Practical Technology

At the Open Source Summit Europe in Dublin on Tuesday, the Linux Foundation announced the formation of the OpenWallet Foundation (OWF). The open what now, you ask? Is this an attempt to get me to donate money to the Linux Foundation? Nope. OpenWallet…Read More

Dublin, Ireland: I’ve known Linus Torvalds for decades, but since Covid hit, we haven’t had a chance for a face-to-face interview in years. Finally, at 2022’s Linux Plumbers Conference, the annual get-together of the world’s top Linux developers, we…Read More

First things first. The National Security Agency (NSA) isn’t just breaking into other people’s communications. The NSA is also all about protecting communications from snoopers. So, it is that the NSA made the original secure Linux (SELinux); has…Read More

If you’re not involved in machine learning (ML) or artificial intelligence (AI), chances are you’ve never heard of PyTorch. If you are, however, it’s a different story. Meta’s open-source PyTorch ML is very popular in building all manner of AI…Read More

Repeat after me and V.M. “Vicky” Brasseur, well-known open-source business strategist: “Open source is not a business model.” It’s a software development model that can be used as part of many business models. That doesn’t stop businesses based on…Read More

To me, “quiet quitting” — just doing the basics of your job and not going above and beyond the call of duty — is a mystery. Then again, I’m a lifelong workaholic who loves his work. Unfortunately, not everyone is lucky enough to be able to make a…Read More