★ Open Source security in spite of AI

serendipity@perrotta.dev (Thiago Perrotta) — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 11:12:24 +0100

♠ Open Source security in spite of AI by Daniel Stenberg¹ (of curl fame):

The title of my ending keynote at FOSDEM February 1, 2026.

As the last talk of the conference, at 17:00 on the Sunday lots of people had already left, and presumably a lot of the remaining people were quite tired and ready to call it a day.

Still, the 1500 seats in Janson got occupied and there was even a group of more people outside wanting to get in that had to be refused entry.

They say: “never meet your heroes”:

It is unwise to seek personal acquaintance with people whom one has regarded with high esteem, as they often fail to fulfill one’s expectations, resulting in disappointment

I had the opportunity to meet Daniel in person and I’m glad to state that I am not disappointed.

I was the volunteer who held the Q&A at the end for his talk, and that was a pleasure.

In my opinion, this was the best talk from FOSDEM 2026.

Recording. Slides. ↩︎

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serendipity@perrotta.dev (Thiago Perrotta) — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:15:37 -0300

♠ Tech. Geopolitics. 2026 is terrifying. 2026 is exciting. Both can be simultaneously true. You can both like and dislike the current state of affairs (yes, this includes LLMs), but your individual stance won’t change the pace in which the world evolves.

After spending most of 2024 significantly avoiding LLMs for coding, and after spending most of 2025 carefully and skeptically observing, and eventually (gradually) taming them, I’m kickstarting 2026 by fully embracing them.

It’s no panacea; and it doesn’t need to be hype (arguably, hype is terrible). Treat the LLM selection and driving process as you would when picking an operating system, a text editor, a package manager, a smartphone, or an ETF. Pick one, embrace it, ignore the (noise of the) rest, and then life moves on.

As such, I am announcing two new initiatives.

One: I am coining an AI¹ tag in my blog: https://perrotta.dev/tags/ai/. I tend to write concise posts, primarily about workflows, with occasional tips (tips, not advice. There’s already way too much advice out there.). No “hot takes”.

Two: I am introducing a public blogroll: https://perrotta.dev/blogroll/. This contains a subset of blogs I follow in a grassroots and organic manner (hello, RSS!), and makes it very frictionless for you to do the same (there’s an OPML file there that can be easily imported in a news reader of your choice). In my esteemed opinion, the democratization of knowledge is important. I try to shy away from politics, and learn from all sides: I believe you can follow both DHH and Drew DeVault alike; there’s no need to “pick” any one side.

I am also introducing a “posse” tag. This post was cross-posted to my LinkedIn. ↩︎

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★ Open Source security in spite of AI

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