Is open source worth the investment? 💲💻
According to this report by the Linux Foundation, the answer is a resounding yes!
Read more: https://cd.foundation/blog/2026/02/26/open-source-roi/

@anatudor

Most hard hitting quote so far:

“One benefit of machinery was that it could be used as a rhetorical tool as well, to muddy the moral clarity of the situation—a use it’s been put to by owners ever since. It’s the robots, not your boss, that’s coming to take away your job.”

Sound familiar?

@jitterted It's worth noting that human anarchy is when you ignore the rules because they don't work. It's a form of resilience. We sometimes prove this by doing "work to rule".

PSA: The Amazon wishlist doxing threat is much greater and more immediate than folks might realize. Attack works like this:

Stalker who wants your address opens an Amazon seller account and lists themselves as a third party seller for any item on your public wishlist. Then, they order the item from themselves as a gift for you. Bam, they have your address.

In particular, attack does not depend on an existing third party seller having poor PII handling hygiene, like the articles have implied.

What an amazing day of Platform Engineering conversations on HMS Belfast in London.

Thank you to Octopus Deploy and Cloudsmith for putting the event on, Jennifer Riggins for hosting, and everyone for the great discussion!

@thirstybear I left the chat and just left a sub-post as the only trail!

@thirstybear I saw a response to this a couple of weeks back where they said "everything is non-deterministic"... they were using philosophical determinism to argue that algorithmic determinism doesn't exist.

@thirstybear "AI is a compiler" 😈

@jenniferplusplus is there a really horrible pink medicine I can drink that solves this? Like "AIziquantel"?

Why must I set a clock to switch on a grill?

@RuthMalan

And suddenly! The next (remote) Technical Leadership workshop is next month!

March 24 and 31, 2026, 12-3PM Eastern Time (US/Canada)

Early Bird discount 🎉 (until Feb 15, or discounted seats sell out)

More info and to enroll: https://ti.to/bredemeyer/technicalleadershipmar2026

Preview material: Decisions chapbook (pdf):
https://ruthmalan.com/Leadership/TechnicalDecisions.pdf

@thirstybear @jasongorman don't look behind the curtain, I promise everything is fine!

@marick @norootcause this is my old one (1950s) and I guess I'll need to go find a bigger collection! I love all of these. I love my Lovecraft, James, Jackson, and La Fanu collections, too. You can bask in their writing.

Get to know Luke Philips! The CD Foundation has published a Continuous Spotlight on Luke and his contributions to CDEvents, GitOps, and Argo CD. What a legend!

https://cd.foundation/blog/2026/02/20/continuous-spotlight-meet-luke-philips/

✨ This time around the #ContinuousSpotlight is on Luke Philips
Get to know him and watch his #CDEvents & Argo CD talks: https://cd.foundation/blog/2026/02/20/continuous-spotlight-meet-luke-philips/

Meanwhile in DevOps No.58

In retrospect...

The official term for un-permissioned LLM training data is: "industrial-scale intellectual property theft".

At least, that's what Anthropic calls it.

Source:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/23/us-ai-anthropic-china

@craignicol yeah, Bob Gale admitted as much in 2019. Nobody can say they weren't warned!