#linux-conf-au — Public Fediverse posts
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tridge has written a post about the recent #rsync issues:
rsync and outrage
https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0
pls at least read his post before commenting on this toot
like most non-trivial things in life, tech, & especially security, my thoughts on this are… “it’s complicated”
I’m only tenuously connected to tridge via the #LinuxConfAU / #EverythingOpen community, but his reputation is the stuff of F/LOSS nerd legend – I was in the room for his #LCA2015 talk in Auckland, Flying with Linux, where he did a live demo of #ArduPilot controlling an RC aircraft in Canberra (AU) with real-time telemetry from the aircraft that was also compiling the Linux kernel while in-flight… 🤯YouTube: https://youtu.be/2Twl2mQAh6g
LA mirror: https://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2015/OGGB_FP/Friday/Flying_with_Linux.webm
in the post, tridge argues that he is able to bring his (undisputed) expertise in software design & development to find ways use LLMs (relatively) safely to assist with specific coding tasks. I think that’s probably true, even given the regression bugs introduced in the most recent version of rsync – and it may even be the pragmatic least-worst way for open source maintainers to try to deal with the current deluge of LLM-assisted (or entirely LLM-generated) security reports currently overwhelming many open source projects
but most software devs are not on tridge’s level, and are already using #LLMs as coding assistants in unsafe and unpredictable ways (or just wholesale vibe-coding things without regard for building guardrails at all)
tridge also points out that he is technically retired and would rather be out sailing than working on maintaining rsync. a very possible outcome from all this might be that he decides to just… walk away and let others pick up the slack (he did note that the silver lining is that a couple of other experienced devs are – at least for now – working on the project)
but even if everyone using LLMs to generate code was supervising it closely with very-experienced-software-design-and-development-level skills (they’re definitely not), I still don’t think that would justify or offset the enormous ethical, environmental, & social issues with the creation & use of LLMslike I said, #ItsComplicated 💁♀️
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tridge has written a post about the recent #rsync issues:
rsync and outrage
https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0
pls at least read his post before commenting on this toot
like most non-trivial things in life, tech, & especially security, my thoughts on this are… “it’s complicated”
I’m only tenuously connected to tridge via the #LinuxConfAU / #EverythingOpen community, but his reputation is the stuff of F/LOSS nerd legend – I was in the room for his #LCA2015 talk in Auckland, Flying with Linux, where he did a live demo of #ArduPilot controlling an RC aircraft in Canberra (AU) with real-time telemetry from the aircraft that was also compiling the Linux kernel while in-flight… 🤯YouTube: https://youtu.be/2Twl2mQAh6g
LA mirror: https://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2015/OGGB_FP/Friday/Flying_with_Linux.webm
in the post, tridge argues that he is able to bring his (undisputed) expertise in software design & development to find ways use LLMs (relatively) safely to assist with specific coding tasks. I think that’s probably true, even given the regression bugs introduced in the most recent version of rsync – and it may even be the pragmatic least-worst way for open source maintainers to try to deal with the current deluge of LLM-assisted (or entirely LLM-generated) security reports currently overwhelming many open source projects
but most software devs are not on tridge’s level, and are already using #LLMs as coding assistants in unsafe and unpredictable ways (or just wholesale vibe-coding things without regard for building guardrails at all)
tridge also points out that he is technically retired and would rather be out sailing than working on maintaining rsync. a very possible outcome from all this might be that he decides to just… walk away and let others pick up the slack (he did note that the silver lining is that a couple of other experienced devs are – at least for now – working on the project)
but even if everyone using LLMs to generate code was supervising it closely with very-experienced-software-design-and-development-level skills (they’re definitely not), I still don’t think that would justify or offset the enormous ethical, environmental, & social issues with the creation & use of LLMslike I said, #ItsComplicated 💁♀️
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#EverythingOpen 2024 welcomes #RedHat as a Royal Penguin #sponsor
Red Hat has a long history with Everything Open and formerly with #linuxconfau
Red Hat, the first billion US$ #OpenSource company, showed that open source as a model could not only pay the bills, but enabled organisations to see the advantages.
There would be few enterprises world wide that do not use Red Hat Enterprise Linux #RHEL
Thank you, Red Hat!
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#EverythingOpen 2024 welcomes #RedHat as a Royal Penguin #sponsor
Red Hat has a long history with Everything Open and formerly with #linuxconfau
Red Hat, the first billion US$ #OpenSource company, showed that open source as a model could not only pay the bills, but enabled organisations to see the advantages.
There would be few enterprises world wide that do not use Red Hat Enterprise Linux #RHEL
Thank you, Red Hat!
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#Google are long-term supporters of #EverythingOpen and, previously, #linuxconfau, and jumped at the chance to again #sponsor us this year in #Gladstone #Queensland. We're super grateful for their support.
#Google has been contributing to the #OpenSource #ecosystem from the start, with projects like #Android, based on the #Linux kernel, and #Chrome, based on the open source #Chromium.
Thank you, Google!
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#Google are long-term supporters of #EverythingOpen and, previously, #linuxconfau, and jumped at the chance to again #sponsor us this year in #Gladstone #Queensland. We're super grateful for their support.
#Google has been contributing to the #OpenSource #ecosystem from the start, with projects like #Android, based on the #Linux kernel, and #Chrome, based on the open source #Chromium.
Thank you, Google!
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I'm a bit disappointed to be missing #EverythingOpen this year, but I just can't justify attending a conference of that size without it having a strong health & safety policy. (While I haven't signed the @phpledge, I am aligned with its expectations in most cases. And I really don't want to catch #COVID again!)
It'll be the first #LinuxConfAU-shaped conference I've missed since I started attending in 2012. 😢 -
I'm a bit disappointed to be missing #EverythingOpen this year, but I just can't justify attending a conference of that size without it having a strong health & safety policy. (While I haven't signed the @phpledge, I am aligned with its expectations in most cases. And I really don't want to catch #COVID again!)
It'll be the first #LinuxConfAU-shaped conference I've missed since I started attending in 2012. 😢 -
In an effort to encourage myself to start writing #blog posts again, I’m sharing some of my old posts with a new audience here on mastodon 🙃
Next one:
Radia Perlman at #LinuxConfAU 2013 (2013) -
In an effort to encourage myself to start writing #blog posts again, I’m sharing some of my old posts with a new audience here on mastodon 🙃
Next one:
Radia Perlman at #LinuxConfAU 2013 (2013) -
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Folks, particularly those of an @everythingopen #OpenSource or #linuxconfau persuasion, please give @nnye a warm welcome to the #Fediverse :fediverse: - great to have her here!
Edit: Fixed typo
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Folks, particularly those of an @everythingopen #OpenSource or #linuxconfau persuasion, please give @nnye a warm welcome to the #Fediverse :fediverse: - great to have her here!
Edit: Fixed typo
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Organiser @saera answers the question "why #EverythingOpen?" - it invites more diverse people, more diverse fields, more diverse attendees together - creating more paths, more opportunities for connections and more opportunities to connect.
A third of attendees have never been to #linuxconfau before!
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Organiser @saera answers the question "why #EverythingOpen?" - it invites more diverse people, more diverse fields, more diverse attendees together - creating more paths, more opportunities for connections and more opportunities to connect.
A third of attendees have never been to #linuxconfau before!
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The phones are ALMOST alive at #EverythingOpen! These are the old phone numbers from #linuxconfau 2020 on the Gold Coast. "Honest" Rob's Used Car (and VoIP) Emporium has assigned a new number which will be on the website soon.
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Today's event is focused on #OpenHardware - folks who have the #linuxconfau #lca2022 #OHMC #SwagBadge #Rockling #FPGA invited to #HackMelbourne , 5 Kent Street, Hawthorn.
Take a Metro train - fr Southern Cross or Flinders to Glenferrie Stn - Alamein, Belgrave or Lilydale lines.
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Today's event is focused on #OpenHardware - folks who have the #linuxconfau #lca2022 #OHMC #SwagBadge #Rockling #FPGA invited to #HackMelbourne , 5 Kent Street, Hawthorn.
Take a Metro train - fr Southern Cross or Flinders to Glenferrie Stn - Alamein, Belgrave or Lilydale lines.
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Did you love #linuxconfau? Then you're going to love #EverythingOpen - another excellent #conference from #LinuxAustralia.
#EverythingOpen brings together folx in the #GLAM, #OpenSource, #OpenHardware, #OpenData, #OpenCulture and related communities to share knowledge, exchange ideas and collaborate.
What you might not know is that #EverythingOpen, like other events in the Linux Australia stable - #PyConAu, #DrupalSouth, #WordCamp -
- is #volunteer-run.This means that tickets are much more affordable than commercial or for-profit events - when was the last time you attended a 3-day #conference for around $100 per day (Hobbyist rate)?! That low cost is subsidised by the hundreds - thousands - of volunteer hours that go into the conference. To the team - thank you. You are appreciated.
Everything Open is on at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in beautiful #Naarm #Melbourne March 14th-16th.
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Did you love #linuxconfau? Then you're going to love #EverythingOpen - another excellent #conference from #LinuxAustralia.
#EverythingOpen brings together folx in the #GLAM, #OpenSource, #OpenHardware, #OpenData, #OpenCulture and related communities to share knowledge, exchange ideas and collaborate.
What you might not know is that #EverythingOpen, like other events in the Linux Australia stable - #PyConAu, #DrupalSouth, #WordCamp -
- is #volunteer-run.This means that tickets are much more affordable than commercial or for-profit events - when was the last time you attended a 3-day #conference for around $100 per day (Hobbyist rate)?! That low cost is subsidised by the hundreds - thousands - of volunteer hours that go into the conference. To the team - thank you. You are appreciated.
Everything Open is on at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in beautiful #Naarm #Melbourne March 14th-16th.
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Twelve years ago @vk5qi and I posed for this print signed by Geoff Huston, Vint Cerf, Eric Allman and Linus Torvalds.
The print and the Tux toy was auctioned to raise money for rebuilding from the Brisbane floods, and was won by OzLabs.
I started at OzLabs a few years later and saw Tux again, which is still in the office today.
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Twelve years ago @vk5qi and I posed for this print signed by Geoff Huston, Vint Cerf, Eric Allman and Linus Torvalds.
The print and the Tux toy was auctioned to raise money for rebuilding from the Brisbane floods, and was won by OzLabs.
I started at OzLabs a few years later and saw Tux again, which is still in the office today.
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Folks, there's only one more day to submit to the #EverythingOpen #conference, which will be held in #Melbourne #Naarm in March.
If you liked #linuxconfau or #LCA2020 then you're going to love #EverythingOpen
🎉 🐧 🐍 📊 ⌨️ 🧑🤝🧑
In particular, we'd love to have #CfP proposals from topic areas such as #GLAM #GLAMR #OpenData #OpenGov #GovHack, #OpenAccess, #OER and #Education.
Boosts warmly welcomed!
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Folks, there's only one more day to submit to the #EverythingOpen #conference, which will be held in #Melbourne #Naarm in March.
If you liked #linuxconfau or #LCA2020 then you're going to love #EverythingOpen
🎉 🐧 🐍 📊 ⌨️ 🧑🤝🧑
In particular, we'd love to have #CfP proposals from topic areas such as #GLAM #GLAMR #OpenData #OpenGov #GovHack, #OpenAccess, #OER and #Education.
Boosts warmly welcomed!
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CW: #linuxconfau #EverythingOpen Discourse
I agree that it takes a lot of effort to organise an event.
And thank you for running previous #linuxconfau and now going forward with #EverythingOpen. Your advocacy is super important to the continued existence of #OpenScience in #Australia.
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CW: #linuxconfau #EverythingOpen Discourse
I agree that it takes a lot of effort to organise an event.
And thank you for running previous #linuxconfau and now going forward with #EverythingOpen. Your advocacy is super important to the continued existence of #OpenScience in #Australia.
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CW: #linuxconfau #EverythingOpen Discourse
I'm really disappointed in the backlash against #EverythingOpen, and more importantly, the volunteers giving up their valuable time and energy to deliver it.
Sure, everyone loved #linuxconfau - but it was a 5-day, 5-track conference that cost close to $AUD 1m to deliver, and took a team of 5-10 several hours of time over 12-18 months to manage. #EverythingOpen is smaller, more manageable, and less onerous on the organising team.
If you don't like it, propose your own #linuxconfau but be sure you know how much it takes. I know, I've done it twice.
🙅
/rant
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CW: #linuxconfau #EverythingOpen Discourse
I'm really disappointed in the backlash against #EverythingOpen, and more importantly, the volunteers giving up their valuable time and energy to deliver it.
Sure, everyone loved #linuxconfau - but it was a 5-day, 5-track conference that cost close to $AUD 1m to deliver, and took a team of 5-10 several hours of time over 12-18 months to manage. #EverythingOpen is smaller, more manageable, and less onerous on the organising team.
If you don't like it, propose your own #linuxconfau but be sure you know how much it takes. I know, I've done it twice.
🙅
/rant
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Folx, it's time for my nightly #introduction and #connection #connectionlist post - to help you find people to follow in the Fediverse. This is a deliberate action to use my large-ish following for good - #MetcalfesLaw
@patrick is a wonderful human being, and I am incredibly grateful to him for his invaluable behind-the-scenes work at many a #linuxconfau and #pyconau. Thank you, Patrick!
@yaakov works in #infosec and #cybersecurity and thinks the COVIDSafe app was very well designed lol jk jk 😜 Yaakov is patient, kind, and knowledgeable.
@rjones is an avid #Python #Pythonista and enjoys #cycling and #Kerbal and other #gaming things.
@minxdragon is an #AI #artist who is completing their #PhD in generative art. Incredible mind, beautiful soul.
@MommaRose is a #writer, #historian and #digital strategist in #California, and researches #gardening and its intersection with #politics.
@Unixbigot is a fabulous presenter, and he knows lots about all things #IoT. Top bloke.
@M0les is in #CBR #Canberra where he does things related to #linux, and runs linux.conf.au in his "spare time" (also lol a joke ;-). Another Top bloke.
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And that's a wrap for my #lca2022 talk. Everything went smoothly, and I got good questions that I hopefully managed to answer to everyone's satisfaction.
As usual, the professionalism of the staff and volunteers at #linuxconfau was amazing to behold.
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I’m ready for #linuxconfau - I’ll be doing AV for the Yuma Theatre stage (that’s the kernel mini conf today).
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Tackling the Monopoly Problem
There was a time when people who were exploring computational technology saw it as the path toward decentralization and freedom worldwide. What we have ended up with, instead, is a world that is increasingly centralized, subject to surveillance, and unfree. How did that come to be? In a keynote at the online 2021 linux.conf.au event, Cory Doctorow gave his view of this problem and named its source: monopoly.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/844102/a23d1543b5a55cae/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25960684
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#CoryDoctorow #Pluralistic #Monopoly #Decentralisation #Centralisation #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #SurveillanceState #LinuxConfAU #LWN
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Anyone heading to #LinuxConfAU next week? First time for me, I might need my hand held.
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Late decision from work (because late application from me hehe) but turns out I'll be at #LinuxConfAU on the #GoldCoast next week.
Really looking forward to the Open Education and GO GLAM miniconferences.
Anyone else here going?
