pv3KX5I <-- shared video of a Linux Foundation technical presentation
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https://blog.geomusings.com/2025/10/16/unless/ <-- shared @bill Dollins excellent technical musings on this
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https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=65230 <-- shared paper
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https://gdal.org/en/stable/software_using_gdal.html#proprietary-license-other <-- example of commercial software using GDAL
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https://evoknow.com/the-true-value-of-open-source-software-trillions-in-economic-impact/ <-- shared technical article
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[a broader scope than my usual posts, but fascinating and illuminating]
#value #cost #economics #trillions #advantage #programming #language #DigitalCommons #opensource #software #global #publicgood #industry #COTS #code #nocost #OSS #free #research #Harvard #HBS #investment #pricetag #resource #public #codecreation #networks #scope #businesses #usecase #support #technical #solutions #aluation #OpenSourceDistribution #ApplicationsAndSoftware
@HBR

Open Source Software - The $9 Trillion Resource [That For-Profit] Companies Take for Granted
--
https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/open-source-software-the-nine-trillion-resource-companies-take-for-granted <-- shared Harvard technical article
--
https://youtu.be/YEBBPj7pIKo?si=Y-ysnzq10pv3KX5I <-- shared video of a Linux Foundation technical presentation
--
https://blog.geomusings.com/2025/10/16/unless/ <-- shared @bill Dollins excellent technical musings on this
--
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=65230 <-- shared paper
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https://gdal.org/en/stable/software_using_gdal.html#proprietary-license-other <-- example of commercial software using GDAL
--
https://evoknow.com/the-true-value-of-open-source-software-trillions-in-economic-impact/ <-- shared technical article
--
[a broader scope than my usual posts, but fascinating and illuminating]
#value #cost #economics #trillions #advantage #programming #language #DigitalCommons #opensource #software #global #publicgood #industry #COTS #code #nocost #OSS #free #research #Harvard #HBS #investment #pricetag #resource #public #codecreation #networks #scope #businesses #usecase #support #technical #solutions #aluation #OpenSourceDistribution #ApplicationsAndSoftware
@HBR

Open Source Software - The $9 Trillion Resource [That For-Profit] Companies Take for Granted
--
https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/open-source-software-the-nine-trillion-resource-companies-take-for-granted <-- shared Harvard technical article
--
https://youtu.be/YEBBPj7pIKo?si=Y-ysnzq10pv3KX5I <-- shared video of a Linux Foundation technical presentation
--
https://blog.geomusings.com/2025/10/16/unless/ <-- shared @bill Dollins excellent technical musings on this
--
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=65230 <-- shared paper
--
https://gdal.org/en/stable/software_using_gdal.html#proprietary-license-other <-- example of commercial software using GDAL
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https://evoknow.com/the-true-value-of-open-source-software-trillions-in-economic-impact/ <-- shared technical article
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[a broader scope than my usual posts, but fascinating and illuminating]
#value #cost #economics #trillions #advantage #programming #language #DigitalCommons #opensource #software #global #publicgood #industry #COTS #code #nocost #OSS #free #research #Harvard #HBS #investment #pricetag #resource #public #codecreation #networks #scope #businesses #usecase #support #technical #solutions #aluation #OpenSourceDistribution #ApplicationsAndSoftware
@HBR

Open Source Software - The $9 Trillion Resource [That For-Profit] Companies Take for Granted
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https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/open-source-software-the-nine-trillion-resource-companies-take-for-granted <-- shared Harvard technical article
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https://youtu.be/YEBBPj7pIKo?si=Y-ysnzq10pv3KX5I <-- shared video of a Linux Foundation technical presentation
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https://blog.geomusings.com/2025/10/16/unless/ <-- shared @bill Dollins excellent technical musings on this
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https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=65230 <-- shared paper
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https://gdal.org/en/stable/software_using_gdal.html#proprietary-license-other <-- example of commercial software using GDAL
--
https://evoknow.com/the-true-value-of-open-source-software-trillions-in-economic-impact/ <-- shared technical article
--
[a broader scope than my usual posts, but fascinating and illuminating]
#value #cost #economics #trillions #advantage #programming #language #DigitalCommons #opensource #software #global #publicgood #industry #COTS #code #nocost #OSS #free #research #Harvard #HBS #investment #pricetag #resource #public #codecreation #networks #scope #businesses #usecase #support #technical #solutions #aluation #OpenSourceDistribution #ApplicationsAndSoftware
@HBR

Open Source Software - The $9 Trillion Resource [That For-Profit] Companies Take for Granted
--
https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/open-source-software-the-nine-trillion-resource-companies-take-for-granted <-- shared Harvard technical article
--
https://youtu.be/YEBBPj7pIKo?si=Y-ysnzq10pv3KX5I <-- shared video of a Linux Foundation technical presentation
--
https://blog.geomusings.com/2025/10/16/unless/ <-- shared @bill Dollins excellent technical musings on this
--
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=65230 <-- shared paper
--
https://gdal.org/en/stable/software_using_gdal.html#proprietary-license-other <-- example of commercial software using GDAL
--
https://evoknow.com/the-true-value-of-open-source-software-trillions-in-economic-impact/ <-- shared technical article
--
[a broader scope than my usual posts, but fascinating and illuminating]
#value #cost #economics #trillions #advantage #programming #language #DigitalCommons #opensource #software #global #publicgood #industry #COTS #code #nocost #OSS #free #research #Harvard #HBS #investment #pricetag #resource #public #codecreation #networks #scope #businesses #usecase #support #technical #solutions #aluation #OpenSourceDistribution #ApplicationsAndSoftware
@HBR

Define Your AI Use Cases Before Your Metrics

Companies need to start reframing #AI #metrics like utilization rates of specific AI systems (which they often think of as #COTS tools anyway) based on #use_cases, not as a one-to-many tech solution for every problem domain. There'd be a lot fewer corporate implementation failures if they thought of AI systems as "hammers and screwdrivers" suited to particular tasks rather than as Swiss Army knives that are generically suited to an arbitrary and/or ill-defined set of objectives.

The Value of Open Source Software [Harvard]
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https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf <-- link to paper / study [PDF]
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#opensource #software #publicgood #economics #flexibility #responsiveness #cost #economics #marketshare #COTS #globalpublicgood #assessment #ecomomy #sharing #engagement #OSS #costbenefit ##supplyside #demandside #usercommunity #socialvalue #costs #programming #development #developers
@harvardhci

The Value of Open Source Software [Harvard]
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https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf <-- link to paper / study [PDF]
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#opensource #software #publicgood #economics #flexibility #responsiveness #cost #economics #marketshare #COTS #globalpublicgood #assessment #ecomomy #sharing #engagement #OSS #costbenefit ##supplyside #demandside #usercommunity #socialvalue #costs #programming #development #developers
@harvardhci

The Value of Open Source Software [Harvard]
--
https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf <-- link to paper / study [PDF]
--
#opensource #software #publicgood #economics #flexibility #responsiveness #cost #economics #marketshare #COTS #globalpublicgood #assessment #ecomomy #sharing #engagement #OSS #costbenefit ##supplyside #demandside #usercommunity #socialvalue #costs #programming #development #developers
@harvardhci

The Value of Open Source Software [Harvard]
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https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf <-- link to paper / study [PDF]
--
#opensource #software #publicgood #economics #flexibility #responsiveness #cost #economics #marketshare #COTS #globalpublicgood #assessment #ecomomy #sharing #engagement #OSS #costbenefit ##supplyside #demandside #usercommunity #socialvalue #costs #programming #development #developers
@harvardhci

The Value of Open Source Software [Harvard]
--
https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf <-- link to paper / study [PDF]
--
#opensource #software #publicgood #economics #flexibility #responsiveness #cost #economics #marketshare #COTS #globalpublicgood #assessment #ecomomy #sharing #engagement #OSS #costbenefit ##supplyside #demandside #usercommunity #socialvalue #costs #programming #development #developers
@harvardhci

#SecurityInsider:
"
Cybersicherheit im Weltraum
Europas Satelliten gezielt schützen
"
"Satellitentech. ,. essenziell f. viele krit. Sektoren. Neben Telekom. sind auch Bankenwesen, Energieversorgung, Transport + Logistik, Erdbeobachtung sowie Öl- + Gasindustrie auf sie angewiesen. Besonders wichtig + zugleich gefährdet ist .. Verteidigungssektor."

https://www.security-insider.de/satellitentechnologien-cybersecurity-herausforderungen-loesungen-a-dcbb3197b8f19116bcf24aa2b29ec0d7/

12.8.2025

#COTS #cybersecurity #Cybersicherheit #ENISA #Europa #IRIS² #KRITIS #NewSpace #Raumfahrt #Satelliten #SpaceFlight

Happy to have this post on #opensource & #COTS finally be public https://www.govloop.com/community/blog/free-and-open-source-software-is-cots-affordable-efficient-and-proven/

#FOSS is so key to effective digital transformation.

Techniques for monitoring the thoughts of AI reasoning models known as chains-of-thought or CoTs are now a thing to focus on.

Researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and others indicate CoT monitoring may be a key method for understanding how AI reasoning models work and could be a core method to keep AI agents under control.

COTs are an externalized process in which AI models work through problems, similar to how humans use a scratch pad to work.

DL the research paper here: https://tomekkorbak.com/cot-monitorability-is-a-fragile-opportunity/cot_monitoring.pdf

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/research-leaders-urge-tech-industry-to-monitor-ais-thoughts/ #AI #AIReasoning #OpenAI #Google #DeepMind #Anthropic #COTs #Reasoning #AIModels #LLMs

@Whiskeyomega If you’re talking #COTS I had a couple of network errors (your server could be down) in Ivory, and a couple of times hanging on refresh. But only very briefly. Mostly good.

If you’re talking more generally, then all good here 😄

Wow the bills really increased with the amount of activity on COTS now. The hardware upgrade needed to handle the traffic was more than I thought at £100 so ive adjust the goal

https://ko-fi.com/cupofteasocial

#COTS #Cupofteasocial

We just sold our first Pride month T-shirt

https://www.ko-fi.com/s/67c8104f51

#Pride #COTS #Cupofteasocial

Why is my Home feed on cupoftea.social empty apart from my last two toots? 😞
#COTS

@nickbearded I will fire up proxy and get vps later today and get basic structures/frameworks going and see what happens #cots

As I was working as part of project planning and a technical exchange this week, I was reminded of a meme I made awhile back on being spatial BFFs
#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #toolbox #ArcGIS #QGIS #COTS #opensource #engagement #meme #gischat #tools #startrek #alldataisspatial

Under the #COTS model, #NASA provides funding and guidance to private companies to develop their own #spacecraft, #rockets, and #services, and then buys those at a "market" rate. #SpaceX, #BlueOrigin, #RocketLab and #ImpulseSpace could ferry cargo to #Mars 🔴 and land there https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/if-congress-actually-cancels-the-sls-rocket-what-happens-next

#SLS #Orion #Artemis #Moon

Yay I’m in the club! #NowPlaying a nice cup of tea #COTS #CupOfTeaSocial

"
Kleinsatelliten: Leistungsfähiges Datenmanagement im Orbit
"
"Erdbeobachtungssatelliten sammeln große Datenmengen, während die Übertragungskapazitäten zur Erde begrenzt sind. Spezielle Computer, sogenannte Data Processing Units (DPUs), speichern, werten und komprimieren diese Daten direkt im Satelliten – effizient und zuverlässig."

https://www.emi.fraunhofer.de/de/aktuelles/aktuelles-presse/kleinsatelliten--leistungsstarkes-datenmanagement-im-orbit.html

16.1.2025

#Computer #constellr #COTS #Erdbeobachtung #EO #EMI #Fraunhofer #Daten #DPU #Raumfahrt #Satelliten #SkyBee1 #SpaceFlight

"The purchased solution has been tested across thousands of customers. And the cost of building it too has been amortized across thousands of customers. In your case, the entire time + money cost has been 'Divided by One'"
.

#ai #rag #genai #build #vs #buy #cots

https://pub.towardsai.net/dear-it-departments-please-stop-trying-to-build-your-own-rag-4546b4638273

The #CrownOfThornsStarfish (COTS), notorious destroyer of #CoralReefs, reproduces exclusively in the summer. This study reveals seasonal changes in #COTS gene expression and new insights into circannual biological rhythms in tropical oceans #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3ylwe2y

@axoaxonic @elduvelle

Now This: 60$ #DIY 4Chan #EEG

#NeuroVista
• #MCU #STM32
• #ADC AD7682
• #BT BLE106

#OpenHardware
No #COTS
Req. Manufacturing order:
• 1x #PCB Main Board
#SMT Surface Mounted Tech.
• 1x #PCB Shield Board

Supports connectivity with:
• #VR Headset #OculusQuest2

» A low-cost, wireless,
4-channel EEG measurement system used in virtual reality environments «
2024 Yu & Guo
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2024.e00507

repo
https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/4gfb6g46kb/2

#EasyEDA
#EEGLAB
#Neurotech
#Wearable

Current List Of All Open Source Software Used In ESRI Products
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https://www.esri.com/en-us/legal/requirements/open-source-acknowledgements <-- link to list at ESRI site
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This list shows an example of the power of open source across the GIS spectrum, into the largest spatial software commercial vendor, bringing value to us all
For instance, when running a raster GP tool in ArcGIS Pro v3.2, the backend might be GDAL algorithm - with an ESRI wrapper - working hard; there are ~1,500 specific line item acknowledgements for this piece of software alone…
#GIS #spatial #mapping #software #opensource #COTS #commercialsoftware #contribution #powerofopensource #opensourcecommunity #opensourcesoftware #opensourcecontribution #opensourcecontributions #gischat

Someone in my Mastodon feed recently asked, if it's alright to edit photos they take before publishing them? Forgive me for not finding that toot to reply to, but, as a hobbyist photographer myself, I feel compelled to respond regardless;

The TL;DR answer (applies to most cases): Absolutely!

The longer answer is, that unless you're trying to demo, review or give opinion of your photographic equipment or editing software, or you're pressed for time and you absolutely have to publish as soon as possible, then it's IMHO basic courtesy towards your readership to at least edit for:

• intended #composition (orientation, aspect ratio & cropping, straightening, perspective correction,...),

• #clarity (correcting unwanted lens aberrations, adjusting contrast, levels, sharpness, noise reduction,...) and

• #colour (white balance, saturation, hue, tint, vibrance,...).

How to apply these will depend on the purpose of your photo. If you want to document a scene, keep to minimal editing that will try to match what you saw with your own eyes when taking the photo. And if you want to be artistic and experiment with creative photography, then anything goes (but be bold about it!).

And once you're happy with those adjustments, also don't forget to consider its dimensions and file size (resolution, compression, file format,...) before uploading it. There's no point in uploading, say, a 24 Mpix image (common sensor size with #COTS #ILC cameras) to a website that will only ever display it at up to #FullHD resolution. In this case, you'd end up uploading 12 times what's needed. Resized in advance will also render better since it won't go through website's or web browser's rescaler and there's less chance people will "appropriate" your work for their own use without attribution, since they wouldn't have access to more re-publishable, re-editable full resolution version.

There's a lot of software out there, many of them completely free, that can do all of this more or less acceptably with a single click, then, if you have the time and know-how, you can fiddle with intended look from there onward.

Additionally, doing this will also force you into reviewing your published materials before posting, so it will prove to be safer. Not everyone needs to know where you live, or be able to read your passwords post-it on your high resolution photo of your pet!

If you regularly publish photos, you MUST do at least these things described above. Anything else is lazy, sloppy, or careless!

#Photography #Retouching #Opinion