@stephenrwalli

Open Source Advocate. Flâneur. Ramblings are mine. As are the mistakes. Working at Microsoft. Teaching Open Source Software Engineering at Johns Hopkins. he/him

 Redmond, WA
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Joined August 2008
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For the Open Source Business Model challenged: There are projects and products. Projects have communities. Products have customers. Communities have time and no money. Customers have money and no time. Different conversations. Different metrics. 1/n
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Don’t miss @Microsoft’s Ryan Waite keynote “OpenSourceAtTheCore” at #OSSummit Europe in Amsterdam, Netherlands on August 26! Swing by Booth D3 for fresh espresso, delicious waffles, exciting sessions, live demos, and a chance to WIN one of three Xbox Series S consoles. Schedule: hubs.la/Q03CSNy40 Register: hubs.la/Q03CSNB40
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FFS @Audi. I have no idea how many CPUs are in my new Q4, but when I say “automatically set date & time”, I don’t expect TZ to reset to CET. I do expect the car to adjust for Spring and Fall time changes.
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‘Seismic’ shift in UK-US relations is not a blip, warns ex-ambassador. (So, the end of Five Eyes and intelligence sharing then as four partners can only believe anything to do with Russia will be shared with Russia.) theguardian.com/politics/202…

‘Seismic’ shift in UK-US relations is not a blip, warns ex-ambassador

Sir David Manning and other former diplomats highlight major changes in ‘special relationship’

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David Justice@davidjustice7 Nov 2024
I'm delighted to share with you a #Rust project we've been working on for a while called #Hyperlight. The Hyperlight project enables devs to use KVM or Hyper-V as a library for running hypervisor isolated funcs with extremely low-latency cold starts. opensource.microsoft.com/blo…

Introducing Hyperlight: Virtual machine-based security for functions at scale | Microsoft Open...

The Microsoft Azure Core Upstream team is excited to announce the Hyperlight project, an open-source Rust library you can use to create very small VMs for embedded functions. Learn more.

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Ildiko Vancsa@IldikoVancsa5 Nov 2024
New MOSE Episode with @stephenrwalli, @claredillon and Wayne Starr! Learn more about why and how to invest in #opensource, and what to keep in mind when using SBOMs! Follow the podcast on: YouTube - youtube.com/@MyOpenSourceExp… RSS - feeds.acast.com/public/shows… or podcast platforms!
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Snippets of the MOSE episode with @stephenrwalli are now available! Learn some tips and tricks to #opensource, why and how to create a community, secure the IP and more! Follow the podcast on: YouTube - youtube.com/@MyOpenSourceExp… RSS - feeds.acast.com/public/shows… or podcast platforms!
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Ildiko Vancsa@IldikoVancsa8 Oct 2024
New MOSE Episode with @stephenrwalli! We talk about tips and tricks to open collaboration and #opensource, why and how to create a community, secure the IP and more! Follow the podcast on: YouTube - youtube.com/@MyOpenSourceExp… RSS - feeds.acast.com/public/shows… or podcast platforms!
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Since @riteaid bought @bartelldrugs, their cost savings activities fulfilling prescriptions has created lengthly chaos. Anyone have a better experience at other pharmacies in Redmond?
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It always amazes me that @British_Airways still can’t manage gates and arrivals at Heathrow. Glad I seldom fly with them.
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Perfect observations from @kelseyhightower on the @oxidecomputer rational behavior. No garment-rending, teeth-gnashing, or hand-wringing. Thank you, @bcantrill.
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I published "Forked Communities: Whose Property Is It Anyway?" My views on ways to think about the re-licensing debates in open source projects from companies link.medium.com/gEi3qyKnCLb

Forked Communities: Whose Property Is It Anyway?

Open source community forks seem to be in the news again. Companies continue to re-license their source code away from the original open…

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Replying to @github
@GitHub, @linuxfoundation and researchers from @Harvard want to better understand how organizations fund, contribute to, or support open source software projects.
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Israel’s use of American weapons may breach human rights law but US will not cut flow of arms. (Ford and IBM sold to Germany through the 1930s. What could possibly go wrong.) theguardian.com/us-news/arti…

US finds Israel’s use of weapons in Gaza ‘inconsistent’ with human rights law, but will not cut...

State department also says not enough concrete evidence to link specific US-supplied weapons to violations

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Nearly all campus protests in the US have been peaceful. By the numbers. theguardian.com/us-news/arti…

Nearly all Gaza campus protests in the US have been peaceful, study finds

Analysis of 553 protests in solidarity with Palestinians between 18 April and 3 May found 97% of them did not cause serious damage

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“Have the brownshirts been unleashed? Whatever it augurs, the eve of May Day 2024 must be marked.” theguardian.com/us-news/comm…

Police let violent mobs attack UCLA students. This is what lawlessness looks like | Judith Levine

UCLA watched the chaos unfold in the middle of the night and did nothing until it was far too late

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Bryan Cantrill
@bcantrill3 Apr 2024
Thrilled to announce that @AndresFreundTec will be joining @ahl and me on the next Oxide and Friends! mastodon.social/@bcantrill/1…

Bryan Cantrill (@[email protected])

Recently, the software world was rocked by the discovery of a backdoor in XZ Utils. The backdoor represents many stories, but behind all of them is the story of a single Postgres developer, vexed by...

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OpenUK
@openuk_uk6 Feb 2024
A pleasure to have ⁦@ChiOnwurah⁩ ⁦⁦@labour⁩ Shadow Minister for Science, Innovation and Business as the opening keynote at State of Open Con 24 #opensource #soocon24 #stateofopencon#
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Brilliance from @mipsytipsy. I need to ease this into the software engineering course reading.
Charity Majors
@mipsytipsy5 Jan 2024
"My engineering org has 40 engineers in it, but the CEO won't let me hire any dedicated engineering managers. He says we need everyone writing code, and can't take the hit to our velocity. I think he's wrong but am struggling to make the case.. help??" 😱 charity.wtf/2024/01/05/quest…
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‘Shocking’ scale of UK government’s secret files on critics revealed (And this is why a free press is foundational. The Tories will now simply claim the policy was misunderstood and walk away.) theguardian.com/politics/202…

‘Shocking’ scale of UK government’s secret files on critics revealed

Dossiers were compiled by 15 departments after scouring social media activity to vet people invited to speak at official events

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Perrie.@youfoundperrie31 Oct 2023
Designers, don’t miss out on this
Design Matters@designmattersdk31 Oct 2023
Meet the speakers of #DesignMattersLagos 23! 😎 📌Winifred Ekwunife 📌 @_Omo_Bolaji from @brassHQ 📌 David Ajayi 📌 Bolutife Awakan from Traction 📆 Nov 15-16, 2023, Lagos & Online  🎟 lnkd.in/eTUsY6M9 Apply for a discount here: lnkd.in/dZAZP7ah @VictoryBrown_
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